The Photo-Like Charcoal and Graphite Drawings of Robert Longo
New York-based artist Robert Longo creates detailed charcoal drawings that look amazingly photo-like. If you thought your sketches were pretty good, wait till you see what this guy can do. You know when you look at a photo and you say to yourself “this looks too good to be true”? Most of the time Photoshop […]
Welcome to the World’s Craziest, Most Controversial Zoo
At the Lujan Zoo, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, visitors can do much more than admire wild animals from a distance. They can ride on the backs of wild lions, feed tigers or hand-feed cheetahs. You couldn’t pay me enough to get up close and personal with a full-grown lion, but apparently there are […]
Jason de Graaf’s Works Look Like High-Resolution Photographs, But They’re Not
Canadian artist Jason de Graaf creates hyperrealistic paintings that look more like carefully composed still-life photographs. We’ve featured many artist who can easily fool you into thinking their paintings are photos, but Jason de Graaf really is in a class of his own. Just so you can understand how incredibly real de Graaf’s paintings look, you should know […]
The Dog Cafe – South Korea’s Answer to Japan’s Popular Cat Cafes
There’s a place in South Korea where you can relax by bonding with about twenty dogs of different breeds and sizes, all vying for human attention. It’s called the Dog Cafe and it’s awesome! If you haven’t yet heard about Japan’s famous cat cafes, they’re venues where stressed businessmen go to relax by surrounding themselves […]
11-Year-Old Boy Leads Church as an Ordained Minister
Is there anything kids nowadays can’t do? Well, there may be a few, but becoming an ordained minister and leading a church isn’t one of them. 11-year-old Ezekiel Stoddard recently made headlines after he was ordained a minister at the Fullness of Time Church in Maryland. We’ve featured a few prodigies on Oddity Central, like the […]
Live Forever as a Limited Edition Vinyl Record Containing Your Ashes
We recently learned that immortality is just a few years away, but if you’re not willing to wait that long, perhaps you could try living forever as a playable vinyl record containing your cremated ashes. I know, it’s not exactly your idea of immortality, but hey, nothing is perfect. At least you’ll be able to […]
Star Wars Fans Travel to Tatooine to Restore Luke Skywalker’s Home
A group of dedicated Star Wars Fans took it upon themselves to travel to Tatooine and restore the Lars Homstead, the iconic igloo-shaped home Luke Skywalker grew up in. It might sound like an impossible feat, but if you’re a true Star Wars fan, you know the scenes on the desert planet of Tatooine were […]
The Delicate Paper-Cutting Art of Hina Aoyama
You’ve probably seen intricate paper-cut art before, but Hina Aoyama takes it to a whole new level by achieving an incredible level of detailed using only scissors. Unlike other artists who use fine tools like an X-acto knife to create elaborate pieces of paper-cut art, Japanese-born Hina Aoyama only uses a pair of scissors and […]
Online Language School Uses Hot Models to Help You Learn Mandarin
Let’s face it, for most of us learning Chinese really is a Herculean task, but SexyMandarin.com, an unconventional online school, tries to make things easier by using lingerie-clad models as teachers. China’s official language, Mandarin, or Putonghua, has around 900 million native speakers, and 1,4 billion speakers worldwide, and as China’s role in the global […]
Fight Church – When Evangelical Christianity Meets Mixed Martial Arts
What do you do when your love for Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is just as strong as your passion for religion? That’s the big question Fight Church is trying to answer. Fight Church is an interesting documentary directed by Oscar-winning director Daniel Junge that tries to explore the rocky relationship between Evangelical Christianity and fighting in […]
Creepy Fan Shows-Off His 15 Tattoos of Miley Cyrus
Ok, so you’ve bought all of Miley’s albums, you know all her songs by heart, and your room is practically covered with poster of her. You still have nothing on this guy, because let’s face it, nothing says “I Love Miley Cyrus” than 15 tattoos related to her. Showing off your obsession through tattoos is […]
Woman Addicted to Mayonnaise Will Use It for Everything. And I Mean Everything!
Philippa Garfield, from London, England, loves mayonnaise so much she will eat it with pretty much anything, and even wash her hair with it. We’ve featured some pretty weird addictions here on Oddity Central, from the guy addicted to sausages, to the woman who loved drinking her own urine, but Philippa Garfield takes things to […]
Artist Makes Portraits of Famous People from Thousands of Words
Ralph Ueltzhoefer probably took the saying “a picture is worth a thousands words” because he actually builds detailed images from thousands of written words. The Mannheim-based German artist takes photos of celebrities from the Internet and recreates their portraits with words randomly-selected from Internet biographies, fragments of words and phrases, and Wikipedia articles that have come […]
Velodrawings – Art Made with Bicycle Skid Marks
Berlin-based Christian Grillitsch is a bicycle-drawing artist who creates beautiful and engaging artworks by skidding his bicycle wheel across the canvas. Riding a bicycle is fun and healthy, but Austrian artist Christian Grillitsch has found a way to use this hobby to create some pretty unique works of art. Called “Velodrawings” his creations are skid marks left on white […]
Ukrainian Painter Turns Communist Apartment Building Into an Inhabitable Art Gallery
Communist-era apartment buildings from the former Soviet Union are some of the ugliest edifices in the world, but Ukrainian painter Valery Haroun managed to turn one of them into a marvelous art gallery. The apartment building in Odessa, Ukraine looks pretty ordinary from afar, but as you draw near the entrance, you realize there’s something special […]