Julia Pyatnitsa
The most unusual hobbies. Choosing a new hobby
Unfortunately, not every person can call their job their favorite. In this case, a hobby comes to the rescue - an activity during which you can unwind and relax after a hard day at work.
Most people prefer standard hobbies like reading books, knitting or cycling. What do you know about unusual hobbies?
Active leisure
The need for new activities arose when people began to realize that they could not choose a hobby from those they already knew. Some active unusual hobbies appeared thanks to the mixture different activities, some out of pure curiosity.
One thing is clear: rappelers are addicted to conquering high-rise buildings with the help of their arms and legs without any kind of insurance. The hobby may also appeal to fans 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 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 the help of a huge kite. The challenge is to lift the kite into the air and stay on your feet in the strong winds while balancing on the waves. Kiting is difficult to learn. 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?
Microminiatures
Microminiature is a type of volumetric fine 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. The process uses magnifying glasses, microscopes and magnifying glasses.
For example, craftsmen carve unusual paintings on rice and poppy grains, prepare horseshoes for fleas and dress flies.
Despite the difficulty of execution, anyone can learn how to make small figures. Start with larger pieces - for example, try creating clothes and household items for dried grasshoppers and chafers. Be patient - the work will be long and painstaking, but the result is worth it.
An interesting type of miniature work is pencil lead carving. Craftsmen cut intertwining patterns and unusual chains in mini format from the body and core of a pencil, striking in their precision and accuracy.
Alternatively, miniature figures are cut out on the top of the pencil.
To learn this skill, start by simply carving the body of the pencil, gradually going deeper and moving to the shaft.
Paintings made from nails
From the name it is clear that nails are the main material for working in this hobby. Boards can serve as a base 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 several nails side by side, creating light and shadow effects.
One of the varieties of this hobby is threading nails.
Just drive them in around the perimeter of the image at a short distance from each other, thus preparing the base. Now cover their legs with threads, moving from one nail to another or in a chaotic manner, depending on your creative idea.
Paper creativity
An easy way to keep yourself busy free time. First, a sketch of the work is created on a sheet of paper. Using scissors, cutters, needles, knives and tweezers, parts are cut out complex image and are attached to each other on a hanging base sheet, creating a three-dimensional figure.
The height of art is considered to be unusual figures that have been cut out and designed, but not separated from the base sheet.
A three-dimensional painting acquires a unique charm if you place lighting next to it at the right angle. Try creating paper sculptures only white- they will seem light and airy.
Scotch tape paintings
This unusual hobby is complemented by such an art form as creating paintings from adhesive tape. This hobby is very economical - all you need is white translucent rectangular glass and colored adhesive tape.
Work on the drawing proceeds according to the following algorithm:
- measure the adhesive tape to the required length;
- glue it onto the picture at the right angle and in the right place;
- Trim or tear off any excess tape.
This technique makes it easier to create paintings that depict objects close up or portraits of people. Despite the fact that many works are made with tape of the same color, each time the result is an original, unique mood of the characters.
Tire sculptures
This hobby can rightfully be included in unusual hobbies. Using tires as 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 facial features, indicate the hairs of the fur, the bends of the paws.
This activity is a bit like working with the carving technique: a tire can be cut in such a way as to make a flower, a star, or a snowflake out of it. Or you can cut several strips, triangles or squares from it, and then connect them in the desired order.
First, try creating simple figures from old tires. They can decorate a flowerbed in the yard or a summer cottage. Gradually, you will hone your skills to the point where 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 function and a light marker - it can be any luminous object. Place your 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 an image in the air with a marker. The camera will capture it as a finished product. bright pattern on a dark, slightly blurred background.
This type of creativity is very useful - preparation for the work process helps a person learn how to photograph, since 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 activity. It is quite possible that in the future such a hobby may develop into your main occupation.
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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 it is - national tradition, which 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 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 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 is a real lizard with eyes that look straight at you, a snake frozen on a branch with berries, as if it had just been lifted from the ground autumn leaves or these berries themselves, sprinkled with snow, were only quite 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 down to the smallest details, 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 different 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 own 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. Created by Marcus in 2005 artistic direction It 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 and sketches.
Unusual photos
If you love photography, there's one more thing you should try. unusual form 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 full deep meaning works.
Paper art
IN in capable 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 tied 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 slates 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 little 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 did it 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.
What people can come up with to have fun and pass the time! In this list you will find seven of the most unusual hobbies in the world.
1. Filing claims in court
Court is something that many, at least sensible 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 at the moment he is serving time for fraud in a federal prison in Kentucky.
In pursuit of “legal masterpieces,” Riches has filed 2,600 lawsuits in various federal district courts from 2006 to the present day. The targets of his litigiousness were former president USA George Bush, Somali pirates, the disappeared 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 home, which was stored in coin albums and numbered 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 tablets in his stolen collection were poisonous.
Irbik authorities did not press charges against him due to a lack of direct evidence. The man said that he no longer hopes to see his amphetamine collection again.
3. Flying... without a plane
Have you ever jumped from a plane with a parachute? And with a parachute, or without a plane, in a wingsuit, soaring like a bird above the ground?
