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.
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Maybe an idea 2: next time make a movie of the things inside, proving that the bottle had no holes on the back of bottom ^^ ?
Guys, It’s not that hard, just really, really fiddly. Sailors have been making ships in bottles for centuries. You put small parts in through the neck and glue them together inside, using long tweezers, long pliers, bits of wire etc. Look at all the items in these bottles, they can all be broken down into small bits, or rolled up. The bottles all have reasonably wide necks. Eg, the scissors, taken apart at the pivot pin could be put in as single long, thin pieces and put back together and superglued in place inside. Cards and book pages can be rolled up, inserted and then flattened out and reassembled. Even the big flat washer could be rolled up if it was made of soft aluminium, which it looks like, then flattened out inside using long, thin mechanics pliers. Likewise the knots can be tied inside the same way. Like I said, really, really fiddly. But not impossible.
To all those saying there is no backs on the bottles look here http://www.puzzleworld.org/PuzzleWorld/puz/one_gallon_jug_2_eng.htm This shows various angles of the same bottle
Hello all, I am currently a Engineering Physics major and I hope to work for NASA in a few years. I have always been interested in science and illusions. When I saw theses bottles I just had to figure out how it was done. I my self have achieved the card deck and pocket dictionary in a bottle. At first he challenge seemed daunting until I realized something. If I took all the cards out of the box and carefully disassembled the box I could reassemble the box in the bottle. After that the cards were very easy to get in (simple bend) and placed inside the reassembled box. The wrapper of the card box could then be placed back over the box and carefully glued on. I also took all the pages out of the pocket dictionary placed the cover back in and painstakingly placed the pages back in. I do not know if this is the method used by the amazing artist but it certainly worked for me. As for the other objects I am positive of one thing, they are disassembled and reassembled but I have destroyed many a shoe trying to put it back together. This is one very interesting art from and I applaud the people who have achieved mastering it. I will post again if I make any headway on other objects.
Hi the names Ryan, Jeff i love your work and would like to become an Impossible Bottle maker. The cork screw in bottle one is amazing. I also loved your Tri-dekta bottle. I found your mistic Gypsy witch botle intresting. But before i can become a Impossible Bottle maker i will have to figure out the secret behing it lol :P . Jeff maybe you can help me. My email is http://www.PlasmaTiger@hotmail.com. Thanks
I just read all of the comments (quite a few)
i have to ask people something:
How on earth could people like jeff be selling the bottles if they where fotoshopped or some kind of trick bottles? please think about that one.
It is strange to read the comments for some of the more complexe illusions on this site (wich i have been following for some time now)
sometimes it seems like people dont even like illusions, wich really makes me wonder what they are doing here in the first place.
but i too conclude that all of the items have been taken apart or squeased in some way to fit into the bottle.
i am not going to be giving out anytheories.. people will have to think for themselves.
The artist staked the items carfuly in the shape of the bottle then put the bottle picture over it. : > )
Come on Jeff, just tell us how it’s done! LoL. I know you can’t reveal your secrets, but these impossible bottles are so freaking cool… and confusing! I want to know!
Ok so the stuff in bottles thing is pretty amazing. But what is TRULY mind-boggling here are the hordes and hordes of stupid, bull-headed, and ridiculously repetitive people that comment on them…if the first 25 people say the bottle has no back, do you REALLY think that you saying the bottle has no back is going to change any other reader’s opinion? FFS people, if you are going to be difficult and critical AT LEAST BE CREATIVE! And to the maker of these bottles – looks great, send me a free one and if you’re telling the truth, I’ll back you up!
you can reseal the bottle by heating up the glass take a bottle half made then put stuff inside and then heat up the glass and melt the the halves together
Maybe the back of the bottle has been cut off and the items placed inside from the back. then, so they don’t fall out, they are held in by being pushed up against that black wall.
There done by computer graphics, only some are not. Look at the shadows in the one with the tennis shoe. on the book is different. the know is stichking out of the glass and the top part of the heel also. the bottom half of the glass is trnsparent more that the rest. If you take a piture of objects and of a glass and use computer software you can make things apear in side.
