You’re about to be the most interesting person at your next cocktail party, client dinner, or 8 hour QBR meeting, because you’ve joined Click Clique, the monthly creative culture wrapup curated by the Wpromote Creative Department.
Pop by for a quick blast of fascinating, inspiring, imaginative, and straight-up weird bits bubbling up in culture. Then go forth and dazzle your friends and colleagues with a few epic nuggets of cultural gold.
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You had me at "sonic bath of chaotic weirdness."
At the 28th annual Guthman competition hosted by Geogia Tech, artists from around the world debuted homemade musical instruments made from bicycle wheels and other unexpected music-making elements. It's a display of musical wizardry more likely to win a MacArthur Genius Grant instead of a Grammy.
02
The most popular video game streamer is a peanut. (Game over, humans)
@theburntpeanut has over a million followers on Tik Tok. Why, you ask? Let's review: He is a mad gamer. He is a peanut. He says funny things that are also inappropriate things. The world is simple, friends, don't overthink it. He's probably richer than all of us.
03
Squinting when you read? This won't help.
Windsor Castle has an exhibit showing off a massive collection of meticulously printed, super-tiny books, created for Queen Mary who was the consort to King George V between 1910 and 1936, and was an enthusiast (that's British for 'nerd') of all things miniature.
04
UFOs and contemporary art: Two things people claim to have seen but are probably lying.
Two recent art exhibits in New York remind us that aliens have always made the best muse Artists throughout the last century have used UFO imagery to explore themes of mystery, belief, technology, and humanity’s place in the universe. Now, in an age of AI, science skepticism, and mildly apocolyptical uncertainty, the sleek rides of our favorite little green men are back in the art world zeitgeist.
05
Paired with a thousand-year egg, it's a breakfast fit for a zombie.
The Isle of Wight County Museum in Smithfield, Virginia boasts the world's oldest ham. The ham was cured in 1902, and since then has been featured in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not in 1929, 1932 and 2003. Most importantly, they share it with the world via their "Ham Cam" which is one the main reasons why the internet is still worth visiting.
06
Time to step your hobby game up, people.