Vienna Vegetable Orchestra – Playing with Food and Making Music
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra makes unique organic music, using instruments made from vegetables. Pepper trumpets, leek violins, celery bongos, cucumberphones, pumpkin drums – these are just a handful of instruments used by the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra to entertain audiences everywhere, with their organic music. This one-of-a-kind music group was born when its current members were […]
British Fan Shows Off the Ultimate Movie Car Collection
Mark Perkins has spent the last 25 years putting together an unmatched collection of vehicles from famous movies and TV series. Mr. Perkins says owning a Ferrari or a Bentley is nice too, but he’s just not that type of guy. He’s rather interested in finding and acquiring famous vehicles that everyone recognizes. After a […]
Julia Gnuse – The Most Tattooed Woman in the World
With various tattoos covering 95% of her body, Julia Gnuse has been acknowledged as the world’s most tattooed woman. What started out as a desperate solution to cover up lesions, caused by a severe skin condition, turned into a true passion, that earned Julia Gnuse a spot in the Guinness Book of Records, for the […]
The Unique Wood-Chip Sculptures of Sergei Bobkov
53-year-old Sergei Bobkov has patented a unique technique of creating amazing sculptures out of Siberian cedar wood-chips. “It’s not very interesting to do what others can. To create something out of nothing in a completely new way is far more inspiring”. This is how Sergei Bobkov explains the unique form of art that he created. […]
Walking on Water at Dixon High School
The “Walk on Water” challenge of Dixon High School has reached its 8th edition. Just like every year, since this event was started, students had to walk on water, without falling in. Over 120 physics students, in 27 groups, tried to cross a 50-meter-long pool, in the 2 minute time limit, without getting wet. To […]
2-Year-Old Kid Smokes 40 Cigarettes a Day
Seeing him rest on the steering-wheel of his toy truck, smoking a cigarette, you might think he’s a truck driver stuck in the body of a toddler, but Ardi Rizal is really just a two-year old boy who loves to smoke. The 56 pound toddler, from Indonesia’s South Sumatra province, smokes 2 packs of cigarettes […]
The Origami Architecture of Ingrid Siliakus
Ingrid Siliakus carefully cuts and folds layers upon layers of paper, to create some of the most amazing origami building designs. The Dutch artist has been fascinated with paper architecture, ever since she first set eyes on the work of Japanese professor, Masahiro Chatani, who invented this art form, in the early 1980s. She studied […]
Klunk Garden – Zen Buddhism Meets Nudity
Klunk Garden is a bizarre art installation createt by the Austrian art collective known as Gelitin. It’s basically a Zen rock garden with various human parts coming out of it. You’ve probably seen some photos of the Klunk Garden before (I know I have), but they never came with some info about what exactly you […]
The Amazing Pencil Art of Paul Lung
Lovely black and white photos, wouldn’t you say? Well, can you believe these were actually done completely by pencil? Paul Lung, a 38-year-old artist, from Hong Kong, needs only an 0.5 mm technical graphite pencil and sheets of A2 paper to create some of the most unbelievable works of art. Paul has loved to draw […]
P-Tree: The Perfect Solution to a Pressing Problem
By strapping urinals on a bunch of trees, a Dutch designer has solved one of the most serious of men’s problems, finding a toilet when you need one. Sam van Veluw came up with this interesting concept, one night, at a music concertm while he was desperately looking for a public toilet. As soon as […]
Wave Gotik Treffen – The Goth Festival of Leipzig
The festival-friendly city of Leipzig, in Germany, has hosted the 19th edition Wave Gotik Treffen, considered the world’s largest Goth event. Around 25,000 Goth fans, from all over Europe, gathered in Leipzig, four a 3 day festival (22 – 24 May), that started back in 1992. Covered in tons of eyeliner and makeup, and sporting […]
600-Kilogram Hero Book on Display in Russia
In order to better familiarize the people of Chelyabinsk (the city that brought us the human smiley face) with the tragedies and heroes of World War II, local authorities have created a giant Hero Book. 6 meters long, 3 meters wide and weighing around 600 kilograms, the Hero Book of Chelyabinsk contains photos of the […]
The Annual World Custard Pie Championship
Inspired by a Charlie Chaplin comedy, the World Custard Pie Championship is held every year, since 1967, in the village of Coxheath, Britain. Teams came from as far as Germany and South Africa to compete in one of the wackiest events on the face of the Earth. Working in teams of five, contestants had to […]
Every Topping under the Sun-dae
I’m glad to present an ice-cream that could go into the record books as tastiest dessert ever created, the Every Topping under the Sun-dae The idea for this delicious concoction belongs to the guys at TopCultured, who thought those giant Cold Stone ice-creams could be even better if they contained all the toppings the creamery […]
World Poutine Eating Championship
The Poutine Eating Championship is a yearly food-eating competition where the contestants have to eat as much poutine as possible, in just 10 minutes. I bet you’re still stuck on poutine, right? Many people outside Canada have never even heard of this delicacy, but they just eat it up there in the north. Poutine consists […]