Scott Beale

Scott Beale

Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Bluesky and sharing photos on Instagram.
Survival Research Labs

SRL 25th Anniversary Celebration

Survival Research Labs is celebrating their 25th Anniversary on April 9th, 2004 at The LAB in San Francisco. The event is being produced by RE/Search…

ROBOlympics 2004

ROBOlympics 2004

The first ROBOlympics, was held at Fort Mason’s Herbst Pavilion in San Francisco and featured hundreds of robots from around the world including fighting robots,…

KRK Ryden

Laughing Squid Post Cards

Check it out, Laughing Squid has two new post cards, “Make Mine Squid” by KRK Ryden and a collage by Louise Jarmilowicz. You can find…

John Law & Christina Harbridge

photo by Scott Beale John Law & Christina Harbridge were married near the Golden Gate Bridge at dawn on Sunday, February 29, 2004. Congradulations! Here…

APE 2004 (Alternative Press Expo)

photo by Scott Beale Laughing Squid and Attaboy’s Yumfactory shared a table at APE 2004 (Alternative Press Expo). Here’s are my photos from Sunday.

Chris Hackett

Chris Hackett Fundraiser

Our good friend Chris Hackett was seriously injured in an accident while working on an art project on January 24, 2004. Hackett, along with the…

The Haunted Barn

photo by Scott Beale Here are some photos from the Sixth Episode of The Haunted Barn, “A San Francisco Nightmare”.

Night of the Living Dead: The Play

photo by Scott Beale Here are photos from H.N. Nolan’s theatrical adaptation of “Night of the Living Dead”, George Romero’s infamous Zombie love story.

Maskharat Halloween Parade

photo by Scott Beale Here are photos of the ancient and mystic order of Maskharat presenting their cavalcade of costumes parade through the 2003 Castro…