Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
How to Illegally Climb the Crane Atop Europe’s Tallest Building
Sergey Valyaev and pals illegally climbed the construction crane on Moscow’s Mercury City Tower, Europe’s tallest building. In this episode of Show Yourself, they show…
Roots Vases, Glass Flower Vases With a Colorful Root Inside
Roots Vases by Italian designer Giorgio Bonaguro are glass flower vases with a colored glass root-like structure inside. The vases can hold a single flower…
Waste Cooking, A Reality Cooking Show for Dumpster Divers
“Waste Cooking” is an Austrian reality cooking show that focuses on using discarded food as ingredients. Recipes and more episodes can be found at their…
RGB, An Animated Short That Explores How Colored Light Mixes
RGB is an animated short film created by award-winning San Francisco-based illustrator and animator Dan McHale. In this animated short I’m playing with the additive…
Scumdance, A Group Art Show That Celebrates Famous Movie Villains
They all float down here! by Dave Correia Scumdance, a group art show at the Blonde Grizzly gallery, will be showcasing a bad ass collection…
Bizarre Google Earth Glitch Images
Artist Clement Valla collects anomalous Google Earth images that showcase the occasional oddities of Google’s Universal Texture algorithm. For more images, see Valla’s collection, “Postcards…
A Tree is For Life, D*Face Anthropomorphizes Discarded Trees
“A tree is for life not just Xmas!” For “A Tree is For Life,” street artist D*Face added eyebaubles to discarded Christmas trees left on…
BargainBinBlasphemy, Record Albums Defaced
“Perma-frost & other delights.” BargainBinBlasphemy is a Tumblr blog where innocent bargain bin record albums have been humorously defaced. “Screamy Grant – A Christmas Arson.”…
PBS Arts: Off Book – What’s The Deal With Internet Comedy?
“Why not laugh a little?” “What’s The Deal With Internet Comedy?” by PBS Arts: Off Book looks at the culture of comedy in the digital…
A Burning Man for Ants, A Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse of Burning Man
“A Burning Man for Ants” is a time-lapse video of Burning Man that, thanks to tilt-shift photography, gives the art event a whimsical miniature quality.…