Allow me to provide some background.  This is one of those things that cities do where they whip up a bunch of fiberglass sculptures- cows in Chicago, or guitars in Nashville, etc- and then they invite local artists to treat each one.  Cincinnati’s mascot is the flying pig, a reference to its former nickname of “Porkopolis”.  So this pig has gotten the “steampunk” treatment (slap gears on it, add goggles) and the result is some horrible crime against nature… a cyborg porcine ornithopter that you ride inside and peer out the portholes… oh it’s so awful I love it.  I love that it’s sitting downtown in the ‘nati.  The cultures that had to clash to make this exist… there are so many dumb steampunk treatments of unrelated things (star wars, pokemon, my little pony) why not a pig?  It’s farmpunk!  Where’s Phineas Q. Chicken and Professor Mulebottom?

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Steampunk flying pig in Cincinnati

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