Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Lomography’s Smartphone Film Scanner Creates Digital Images from 35mm Film
With Lomography’s Smartphone Film Scanner, you can pull out your 35mm film to scan them into digital images using your smartphone. If you’re like me…
Thumbs and Ammo, Guns in Movie Scenes Replaced With Thumbs-Up
photo by Tim B The oddly hilarious blog Thumbs and Ammo is based on the simple premise that a movie character brandishing a gun looks…
After Ever After, Parody Song Shows What Happened to Disney Princesses in the Real World
“After Ever After” is a clever parody song by musician Jon Cozart (aka “Paint“) that destroys the “happily ever after” for popular Disney princesses by…
‘Breaking Bad’ Painting of Walter and Jesse by Scott Mitchell
UK-based portrait artist Scott Mitchell cooked up an excellent Breaking Bad acrylic painting that features characters Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).…
WordPress Launches Tutorial Site Learn.WordPress.com
Today WordPress launched Learn.WordPress.com, a new tutorial site with 12 detailed guides that are designed to get a new WordPress.com user up and running as…
Minimalist Video Game Posters
Artist Caleb Barefoot has created a set of minimalist posters for Bioshock, Borderlands, Assassin’s Creed, Portal, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and numerous other video…
Digg Puts Building an RSS Reader to the Top of Their Priority List
Digg has announced that they are building an RSS reader and have moved it to the top of their priority list after the recent news…
BioShock Infinite Story Revealed in New “False Shepard” Trailer
Irrational Games has released a new trailer titled “False Shepard” for their upcoming title BioShock Infinite, the latest in a series of BioShock first person…
Keep America Beautiful, Jason Mecier Creates Map of the United States Using SXSW Trash
At SXSW 2013 in Austin, Texas, collage artist Jason Mecier recently created “Keep America Beautiful,” a 10-foot tall mural of the United States made completely…
NASA Space Photos Digitally Manipulated Into Ethereal Shapes
For his 2010 and 2011 “Celestial Images” series, illustrator Chris Keegan digitally manipulated ethereal shapes of animals, people, and faces into photos taken at NASA’s Chandra…