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Austin Tinkering School Teaches Kids as Young as 3 to Wield Power Tools
It’s a pleasure to introduce Maggie Duval as a new guest blogger for Laughing Squid. I’ve known Maggie since the day I arrived in California…
Clever Vintage Sweatshirt with Human Body Illustration on Front
Great White Vintage stumbled upon this vintage sweatshirt with an anatomical illustration of the human body (including a flap for the head) stitched on to…
The Globemaker, Short Film About a London Company That Makes Handcrafted Globes
The Globemaker is a mini documentary about Peter Bellerby and his London-based company that manufactures fine handcrafted globes, Bellerby & Co. Globemakers. According to Bellerby,…
Animated GIF Pixel Art Made From Classic Video Games
Noirlac, a Paris-based designer and Ubisoft video game developer, uses screenshots from old video games to create pixel art animated GIFs that highlight specific details…
The Science of Heartbreak by AsapScience
Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE uncover whether there are real physical effects on the body and brain during a breakup in their latest…
Vine Users Contribute to ‘The World’s Longest Apple Drop’
September 9 was Gravity Day (9/8, standard gravity is 9.8 m/s2, get it?) and to celebrate, GE invited Vine users to post videos of an…
The Double, A Film About a Man Whose Life Is Taken Over by a Doppelganger
The Double is a film directed and written by Richard Ayoade based on the 1846 novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The film,…
Fantastic Retrofuturistic Landscape Paintings by Simon Stålenhag
Sweden-based artist Simon Stålenhag makes intriguing landscape paintings that depict the Swedish countryside of the recent past, but with the addition of mysterious futuristic craft,…
Odd Things, Curious & Creepy Animal Sculptures by Erika Sanada
In her series “Odd Things,” artist Erika Sanada makes ceramic animal sculptures that are a creepy combination of realistic and freakish. The carefully rendered dogs,…
Milo the Dog Tries on Different Outfits For the First Day of School
Milo the dog tries on a bunch of cute doggy outfits like sweaters, hoodies, and glasses in preparation for the first day of school.