On an episode of The Star Wars Show, Solo: A Star Wars Story director Ron Howard sat down to narrate the story of A New Hope in the style of Arrested | Continue reading
In another chapter of their ongoing analysis of the blockbuster HBO series Game of Thrones, the insightful folks at ScreenPrism took a look at how the series combined fantastic visual effects with organic elements in order to provide a sense of a familiar historical realism to th … | Continue reading
The incredibly talented musician Jon Gomm played a truly poignantly lush acoustic fingerstyle cover of the iconic Radiohead song "High and Dry", providing both the vocals and percussion in perfect precision with the graceful flow of the strings. Gomm stated that with this perform … | Continue reading
In a surprising video essay, the very knowledgable YouTuber Polyphonic delves into how the very distinct vocal, lyrical and musical style of Bob Dylan became legendary fodder for parody. To demonstrate this trend, Polyphonic cited such songs as "A Simple Desultory Phillipic" by S … | Continue reading
UI Engineer Diana A. Smith has created three gorgeously detailed, artistic reproductions by hand-coding entirely in CSS and HTML. The first reproduction is called "Pure CSS Francine" an "HTML/CSS drawing in the style of an 18th-century oil painting." The following two "Pure CSS Z … | Continue reading
Dr. Uri Burstyn, aka the Helpful Vancouver Vet graciously demonstrated several different ways in which to properly pick up a cat so that both feline and human feel safe, because when it's done wrong, the results can be very painful. the key to picking up a cat safely is to make t … | Continue reading
In a laminous episode of the Bon Apétit series Gourmet Makes, Senior Food Editor and pastry chef Claire Saffitz attempted to create a gourmet version of a Kit Kat candy bar. The biggest hurdles that Saffitz needed to overcome was adding the requisite crisp to the wafer layers and … | Continue reading
Comedian Glenn Tickle, our friend who is a former Laughing Squid blogger, is raising funds through GoFundMe in order to professionally record his original show "Good Grief: A Comedy About Loss and Being Bad at It". Tickle wrote this show shortly after the tragic, unexpected death … | Continue reading
A very open Christina Hendricks sat down with Sam Jones of Off Camera and spoke about the pressure of maintaining her breakout character of Joan Holloway on a constant basis in order to please Mad Men fans in the media, her traumatic high school years after a move from Twin Falls … | Continue reading
For a limited time, the Laughing Squid Store is featuring a fantastic deal on the Ninja 4-in-1 Auto-iQ Kitchen System for Blending, Processing & Spiralizing, a powerful and convenient countertop appliance that acts as a blender, a food processor, ice crusher and spiralizer that m … | Continue reading
A post shared by Decan aka, Paps (@tintin_the_squirrel) on Nov 25, 2017 at 1:55am PST A tiny red squirrel who was rejected by his mother after falling four stories into the Danish garden of a big hearted human. That human, Decan Andersen and his two cats, Coco and her brother Tig … | Continue reading
You may not realize this, but Laughing Squid is also an independently operated web hosting company specializing in Managed WordPress hosting. The revenue from our hosting services helps support this blog. | Continue reading
Nate of The King of Random demonstrated how to make slime out of Borax and Elmer's Clear Glue. He then made his slime glow in the dark by mixing it with the fluid from colorful glow | Continue reading
Robert Carlson of 5 Mad Movie Makers set his speedy remote control car free in a neighborhood and captured incredible footage of the vehicle flying around death-defying turns, jumping over homemade ramps, and skimming across the top of a crystal clear | Continue reading
A man cruises around on a basketball court inside of a homemade mecha that he built with his friends. After demonstrating how he can easily control the mecha, the guy shows off how its head can open | Continue reading
A post shared by ? Pies Are Awesome ? (@thepieous) on Apr 15, 2018 at 2:46pm PDT Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin of Pies Are Awesome magically returned to share her new series of four different Harry Potter themed pies featuring Harry, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and the Hogwarts cr … | Continue reading
