What people will not come up with in order to have fun and pass the time! In this list, you will find seven of the most unusual hobbies in the world.
1. Filing statements of claim in court
Judgment is something that many, at least sane people try to avoid, but not Jonathan Lee Riches, who entered the Guinness Book of Records as the most litigious person in the world. He is currently serving time for fraud in a federal penitentiary in Kentucky.
In pursuit of "legal masterpieces," Riches has filed 2,600 lawsuits in various federal district courts between 2006 and today. The targets of his litigation were former US President George W. Bush, Somali pirates, the missing American trade union leader Jimmy Hoffa, Holocaust survivors, the Roman Empire, and even Buddhist monks. Jonathan Lee Riches has also sued various scientific ideas and inanimate objects, among them the Lincoln Memorial, the Dark Ages and the Eiffel Tower.
2. Collecting ecstasy
In 2009, the police in the city of Irbik (Netherlands) received a strange call: a 46-year-old man reported that an unknown person had stolen a collection of ecstasy from his house, which was stored in coin albums and consisted of more than 2,400 tablets.
According to the victim, he himself never used drugs and was well aware that his unusual hobby was illegal. The man decided to report to the police for the simple reason that several dozen pills in his stolen collection were poisonous.
The Irbik authorities did not press charges against him due to a lack of direct evidence. The man said he no longer hoped to see his amphetamine collection again.
3. Flying… without a plane
Have you ever jumped from an airplane with a parachute? And with a parachute, then without an airplane, in a wingsuit, soaring like a bird above the ground?
Wingsuits appeared in the early 1930s and were made of canvas and whalebone, which, of course, had a negative effect on the duration, range and safety of the flight.
Modern wingsuits began to be developed in the mid-1990s. Thanks to an improved design, they allow the athlete to overcome tens of kilometers through the air (the current record is just over 27 km) when falling from a height of 5000 meters.
Buying a wingsuit in the United States, for example, is quite difficult, since the government of the country, as well as a number of manufacturers, require a person to have serious experience in this matter - at least 200 standard free-fall jumps made no earlier than 18 months before submitting the request to buy a suit.
4. Extreme ironing
Ironing clothes is a rather boring and tedious task. But what if you combine it with rock climbing, snowboarding and other extreme sports? Brad, you say. But no!
It all started in 1997, when an East Midlands resident named Phil Shaw was given a choice: stay at home and do what he loves - ironing - or go rock climbing with friends. Being quite a sane person, Shaw decided to combine both, therefore, in addition to climbing equipment, he also took with him an ironing board and an iron. So a new hobby was born - extreme ironing, which in 15 years managed to conquer the whole world. Fans of the sport (if you can call it that) have ironed their shirts on kayaks, mountaintops, and even on busy highways.
5. Participation in dog trimming competitions
People who take part in dog trimming competitions "mock" the poor animals as they please. What is there to say?! Judge for yourself:
6. News bombing
Some people make history, while others are constantly trying to "light up" in the news reports, just at the moment when this story is being conveyed to the audience. They call such background characters “news bombers.”
The man who is captured in all the frames below is a resident of London, Paul Yarrow. For several years, he managed to appear in many reports of such well-known television companies as the BBC, al Jazeera, Sky News and others.
Yarrow learns about the places from which the live broadcast will be conducted, comes there, and while the correspondent is talking on camera about the events that have taken place, he simply stands in the background, without disturbing anyone.
7. Trainsurfing (travel outside trains)
Trainsurfing originated in Germany in the 1980s and from there has spread around the globe. Its essence is to find the train - the faster the better - jump on it and probably die after that. And what other consequences can be expected from such a dangerous undertaking?
In 2008, train jumping killed more than 40 people in Germany, mostly young people.
Hobby is a favorite activity that allows you to temporarily escape from routine problems, and enjoy the process itself, and what is the result. Surprising is not only the huge variety of these same hobbies, but also their very content: some hobbies are simply extraordinary! Check out a selection of the most unusual, amazing, and even strange hobbies, and the people who became famous thanks to them, perhaps this will also become your source of inspiration.
1.Home decoration with lids
Olga Kostina, a resident of the Urals, became famous thanks to the fact that she decorated her house with colored plastic covers. To do this, she needed 30 thousand caps, which she diligently collected, sorted and washed, and then attached with nails and a hammer. Now lid ornaments, resembling embroidery, adorn the facade of the house, gates and outbuildings. It is not surprising that this miracle attracts tourists from all over the world.
