This awesomely unusual musical instrument is called a “Triolin.” It was created by artist and instrument maker Alex Sobolev by building three violins and then joining them together.

“The instrument is quite striking but rather impractical—because the violins are joined at the base, musicians must play them upside down, more like a cello. In addition to making the occasional Frankenstein instrument, Sobolev is working on an intriguing electric violin that will be able to mimic the sounds of rare and antique violins.”

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Comic Book Resources hosts an awesome on-going art mashup series entitled The Line It Is Drawn. Each week participants creatively re-imagine comic book characters to fit a different theme. 

For Week #128 the theme was Music Album Cover Homages and the resulting creations are absolutely brilliant. We’ve shared a few of our favourite reinterpreted covers above. Click here to view them all.

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Photographer Christine Zona travels around San Francisco and Los Angeles photographing the awesome and incredibly exuberant participants in the world of competitive air guitar playing.

“These guys are amazing,” Zona says. “They live ‘normal’ lives but become these larger than life characters on stage just once a year. Following their air guitar careers and photographing them has become an addiction.” Zona is currently putting together a book on the series. Check a few photos out below and then be sure to head on over to her website to see more of her work.

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On Halloween the Cleveland Orchestra gathered at Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio for their third annual Halloween Spooktacular performance. The musicians all performed wearing costumes. Here you see the double bass section, most of whom were dressed as members of The Avengers, and the violin section, all of whom dressed up as sheep, with the exception of the first violin who dressed up as Little Bo Peep. Pretty delightfully awesome.

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This enormous charm bracelet is an art installation created by Belgian designer Liesbet Bussche. Entitled Urban jewellery: Suzy’s Charms, the oversized bracelet pays homage to the life of French singer and actress Suzy Solidor. Each individual charm represents an aspect of Solidor’s life.

Urban jewellery: Suzy’s Charms is on display in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France until September 23, 2012 as part of the Mirror Mirror exhibition, which is an homage to Solidor. After that the piece will be shown at the Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San Francisco, CA from October 24 through November 25, 2012.

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