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Dublin Grocery Store Installs Glass Floor So Customers Can View an 11th Century Home Located Underneath
While a Lidl discount grocery store in Dublin, Ireland was being built, archaeologists discovered the remains of an 11th century medieval home that once stood…
A Wobbly Rescued Baby Wombat Tentatively Explores the Living Room Couch in Her New Home
View this post on Instagram A post shared by @brindabella_the_wombat on Oct 25, 2020 at 9:20pm PDT An adorably wobbly rescued baby wombat named Uschi…
An Amazing High Definition AI Remaster of the Iconic 1929 ‘Silly Symphony’ Animation ‘The Skeleton Dance’
Video editor Adam Maciaszek has impressively remastered the iconic Silly Symphony animation entitled “The Skeleton Dance” from Walt Disney Studios into a 4K high definition…
Artist Transforms Adorably Innocent Muppets Into Monstrous Characters From Classic Horror Films
Artist Jason Beck quite remarkably created “The Muppet Maniac Series 1”, images the normally adorably goofy Muppets that were seamlessly transformed into the monstrous characters…
Bat Corkscrew Flaps Wings as Bottle is Uncorked
View this post on Instagram A post shared by OTOTO Design (@ototodesign) on Oct 4, 2020 at 5:15am PDT Vino by OTOTO (previously) is a…
Keyboard With Food Themed Keycaps For Each Letter
Keycap artisan Tiny of Tiny Makes Things very cleverly replaced all of the keys on her computer keyboard with a variety of really detailed, handmade…
The Literal Interpretation of Common English Language Expressions Visualized in a Forthright Animation
“Kill Your Idioms” by Los Angeles filmmaker Grant Kolton is a wonderfully forthright animation that visually explores the literal denotations of colloquialisms to show how…
A Printable One-Dimensional Chess Game By Doc Pop
Doc Pop, an artist, musician, performer and good friend of Laughing Squid has put a unique twist on the classic game of chess by making…
Improv Everywhere Turns a Raft in the Middle of The East River Into ‘NYC’s Most Socially Distanced Office’
Charlie Todd and the NYC comedy collective Improv Everywhere, (previously) who in the past turned abandoned phone kiosks in Manhattan into private outdoor workspaces, worked…
Spooky Freddy Krueger From ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Made of Crayons That Satisfyingly Melts Under Heat
In the spooky spirit of Halloween, sculptor Steven Richter (previously) of Tom Spina Designs created a rather sinister looking Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm…