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 [...]

[ September 18, 2009; ] After a successful 2008 PARK(ing) Day in Cincinnati, it hopes to be even bigger this year!  Mark you calendars.  On Friday, September 18, 2009, creative types from all over the region will descend upon downtown and OTR to reclaim some of the parts of our concrete jungle dedicated to the automobile — at least for [...]

Someone going by the name of Kutiman has sampled a bunch of individual Youtube videos of people playing music, rapping, etc. and mixed them together into a single amazing music video.  Not only is the raw effort of finding, clipping, editing, and mixing all of this video astonishing, but the final product is good.  It’s [...]

I really like the title, "Living In Someone’s Game," over on CinciPulse.com, about the mysterious spray-painted street markings that appeared briefly on central streets recently.

Photo by Alex Bell/CinciPulse.com
Arrows, keys, and bullseyes have been spotted all over town.
For more than three weeks now, people in the Cincinnati area have been walking and driving on what [...]

Well, if you were like me, you didn’t make it out of the office at all during Cincinnati PARK[ing] Day 2008. I heard that all of the PARK[ing] spots were north of Central, with only one exception – at 5th and Walnut – right smack in the middle of the CBD!
This PARK[ing] spot lasted [...]

[ September 19, 2008; ] I have heard about PARK[ing] Day in other cities somewhere before.  So imagine my delight when I came across Cincinnati PARK[ing] Day scheduled for next month (I’m always the last to know)!

From the Cincinnati PARK[ing] Day blog:
“Cincinnati PARK[ing] Day” call for entries (Posted: Aug. 6, 2008) — Cincinnati PARK[ing] Day announces a call to citizens [...]

A stone’s throw from Hamilton, some 25 miles from downtown Cincinnati, lies a public park with monumental sculpture and an underground house.Pyramid Hill sprawls over 265 acres of rolling hills, man-made lakes, thick woodlands and butterfly-filled meadows. Overlooking the Great Miami River, it is a contemporary art museum outdoors – a place where [...]

It used to be that vending machines only sold stuff that was bad for you – a package of Twinkies, say, or a pack of cigarettes. Cincinnati is home to a vending machine that sells art – sculptures, paintings, photographs, puzzles, collages, jewelry and more – all sized to fit in a small, cellophane-covered cardboard [...]