Walking On Air

An Uygur tightrope walker spent a long 37 days and nights living on a 100-ft high wire stretched across a dam in Nanjing, China, in May 2005.  Thirty-two-year-old Aisikaier comes from a family of high-wire walkers and had spent 26 days on a wire in 2004, but this time he managed to stay up longer.  He spent his nights in a makeshift shelter attached to the thick wire. To kill time and alleviate the boredom during the day, he performed daring hula-hoop, unicycle, and balancing tricks.  The only contact he had with the world below was via his cell phone, which he used so that he could answer questions about his feat, or talk to fans.

Same?1?

Two Lauras
In June 2001, when Laura Buxton, from Staffordshire, England, released a balloon at her tenth birthday party, it traveled 140 miles before being found in Wiltshire, England, by another ten-year-old girl, Laura Buxton!  Not only did the girls share the same name and age, but they discovered they also had the same color and owned the same kinds of pet - a dog, a guinea pig, and a rabbit.

Same Birthday
Four generations of one family from Brisbane, Australia, share the same birthday - August 1.  Norma Steindi was born on August 1, 1915; her son Leigh on August 1, 1945; Leigh's daughter, Suzanna on August 1, 1973; and Suzanna's son Emmanuel on August 1, 2003.

Sam the Ugliest Dog

 

In June 2005, a 14-year old Chinese crested pedigree dog named Sam, won the title that no dog wants -- World's Ugliest Dog.  And this was the third running that Sam had won the title.  Until his death in November 2005, Sam was famous for his ugliness.  He was pale-eyed and wrinkled, had a withered neck, and appeared to have almost no hair.

Horrible and Gruesome Looking But Edible Breads

Kittiwat Unarrom is a Thai Fine Art student and artist.  He is also the son of a baker. Inspired and informed by anatomy books and visits to forensic museums, he made sure to make bread designed after almost every part of the human body such as the feet, hands, and internal organs which are even displayed impaled on hooks to make them look real - of course to make it more morbid, he added blood with the use of food coloring.

Made from dough, raisins, cashew nuts, and chocolate, all of the works on display are totally edible.

 Sold at his family's bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand, he displays the parts wrapped like food in plastic and hung from meat hooks. Apparently, the art is in fact edible and tastes like regular bread but the looks are really gruesome they might make most of you throw over before thinking of sampling those human-body-parts bread!

 

 

 

I wouldn't say they're yummy.  They're gross!!!

Henry Lizardlover and the Lizard Loungers

Henry Lizardlover shares his Hollywood home with 35 lizards and takes amazing pictures of them in human poses.  He loves them so much he even changed his name for them! The reason he changed his surname is because he resented the stereotype that the lizards are creepy-crawly and evil, and felt that by taking that name he was making himself a part of the lizard family.

 

 

Awesome!

Henry Lizardlover shared his house with the lizards since 1981 with separate rooms for the lizards.  His favorite is of Hasbro, an iguana he used to have, holding a guitar and singing into a microphone.

Hasbro, the iguana

Romantic lizards!

Henry Lizardlover and his pet lizards

Six-Legged Calf

A six-legged calf

Mike, the Headless Chicken and Koopa the Turtle Artist

 Mike, the Headless Chicken

Farmer Lloyd Olsen chopped of 5 1/2 month-old Mike's head with an ax in readiness for the cooking pot, but the headless rooster continued pecking for food around the farm at Fruita, Colorado.
He was spared and was fed grain and water with an eyedropper.

Koopa, the Turtle Artist

Koopa, the turtle, owned by US artist Kira Varszegi, has sold more than 100 pieces of his own artwork.  He creates the paintings by covering his underbelly in paint and sliding around on a canvas.  The works usually sell for around $135 a piece.