By Vurdlak on April 29, 2006, with 212 Comments
Am not sure what’s the name of the artist who does these, but he surely made me wonder! I mean, this wouldn’t be so complicated if you sliced the bottles bottom off and simply insereted all these objects inside, but as I understood he makes them in a regullar way placing everything through bottle’s neck. How is it done? Can someone help me solve this? Oh, and if you have any ideas about the author or his website, post it here so I can give him some credits, because he obviously deserves some! Previously I posted “Impossible Objects no.3″ which you’ll adore if you liked this new post.
(23 votes)
maybe… the bottles were split in half to get the objects inside, then somehow put back together with the seams on the sides so we can’t see them. it makes sense to me, at first I agreed with derk, but that wouldn’t explain the decks of cards hanging from a rope attached to the cover.
Are the bottles extra large so the items fit through the neck easily, but then filled with water to make them appear larger?
Lodge87, I think you just figured it out. I mean, almost everything that’s inside water looks bigger, so, maybe, that’s it. And, b4 everyone asks about the card decks, they’re protected by a plastic (duh!), so the water doesn’t destroy it…
Cheers!
Oh, and in the 9th one, probably the bottle WAS cut in half — horizontally-wise — for there is a slightly visible red line above the “bicycle” word in the card deck.
Cheers (again)!
No water, no cutting the bottle… no real tricks. We assume when we see the items in the bottle that they were put in the bottle whole. The cards are taken out, the box curved and put back together with essentially long skinny pliers, but not really pliers. The knots are all tied inside the bottles. Rubik’s cubes can be taken apart. The bolts, etc. are all put in after the item is in the bottle. Scissors are put in in two pieces. The shoes have very soft soles and can be bent easily, just like the language books. Also the tennis balls all have small holes poked in them, have basketball needles inserted, then are deflated, put in the bottle, and inflated.
Ahaha, franx,
Those red lines,
Are part of the bicycle deck cards,
You’ve obviously never held an unopened pack of cards before,
That red line is to tear open the plastic.
Haha Franx,
You’ve obviously never bought or held and unopened pack of Bicycle cards,
That red line is to help you tear open the plastic
maybe the person who did this cut open the back of the bottle and puts in the items. Then takes the picture from the front.
They just filled the bottles with water to make everything look bigger… Duh and you just put plastic covers over the objects that have paper. It took me a while to figure out though well done!
there’s no bottom to the bottle, duh!
Then explain the reflection of the cards in the second to last one.
Similar to what other people said, we only assume that the items in the jar are like the items they represent. The washer may not be steel, the box of cards may be empty, the book may not have real pages in it, the tennis balls may be cut in the back, the shoes may have softer soles. Also have you seen the egg in a small necked beaker trick. With the right physics and force larger objects can be coerced into a seemingly too small container. I also agree with the “ship in a bottle theory’. things being assembled inside the container.
And to “Anonymous says:
August 16, 2007 at 3:12 pm”
Who said
“Ok.
1) Learn to spell.
2) Proofread. ”
Climb off your high throne and realize your farts stinks just like the rest of us. I am quite sure you are not all knowing, all seeing, and all powerful. And the fact that you refused to identify yourself proves that you are insecure that you don’t want to be challenged. You speak as if you are better than all yet you say things that have been posted before as if you where the first to write them. Also not everyone in the entire world speaks English as a primary language and if I am not mistaken the writer of this blog doesn’t either. So many of them try to post n English for the sake of ignorant people like yourself who can’t speak their language so you too can understand the post. They may not be able to follow all the grammar rules and spelling posed by our language. So either give them a break, be more understanding, or if you can’t, keep your nasty little critical posts to yourself because you aren’t better than all and no one cares about the ignorant criticisms you make.
