Because I’m a poor asshole, I usually cannot afford to go to a hair salon. I end up badly cutting my hair into uneven bangs or have my mom (a beauty school dropout) give me a trim. But if I lived in Le Havre, France and was a man I...
If you recall anything about yesterday then maybe your brain remembers yesterday’s post where I declared August 8th through 12th “Tiny Museum Week”. This blog is very important…you should have it marked on your calendar! Anyway, we continue our exploration of micro-museums with a visit to Minnesota. Right outside the...
Images have been manipulated since the camera was invented, long before the faux vintage filters of instagram took over the world. Next month the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens an exhibit entitled Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop. Featuring hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through the 1990s, it is...
The Top Ten Best Museums to Visit on Easter: 1.Ukrainian Easter Egg Museum Ukraine might be having some problems right now, to put it lightly, but it’s home to the only museum in the world dedicated to the Ukrainian easter egg (pysanka) that also happens to be in a egg-shaped...
Just when you think I’ve told you about every single miniature museum in the world, I go out and find another one. Why the heck do I keep doing that? We’ve been all over the place from the mini-Matchbox cars at the Matchbox Road Museum to the pint-sized historical scenes...
My teenage cousin has found God. I found him/her too, he/she’s sitting on the top of the list of the World’s Worst Human Inventions. Sorry, no offense…I gotta tell an atheist joke, it’s a requirement for all non-believers. You know, a relative liking Jesus isn’t so terrible. Why? Because you...
The giant Rainbow Serpent mural entitled Snake (1970-72) was created by Australian artist Sidney Nolan and is made of 1,620 individual paintings. The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania is the brainchild of eccentric millionaire David Walsh, who’s called it a “subversive adult Disneyland.” Designed by architect...
The Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí might be best known for painting melting clocks, but he also designed a sundial. Above Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris, which has a lot of sundials by the way, is “Le Cadran de Dalí“, a curious-looking piece of art (complete with Dalí’s signature in the...
One man owns over 50,000 vehicles. If that sounds like a lot, don’t worry, they’re only miniature Matchbox cars. Since its opening in 1992 in a former three-car garage, the Matchbox Road Museum in New Jersey is probably the world’s largest Matchbox collection. There’s more than just the traditional small...
Through the years we have told you about people who have “talked” to God and created something from those conversations. Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden in Georgia and the well-known Salvation Mountain in Slab City are just a few examples. Well, the Minister’s Treehouse in Crossville, Tennessee is another one we...
