Strange hobbies of people. Review of the most unusual hobbies in the world - hobby ideas for extraordinary people

As a site of unusual, curious and strange news, the site, of course, could not ignore the topic of unusual and strange hobbies. Initially, we wanted to select for you the 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 section the strangest hobbies in the world will be constant. Perhaps after reading this post you will also stop collecting banal coins, stamps and postcards, and become interested in something unusual.

So check yourself to see if you can get carried away with one of the strangest and most unusual hobbies in the world.

Let's read about the strangest hobbies in the world and see what kind of strange things people like to collect. Although it is now considered that there is nothing 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 very, very strange indeed, but this is what can make you famous!

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

1. The world's largest paint ball.

Some call it a strange hobby, others look at the results achieved with admiration, but one thing is for sure, Mike Carmichael became famous precisely because of his hobby! The life of a decorator (or, in simple terms, a dyer) 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 paintball.

With 22,894 layers of paint applied to the ball, it now weighs 1,587 kg (3,500 lbs). People from all over the world now come to add a coat of paint to the ball rather than the ball, although in English it means the same thing.

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

The ball is so large that it requires reinforced metal rods to hang it. The first coat of paint was added by son Mike Carmichael, and since then the golden rule for those who add paint to the ball has always been followed - each new color must 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 choose your color correctly.

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

The most interesting thing is that this 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, there really are a very large number of volunteers in the world who help people. But there is one person who has truly taken charity to a passion.

A certain Reed Sandridge, immediately after he was unexpectedly fired from his job, decided to give away money free of charge to those in need in order to somehow help people. For this purpose, he specially allocates 10 dollars a day and gives it to the person in need, in his opinion. He meticulously writes down all the good deeds he has done 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 fun. But to be honest, while it may look fun, or some even look really cute, seriously...poor dogs! Some people in China have a very peculiar hobby... they "tune" dogs. Even though it may seem strange, just take a look at the photos below... these dogs really are extremely glamorous, like a work of art... but with fur!

4. Houses of cards.

The site has already written about this hobby.

Passion for card games usually does not lead to good things, but as it turns out, this is not always the case.

All boys dream of anything in childhood, some want to become an astronaut, some want to become a President, some just rich, some an architect, and some just famous. It would seem how to combine this in one dream? Bert McLane from Los Angeles succeeded. He became both a rich and famous architect. And all because he knows how to build card “houses” better than anyone else.

5. Belly button fluff.

No matter how strange and even “disgusting” it may sound to some, another unusual hobby that more and more people are starting to get involved in is collecting belly button fluff. Yes, yes, exactly fluff. The pioneer of this hobby was Graham Barker, who introduced the fashion for collecting navel fluff. What he has been successfully doing for more than 20 years, in connection with this he even got into the famous Guinness Book of Records. And after that he and his hobby became quite popular. When asked why he does this, he always answers the same: “Why not?”

In our age of speed and high technology, when we are always rushing somewhere, snacking on the go, communicating with children or parents only by phone, and always in a hurry and in a hurry, every person needs some kind of outlet. A business that does not require fuss, an activity for the soul and heart. Therefore, almost every person has a passion or hobby that allows them to forget at least for a short time about the daily hustle and bustle, about pressing problems and plunge into the world of their interests. And if it seems to you that life is boring and monotonous, we recommend that you urgently find yourself a hobby. But what hobby you choose is up to you. Hobbies can be completely different, the main thing is that they bring pleasure. Hunting, fishing, knitting, collecting stamps or coins - all this can be classified as common hobbies. And we present to you “TOP 10 most unusual hobbies and interesting hobbies.”

So, the top ten unusual hobbies opens with one of the kindest hobbies in the world - charity.

Charity has always been considered a noble activity. So in the modern world, one not the richest person, once left without work, decided to distribute money to those in need. Reed Sandridge, walking the streets, gives ten dollars a day to the most needy person, in his opinion. Now this good deed has become a real hobby for Reed. But Sandridge records every good deed he performs in a special notebook, and at the same time maintains his own blog, where he talks about his hobby.

