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 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 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.
How do we find our life's work? Not the obligatory work that our parents prepared us for or that we took out of necessity. And the same thing - ours and no one else's - what makes us happy? What fills our lives with colors and joy so much that we begin - through the creations of our own hands - to bring these feelings into the lives of others?
For some, this is a national tradition that obliges men to wield a brush as skillfully as a sword. Someone, with a hammer and nails in their hands, suddenly discovers a creative streak in themselves. And someone, having tried a thousand things in his life, suddenly by chance, perhaps in a dream, sees his future products and the craft that he has to master. You can recall many stories about how people discovered amazing talents in themselves. But we will only talk about a few, and perhaps they will help you come to your big and real hobby.
Wire sculptures
Sculptor and artist Derek Kinzette became famous for his unusual hobby. He creates steel wire sculptures that look like stone statues from afar. It takes him about 60 hours of work to weave one product. And if the sculpture contains a lot of details, then this time is doubled.
Derek says that childhood memories prompted him to this kind of activity: as a child he loved to visit Dodington Park, filled with statues.
Art of real men
It is hard to believe, looking at the delicate and unusual paintings of plants, that it is mistaken - the oldest Japanese art of the samurai. Owning it was considered as important as using a sword or the art of calligraphy.
Today, probably, one cannot find a man “painting” with dried flowers. And among women there are not many craftswomen who skillfully use these colors of nature. Despite the apparent simplicity, it is not so easy to convey, for example, the quiet ripple of a lake or the cold freshness of the mountains with the help of dried plants. Yes, and knowledge about the world of plants is very useful here. For example, florist Tatyana Berdnik from Kyiv uses more than a thousand species of plants in her work.
What is attractive about this art is that everything necessary for creativity - flowers, leaves and seeds - can be found in the field and forest. And if you decide to do this type of painting, then remember that natural colors are more stable in young plants. Helps preserve color and dry flowers quickly.
Polymer clay
Do you know what captivates this material, unlike real clay? And the fact that you don’t need a potter’s wheel or a “cool” kiln to work with it - an ordinary oven is enough. But what you can’t do without is skill. This, of course, if you do not want to sculpt little things for your own pleasure, but create real masterpieces.
It’s hard to believe that this real lizard with eyes that look straight at you, a snake frozen on a branch with berries, as if autumn leaves just picked up from the ground or these berries themselves, sprinkled with snow, were only recently a colorful plastic mass . And also in the fact that the master who created them - Irina Rereshechka from Dnepropetrovsk - learned everything herself, without "materiel" and master classes. She notes that all her future creations themselves, in an instant and in great detail, appear in her head, it remains only to embody them.
By the way, the formula for the unusual "plasticine" was developed by Fifi Rebinder from Germany in the early 1930s. Working with this material is convenient and simple, it allows you to convey the finest sculptural details, imitate various textures and materials. And thanks to the availability of polymer clay, products made from it - jewelry, dolls, interior items and souvenirs - have become a source of income for many people.
It will also be useful to know that there are several types of this plastic material: harder and softer, with a glossy or matte surface after polymerization, self-hardening or in need of baking. Each master chooses "for himself" - what he likes best and what is more convenient to work with.
Pictures from nails
Briton Markus Levin creates his amazing paintings from nails. In the strong and dexterous hands of the master, nails turn into real works of art. Many of them flaunt in galleries and private collections. Invented by Marcus in 2005, the artistic direction even got its name - Nail sculpture.
Depending on the plot, the number of nails varies from 15,000 to 52,000, and a picture can be "painted" from three days to two months. It is noteworthy that Markus creates without preliminary sketches and sketches.
Unusual photos
If you like photography, you should try yourself in another unusual form of creativity. Freezelight - this is the name of photographing objects and abstractions drawn with the help of light: lighters, nightlights, laser pointers, candles, flashlights, etc. The essence of the process is simple: a tripod with a camera is installed in a dark room, which captures the movements of a person “drawing” with light. What else you will need is equipment with the ability to shoot at night, the ability to control the aperture and, of course, remarkable imagination.
And if you don't like working in the dark, borrow the idea of an engineer by training and an artist by vocation, Mehmet Ozgur. This American shoots smoke paintings and then edits them in Photoshop. It is unlikely that anyone will remain indifferent, looking at these mysterious, tender and filled with deep meaning works.
Paper craft
In skillful hands, even ordinary paper can become a masterpiece. This was proved by the Danish artist and designer Peter Callesen. Each of his paintings tells its own - touching, tragic or philosophical - story.
The master creates in the paper art technique: he cuts and sculpts three-dimensional figures and characters from paper.
The process of materializing a three-dimensional object from a flat sheet seems magical. The fact that the figures remain attached to their source gives a special mystery to the process.
On the edge of a pencil
Woodworking skills were useful to American carpenter Dalton Getty, who once decided to carve miniature sculptures from pencil leads. He has been engaged in his unusual hobby for more than 25 years. And for work he uses only three tools - a blade, a knife and a sewing needle. And no magnifying glass!
The longest of his works - a chain with a pencil - was created for two and a half years. And it happens that the sculptures, on which many days and months are spent, break. The worst thing, Dalton notes, is when it happens towards the end of a job. Indeed, this activity is not for the impatient!
dog grooming
Hairdresser - an ordinary, it would seem, profession. With one exception - if it is not a hairdresser for animals. And not just a hairdresser, but a hairdresser-artist! Many will consider this activity a mockery of our smaller brothers. But in China, such “tuning” of animals is quite common and, therefore, a profitable business.
