Today is the right day to visit Museum of Hoaxes’s famous list of Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time.

At no. 1 is 1957 The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest, where BBC news show Panorama announced that very mild winter and elimination of the spaghetti weevil had created a bumper crop for Swiss spaghetti tree growers.

A huge number of viewers called in to ask how they can grow their own spaghetti tree – to which the BBC responded "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."

Check out the rest of the list: Link

Happy April Fool’s Day everyone!

Kirsteen’s sculpture reminds me of the toothpick arts we used to do when we were kids, only much larger and cooler.

From the website:

A deliberate attempt has been made to present the structures as models. They are made from the commonly used architectural model-making material FomeCore, and are scaled down to tabletop size. Consequently, they draw on the assumptions of architectural models – to help visualise and sell projects yet to be realised. The presentation of the sculptures in an immaculate and clean form supports such inferences, yet the structures have evidently already existed and are failed structures.

Link (via Gravestmor)

Fosfor Gadgets has listed the Top 10 Weirdest Keyboards Ever: Link

Despite never having formal art education Max Ernst (1891 – 1976) helped found the Cologne Dadaist group and later became a famous surrealist painter.

What’s surrealism? Wikipedia explains:

Surrealism is a cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement oriented toward the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative faculties of the "unconscious mind" and the attainment of a state different from, "more than", and ultimately "truer" than everyday reality: the "sur-real", or "more than real".

For more of Max’s artwork, visit: Link| The Surrealist Website (via Ursi’s Blog)