Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
How To Make a Double Chin Disappear in Portrait Photography
Peter Hurley shows how to take more flattering portraits by the subject adjusting their head position slightly to accentuate the jawline.
PBS Arts: Off Book – LEGO Art
“LEGO Art” by PBS Arts: Off Book takes a look at the use of LEGO in portraiture, sculpture, and animation. LEGO blocks are one of…
Literary Maps of the USA and UK
Artists Geoff Sawers and Bridget Hannigan created these wonderful literary maps of the United States and United Kingdom. The maps are sold by The Literary…
The Amphibious Red Couch, A Bicycle-Pedal-Powered Paddlewheel Pontoon Couch
The Amphibious Red Couch is a “Bicycle-Pedal-Powered Paddlewheel Pontoon Couch” project created by Dawn Thomas and Robert Van de Walle that they will bring to…
Atticus Kitsch, A Gentleman Octopus Plush
Kelly Greenlief Sapp has designed Atticus Kitsch, a purple anthropomorphic gentleman octopus who wears a top hat and a monocle. She has started a fundraising…
Censorship Towel Cleverly Pixelates Your Body in Real Life
The Censorship Towel by Carmichael Collective is a concept bath towel that cleverly pixelates your body in real life. Carmichael Collective is an ongoing art…
Facebook Goes Public With Initial Public Offering on NASDAQ
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg just rang the opening of the New York Stock Exchange from their Menlo Park, CA headquarters, paving the way for Facebook…
Larry Page & Sergey Brin of Google Accepting a Webby Award in 2000
The Webby Awards has posted a video from their archives of TV news anchor Sam Donaldson interviewing Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin after…
Tiny Steve Jobs Selling iPhones In Midtown Manhattan
Walking through Midtown Manhattan this afternoon I came a cross a tiny Steve Jobs dilegently hawking iPhones in the window of Cellular Express on 38th…
US Military Demonstrates an Experimental Manned Flying Platform (1955)
This 1955 newsreel clip from British Pathé shows a demonstration flight of the Hiller Flying Platform, an experimental manned hover craft then in development by…