Feathers and birds
But Chris Maynard does not deprive animals of wool, but does quite the opposite - he turns the feathers lost by birds back into birds.
The artist works with tools that are used in eye microsurgery: scalpels, scissors, clamps, tweezers. With their help, he painstakingly carves figurines and entire flocks of birds.
Houses in miniature
Remember how in childhood or adolescence we glued houses and figurines from matches? Former surgeon Rob Hurd uses more impressive material - felled or withered trees. From them he carves houses, dachas, cottages, or rather, their models. The American took up this original hobby because of the tragic events: after the accident, he was no longer able to operate.
Culinary masterpieces
Surely, every housewife tried herself in working with dough. Fragrant bread, delicious pies and dumplings, of course, also require certain skills. But only real craftswomen can make the baking and confectionery business profitable.
Another popular newfangled hobby that has captured the souls and time of many representatives of not only the fair sex is the creation of delicious and unusual, sometimes not at all like pastries, cakes and pastries. Many of these masterpieces of culinary art - the very place in museums, so sorry to eat them.
By the way, some of the craftswomen did not even graduate from culinary technical schools. So go ahead, be inspired and look! And it will help you start working with the test. Want to try your hand at textiles? You will need this master class. And in you will find an ocean of ideas for creativity.
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 passion. 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 contests. 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.
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Everyone spends their leisure time differently. Some read books, others draw, others prefer sports or dancing, and some just lie on the couch in front of the TV. There are many options for spending time, but among them there are also rather strange hobbies.
1 – Toy Traveling
The essence of this unusual hobby is to send your toys on a trip around the world. To do this, the ToyVoyagers website has been created, where a diary of a toy is kept, where you can also choose a temporary home for it with owners, send and receive photos. But if you want to return the “traveler” home, temporary owners will send the toy home.
2 - Extreme Ironing
David Fitzgerald from the UK, also known as "Safety Setting", got into extreme ironing in 1997. From a simple environmental officer, David turned into a real extreme. He irons under water, parachuting or mountain climbing. Not everyone will be able to adopt such a hobby.
3 – Grooming dogs, China
Perhaps one of the most eccentric hobbies imaginable. The owners for the competition cut and paint the dogs in such a way that they become like other animals or objects. The main goal of the competition, which takes place in China, of course, is money! For winning it, you can get 30 thousand US dollars. I wonder what animal advocates have to say about this hobby.
4 - Muing
In Wisconsin, a strange competition is held in which the participants hum. The one who imitates cow mooing best of all wins the main prize of the competition. The latest winner was a 10-year-old boy named Austin who received $1,000, a gold bell and a cow costume as a reward.
5 – Surfing on the train
Train surfing as a hobby originated in Germany in the 1980s. Crazy craze is considered one of the most dangerous in the world, and for good reason. Train surfers climb onto the roofs of trains and perform tricks such as jumping or running at high speed. In search of adrenaline, the most reckless train surfers climb onto the roofs of high-speed trains. More than 40 people a year die just from trying to learn to surf on the train.
6 – Tattoo vehicles
Taiwanese pensioner Lee Zongksyong draws unusual graffiti on cars. Lee became interested in unusual vehicle tattoos in 1999. The drawings are words from the sacred Buddhist texts that the Taiwanese puts on the wings, roof, license plates and even on the windows of a car.
Lee paints only on his own machines, of which there are four in the family. His grandson promised to buy a big bus when he grew up so that his grandfather could enjoy his hobby.
7 – Participation in the news in the background
Paul Yarrow from the UK has been seen in the news more than once. Met him on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky News. Paul appears at the locations where the news crew is stationed and creeps into the background of the frame, playing a bystander.
8. Collecting down from the navel
Australian Graham Barker since 1984 has been collecting, perhaps, the strangest collection in the world - down from the navel. During the years of his hobby, he collected 22 grams of fluff, for which he got into the Guinness Book of Records. He sold his collection to an Australian museum.
9 – Ecstasy collection
In 2009, a man called Dutch authorities to report the theft of his ecstasy collection, which included more than 2,400 pills. He knew it was illegal, but was concerned about the dangers of his collection. The Dutchman has been collecting drug pills for over 20 years.
10 - The largest ball of paint
American Michael Carmichael applied 22,894 coats of paint to a baseball. Once he decided to paint his ball, and later he came up with a new hobby - to apply a new layer of paint on top of the old one, always of a different color. Since 1977, the ball has increased its weight to 1588 kg and has become a real attraction.
11 - Dorodango
Japanese hobby, the essence of which is polishing mud balls. The strange hobby was a traditional hobby of Japanese children. To create mirror-smooth mud balls, there is even a certain technique.
12 - Imitation of death
They say that after a simulated DPS death and murder, Chuck was invited to the cinema, where he will play the corpse.
13 - Collecting paper bags
Some people collect hygienic paper bags that are given out in hospitals or airplanes. One of the largest collections was collected by a Singaporean buggyman - it has 388 bags from 186 airlines. Now, for those who are keen on this hobby, there are sites where you can buy paper bags from different companies.
14 – Carousel ride
A 78-year-old man from the US rode the rides 90 times in one day. For Vic Clement, these are quite ordinary numbers. Since childhood, he loves carousels and can ride them for several hours without a break. Throughout his life, Vic has tried many attractions, riding them more than 4,000 times.
15 - Collecting Handcuffs
Frank Reno has amassed the largest collection of handcuffs in the world. It has 377 copies. Frank took up the hobby in 1995. The collection can be seen at blacksteel.com.
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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.
