Hobby - favorite hobby, which 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 for 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 the mighty of the world this, but one man, the unemployed American Reed Sandridge, really elevated it to the status of a hobby, which 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

Such a hobby Lately has 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

Ray Villafen graduated from the Academy of Arts, but chose teaching at school as an artist, as he loves children very much and wants to teach the younger generation a lot. Well, in free time he carves…pumpkins. This hobby of his has been rooted since childhood, when the boy lived on a farm and carved figurines from any material at hand. Many are interested in his talent, and once he was invited to The White house carve a pumpkin for halloween. Ray's house huge collection a variety of figures and faces: funny, sad, and sometimes quite frightening.

6. Drawings in the sand

Jim Denevan, American artist and a cook, famous for painting beautiful and short-lived pictures in the sand with a wooden stick. Over the past 17 years, he has created many unique sand paintings around the world, but since they are all washed away sooner or later by the tides, now we can only see them in photographs.

7. Sculptures on the tip of a pencil

45-year-old carpenter from America, Dalton Getty, became famous for his amazing hobby. For 25 years now, he has been carving tiny sculptures from ordinary lead simple pencils. His creations are simply amazing, and it is noteworthy that in their manufacture he does not use a magnifying glass, and he has only three main tools: a knife, a blade and a sewing needle. On the day, the creator devotes about 1-2 hours to his hobby, and it usually takes him several months to create one sculpture. And for making it yourself famous sculpture with a pencil and a chain, it took two and a half years.

8. Paintings from adhesive tape

Dutchman Max Zorn, street artist from Amsterdam, became famous for his admiring paintings from ordinary scotch tape. He uses only adhesive tape and a scalpel, and Plexiglas is the basis. His extraordinary paintings used to decorate lanterns, other lighting fixtures, as well as the tops of buildings. They remind me of scenes from old movies. Despite the limited color scheme, the artist manages to make his creations realistic through the play of light and shadow. Zorn is great at conveying a special atmosphere, feelings and emotions.

9. Houses of cards

Bert McLain from Los Angeles built his first house of cards at the age of 5, and even then it turned out to be 6 floors. Then he was seriously carried away by this, his houses became higher and higher, and their designs became more and more intricate. His unusual hobby brought him fame, money and recognition. Recently the government Saudi Arabia ordered McLain to build a card replica of their Royal Center, which is a giant complex of skyscrapers, and the fee for this miracle will be $ 1.5 million!

10. Live TV Star

And truly strange hobby famous Paul Yarrow from London. He just has a manic addiction to the TV screen, and loves to appear in the frame. However, he is not a star, not a presenter, and not a journalist. He just loves to be in the frame in the background behind the reporter's back and does it with enviable regularity, so many British news fans already know the unusual fat man.

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. IN this moment he is 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 ex-president US 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, 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 about the events on camera, he simply stands in the background, without disturbing anyone.

7. Trainsurfing (travel outside trains)

Trainsurfing originated in Germany in the 1980s and from there spread throughout 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.

You do not know how to entertain yourself in the evening? You do not want to cross-stitch or go in for equestrian sports? Look at the list of unusual hobbies. These classes are non-trivial and interesting. Yes, they will require you to invest effort and money, but then you will be able to do business that your soul lies in.

sand painting

One of the unusual hobbies that became popular thanks to Ksenia Simonova captured the minds of people. Sand painting - even a person who is far from art can learn it. Yes, drawing skills will undoubtedly be required. But drawing silhouette images is much easier than doing similar work using pencil and paper. You should invent or find suitable image and then use your fingers to draw it in the sand. This exciting activity develops creative thinking.

If you are not tempted to draw images on a flat surface, you can create drawings inside the bottle. This activity can become one of the creative hobbies. To do this, you will need sand or tinted salt. Pour the material into the bottle in layers, and then use a long sharp stick to create a pattern. A little evening practice, and non-trivial gifts self made you will create within an hour. This hobby can even be turned into a business.

Scotch tape pictures

Creative people use a creative approach to create their masterpieces. For example, Max Zorn - Dutch painter, uses adhesive tape as a material for his work. This unusual hobby made him famous all over the world. But you, too, can try yourself in this art form. There is nothing complicated here. If you can't draw but have a good sense of shape, you can print people's silhouettes and "paint" them with scotch tape. It's not difficult at all.

It is enough to break the drawing into light and shade parts, and then sculpt the necessary shape. In this way, you can create not only portraits. You can draw nature, architecture or cartoon scenes. Even a primitive image made using this technique will look amazing. If it’s difficult for you to immediately feel the idea, you can first copy a few paintings of the Dutchman. This will help you understand the essence of working with tape. And do not think that copying is not creativity. All famous artists at first, they were only engaged in redrawing the paintings of recognized masters.