On a new episode of his This Week I Learned series, determined Scottish YouTuber Mike Boyd challenged himself to quickly learn how to solve a 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube while blindfolded. It took him approximately 6 hours and 40 minutes over the period of 4 | Continue reading
Freddie Wong is instructed to free his mind to take the win in "Fortnite Reloaded," RocketJump's real life mashup of Fortnite and The Matrix Reloaded directed by Cameron Covell. Jump Tilted Towers. Every | Continue reading
In 1983, a young band from Athens, Georgia called R.E.M. made their national television debut on the the NBC show Late Night With David Letterman . A baby-faced, curly-haired Michael Stipe stepped up to the microphone and with his distinct voice along with the talent of the band, … | Continue reading
, In a rather dimensional episode of VSauce3, host Jake Roper explained the concept of impossible items, how these shapes create a visual illusion that form familiar shapes that put the mind at rest and explained the history of these items using the Penrose Steps (Impossible Stai … | Continue reading
A pair of very helpful parrots did their part in keeping their own environment clean by frantically placing each piece of trash into a blue garbage bin until there was nothing left to clean. According to their humans, this is very normal behavior. This is a day in the life of our | Continue reading
Vat19 is known for some of their rather creative gummy creations, but none so much as their giant girthy gummy gherkin, a rather realistic pickle (warts and all) that contains all the mouth watering sour dill flavor, but with the texture of a chewy gummy. These gummy gherkins sel … | Continue reading
In a fascinating report for Washington Post Science, journalist Anna Rothschild of Gross Science had the opportunity to speak with author and penguin expert Ron Naveen, who along with a beautiful African penguin named Lily, answered social media submitted questions. Among the que … | Continue reading
Chicago jewelry and fashion designer Vanessa Walilko has created a fun, wearable chainmail octopus hood by weaving together over 15,000 aluminum rings. Walilko's book, Chain Mail + Color, features instructions on how you too can bring a chainmail cephalopod to life, among many ot … | Continue reading
After being stuck in busy Houston traffic for a couple hours, Marco Sanchez decided to have some fun by challenging another motorist to a friendly game of Rock-Paper-Scissors for a spot in front of him. via | Continue reading
The resilient Irene McGee, a Real World Seattle alumnae and good friend of Laughing Squid and Lyme disease spokesperson has come up with a rather slumberous and luxurious idea to raise funds and awareness around Lyme Disease. The only thing that participating "Naptivists" need to … | Continue reading
Marvel unleashed a brand new trailer and poster for Ant-Man and The Wasp, the upcoming superhero film directed by Peyton Reed. The trailer follows Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) and the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly) as they team up to dig up clues from their past. Ant-Man and The Wasp is set to h … | Continue reading
A post shared by Gary Doodle (@doodlegary) on Mar 8, 2018 at 4:10pm PST While former Disney animator Gary Andrews traveled to Canada from his Surrey, UK home on business in November 2017, his wife Joy came down with what was believed to be the flu. Four brutal days after Gary lef … | Continue reading
The cast of Avengers: Infinity War assembled on a marvelous episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live to read mean tweets about | Continue reading
In the latest episode of Size Comparison, Reigarw Comparisons takes a look at the various sizes of numerous popular fictional robots from movies, television shows, and video games. The video starts off with the small robotic dog K9 in Doctor Who and works its way up to the enormo … | Continue reading
Jeff Seal, a comedian, filmmaker, urban explorer and self-described idiot, hilariously wandered out into New York City traffic to find out why drivers feel the need to lean on their horns, even when it accomplishes absolutely nothing. Yo man, if you hear me honking, move the fuck … | Continue reading
An adorably pudgy raccoon, clad in a Santa suit, sat upright on the couch with a glass bowl at his belly and using both front paws, greedily consumed the green grapes contained within. Completing the picture was a fully decorated Christmas tree at his side and Christmas Carols pl … | Continue reading
