For the inaugural [Tokyo Hotaru Festival](http://tokyo-hotaru.jp/faq/), 100,000 LED lights were placed in the Sumida River to resemble the fireflies that once inhabited it. Powered by 100% solar power, the beautiful disp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/17/Creating-Fireflies-With-LEDs-in-the-Sumida-River/_Image Credit: Eddarix via_[ imgur]( https://imgur.com/gallery/tCZaO) National Pickle Day’s roots can be traced back to 1949, as part of National Pickle Week, thanks to the National Pickle Packers Association. Pi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/13/November-14th-is-National-Pickle-Day-It-s-Kinda-a-Big-Dill/As part of this year's [Amsterdam Light Festival](http://www.amsterdamlightfestival.com/en) ([previously](https://www.neatorama.com/tag/Amsterdam-Light-Festival/) on Neatorama), French artist collective Groupe LAPS creat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/09/Giant-Spiders-Made-of-Light/Every year, Starbucks debuts new holiday designs f... ...one take offense. The designs were too plain, too festive , too religious, not religious enough, too multicu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/11/02/Starbucks-2018-Holiday-Cups-Aim-for-Inoffensiveness/"Corn maze designer" isn't exactly a full-time job, but somebody's gotta do it! Many farmers have discovered that opening their land up to tourists and locals for fall festivals and harvest events is a great way to raise...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/07/12-Secrets-of-Corn-Maze-Designers/Serbian duo Ivana Jelic and Pavle Petrovic created this real life version of Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night for the 7th annual Amsterdam Light Festival.This year's exhibition will feature 30 artwork with the theme "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/16/Van-Gogh-s-Starry-Night-in-Real-Life-by-Ivana-Jelic-and-Pavle-Petrovic/Christopher Bill (previously at Neatorama) assembled a group of trombonists from all over at the International Trombone Festival and recorded all the parts to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." The participants are listed at t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/13/28-Trombones-Play-BoRhap/Photographer Darren Whiteside/Reuters went to the Indonesian island of Java to document a three-day festival where extreme Vespa modders show off their latest creations. Many of them look like they belong in a Mad Max mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/07/Indonesian-Vespa-Modders-Hack-Scooters-to-Look-Like-They-re-Straight-Outta-Mad-Max/Every year, students from the Musashino Art University in Tokyo and the city of Niigata have collaborated to create fantastic large sculptures made from rice straw. Check out the fantastic photos over at the [Wara Art Fa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/05/Oh-HAY-There-Check-out-this-Japanese-Hay-Straw-Art-Festival/August seems like an odd time to post a "best of the year" list, but here we are. There have been so many people trying to get away with something that Mashable has plenty of material to work with. Four months from now,...
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