violin

Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre crafted a violin-esque instrument around a Magnum revolver. When you fire the gun, the strings resonate. It's like the 1920s gangsters who carry tommy guns in violin cases, but in reverse.

[via Neatorama]

Thanks to tectonic plates and whatnot, there's also a narrow ridge of bluffs that rises from the middle of the left-hand island in the manner of a bow, except it's in geologic time so it only makes a stroke every 10,000 years.

A classical electronic rock band called Michelle and the WUBWUBWUBama's.

From a series of edits on a particularly hilarious picture of Michelle Obama swinging a tennis racket.

A short documentary on a man in Brooklyn who makes violins.

Geek bait! Vocalist Peter Hollins and manic pixie violinist Lindsey Stirling arranged this cover of the Skyrim theme song, and put it to a video of themselves cruisin' round Tamriel.

Also known as the problem with playing any instrument in the orchestra besides violin.

Joshua Bell is one of the USA's most talented violin players. The day before this performance in a D.C. subway station, he performed the same piece of music in closed counters at a 100$/ticket show. In the subway station that day, only one woman out of hundreds of persons walking buy actually stopped to appreciate the music.

An ad campaign for the Berlin Philharmonic finally lets you know what it would be like if your cello were also your living room.

Darth Vader playing the violin is 100x better than watching The Phantom Menace in 3D, amirite?

She's even got a Street Fighter shirt, although I'm betting you noticed the Xena poster first. Nerdcore!

Isn't it dangerous to hold that big needle thing so close to your neck?