Scott Beale and I spent the last month coming up with a great first Quarterly.co box (which we first announced in May). Now, we are down to the final week that people can sign up. So, if you were thinking of signing up for the #LSQ01 box, this would be the time to do it. [...]
Last month Laughing Squid Primary Tentacle Scott Beale spotted an Existential Emergency Phone at the “F.A.T. Gold” show at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York City. Earlier this week artist Randy Sarafan posted an Instructables tutorial on how to make your own Existential Emergency Phone, a no-dial telephone that can be programmed to [...]
The other night I spotted this cool 3D geometric street art by Aakash Nihalani on the side of rag & bone in SoHo. photo by Scott Beale
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Powerful companies like Google are ensuring that their office spaces are filled with fun elements and inspiring designs that actively encourage creativity and co-operation. As Google's Lindsay...Show More Summary
by Chris Bodenner Fraggle Rock was even more morbid than you remember: (Hat tip: Scott Beale)
Please give a big ten tentacle welcome to Kimber Streams, our new Contributing Writer here on the Laughing Squid blog. We’re excited to have her onboard! And now, I turn you over to Kimber… – Scott Beale, founder & Editor-in-Chief Ahoy internet! My name is Kimber Streams, and you may have seen my byline floating [...]
Photo: Rusty Blazenhoff Transportation is coming... to trendy Austin for SXSW. Rusty Blazenhoff
and Scott Beale of Laughing Squid have some pics of the best pedicab this
side of Westeros: Link
Grumpy Cat and Rusty Blazenhoff photo by Ben Lashes Scott Beale and I are in Austin, Texas attending SXSW Interactive and have had the opportunity to again hang out in real life with popular internet memes, Tard the Grumpy Cat, Blake Boston aka “Scumbag Steve” and Nyan Cat creator Chris Torres. If you are attending [...]
Lori and I stopped by a street market in Chelsea today. There was some amazing stuff, but by far this was the most unique item I saw on display. The alligator staple remover is a nice touch. photo by Scott Beale
Scott Beale, founder and primary tentacle of Laughing Squid Last week the entire Laughing Squid Tentacle Team (bloggers and everyone from Laughing Squid web hosting company) gathered in the San Francisco Bay Area to meet for the first time ever. As part of this epic gathering, I hosted a small cocktail party at my home [...]
It’s pilot casting season! And as such, Rupert Grint, JK Simmons, Dylan McDermott, Billy Campbell, Jennifer Beals, and tons more have found new homes on the small screen. Also after the jump: Peter Sarsgaard has joined AMC’s The Killing Dexter Season 8 adds a Walking Dead alum Ridley Scott is bringing The Terror to AMC [...]
Well, it appears y’all liked last week’s inaugural Beal Deal interview with Lisa Barone, so let’s keep this going, shall we? In the hot seat this week is someone with perhaps the best Twitter bio you’ll ever read: “Author, Speaker and kind of a big deal on a fairly irrelevant soc media site which inflates my self-importance.” [...]
"Doggie Diner Dog Heads" by Scott Beale
We absolutely adore this awesome illustration, entitled Cerberus, created by San Francisco-based artist Josh Ellingson as a tribute to the “three-headed guardian of the underworld as well as the...Show More Summary
Scott Beale on TripsQ TripsQ is a web service powered by Mapize that creates beautiful travel stats from your Foursquare check-ins. via Naveen
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Congratulations to Laughing Squid on its 17th anniversary. Laughing Squid was started by Scott Beale in 1995 as a film and video production company to release the documentary 'Alonso G. Smith, A Half Century of Social Surrealism. The Presurfer
I learned how to use IFTTT today, thanks to a recommendation from Laughing Squid man, Scott Beale. It's quite nice. Reminds me of a project I did with Betaworks a couple of years ago, that turned into bit.ly. We were trying to create an end-user programming language for Internet apps. Show More Summary
photo by David Weeks Studio As a thank you to our main tentacle Scott Beale for being a loyal customer, Fab sent him a fantastic Cubebot cherry wood sculpted robot puzzle designed by David Weeks Studio and manufactured at Areaware. The family of posable Cubebots come in a various shapes, sizes and colors. They are [...]
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Ben Huh (Credit: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid ) For years, those in the know have flocked to one site to get their daily fix of funny pictures of cats. There's plenty of contenders for the crown, but the king of such sites, I Can Has Cheezburger,...Show More Summary
Here are a few photos I shot last weekend at New York Comic Con 2012, which was bigger than ever this year. Photo Gallery: New York Comic Con 2012 photos by Scott Beale