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- tburke261, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11AFIAK, this is the best non apple, non ajax, non google frontpage story in a while.
- Trjn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10No kittens?
Bah! - KissTheRing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8poke a pin sized hole in the tennis balls to deflate them squeeze them down to bottle mouth size and their own rigidness will cause them to return to their original shape.
- Midnightbrewer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7If it's not front page worthy, then don't digg it. It's just that easy. Digging is a matter of opinion; people sometimes disagree.
- JStrider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"And a second look at some of Harry Eng's stuff perplexes me as well...the hanging deck with coins? The coins look bigger than the bottle mouth, and that washer on the deck of cards is definately bigger than the mouth."
if you read the captions on one of them it says he made little vice that could be assembled in the jars and reflatten bent coins and then be disassembled and taken out. - febryle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.jeffscanlan.com/bottles/
- bean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The BASEBALL seems to have most of you stumped:
1. Take the skin of the baseball
2. poke a hole in a tennis ball
3. Stitch the skin onto the deflated tennis ball
4. Jam base-tennis-ball into the jug. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3BTW, John Rausch says he stopped putting tennis balls in bottles because of a "mishap"--details here
http://d19247.u28.dexaweb.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=000021
If you try it, wear EYE PROTECTION - clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"The bottom of the bottles are cut out. Old trick, No Digg."
Actually if you read it, you'd quickly find out you are simply wrong.
This is really hard work, patience and some thinking. It's not impossible but it's not a trick either. It clearly states how he did it.
Have a nice day being dumb! - Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Can't anybody just accept that this guy was just incredibly skilled at doing this? So many people are so cynical about this stuff, always thinking some invisible hand is working behind it, that there's some kind of trick involved. If you really look at it, putting these things in the bottle is possible, but very time consuming and requires a lot of skill. Notice that this guy probably made 10 of these in his lifetime, so they may take a little while
- gluon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great find! I think we're seeing more and more non-tech articles on digg - do we forsee some non-tech categories in the future?
- dgrinb01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow
- phprock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty cool... but I think it would be more impressive it he got a 3.5 harddrive in one of those.
- Jeffscanlan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, hello to all of you. I just found your site today. I've enjoyed reading everyone's comments on how all the items got into the bottles. Well, let me set some things straight. First, ALL the bottles are perfectly normal. They are not heated, frozen, or cut. In fact the bottles are NOT manipulated in any way shape or from. Second, All items go into the bottles through the neck. The baseballs I put into the small salsa jars are "as is". I've even had people X-ray them. The baseball is almost 1/2" larger than the opening of the bottle. No you just can't shove it in. All the decks of cards that I put into bottles still have the original cellophane wrapping on them. ALL the cards are inside the deck including the jokers and the 2 advertising cards, plus, all the cards are in order. Just like you would find if you purchased them from the store. The "Tennis Everyone" bottle that I make (gallon jug filled with 13 tennis balls) is an exact duplicate of Harry Eng's bottle. In fact, I've duplicated about 6 of Harry's bottles.It took me three years to figure out how to put all the items in the bottles. Has anyone thought about how to get a sealed bar of soap into a bottle? I've done that too. Yes! The bottles do take quite a bit of time, but, it doesn't mean I don't have a life. I'm a professional magician by trade. In case any of you haven't seen my website I strongly urge you to do so. You can see bottles I've created and also read about Harry Eng and see some of his bottles. I want to thank those of you who visited and commented on my bottles.
Enjoyed visiting and getting some things straight about the bottles. By the way, I'm Jeff Scanlan the creator of Bottle Magic Bottles. See my site at http://www.bottlemagic.com.
But please, don't email me asking me how I do it. Harry never told and neither will I. Harry always said two things. First, think about it. Second, even if someone might know how to do it, actually doing it is another story. - zenscope, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Everything in Eng's gallery has been placed through the top of the bottle, through the neck, in some deformed state, ie collapsed. No cutting of the bottle, no vacuum, no magic. He simply does what is necessary to make the object fit through the opening, and then using long instruments, he reconstructs the object. This includes folding coins, unpackaging cards, unpacking baseballs, etc...
It is a very similar technique used by my grandfather when he used to make ships in bottles.
Fantastic patience and meticulous detail make these possible. - nicepants, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Brain6String - Glass bottles are made through a type of blow molding, they are not molded around an object.
In Extrusion Blow Molding (EBM), plastic is melted and extruded into a hollow tube (a parison). This parison is then captured by closing it into a cooled metal mold. Air is then blown into the parison, inflating it into the shape of the hollow bottle, container or part.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blow_molding - KidVicious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So, how did he do it?
- doktorrocket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Two random thoughts on the baseball....
1) You could remove the cover, unwrap the innards (yarn), and fit the core (cork/rubber) through the neck, rewind the yarn, then restitch the cover.
