Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Artist Cleverly Focuses Sunlight Through a Magnifying Glass to Engrave Portraits Onto Wooden Canvases
Artist Hye Sea of MagnifytheSUN very cleverly uses a magnifying glass to focus the light of the sun to engrave beautiful portraits onto wooden canvases.…
Hilarious Animated Interpretations of Iconic Movie Lines
The very talented Nick Murray Willis (previously) has created a compilation of 100 iconic movie lines for which he supplied hilariously literal animations. Here are…
Dizzying Double Vision Optical Illusion Tattoos
Yatzil Elizalde, an illustrator, tattoo artist, and owner of White Light Tattoo in Hermosillo, Mexico, inks absolutely amazing tattoos that are deliberately dizzying. Elizalde draws…
Realistic Anamorphic Digital Waves Appear to Crash Inside of a Glass Box on Top of a Building in Seoul
Dstrict has created highly realistic illusion of high definition waves that appear to repeatedly crash into the walls of a giant glass box.
‘Great Balls’, An AC/DC Style Song Written by an AI Bot
Funk Turkey, who is a very creative musician, comedian, and engineer, built a Markov Chain bot with the ability to write in the highly distinctive…
A Wily Coyote Chases Elusive Roadrunner in Real Life
Michael Thomas Bogan captured an incredible chase between a real-life coyote and a real-life roadrunner.
An Engraved Wood Millennium Falcon Cutting Board
Promi Design has created a really handy engraved wood cutting board that made in the shape of the iconic Millenium Falcon from Star Wars. The…
Three Years of Changing Seasons in the Jutland Peninsula Captured in a Stunning Timelapse
Jonas Høholt, a filmmaker who likes to “bend and warp time and motion”, has captured the changing of the seasons as they occur in the…
Transparent Rockets From Different Time Periods Show How They Burned Fuel While Launching Into Orbit
Hazegrayart very craftily showed four different rockets from different periods in history with transparent exteriors flying side-by-side showing their kerosene (red), liquid hydrogen (orange) and…
‘Rick and Morty’ Prop Designer Talks About Creating Unusual Spaceships and Unique Devices for the Show
Brent Noll, the very talented lead prop designer for the sublime animated series Rick and Morty, shared with Adult Swim what goes into creating unique…