Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
‘StreetPong’, A Two-Person Game of ‘Pong’ Played at an Intersection While Waiting for the Light to Change
StreetPong is an art installation/game installed on traffic lights by Urban Invention in Hildesheim, Germany that’s played by two people on either side of an…
An Experiment Mimicking Perpetual Motion Using an Escalator and a Series of Brightly Colored Balls
En Was Not Here performed a science experiment of sorts by releasing a bag full of colorful plastic balls at the bottom and top of…
Impressive Metal Drum Solos Performed on an iPad Garageband Drum Kit
A YouTube user calling himself Appleman is creating some really impressive drum tracks using a Garageband drum kit on an iPad and some extremely fast…
‘Planet Tails’, The Second Operational Cat Café in America Opens in Naples, Florida
Planet Tales, a pet lifestyle center in Naples, Florida opened on December 3, 2014, becoming the second operational cat café in the United States. Founder…
Hedgehog Inadvertently Plays a Respectable Measure of Jazz Just by Walking Across the Piano Keys
Marutaro, the adorable hedgehog who poses for silly pictures, inadvertently plays a respectable measure of jazz whenever he walks across the keys of the family…
The Fairy Post Office, A Tiny Post Office Hidden Inside a Tree in an Orinda, California Park
photo by mallorypickett The Fairy Post Office is an unofficial yet functioning post office located in a tree in Tilden Park in Orinda, California. The…
More Surreal Fused Figure Sculptures by Yoshitoshi Kanemaki
Back in March we first posted about the wonderful wooden sculptures of bizarrely fused human figures created by Japanese artist Yoshitoshi Kanemaki. Kanemaki’s life-sized sculptures…
Tabby Cat With a Surprisingly Green Colored Coat Roams the Streets of Varna, Bulgaria
A stray tabby with an unusually colored coat of greenish-blue wanders the streets of Varna, Bulgaria, causing onlookers to do a double-take whenever the feline…
Ika Squid Plush by Inki Drop, An Adorable Cephalopod Toy
Inki Drop has released the tentacle-y adorable Ika Squid Plush, which is available now at Shana Logic (previously). This palm-sized buddy measures 4″ from the…
Many Small Cubes, An Outdoor Installation of Aluminum Cubes and Live Plants in Paris
photo by Marc Domage For the FIAC art fair back in October, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto created “Many Small Cubes”, an installation of metal cubes…