While promoting his new book Outside the Jukebox, the very talented and rather prodigious musician Scott Bradlee shared how his early days of transposing songs from video games into ragtime jazz on YouTube opened a much bigger world for him both professionally and personally. One … | Continue reading
On an educational episode of Vanity Fair's Slang School series, former NBA star Baron Davis sat down to give a quick lesson on slang words and phrases used on the basketball | Continue reading
LEGO DC Super-Villains is an upcoming action-adventure video game, developed by Traveller's Tales, centered around the villains of the DC Comics universe. "Players will have the ability to create and play as an all-new supervillain" and acquire new abilities while playing through … | Continue reading
A wordless clip from the Monterey Bay Aquarium showcases the surprising beauty of a mantis shrimp, whose purple eyes boast an elaborate compound visual system allowing each eye to move independently from one another. While mantis shrimp have been known to be a bit psycho and punc … | Continue reading
Dan Harmon, the wonderfully irreverant creator of Community and co-creator of Rick and Morty sat down with GQ while dressed as Whistler's Mother, to talk about some of the most hilariously absurd storylines, fan theories and memes along with the unstoppable genius of Justin Roila … | Continue reading
Musician Nathan Mills of Beyond The Guitar performed performed a beautifully lush classical acoustic cover of the John Williams musical theme from the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story. The energy and sense of adventure conveyed in John Williams’ main theme from Solo: A #StarWars … | Continue reading
A fascinating clip from the 2017 BBC Documentary Wild Thailand shows how Macaque monkeys who live by the sea have adapted to their environment by cleverly employing tools, specifically rocks to break open the tough shells of the seafood that becomes accessible to them during low … | Continue reading
While walking through the streets of Melbourne, Victoria Australia, resident Steve Powell captured the unlikely but not unexpected sight of Darth Vader shredding the intro bass licks of the Rage Against the Machine song "Killing In the Name". Only in Melbourne This local dark lor … | Continue reading
Filmmaker Ryan Higa comes clean about not being a great dancer. That all changed with a spectacular live action stop-motion video filled with fancy footwork, graceful skipping over water, and a beautiful ice skating routine with banana peel shoes. Higa spent one week and took ove … | Continue reading
The freeParasol, being designed by Asahi Power Service, is an amazing umbrella that can hover above a person's head to protect them from the outside elements. With the use of an attached DJI Mavic Pro drone and artificial intelligence to track your movement, they hope to keep ind … | Continue reading
Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys captured super slow motion footage of an experiment where they spun a vinyl record so fast that it shattered into approximately 50,000 pieces. The slow motion segments were filmed at 12,500 fps with a Phantom v2640 | Continue reading
A post shared by Scott Beale (@scottbeale) on Jun 1, 2018 at 2:39pm PDT Impossible Foods just sent us a few sample patties of their amazing plant-based meat. We've had the Impossible Burger many times before, including in the form of a White Castle Slider, but this is the first t … | Continue reading
YouTuber YouYouYou who does five minute Hip Hop album reviews from his car, was convinced by his viewers to take a listen to Rage Against the Machine's amazing 1992 self-titled album for the first time. YouYouYou was absolutely gobsmacked upon hearing the first few lyrics and bec … | Continue reading
Canadian musician and songwriter James Hill, who previously channeled Jimi Hendrix in a brilliant cover of "Voodoo Child", used a different tact with his uke on a cover of the classic ballad "When You're Smiling". Instead of playing his ukulele like a guitar, he put it flat on hi … | Continue reading
YouTuber Alex Bostwick aka Bostwiki, who moved to New York City in November 2017, offers up a very clever way to determine your location should you find yourself lost in Central Park using the seemingly random numbers attached to the vintage city lampposts from the 1800s. When th … | Continue reading
DoodleChaos has created amazing budget versions of Dude Perfect style basketball trick shots using marbles, wood, string, and all sorts of other small | Continue reading
