It takes a certain dark sense of humor to bring back an old hearse from the dead, so to speak, but a big part of the fun appears to be picking the licence plate.

Like finches on the Galapagos, what if humans had evolved into specialized beings, with extra legs to scale mountainous regions, extra arms to wrangle litters of young or a sleeker shape to navigate the waterways? In the 1930s, French artist Lucian Rudaux illustrated the imaginings of Professor Rene Thevenin, resulting in these weird visions of what …

Most of us spend our lives observing the symphony from the audience, but for those on stage, the experience is entirely different. If you’ve logged many an hour performing for a packed crowd (hopefully), you might enjoy this hilarious round-up of the characters you meet in the orchestra from Trumpet Angst. Full story at Trumpet …

Seeing our fellow planets on their own is one thing, but it takes an artist to visualize them in our own night sky. Ron Miller provides some new perspective on our planetary brethren by replacing our familiar moon with other celestial bodies, putting their glory in a more familiar setting. As My Modern Met explains: …