Wingsuits appeared in the early 1930s and were made of canvas and whale bone, which naturally had a negative impact on the duration, range and safety of the flight.
Modern wingsuits began to be developed in the mid-1990s. Thanks to their improved design, they allow the athlete to travel tens of kilometers through the air (the current record is just over 27 km) when falling from a height of 5,000 meters.
Purchasing 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, completed 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. What if you combine it with rock climbing, snowboarding and others? extreme species sports? “Nonsense,” you say. But no!
It all started in 1997, when a resident of the East Midlands (region in England) named Phil Shaw was given a choice: stay at home and do his favorite thing - ironing - or go rock climbing with friends. Being a completely sensible person, Shaw decided to combine both, therefore, in addition to climbing equipment, he also took with him an ironing board and an iron. This is how 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 in the middle of busy highways.
5. Participation in dog trimming competitions
People who take part in dog grooming competitions “abuse” the poor animals as much as they want. What can I say?! Judge for yourself:
6. News bombing
Some people make history, while others are constantly trying to “get noticed” in news reports, just at the moment when this story is being conveyed to the audience. These background characters are called “news bombers.”
The man who is captured in all the frames presented below is London resident Paul Yarrow. Over the course of several years, he managed to appear in many reports from such well-known television companies as the BBC, al Jazeera, Sky News and others.
Yarrow finds out about the places from which the live broadcast will be broadcast, comes there, and while the correspondent talks on camera about the events that took place, he simply stands in the background, not disturbing anyone.
7. Trainsurfing (travel outside trains)
Trainsurfing originated in Germany in the 1980s and from there spread throughout to the globe. Its essence is to find a train - the faster the better - jump on it and, probably, die after that. What other consequences can we expect from such a dangerous undertaking?
In 2008, more than 40 people, mostly young, died from train jumping in Germany.
Hobby - favorite activity, which 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 previous ones. This hobby has gained its followers, as evidenced by photographs of other huge colorful balls.
3. Charity
Charity has long become almost the main hobby powerful of the world this, 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
Such a hobby in lately became 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 White House carve a pumpkin for Halloween. At Ray's house huge collection a variety of figures and faces: funny, sad, and sometimes quite scary.
6. Drawings in the sand
Jim Denevan American artist and the cook, famous for drawing beautiful and short-lived pictures on 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 to make it yourself famous sculpture with a pencil and a chain it took two and a half years.
8. Paintings made from tape
Dutchman Max Zorn, 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 used to decorate lanterns, other lighting fixtures, as well as the tops of buildings. They resemble scenes from old films. Despite limited color scheme, 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 Saudi Arabia ordered McLane to build a card copy 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 truly strange hobby famous Paul Yarrow from London. 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.
Man is a creative person, always looking for something new and unusual. Each of us has our own hobby. As a rule, this is reading books, writing poems, drawing, composing music, dancing or something like that. But there is extraordinary people who are interested in unusual hobbies.
They go beyond their usual interests, trying to create and show society something unusual that most people could not even think about before. Such people are not divided by gender; the most important difference between them and others is their extraordinary thinking, unusual fantasy and imagination.
Card castles
Who likes to play cards? There will certainly be such people large number. But there are not so many daredevils who dare to build entire castles out of cards. At first, there were several dreamers who decided to build small houses out of boredom, but Brian Berg went further and built entire card castles that were taller than himself. His works were included in the book of records.
Dog tuning
While many people are more or less accustomed to houses of cards, the next unusual hobby is still incomprehensible to many. We are talking about dog grooming, or rather about their tuning, which is done abroad. There are salons for grooming four-legged animals in many cities, but here we are not talking about a simple haircut, but about expressing your imagination. The most important thing is the consent of the dog owner, and professionals bring their ideas to life, doing something unimaginable with their four-legged clients. This is the most striking example of combining work with a hobby, which, apparently, brings a lot of pleasure. 
Pumpkin carving
People who are interested in carving pumpkins do it not only on Halloween, but on regular days too. Ray Willafen with early childhood began to engage in this unusual hobby. After wood carving, working with the pumpkin went like clockwork. He manages to make truly unusual things from this ordinary vegetable. 
Drawings on dirty cars
It turns out that you can paint not only on canvases and walls, but also on dirty cars. The main tools are dirty car glass and brushes, and voila - the drawing is ready. You can depict anything on such a “canvas”: from majestic castles to portraits. 
Sand drawings
Of all the images, sand paintings are perhaps the most short-lived. They look amazing though. This art is practiced by real professionals, because drawing on sand is not so easy. The first person who decided to engage in such drawings was Jim Denevan, a self-taught artist, but his masterpieces still delight many to this day. 
Images of nails
It would seem that artists paint with everything else, but only Marcus Levin thought of depicting a picture with nails. Today this Briton has many followers who create unusual paintings with just the help of nails. This work is hard and painstaking, because one small but incorrectly hammered nail can ruin the whole picture. 
Pencil sculptures
There are many miniature masters in the world who create their masterpieces on the points of pencils. The founder of such art is Dalton Getty, who for a long time cuts unusual things out of pencils. 
Here are the most unusual hobbies that cause a storm of emotions and delight among those around you. Or maybe you have also heard about some non-standard hobbies?