2. Huge ball
Decorator Mark Carlmine once decided to paint a baseball. Over time, he got used to it and applied only 22894 layers of paint to it, as a result of which the ball began to weigh 1587 kg. This ball, which is more appropriate to call it a ball than a ball, has become famous, and now people from all over the world come to add another layer of paint to it. The creator has one rule of his creativity - each new color applied to the ball must be different from all previous ones. Such a hobby has gained its followers, as evidenced by photographs of other huge colorful balls.
3.Charity
Charity has long been almost the main hobby of the powerful, but one person, an unemployed American, Reed Sandridge, really elevated it to the status of a hobby that can rightfully be considered the kindest hobby of all known today. After he was fired from his job, he decided to help those in need for free. He does this in the following way: he takes 10 dollars, goes out into the street, finds himself, in his opinion, in need, and gives him this money. Reed has a special notebook where he writes down all the good deeds he has done in order to preserve the memory of the people he has ever helped.
4. Unusual dog haircut
This hobby has recently become widespread in China. And a certain Katherine Miles from Australia managed to make it his profession, and become a first-class stylist for animals. A variety of bizarre figures are cut out of wool, dogs are dyed in the most juicy shades and they are made into real works of art.
5. Pumpkin carving
10. Let's ride the roller coaster!
It turns out that rollercoaster riding can be not just a hobby, but a true passion.
The 78-year-old American rode the Pittsburgh-area roller coaster 90 times in one day, completing 4,000 laps.
Another possessed, Vic Clement, spent about five hours on the Jack Rabbit roller.
He has been visiting this attraction since 1959, where he usually makes up to 20 rides in one day. By the way, he is a member of the Society of Rollercoaster Enthusiasts.
9. Appearance in the background on TV news
Paul Yarrow from London certainly has a hobby: he likes to appear on the TV screen.
Therefore, as soon as they start filming the news somewhere, he is right there in the background.
He has already made headlines on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky News.
It remains a mystery how Paul will know where to shoot the next story.
8. $10 for a stranger
When Reed Sandridge lost his job last year, he took up a new hobby.
Every day, he gives $10 to a stranger who he thinks needs it badly.
He does not expect anything in return, it just becomes lighter in his soul.
His mother, the daughter of a miner, whom he always remembers for her kindness, taught her son that in difficult times a person should help his neighbor, who is in even greater need.
Sandridge uses his savings and unemployment benefits for "gifts". He keeps a strict record of expenses in a black notebook and talks about the people he helps on his blog.
7. Moo
When it comes to mooing, the real expert is 10-year-old Austin Siok.
This American fifth grader won the annual mooing competition held in Wisconsin.
And all because his lowing was the best: he beat not only 80 competitors, but all the cows.
As a reward, Austin received $1,000, a cow jacket, a gold cow bell, and an award from a sponsor.
6. Collecting ecstasy pills
A Dane has been collecting ecstasy pills for 20 years. His collection already included 2,400 tablets in all colors and sizes when it was stolen in 2009.
The thief was not found. Despite the illegal nature of the collection, its owner still reported the theft.
He fears that someone who swallows these pills may be poisoned, because the collection contains 40 poisonous specimens.
5. Dog coloring
The photo above is not a tiger at all, but a painted dog.
This is a new hobby that has amazed many Chinese people: they cut and dye their own dogs' coats in such a way as to give them the appearance of another animal.
The Chinese accepted the new fashion with great enthusiasm, especially since the haircut and slight shade coloring of wool has long been practiced in this country.
According to statistics, the cost of maintaining and caring for pets has increased in China in the period from 1999-2000 by 500%.
4 Corpse Guy
47-year-old American Chuck Lamb, also known as The Dead Body Guy, probably has the strangest hobby in the world: he likes to pretend to be dead.
Moreover, he takes pictures of himself, and uploads the photo on his website.
This hobby appeared in Chuck in 2005, and to this day, interest in him has not weakened. A year later, more than 32 million people visited his site, newspapers, radio and television started talking about him.
Chuck explains his strange hobby by the fact that he always wanted to act in films and on television.
Actually, this is a rather strange hobby for a married man with six children.
Chuck admits that he does not have acting data and is not distinguished by external attractiveness, so the acting career is closed to him. But with popularity - complete order!
3. Eternal plaintiff
Despite the fact that a certain Jonathan Lee is a prisoner in a federal prison in Kentucky, he got into the Guinness Book of Records as the person who filed the most claims.
What was his next step? Correctly! He filed a lawsuit against the staff of the Guinness Book of Records, who, he said, "did not have the right to publish my work, my legitimate masterpieces."
Jonathan does not hide the fact that he was treated in a psychiatric hospital.
