Laughing Squid
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Intricate Kinetic Cardboard Sculptures Featuring Articulating Joints, Moving Parts, and Working Lights
Greg Olijnyk, an engineering graphic designer in Melbourne, Australia creates remarkably intricate and incredibly detailed sculptures made only with “cardboard, glue, toothpicks, scalpel blades, coffee,…
Surprisingly Elegant Parasol Mushroom and Red Cage Fungus Costumes Created for Artist’s Mushroom Thesis
Artist and student Jamie Green created a pair of surprisingly elegant fungi costumes. The first costume is that of a Macrolepiota Procera or parasol mushroom…
How to Emit a Commanding Whistle With Your Fingers
In an instructive video, Brett McKay of The Art of Manliness (previously) demonstrates how to whistle with your fingers. McKay explains each step thoroughly until…
Hilarious Narration of the Women’s Death Diving World Championship at Frognerbadet in Oslo, Norway
Jimmy O'Brien provided hilarious narration of the Women’s finals at the Annual Death Diving World Championship, which took place in Oslo.
The Difference Between Claws and Nails
In a manicured Ted Ed lesson written by Matthew Borths and animated by Nabil Buris, narrator Addison Anderson explains the difference between nails and claws.…
How the Animated Series ‘Rick and Morty’ Is a More Extreme Version of the 1985 Film ‘Back to the Future’
With the fourth season of Rick and Morty underway Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of The Take quite deftly compare the animated series with the…
Mesmerizing Cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘The Sound of Silence’ Performed on a Bass Guitar
Musician Tommy Lee Depp (previously) performed a truly mesmerizing cover of the classic Simon and Garfunkel song “The Sound of Silence” on a bass guitar…
Stop-Motion Animation of Frying a Rubber Chicken
Animation channel Bebop, who previous made a yummy pizza out of LEGO bricks, created an amusing stop-motion animation showing everything involved with frying a rubber…
A Handy Fold-Out Murphy Bed For Dogs
New Age Pet created an ingenious Murphy-style bed for dogs that folds out of a neatly disguised cabinet. This handy bed comes in two sizes,…
Clever Cocktail Picks That Double as Tiny Protest Signs
Fred has created a very clever set of “Pick-Its” cocktail picks, each doubling as tiny protest signs for these turbulent times. Included in the set…