Fan Yang (artist)
Fan Yang (born 1962) is a Canadian bubble artist.[10]
Fan Yang | |
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Born | Haiphong, Vietnam |
Other names | Bubble Man Bubbleologist |
Citizenship | Canada |
Occupation | Entertainer |
Known for | The Gazillion Bubble Show, 16-time Guinness World Record holder |
Spouse(s) | Ana Yang |
Children | Deni Yang, Melody Yang |
Relatives | Jano Yang (brother) |
Website | http://www.gazillionbubbleshow.com |
Notes | |
Early life
Fan Yang was born in Vietnam in 1962; his mother is a Haiphong native.
Career
He has earned international acclaim as a result of his complex displays of bubble theater.[11] In addition to performing, he has developed his own bubble solution formulas and equipment to create bubbles. Fan Yang has broken bubble-related world records on numerous occasions. Yang produces a show, the Gazillion Bubble Show, in New York City, and has staged it elsewhere, including Las Vegas. His wife, Ana Yang, performs the show in his absence.[12]
World records
Fan's first 11 world records are all unique in the field of bubbles.
- Berlin, Germany, 1992: The largest spherical soap bubble. (2.3 m circumference)
- Pacific Science Center Seattle, Washington, August 11, 1997: The world’s largest bubble wall. (47.4 m lengthwise)
- Hollywood, California, May 5, 1999: The most bubbles inside 9 concentric bubbles, inside each other.
- Paris, France, March 29, 2000: The most bubbles inside 11 concentric bubbles inside each other.
- Wavrin, France, April 1, 2000: Passage into a bubble hemisphere. His daughter slid into a bubble hemisphere going through the bubble film without bursting it.
- Helsinki, Finland, October 20, 2001: Record for the most concentric bubbles. (12 domes)
- Stockholm, Sweden, November 27, 2001: Record for the most bubbles attached on each other in mid air (9).
- Santa Ana, California, April 7, 2004: World record for The Most People Inside A Soap Bubble (8 people)
- New York City, U.S., March 18, 2005: Guinness World Record for the most people inside a soap bubble at Toys 'R' Us
- Santa Ana, California, April 12, 2006: Encapsulating 15 pairs of people in their own bubble cubicles for 5 seconds and linking them together to create a "Mega Bubble Cage"
- Madrid, Spain, May 25, 2006: Encapsulating 22 people inside a single soap bubble.
- Chicago, United States, January 30, 2008: Encapsulating 100 people inside a single soap bubble on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Television performances
- Late Night with David Letterman; NBC
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show; NBC
- Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon; CBS
- The Statler Brothers Show; TNN
- Disney-MGM
- NHK-TV; Japan
- RAI-TV; Italy
- Canale 5; Italy
- ZDF-TV; Germany
- TF-1; France
- Nickelodeon-Universal Studios, Florida U.S.A.
- Television Chile Guinness Prime Time
- FOX TV, CCTV Beijing, China
- Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS)
- TLC; U.S.A., (The Learning Channel)
- LWT (London Weekend Television); CCTV
- BBC; Canada
- Cirque du Soleil "Soltrom" [13]
- SBS, South Korea [10][14][15]
- Beirut, Lebanon (Biel)
- Ordinary/Extraordinary, Florida, 1996
Corporate performances
- Mercedes Benz
- IBM
- Hugo Boss
- L’Oreal
- BMW
- Chrysler
- Omega
- Audi
- Carl Zeiss
- Siemens
- Pepsi[13]
gollark: What is this ”project” of which you speak?
gollark: I just block all ads everywhere unless they follow some standards (no persistent tracking, static images only, clearly delineated ads, small out of the way ones), since it's basically the only thing I can do to influence advertisers.
gollark: Practically, assuming you have remotely user-controllable computers and stuff, and you can't meddle with the network, you probably can't do much to stop people from doing necromancy outside of saying "WARNING: bargaining with mysterious entities on the extranet is a Bad Idea™".
gollark: I was referring to filtering "liches and other stuff necromancers stumble upon".
gollark: *Can* they actually filter that (EDIT: referring to "liches and other stuff necromancers stumble upon") in practice, given the whole "end to end encryption" thing, apart from somehow not letting those on the network?
References
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- "Interview: Fan-Yang of Gazillion Bubble Show". March 7, 2007.
- Graeber, Laurel. "Gazillion Bubble Show". query.nytimes.com.
- Sevenload, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-03. Retrieved 2009-11-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2009-11-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Fan Yang of Gazillion Bubble Show to Appear on Today Show May 8 | TheaterMania". www.theatermania.com.
- "World Records with Soap Bubbles". www.recordholders.org.
- "World Bubble Records". www.bubbleblowers.com.
- "Fan Yangs Bubble Show Back in Seoul". koreatimes. January 5, 2009.
- "Fan Yang". Archived from the original on October 16, 2010. Retrieved November 1, 2009.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-12-17. Retrieved 2009-11-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- bubble bath spa soap chocolate at anabubble.com Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- "놀라운 대회 스타킹". wizard2.sbs.co.kr.
- "| Official Korea Tourism Organization". english.visitkorea.or.kr.
External links
- Science of Bubbles
- World Records with Soap Bubbles
- Review by Barbara Mehlman and Geri Manus on New York Theatre Guide - Online
- First bubble show in Russia
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