Mark Ari

Mark Ari won the World Figure Skating Championship in 1993, a remarkable comeback after his 1936 Olympic Bronze (Long Jump) in Berlin. He is the inventor of the spring-mounted jumping frog, blow dart mouth wash “for the other guy,” edible cowboy boots, and the windproof perforated umbrella. He kissed the belly of Maharani Gayatri Devi, and he learned the art of ventriloquized chuckling while sojourning with an offshoot branch of Mandaean nomads.

Ari has made cheese with mosquito netting. Currently the world record holder for extended, wake-initiated lucid dreaming, Ari is a writer, musician, visual artist, and an award-winning educator at the University of North Florida.. He has listed, in ink, 1,346 things that can be done with a spoon.