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• 'Malfunction', A Surreal Animation by Cyriak Featuring Disturbing Creatures Built From Faces
• Fans Create a Beautiful Memorial for Robin Williams at the 'Mork & Mindy' House in Boulder, Colorado
• How to Make a Keg Out of a Watermelon and a 3D-Printed Tap
• 'Lumberjacked', A Musical Animated Short About a Hipster Lumberjack Battling an 8-Bit Monster Wasp
• A Video Demonstrating What People Look Like Using an Ultraviolet Camera
• 'How Parmesan Cheese is Made', A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of the Italian Cheese
• A Mesmerizing Video Featuring Industrial Robots That Quickly Frost and Decorate Cakes
• 'Don't Look Down On Me', A Little Person Used Button Cam to Document How People React to Him
• My Decade TV, YouTube Videos From the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s Reimagined as Channel Surfing
• Bryant Park in New York City Begins Testing Solar-Powered Smartphone Charging Stations
• Comedian Matt Ingebretson Demonstrates How to Perform a Magic Card Trick in a Hilarious Magic Tutorial Parody
• IXION, A Private Jet Concept Design That Replaces Windows With Cameras and Flexible Screens
• The Cast of Broadway's 'Aladdin' Pays Tribute to Late Actor and Comedian Robin Williams
• The Health-Related Reasons Behind Why We Should Drink More Coffee
• Functioning Cyborg Arm Built From LEGO Mindstorms Bricks

'Malfunction', A Surreal Animation by Cyriak Featuring Disturbing Creatures Built From Faces

“Malfunction” is a surreal animation by Cyriak (see previously) that features disturbing creatures built from faces. Innocent bystanders go about their business while the world warps around them.

I’ve no idea what this video is. It crawled out from some dark corner of my computer after evolving from the virtual maggots that feast on rotting film footage.

Fans Create a Beautiful Memorial for Robin Williams at the 'Mork & Mindy' House in Boulder, Colorado

Fans have created a beautiful memorial for late great Robin Williams at the famous “Mork & Mindy House” in Boulder, Colorado. Laughing Squid’s Senior System Administrator, Shelby DeNike, went there pay his respects and shoot a few wonderful photos.

Reading over some of the signs and notes that people wrote you can tell that Robin Williams definitely touched a lot of lives with his acting and comedy.

photos by Shelby DeNike

How to Make a Keg Out of a Watermelon and a 3D-Printed Tap

Household Hacker demonstrates how to make a keg out of a watermelon and a 3D-printed tap in their new instructional video. The tap design was made by the creative folks at Robo3D. More photos and the 3D printer files are available to view and download at Thingiverse.

We’ve previously written about a similar project by KegWorks where they demonstrate how to make a pumpkin tap kit.

'Lumberjacked', A Musical Animated Short About a Hipster Lumberjack Battling an 8-Bit Monster Wasp

“Lumberjacked” is a musical animated short by Canadian artist Joel Mackenzie that features a retired hipster lumberjack tasked with saving his friends from a rampaging 8-bit mutant wasp monster.

via Vimeo Staff Picks

A Video Demonstrating What People Look Like Using an Ultraviolet Camera

Artist and author Thomas Leveritt recently captured footage of a series of people with an ultraviolet camera. According to Leveritt, “an ultraviolet camera can show not-yet-visible changes” on people’s skin — which means lots of freckles. Leveritt then had subjects put on sunscreen to demonstrate how it protects their skin.

We showed people what they looked like in ultraviolet, & wondered aloud if they wanted to put on some damn sunscreen already.

submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

'How Parmesan Cheese is Made', A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of the Italian Cheese

"How Parmesan Cheese is Made" is a video by YouTube food channel Potluck Video that travels to Hombre Farm in Modena, Italy for a behind-the-scenes look at the process of creating Parmesan cheese. To qualify as Parmigiano Reggiano, the cheese must be created in a specific part of the country. Potluck Video also recently went behind-the-scenes at an American ramen noodle company.

submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

A Mesmerizing Video Featuring Industrial Robots That Quickly Frost and Decorate Cakes

Canadian restaurant equipment manufacturer Unifiller has created a mesmerizing video highlighting some of the company's cake finishing equipment, like robots capable of rapidly frosting and decorating cakes.

via Viral Viral Videos

'Don't Look Down On Me', A Little Person Used Button Cam to Document How People React to Him

In Don’t Look Down on Me, little person filmmaker Jonathan Novick used a button camera to demonstrate how people in New York City react to his appearance. The resulting footage, which included inappropriate questions, offensive statements and surreptitious picture taking, along with some very insightful first-person narration make up this wonderful short documentary.

I don’t want to tell anyone what to do or what to think or how to feel but instead, what I’ll do is ask. I’ll ask that the next time you see someone who is different than you, think about what their day might be like. Think about all the events of their life leading up to that point and think about their day and think about what part of their day do you want to be.

via MetaFilter

My Decade TV, YouTube Videos From the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s Reimagined as Channel Surfing

My Decade TV is a site that collects YouTube videos from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s into a television channel-surfing experience, where users can flip through different channels, filter out genres and view videos by year. For the full broadcast television effect, My Decade TV has included era-appropriate static.

image via My Decade TV

via UrbanDaddy, The Awesomer

Bryant Park in New York City Begins Testing Solar-Powered Smartphone Charging Stations

Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan has installed a movable prototype solar-powered charging station, capable of charging up to six smartphones and other compatible devices at once. The station is the first of seven created by Green Barrel Energy Inc. and Landscapeforms, which are set to be deployed in the park in summer 2014, followed by additional units in other parts of New York City and the United States.

images via Bryant Park

via Inhabitat

Comedian Matt Ingebretson Demonstrates How to Perform a Magic Card Trick in a Hilarious Magic Tutorial Parody

Comedian Matt Ingebretson offers some handy tips on how to perform a magic card trick in a hilarious magic tutorial parody. The amusing video was written by Ingebretson and directed Pat Bishop of Terribletown.

submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

IXION, A Private Jet Concept Design That Replaces Windows With Cameras and Flexible Screens

IXION is a private jet concept by French design studio Technicon Design that removes traditional windows in favor of interior flexible displays that offer a panoramic view of the skies outside beamed in by external cameras.

I challenged the team to break out of conventional thinking with regards to a business jet exterior and interior. Whilst defining the concept sketches for the exterior, I asked the rest of the team to start thinking about interior concepts and what we could do differently.

images via Technicon Design

via designboom

The Cast of Broadway's 'Aladdin' Pays Tribute to Late Actor and Comedian Robin Williams

The cast of Broadway’s Aladdin recently paid tribute to late actor and comedian Robin Williams by singing the song “Friend Like Me” with the audience. Williams notably provided the voice of The Genie for the original movie and song.

The Health-Related Reasons Behind Why We Should Drink More Coffee

BuzzFeedBlue has created a new video that explores the health-related reasons behind why we should drink more coffee.

I mean, aside from the fact that it's delicious.

music by Birocratic – “Merlot“

Functioning Cyborg Arm Built From LEGO Mindstorms Bricks

LEGO builder Diavo Voltaggio showed off the latest in a number of cyborg arms he's built using a Mindstorms set during an interview with YouTube series Beyond the Brick at the BrickFair Virginia conference in Chantilly, VA. The Mark VI arm has four buttons that control four motors, letting him open and close the hand. There are also a number of LED lights for visual effect and a built-in smartphone holder.

The phone is just for fun. My best friend's on the other side of the convention, and we've been texting back and forth. Can't miss a message, right?

via CNET

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