Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Time-Lapse of Hurricane Sandy Over New York City
SMvideoChan created this time-lapse video that captures Hurricane Sandy rolling in over New York City at 30s per frame. It starts around 1 PM on…
Star Wars Episode 7 Official Trailer by NMA
After yesterday’s announcement that Disney acquired Lucasfilm and plans to release the Star Wars Episode 7 film in 2015, Next Media Animation TV (NMA) created…
The Open Wireless Movement
The Open Wireless Movement is a coalition that advocates for open wireless networks in order to make the Internet more open and available. The coalition…
Rot, A Stop-Motion Animated Short About a Girl’s Eerie Transformation
Rot is a stop-motion animated short film directed by The Reel‘s Erica Luke with sound by London-based sound artist Matthew Perryman. In it, a…
Pinball Love, A Video Filled With Classic Pinball Machine Beauty
In “Pinball Love”, filmmaker Blake Faucette (who is also part of Distractotron), camera operators Rick Burnett and Micah Moore of Beat Down Boogie traveled to…
Do Pumpkins Feel Pain?, Big Cats Attacking Pumpkins
“This video contains graphic material of our annual pumpkin massacre. Viewer discretion advised.” Do Pumpkins Feel Pain?, the latest video by Tampa-based Big Cat Rescue,…
Reverse Trick-or-Treating in Real Life
The folks at Bangakang do some reverse trick-or-treating at a variety of places, people’s homes: the subway, the drive-thru window and more. They were probably…
San Francisco Performer Paul Addis, Notorious For The Premature Burning of Burning Man, Commits Suicide
On Sunday we found out the tragic news that our friend Paul Addis had committed suicide at the BART Embarcadero Station in San Francisco on…
Various Ways To Smash, Slash & Destroy a Pumpkin in Slow Motion
In honor of the Halloween holiday, filmmaker Ross Ching of Thrash Lab and his crew members demonstrate 10 various ways to smash, slash and destroy…
Krang O’ Lantern, A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Themed Watermelon Inside a Halloween Pumpkin
San Francisco freelance graphic designer Michael Villamejor (aka “MikeV Design“) took a carved out Halloween pumpkin and filled it with the insides of a watermelon…