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.

He gives away $10 every day to a stranger who, in his opinion, is in great need of them.

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 Hard times a man 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, on the scene appears real expert- 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 most strange 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 puts 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?

Lee, who only has elementary education, said that 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.

In the concept of "unusual hobby" everyone puts his own meaning. For some it's collecting vintage stamps or expensive wine, for others it's rock climbing. And some even understand by this the observation of UFOs or the hunt for tornadoes and tornadoes.
Over the past few years, the list of hobbies familiar to everyone has been replenished with a dozen amazing and slightly frightening hobbies, which not everyone will dare to contact. I have prepared for you a selection of unusual hobbies that you probably have not heard of.
Telebombing About this non-trivial way to while away free time the world learned thanks to a resident of London, Paul Yarrow. The man has been entertaining himself by “hunting” TV reporters for the past five years. To be more precise, Paul is looking for film crews around the city and during a live broadcast or recording of a “stand-up” (when a journalist speaks to the camera) he stands like an idol in the background. In fact, the joker brought to a new level the art of “photobombing”, popular on the Internet, intrusion into other people's photos.

Over the years of hunting, the Briton has appeared in hundreds of stories. Thanks to his unusual hobby, Paul became a London celebrity. The man himself calls himself a "fat man from the background." Paul plans to get into the popular UK reality show Celebrity Big Brother.
Dead man game
An IT engineer from Ohio (USA) Chuck Lamb became interested in an unusual hobby in 2005 after watching a detective series with his wife Tonya. The man, unexpectedly for himself, decided that he wanted, like the actors of the tape, to "pretend to be dead." No sooner said than done. Together with his wife, Chuck thought over several images and conducted a trial photo shoot. Best shots on which he appeared to be killed different ways, the couple published on a website specially created for this case.


Further more. The game of the dead man so tightened Chuck that he began to devote almost all his free time to a new hobby. The spent days were not in vain - soon the lover of pretending to be killed was noticed. The number of site views has increased to 50 million. The success prompted the couple to develop new subjects for photo shoots and new shots.


After some time, the original hobby of the man was appreciated by local television companies, and Chuck was invited to take part in the filming of crime series. Of course, as an actor who will play the dead people. So the American's hobby grew into an interesting and, most importantly, profitable part-time job. A Chuck Lamb filming day costs $1,500.
tornado hunting
Chuck Lamb, although he has to wallow in pools of blood (sham, of course), nevertheless, he does not risk his life. The man's hobby is quite harmless. What can not be said about a professional photographer from the USA, Mike Hollingshead. In his free time, he hunts for tornadoes. True, unlike the most famous tornado catcher, researcher Tim Samars, who died while chasing another wind monster in 2013, Mike does not seek to look inside a tornado. His goal is spectacular shots.





Mike searches for tornadoes on his own. He chases them around the country in his car, often recording videos.
Over the years of such hunting, Mike has amassed an impressive collection of stunning photographs. And, most importantly, he managed to turn his dangerous hobby into the main source of income. Today, the photographer collaborates with leading travel and wildlife publications, in particular, with the authoritative National Geographic magazine.
animal coloring book
The hobby, which will be discussed below, appeared in early 2010 in China. The creators of a new type of pastime were local dog breeders and groomers. Dog lovers began to paint their pets with colored paints and cut them in such a way that as a result they became like exotic animals.
In fairness, it should be noted that the Chinese borrowed the idea of ​​painting dogs from the Americans. However, the hobby of dog breeders from the United States has a slightly different bias - unlike their colleagues from the Middle Kingdom, they simply paint the fur coats of their pets in bright colors without turning them into wild animals like tigers and pandas.
Before becoming a tiger, this adorable dog was known locally as the Golden Retriever.


And these teddy bears before the transformation were the most ordinary chow chows.


The unusual hobby of dog breeders has become so popular that in some provinces they began to organize thematic festivals and exhibitions of thoroughbred dogs with “makeup” like wild animals.

Carrying out insect fights
If in China pets are decorated for fun, then in Thailand they are pitted. AT literally this word. True, it is not dogs that are used here, but large beetles. Approximately such.


It is about holding public fights of insects. An unusual hobby has existed in Thailand since ancient times. Beetles for a duel are carefully selected (as a rule, they are caught in the surrounding forests) and, interestingly, they undergo preliminary training - they train. Large individuals are most valued. The battlefield is a wide log, at which the audience stares from both sides.


