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from dave into the top puzzle design a program that. first up we traveled 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 garnered quite a following on you tube with over thirty million videos of use 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

a 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 found love puppets. these latest character is manu. barnaby you can perform intricate movements that look amazingly lifelike. one of the often spends time in his workshop perfect thing his puppets the joints

are made of metal the bodies are made of a combination of reason silicon and plastic. he buys all his 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 they want to create but then you also have to accommodate your own hands and the asymmetry in the way that they move in a way that you wouldn't have imagined sometimes. so i think it's 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. it's tricky. to be dixon has his pockets perform every day situations on. the

plays the lead role. he posts a new video every week. british the site to feel. rushed through my father's software. joys of life we forget the. waves under. i'd like to go home now please. however interesting. technical skill the show and the creation. of the puppet is what makes. them to some degree. also shows his puppets in local pubs. he likes keeping in close contact with his friends and only virtually. i think is nice to share the 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. you know people's faces when they see and when i see people's reactions and it's a positive one. in the flesh you know something different about the value. the main attraction tonight is a special performance manu glows in the dark and dixon's hands become almost invisible riveting stuff for the audience that is what. it's like if you look at your. it's like a movie by itself and you kind of forget about the. and you just you just you just focus on this i just couldn't believe how much i lost myself. in the character of the piece of the beds you feel like it's moving in a way that a real bad school animal would move in with the dinosaur it's obviously you know no

one seen the dinosaur but i feel like that's me. he's already working on new characters bob for now manu is enjoying his time in the limelight. now italian design isn't hard to monday especially 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 flair custom has a more willing to purchase monkey lumps all colorful lightbulbs held by a mouse weave business of the company's creative director at his home. the sofas the bun the roll is a hotdog the cushions are tomato and cucumber slices stephanus selectee loves little provocations fast food furniture and animal lamps made his company's name is objects are right loud and 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 stefanos 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 ship on the other when a new rug go plates spinning. i can hardly wait to try to koala. 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. will not like to mix things like this so for buy more also with our own photo print below the fall that something over one color combined with these strong images which i like the so-called mistakes and the not so perfect combination can only. be i mean. not far from his home is the company headquarters with a large show room for iconic selectee designs. the hot dogs. 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 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 magazine toilet paper. celebrity uses images from the publication for his designs for home accessories sometimes testing the limits of the takes. you're going to suppose so. i don't think you can make anything we call pretty even

a do they go with the spaghetti because if you do it properly using a professional image of the professor not in the secondary it's wonderful for me to be able to make my wishes reality for my craziest ideas and dreams and most of this and then to see that other people like them too because. this do they cover features dollar bills with his face on them an idea from his friend money to look at a lot. of this sending animals cabinet off or storage space and as a tribute to the one time farmhouse as he was the plastic tablecloth in the kitchen another designed by catch on. solidity knows there's a thin line. i mean aren't 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. for instance at the cars been copied countless times but none of the knockoffs has the artistic culture that you could see right away that they're not

they look like. this conservatory with open fireplace and company sofas room 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 decoration 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. on you tube.

sixty years ago lego revolutionize 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. 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 particular plastic building blocks for danish the architect . big this was

a labor of love. honestly i love lego since i was a kid when i was five i got my first. and 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 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 i'm. 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 course all about the

building is 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 on the architects 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. in those works in this office in copenhagen the p.r. in those group or big is internationally renowned for daring playful designs that are close to nature. in twenty sixteen in those one the city of frankfurt international high rise award for a skyscraper in new york city designed it stands out sharply from the surrounding buildings and provide space for socializing and greener courtyards. the world architecture festival gave in those mountains in copenhagen and award for the best residential building. the super kit and park in the danish capital it was conceived as a science of integration people from various cultures live together here. or youth center. the city hall in thailand. buildings in copenhagen zeros to

a district and bank over yonder and those constructions are 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 full a simple meditative game that can be playing almost anywhere. to relax and chats with your opponents ovo it originated in france variations have been played in italy multiple croatia and britain for 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 chuck and shock i'm a shoplifter i play because players are nicer than golfers. they come from all

walks of life but they united by their love of buddha their club is the navan born in you know. all week they look forward to choose the evening they came of choice may be straightforward but it's addictive. my first vote you play against just because you're always trying to recreate something of that just on very well you want to do it again and again and again know. this is this is the 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's the acronym ity this software that french people have been cultivating for centuries now more and more germans are following suit the little brightly colored ball is called the caution a all piglet confrontation crucial was from the french word because the french used

to call it the balls from its get the idea is to get closer to the piglet than the best of your opponents 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. tankers cross and by no. 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 e-mail. or not. it's the finer points of technique that make the difference how the hand cradles the ball the nominative 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 and

even on through three com i'm not since my nature and i love to get together with nice people in the evening for that hand and take advantage of the. will to go through the work but isn't always relaxing it's also a competitive sport it involves training both body and mind. is going to large part of it is tactics with 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 i'd say that somehow helps you to put your body and spirit in harmony eisenstein coffee and i guess what they all appreciate most of all of the people who join in and getting to know new people. you can you miss the shots and nobody gets angry instead they try to help improve at a few tips. i like it when someone says come on play with us let's

have fun. to ourselves and the outside world it's far far away and again as neighbors who know are already looking forward to next tuesday evening. puzzles are great brainteasers and when the rubik's cube 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 or even handheld wants dutch inventor oscar fund 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. funday ventura loves brain teasers he designs all kinds of tricky puzzles including this one made especially for

a friend. he wanted to propose stories girlfriend mainly what he asked me 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 will you marry me and she said yes. but to get the ring she had to solve the puzzle first it's just one of more than five hundred puzzles that dan devant her has created since nine hundred seventy eight. the dutchman is actually a scientist who works at a research institute he began thinking up new puzzles at an early age. it started when our throat and there was this book of the world and they showed how to make puzzles from there on i made a lot of puzzles from that book and then i started designing myself. he created his first prototype spy carving pieces out of wood. and using objects like

matchboxes. in two thousand and three he discovered the benefits of the rest of the work. does it hold. the pieces and assembles them himself planning the stickers requires dexterity 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. i'm of course when they found her and welcome to my you tube channel what you're seeing here on oscar puzzle he presents a new prototype each week and some of his videos have garnered up to three million views. i almost cried from day after day after day from third grade hunter and this

is the. apostle for intellectual weightlifters he produces the videos in the backyard of his home in the dead child of light in the usa his wife of thirty years is a hell. they've been making the videos together since two thousand and eight. they're going to do you tube career began almost by chance. and often they are and this is only your own the reason for me to start the you tube 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 risks for the parcel to arrive and you tube was quite new and well i think two thousand and eight or so so i just made to feel you know and i sent the link to the producer. fifty of his prototypes have found their way to games manufacturers

and gone into production like oscar's treasure chest the q.b. designed for his friend in twenty eleven fun devon to have earned a 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 kind of run than seven hours and maybe 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. better now has many fans and friends around the globe you know some send them presents others commissioned 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 they're back and work on and sometimes the list gets too long and then i throw it away and start a new list. soon he'll also need to puzzle out a new way of storing his inventions but a man is ingenious as oskar van devon there 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. the next special edition of your own max sample color narry creation the spy an award winning show. just over the fine art of preparing a perfect cup of coffee. and find out how it. is making

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