Category: Odd

Saturday Matinee – Miniatur Wunderland, Allotria, The Allotria Jazz Band, Oompah Brass & The Perch Creek Family Jugband

I’m sure this vid was posted here before, but it still amazes me.  More info here: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/

While looking for something else I found this, and it kept my attention long enough to post it for your upcoming New Year’s Eve celebrations. If you can figure it out, enjoy it.

I was actually looking for these guys. The Allotria Jazz Band plays early American jazz and Dixieland. You may not have heard them or of them – they’re from Munich and they’re great.

Once the camera SsTFD this is pretty good stuff.  “Stairway To Heaven by the Oompah Brass.  Now for something completely different.

The Perch Creek Family Jug Band is an Australian group that performs American jug band music. Here they are, live in Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012.

That should hold you for a while. Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll be back tomorrow with brand new stuff.

The .Gif Friday Post No.312 – Driving Around Mt. Hood, Deer Me & Pupetual Motion

Driving Around Mt. Hood
Deer Me
Perpetual Motion Pup
[Found here, here and here.]

Christmas Arachnids

Christmas Spider

“An old European Christmas legend tells of a poor woman unable to provide the traditional decorations for the special holiday. A spider made his home in her tree and began to spin beautiful webs. On Christmas morning, the first light of sun struck the cobwebs, turning them to silver. When the woman awoke, she found the tree was covered with silver treasure. The spider had brought good fortune!”
[via]

Other versions claim it’s a German or Ukrainian tradition, and that either the Christ Child or Santa transformed the webs. Although I grew up in an area with a large German population, I never heard the story and can’t find an original source.

Yet, there IS such a creature called a Christmas Spider.

[Image found here.]

Lighting The Tree

Lightning Strike

I want to know what it did to piss Him off.

[Found here.]

Phil Jones’ Contribution To The World

Susan and Annie 1

“I have a deep respect for anyone who is willing to put their face on a bus stop bench knowing what people do to them.  I thought it would be fun to do my own take on our local realtor advertisements.” –Phil Jones

Phil Jones’ “take” is to dress up as the people in the bus bench back adverts and replace their portraits with his own. Look closer:
Susan and Annie 2
Clever innocuous graffiti from Minneapolis, and there’s more at his website. Susan and Annie liked it, too.
[Found here.]

River Turtle

River Turtle

[Found here.]

Splatman

Splatman

“Bunna nunna nunna nunna Bunna nunna nunna nunna…”
He’s just gotta have SOME superpowers for a Sidewalk Superhero, but I can only guess what they might be.

[Found here.]

Nothing Much Happened Today.

Nothing Much Happened Today

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 310 – Big Chief Buffalo Nickel, Garbage In Garbage Out & Animated Banksy

Big Chief Buffalo Nickel
Garbage In Garbage Out
Animated Banksy 13

[2nd & 3rd found here and here. Top .gif is my own.]

Meanwhile In Escher Land

Escher Land

[Found here.]