So that the bugs do not relax and are not distracted from the battle, the trainers (that is, the owners) encourage them with wooden sticks.


Every year, Thais, carried away by an unusual hobby, participate in a local festival, where, during short fights, the strongest wrestling beetles are determined, and their owners get hold of some money at the expense of public bets.
Swimming in giant pumpkins
But farmers, and just lovers of gardening in the US and Germany, practice a hobby associated with racing in real pumpkins. Unusual way spending free time appeared thanks to the autumn harvest festival, which takes place here in September-October. To participate in the race you need to provide your vehicle, namely, a pumpkin weighing at least 90 kilograms. Approximately like this.


After the expert commission weighs and measures the pumpkin, the pulp is removed from it. As a result, the "pot-bellied" turns into a single boat. Race participants have the right to decorate the fruit at their discretion.


After the pumpkins are prepared and registered, the swim begins. The distance, by the way, is small - from 800 to 1000 meters. But it only seems that to overcome such a path - just spit. Balancing in a giant pumpkin, every now and then striving to roll over, is not so easy.
Perhaps the biggest drawback of the pumpkin hobby is the inability to do it all the time. An unusual regatta is held once a year, but in order to take part in it, you need to work for several months - to grow a potential boat, while not having guarantees that it will reach the desired size. However, back side medals do not scare fans of pumpkin races.
Unusual hobby definitely a nice way to while away your free time. However, such entertainment is not suitable for everyone - they are too extraordinary. Obviously, this is why most prefer quieter and simpler entertainment. For example, fishing. In Russia, by the way, this way of spending time, according to a recent poll by VTsIOM, is the most popular.
Well, the most rare and at the same time costly hobby around the world from year to year remains buying up and collecting rare art objects. What do the rich spend their money on? different countries, obsessed with this hobby, we told in our last review - “Would you buy this? The most expensive art objects that went under the hammer.

Julia Friday

The most unusual hobbies. 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. Hobbies may also appeal to lovers of parkour - extreme overcoming of urban obstacles (fences, high levels and fences, distances between buildings, sheer walls).

Kiting

If you are a fan of surfing or windsurfing, be sure to try a new type 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 of 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 on to the core.

Pictures from nails

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

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 threads, moving from one nail to another or in a chaotic manner, 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 hanging 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 rectangular white translucent 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.

At first, try to create simple figures from old tires. They can decorate a flower bed in the yard or summer cottage. 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. Literal translation words - painting 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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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 to which the soul lies.

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 come up with or find a 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 you will create non-trivial handmade gifts 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 quite easy.

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 usual full pictures. All you have to do is print out a suitable image in lines 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, which 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 practice, 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.

Skilled craftsmen can carve jewelry pieces. 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 start by making photography a 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? it piece of art based on an existing story. But you do not copy it, but supplement or remake it a little. Sometimes such creative works can become more popular than the work they are a parody of. 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, for Valentine's Day or for 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. Even an inept housewife can bake muffins and buns at home. 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 due skill, you will be able to establish mass production. For example, bake cookies for the holidays and sell them to colleagues. Or maybe you will enjoy collecting gingerbread houses, and you can earn money by creating them.

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 are erecting "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.

Good day, dear students and parents!

Wandering through the pages of the Internet, I found interesting articles about the hobbies of different people, to which they devote their free time, and sometimes their whole lives. sometimes found favourite hobby so absorbs a person 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

ancient Chinese occupation many are passionate, 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 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 he doesn't use it while he's at work. 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, 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 Briton Markus Levin can not only hammer it into the wall, but 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 to be born in three days - a maximum of a month another work art.

Markus “draws” his iron paintings by hand, like any other artist, without preliminary sketches. Pioneer of such artistic direction under the name "Nail sculpture" began to enthusiastically engage 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. Begins creative process immediately after low tide, so that by the time the sea water returns, the drawing is ready.

While creating sand paintings Jim does not resort to any 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.

See works sand art is possible only at the time of their creation or already in the 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 Ostankino tower height 6.3mm.

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 - not so much useful activity, but the playing pictures 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 Burt 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.

Spouses Peter Cook and Becky Northay can boast of such a passion, who began their work with growing 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. An unusual passion to be always in the frame made Paul a TV star.

ride on 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.

Here are the most unusual hobbies in people from different countries. 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.