Laughing Squid
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Teacher Builds Amazing Marble Tracks to Introduce His Students to Motion, Acceleration, and Inertia
On an interesting episode of his Homemade Science series, Pennsylvania physical science teacher Bruce Yeany shows off a collection of marble tracks that he built…
Hidden Valley Is Offering a Holiday Mini-Keg Filled With Five Liters of Their Signature Ranch Dressing
Employing the old adage that bigger is better, Hidden Valley is offering a wonderfully decadent five liter mini-keg filled with their signature ranch dressing available…
The Summoning, A New Creepy Cute Cartoon From Frederator Studios and Sony Pictures Animation
Sony Pictures Animation and Frederator Studios has released their first GO! Cartoons short, titled “The Summoning“. The creepy cute short, created by Brisbane, Australia tattoo…
Hometowns, Illustrated Prints Celebrating Different Unique Boroughs in London
Illustrator Jenni Sparks, whose work we have written about in the past, was commissioned by Evermade.com to create a series of 10 Hometowns prints celebrating…
Determined Man Learns to Ride a Downhill Mountain Bike Faster Than Ever Before
Determined Scottish YouTuber Mike Boyd of the Learn Quick series challenged himself to shake the dust off of his downhill biking skills by learning to…
Art Expert Removes 200 Years Worth of Yellowing Varnish From a 400 Year Old Painting in Minutes
2/2 ….still a way to go, but what a transformation! pic.twitter.com/nyGx3qdhOZ — Philip Mould (@philipmould) November 6, 2017 Philip Mould, an art dealer and host…
Laughing Squid Featured in the June 1998 Issue of the Japanese Internet Culture Magazine ‘Konpeito’
Going through our archives recently, I came across the June 1998 issue of the Japanese internet culture magazine Konpeito, that interviewed me almost two decades…
Talented Kinetic Artist Talks About His Love for the Wonderful Lost Art of Zoetropes
Artist and filmmaker Eric Dyer gave a wonderful TED talk about his love of the zoetrope, sharing a number of stories about what inspired him…
Adorable Animated Short About a Spider Named Lucas
Joshua Slice has created an adorable animated shortabout a cute little spider named Lucas. The tiny arachnid announced that he has too many eyeballs to…
A Noise Canceling Noodle Fork That Connects With an App to Drown Out Slurping Sounds With Music
Concerned about the growing problem of “Noodle Harassment“, Nissin, the Japanese company known for their Cup Noodles brand, has created the Otohiko, a noise canceling…