Among his many "masterpieces" are lawsuits against Plato, Nostradamus, former President George W. Bush, Somali pirates, Britney Spears, Buddhist monks, the President of Iran and manufacturers of artificial oil.
The list is endless...
2. Tattoo for the car
Taiwanese pensioner Li Zongxiong has a very strange hobby: he paints on his vehicles.
The 71-year-old workshop owner writes chaste words from Buddhist texts on his machine.
Since 1991, he has already painted a car, a motorcycle and two trucks. There is practically no “living space” left on them: mirrors, windshields, bodies, doors, wheels - and even license plates are painted.
True, this hobby did not bring anything but trouble to its owner: the police think that he paints other people's cars. And rightly so - who will dare to spoil their own vehicles?
Li, who has only a primary education, said most of the words were taken from Buddhist texts. Lee's son says the family currently forbids his father from buying a new car, no matter how much it costs. It'll still ruin it.
But the grandson promises, when he grows up and saves money, to give his grandfather a bus so that he can continue his hobby.
1. Wool bust
At first glance, this hobby may seem akin to madness. But only for the first...
An 84-year-old grandmother from Sussex (Great Britain) knits from wool ... women's breasts!
They, it turns out, are in demand: expectant mothers with their help master the basics of feeding babies.
For 3 years, more than 100 "breasts" were knitted, which did not bring the craftswoman any income (only the cost of the material is paid). So for an old lady, this is really a hobby.
Good day, dear students and parents!
Having wandered through the pages of the Internet, I found interesting articles about the hobbies of different people to whom they devote their free time from work, and sometimes their whole lives. Sometimes a favorite activity found absorbs a person so much that it becomes the main one in which the craftsman reaches the highest skill.
I picked up the top ten, which includes unusual hobbies of people in different countries, which seemed to me the most interesting and cause delight and surprise.
Lesson plan:
Sculptures made of wood
Many people are passionate about ancient Chinese occupation, but the master from China Zheng Chonghui was able to build the longest sculpture in the world from solid wood - more than 12 meters. The work, about 3 meters high, was made in the form of a wooden copy of the Chinese painting “Along the river during Qingming”, created more than a thousand years ago.
The author worked for four years, carving rivers, people, animals, forests, boats and even entire villages on the canvas from wood. As a result, more than 550 human figures settled on the sculpture. For his work, Zheng Chonghui received a certificate from the Guinness Book of Records.
Sculptures in pencil
An unusual hobby of the American artist and sculptor Dalton Getty. For 25 years he has been fond of carving on... It's hard to believe - pencil lead!
He has achieved such mastery that he simply makes masterpieces of miniature sizes out of fragile material. And while working, he does not use magnifying glasses. Among his working arsenal is only a blade, sewing needles and a knife.
The most painstaking work, to which he devoted two and a half years, is a miniature of a pencil with a chain.
Few people believe that it is made from a single lead without gluing. How he does it? As Dalton himself says, he never sells his wonderful creations, but gives them to his friends.
Paintings with nails
Each of us imagines how to hammer an ordinary nail, but the British Markus Levin can not only drive it into the wall, but also knows how to approach this process creatively, creating artistic masterpieces from building material. At least fifteen thousand nails and one hammer - all that the master needs, so that in three days - a maximum of a month - another work of art will be born.
Markus “draws” his iron paintings by hand, like any other artist, without preliminary sketches. The pioneer of such an artistic direction called “Nail sculpture” has been enthusiastically engaged in a hobby since 2005. Today, the artist's favorite occupation brings a good income - his paintings are successfully sold, and at a price of about $ 40,000.
sand drawings
American surfer Jim Denevan has a peculiar hobby, which, alas, is short-lived - he draws his amazing pictures on the beach sand.
During his 18 years of creativity, he decorated more than a hundred beaches around the world with a rake and wooden sticks. The creative process begins immediately after low tide, so that by the time the sea water returns, the drawing is ready.
When creating sand paintings, Jim does not resort to either measuring instruments or mathematical calculations of distances, doing everything “by eye”, as his heart tells him. Would you feel sorry for the work that the sea wave swallows at high tide? But the artist has a philosophical attitude to the process of destroying his works by nature, calling it an integral part of creativity.
You can see works of sand art only at the time of their creation or already in photographs.
Microminiatures
There are craftsmen in Russia too. So, the modern Tula "Lefty" Nikolai Aldunin is fond of creating tiny metal miniatures.
Being a mechanic by education, he achieved such skill that he was able to make a rifle the size of a grain of rice, shod a flea with golden horseshoes under a microscope, put a golden saddle on it, settled camels in the eye of a needle and placed the T-34 tank on longitudinal sections of an apple seed. and the Ostankino tower with a height of 6.3 mm.
metal embroidery
Many girls know how to cross-stitch, laying out the details of a fabric pattern stitch by stitch. But the Lithuanian craftswoman Severia Insirauskaite is fond of embroidery on metal.