Wow….
Some obsesive compusive people are sitting there staring at thier computer as they realize that the rubix cube’s edge is not aligned with the rest, and that it will neer, ever be fixed.
=’(
*a tear shed for all those OCD people out there*
u cant see the backs of the bottles in any of the pics there could be holes on the backsides that u jus cant see cuz the things in side are all bloking ur view of the back of the bottle
I think that theres no glass on the other side.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_bottle
The assumption that most people take for granted is that the bottle is made of glass. Knowing the properties of true glass makes it ‘impossible’ to have objects inside of a bottle that shouldn’t fit. These bottles are not real glass. Repeat. The bottles shown are not composed of glass. You do feel stupid to a point when you see the silicone polymer creations, melted by not much more than a soldering iron, and reshaped after items are inserted, without so much as a flaw to its structural integrity. It may look like glass, but try smashing one to retrieve its contents. You will laugh at its simplicity.
The bottles are not made with real glass. This is the piece of information that most take for granted. Knowing the fragility and physical properties of glass is what makes this illusion ‘impossible’.
Ahh…why are you letting these 13 year olds and 12 year olds show you up? Seriously, if you can buy them, they’re real. If people are able to do it, it’s real. And, how could it be photoshopped?! How can you take a picture of a tennis ball pyramid and expect it to stay up? It’s called gravity, people! By the way, i’m 15. I hope some of you are ashamed with yourseves. You really should be.
By the way, nice bottles. ^_^
your all rong, the only possible explanation is: Magic, duh…
that or they used a shrink ray, shrunk them, then unshrunk them after putting the objects into the bottle. lawl
honesty, i don’t think this is a hoax.
like other ancient puzzle toys. i believe there’s a way in doing it.
if only i have more grey cells in my brains maybe i can do it. lol.
truely amzing.
He’s telekinetic! HA.
you cant see the bottom. they probably have a opeing where the put everything!!!
They have a hole in the bottom of the botte where they stick all the stuff in!!!
Ok.
1) Learn to spell.
2) Proofread.
3) Don’t repeat what someone else has said as if you were the first to say it.
4) I have also made these “Impossible Bottles” and I can tell you that it is made with a bottle that used to have product in it that was bought at a regular store (Safeway, Fred Meyer, Kroger…) and emptied of that product. Then the items (yes, the tennis shoe included) are taken apart and painstakingly reassembled. Tennis balls CAN have a hole cut in them and, using simple tools, rolled up and slid into the bottle. When the ball is released, it snaps back to the original shape.
The bottle is not cut, melted or in any other way altered from the way it was when it left the factory. There was no computer generated images or photoshop used. It is not magic or teleportation. It is pure and simple intelligence and ingenuity used in a way that amazes many and pisses off those with minds too small to wrap around the reality of it.
Hiya!
I like these! I think the bottle has either been added on the computer, the objects are behind the bottles or the objects are painted very well on!!!
What do u think of my theories?
To the normal intelligent people reading these comments:
FYI about 80% of the “it’s a Photoshop” or “there’s no back” are just “trolls” (aka socially inept frustrated people who relish the anonymity of internet life) who are repeating the theories and comments of others just to aggravate people, particularly us regular intelligent people, but definitely to aggravate the ones who have posted the facts stating that these are real.
Some people simply want to annoy others, and unfortunately it’s because of the environment in which they were raised, most likely having parents who didn’t do much parenting at all.
Come on… These aren’t fake, it think about it, if they was fake no interesting in it and i don’t think i would be amused to go to a museum whit a fake bottle and some stuff in it?
Its other they made the bottles around the items, or they have a slide out bottom.
Hey, Im back!!!! And with conclusive proof to prove u all wrong. Copy/Paste my Flickr link,read it thoroughly, and prepare to be amazed…..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16512917@N08/1769715596/#preview
I think some things may have been dissasembled.. but its also a possiblity tht some of the knots and stuff could have had an acid on them?? somthing to shrink them until they were inside? idk just a though
so….they dissassembled a pair of shoes, a deck of cards, a mini dictionary and a bunch of tennis balls and then put them back together??? I don’t think so….explanations aren’t always that simple.
