Make Cincinnati Weird!

London… Barcelona… Sydney… Cincinnati.  Wait, what?
This summer, from August 2 to September 21, Cincinnati will be home to the first U.S. installation of Play Me, I’m Yours by Luke Jerram.
Jerram will install painted pianos throughout the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area – on streets, in public squares and parks, and at other fun locations [...]

It only took me 8 months to link to this, but Alex narrates his visit to Jungle Jim’s in Fairfield with lots of colorful photos and of course running commentary.  It’s the most extensive collection of Jungle Jim’s photos I’ve seen, not counting Jungle Jim’s own website. Actually, go ahead and throw his in there [...]

Soapbox Media offers a great video profiling this long-standing unique destination in Cincinnati, founded 10 years ago now: The American Sign Museum. 

Soapboxmedia – American Sign Museum from Chas! Pangburn on Vimeo.

The museum is currently in Phase 3 of its 4-phase move into a new, expanded, permanent home in Camp Washington.  They’re still raising money, [...]

The Metrobot has watched over 5th & Walnut for many years.  But no longer.  Spotted missing by the Cincinnati blog and the Provost of Cincinnati, this anonymous commenter explains that the CAC, which owns Metrobot, put it in storage when the lease for the space was up:
I noticed that the Nam June Paik robot sculpture [...]

So I am going to get caught up on some follow-up bookmarks that have been pending for a while.  I try to keep up on the institutions of weird in town.
First up is a long piece CityBeat did on the Vent Haven Ventriloquism Museum here in town, the only major public museum devoted to ventriloquism.
While [...]

Well, you wanted more flash mobs, and you got it. When does flash mob dancing jump the shark?  Just kidding.  Flash mobs will never stop being cool, because there’s so many different things you can do.  The Fine Arts Fund organized this second flash mob in recent memory, Splash Cincinnati.   
It started with just a [...]