Japanese material artist Nosonoso creates wonderful, amazingly real looking animal masks, hair adornments and brooches, all made out of felt. The amount of attention to each remarkable detail make each piece instantly recognizable with a delicate sense of whimsy. ???????????????? … | Continue reading
The "Lego Garden Machine" is an impressive LEGO-built contraption, created by The Brick Wall, that is capable of planting flowers in soil. A great machine for people who do not want to get their hands | Continue reading
A concerning BBCEarth video shows that the increasing tourism to beaches in Thailand have left a dearth of shells for hermit crabs to make their homes. While some have turned to 3D printing to address this need, the human desire for a saltwater souvenir has eclipsed production. S … | Continue reading
In May 2017, somewhere in Canada a mysterious cat made an appearance. This was no ordinary feline, however, as this cat was oddly broad shouldered with giant muscles and a rather wide stance. Known as Buff Cat, this big kitty has been the subject of some really funny memes and lo … | Continue reading
Kylo Ren gives his honest, spoiler-filled review of the newly released film, Solo: A Star Wars Story, in the Auralnauts' amusing new video. Han Solo's son previously reviewed The Last Jedi and Rogue | Continue reading
During the 1970s in the United States, the Levi Strauss Company wanted to create really memorable commercials about their new line of products in addition to their legendary jeans. With the help of narrators such incredible voice actors as Ken Nordine and Ernie Anderson, Levi's w … | Continue reading
Movie characters show off their fancy footwork in a wonderful compilation video, created by Brazilian film critic and editor Diego Carrera, that celebrates dancing in movies. Carrera's upbeat video, which features everything from The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1895) to Call … | Continue reading
Ollie Bye has created a fascinating, color coded animated map that marks the timeline of every notable event that occurred during each stage of the rise and fall of the British Empire. The animation starts with the Heptarchy in the year 549 to Empire beginning in the 16th century … | Continue reading
“She was struggling so I decided to help her" When a wonderfully thoughtful eight year boy in Milledgeville, Georgia named Maurice Adams Jr. saw from the car window that an elderly woman with a walker was struggling to climb the concrete steps into a local park, he asked his mom … | Continue reading
In a mercurial episode of Half as Interesting, Sam from Wendover called attention to a pair of islands that sit between the United States and Russia within the Bering Strait. The smaller of the two islands, Little Diomede is a sparsely populated Alaskan (U.S.) Island, while Big D … | Continue reading
GQ traveled deep into the wilderness with Silicon Valley star Zach Woods to hear some of his hilariously bad tips on how to live in the woods. We took Silicon Valley’s awkward mother hen into the wild, dressed him in the splurgiest tech wear, and learned how to be men. (read | Continue reading
British inventor Colin Furze took the frame of an old bicycle, tore it apart, and rebuilt it with heavy duty springs. He demonstrated how it handled with a bouncy ride around town. You know when you have an idea, buy some stuff, start putting it all together then stand back and t … | Continue reading
In remastered 720p footage from the film "Live at the Paramount", shows the members of Nirvana (with Dave Grohl on drums) performing a really raw and honest set of songs from their now-seminal album Nevermind during a 1991 Halloween Night show at the Paramount Theatre in their ho … | Continue reading
British designers Keivor John and Richard Harvey of Harvey & John collaborated with Last Drop Distillers to create Pours, a beautifully designed decanter that detects a glass underneath, sends liquid up the stem, which then bows to perfectly pour the chosen spirit within. a playf … | Continue reading
In 2009, the Australian digital animation studio Zero One created "A Day in Pompeii", an incredibly intense visualization that recreated what may have occurred during the last 48 hours before the complete destruction of Pompeii. The video used historical data to surmise the timin … | Continue reading
The very talented and barefoot Peter Bence performed a highly percussive piano cover of the the internet's favorite song -"Africa" by Toto. What made this performance so remarkable was that Bence used every part of the instrument to create different textures and colors within the … | Continue reading