To do this, she takes a male tool - a drill, makes holes, and then embroiders patterns with a cross. In her creative piggy bank are beautifully decorated buckets and shovels, car hoods and doors.
Card figures
Playing cards is not a very useful activity, but the playing cards themselves can be very useful if you do construction.
American Bert McLain became a famous architect thanks to playing cards, from which he built a five-story house at the age of 5. If you have enough patience, you can try your hand at building at least a three-story building. But the talented Bert honed his skills by building pyramids and copies of American skyscrapers from maps. Hobbies led him to world fame.
The Saudi Arabian government commissioned Bert to build a card replica of the royal high-rise complex. For a month and a half and a fee of $ 1.5 million, the card builder built an object 15.3 meters long and 3.5 meters high, using 4,351 decks of cards on it.
pooktre
This is the art of growing plants and trees of a certain shape in order to create natural sculptures from them.
This hobby can be boasted by the spouses Peter Cook and Becky Northey, who began their work with the cultivation of a wooden chair, directing the growth of trees in a given trajectory. For work, sculptors use garden plum and bird cherry.
They do not tell their secret of painstaking intervention in nature, creating intricate images year after year.
Star fever
Who has a hobby, but Briton Paul Yarrow will have a wasted day if he does not flash in the background during television filming.
His bald head and corpulent body, invariably dressed in a beige sweater, have become so familiar to viewers of well-known TV channels Sky News, BBC, Channel 4, ITV and others that reporting without the usual worker "behind the scenes" is already losing its appeal. The unusual passion to be always in the frame made Paul a TV star.
rides
American old man Vic Clement, aged about 80, prolongs his youth with his hobby. How do you think?
He gets emotionally charged on a "roller coaster", flying at breakneck speed at least 20 times for each visit to the amusement park. About 4,000 flights high into the air were counted by extreme sports enthusiasts, confirming their records with saved receipts. Vic set the absolute record on the Jack Rabbit wooden ride, riding as many as 90 times in one sitting.
These are the most unusual hobbies people from different countries have. By the way, this interesting information can be used to develop an unusual school project. Do you agree?
What do you do in your free time from studies? Tell us in the comments and maybe someone will tell about you in their research project.
Success in your studies!
Evgenia Klimkovich.
Hobby should be. Just because it's so much better than hanging aimlessly on the net or in front of the TV screen.
Some like to read books, others like to cross-stitch, and my neighbor changes her dog's hair almost every month. This is also a kind of addiction. And people have such interests that you will be amazed. Well, that's their worldview.
The most unusual hobbies in the world
If you do not yet have a favorite hobby, I advise you to take a closer look at the following, and suddenly something will interest you. And soon you will become a famous master.
Strange haircuts for cats and dogs
It turns out that this is the most amazing hobby in the world, or almost the most.
There are even such competitions. I wonder how the animals themselves relate to everything that happens?
If you decide to cut a cat for the summer, maybe you should think about it, but does he need it?
Amazing masterpieces and sculptural compositions from pencils
This was first thought up by Dalton Getty. And now the famous pencil figure sculptor is Jennifer Maestre. The peculiar vision of starfish and urchins became her inspiration.
There are eccentrics who like to draw abstractions and simply beautiful pictures on the sand.
This is understandable about sand castles, but what a pity it is to say goodbye to such beautiful pictures depicted on yarn.
Their lifespan is before high tide. Beauty is so short-lived. I suggest experimenting on your next vacation.
quilling
Try making unusual, even futuristic figures from twisted strips of paper.
Even Queen Elizabeth enjoys it at her leisure. Some of her work can be seen in London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
An interesting feature of such a hobby is that the masterpieces created by this technique can be used in everyday life as all kinds of coasters and decor elements. The service life is very long. Shapes and colors stay colorful and durable for a long time.
Many people love to embroider with beads, and weaving entire houses with furniture and accessories or vases of flowers from colorful colored beads is already for fans of this hobby.
Sculptor Lisa Lowe makes masterpiece bead installations. The most famous is the "Kitchen", all items are unique in themselves. She spent almost 5 years on weaving and 30,000,000 beads!
Soap carvings
Some people like to make soap, while others like to carve amazing figures out of it.
It is very beautiful and, most importantly, the good thing is that everyone can choose such a favorite pastime. Even if it doesn’t turn out beautifully the first time, all the waste will go to work. Interesting to try.
Have you chosen something to your liking?
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