at his side. or pursuing her own ambitions. as moon with her woman got some close to. life and death with a few. starts july twenty first on d w. a rule. either welcome to another year or max special edition today we keep things playful is what's coming up. just for fun to be dixon is a talented puppets here from britain. the family of fat solecki is a famous designer company from italy. and mind games

fun david says a top puzzle designed from the n.f.l. . first up we travel to bristol in england to visit a young man who's keeping the office of puppetry alive this performance skill dates back to the fifth century b.c. but balmy dixon developed a new technique to give the puppets more agility it may sound like child's play but dixon has gone it's quite a following on you tube with over thirty million video of views to date so let's see how he makes his creations come to life. don't worry this dinosaur might look dangerous but it's perfectly harmless. and some clever hand movements bring these featherweight creature to life. it's one of many finger puppets made by barnaby dixon the young man from

bridgewater in southwestern england makes his puppets by hand. deborah cheek the duck was his first creation. to me the puppets i'd seen before and more traditional puppets didn't really have the same kind of fluidity and gravity as you were able to attain with stop motion so the result of stop motion was kind of my starting point and i just think i was thinking how can i make a live action puppets have the same sort of realism as stop motion character. the special thing about farnaby's prophecies that though they are built around he's handsome they aren't glove puppets. he's latest character is minute. barnaby can perform intricate movements that look amazingly lifelike.

one of the often spends time in his workshop for fixing his puppets the joints are made of metal the bodies are made of a combination of resin silicon and plastic. you guys all these materials online. one of the main challenges in building these puppets is you've got kind of two starting points one that is the kind of ideal puppet you want to create but then you also have to accommodate your own hands and a symmetry in the way that they move in a way that you wouldn't kind of imagine sometimes. so i think. trying to marry those two things and finding something that works in terms of proportion but also in terms of movement and also in terms of a static. it's tricky. to be dixon has his pockets perform every day situations you choose. always plays the lead

role. he posts a new video every week to british shite to feel the rush through my father's software. only of joy lest we forget the purity of the waves under. i'd like to go home now. interesting. technical skill the show in the creation. of the pop is what makes. it into something. more. also shows his profits in local pubs. he likes keeping in close contact with his friends and not only virtually. it is nice to show the puppets to the public because you get a sense of the reception for three you tube comments and through you know people

liking it and things like that. you know people's faces when they see. you when i see people's reactions and it's a positive one. in the flesh you know something different. that i value. the main attraction tonight is a special performance. in the dark and dixon's hands become almost invisible riveting stuff for the audience that is. basically you do look at your thing. it's it's like a movie by itself and you kind of forget about the hands and you just you just you just focus on this this puppet i just couldn't believe how much i lost myself in the carrots of the piece with the birds you feel like it's moving in a way that a real bad school animal would move in with the dinosaurs obviously you know no one

seen the dinosaur but i feel like that's how it honestly me. to be dixon is already working on new characters for now he's enjoying his time in the limelight. now italian design isn't hard to mom to specially when it comes to fashion and furniture the italian company's solecki has specialized in playful home furnishings since the one nine hundred sixty s. and perhaps because of the distinctly italian flat customers i'm all willing to purchase monkey lamps colorful light bulbs held by a mouse we visited the company's creative director at his home. the sofas the bun the roll is a hotdog the cushions are tomato and cucumber slices stefano selectee loves little provocations fast food furniture and animal lamps made his company's name is objects are right loud in garish but then he doesn't take himself all that seriously.

he and his wife adriano like to decorate their own home with products from stephanus company. called on the queen the north of the truck and i love my work so well so love all the things we make. there my passion going on why i like surrounding myself with them is that a shift on doubt when a new rug go play to spanish for them i can hardly wait to try to help at home. stefano solidity lives in this farmhouse in the countryside of the whole basin near parma. he bought it twenty years ago and has decorated it in his personal style. the living room centerpiece is the selectee phone rug but not everything here is

from his company. would like to mix things like this so for my mother also with our own photo print pillows to fall something on one color combined with the strong images which i like the so-called mistakes and the not so perfect combination and on and on not a must. not far from his home is the company headquarters with a large show room for iconic selectee designs. the hotdogs. and the burger chair. the banana lymph originally an expensive art objects cast in bronze is now made of synthetic prison and retails for two hundred twenty nine euros. the best seller is the monkey lamp designed by italian artist marcantonio. it's an object with a personality and it keeps us company and it's decorative it makes us smile and