2) I wonder how much a baseball would shrink under pressure? If it was only slightly larger than the neck, you could place it over the opening of the bottle and place the stack in a hydraulic pressure tester. Glass is decently strong under compression, assuming it's uniform and there's no air trapped in the bottle. Up the pressure until the rubber/yarn baseball falls into the bottle, slowly drop the pressure, then remove the bottle and drain the water. Just a thought. - Claymore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I would like to see some video of him actually doing the work...
- n8r0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lumiras States:
"Notice that this guy probably made 10 of these in his lifetime, so they may take a little while"
TFA States:
"Harry made some unbelievable bottles. Some claim he made more than 600."
I would venture to say that he was extremely talented and had alot of free time. - dognose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't think the bottoms were cut out. it's all possible, just really difficult.
- iheartbeer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anybody know if those are soft-baseballs? I've seen some that feel like a smaller version of a softball (you know, for kids) but look just like a regular baseball.
- en3r0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Wow, this is crazy. This guy must have some amazing patience levels!
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-en3r0
http://virtenu.com - subtle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't think "talented" is the word I'd use ...
- XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>The answer is that there must be an inner mold inserted when the
>bottle is made--meaning the bottom of the bottle is attached
>afterwards. Which means it might be attached using glue or some
>other process that can be reversed (I'm guessing this is where a
>microwave would come into play).
Are you nuts?
Air is used to inflate a glass skin inside a mold. - diemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"The bottom of the bottles are cut out. Old trick, No Digg."
yeah if the bottom are left off. Wouldn't the items inside be melted or at least deformed in someway when melting the glass to reattach the bottom - TheROK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This bottle guy is a friggin genius! Awwwwzm!
- Solo81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1bean: doubtful because you would be able to tell by the weight of the bottle if that were the case.
- TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"old trick strong vacuum in bottle sucks in baseball."
I don't get it. How can they do that with a small salsa jar? - PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Dugg just for the fact the link went directly to the site instead of boingboing (plus it was interesting).
- Morph_Ball, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's nothing. The REAL challenge is getting everything back out.
Now everyone's going, "lol ya sure"...
Dugg. - jpyun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2brian6string, if you're going to type out that long of a comment, at least do a little research so you don't look like a fool afterwards.
- Jerk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I can see most of the items being relatively easy (just requires a lot of patience), but the baseballs....how?
The playing cards are easy, a few at a time will bend easily, as will a flattened deck box. The scissors are easy, the plastic ends come off or the screw/pin comes out of the pivot point. The bolt and screw would be a pain in the ass, but not too hard to get into the container. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you boil the baseball, then put it on the bottle still hot, makes the baseball very flexible!
when it drys out it's hard again. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
- skwirlinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I dugg the tennis balls!
- OAKsider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Diggin It, that's hard work plus a lot of
patience. Then he does it all over again
with even more difficult materials. Nice!
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"Someone has a lot of time on their hands."
kthxbybye! - Maxxron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I saw how this was done in, I believe, a Popular Mechanics magazine in the '70's. You take the cover off the baseball and re-lace nearly all of the cover leaving enough extra thread to finish stitching. You tie a balloon to a soda straw, and insert the balloon into the cover, insert the cover/balloon/straw into the bottle and use something to inject plaster of paris into the balloon (turkey baster maybe?). The cover will mold the plaster into a round shape. After the plaster dries, pull the straw out, tuck the balloon in and finish lacing with tweezers or hemostats. The finished product is close enough to the original weight of the ball that nobody will notice the difference.
- geoboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The baseball seems pretty easy to me. Store the baseball in the freezer, heat up the glass. Place the chilled baseball on top of the hot glass and watch the fun begin.
- YrUrEadNtHiS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0THE TENNIS BALLS!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0im so glad he did not link to boing boing thehy have so many adds
- person, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the site survived the digg effect! 2183 diggs and counting...
- el3ctro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0incredibly pointless.. but cool :P
- YrUrEadNtHiS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i think its fun just guessing how..
- Mininday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.grand-illusions.com/harryeng.htm
- LordOmicron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How to do some of this stuff.
http://www.jeffscanlan.com/bottles/ - srikanthp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0His site's taken some abuse hasn't it?
http://www.johnrausch.com.nyud.net:8090/PuzzleWorld/toc.asp?t=_des/he001.htm&m=des/he000.htm - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Jeff, congrats! It got me to waste some time playing guessing games ;-) dugg
- Hsulflayor, on 11/23/2008, -0/+0Hiya!
Visit:
http://www.whatizit.net
to see some more pictures and to purchase! - YrUrEadNtHiS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO PUT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS IN A BOTTLE"....LMAO......WHO THE HELL COMES UP WITH THIS STUFF??
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