Lori Dorn
Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.
How Marvel Uses a Visualization Tool to Map Out Their Movies Years Before the Actors Get Involved
In a fascinating piece for Movie Insider, narrator Abby Tang explains how Marvel movies are started years ahead of filming by partnering The Third Floor,…
Investigating the Mystery Behind the Burning Skier Footage From the ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ Opening
Fascinated with the origins of clips used in the title sequence from the classic 2000s television show Malcolm in the Middle, Kid Leaves Stoop noticed…
The World’s Most Innovative Banknotes
British vlogger Half Asleep Chris (previously) took a financial tour around the globe in order to knowledgeably declare which countries have the “world’s coolest banknotes”,…
True Facts About Animals Using Camouflage in a Very Crowded Rainforest Where Everyone Looks Like Prey
In a cloaking episode of his nature series True Facts, the very deadpan Ze Frank offers his distinctive view about how camouflage works inside the…
Drowsy Dog Attempts to Fight Off Falling Asleep
A very drowsy dog named Dolly did her very best to stay awake while sitting upright next to her beloved human. Each time the big…
A Retro ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Pixel Art Computer Chess Game That Uses Only One Kilobyte of JavaScript
The Kilobyte’s Gambit by Matt Round of the entertainment site VoleWTF is an online computer Chess game that features pixel art from different scenes of…
A Hand-Drawn Animated Pen Stroke Intuitively Reacts and Responds to Music in an Improvised Manner
“The Stroke” features an animated stroke of a pen that intuitively reacts, responds, and even dances a bit to the ethereal soundtrack by the band…
Comedian Pokes Fun at the Formulaic Manner In Which Spaghetti Westerns Were Filmed
British comedian Alasdair Beckett-King, who previously summed how Scandinavian crime dramas end and the way Film Noir movies finish, quite amusingly poked fun at the…
Geography Expert Attempts to Set GeoGuessr Record for Naming Most Locations Where Photos Were Taken
Geography expert GeoWizard impressively attempted to set a record for naming the most locations around the world where photos were taken on Google Street View,…
Bob Ross Narrates Banksy as He Paints a Powerful Piece Showing Oscar Wilde Escaping a British Prison
Street artist Banksy essentially mashed together a rather profound audio clip of the late greatly missed art instructor Bob Ross with a behind-the-scenes look as…