A rescued raccoon named Tito noticed that there was another creature in his human's backyard and needed to check it out. Tito first sniffed at the animal and then tentatively reached out with his paw, but quickly drew it back when he felt the sharp quills of a prickly hedgehog na … | Continue reading
The Scooby Doo Project was a live action animated comedy short that aired during and after Cartoon Network's Halloween Scooby-Doo marathon in 1999. The Blair Witch Project parody was released shortly after director Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick’s found footage film hit theate … | Continue reading
Yiying Lu, the talented designer behind the famous piece "Lifting A Dreamer" aka "Twitter Fail Whale", who was just named one of the Most Creative People in Business 2018 and is a very good friend of Laughing Squid, gave an amusing talk to a San Francisco Ignite audience about ho … | Continue reading
Tested editor Norman Chan met up with Jonathan Tippett, the founder of Furrion and creator of the Prosthesis mech. Chan got the low down on how the 15-foot tall, 8,000-pound mech suit works. This 8000 pound mech is directly controlled by Jonathan using his arms and legs, without … | Continue reading
In honor of the Official Spelling Bee 2018 finals, Google Trends posted a colorful map of the United States that plotted the single, most popular word in each state that was most searched via Google for its proper spelling from May 2017 to May 2018. Like previous iterations of th … | Continue reading
Rednecks With Paychecks captured spectacular footage of adults crashing plastic toy vehicles at their rainy 2018 Barbie Jeep Downhill event in St. Jo, Texas back in March. A rainstorm in the middle of our Barbie Jeep Downhill Race wasn't going to stop the action! It only made the … | Continue reading
Two Australians behind the BarryDennen12 YouTube channel created a fantastic Back to the Future themed video that features an F1 race car shooting out sparks, hitting well over 88 MPH, and traveling back in time during the 2018 Monaco Grand Prix. via Boing | Continue reading
On May 30, 2018, British filmmaker Paris Zarcilla went upstairs to his bedroom to grab a sweater and instead found that a beautiful black and white cat had given birth to adorable kittens right underneath his bed. Despite the fact that the cat wasn't his, Zarcilla immediately fel … | Continue reading
A mother named Mel captures the hilarious moment on film when her 19-month-old son, Frankie, started throwing a tantrum after not being able to sit down on a tiny doll house chair. Little Frankie Box just couldn’t understand what was happening when he tried to park his behind in … | Continue reading
Orion Dajnowicz of Haggard Racing Co. and his friends made a functioning spare tire for a car out of numerous rolls of duct tape. They tested out the duct tape tire by performing a few burnouts. Dajnowicz and his crew also tried to make a tire out of rubber bands. via LikeCOOL, | Continue reading
On a lovely day at Town Moor Park in the north eastern English town of Newcastle, music stuent Mark Insley sat on a bench and began playing his melodeon to a herd of cows who were apparently wandering around the park. Upon hearing the dulcet tones of the instrument, the cows stop … | Continue reading
British actor and voice artist Ben Crystal recited the opening lines from Romeo and Juliet in what is believed to be Shakespeare's original accent to a group of students attending a seminar through the British Council English and Exams. In doing so, Crystal also explained the imp … | Continue reading
In a tart episode of the unsolved mystery series Nothing Is Revealed, host Alex Gartner embarked on a search for the rather mysterious commenter who has been propagating and praising Captain Kutchie's Key Lime Pie online for the past seven years. Gartner first posited that the co … | Continue reading
In a remastered clip from the iconic film The Song Remains the Same, the members of Led Zeppelin perform a jaw-dropping version of "Dazed and Confused" in front of a 1973 Madison Square Garden audience. What's most notable about this footage is not only that Jimmy Page played his … | Continue reading
The amazing Vegetable Orchestra whose biodegradable instruments are wholly created out of produce, are currently "krautfunding" in order to put out their fourth album - The Green Album. For this new album, the band has created new instruments and done much of the recording, but t … | Continue reading
BBC Earth has partnered with OceanX Media to provide a beautifully soothing ten hour loop of open ocean footage that features undersea creatures of all types of species, shape and sizes. Be wowed by the brilliant hues of our blue planet and the incredible animals that live there … | Continue reading