Unusual but true: Triplets world's youngest skydivers at age 3
2018-11-30
In stories this week, we have 3-year-old triplets becoming the world's youngest skydivers, a culinary artist making gorgeous 3D jelly cakes, 324 dancers creating the world's largest disco dance, this year's news-related dolls in Japan, and a full-scale digital art museum where you can immerse yourself in color.
All the interesting, odd anecdotes from around the world are here, in our news review.
Triplets world's youngest skydivers at age 3
These one in 3 million triplets, aged 3, have become the world's youngest skydivers.
Naturally conceived triplets Kuzey, Koray and Ayaz Cerikci, who are affectionately known as The Piplets on social media, completed their first indoor skydive at iFLY in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, on Nov 13, 2018.
Their mom Claire Cerikci, 40, was cheering on her boys as they became the youngest Brits to brave the flight. In matching outfits and helmets, Kuzey, Koray and Ayaz looked adorable as they soared through the flight simulation chamber with three instructors – even holding each other's hands.
Fanciful 3D jelly cakes look too beautiful to eat
The 35-year-old cake maker Siew Heng Boon, from Malaysia, crafts gorgeous confections that don't look edible at all. Her glasslike creations are instead akin to fanciful office paperweights with flowers and fish encased beneath clear surfaces.
Known as 3D jelly cakes, these confections are made with gelatin or seaweed jelly powder and use specific tools to inject colorful motifs onto a clear base.
Siew Heng Boon discovered the art of 3D jelly cakes in 2016. Intrigued by the unique food art, she undertook a 3D jelly class, learning all the basics about design, coloring and taste.
324 dancers do world's largest disco dance
Mamma Mia! fever descended on the UK today, as Strictly Come Dancing's Ola and James Jordan led 324 dancers in disco-inspired outfits to a new Guinness World Record title for the world's largest disco dance.
Some 324 students from Bird Performing Arts College boogied their way through a five-minute dance routine to the hit Mamma Mia, specially choreographed by Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again choreographer Anthony Van Laast and led by assistant choreographer Lucy Bardrick.
It wasn't just London's Waterloo that got into the ABBA spirit. Performances of the same routine in identical outfits also took place at different Waterloo-named locations across the UK, including Waterloo, North Lanarkshire, and Waterloo, Merseyside.
Traditional doll maker displays the year's news-related dolls
Kawaribina are special dolls depicting events from the past year, created annually by Mataro Doll Company since 1946.
The basic shape of every doll is carefully hand-molded by Mataro himself and the dolls are entirely handmade. The artisanal skills that go into each doll have been inherited for about 260 years.
The founder, Kanabayashi Mataro the First, started to make the dolls, hoping to carry the voice of customers, from discontent to desires, into society. Kawaribina dolls are issued every day on TV, newspapers and the internet.
Walk through maze of color at interactive museum
The Mori Building Digital Art Museum teamLab Borderless is a full-scale digital art institution in the Palette Town complex of Odaiba, Tokyo.
There are no borders in this dark maze of an exhibit. This permanent art installation seeks to remove boundaries and allow museumgoers to explore the fictional and beautiful world on their own terms.
Mori Building and teamLab hope that their groundbreaking museum will inspire people to create enlightened new values and innovative new social frameworks.