Pictures from coffee beans

Want to find unusual hobbies? Consider creating paintings from coffee beans. This type of creativity can be mastered even by people who do not know how to draw at all. The fact is that creating silhouettes is much easier than ordinary full-fledged paintings. All you have to do is print the appropriate line image and fill it in. After just a week of practice, you can create your first artistic work. The main thing in this kind of creativity is accuracy and painstaking work.

ebru

Hobbies are different. Some of them are creative, others are sports, and others are aimed at self-development and self-improvement. Ebru is a creative hobby. And what does this incomprehensible word mean?

Ebru is the Turkish art of water painting. The basin is filled with a special solution that can be purchased at any art store, and then paint is poured into the water using a knitting needle. Paintings are created by mixing layers of color pigment. Think it's difficult? No. A little bit of training creativity And developed imagination help you become a good artist.

slate art

What are some hobbies that help develop creative skills? One of them is slate art. And if it seemed to you that such work is done with a pencil, then you are mistaken. They are created on a pencil, or rather, on its lead.

Skillful craftsmen can carve jewelry work. For example, it could be a camel caravan or a profile of a woman. One of the popular themes is intertwined hearts. It takes more than one year to master this hobby. First of all, a person must become a sculptor and jeweler, and only then will he be able to create works of art from a fragile lead.

Photo art

What are the hobbies? Today, one of the most popular leisure activities of people is photography. Of course, amateur phone shooting cannot be considered art. But the creation of creative works with the help of professional equipment can become not only a hobby, but also a job. wedding photographers They start by making the process of photography their hobby. They train their eyes, learn to use the equipment, set the light correctly and choose a good angle. After years of practice, they get wonderful shots that help them earn money with the help of their favorite pastime.

Writing fanfiction

One type of hobby is literary creativity. But it is not necessary to create your own universe and invent heroes. If you have a favorite book but don't like the ending or want to make a side storyline main, you can do it. Write fanfic. What it is? This piece of art based on an existing story. But you do not copy it, but supplement or remake it a little. Sometimes such creative work can become more popular than the work of which they are a parody. Just remember Fifty Shades of Grey. This book, according to one version, was written as a fan fiction for "Twilight".

cosplay

Do you like dress up parties? Then a fashionable hobby called cosplay is just for you. original masquerades, where adults become heroes of their favorite comics, historical eras or serials. There are many cosplays, and they are all of different genres. You can choose the one you like. Such events need to be prepared in advance. All participants sew their own costumes or order them in the atelier. It is in this preparation that the cosplayers find their main pleasure. The process of creating an image is more important for many than performing in a costume during the evening.

Butterfly breeding

A century ago, people bred pigeons. It was a hobby not only for aristocrats, but also for ordinary citizens. Even today you can find people who are not indifferent to these birds. But there are very few of them. But breeding butterflies can become an unusual hobby and hobby. Some are fascinated by the process of appearance beautiful creation from a cocoon, others are simply pleased to look at the motley beauty. And also many people make this hobby a profitable business.

Today it is fashionable to order butterflies for a wedding, Valentine's Day or a birthday. Guys confess to girls in love, using winged creatures to achieve greater effect. You can breed butterflies for yourself, or you can sell them. In any case, this unusual hobby will bring unprecedented pleasure.

edible creativity

What is the hottest hobby today? Of course it's baking. Being a professional cook is a difficult task. Bake at home cupcakes and sweet buns even an inept hostess can do it. But not everyone can create small masterpieces from culinary products. Therefore, people who have creative thinking and can knead the dough have firmly occupied the baking niche. Girls in their free time can create small cakes or complex compositions that are decorated with mastic. Housewives bake pancakes or make Viennese waffles.

If you do not know what to do at your leisure, give preference to cooking. Relatives and friends will definitely appreciate your new hobby. And also with proper skill, you will be able to establish mass production. For example, bake cookies for the holidays and sell them to colleagues. Or maybe you like to collect gingerbread houses, and you can earn on their creation.

Construction

An unusual hobby for men is collecting miniature models. Many boys in childhood are fond of building with Lego. But when the boys grow up, it becomes not so interesting for them to combine plastic parts. The soul wants something more. But not everyone becomes architects and engineers. Some go into law or medicine. But their leisure is occupied by the construction of cities in miniature. It could be like collective images our homeland, and realistic projects of cities. Moreover, some reach such a level of skill when they launch miniature cars to drive around the city, turn on the lights in the windows and start the trains.

