Guy Makes Life-Size Mummy Out of McDonald’s Food
Ben Campbell, a dude who refers to himself as “some kind of artist from west Texas”, sent us these photos of a life-size mummy he created out of about $200 worth of McDonald’s food. You’re probably thinking Ben needs a better hobby, but you have to remember he’s not just some guy with nothing better […]
Delicious Street Art – Sugar Icing Murals by Shelley Miller
Montreal-based artist Shelley Miler uses sugar and edible blue paint to create incredibly detailed murals on the side of buildings. Her works are influenced by the cultures of the places in which she’s creating, and although they look as durable as ordinary murals, they simply wash away at first rain. Looking at Shelley Miller’s artworks […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #36
Royal de Luxe’s Huge Marionettes Perform in Titanic Commemoration (Laughing Squid) Beijing’s Secret Underground City (Environmental Graffiti) Chinese Farmer Creates Wind-Powered Vehicle (Metro) Moscow Hosts World’s First Caviar Speed Eating Contest (Ria Novosti) Blog Comparing Rafa Nadal to Capibara Becomes Internet Hit (Tumblr) Stupidity Captured at 2,500 Frames per Second (This Is Colossal) Japanese Burger […]
Eau de MacBook Pro: A Fragrance That Smells Like New Apple Products
The Apple MacBook Pro is definitely not the most affordable laptop on the market right now, but thanks to custom scent developer, Air Aroma, you can now close your eyes, take a sniff of hour old machine and imagine you actually own one of Apple’s expensive devices. This may very well be the weirdest perfume […]
Japanese Goggles Make Food Look Bigger, Help You Lose Weight
A team of Japanese researchers at Tokyo University have invented a pair of “slimming goggles” that make food look larger to help you eat less and thus lose weight. Sounds simple and effective, doesn’t it? We’ve posted our share of wacky Japanese inventions, here on Oddity Central, from the creepy anti-aging mouthpiece and the brainwave-controlled […]
Fascinating Portraits Made Out of Thousands of Tiny Photographs
Inspired by the fact that every person has multiple facets that combined form his or her personality, Swiss artist Anna Halm Schudel creates original portraits by piecing together thousands of small photographs. The mosaic portraits of Anna Halm Schudel assemble in a similar way to puzzles. After choosing the subject of her artwork, the artist […]
The Incredible Wire Mesh Portraits of Seung Mo Park
Korean artist Seung Mo Park creates cuts up layers of wire mesh by hand, to create some of the most beautiful large-scale portraits you’ve ever seen. These true sculptural masterpieces are part of Park’s latest series, called Maya. In the past, we’ve featured several extraordinary artists who work with layers to create their art, and […]
10 Coolest Finds of the Week #35
School Shaped Like the Millennium Falcon Causes Internet Stir (Lehigh Valley Live) Ocean Predators Look Even Scarier Inside (Environmental Graffiti) Scottish Hotel Menu Includes Live Comedian (STV) World’s First Lickable Elevator Is Covered with Jaffa Cakes (Gizmodo) Museum Boss Covers His Car with Broken Pottery (The Sun) Woman Turns to Craiglist to Find Out Who […]
Impressive Portrait Made with 750 Pairs of Socks
Hong Yi, aka “Red”, has already achieved Internet fame for her amazing works, a portrait of Yao Ming created with a basketball, and one of singer Jay Chou made by spilling coffee, but she keeps producing mind-blowing masterpieces. Her latest project is a detailed portrait made with 750 pairs of socks. The beautiful Shanghai-based artist […]
The Chalk Masterpieces of Rustam Valeev
Rustam Valeev is a 20-year-old street artist from the city of Sterlitamak, Russia. Using simple pieces of white chalk, he is able to create incredibly detailed portraits right on the pavement of his home city. Doodling with chalk was one of my favorite pastimes, as a kid. I remember I spent hours trying to draw simple things […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #34
Heavyweight Pets Enter Slimming Contest (The Sun) The Deceptive Beauty of Indonesia’s Deadly Acid Volcano (Environmental Graffiti) 86-Year-Old Gymnast Proves Age Is Just a Statistic (MSNBC) Back to the Future Fan Creates Iconic Delorean Replica (Brian O’Neal) Amazing Fabric House Models by Do Ho Suh (Design Boom) World’s Oldest Performing Clown (Chicago Suntimes) Thailand’s Treetop […]
Sarajevo Roses – Painful War Memories Etched in Asphalt
They sound like something beautiful, and they are quite nice to look at, but as soon as you learn the story of the Sarajevo Roses, you realize they are really the legacy of a truly tragic event, the Bosnian War of the 1990s. Between 1992 and 1996, Bosnian Serb Forces bombarded the city of Sarajevo […]
The Mind-Blowingly Realistic Wine Paintings of Thomas Arvid
If you’ve been hanging around Oddity Central for a while, you probably know I have a thing for hyperrealism. I find it amazing how some artists can simply guide a paintbrush to create photograph-like artworks that almost always fool the naked eye. Case in point, Thomas Arvid, a self-taught painter who creates wine-related paintings that look […]
Artist Turns Confiscated Scissors into Creepy Spider Sculptures
Every year, the Transportation Security Administration confiscates countless objects deemed dangerous from passengers boarding flights at airport terminals across the US. Apart from guns, knives or aerosol, a lot of scissors end up in their recycling bin. Enter Christopher Locke, an artist who figured out he could actually use scissors to create creepy sculptures of […]
Eco-Otome – Japan’s Solution to Embarrassing Toilet Noise
The Eco-Otome is a Japanese gizmo that’s intended to make using restrooms other than your own less awkward. Basically it emits a soothing sound meant to cover any embarrassing toilet noises you might be making. Ok, so this isn’t a very new invention, in fact it’s been around for around three years, but I thought […]