These are all objects that can be foldedm compressed, or disassembled and re-assembled once inside the bottle. Similar to how a ship in a bottle is done (when someone isn’t cheating and cutting the bottle – and it’s easy to tell when that was done. Even the Rubik’s cube can be taken apart into small enough pieces to fit into a bottle and then re-assembled with the right tools and a LOT of patience. The (pre-drilled) card decks would have to be re-filled a few cards at a time, and the bolt added inside the bottle. Tennis balls, flat soled shoes, and pocket dictionaries can be compressed or rolled small enough to force into a bottle. Soft metal can be bent and re-formed with tools. Tying the knots is probably one of the more frustrating parts of the endeavor. I admire the patience required to construct these.
In soma cases, its possible to put the stuff in pieces, stuff them into the bottle, and reconstruct them inside. But the tennis ball bottle is weird…..
First the stuff is placed into a bottle, than the bottom of the bottle is fastened somehow. There is no other way!
First the stuff is located into the bottle which still does not have a bottom and then the bottom is fastened. There is no another way!
maybe hes an incredible painter
If one more person says they cut the bottom off I’m gonna beat the hell out of them!
To all the people saying that these bottles are fakes, I can assure you they are real!!!!!
You can make them, buy them, see them and touch them but you still don’t believe they are real, but I bet you believe in god that you can not touch, see, buy or make. But you pray to him and some even say he talks to them. Hmmm imaginary friends talking to you there is a name for this disease its schizophrenia.
The artist I believe is Harry Eng. The 6th image down has his signature think logo. There is such ignorance here.
This is not fake or anything….I’ve seen people do similar stuffs. It’s not complicated, but yeh its hard to do it…
He disassemble the parts of the objects, put it one by one inside the bottle, and starts rebuilding the objects inside of it with tweezers…Like the Rubix Cube, all parts are taken off, then he inserts the center of the cube, then starts inserting and rebuilding it piece by piece…. The same methode used to build those Ships inside bottles
Ryan is the only one with the correct answer. All the items in the bottles could either be stuffed in, or assembled inside the bottles using jewelers pliers or glass blowing tongs (basically really long tweezers). Cutting the bottle open then resealing it is not possible, the temperatures needed to fuse glass would burn or melt just about anything inside.The only one I’m having trouble figuring out is the new sealed decks of cards. Bending the deck to stuff it in would ruin the box or tear the plastic covering and since the little red seal strip is still in tact he didn’t take the cards out, put the box in, and then put the cards back in the box. Reminds me of all those ships in bottles. Good stuff!
Aaron & Ryan, you got it….The “Sealed” deck…Well, Slice the top of the plastic, Take cards out. Insert box, cards one by one, Glue/tape/Reseal the box….Tada!!! Takes plenty time and patience and STILL VERY impressive works. Two thumbs up…
hmm this one does perplex me. i do agree that most of the object can be re assembled. the only one is the deck of cards and the lock. you might have noticed that in one of the pic it can easily fit (5th) but the one above it is in a diffently. the box top is to small and the lock its self is tilted which means it bigger then what you would expect. i have a buddy in lock smithing that (after i showed him) said that key locks like that are nearly impossible to take apart when assembled. he would have had to buy the the parts completely seperate and then some how reassembled it, that being if he can get the 2 halfs of the lock to go in. the locks half are still bigger then the bottle and to top it all of he would have a hard time turning it around if he went in sideways with the half the lock due the the book beneath it. also im going to have to disprove the water theory. have you ever put a rope in water? Its turns black. so the color of the rope would not look like that if there was said water in there.
possible explanation- if you have ever seen the sidewalk artist and how he can design a painting on the sidewalk so realistic that a hole he drew, in the right way, made people come at it think that it was real and step around the whole. soon to find out when they past it that it was a chalk drawing. i think somthing like that could be used in the situation but still.
other explanation- possible reassembly.
still bravo the the artist/craftman/god who created this work of art. Funny that we dont know who he (or for that matter if it is a he) is, so we cant ever find out his secret.
