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Man Builds an Incredible 25 Foot Long Skateboard
To celebrate moving into his new workshop, metal fabricator Paul Pinto decided to build the world’s longest skateboard. The board measures an incredible 25 feet…
Dog Rolls Up Like a Burrito Using a Tortilla Blanket
A very clever little miniature Australian shepherd named Tesla sat on a blanket that looks like a giant tortilla and listened intently as her human…
Artist Cleverly Places Pop Culture Character Stickers in Strategic Spots Around His Seattle Neighborhood
Rudy Willingham, an artist, advertising creative, and music producer, very cleverly places stickers of Disney, Pixar, The Simpsons and other pop culture characters in some…
Illustrator Turns Clouds Into Doodles of Animals
Irish artist and children’s book illustrator Chris Judge amusingly turns clouds over Dublin and Galway into adorable little animals with quick outline doodles, thus giving…
Jack Black Cuts Off His Long Hair and Big Bushy Beard
The ever effervescent Jack Black quite hilariously took a big pair of black-handled scissors and began lopping off large pieces of his bushy beard while…
The Worst Attraction in Every State
Matt Shirley created a map of the worst attraction in every US state according to his Instagram followers.
A Woman Is Confronted by Quickly Reproducing Random Objects While Looking at Museum Fork Exhibit
In the surreal film short “Fork” by Fabrice Le Nezet of Optical Arts, a lone museum attendee finds herself confronted by seemingly infinitely reproducing objects…
Salmon Spawn Upstream During the San Francisco Cacophony Society ‘Breakers to Bay’ Event in 1996
In 1996 I shot footage of the legendary San Francisco Cacophony Society “Breakers to Bay” event, where people wearing salmon outfits run in the opposite…
The Burnell Galactic Positioning System, A Robotic Laser and Spinning Mirror System That Creates Sound
Kal Spelletich, a San Francisco robotics artist and longtime friend of Laughing Squid has created “The Burnell Galactic Positioning System” an incredible robotic installation that…
A Gorgeous Cover of ‘Interstellar’ on a Cristal Baschet
Musician Loup Barrow performed an acoustic cover of the Hans Zimmer composed theme from the film Interstellar on a Cristal Baschet.