expresses our desire for joy and being carefree. facility companies beginnings were a bit more humble stefanos father romano began importing basic housewares from china in the one nine hundred sixty s. stefano joined the family business after finishing high school and quickly developed his own ideas. he wanted to replace the house whereas with amusing it on usual decorative objects. nearly all of it is still made in china though now forty seven years old stefano doesn't create the designs himself but works closely with various professional designers and artists. such as more e.t.o. catalogs co-publisher of the photo magazines toilet paper. celebrity uses images from the publication for his designs for home accessories sometimes testing the limits of good taste. you're going to suppose so. i don't think you can make anything they call pretty even to do they can help with

the spaghetti because if you do it properly i know that using professional images on a professor not in the secondary is wonderful for me to be able to make my wishes reality or my craziest ideas and dreams and most of this and then to see that other people like them to take a listen to. this do they cover features dollar bills with his face on them an idea from his friend. this sending animals cabinet off or storage space and as a tribute to the one time farmhouse as is the plastic tablecloth in the kitchen another design by question on. silicon knows there's a thin line be. we can't. just i think we're good at not drifting over into excessive kitsch if we manage to stay on that borderline she said a monkey the monkey for instance at the cost been copied countless times but none of the knockoffs has the artistic culture if you can see right away that they're

not they look like gadgets. this conservatory with open fireplace and company sofas through with pillows is the only addition he made to the old farmhouse sometimes stefano selectee can't find any space for a new collector's item so it gets stored here in the laundry room his own personal cabinet of curiosities. interior design at its best check out our you tube channel detail the interior design stunning ideas spectacular buildings and d.i.y. tutorials on home ticker ration we'll take you inside the most beautiful european homes show you the latest in furniture fabrics and accessories subscribe and don't miss out see you on you tube.

sixty years ago lego revolutionized the toy industry by bringing their colorful plastic building blocks on to the market the danish company's name is an abbreviation of leg goat which means play well and playing with it has turned many a young child into a budding engineer or architect ingles was one such child and now he is one of denmark's best and brightest architects so naturally he jumped at the chance of building the visitors center at the original lego land theme park and. huge and multi-colored this new lego house in berlin denmark looks like a gigantic version of a child's twenty one brick a lego house with a surface area of twelve thousand square metres the whole building is a celebration of these popular plastic building blocks. for. bianca.

big this was a labor of love. honestly i love lego ever since i was a kid when i was five i got my first lego set. probably the best lego set ever made i actually told my team that if it had been founded with the purpose of building just a single building it would be the lego house. inside is a huge waterfall made of lego bricks everything here is designed so that visitors can touch and play with it. the gallery of masterpieces is especially impressive three hundred thousand bricks can go into these lego dinosaurs and they weigh more than four hundred kilos fundamental to. learning through play so the children develop best by playing and when we decide. the idea was to really show what's behind the lake why and when you look at it i think it is an architectural masterpiece it couldn't have been any different and it really expresses what it's

all about the building was crowned with a gigantic lego brick complete with typical lego studs the building blocks can be seen everywhere here the rooms dominant colors represent the stages of a child's development stands for cognition read for creativity and yellow for emotional development. architects wanted to create an ambience that was light and transparent. if you arrive and everything feels almost effortless but there's a lightness and a playfulness and how it's done and when you walk around here so for you of course like everything flows very naturally you have a feeling that i get six they just stack the lego bricks and and then they were done when you come here now the likeness and the effortlessness really strikes you

that. you can sense how much work actually got into this because it really feels very simple. you know his works in this office in copenhagen the p.r. in those groups for big music internationally renowned for daring playful designs that are close to nature. in two thousand and sixteen in those one the city of frankfurt international high rise award for a skyscraper in new york but he designed it stands out sharply from the surrounding buildings and provide space for socializing and green inner courtyards. the world architecture festival gave in those mountain dwellings in copenhagen an award for the best residential building. the super kit and park in the danish capital was conceived as a science of integration of people from various cultures who live together here. in our youth center. the city hall in thailand. buildings in copenhagen as goes to

district and vancouver younger anglos constructions exude cool elegance and playfulness. playing games is fun at any age but a lot of toys and sports activities are geared towards young and fit people not so with bull a simple meditative game that can be playing almost anywhere. to relax and chat with your opponents although it originated in france variations have been played in its lemole to croatia and britain the decades it's also becoming popular in germany and we joined the team to see what makes bull so exciting for them. i'm going to civil servants i play ball because it makes me feel happy. but i mean i am i work in human resources and play ball because it's so much fun but when shock and shock i'm a shop fitter i play because players are nicer than golfers. they come from all

walks of life but they united by their love of their club is the navan paula in you know. all week they look forward to cheese day thing their game of choice may be straightforward but it's addictive but. first of all you play against just because you're always trying to repeat something else i just started very well if you want to do it again and again and again it's not. this is this is the old one eventually it won't work anymore and you feel a little frustrated and you always find your own limits but you have to rise above that and say it happens in the best of families. the best for me and for that. this saw fly that french people have been cultivating for centuries now more and more germans are following suit a little brightly colored ball is called the caution a opaque let confrontation crucial is from the french word because the french used