Ninth place among those who like to pretend to be a corpse or imitate death

Some may think that this is not a completely normal hobby. When a person travels around the world, but not to admire the beauties of nature and architectural monuments, but to be photographed in the form of... a corpse. But Chuck Lamb was driven to such a passion by the desire to act in a movie or at least get on television. But since his appearance is not “Hollywood,” he decided to attract the attention of producers in another way. For many years now, he has been posting photos and videos of his own “corpse.” To do this, he started his own website, which is visited by millions of curious visitors.

In eighth place is the King of Buttons

American Dalton Stevens became interested in this unusual hobby because of his insomnia. One night, when he couldn’t sleep again and the TV had already finished broadcasting, Dalton took out his old overalls and sewed several dozen buttons onto it. This was the beginning of the American’s unusual hobby. Buttons covered everything around Stevens. And a few years later, an inventive old man opened a museum of buttons, where everyone can see button masterpieces absolutely free of charge. And this is a whole bunch of clothes, a personal car, a couple of coffins, a hearse and other exhibits.

Seventh place among collectors of miniature things

This is one of the most stylish hobbies. To escape from the hustle and bustle of the “big world,” many passionate people create a miniature world. These can be doll and furniture compositions, miniature interiors and entire cities. And although this is a very painstaking task, it is very interesting and exciting. In addition to creating miniature compositions, there are collectors of the world's smallest objects. For example, József Tari from Hungary has been collecting a library for more than forty years, and the language of the books and the publication do not bother him at all, he is only interested in the size of the book. And the main thing is that it should not exceed 7cm 6mm, and the smallest book in his collection and in the world is 2.9x3.2 mm, it can be placed in a nutshell. These are the little things that can become a big hobby.

The sixth line is occupied by playing cards

You can play cards, you can play solitaire, show tricks, or you can build. Yes, yes, build houses, houses of cards, which everyone has heard about, that they can easily collapse. And you can build world-famous buildings, or rather copies of them, such as the Empire State Building, Burj Dubai, skyscrapers, casinos and other famous buildings. And which will not collapse, but will stand for a long time. Iowa resident Brian Berg has been interested in creating structures from playing cards since childhood; his hobby has long grown into a well-paid job, into art. And what could be better when your favorite hobby brings not only good money, but also worldwide fame?

In fifth place is the unusual coloring and haircut of dogs.

This hobby initially amazed the Chinese, but is already successfully sweeping the planet. Residents of the Middle Kingdom enthusiastically cut and color their dogs in original ways. Moreover, you don’t always immediately recognize the breed of dogs, and sometimes pets seem to be completely different animals. But this amuses the owners and pushes them to new fantasies.

Fourth place - navel fluff

Third place - an unusual hobby - creating a paint ball

This unusual hobby began out of boredom. One dyer, bored at work, decided to paint a baseball. And for almost forty years, every day, Mike Carmichael, which is the name of a man with such an original hobby, puts layer after layer on this ball. Mike's friends and guests are allowed to take part in painting the ball, but they must always come up with a new color. And now it is the largest paint ball in the world. And the most surprising thing is that this hobby has many fans.

Silver gets a very beautiful and difficult fascination with paintings from cassette tapes

It would seem that audio and video cassettes are a thing of the past. Indeed, in the modern digital world, many no longer remember such an invention of mankind as magnetic tape. And only truly creative people found a non-standard use for it. It turns out that you can make unique paintings from cassette tape. After all, it is elastic and looks like voluminous ink.

In first place is a very unusual hobby.

While it does not have its own unique name, it is a hobby for many people. What's the point? They roll ordinary dirt into a ball by hand, remove moisture from it and begin to polish it by hand. And now the ball of dirt turns into a glossy sphere. The smoothness is perfect. Such balls are considered a real work of art; many connoisseurs purchase mud balls as interior items. It would seem that from ordinary dirt, but straight into... an expensive and stylish interior.

So, we have presented you with a rating of the most unusual hobbies. You can always argue who will come out on top and which hobby will be the most unusual. But whatever your hobby is, it’s very good that you have it. This means that you are a creative, enthusiastic person. And you don't spend all your free time just lying on the couch. We are all different, and how to spend your leisure time is up to you to decide. And if you have the most unusual hobby, tell us about it!