I just came across this thread, and am quite amused by some of the explanations! I am a UK-based impossible bottle maker. You can see some of my work at:
http://www.impossiblebottle.co.uk
I can assure you that all of the items inside my bottles have been put through the neck. I do not cut, melt or tamper with the bottles at all.
All the best,
Phil
Nice, but they ain’t worth £60.
Those are wicked cool…I want one!
yeah,the things aren’t inside,they’re behind the bottle!
HOW ARE THEY FIT?
For all of you who keep commenting on the fact that the objects are NOT in the bottle, I wish you’d all stop. You’re NOT thinking.
First, the bottles would NOT be anything special is the objects were simply put behind the bottle. Secondly, EVERYTHING inside of the bottles went in through the neck. The bottles have NOT been cut, heated or manipulated in any way, shape or form.
If you’d like proof, PLEASE visit my website at http://www.bottlemagic.com I’ve been making these bottles for over 10 years now. I’ve been following in the footsteps of the most famous Impossible Bottle maker Harry Eng. I’ve duplicated 6 of his bottles already.
Thanks for your time. I would LOVE to hear your comments.
PS – The 3 bottles with Bicycle decks of cards inside the Mistic Juice (with the black background) bottles are my creations.
The guy that does it. His name is Merlin Dunlop.
Easy. Glass+time+object=object-in-a bottle
I’m wondering if it’s trompe l’oeil, and the objects are painted on the inside of the bottles?? and then for some (like the rope knot outside the neck) there’s also outside props?
Heat the neck of the bottle to where it expands. The boxes of cards are necessarily full, but just assembled inside the bottle. Shows bend and squish A LOT, and paper can be rolled. Tennis balls compress a huge amount after they’ve been allowed to deflate, and the rope is easily compressed to fit inside the bottles neck. If you haven’t noticed most of the objects aren’t much bigger than the entrance to the bottle. the scissors are just assemble inside the bottle again. I’ve seen a local glass blower build a few and it’s impressive to learn how to do it yourself. It’s done on the principal of heat expansion.
also if you look closely, there is evidence of the bottle necks warping a small tiny bit(easiest to be seen in the scissor bottle, the small deformities of the light on the neck)
Just saw the sports magicians website. Very interesting that you did that without heating. I have never been able to with certain objects(most wooden balls noticeably)
dude. there’s only one possible solution other than bending the stuff or using smaller ones….they LOOK like they’re larger than the neck but they’re actually closer to the camera.
Most likely, the deck of cards is an empty box that was flattened, curled a bit, inserted into the bottle, and, using long nosed tweezers, reassembled. Same with the scissors, which were probably disassembled and inserted, one piece at at time into the bottle and reassembled. Something similar has probably been done to all the bottles.
hmmm…
wait… there is no blottle, ujst a piece of glass!!
curvedone!yea!
This is trick object it just looks like this from this angle
fitting that stuff in isnt half as amazing as how amazing it is to have made that glass container into texactly the sahep and size as they wanted to make it in also whys the newest comment on the bottom xD
Some of you here are so dumb! It’s no wonder the rest of the world thinks all Americans are stupid! I’m ashamed to share my fifty states with you. People, the objects are all inserted through the neck of the bottle. No they won’t fit by trying to just cram them in! Each item is taken apart, put in piece by piece, and then reassembled. Think about it, long skinny tweezers, wires, and glue! Cards and card boxes are rolled up like the joint you just smoked then put in and unrolled with the tools. It’s only patience and logic that gets this done! Not cutting the bottle, heating it, or trick photography!
awesome!!
ex……lent……
wow i get it thats pretty cool i like looking AT THIS
The scissors is the only object I can figure out. Possibly the tennis balls, but the rubiks cube?!
Oh, oh Igot this one!! the jars have no bottoms! therefore, you could stuff it in through th bottom, them set it down!!
These have to be behind the bottle!! Right?