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We love unusual art!

Here’s some of the most interesting from our blogs and our best-seller book, Dare To Look!

Stylish Thumbs

Artist who goes by Dito Von Tease started making famous faced on his index finger when he wanted to use a finger portrait to conceal his identity on Facebook!

Mr. T , Spock, and Steve Jobs

Weather or Not!

Artist Berndnaut Smilde’s work is called Nimbus. The cloud looks real because it is! Using a fog machine and water spray he creates and has to capture these clouds in a matter of seconds before they disappear.

Nimbus Art by Berndnaut Smilde

Miniature Food Adventures

Seattle photographer, Christopher Boffoli captures little adventures with tiny people interacting with food. We find them pretty funny!

Milk Kayaking

Real Life Marge Simpson

Alexander Khokhlov is an amazing photographer who likes to push the limits of hair and makeup to achieve truly UNBELIEVABLE looks! Check out the blog.

Images courtesy of Alexander Khokhlov

Cardboard Box Office

Lilly and Leon had an overabundance of cardboard boxes after moving, and due to their bouncing baby boy, plenty of housebound weekends.

To make their stay-at-home time a bit more fun, they started to recreate famous movie scenes using their leftover cardboard and other household objects.

Cardboard Box Office: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Vomit Art

Millie Brown is a “Vomit Artist” and she’s been featured in our books, the Ripley BION blog, and most recently a Lady Gaga Performance at SXSW.

Millie-Brown Vomit Artist

 

DO YOU DARE TO LOOK?

Read and see more about other extraordinary stories, crazy photos and unbelievable facts in our weirdest and best selling annual yet! Dare To Look!

We see some weird fashion statements here at Ripley’s and we write a lot about fashion in our Ripleys Book and Blog! Here’s the weirdest and most surprising fashion statements we’ve seen recently!

Here’s some of the most interesting from our book, Dare To Look!

Genuine Kobi Levi Shoes

Sporting this Israli designer around town is a must if you want to catch attention. As the saying I just made up goes: You don’t forget someone with bananas for shoes.

Kobi Levi Banana Shoes

Kobi Levi Gum Heels

Nails Like Diamonds

Just $250,000 for this miniscule bottle of nail polish makes it a must! But this is no regular nail polish: It’s made of diamonds. The nail polish contains 267 carats of diamonds.

Only one bottle ever made.

These Boots…

We blogged on these denture shoes from Dare To Look! before. They must grip really well though!

I’m Not Sure These Shoes Were Made For Walking

The Latest in Cocktail Dress Technology

Yes, cocktail dress technology! Scientists from the University of Western Australia teams up with designer Donna Franklin to make the ultimate fashion statement—a dress made out of wine!

By adding special bacteria to the wine and allowing the mixture to ferment, the team was able to take the resulting skin and arrange it to dry on a mannequin.

Once dry, the dress is ready for a night on the town!

Midnight Planetarium

Sure your watch tells the time and date of EARTH but how simple and unnecessary is that? There’s tons of other dates and planets in our solar system. Why keep track of just Earth because you live here?

 

 

Masaya Kushino Shoes

Looking for something comfy to wear around the house? Look no further.

Masaya Kushino is a Japanese designer with an odd aesthetic when it comes to footwear. His latest series is called Bird-Witched. He drew is avian inspiration from the 18th century painter, Jakuchu Ito.

How do you even put these on?

Fordite: Jewelry Made of 1920s Car Paint

The material is called Fordite or sometimes Detroit Agate and it isn’t manufactured anywhere anymore. It doesn’t come from the earth like copper or silver; In fact, this material may be even be more rare than diamonds!

Stingray Shoes

Dutch designers made an elaborate hoax out of their new line of shoes by claiming to be a Thai company that would make you custom designed shoes by mixing and matching stingray DNA! How were they really made? Simple paint.

Susie MacMurray Dresses

Susie MacMurray is a British artist who makes avant-garde sculptural installations from crazy objects! Her latest sculpture dress is made out of 1400 household gloves turned inside out.

Dress made from 10,000 fuschia pink balloons

Dress made from 43 kg of adamantine dressmakers pins

Dress made from 15,000 metallic blue balloons

 

DO YOU DARE TO LOOK?

Read and see more about other extraordinary stories, crazy photos and unbelievable facts in our weirdest and best selling annual yet! Dare To Look!

Dare To Look! includes the most amazing animals

Here’s some of the most interesting from our book, Dare To Look!

The Glass Frog

We’ve featured the glass frog before and it’s obvious why: It’s amazing!

The Glass Frog has completely clear skin that allows you see all of it’s internal organs and even through the frog!

