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Leave a synthesizer unguarded around a bunch of monkeys, lemurs, marmosets, suricates, baboons and a sloth and you might be surprised by their musical talent.

Then again, they might just trash their instruments instead of using them to make slick electronic music!

This is actually just a fun, animal filled ad for the Volt Festival 2012, an electronic music festival taking place on June 9th in Sweden.

Oh well, the critters in this commercial sure are cute!

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This is what ground zero looks like when you're a testing mannequin in the 1950s. These rare photographs were taken by Loomis Dean at an atomic bomb test site in Nevada around 1955, an eerie documentation of the strangeness that went on during the Atomic Age.

Photo caption--"Scorched, male mannequin in suit of dark fabric indicates a human would be burned but alive."

Check out the rest of these photos, and read all about Loomis' documentation of the testing site, at the link to Life Magazine Online below, they're kookier than Kookie Burns!

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Tomer Hanuka is a prolific illustrator with a crisp, colorful style and a flair for infusing his drawings with a sense of intrigue and kinetic energy.

Juxtapoz has posted a very insightful breakdown of one of Tomer's illustrations, entitled Gore's Run. It's an interesting look at how an illustration goes from rough sketch to full color work suitable for print in four distinct stages.

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It's safe to say that Dean Pelton is the most colorful member of the Greendale Community College All Stars on the hit TV show Community.

He has a flair for theatrics, with an ever changing wardrobe to match, so sitcom geek and cartoonist Dennis Culver decided to put all of his costumes together on one colorful illustrated poster.

Prints are available for purchase at Dennis' website, in case you're looking for something to put on your wall that reminds you how not to dress if you want to be taken seriously!

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What you see here is a self portrait of the artist Marc Quinn, an incredibly lifelike and detailed cast, that he made out of his own frozen blood.

Marc has been making these portraits every five years since 1991, so it would be interesting to see them all together, progressing in age over the last twenty years.

Each piece takes over four liters of blood to construct, which is gathered over a five month period. These frozen bloody heads would make the ultimate centerpiece for the Monster's Ball!

Link  --via Gizmodo

I'm not sure if you're supposed to call this a bicycle or a tricycle, since it has two wheels in the back; regardless, it is one beautiful piece of vehicular art.

Created by Roger Wood of Klockwerks, it was made for a show involving kinetic sculptures, and it's safe to say that his Steampunk bike was the most eye-catching piece in the room.

This is what Pee Wee's bike would look like if they made a Steampunk version of Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and I wouldn't blame Francis at all for trying to swipe this sucker!

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Turning your Xbox console from bland to Dagobah! with this Instructables tutorial on creating a Millennium Falcon case mod.

Generously shared by DIYer pizonbongo of Major League Mods, all you need is an old Millennium Falcon kit, an original Xbox console, and some basic tools and you too can bring the charm of Han's smuggler ship to your gaming setup.

And this tutorial looks like it would work with other consoles, so if you've got an old console sitting around gathering dust why not give it a try?

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This is the Scamander, and it's an all-terrain amphibious vehicle with futuristic good looks and a beefy engine under the hood.

A creation of the late Peter Wheeler, a visionary British car manufacturer and owner of sports car company TVR, he sadly didn't get to see his amphibious concept car become a reality, so a team of engineers helped his wife bring the Scamander to life in dedication to Peter.

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On land the Scamander can reach a top speed of 120mph, and its 300 horsepower V6 engine can push it from 0 to 60 in about eight seconds. Which is actually pretty impressive given this beast can tackle any terrain on Earth, and isn't slowed down by even the shoreline.

You can see a short video of the Scamander in action at the link below, it looks like a whole lotta fun to drive!

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The scifi television phenomenon known as Doctor Who has a long standing relationship with a British children's show called Blue Peter, which held a contest giving children a chance to write their own episode.

So, without further ado, here's the winning minisode, entitled Good As Gold, in all its olympic games themed glory!

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In honor of Memorial Day, when we remember the real life military personnel who have given their lives in service of our country, here's a trailer with a bunch of fictional troops kicking alien butt.

Starship Troopers: Invasion is a Japanese animated film based on the American Starship Troopers movies, which are based on the scifi novel of the same name by Robert Heinlein, and it looks like an alien bug squashing good time!

Most quotable line-"C'mon you apes, do you want to live forever?!"

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Star Trek propelled science fiction television into the future when it debuted in 1966, but sometimes they missed the mark in terms of creative development, for example while creating some of the dozens of alien species encountered on the show.

Topless Robot has put together a list of the 20 lamest looking alien species from the various incarnations of Star Trek, creatures which looked bad even by the low standards of prosthetic makeup in the 60s.

Peruse the list and have a laugh at the expense of these poor intergalactic schlubs, who are probably completely unaware of how lame their species is perceived to be by human television viewers.

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Jens Hesse cleverly integrates the look of digital distortion into his paintings by using corduroy as his canvas, which gives his works a uniquely streaky look and visual appeal.

This is abstract art for the digital age, representational in a way our technology obsessed minds understand, and pleasing to eyes which have been glued to a computer monitor for too long.

Link  --via Beautiful/Decay

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Typically when art and advertising collide the result is annoyingly shameless, like a door to door salesman selling magazine subscriptions.

But this glowing work by Ian Cook doesn't smack of in your face advertising, and he created parts of the painting by using RC cars to apply the paint, four wheel streaks at a time.

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This is a page from Mondo 2000 magazine from the 1990s that asks "R U A Cyberpunk?", but should really be asking if you are a cutting edge consumer of electronics since the page looks like a giant advertisement for the latest tech.

I don't remember ever seeing anybody walking around looking like the guy in this picture, except for fans of Gothic Industrial music, but I'd be willing to bet that hackers who were also fans of William Gibson's novels or the RPG Shadowrun would have dressed this way, even if they never intended to leave their house!

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This stop motion short is entitled Arthur Animated, and it documents Jo Hamilton's amazing crochet portraiture skills, as she creates a larger than life portrait of her sadly now deceased friend Arthur Cheesman.

Head over to Boing Boing if you want to watch Jo's masterpiece grow, strand by strand, right before your eyes.

Link  --via Boing Boing