San Francisco filmmaker Mark Day, the creative eye behind the "24 Hours at Burning Man series", shared a brilliant hyperlapse showcasing the magnifient | Continue reading
Cool Material is offering the "Takeout Candle" a truly unique candle that uses notes of soy, lemongrass and ginger to emit the distinctively tantalizing | Continue reading
Light Club has put out an incredibly informative video essay about using light while shooting (or painting) portraits in such a way as to make the eyes | Continue reading
Online novelty retailer Archie McPhee, who are known for their wonderfully realistic looking masks, has added a full head smiling sloth to their | Continue reading
In a friendly interview with Stephen Colbert, the affable actor John Krasinski talked about how the women in his life have had a profound effect upon his | Continue reading
While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, actor Rami Malek talked about his experience of portraying Freddie Mercury in the highly-anticipated upcoming biopic | Continue reading
In an absolutely adorable ad campaign for the Japanese egg company Akita, mega rock star Yoshiki of X Japan prepares a nice warm omelet as a blanket for | Continue reading
The Texas band Hiraeth very cleverly put out a call for a vocalist to join them with a heavy metal instrumental entitled "We Need a Singer". Really. We | Continue reading
While appearing on The Howard Stern Show to promote his new album, the great Paul McCartney responded to a question about the breakup of The Beatles posed | Continue reading
Trombonist Christopher Bill gathered 27 of his talented peers to perform an amazing cover of the iconic Queen song "Bohemian Rhapsody". This brilliant | Continue reading
Several months before his untimely death, actor Burt Reynolds appeared on Conan to talk about his career. During the interview, Conan brought up the | Continue reading
In a clip from the 2011 PBS documentary My Life as a Turkey, American naturalist and author Joe Hutto explains how he's learning to communicate with the | Continue reading
Real Life Lore offers some helpful assistance in the confusing subject of common genetic ancestry, which connects all of humanity to an MRCA (Most Recent | Continue reading
In an interview with Insider, Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson affably talks about the wide array of accents he's portrayed in a number of films, explaining | Continue reading
In memory of the late, great Aretha Franklin, the doodling, fast talking and extremely knowledgeable music theorist 12Tone musically breaks down "Respect" | Continue reading
The talented Lily Havesh, who designs wonderfully elaborate domino displays, sat down with the Wired series Obessed to talk about her passion for the | Continue reading
Musician Luca Stricagnoli, who previously performed a hauntingly beautiful cover of the U2 song 'With or Without You' on his custom namesake triple neck | Continue reading
While workers in Mooroolbark Victoria, Australia were laying down a new sidewalk, a wayward chicken came out of nowhere and rudely walked across the wet | Continue reading
In a brilliantly and detailed analysis, the knowledgeable music essayist Polyphonic takes a look at the absolute genius of Steely Dan. He specifically | Continue reading
On the very last day of the 2018 Vertical Blue competition at Dean's Blue Hole, Bahamas, Italian free immersion diver Alessia Zecchini set the women's | Continue reading
At Eternity's Gate is a very creative, semi-factual, fantastic biographical film by Julian Schnabel that goes inside the brilliant mind of the tortured | Continue reading
Manami Ito is a woman of many talents. Not only is she a champion Japanese paralympic swimmer and nurse by trade, she also plays the violin beautifully. | Continue reading
In the wonderfully heartwarming animation "If You Fall" by Tisha Deb Pallai, a little girl named Lila is learning how to ride a bicycle, but is not yet | Continue reading
"The Visitor" by Australian filmmaker and designer Pete Majarich is an absolutely stunning, atmospheric short film about a lone astronaut exploring the | Continue reading
In an amusing vignette from the crowdfunded Dempsey Rice documentary, The Animated Mind Of Oliver Sacks (still in development as of this date), the | Continue reading
An elderly pet rat who has had trouble getting around the house as of late, was able to walk through the kitchen inside a homemade sling held in place by | Continue reading
As part of their ongoing series of deconstructing the rich symbolism and character development within the sublime AMC series Breaking Bad, Debra Minoff | Continue reading
The doodling, fast talking and extremely knowledgeable music theorist 12Tone takes on one of the most puzzling, but beautiful pieces of modern classical | Continue reading
In the trailer for the upcoming film Anna and the Apocalypse, a young woman named Anna and her friends are getting ready for Christmas when they discover | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by @robyniko on Aug 23, 2018 at 2:40pm PDT It all started out with a tweet by architect Donna Sink, who asked if | Continue reading
In a disquieting Ted-Ed lesson written by educator Elizabeth Cox and animated by Gerta Xhelo, narrator Christina Greer explains how memory is connected to | Continue reading
The Jammy by RnD64 is a really neat super portable digital guitar that can be easily disassembled for traveling and reassembled for playing. When | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by S.N.O.R.T. Rescue (@snortrescue) on Aug 7, 2018 at 6:03am PDT A teeny tiny French bulldog puppy who was given | Continue reading
The fabulous online novelty retailer Archie McPhee, that has a fascination for innovative ways to reinvent the candy cane, has released their unique | Continue reading
For the 11th year in a row, the innovative students of Musashino Art University along with those in the community, worked together to create incredible | Continue reading
An adorably downy baby owl obligingly hopped across the grass with fluffy spread wings upon hearing a whistle in the air. When the owl arrived, the hoped | Continue reading
In their ongoing analysis of the popular series The Office, Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of ScreenPrism analyzed the highly abrasive but very | Continue reading
A fascinating video from National Liverpool Museums offers a view into the past with a comprehensive demonstration showing the specific order involved in | Continue reading
Video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter took a reflective look at the timelessness of Michael Jackson's 1979 song "Don't Stop 'Til | Continue reading
In the amusingly brilliant stop motion animation "Captain 3D" by Victor Haegelin, a superhero action figure sitting upon a desk accidentally comes to life | Continue reading
Some readers may realize this, but Laughing Squid is also a web hosting company that focuses on Managed WordPress hosting. The revenue from our hosting | Continue reading
Stephen Bacque, a Cranford, New Jersey resident by way of Houston, Texas, rides around town on a battery powered horse of his own original design. | Continue reading
Justin Roiland, the brilliant mind and voice behind the sublime animated series Rick and Morty, offers up some hilarious tips that can come in handy for | Continue reading
In the haunting Reed Morano film I Think We're Alone Now, the incredible Peter Dinklage plays the role of Del, an involuntarily reclusive man who is the | Continue reading
The New York Times has put together a fascinating interactive chart that reveals just how much the temperature has increased (by number of days) in your | Continue reading
A post shared by kevin lai (@kvnlai) on Sep 5, 2018 at 6:05am PDT Since the passing of the great Aretha Franklin on August 16, 2018, some very creative | Continue reading
Over the July 4 weekend in 1977, the iconic southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd played to a sold-out crowd at the Oakland Coliseum in Northern California. | Continue reading
A pair of rather frisky fawns decided to play a game of tag, with a little hide-and-seek thrown in, around giant rolled up bale of hay. The owner of the | Continue reading