Here’s the likely methods (from easiest to hardest):
Tennis Balls – deflate outside, inflate inside. easy.
Deck of cards – put in a kiln outside till malleable, roll into a tube shape (it is possible once it’s warm!), put into bottle, let it cool and unroll.
Shoes – same method as above.
Knots – insert nearly fully done, complete using pliers once in the jar.
Padlock – dissasembe outside and reassemble inside – there’s NO other way
Rubik’s cube – same as above, just trickier. you’d need a lot of patience, a steady hand and lots of small, intracate tools.
That’s all of the main paradoxes covered…please note these are all theories of mine that I haven’t actually tried out but am confident would work.
Harry Eng asked us to THINK about his bottles – there you go, thinking done.
Fyi the objects could NOT easily be placed in a bottle as it’s being blown because the intense heat would ruin the objects themselves. You could use a really heat-proof material but it’s an unlikely method.
Bring on the next puzzle! :D
I think the objects are not in the bottles but underneath of them. Its kinda hard to explain…in the last one with the rubiks cube you can see another shape within the bottle. So I think he just place the bottle over the objects. Its just a guess though…
erm i have a question how do u cut a hole in a GLASS bottle without smashing it???
Just like so many things such as ghost videos or aliens, magic, voodoo, bigfoot or for that matter anything that at the moment you see and can’t explain, doesnt mean its real or not, but is very nice to dream about and speculate at. But fake or not It would make it a whole lot more believable if you could buy them or atleast have something that said you could and lead to a webpage that “could never be found”
I like Richard’s ideas, but I read that the bottle was latex
I am tired of people asuming everything is photoshoped. If don’t like illutions why are you on this site?
Objects are simply passed through the bottleneck by disassembling, folding, deflating and put back to its original form once inside. The corkscrew in wine bottle is one of the easiest: only two strait parts to reassemble.
That said, these bottles are really awesome, real art, I would not have the patience to do that.
re: the wine guy
I’m not sure what sort of corks you’ve been using, but in all my years of uncorking wine bottles, I’ve always found that the bottom of the cork is thicker than the top. This I attribute mostly to swelling of the material from being in constant contact with the wine.
Also, Jeff could very well have pulled the cork up the bottle neck. You won’t know for sure until you remove that wax and check whether the top of the cork has a hole in it or not. But obviously the average consumer would not want to “destroy” a piece of “art” they just paid several hundred dollars for.
As to putting the corkscrew inside the bottle, I believe it was either re-constructed inside the bottle or the handle is on a spring-loaded hinge that allows it to pop out once it has been inserted.
The bottles must have a missing back, the only way of telling is to look for some sort of hint that it is cut from behind or have the artist make a video showing how he does it. If it is cut from the back it could have a shadow or outline showing on the other side….if you know what I mean
i love the rubik’s cube. XD
have u guys ever thught that maybe its not realy glass in fact maybe kind of plastic bent and glued aroud the object
Ok, this is what happens. The bottles r not made and then stuffed. an opening is left and while still hot u place whatever inside, then add the “lid”. Reheat to erase the lines formeg when adding more glass.
hot glass is easy to bend, shape , etc. while still hot open or widen , put in whatever u want then close or reform as desired.
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.
HOLY SHOOT!
i always thought that the person would have bottles without bottoms, put it the stuff and put on a bottom…but that would damage the stuff inside wouldnt it? so im stumped
I suppose there’s a trick and it is concernin the glass. Let’s see the first bottle: the glass around the neck is opaque glass (the rope knot is and the brown ball above are slightly foggy in the vision) but glass in the middle or better at the bottom, near the little yellow book and the big knot is clear.
The same for the tennis balls bottle: the glass seems to be opaque but you can see through very well: the “Wilson 5″ logo can be seen clearly, despite the glass appears opaque.
I don’t think we’re facing with a photoshop trick but the fact that bottles are not made of glass.
for the cube, it’s possible they took the cube apart and put it in, without that middle piece that controls the cube.