Laughing Squid
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The Great Alfred Hitchcock Laughs About the British Sense of Humor in a Lost 1957 Animated Interview
In a amusing episode of the lost interview series Blank on Blank, the late great Alfred Hitchcock spoke with journalist Colin Edwards in 1957 about…
A Explanation of the Doomsday Clock and How Scientists Determine Where It Should Be Set
Vox video contributor Nicholas Garbaty explains the history the Doomsday Clock, and how scientists determine where it should be set. The clock was first designed…
Musician Rob Scallon Shares Everything He Knows About Playing Slap on His Signature Chapman Guitar
The incredibly talented Rob Scallon gave a helpful in-studio lesson in which he shared both visually and verbally everything he “knows about playing slap” on…
A Clip of The Big Bang Theory Where the Studio Audience Is Replaced With Ricky Gervais Laughing
Owen Cooper took a clip of The Big Bang Theory but replaced the sound of the studio audience with audio of Ricky Gervais laughing.
Puppeteer Barnaby Dixon Shares His Fascination With the Wonder of Movement
Great Big Story visited with Barnaby Dixon, the talented puppeteer behind the brilliant dancing warrior MANU along with other the equally wonderful puppets Dabchick and…
An Amusing Bookstore Photo Series That Poses Customers Strategically With Matching Book Covers
A post shared by librairie mollat (@librairie_mollat) on Feb 26, 2017 at 11:46pm PST Librairie Mollat, an independent bookstore in Bordeaux, France, has created a…
How Industrial Light & Magic Created the Incredible Visual Effects for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The BBC News channel, Click, sent host Spencer Kelly out to give us a behind the scenes look at how Industrial Light & Magic created…
A Deeply Relaxed Rescued Elephant Adorably Snores While Taking a Cool Mud Bath Under the Hot Sun
A deeply relaxed elephant named Kabu, who lives at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand, adorably snored away while luxuriating in a nice…
Coyote Peterson Feeds a Bucket of Fruit to an Upside Down Kinkajou at Night
Upon finding that his subjects were being quite uncooperative while trying to film the adorable marmoset episode at the Kids Saving the Rainforest organization in…
An Exploded Chair Made Using a Wood Chair Disassembled and Sealed Within Clear Acrylic Boxes
A post shared by Joyce Lin (@jolime) on Dec 17, 2016 at 3:30pm PST Exploded Chair is a graduation project by artist and designer Joyce…