A hobby is a favorite pastime that allows you to temporarily escape from routine problems and enjoy the process itself and what comes out as a result. What is 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, surprising, and even strange hobbies, and the people who became famous for them, perhaps this will become your source of inspiration.

1. Decorating your home with lids

A resident of the Urals, Olga Kostina, became famous for decorating her house with colored plastic covers. To do this, she needed 30 thousand caps, which she diligently collected, sorted and washed, and then attached them with nails and a hammer. Now roof ornaments, which look like embroidery, decorate 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 Karlmine once decided to paint a baseball. Over time, he got the hang of it and applied a total of 22,894 layers of paint, resulting in the ball weighing 1,587 kg. This ball, which is more appropriately called a ball rather than a ball, has become famous and now people come from all over the world 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 the previous ones. This hobby has gained its followers, as evidenced by photographs of other huge colorful balls.

3. Charity

Charity has long become perhaps the main hobby of the powerful, but one person, 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 the person who, in his opinion, is in need, and gives him the money. Reed has a special notebook where he writes down all the good deeds he has done to preserve the memory of the people he has ever helped.

4. Unusual dog haircut

This hobby has recently become widespread in China. And a certain Katherine Miles from Australia managed to make it her profession and become a first-class stylist for animals. A variety of fancy figures are cut out of wool, dogs are painted in the richest shades and made into real works of art.

5. Pumpkin carving

Ray Willefen graduated from the Academy of Arts, but chose to teach at school as a career as an artist, as he loves children very much and wants to teach the younger generation a lot. Well, in his free time he carves... pumpkins. This hobby of his has roots since childhood, when the boy lived on a farm and cut out figures from any available material. Many are interested in his talent, and one day he was invited to the White House to carve a pumpkin for Halloween. At home, Ray has a huge collection of a wide variety of figures and faces: funny, sad, and sometimes quite scary.

6. Drawings in the sand

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

7. Sculptures on a pencil point

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

8. Paintings made from tape

Dutchman Max Zorn, a street artist from Amsterdam, became famous for his amazing paintings made from ordinary tape. He uses only tape and a scalpel, and plexiglass is used as a base. His extraordinary paintings are used to decorate lanterns, other lighting fixtures, and the tops of buildings. They resemble scenes from old films. Despite the limited color range, the artist manages to make his creations realistic thanks to the play of light and shadow. Zorn is great at conveying a special atmosphere, feelings and emotions.

9. Houses of cards

Bert McLane from Los Angeles built his first house of cards when he was 5 years old, and even then it was 6 stories high. Then he became seriously interested in 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 of Saudi Arabia commissioned McLain to build a card replica of their Royal Center, which is a gigantic complex of high-rise buildings, and the fee for this miracle will be 1.5 million dollars!

10. Live TV Star

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

How do we find our life's work? Not the demanding job that our parents prepared us for or that we took out of necessity. And that very thing – ours and no one else’s – that makes us happy? What fills our lives with color 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. We can remember many stories about how people discovered amazing talents in themselves. But we will tell you only about a few and, perhaps, they will help you come to your big and real passion.

Wire sculptures

Sculptor and artist Derek Kinzett became famous thanks to his unusual hobby. He creates sculptures from steel wire that from a distance resemble stone statues. It takes him about 60 hours of work to weave one product. And if the sculpture contains many details, then this time doubles.

Derek says that his childhood memories prompted him to this type of activity: as a child he loved to visit Dodington Park, filled with statues.

The art of real men

It’s hard to believe, looking at the delicate and unusual paintings of plants, that oshibana is the oldest Japanese art of the samurai. Mastering it was considered as important as wielding a sword or the art of calligraphy.

Today, you probably won’t find a man “painting” with dried flowers. And among women there are not many craftswomen who skillfully use these colors of nature. Despite its apparent simplicity, it is not so easy to convey, for example, the quiet ripple of a lake or the cold freshness of mountains using dried plants. And knowledge about the plant world will be very useful here. For example, florist artist Tatyana Berdnik from Kyiv uses more than a thousand species of plants in her works.

