Comments on: Ship in a Bottle

Ship in a Bottle

figment of my conation — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:07:26 -0800

Got a few hundred hours to kill? (pdf) A Ship in a Bottle is a type of impossible bottle. No, not this Ship in a Bottle. Have you ever wondered how it gets in there? Or thought about building one yourself? Here's some tips and tricks. If you are not mechanically inclined, how about making a PSP version? Or, heck, just go buy one.

By: wilful

wilful — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:14:35 -0800

This man gave my wife (before we met) a ship is a bottle that he had hand made especially for her. Said he didn't expect anything in return. Unrequited, introverted, obsessive, sad?

By: phaedon

phaedon — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:17:35 -0800

This post reminds me how awful "The Good Shepherd" was.

By: gottabefunky

gottabefunky — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:19:02 -0800

Harry Eng's bottles are pretty mind-blowing. More here.

By: mosk

mosk — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:51:12 -0800

I was going to post a Harry Eng link as well, but gottabefunky beat me to it. Now THOSE will make you think...

By: saraswati

saraswati — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:19:49 -0800

I was actually excited for a second that my dream of a ship in a bottle game for the PSP had been realized.

By: Upton O'Good

Upton O'Good — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:27:11 -0800

I recommend clicking around the "how it gets in there" page--it's got lots of incredible ships. I especially like this enormous bottled version of the USS John F. Kennedy. Great post! Also, excellent use of the "scaryfirstFPP" tag.

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:00:08 -0800

Put an impossible bottle inside itself: Acme Klein bottles. Or, put yourself in one.

By: sparkletone

sparkletone — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:45:40 -0800

I only allow genies in my bottles.

By: sappidus

sappidus — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:34:10 -0800

There is a magician named Paul Harris who was good friends with Harry Eng, and in one of Harris' books, he describes Eng's method of getting a boxed deck of cards into a Jack Daniel's bottle. After the breathless description of the ridiculously hardcore feat -- never mind the much more impossible things that Eng has squeezed into bottles -- Harris adds the following quote, which has always been one of my favorites (having had some personal experience with performing hobbyist sleight-of-hand): "Sometimes to do astonishing things you actually have to be able to do things that most people can't do." (First ever comment. Hi, MeFi!)

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:12:42 -0800

Great post, and a great addition of those Eng bottles!