Artist Recreates LOTR Bag End with 2,600 Balloons
If you think balloon animals are cool, this inflated replica of the Baggins family residence, from the Lord of the Rings, will probably blow you away. Famous balloon artist Jeremy Telford recently spent 40 hours recreating Bag End from 2,600 balloons. We’ve featured some pretty cool balloon-made stuff here on Oddity Central, from balloon costumes, […]
Meet Asako Kanda, the World’s Biggest Hello Kitty Fan
Hello Kitty has millions of fans around the world, but none are more in love with Sanrio’s iconic character than Asako Kanda. The 39-year-old receptionist from Japan has amassed a fantastic collection of over 4,500 Hello Kitty items. Like many other girls of her generation, Asako’s fascination with Hello Kitty began during her elementary school days. […]
Thai “Sorcerer” Gives Disciples Bulletproof Tattoos, They Decide to Try Them Out
Boonyong Luangjumpol, also known as Ajarn Ton, was recently arrested in Thailand’s Yanglad district after he allegedly gave local teens magic tattoos and told them they made them invincible. Unsurprisingly, they wanted to try out their ink armor and engaged in a series of brawls. Sak Yant is an ancient type of Thai tattoo said to bestow the […]
Chinese Airline Judges Pilot Candidates by Armpit Odor
A Chinese airline has sparked controversy after it was reported it included a zero-body-odor requirement in its pilot recruitment tests. Applicants had their armpits sniffed by company staff, to check for any bad smells. You think requirements stink in your line of work? Think again. Chinese company Hainan Airlines demanded to smell under the arms […]
Chinese Company Knocks Off Entire Austrian Village
A Chinese metals and mining company has invested nearly 1 billion dollars into replicating an entire Austrian scenic village just an hour away from Huizhou city, in subtropical southern China. Nestled deep in the breathtaking Northern Limestone Alps, the village of Hallstatt is one of Austria’s most popular tourist attractions. Featuring a rich culture and history […]
Serafin Villarán, the Man Who Built His Own Castle
Located in Cebolleros, a small community in the province of Burgos, northern Spain, Castillo de las Cuevas, or Castle of Caves, is the result of one man’s ambition and determination. Serafin Villarán dreamed of having his very own castle, and he single-handedly turn his dream into a reality. Born in 1935, in the town of Burgos, Serafin […]
Face Yoga Finally Gives You an Excuse to Look Silly
If the years are starting to take their toll on your once flawless visage, there may yet be a way to turn back the clock, before turning to Botox injections and other cosmetic procedures. It’s called face yoga and is apparently allows practitioners to control the way their face ages. Face yoga was developed by […]
Surveillance Camera Man Highlights Privacy Issues by Filming People without Permission
An anonymous person known only as “Surveillance Camera Man” is sparking controversy by filming people in public and private spaces without asking for their permission. Clever way of highlighting privacy issues or just intentionally provoking people? Why is it that hardly anyone minds being on camera wherever they go, but whenever there’s a face attached […]
Indonesian Villages Use Piles of Sand Instead of Mattresses
The residents of three small fishing villages in the Batang region of Indonesia prefer to sleep on piles of sand than on modern mattresses. This ancient tradition that’s still practiced today for its supposed health benefits. Taking a nap on a sandy beach is pretty relaxing, but can you imagine going to sleep on a […]
Prepare to Be Owned as Japanese Man Auctions Off Planet Earth
We see crazy and bizarre items auctioned off on sites like eBay or Yahoo Auctions, every day, but this is the first time someone actually thought about selling our planet. The starting price was a measly ¥69 ($0.86), but since the auction went viral, the price has surged to ¥9,889,899,888 ($123,000,000). I still think it’s a bargain. I know, […]
Conrad Engelhardt’s Stained Wine Cork Paintings
London-based artist F. Conrad Engelhrdt has set up an ingenious recycling scheme by collecting discarded wine corks from various restaurants around the English capital and using them to create unique paintings. This isn’t the first time wine and corks have been used as art mediums. In the past we’ve featured artists who paint with wine, […]
Professional Mattress Jumper Is an Actual Job
You probably thought those high-end mattresses people pay thousands of dollars for are hand-made. As it turns out, they’re also foot made, as someone is actually getting paid to jump on them hundreds of times in order to compress no fewer than 28 layers of cotton batting. Growing up, you probably dreamed you would one […]
Scientists Declare Buddhist Monk the Happiest Man in the World
Matthieu Ricard, a French researcher turned Buddhist monk was declared the happiest man on Earth by a group of scientists, after it was discovered his brain produces a level of gamma waves never before reported in the field of neuroscience. A former molecular geneticist who left his life and career behind to discover the secrets […]
The Delicate Gourd Carving Art of Marilyn Sunderland
Born and raised in Columbia, Missouri, Marilyn Sunderland is an artist in the finest sense of the word. She can take a common gourd and turn it into a spectacular work of art by carving all kinds of images onto its shell and enhancing them with her painting. Seeing how this Halloween a lot of […]
The Bone Collector – Man Amasses Creepy Collection of over 7,000 Animal Skulls and Bones
Ray Bandar, a retired biologist from San Francisco, has spent the last 50 years collecting thousands of animal bones. He estimates he has 7,000 skulls, 200 pelvises and countless other limbs from animals he mostly found and cleaned himself. “I enjoy removing the flesh from the skull and disarticulating the jaws,” Bandar recently said in an […]