to call it the bowls from its get the idea is to get closer to the piglet than the best of your opponent. there are no lines or fixed playing fields just a circle if it's played tunk the classical version and the one most often played. by the top means your feet are planted no one hundred five years ago a certain nice old gentleman in southern france couldn't manage these three steps and a harp on one leg so they said all right we'll play standing inside a circle so we don't have to jump an email. or not. it's the finer points of technique that make the difference how the hands cradles the ball then moments of release shooting. and the bull coming to a stop that players are absorbed in the game the world outside fades out of sight out of mind. approach you can switch off playing you get immersed in the game and block everything else out you just play i can play blues every evening

pretty good now and come i'm not my nature and i love to get together with nice people in the evening with hand news and take a. little to go through the work but isn't always relaxing it's also a competitive sport it involves training both body and mind the tactic is to make a large part of the tactics watching what your opponents can do well or not so well i can build my own game around so it's a bit like chess i get on. with our business and i say that somehow helps you to put your body and spirit in harmony i sometimes call mind and practice what they all appreciate most of all other people who join in and getting to know new people . he misses shots and nobody gets angry instead they try to help improve their give you tips. i like it when someone says come on play with us

let's have fun publisher for two hours the food and the outside world is far far away and again as neighbor who are already looking forward to next tuesday evening . puzzles are great brainteasers and when the rubik's cube a hit the scene the nine hundred seventy s. got people of all ages excited about solving it nowadays there are all sorts of puzzles available from the traditional ones to the digital kind or even handheld wants dutch inventor oscar fung david has made a name for himself not only in the guinness book of world records but also on you tube where he presents a new challenge each week. fun devon ter loves brainteasers he designs all kinds of tricky puzzles including this one made especially for

a friend. he wanted to propose stories girlfriend mindy and what he asked me is to design for him a rubik's cube that when it solved it can be opened and guess what's there a ring and then of course you ask william marry me. and she said yes. but to get the ring she got to solve the puzzle first it's just one of more than five hundred puzzles that van has created since nine hundred seventy eight. the detriment is actually a scientist who works at the research institute he began thinking up new puzzles at an early age. it started when i was throat and there was this book of the worlds and they showed how to make puzzles from there on i made a lot of puzzles from the book and then i started designing myself. he created his first prototypes by carving pieces out of wood. and using objects like

matchboxes. in two thousand and three he discovered the benefits of using a three d. printer these days he has a company printer paul the pieces for him. all of the rest of the work. that hold. the pieces and assembles them himself. the stickers require sticks territory and patience but it's a labor of love for years he didn't learn a cent from his inventions first twenty or twenty five years that i've been working on puzzles i have not sold a single puzzle so. it's very hard. but all that changed in two thousand and eight to be internet. right. and welcome to my. oscar puzzle he presents

a new prototype each week some of his videos have garnered up to three million views. i. gave. him. a puzzle for intellectual weightlifters he produces the vid. he owes in the backyard of his home in the dead child of light and. shade his wife of thirty years is a big help. they've been making the videos together since two thousand and eight. they're going to do you tube career began almost by chance. they are and this is only your own the reason for me to start a youtube channel was that i wanted to show a puzzle of mine to a producer in japan so but i didn't want to send in the prototype because that takes requests for the parcel to arrive and was quite new in well i think two

thousand and eight or so so i just made to fit and i sent the link to the producer . fifty of his prototypes have found their way to games manufacturers and got into production like oscar's treasure chest the q.b. designed for his friend in twenty eleven fund that hunter earned the guinness world record for his most complex project to date a rubik's tile cube comprised of one thousand five hundred thirty nine parts you can solve it but it takes quite a while as you tube or read k.b. shows in this time lapse video. it took brandon seven hours and me it will probably take a bit longer but i used to screwdriver solution so i pop off the cap and i use my screwdriver and then everything goes apart and then we have to assemble everything again and that's a lot of work cause the turn now has many fans and friends around the globe some send them presents others commission to design custom made puzzles but the inventor

has no trouble coming up with ideas of his own. i have a whole list of ideas that i can work on and sometimes the list gets too long and then i throw it away and i start a new. list. soon also need to puzzle out a new way of storing his inventions but a man is ingenious as oscar van devon is sure to come up with something. that's all from us for today but do join me again tomorrow for another year max special featuring some of the most delicious treats from around europe about so now . you know our next special edition of your own max sample color narry creation misapplying award winning show. discover the fine art go for growing up the perfect

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