The 6 Most Insanely Huge Musical Instruments. Humanity became great for two reasons: our ability to create beauty through art, and our urge to build increasingly huge, terrifying gadgets. It only makes sense that these two impulses would converge in amazing, if largely useless, ways. That's how we wind up with huge and insane musical instruments like ... #6. Uberorgan Uberorgan isn't just the Internet username of millions of 15-year-old males -- it's also something much stranger. Odd MusicFrom the lesser known sequel, Willy Wonka and the Church Organ from Hell. Uberorgan is a self-playing (and, we're convinced, self-aware) musical machine in which several bus-sized biomorphic balloons are tuned to different octaves so that when pressurized air is blown through a reed, a specific sound is produced.
But what if you're not too keen on the built-in playlist? Odd Music"I swear to Christ, if one more person requests the intro to 'Don't Stop Believin'... " #5. BurningCam.com Thalo.comThey use a helicopter to restring it. #4. KJ Vogelius. 7 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Works of Art. Sure, if you look hard enough you're going to see bestiality, orgies and freakishly small penises in EVERYTHING. But in the case of classic works of art, you're often right. Yes, as much as we mock Dan Brown around here, the one thing he's right about is that old-school artists like Michelangelo and Da Vinci loved to plant little "Easter Eggs" in their work, often things that would never have made it past the censors. The Floating Brain God Michelangelo's ode to the Book of Genesis, The Creation of Adam, has endured not only as the most famous of the Sistine Chapel panels, but also one of the single most iconic images of humanity.
Note how Adam's pose mimics God's, how mankind is framed off from the Heavens by earth and mountains, and how God and his entourage are rolling around in a gigantic, floating brain. Wait, What the Hell? Look closely. While some might dismiss this as a coincidence, experts suggest that it would be harder to explain that this was not Michelangelo's intention. ...is? 7 Bizarre Easter Eggs Hidden in Great Works of Art. #3.
The National Cathedral Wikipedia The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, better known as the Washington National Cathedral, is the sixth-largest cathedral on the planet, the second-largest in the United States and the single highest point in all of Washington. In short, it's America's answer to the European monopoly on big, majestic churches: It's super-sized, it's dignified as balls and it'll church you sideways if you so much as look at it funny, fella. Wyn Van DevanterOur proud architectural history is about 22 years old. The Easter Egg: The whole place is chock-full of weird shenanigans: There's a chunk of moon rock set into one window, it boasts a fantastic boss of The Three Stooges and it is the only place of worship to contain a gargoyle of Darth Vader on its holy grounds. Laura Padgett / nationalcathedralThis arguably validates all those people who state their religion as "Jedi" on the census. #2.
Wikipedia The Papal Basilica of St. YahooOr mole men. #1.