Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Kevin Evans Art Show “Mythos” at Chez Poulet Gallery
“Mythos” is an new art show at Chez Poulet Gallery featuring 25 surreal intaglio prints and paintings by Kevin Evans. The show opens this Thursday,…
ArtCar Fest 2007, West Coast’s Largest Gathering of Art Cars
ArtCar Fest 2007, the West Coast’s largest gathering of art cars, takes place September 28th-30th around the Bay Area. The event kicks off this Thursday…
SF Indie Presents SF Docfest, A Documentary Film Festival
SF Indie presents the 6th annual San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF Docfest), September 28th through October 10th at the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco.…
Graffiti Archaeology, Documenting The Evolution of Graffiti
Graffiti Archaeology is wondeful Flash-based gallery that documents how graffiti changes over time using a timelapse collage. I first came across this great website last…
Marcel Marceau 1923-2007, Master of Mime
Marcel Marceau (born Marcel Mangel), the French mime artist who was instrumental in reviving the art form after World War II, has died at the…
Google Docs in Plain English
Here’s a great little video produced by Common Craft that explains how Google Docs works. Speaking of Google Docs, in addition to documents and spreadsheets,…
Theremin Playing Robot Plays Crazy by Gnarls Barkley
Brooklyn sound artist Ranjit Bhatnagar has created Lev, an amazing theremin-playing robot, who with the help from Ranjit’s new thumpbot and a old synthesizer, preform…
Devo Plays Satisfaction on Saturday Night Live (1978)
Devo performing “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (their cover of the Rolling Stones song) on Saturday Night Live on October 14th, 1978, with host Fred…
The Ask Dr. Hal Show Returns To 12 Galaxies
The Ask Dr. Hal Show is back for a special, one-time installment this month at 9pm next Monday night, September 24th at 12 Galaxies. As…
Kentucky State Capitol Building, Frankfort, KY
Back in July I was in Frankfort, KY, the capital of Kentucky. While there I visited the beautiful Kentucky State Capitol building that was built…