Laughing Squid
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Quirky Shoes and Apparel Made Out of Branded Items
Graphic designer Nicole McLaughlin creates wonderfully quirky shoes and apparel out of randomly branded items. Amongst the items that McLaughlin uses for her creations are…
Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Successfully Completes First Flight as the World’s Largest All-Composite Aircraft
On Saturday, April 13, 2019, Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, successfully launched Allen’s dream of the world’s largest all-composite…
You Can’t Take My Door, A Country Song Created by a Neural Network That Studied a Catalog of Country Hits
Elle O’Brien and a team from Botnik Studios created a predictive AI country song entitled “You Can’t Take My Door”. The song was created by…
A Flock of Seagals
Wil Wheaton, Anne Wheaton and Bonnie Burton were making a bunch of puns and came up with “A Flock of Seagals”. Wil then commissioned Joshua…
Elegant Wireless Speaker With a Flickering LED Flame
DiKaou has created a very elegant, somewhat egg-shaped wireless speaker with softly flickering LED flames that is a perfect all-in-one device to set the perfect…
The Striking Similarities Between the Star Wars IX Trailer and an Iconic ‘North by Northwest’ Scene
Creative fansite Star Wars Scenes very insightfully juxtaposed a key scene from the trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker with…
Rey Ascends to Jedi in the Final Film of the Sequel Trilogy ‘Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker’
In the very brief teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, a determined Rey (Daisy Ridley) tries to outrun an…
A Meditative Aquatic Opera Featuring a Musician Gracefully Playing a Rectangular Cello Underwater
While he was artist-in-residence at Middlebury College in 2017, choreographer Gabriel Forestieri created “Breathe”, a highly meditative, graceful multi-disciplinary aquatic installation. The performance featured amongst…
Proud Mexican-American Women in Brooklyn Who Make a Widely Distributed Homemade Mole Sauce
Great Big Story went to Brooklyn in order to visit with the Mole Poblano Asunción Corp., a shop in Brooklyn, New York where three generations…
A Whimsical Audio Cassette Tape Wireless Speaker
British product concept designer Nick Forrester created for SUCK UK a wonderfully whimsical portable, pocket-sized speaker that looks like a retro audio cassette tape and…