Awesome Weird

Catch a glimpse of this unusual office building located in Hyderabad, India – shaped like a giant fish. Naturally, it houses the National Fisheries Development Board. Looks like we’re gonna need a bigger rod and reel.

Every domesticated animal we’ve ever know runs for the hills or freaks out when the vacuum cleaner goes on. Not so for this orange tabby, who not only isn’t scared of the appliance, he thinks it’s a delectable treat. Weirdo.

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a guy with a vacuum cleaner! The title says it all, as this guy blows himself up inside of his inflatable Superman costume. His archenemy must be named Pinhead. Animated .gif here.

Felix Colgrave’s Man Spaghetti is a purely odd animated short that tells the story of… well actually, we have no idea what it’s about. But it’s weird. Awesomely weird. (Thanks Cornel!)

Experimental musician Jeroen Elfferich wins the award for the wackiest version of The White Stripes Seven Nation Army we’ve ever heard. Correction… it’s the wackiest version of any song we’ve ever heard.

A compilation of some of the more unusual, innovative, and mechanically complex furniture ever created. While we understand the utility of some of the folding pieces, we’re not sure about that bucking bronco of a rocker.

Street performers are always looking for new ways to catch the eye of passers-by. This Cambridge UK musician stands out from the crowd by playing in the most unconventional of venues – inside a trash bin.

Mario and Fafa dig through the darkest corners of the Internet looking for the ultimate web oddities in 10 Things on the Internet That We Don’t Understand. They make a good point about the Facebook “Like” buttons on Myspace.

When life gives you lemons, we hope they’re not given to you this way. Comedian Will Sasso (MAD TV, How I Met Your Mother) has an ongoing series of short clips on Vine wherein he has a lemon-puking affliction.

This commercial for Abbott’s Village Bakery will leave PETA confounded. Now we’re not sure whether we love bread more or less. Or at all. We have to sit down and think really hard about it.

Inertia Labs’ cheeky entry into this year’s BarBot competition can pour and shake any three-ingredient cocktail you’d like. Drink up – assuming you can get past its unusual dispensing mechanism.

Cutting room floor footage from Fluke’s slow-mo Vibrations of some dude’s rapidly shaking head captured at 1000 fps. It’s not a pretty sight. Might be better to keep your mouth closed next time.

Mother nature messes with our heads once again, delivering an unexpected surprise inside of yet another giant chicken egg. We’ll stop posting these when we get to Level 4. (Thanks Everyone!)

Yes, that is a cat being ironed in a “Russian Spa for Cats.“ A late entry for the weirdest video of the year. Don’t worry, the cat wasn’t harmed, though we’re sure it’s confused as we are.

(NSFW: Language) Dan impresses his flatmate Dave with a new skill which lets him make quick work of meals thanks to his superheated laser eyeballs – when things suddenly take a turn for the worse.

A bizarre recurring sketch from the short-lived Japanese late night comedy show Vermilion Pleasure Night, featuring actresses acting like dolls in stories as random as the ones kids make up.

The WaterWhisperer pretends she’s a doctor and checks your scalp. Why? To induce ASMR, a tingling sensation in the head. Or put you to sleep. Either way it’s a good kind of weird. Best w/headphones.

(NSFW: Language) We don’t quite know what to make of these videos featuring a little white boy philosophizing with a big black voice, but we nearly wet our pants watching them. More here.

Prior to watching this clip, our favorite Cage was Nicolas. Now, we have to go with the winner of the 1991 Beard and Mustache Championships freestyle award – and his truly epic facial hair.

Alltime10s chronicles ten of the most unusual, unreal and ridiculous military projects over the years – from a cat turned into a listening device, to bomb-dropping bats, to boats made of ice.

We’ve already seen a dolphin try to have his way with a woman. Stinky here is equally desperate. Apparently he’s ready to mate, but he’s been expelled from his pod. A recipe for disaster.

By perfectly synchronizing the shutter speed on a camera with the blade rotation on a helicopter, this video provides us with a surreal flight that seems like it’s destined for somewhere in The Matrix.

Flip your world upside-down with these unusual prismatic goggles, perfect for looking like an outcast from a science fiction film, running obstacle courses, or for crazy drinking games.