Laughing Squid
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Jack Vale Worries People in Public Places by Loudly Asking Siri How to Steal Purses
Prankster Jack Vale recently worried a lot of people, who were in public areas, by loudly asking Siri how to steal purses. Some individuals held…
Paint Showers, A Colorful Stop Motion Animation Featuring Storms of Paint
Animator Miguel Jiron unleashes an abstract storm of paint in the colorful animated short, “Paint Showers.” Jiron created the 2011 stop motion animation by applying…
wave 1, A Giant Wave Made Out of Thousands of Barbie Dolls
photo by Jarrad Seng “wave 1” is a 10-foot-tall wave of Barbies by artist Annette Thas. The sculpture, which contains several thousand used blonde Barbie…
‘The Office’ Time Machine, Every Real-Life Cultural Reference From Every Episode of ‘The Office’ Viewable by Year
1999 The Office Time Machine is a copyright reform project created by Joe Sabia and programmed by Aaron Rasmussen that uses the cultural references from…
Artist Recreates Stills From Classic Disney Movies by Digitally Painting Over the Top of Them
The Sword in the Stone Tyson Murphy, a former character artist at Blizzard Entertainment, recreates stills from classic Disney movies by digitally painting over the…
Have a Nice Day, A Synchronized Robotic Dance Video by World Order
In “Have a Nice Day,” Japanese performer Genki Sudo and his group World Order perform their signature synchronized robotic dancing in front of crowds of…
Jello Presidents, Gelatin Portraits of U.S. Presidents
During the lead up to the 2012 presidential election, photographer Henry Hargreaves created portraits of U.S. presidents out of red, white, and blue gelatin for…
A Series of Filters That Would Make Facebook Both Easier to Use and More Invasive
“I hate everyone I know.” “Facebook Fatigue” is a short video from the comedians at Comediva that proposes a series of filters for Facebook that…
Graph TV, A Web Tool That Creates Fascinating Graphs Based on the Ratings of Television Show Episodes
Justified Programmer Kevin Wu has created Web TV, a web tool that produces fascinating graphs based on the IMDb, or Internet Movie Database, ratings of…
Stunning Camera Drone Video of Ice Caves in Alaska
A DJI Phantom drone explores ice caves in the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska in this stunning video by Firefight Films. The video, part of a…