Laughing Squid Blog Posts - 2018-01-24

Art, Culture and Technology Can't see images? [Click here...](.p43WskUFd0yLum780i38o_j0HFxR4lsa6WM4nJ5SfwM) [Laughing Squid](.kYM9TjX41oUmTOaEp76xlzfKouRImnft9zaFeYHGgiw) [Laughing Squid](.HDjtCHDYNAkZL69WT-cnGnDzzr-e2AkcsHUj9t4qQBI) [Artist Rob Sheridan Shares How He Played a Role in Propagating the Infamous Dancing Baby Meme](.G7_AveSzNS2E_-mtQuoy51ilseoI5mVKZbCRGSfi3E0) .vcjKVPGv8vAbmUcv2MewSDn1pjzQo_p4S4L77SXTnCk In 1998, a 16 year old Rob Sheridan, a talented artist, photographer, former creative director for Nine Inch Nails and friend of Laughing Squid, sat down for an interview with local television station K5 in Seattle to talk about the website he had constructed that was dedicated to the infamous “Dancing Baby“. The Dancing Baby already made an appearance on the show Ally McBeal and was making the rounds as one of the very first internet memes. While Sheridan didn’t create the Dancing Baby, ... [Read Blog Post](.LZyUuCVqsYFTY_n3TvJBftLWf-p15uzBPpWsb22f7Zo) [An Adorable Trained Pig Eagerly Puts His Toys Away at the Verbal Request of His Beloved Human](.vPosX4AkYFKXybFy7MJekPc7VzZOay9HYsiWm2L1rR0) .Ba_FqLHIAacVJ-csoTjNKVKm-VOUredEBCLPeAumWWM Upon hearing his human Nicolle‘s verbal request, a well trained pig named Paul eagerly walked back and forth across the room to grab each one of his toys in his mouth and then deposit them into a wooden chest. This adorable process was only slightly hampered by a plush monkey that refused to go in the box, but that was soon remedied and in just a few minutes all of Paul’s toys were neatly put away. Paul cleans up via Tastefully Offensive A Vocal Little Dachshund Excitedly Reunites With ... [Read Blog Post](.wm0GLONRzCaa6GZ4WGbexIQJu5V7ZH4TuaKZ78yx5sg) [Create Customizable Aristocratic Portraits of Your Dogs and Cats With Mantelpiece Masterpiece](.I49kq_7cfL0M0_P4Td8umpVWITLQxDOeuMq-wNGNV4I) .4ir-Zi6ly3epEkivMLz3I_WMAkbDq1do8ek-EW1FkbA The great yarn war continued with no end in sight until General @atchoumthecat showed up. He gave the enemies a stern look and they all ran away like a bunch of scaredy cats. . . . . #digitalart #digitalpainting #digitalartist #creative #myart #photomanipulation #adobephotoshop #instaart #digitaldrawing #doodle #conceptart #fanart #artistic #sketchaday #portrait #painting #cats #catstagram #cute A post shared by Mantelpiece Masterpiece (@mantelpiecemasterpiece) on Jan 20, 2018 at ... [Read Blog Post](.S58w_FH8MCu-j0-6qQW6B2BLfhBz_9aSM3XQ37-svj8) [Woodworking Artist Meticulously Carves Pencils Out of Pencils in a Project He Calls ‘Pencil Inception’](.XfJDIUkG37wVk4DvKtuhCDvCqdXJdsiacPRnFtYRxnA) .AD-Mgz-2dKED6J8KYnKT5roxNbLwbvHskjIlhDOcwqo Bobby Duke, the very talented wood carver and artist in Fort Worth, Texas who created a gorgeous sculpture of a floating coffee cup spilling out a rainbow of colored pencils, very humorously demonstrated his meticulous method for carving pencils out of pencils or as he calls it “Pencil Inception“. Has science gone too far? I think it may have. I hope you enjoy…….”Pencil Inception Pencil vs Camera by Ben HeineFred Armisen and Bill Hader Play Old Classmates From Whom David Letterman Stole ... [Read Blog Post](.W69EXv41LQFKCSiOKTD8VzrHax0o7h3GOaL_rLkXDl4) [Musician Uses GarageBand to Perform a Cover of ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ Solely on His iPad](.AekToxTPrl0DevEa8k2qUEryRithtxaCe6mvdz_djn0) .gEYx3CTLIWOq7JqthefsBsYed4ZXuXuUygLAnQUe-iE Musician Dan Baker quite skillfully