Houses of cards

An interesting and unusual hobby is construction. But not in the standard sense of the word. Everyone has tried these masterpieces. But few people reach good luck in this type of activity. Some are limited to buildings with three floors, and some erect "large-sized buildings." Moreover, many are fascinated not so much by the process of creating such a structure as by the process of its destruction. But such destroyers prefer the construction of dominoes. This is also a kind of hobby, which today is considered almost an art. Why? The fact is that after the domino falls, interesting images are created from it.

As a site for unusual, curious and strange news, the site, of course, could not pass by the topic of unusual and strange hobbies. Initially, we wanted to choose for you the top ten strangest hobbies and hobbies . But, due to the fact that there are much more than 10 of them, for now we present the most unusual hobbies in our opinion, but most likely due to a very, very large number of unusual and strange hobbies and hobbies, our rubric weirdest hobbies in the world will be constant. Perhaps after reading this post you will also stop collecting banal coins, stamps and postcards, and get carried away with something unusual.

So test yourself, could you get carried away with one of the strangest and most unusual hobbies in the world.

Let's read about weirdest hobbies in the world and see what weird things people like to collect. Although it is now considered that it is not unusual to have a hobby, but if you start collecting belly button fluff in large jars (yes, believe me, there are such hobbies) ... some may call this activity really very, very strange, but that's what makes you famous!

Or what if someone really enjoys collecting animal skeletons? So let's all take a look at some of the most strange hobbies in the world. Enjoy!

1. The world's largest paint ball.

Some call it a strange hobby, others look at the results with admiration, but one thing is for sure, Mike Carmichael became famous precisely because of his passion! The life of a decorator (or dyer, if you like) seemed boring to him, and adding a little imagination, he decided that you can always find something good, even if you do it all the time. Even if from day to day you just paint and paint. Back in January 1977, Mike decided to paint a baseball...

The world's largest paint ball.

22,894 coats of paint applied to the ball and it now weighs 1,587 kg (3,500 pounds). People from all over the world are now coming to add a layer of paint not on the ball, but on the ball, although in English language it means the same thing.

Back in January 1977, Mike decided to paint a baseball...

The ball is so big that it requires reinforced metal rods to hang it. The first coat of paint was added by son Mike Carmichael, and has always been followed ever since. Golden Rule for those who add paint to the ball - each new color should be different from the previous ones. So if you want to add your own layer of paint to the largest ball of paint, you will need to get your color right.

At first Mike just decided to paint a baseball...

The most interesting thing is that such a hobby has many fans, as evidenced by photographs of other paint balls.

2. The kindest hobby.

For many rich and very wealthy people, charity has already become something of a hobby. In addition, in the world there really is a very a large number of volunteers and volunteers helping people. But there is one person who really brought charity to a hobby.

A certain Reed Sandridge, immediately after he was unexpectedly fired from his job, decided to give money to those in need for free in order to somehow help people. To do this, he specifically allocates 10 dollars a day and gives them himself, in his opinion, to the needy. He scrupulously writes down all the good deeds he did during the day in a special notebook so that the memory of those whom he helped will always be with him.

This is not only an unusual hobby, but sometimes also a fun one. But to be honest, while it may look hilarious, or some even look really cute, but seriously…poor dogs! Some people in China have a very peculiar hobby... they "tuning" dogs. As strange as it may seem, just take a look at the pictures below…these dogs are really extremely “glamorous”, something like a work of art…but in fur!

4. Houses of cards.

The site has already written about this hobby.

Enthusiasm card games usually does not lead to good, but as it turned out, not always.

All boys in their childhood dream of anything, someone wants to become an astronaut, someone wants to be the President, someone is just rich, someone is an architect, and someone is just famous. It would seem how to combine it in one dream? Bert McLane from Los Angeles succeeded. He became rich and famous architect. And all because he is the best at building card "houses".

5. Fluff from the navel.

Strange as it may sound, and even “nasty” to some, another unusual hobby that more and more people are starting to get involved in is collecting navel fluff. Yes, yes, it is fluff. The pioneer of this hobby was Graham Barker, who introduced the fashion for collecting down from the navel. What he has been successfully doing for more than 20 years, in connection with this, he even got into famous book Guinness records. And after that, he and his hobby became quite popular. When asked why he does this, he always answers the same way: “Why not?”

Julia Friday

The most unusual hobby. Choosing a new hobby

Unfortunately, not everyone can call their work their favorite. In this case, a hobby comes to the rescue - an activity during which you can take your soul off and relax after a hard day's work.

Most people prefer standard hobbies like reading books, knitting, or cycling. What do you know about unusual hobbies?

Leisure

The need for new activities appeared when people began to realize that they could not choose a hobby from those they already knew. Some active unusual hobbies appeared due to the mixing different activities some out of pure curiosity.