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 take up this type of painting, then remember that natural colors are more stable in young plants. Drying flowers quickly will help preserve color.

Polymer clay

Do you know what makes this material attractive, unlike real clay? And the fact that to work with it you don’t need either a potter’s wheel or a “cool” kiln for firing - a regular oven is enough. But what you can’t do without here is skill. This is, of course, if you don’t want to sculpt things for your own pleasure, but create real masterpieces.

It’s hard to believe that this very real lizard with eyes that look straight at you, a snake frozen on a branch with berries, as if autumn leaves had just been lifted from the ground or the berries themselves, sprinkled with snow, were only recently a colorful plastic mass . And also the fact that the master who created them - Irina Rereshechka from Dnepropetrovsk - learned everything herself, without “material parts” and master classes. She notes that all her future creations themselves, in an instant and in the smallest detail, appear in her head, all that remains is to realize 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 and 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 requiring baking. Each master chooses “for himself” - what he likes best and what is more convenient to work with.

Paintings made from nails

Briton Marcus Levin creates his amazing paintings from nails. In the strong and dexterous hands of a master, nails turn into real works of art. Many of them are displayed in galleries and private collections. The art direction invented by Marcus in 2005 even got its own name – Nail sculpture.

Depending on the plot, the number of nails varies from 15 to 52 thousand, and the picture can be “painted” from three days to two months. It is noteworthy that Marcus creates without preliminary sketches or sketches.

Unusual photos

If you love photography, you should try yourself in another unusual form of creativity. Freezelight is the name given to photographing objects and abstractions drawn with the help of light: lighters, night lights, laser pointers, candles, flashlights, etc. The essence of the process is simple: a tripod with a camera is installed in a dark room, which records 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, a remarkable imagination.

And if working in the dark is not your thing, borrow the idea of ​​Mehmet Ozgur, an engineer by training and an artist by vocation. This American takes pictures of smoke and then edits them in Photoshop. It is unlikely that anyone will remain indifferent when looking at these mysterious, tender and filled with deep meaning works.

Paper art

In skillful hands, even ordinary paper can become a masterpiece. This was proven by the Danish artist and designer Peter Callesen. Each of his paintings tells its own story – touching, tragic or philosophical.

The master creates using the paper art technique: he cuts out and sculpts three-dimensional figures and characters from paper.
The process of materializing a three-dimensional object from a flat sheet seems magical. What makes the process especially mysterious is the fact that the figures remain attached to their source.

On the point of a pencil

The skills of working with wood came in handy for the American carpenter Dalton Getty, who once decided to carve miniature sculptures from the leads of simple pencils. 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, took two and a half years to create. And it happens that sculptures, on which many days and months have been spent, break. The most annoying thing, Dalton notes, is if this happens at the end of work. Indeed, this activity is not for the impatient!

Dog grooming

Hairdressing is a seemingly ordinary profession. With one exception - if it is not a pet groomer. 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 hair, but does quite the opposite - he turns feathers lost by birds back into birds.

The artist works with instruments that are used in eye microsurgery: scalpels, scissors, clamps, tweezers. With their help, he painstakingly carves figures and entire flocks of birds.

Houses in miniature

Do you remember how in childhood or youth we glued houses and figures from matches? Former surgeon Rob Hurd uses more substantial material - cut down or dried trees. From them he carves houses, dachas, cottages, or rather, models of them. The American took up this original hobby because of tragic events: after the accident, he was no longer able to operate.

Culinary masterpieces

Surely, every housewife has tried her hand at working with dough. Fragrant bread, delicious pies and dumplings, of course, also require certain skills. But only true craftswomen can make baking and confectionery business profitable.

Another popular newfangled hobby that has captured the souls and time of many representatives not only of the fair sex is the creation of delicious and unusual, sometimes completely different from baked goods, cakes and pastries. Many of these masterpieces of culinary art belong in museums, it’s such a shame to eat them.

By the way, some of the craftswomen did not even graduate from culinary colleges. So go ahead, get inspired and search! And it will help you start working with the test. Do you want to try yourself with textiles? You will need this master class. And in you will find an ocean of ideas for creativity.