Corpse Carrier

The assassin bug of Malaysia carries at least 20 dead ants on its back to make itself look bigger and more intimidating!

Orb Weaver Spider

This Orb Weaver spider spins webs in intricate geometric patterns. How cool is nature!?

The Zookeepers hatched a plan: Playing Barry White music at night

Barry White for Pink Flamingos

When Drusillas Zoo Park in Sussex, England was having trouble getting their Chilean Flamingos to mate the zookeepers hatched a plan: Playing Barry White music at night.

Their seemingly silly plan resulted in the first flamingo chick the zoo had in three years!

Barry White is just that good.

Bird of a Great Many Feathers

In Zhengzhou, China: This bird’s feathers don’t stop growing like other birds, leaving him covered in layers of fluffy feathers!

My Pet Shark

Eli Martinez has made friends with one of the most dangerous sharks species in the world: Tiger Sharks. He has trained them to flip over and even give him high-fives as they swim past.

DO YOU DARE TO LOOK?

Read and see more about other extraordinary stories, crazy photos and unbelievable facts in our weirdest and best selling annual yet! Dare To Look!

We’ll Say It Again: Don’t Try These!

Do you have a craving for imminent danger or do you want to prove how far into the extreme you’ll go? These people do, and it’s scary!

Here’s some of the craziest stunts from our book, Dare To Look!

Colchian Swimming

Colchian Swimming is like normal swimming but your hands AND feet are bound together! Ana Lominadze, at only 17, broke a number of records with her swim across the Dardanelles Strait!

Climbing 120 Feet, with no tools!

The 120ft fissure in the Canyonlands National Park is infamous because its size is too wide to use normal climbing tools. Instead, Randall and Whittaker had to stick arms, hands, and even legs into the crack to climb up!

Real Life Hotwheels

Drivers Greg Tracy and Tanner Foust raced through a racetrack with a six-story double vertical loop reaching speeds as high as 50 miles per hours!

To stay on the loop the car and drivers experienced as much as 7Gs of g-force even upside down. That’s so much that they had to take similar precautions to fighter jet pilots to make sure they don’t black out!

The Sharp Ends

The Chinese martial art Qigong teaches the body to relax so that no pain is felt. To demonstrate, these Shaolin monks balance on the tips of sharp spears!

Getting over the Hump

The sport of the Tehama region is jumping over camels. Specifically jumping over many camels at once! Bhaydar Muhammed Kubaisi here jumps over three camels in one jump!

Rope Jumping

This crazy sport which has become known with thousands of young Russians involves jumping from mountains and bridges with nothing but a tight rope.

Want to make it even more dangerous? Add a snowboard!

 

DO YOU DARE TO LOOK?

Read and see more about other extraordinary stories, crazy photos and unbelievable facts in our weirdest and best selling annual yet! Dare To Look!

We’ll Say It Again: Don’t Try These!

Do you have a craving for imminent danger or do you want to prove how far into the extreme you’ll go? These people do, and it’s scary!

Here’s some of the craziest stunts from our book, Dare To Look!

Colchian Swimming

Colchian Swimming is like normal swimming but your hands AND feet are bound together! Ana Lominadze, at only 17, broke a number of records with her swim across the Dardanelles Strait!

Climbing 120 Feet, with no tools!

The 120ft fissure in the Canyonlands National Park is infamous because its size is too wide to use normal climbing tools. Instead, Randall and Whittaker had to stick arms, hands, and even legs into the crack to climb up!

Real Life Hotwheels

Drivers Greg Tracy and Tanner Foust raced through a racetrack with a six-story double vertical loop reaching speeds as high as 50 miles per hours!

To stay on the loop the car and drivers experienced as much as 7Gs of g-force even upside down. That’s so much that they had to take similar precautions to fighter jet pilots to make sure they don’t black out!

The Sharp Ends

The Chinese martial art Qigong teaches the body to relax so that no pain is felt. To demonstrate, these Shaolin monks balance on the tips of sharp spears!

Getting over the Hump

The sport of the Tehama region is jumping over camels. Specifically jumping over many camels at once! Bhaydar Muhammed Kubaisi here jumps over three camels in one jump!

Rope Jumping

This crazy sport which has become known with thousands of young Russians involves jumping from mountains and bridges with nothing but a tight rope.

Want to make it even more dangerous? Add a snowboard!

 

DO YOU DARE TO LOOK?

Read and see more about other extraordinary stories, crazy photos and unbelievable facts in our weirdest and best selling annual yet! Dare To Look!

You Sure You Want To Say ‘I Do?’

Weddings are crazy all on their own. You have in-laws, drunk uncles, and a thousand details to worry about. However, these brides and grooms added a touch of extra crazy to their nuptials.

