World’s Strangest

A pipe organ sounds so important, so majestic, so …big. It was meant for big songs. Rock Around the Clock Recorded at the Nathanaelchurch in Berlin-Schöneberg, Germany. * Jump Van Halen’s classic from 1984. * Star Wars Overture On the grand pipe organ at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. * Star Wars Throne Scene Music This song has become a staple of wedding processionals in recent [...]

We all played with cardboards when we were kids, but surely not like Ana Serrano! The Los Angeles artist has re-created the City of Angels in (almost) life-sized cardboards in her exhibition "Salon of Beauty," [...]

An artist with the moniker J-RYU refers to this piece as “Forbidden Love Child.” Well, forbidden only in the eyes of some people. If you’re in Los Angeles on Friday, you can see it at the Toy Art Gallery’s “Brain Evolution” show. Link -via Super Punch | Gallery Website

John Cage’s musical composition 4’33″ (“four, thirty-three”) is considered among his best — Cage himself thought it was his most important. The work contains three movements, all of which contain no musical sounds at all, although the piece is intended to be performed by trained musicians. There is some time between the movements, so that [...]

This large and involved anagram was posted in the front windows of the art gallery MKG127 in Toronto in 2007. Poet Christian Bok and artist Micah Lexier made this project work. -via reddit (Image source: Flickr user englishcookies)

So here’s something that happened. Back in the 70’s and early 80’s, Chicago gang members had their own business cards. Created using clip art on a low budget, they’re kind of a riot — many feature heavy metal, unicorns, axes, and other stuff generally considered “awesome” by teens in of the era. Some are overtly [...]

(YouTube Link) French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot recorded the sounds and images of birds lured to land on and pluck at the strings of an electric guitar left outside: His installation for The Curve will take the form of a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other instruments and objects. [...]

So says Mathue Shell of Geekstir, who is (presumably) the creator of this photoshop. It’s an adaptation of John Trumbull’s 1795 painting “The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton”, owned by the Yale University Art Gallery. Link via GearFuse

We’re kicking off the new season of “Feel Art Again” with some talented female artists, since our archive is a little lacking on the female front. Today’s artist is Frances Mary Hodgkins (1869-1947), “one of New Zealand’s most loved and critically-acclaimed artists.” 1. Although Frances Hodgkins first exhibited in 1890, when she was only 21, Hodgkins [...]

I’m a big fan of papercraft artist Yumiko Matsui (featured before on Neatorama here) – so it was a pleasant surprise to hear from her about this Neatoramabot papercraft sculpture. Ain’t he cute? If you haven’t seen Yumiko’s artwork before, you owe it to yourself to check it out: she sculpts fantastic and colorful dioramas as [...]