I love impossible objects. I've been obsessed with them since discovering them in the late 90s. Eng is a legend in the field.
My favorite part of this hobby is that no one will tell you how they made their bottles unless you're a fellow bottle maker. The whole point is to encourage people to try their own ideas.
I was inspired to make a number of these myself out of curiosity. I used to email these guys as a teenager and exchange techniques.
Deck of cards in a bottle is really fun and impressive. Total mind f. The ones with the cellophane wrapper still in are just great.
http://bottlemagic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Cards-in-B...
Rubik's cube in a jar is a great one.
http://images.penguinmagic.com/images/products/original/1258...
And I think my favorite of all, the baseball in the salsa jar. Maybe my favorite art object in the world.
http://bottlemagic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MLB-in-Sal...
Also a really fun conversation piece to have on a desk or at home. You have no idea how angry people get when you won't confirm or deny their theories and tell them to try it themselves. No you can't just push the baseball in by force.
Just to give you an idea of how insane these people are in their quest. It is said that Eng invented a tiny vice that could be disassembled, fed piece by piece into a bottle and reassembled inside. A bent coin would be fed through the neck of the bottle and the vice would be used to unbend the coin inside the bottle. The vice is then disassembled and removed.
My favorite part of this hobby is that no one will tell you how they made their bottles unless you're a fellow bottle maker. The whole point is to encourage people to try their own ideas.
I was inspired to make a number of these myself out of curiosity. I used to email these guys as a teenager and exchange techniques.
Deck of cards in a bottle is really fun and impressive. Total mind f. The ones with the cellophane wrapper still in are just great.
http://bottlemagic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Cards-in-B...
Rubik's cube in a jar is a great one.
http://images.penguinmagic.com/images/products/original/1258...
And I think my favorite of all, the baseball in the salsa jar. Maybe my favorite art object in the world.
http://bottlemagic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MLB-in-Sal...
Also a really fun conversation piece to have on a desk or at home. You have no idea how angry people get when you won't confirm or deny their theories and tell them to try it themselves. No you can't just push the baseball in by force.
Just to give you an idea of how insane these people are in their quest. It is said that Eng invented a tiny vice that could be disassembled, fed piece by piece into a bottle and reassembled inside. A bent coin would be fed through the neck of the bottle and the vice would be used to unbend the coin inside the bottle. The vice is then disassembled and removed.