Here are 4 of the craziest weddings featured in our latest book, Dare to Look!

Bridal Race

100 prospective brides donned wedding dresses and running shoes to take part in a 150-meter race in Belgrade, Serbia, with the winner earning a free wedding dress.

 

Underwater Wedding

More than 200 SCUBA divers attending the wedding of Alberto dal Lago and Karla Munguia, which took place 16 feet UNDERWATER! The judge who officiated had to get a SCUBA certification in order to conduct the ceremony.

Wife Selling

Up until 1857, it was legal for a British husband to sell his wife. The going rate was $4,550, which is equivalent to $335,000 today.

Rescue Wedding

An avalanche survivor married her mountain rescuer. The ceremony took place 6,000 feet up on the very mountain where he rescued her.

 

DO YOU DARE TO LOOK?

Read and see more about other extraordinary stories, crazy photos and unbelievable facts in our weirdest and best selling annual yet! Dare To Look!

Man makes the weirdest things

They say necessity is the mother of invention. Well, I’m not sure if any of these following creations are necessary, but they certainly are spectacular!

Here are 6 of the craziest man made constructs featured in our latest book, Dare to Look!

Suspended Potty

A luxury penthouse in Guadalajara, Mexico has a a toilet suspended on a glass floor above a 15-story abandoned elevator shaft. It makes for an interesting view while you are doing your business!

Hand-Chiseled Tunnel

It used to be the only way to reach Guoliang Village in China was to take 720 steep steps. Unhappy with this arrangement, 14 villagers banded together and hand-chiseled a 4,100-ft-long tunnel that is 360 ft up a cliff face.

• No electricity or heavy machinery

• Took 5 years to construct

• Used 10 tons of drill rods

• Went through 4,000 hammers

Knit Hotel

The Hotel Pelirocco in Brighton, England has a room where EVERYTHING is made from wool, including: vase of flowers, curtains, toothbrush and toothpaste.

Kate Jenkins made it using 11lbs of wool. She also crocheted the bedspread, and covers for the phone, lampshade, teapot and cup.

Scary Pool

The glass-bottomed pool at a Holiday Inn in Shanghai, China hangs over a 24-story drop, and lets swimmers peer to the street below while they are taking a dip.

Snail House

A five-story house in Bulgaria was designed to look like a giant snail!

Bed that makes itself

Spanish furniture maker OHEA makes a “smart bed” that actually makes itself!

DO YOU DARE TO LOOK?

Read and see more about other extraordinary stories, crazy photos and unbelievable facts in our weirdest and best selling annual yet! Dare To Look!

We Encourage You To Play With Your Food

We love weird art, we love weird foods, so it just makes sense that when you combine weird food with weird art, it’s going to make into our latest Ripley’s Believe It or Not! book.

Here are 4 of the most fantastic food art featured in our latest book, Dare to Look!

Say Cheese!

In 2012 Jason Baalman made portraits of then competing Presidential candidates, Barack Obamaa and Mitt Romney.

Jason didn’t use paint, crayons, or colored pencils. No, he used over 2,000 Cheetos!

Coke Wave

Phil Hansen boiled 24 liters of Coca-Cola and took over seven hours to create this fizzy replica of Japanese artist Katsuskhika Hokusai’s painting Great Wave Off Kanagawa.

 

Bone Idol

U.K. butcher Tony Dunphy uses materials from his day job to make pop art. Seen here is a portrait of Amy Winehouse made form meat and bones.

The snozberries taste like snozberries

Wallpaper with 1,325 lickable chocolate and orange flavored stickers was pasted on to an elevator in London.

Germaphobe? No worries, each sticker would be replaced by an attendant after it was licked.

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We announced our newest book at the London Book Fair this week!

Reality Shock! is over 250 pages of page-turning fun!

 

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Jumps From the Pages

We featured Ramon Bruin on our blog and in our last annual Dare to Look! for his AMAZING 3D drawings.

You get a real sense of how realistic his 3D work is when he adds props like pencils, erasers, and his hand.Ramon makes his spectacular drawings using just everyday pencils flat, white paper, and an airbrushing technique he calls “anamorphosis.”

Ramon has an active fan base on Facebook where he regularly posts his latest creations.

We recently caught up with Ramon to see what new creations he has come up with.

 

From our best seller: DARE TO LOOK!

ENJOY THE AWESOMENESS!

Images courtesy of Ramon Bruin. For more of his work, please visit his Facebook page.

DO YOU DARE TO LOOK?

Read and see more about other extraordinary stories, crazy photos and unbelievable facts in our weirdest and best selling annual yet! Dare To Look!