Japanese Restaurant Uses Dirt as the Main Ingredient for Its Expensive Dishes
While most chefs work hard to make sure no dirt winds up in their food, at French restaurant Ne Quittez Pas, in Tokyo, Japan, dirt is actually used as a key ingredient. Mind you, this isn’t just any kind of dirt. It’s a special black soil from Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, that’s actually been tested for safety, but […]
Vernon Spicer’s Incredible Pasta Paintings
Self-taught artist Vernon Spicer, from Alabama, uses pasta like spaghetti, macaroni, lasagna and noodles to create his detailed paintings. I’ve seen some pretty unusual materials used in paintings, but pasta is definitely a first for me. 71-year-old Vernon Spicer, a Vietnam veteran and pastor at a church in Selma, Alabama, got the idea of using […]
Family Is Literally Living under a Rock in the Mexican Desert
For the last three decades, Benito Hernandez and his wife have been living under a huge rock, in Mexico’s Coahuila Desert, 80 kilometers from the US border. Benito Hernandez started visiting the 40 meter diameter rock that now serves as a roof for his sun-dried brick home when he was just eight years old. He […]
Designer Covers $500,000 Gold Ring with a Piece of His Own Skin
The Forget Me Knot gold ring created by Icelandic fashion designer Sruli Recht is not your usual piece of luxury jewelry. The artist had a strip of his own skin surgically removed and mounted on a 24-karat-gold band. We’ve featured some pretty bizarre jewelry on Oddity Central in the past, like the human-bone accessories of Columbine […]
Italian Artist Turns River Stones into Life-Like Works of Art
River rocks may not seem very interesting to you, but once you see what Italian rock painter Ernestina Gallina can do with them, I’ll bet you’ll see them in a new light. Ernestina Gallina, from Cenestino, Italy has had a thing for the arts ever since she was just a child. She loved painting, drawing […]
Male TV Hosts Go Through the Agony of Giving Birth
Two male Dutch TV hosts known for performing outlandish stunts on their program, “Proefkonijnen” (Guinea Pigs), have recently experienced agonizing pain similar to that of labor, by strapping electrode emitting machines to their abdomens. Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno first caused international controversy in 2011, when they consumed cooked pieces of each other’s flesh, on live television. […]
Artist Creates Hauntingly Realistic Portraits with Tulle Netting
The tulle is that netting fabric you usually see on wedding dresses and other pompous gowns, but British artist Benjamin Shine folds and presses it to create these incredible portraits that look almost three-dimensional. Armed with a household iron, Benjamin Shine uses a single piece of tulle, sometimes as long as 50 meters to make […]
Brazilian Company Offers Fake Facebook Girlfriends for $20
Do you want to make your ex-girlfriend by hooking up with a hot chick on Facebook? Are your parents pressuring you to go out and get a date? Are you tired of being teased about not having a girlfriend? If any of this sounds familiar, know that there’s hope for you yet. It’s called Namoro Fake, and […]
Sci-Fi Speed Dating – Because Geeks Need Love Too
It’s hard out there for a geek, especially when it comes to finding a date, but thanks to events like Sci-Fi Speed Dating, comic-book and video game enthusiasts actually have a chance of finding a special someone who shares their interests. Sci-Fi Speed Dating is an event that takes place at Comic Cons around the […]
The Amazing Rice Grain Artworks of Chen Forng-Shean
Taiwanese artist Chen Forng-Shean uses little things like grains of rice and sand to create awe-inspiring miniature artworks. The self-taught artist spends up to several months in front of a magnifying glass, working on a single piece. Chen Forng-Shean has gained international recognition for his amazing talent of making incredible works of art out of […]
Indian Student Invents Electrifying Alarm Clock that Shocks You Out of Bed
Tired of waking up very late and missing his university lectures, Indian student Sankalp Sinha decided to do something about his problem – he invented a special alarm clock that “rewards” the owner with an electric shock if he tries to press the snooze button. 19-year-old Sankalp Sinha came up with the idea for his shocking alarm […]
Dog Attends Daily Mass at Church Where Dead Owner Used to Go
Ciccio, a 12-year-old German shepherd, whose owner passed away two months ago, visits the church she used to frequent and where her funeral was celebrated, patiently waiting for her to return. The people attending the church of Santa Maria Assunta in San Donaci, Italy have received a lesson in love and loyalty from a dog that […]
Return of the Invisible Man – New Stunning Camouflage Works by Liu Bolin
Liu Bolin, the man who took the international art world by storm, in 2009, with his incredible ability to merge with the environment, has returned with a new series that makes him even harder to spot. Nicknamed the “Invisible Man”, Liu Bolin is a master of camouflage art who spends up to 10 hours blending […]
Milagros Caninos – A Haven for Mexico’s Disabled and Tortured Dogs
Milagros Caninos, or Miracle Dogs, is a very special canine shelter in Mexico City. For years it has been a true paradise for dogs suffering from terminal illnesses, are blind, paralyzed or have been tortured and abandoned on the streets of Mexico’s capital. Patricia Ruiz, the founder of Milagros Caninos lost her pet dachshund, Clavo (Spanish […]
Self-Taught Ninja Slices Soda Cans with Plastic Playing Cards
A man from China’s Hubei Province has recently become an internet celebrity of sorts, after a video of him throwing plastic playing cards at soda cans and actually putting holes in them, went viral. Who says there’s no such thing as comic-book-like superpowers? And I’m not talking about the funny ones you can buy at […]