One thing is clear - rappels are fond of conquering high-rise buildings with their hands and feet without any insurance. The hobby may also appeal to lovers of parkour - extreme overcoming of urban obstacles (fences, high steps and fences, distances between buildings, sheer walls).

Kiting

If you are a fan of surfing or windsurfing, be sure to try a new kind of water sport - kiting. This hobby rightfully fits into unusual hobbies as a mixed style of activity.

Kiting is the ability to control a light board on the water with a huge kite. The difficulty is to lift the kite into the air and stand on your feet under the gusts strong wind while balancing on the waves. Learning to kite is hard. But those who master it forever forget about other unusual hobbies.

Types of creativity

Unusual hobbies include quiet hobbies - such as creating sculptures and paintings. But what materials are used for this?

Microminiatures

Microminiature is a kind of three-dimensional visual arts, which is based on the creation of sculptures and compositions tiny sizes. The direction was formed at the end of the twentieth century, as denoting miniature works in any branch of art. Magnifying glasses, microscopes and loupes are used in the process.

For example, craftsmen carve unusual paintings on rice and poppy seeds, prepare horseshoes for fleas and dress flies.

Despite the complexity of implementation, everyone can learn how to make small figures. Start with larger pieces - for example, try creating clothes and household items for dried grasshoppers and cockchafers. Be patient - the work will be long and painstaking, but the result is worth it.

An interesting kind of miniature work is carving on a pencil rod. Craftsmen carve intertwining patterns and unusual chains in mini format from the body and the core of a pencil, striking with their precision and accuracy.

Alternatively, miniature figures are cut out on the top of the pencil.

To learn this skill, start with a simple carving on the body of a pencil, gradually going deeper and moving to the core.

Pictures from nails

From the name it is clear that nails are the main material for working in this hobby. Boards of various sizes and shapes, walls of furniture and even apartments can serve as a basis.

Just draw a sketch with a washable pencil and start hammering nails around the perimeter. Where the thickness of the lines is wider, drive in several nails side by side, creating chiaroscuro effects.

One of the varieties of such a hobby is threading nails with threads.

Just drive them around the perimeter of the image at a small distance from each other, thus preparing the base. Now wrap their legs with thread, moving from one nail to another or in chaotic order, depending on your creative idea.

paper art

An easy way to keep yourself occupied in your free time. First, a sketch of the work is created on a piece of paper. With the help of scissors, cutters, needles, knives and tweezers, details of a complex image are cut out and attached to each other on a suspended base sheet, creating a three-dimensional figure.

The pinnacle of art is considered to be unusual figurines that have been carved and designed, but not separated from the base sheet.

A three-dimensional picture acquires a unique charm if you put lighting next to it at the right angle. Try to create paper sculptures only white color They will feel light and airy.

Scotch tape pictures

An unusual hobby is complemented by such an art form as creating pictures from adhesive tape. This hobby is very economical - all you need is a white translucent rectangular glass and colored adhesive tape.

Work on the drawing takes place according to the following algorithm:

• measure the adhesive tape to the required length;

• stick it on the picture at the right angle and in the right place;

• trim any excess tape or tear off.

In this technique, it is easier to create paintings that depict objects. close-up or portraits of people. Despite the fact that many of the works are made with adhesive tape of the same color, each time an original, unique mood of the characters is obtained.

Tire sculptures

This hobby can rightfully be included in unusual hobbies. Using tires as a working material, experienced craftsmen create realistic figures of animals, plants and fairy-tale characters.

The Korean sculptor Yong Ho Ji was very successful in this art. He prepares the wire frame of the future figure, after which he covers it with solid or cut tires. The complexity of his work lies in the fact that the master must create the most realistic sculpture: lay out the features of the face, designate the hairs of the fur, the curves of the paws.

This activity is a bit like carving work: the tire can be cut in such a way as to get a flower, a star, a snowflake out of it. And you can cut several strips, triangles or squares from it, and then connect them in the right order.

First try creating simple figurines from old tires. They can decorate a flower bed in the yard or country cottage area. Gradually, you will hone your skills to such an extent that you can form complex realistic sculptures.

Freezelight

An interesting art that appeared relatively recently - with the introduction of professional cameras. The literal translation of the word is drawing with light.

Take a camera with a shutter speed and a light marker - it can be any luminous object. Put the camera on a tripod and set it up to shoot in the dark for a while. Stand a short distance in front of the lens and start drawing the image in the air with a marker. The camera will capture it as a ready-made bright picture on a dark, slightly blurred background.

This type of creativity is very useful - preparation for the workflow helps a person learn how to photograph, because to shoot in the dark you need to be able to choose the right mode.

A list of unusual hobbies will help you decide on your favorite pastime. It is possible that in the future such a hobby may develop into your main occupation.

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