Sousaphone, really. Spotted at the back of a music store by Bob Novella. (click to embiggen) ..

Nice detail work in the banquet hall at Cardiff Castle, Wales. (Click to embiggen.) ..

At the Jazzissimo Lounge in Romania. (More at Laughing Squid) ..

Can you guess which one is Hai-Ting and which one is Matt? (Thanks to Adam from the Michigan Skeptics!) ..

When the Berlin Philharmonic asked Bjoern Ewers to design an ad campaign, he stepped up and (sorta) stepped in to a violin. Check out the whole series here. Thanks to listener Ben E., who points out that it is reminiscent of The Splits project we talked about. Via Boing Boing. ..

(Click here for larger version. Via Modern Mechanix) ..

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I got this excellent postcard yesterday, a friendly skeptical taunting from Crushinator, aka Corin See. Click it, for detail’s sake! ..

There were several of these vans outside a medical building in midtown Manhattan. [Click to see it bigger--though why you would want to...] ..