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.
A Homeless Woman Has a Profound Encounter With a Dead Fish in a Surreal Stop-Motion Animated Short
“Waste Away” by Elly Stern is a profound, surreal stop-motion animated short about a homeless woman who discovers a dead fish amongst the garbage strewn…
An Experimental Band That Plays Recycled Object Instruments With Electromagnetic Force Fields
Oscillatorial Binnage is a British experimental band that makes their own instruments from recycled, repurposed objects. Sound is extracted from these objects with electromagnetic force…
Finding the Faux Building Façades of Paris
Travel vlogger The Tim Traveler toured the streets of Paris in order to locate the many faux building façades that exist within the city. Like…
Colorful Public Restrooms in Tokyo With Transparent Glass Walls That Become Opaque When Locked
The Nippon Foundation put out a call to 16 famous Japanese architects to renovate 17 public bathrooms for The Tokyo Toilet project. Each architect re-designed…
A Traditional Japanese Textile Art That Requires Specially Filed Fingernails to Properly Line Up Threads
A traditional Japanese textile art requires workers to specifically file their nails in a particular way so as to use them as a tool.
The Surprising Ethereal Beauty of Insects Spreading Their Wings to Take Flight In Ultra Slow Motion
Adrian Smith of Ant Lab, who is also a scientist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, posted a fascinating ultra slow motion video…
San Francisco Prankster Hilariously Places Saxophone Stickers on the Ground For Pigeons to Play
San Francisco artist, art director and prankster Pablo Rochat, who previously tacked up a hanging tag flyer that asked pigeons if they were “Tired of…
Creepy Movie Monster Face Masks by Rob Sheridan
Rob Sheridan, a talented artist, photographer, former creative director for Nine Inch Nails and friend of Laughing Squid, and his wife Stephanie have created a…
How to Make Penne Pasta Spin in Endless Circles
Dominic of ViralVideoLab (previously) explained how to make a piece of penne pasta spin in endless circles over a flat heating element like a hot…
A 3D Animated Bongo Cat Blasts Into Space to Bring Music to All Beings Throughout the Galaxy
In a short visual fan-based riff on the Bongo Cat Meme, Alex Pogorelov created a 3D animated version of the musical feline who blasts into…