British design house Neomam Studios (previously) has created for their client Budget Direct a wonderful re-imagination of nine iconic city skylines perched atop a proper glass filled with the city's signature drink. Some of the skylines represented are New York City perched atop … | Continue reading
Free diver Julie Gautier, who is married fellow diver Guillaume Néry, performed an absolutely gorgeous, beautifully choreographed dance at the bottom of the Y40, the deepest swimming pool in the world. Gautier's dance conveyed incredible grace and meaning, yet was performed for s … | Continue reading
In a poignantly thoughtful animation by the insightful School of Life, the importance of the values and lessons imbued by those who offered unconditional love, such as parents, to a child as the were growing up is given great gravity. While not all of these lessons were necessari … | Continue reading
A post shared by Alicia Rius (@aliciariusphoto) on Apr 11, 2018 at 11:39am PDT Photographer Alicia Rius who captured the eerily anthropomorphic nature and the distinctive personalities of hairless cats, has created "A Dog's Life", a insightful photo series in which she paired six … | Continue reading
Robert Irwin, the incredibly amiable son of the late Steve Irwin returned to the Tonight Show for a fourth time and brought along animals that both delighted and terrified host Jimmy Fallon. Included in this visit were an adorable litter of very hungry baby pygmy goats whom Irwin … | Continue reading
Professor David Brailsford of the Nottingham University series Computerphile, explained how the word "byte" came into existence. Providing a great deal of information upon which to chew, Brailsford shared how the word first originated at Bell Labs, how early computers were word-b … | Continue reading
Lionsgate released a gritty new trailer for Robin Hood, an upcoming action-adventure film directed by Otto Bathurst based on the story of Robin Hood. The trailer follows Robin Hood (Taron Egerton) as he and his Moorish commander (Jamie Foxx) as they work together to rebel against … | Continue reading
A beautiful long haired German shepherd in Adelaide, South Australia named Archer patiently waited his turn to be watered with the spray bottle his human was using for her plants. While Archer showed off his polite side, he's not always that accommodating when that spray bottle c … | Continue reading
Using a waterproof microphone (hydrophone) connected to the MARS undersea cabled observatory and placed 900 meters (3,000 feet) below the surface of Monterey Bay onto the ocean floor, researchers have been able to not only capture sounds of the deep sea, but have made the sounds … | Continue reading
British inventor Colin Furze and electronics genius James Bruton joined forces once again to build a life-sized set of Hulkbuster armor from the Marvel Cinematic Universe out of parts purchased on eBay. A post shared by colin furze (@realcolinfurze) on May 2, 2018 at 11:31am | Continue reading
In an amped up episode of Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains why we never see "B" cell batteries in stores. There actually are B batteries, but they aren’t something you’ll usually see stocked at most stores any longer. Since the invention of the battery, there have … | Continue reading
The very first ever 360° Google Doodle celebrates the legendary French filmmaker and illusionist Georges Méliès, a pioneer of special effects and film techniques such as timelapse photography, dissolve shots, stop-action splicing and storyboards, all of which are still used in pr … | Continue reading
In a new Solo: A Star Wars Story featurette, Donald Glover (Lando Calrissian) gives a tour of Lando's Millennium Falcon from the upcoming | Continue reading
On an intergalactic episode of the Vanity Fair series Notes on a Scene, Avengers: Infinity War directors Anthony and Joe Russo broke down a scene from the amazing film where Thor meets the Guardians of the Galaxy for the first | Continue reading
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