What am I seeing?

A new line of marionette?

Are there civilian versions, too?

Child actor having fun in his role

Actor Dachi Orvelashvili, center, director Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Misha Gomiashvili attend the "The President" premiere during the 71st Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Aug. 27, 2014.

Duckies on parade?

Do they squeak out contatas?

Which one answers to maestro?

Row upon row of maestros

Mozart ducks are pictured in a shop in the city of Salzburg July 23, 2014. The Salzburg Festival, one of the biggest cultural festivals worldwide, will take place from July 27 to August 31, 2014. More than 270 performances in the genres of opera, drama and concert are scheduled at 16 performance venues in Salzburg during the festival.

Pushing towards enlightenment?

Good luck to rub its back?

Sisyphean bodhisattva?

A truck full of bliss

People secure a brass Buddha statue on the back of a truck as they travel along a muddy road to a Buddhist temple in Weiyuan county, Gansu province, China, Aug. 19, 2014.

A pencil troll?

Defying gravity?

Hairstyles for headers?

The spike

Fernanda Rodrigues of Brazil spikes the ball against Russia during their FIVB Women's Volleyball World Grand Prix 2014 final round match in Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 23, 2014.

Street mascot?

Push broom kung-fu?

Does he autograph ping-pong balls?

Street-cleaning superhero

An unidentified man, who calls himself Mangetsu-man (Mr. Full Moon), uses a broom to clean Nihonbashi bridge while clad in a costume, featuring a full moon for a head, in Tokyo, Aug. 25, 2014. While most superheroes fight crime, for one such Japanese hero the enemy is garbage and his "super" weapons are a broom, a dust pan and an army of volunteers who have joined his mission.

Calling himself Mangetsu-man, he first appeared on the streets of Tokyo last year without any publicity or fanfare and mainly cleans around the city's Nihonbashi bridge. Historically, Nihonbashi bridge is Tokyo's most famous bridge until an expressway was constructed over it shortly before the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics, and ruined what was for many its iconic status. Mangetsu-man is one among many who are petitioning for the government to get rid of the overhead highway and clean it up ahead of the next Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2020.

Bed of nails?

I see sheets, but where's the mattress?

It takes intense concentration to lie there, doesn't it?

That left a mark

Marks are seen on Chinese artist Zhou Jie's arm after taking a nap on an unfinished iron wire bed, one of her sculptures, at Beijing Art Now Gallery, in Beijing, Aug. 11, 2014. Zhou started her art project titled "36 Days" on August 9, in which she would live inside an exhibition hall with an unfinished iron wire bed, some iron wire sculptures in the shape of stuffed animal dolls, a certain amount of food and her mobile phone for 36 days. According to Zhou, the entire process is open to visitors and she may also interact with them.