22-year-old woman, Eadington, has been documenting her life through selfies that she took every day for the past 8 years. She turned her photos into a mesmerizing timelapse video that shows her aging from 14 to 22 in a little over 3 minutes. via | Continue reading
Bob Dylan is a modern Renaissance man. A talented musician, brilliant poet, artist, welder and now proprietor of Heaven's Door, a small batch collection of three different whiskies - Double Barrel Whiskey, Straight Rye Whiskey and Tennessee Bourbon. Each label sports tribute to t … | Continue reading
y Braille Neue by Kosuke Takahashi is a brilliant type design that overlays Braille onto existing visual characters such as letters, enabling universal understanding for those with and those without sight. The driving force behind this font comes from Takahashi's desire to make p … | Continue reading
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is an upcoming action-adventure video game, developed by Eidos-Montréal and Crystal Dynamics, and third installation of the reboot series. Square Enix, the publisher behind the game, unearthed an exciting new trailer that follows Lara Croft as she races … | Continue reading
A colorful little parrot in Istanbul, Gaizosmanpala, Turkey grudgingly rode supine inside a tiny white wicker doll carriage being pushed by a well-meaning human who clearly loves her | Continue reading
In keeping up with their wonderful tradition of dressing goat babies in colorful onesies, all 48 of the newborn Nigerian dwarf goat kids at the Sunflower Farm Creamery in Cumberland, Maine had themselves a lively little pajama party, bouncing back and forth across the barn while … | Continue reading
YouTube mapmaker Cottereau has created a really informative animated timelapse that plots every European ruler throughout every era from 400 BC through present day. The animation is rather comprehensive and is set to the appropriately regal soundtrack of Music from the Batman Tri … | Continue reading
A post shared by Obvious Plant (@obviousplant) on Apr 27, 2018 at 9:05am PDT Comedian Jeff Wysaski of Obvious Plant created a hilarious collection of bootleg action figures, named Revengers, based on characters from Marvel's powerful team of | Continue reading
While on location in South Africa, Brave Wilderness host Coyote Peterson and crew came across a determined male dung beetle attempting in the most Sisyphean manner to push a (relatively) giant ball of poop up a hill. While the first beetle was busy, a second beetle attempted to s … | Continue reading
How to DAD creator Jordan Watson of Auckland, New Zealand, who has a very clever view of the world, quite rightfully questioned the logic of the English language. Using stickers from his daughter's school, Watson attempts to sound things out in the way a child would after learnin … | Continue reading
The cast of Stranger Things sat down for a table read of the upcoming third season in a behind the scenes video from Netlix. They feature amazing old friends from the popular series, as well as new cast members Cary Elwes, Maya Hawke, and Jake Busey. One of the great table reads … | Continue reading
German researchers Dr. Jens Frahm and Dr. Carmen Rotte of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttigen have developed technology that advances the insightfulness of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). With this technology, called FLASH2, Frahm was able to accelera … | Continue reading
In honor of Avengers: Infinity War hitting theaters last week, Jimmy Kimmel Live aired a compilation of funny and unnecessarily censored scenes from Marvel | Continue reading
To celebrate Solo: A Star Wars Story landing in theaters on May 25th, Star Wars released a thrilling featurette that shows how Han became the legendary Han Solo and how Chewbacca got his | Continue reading
Are you real? In 2014, redditor Corey Walker and his childhood friend Stalley, who live quite a distance away from each other, introduced their similarly aged daughters Jalyssa and Kylie to each other through FaceTime. Over the course of four years, two little girls have chatted … | Continue reading
Lauri Vuohensilta of the Hydraulic Press Channel demonstrated what will happen when you press non-newtonian fluid through small holes with a hydraulic press. He then pressed cheese, a hunk of ballistic gel, and a pile of crayons through the small | Continue reading