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.
Common European Birds Recreated With Balloons
British artist Terry Cook translated his deep love for birds into highly realistic balloon art that he situated in natural surroundings. These reproductions brilliantly mimic…
Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ Told as a Two Minute Musical
Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner of Famous Last Nerds hilariously compressed the classic William Shakespeare play Hamlet from its traditional five acts, reworking it as…
A Pair of Adorable Snail Sisters Play With Baby Carrots
A pair of surprisingly adorable nerite snail sisters named Randolph and Mortimer, named after the Duke characters in the 1983 film Trading Places, seemed to…
Inanimate Objects Take on Distinct Personalities in Trailer for ‘Asà Son Las Cosas’ (The Way Things Are)
The trailer for the 52-episode award-winning Argentinian stop-motion animated series “Asà Son Las Cosas” (The Way Things Are) by animator and director Juan Pablo Zaramella,…
An Owl Kicks a Sleeping Cat Off the Couch
An owl who was seemingly in no mood for any company appeared rather upset to find the family cat sleeping on the couch.
‘Eye of the Beholder’, A Film About the Talented Artists Behind the Imaginative Art of Dungeons & Dragons
Cavegirl Productions and X-Ray Films have joined forces to create highly anticipated film Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons and Dragons. The film…
An Instrumental Cover of 99 Luftballons (99 Red Balloons) by Nena Played on Four Different Horns
Gifted multi-instrumentalist Seb Skelly performed a wordless brass cover of the classic Nena song “99 Luftballons”, which is known in the United States as “99…
How Vincent Van Gogh Created Optical Anxiety With His Deliberate Use of Conflicting Color in ‘Night Café’
Vlogger Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter takes a look at the Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece “Night Café” (“Le Café de nuit”), the painting that the…
Fascinating Documentary About J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius Premiers at SXSW 2019
In October 2017, we wrote about how director Sandy K. Boone and producer Louis Black were raising funds through Kickstarter in order to create Slacking…
How South American Male Hummingbirds Use Their Evolved Beaks as Swords to Attack Their Rivals
In a surprising episode of The New York Times series Science Take, host James Gorman talks about the dangerous side of hummingbirds. While this species…