The Wine-Cork House
It’s amazing how popular wine-corks are these days. Some people convert their cars into wine-cork trucks, others to make wine-cork costumes and even insulate their houses. Check out this wine cork-covered house, for example. There must be tens, if not hundreds of thousands wine corks on its walls. unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find any […]
The Driftwood Horses of Heather Jansch
Heather Jansch is a very talented artists who specializes in creating amazing sculptures of horses and other animals from driftwood. As long as she can remember, Heather Jansch has always been fascinated by horses and dreamed of living in the middle of nature, surrounded by grazing horses. Thanks to her drawing and sculpting talents, she […]
Infinite Hope
Skull artists Quinn Gregory decided to take a break from designing bling-skulls and created a 5’3″ sculpture of Jesus, covered by nearly 250,000 Swarovski crystals. Entitled “Infinite Hope” this statue of Jesus took the artist 14 and a half months to complete, 10 of which he pent just encrusting the crystals. To him “the brilliance […]
Hotel Made Out of 200,000 Plastic Key Cards
The Holiday Inn Key Card Hotel was built by card-stacking master Bryan Berg, from 200,000 discarded hotel key cards. To mark the relaunch of their hotel chain, numbering 1,200 establishments, Holiday Inn inaugurated the world’s first key card hotel, in Manhattan, New York. It’s made up of a guestroom, bathroom and lobby, featuring life size […]
The House of Plastic Bottles
Apart from the breathtaking Iguazu Falls, one of the most important tourist attractions in the Iguazu area is the House of Plastic Bottles, built out of plastic bottles and other recyclable materials. Alfredo Alberto Santa Cruz got the idea of building a house from plastic bottles while he was creating a playhouse for his little […]
Awesome Stargate Pyramid PC Case Mod
Talented modder creates an awesome looking PC case, inspired by the pyramid ship featured in the movie Stargate. I’m a big fan of case mods and we’ve had a few great custom PC cases featured on Oddity Central, but I think this is the coolest one yet. Modder Gup has created a PC case replica […]
Toothpick City – Our World in Toothpicks
Stan Munro has spent the last six years of his life recreating some of the world’s most important landmarks out of nothing else but toothpicks. Most people use them to get rid of food scraps from between their teeth, but 38-year-old Stan Munro, a former television host, uses them to create wooden works of art. […]
Would You Wear a Toilet-Paper Wedding Dress?
Seven Israeli designers worked on creating a set of beautiful wedding dresses, made out of toilet paper, in celebration of the most requested wedding date in the world, September 9, 2009. The talented designers presented their creations in Tel Aviv, as part of an advertising campaign for a toilet paper company. The idea behind the […]
The Harley-Davidson Armchair
Featuring custom painted flames, taillights, headlights and side-view mirrors, the Harley-Davidson Armchair is probably the manliest chair ever made. Designed and built by the guys at First Impressions, the Harley-Davidson can make anyone feel like a hardcore biker, right in the comfort of their own home. When you kick out the chair’s footrest, the chair’s […]
Chance City – The Embodiment of Lost Hope
Created by artist Jean Shin, Chance City is made-up of $32,404 worth of discarded “Scratch & Win” lottery tickets, displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. What can you do with thousands of apparently worthless losing lottery tickets? Not much, either recycle them or use them as building material. Jean Shin opted for the second […]
The Trash Temple of Rotterdam
Judging by the amount of trash we generate every day, it’s no wonder people are beginning to build structures using it. 100 tons of PET bottles, pressed into bales, were used to create the Temple of Trash, presented at the 2007 Follydock Festival, in Rotterdam. The idea behind this project by Salzig Design is future […]
Amazing Dirty Window Art
These incredible artworks belong to Scott Wade, a man who once again proves anything can be a diamond in the rough, even a dirty car window. Scott Wade is a talented is a talented graphic designer, from Wimberley, Texas, who loves to get his hands dirty. He paints all kinds of pictures in the back […]
Straw Artist Commemorates Big-Ben
Rising proudly from the crop fields between Chester and Nantwich, Straw Ben is a straw replica of the famous Big-Ben, in London. An ice-cream company from Britain thought of an original way to celebrate Big-Ben‘s 150th anniversary and came up with a very original idea. Using a steel frame and 500 bales of hay, they […]
Money Wallet Looks Awfully Tempting
Things are often more than they appear to be, but the money wallet is a lot less. Designed to look like a bunch of $100 bills in a rubber band, the Money Wallet looks awfully tempting to pickpockets, so it’s a good way to distract their attention and protect your savings.
The Bookcase Coffin
With the number of home burials on the rise in the US, people have a wider range of coffins to choose from. One of these options is the Bookcase Coffin, built by Chuck Lakin, a woodworker from Waterville, Maine. Mr Lakin makes all kinds of home burial coffins, that double as bookcases, coffee-tables or entertainment […]