employed the amazing capabilities of the Mac OS program GarageBand to perform a solo, multi-track cover of The Buggles song “Video Killed the Radio Star“, completely on his iPad. With the use of this technology, Baker’s version is eerily similar to the original 1979 hit. Here’s my take on the Buggles’ 1979 hit, “Video Killed the Radio Star”, using NOTHING but the fantastic on-board sounds of GarageBand for iOS10: so unbelievably powerful…All vocal parts ... [Read Blog Post](.2N8Refm9jmUUPbGS8PpW_KOAy0uhyvcFBUM2ZBZaeyM) [Prankster Shares How His Fake Restaurant Became the Number One Spot in London on TripAdvisor](.f7wwySCs8YX4E6nQI5praVimwo02bkduFDxX2dO_Ins) .svUkX87_Ald9NYhk6DcAgcjKE3FeXQfMnhjUPxXk4fw Prankster Oobah Butler who is also a freelance writer for Vice, performed a brilliant prank in which he created a fake restaurant named for the shed in his backyard and submitted it to TripAdvisor to be reviewed. Butler, who had been paid in the past to write restaurant reviews, created just the right amount of chatter to literally get the phones ringing. Because The Shed at Dulwich was always booked, the wish to reserve a table became more even desirable and the restaurant to the top of ... 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[Read Blog Post](.OvaYPzqxxzzQC1CcLeK-IXJf1J8zcQbY0s373s0qfmc) [People From Around the World Share How They Say ‘Cheers’ in Their Respective Native Languages](.R-jI0GRI4OXy8NdvN0d-PyYwdLLskCFlM-kpaLSFHQw) .0j1QUrwtJ-jkpxjk8tJ05UlAGIUz5BcVpJUUyx64yak In a spirited episode of the Condé Nast Traveler series Many People from Many Countries Say Things, 70 different people from all over the world shared how they say “Cheers” in their native languages. While the words varied from country to country, the ritual of declaring a general toast aloud with an accompanying drink was universally familiar to all. Learn how to say cheers in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, Thai, and many more ... [Read Blog Post](.fY2nnCM0-LVuYVA1e4haLghL2KLAp7GT_XnFx_8MaV4) [Classic Books Adorned With Decorative Papercraft Versions of the Subject Described Within the Pages](.uJYWgNe0FFmct5CKmrX1pfHOc-sSpmjvsMMdfPs0RMc) .InpAS8QVicT_u-b1o9yc_JnbtR1v_-2pF1T1q5MhfE8 A post shared by Kate Kato (@kasasagi.design) on Oct 18, 2017 at 12:16pm PDT Welsh artist Kate Kato of Kassagi Design creates really wonderful sculptures using old books and manuals and then adorning them with beautifully decorative papercraft version of the subject found within the pages. For example, The Observers Book of Birds grew a pair of feathered wings, while The Observers Book of Common Fungi sported a several varietals of mushrooms and flowers sprouted out of The ... [Read Blog Post](.sN53S9JZcSPpw3set8wihqoVO852GYmFqlUex2bAuko) [Former Police Officer Becomes an Active Air Rescue Specialist After His Retirement From the Force](.u1tkmjDTGxFa3VNdJMPorXzulqA-5xRKS9UiS_Ky2A4) .RjwQpqGQpJynlvh_9kt2xM3TMQhHF7IaqA1HH6OJgfM A hero is something that I think I strive for everyday. I don’t think I will ever reach that goal. I think the challenge is in reaching for it, not achieving it The first episode in the second season of the AARP series Spinoffs features the very likable Dick Sine, a former Ohio police officer who took up a second career as an active air rescue specialist in Montana after he retired from the force. Sine, who was once the youngest police officer in Ohio, told AARP that he’d always wanted to ... 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