Shawn D. Brower, Funrise Brand Manager handling the Fan Yang line of solutions and bubble tools said, "Fan is involved with every aspect of development for his line of toys." I don't doubt him.
Fan Yang Video ~ footage from his appearances on international television. Enjoy!
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Fan Yang's Website (where he has a collection of excellent photos) is: www.Bubbleart.com
Sorcerer of bubbles’ Fan Yang talks about his
work
20/11/2005
I only know about blowing bubbles as a child’s game, how have you transformed it into an art?
Ana Yang: The art of bubbles is new to the entertainment industry. In over two decades, my husband has performed around the world, appearing frequently on television, as the world’s only bubble artist who holds nine world records for creating bubbles of different sizes, colours, and shapes. In 1997, he made a 47m long bubble in Washington, his first Guinness record, which he still holds. Fan can also create 14 bubbles inside each other (like Russian Dolls), and then prick them to release smoke. Bubble performing is indispensable in Las Vegas.
Fan Yang: Bubble performing is an art, and a science. From childhood, I dreamed about colourful rainbows you can see sometimes after rain, and I nurtured the idea of making colourful bubbles from that. Soap bubbles are frail and easy to break, so I had to formulate a different compound: a mixture of fruit attar, water, and other substances to create special bubbles. The effect of stage light, sound, cinema, and childhood stories makes my performance more fanciful.
Fan Yang: Around of US$40-50 per ticket.
The price seems out of reach of most in Vietnam?
Fan Yang: Of course, we will consider an alternative ticket cost in Vietnam. I have already made contact with Hanoi Youth Theatre to make a performance via the Internet. Although performing in many countries, my wife and I maintained a dream to perform in Vietnam, since our mothers are Vietnamese, and Vietnam is where we were born. If we receive permission from the Ministry of Culture and Information, we will invest in the performance.
Looking at both of you, people would not believe you are Vietnamese?
Ana Yang: My father is a Yugoslavian. He was a teacher at Vietnam’s Agriculture University. He married my mother and lived in Hanoi. When I was 15, my family returned to former Yugoslavia, but my brother currently lives in Vietnam. My mother is now 80, and she sets up and teaches us about Vietnamese Tet every New Year. My family also maintains a Vietnamese system of education. Coming back to Vietnam this time, I will attend my niece’s wedding. I am very joyful to join a traditional Vietnamese wedding.
Fan Yang: I was born in 1960 in Nho Quan District, Ninh Binh Province. My mother was a Hai Phong girl. She married my father, a Hungarian, was working as a soldier under the French. He left the French army, and in 1962 my family returned to the EU. My mother is now 78-years-old.
Fan Yang: We performed in Hanoi’s Children’s Village SOS, and Ba Dinh District’s Culture House. The young audience enjoyed the art immensely, and it has encouraged us to make regular performances in Hanoi and HCM City.
Ana Yang: We create music on each story based on the background of our audience, trying to make it close to them. We may have not enough time to make music for a two-hour performance, but we will try to bring Vietnamese traditional music to some stories. When will the performances take place?
Ana Yang: We expect to perform in Hanoi, Da Nang, and HCM City in March 2006.
You will perform the Guinness record at the performance?
Fan Yang: I will choose a record suitable with the stage, since some bubbles are too big to perform.
Thanhnien News 11/20/05
Soap bubble master set to awe Vietnamese spectators Vietnamese Canadian Fan Yang, celebrated across the globe for his stunning performances with soap bubbles over the last two decades, is planning to amaze kids and adult in his homeland with shows early next year.
The shows, scheduled for February and March, will tell his moving life story, and will have comical and special effects, music, colors, and laser bubble performances. Spectators will also be encouraged to take part in the show. The bubble scientist and well-known international artist/performer holds nine Guinness World Records for his spectacular bubble feats, including the biggest soap bubble (measuring 2.3 meters in circumference), the longest bubble wall (47.40m), and a huge soap bubble enclosing 18 people.
The highly scientific and educational aspects of his creations have been featured by a host of museums and science centers around the world, with his shows aired on many TV networks.
Inspired by childhood dreams, Yang started experimenting with
all kinds of soaps at 18 and discovered a special mixture to make unusual soap bubbles. He began his performances in 1986 and became enormously popular across Europe just a year later.
Story from Thanh Nien News
Fan Yang enthralls the crowd at the Deira City Centre.
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Dubai, 02/07/2002
Blowing bubbles take on a whole new meaning after watching the Bubble Show, currently running at Deira City Centre. Bubble master and the host of the show, Fan Yang, demonstrated some of his greatest skills including blowing bubbles inside larger bubbles; bubbles filled with smoke inside even larger bubbles; and huge bubbles filled with tiny smoke-filled bubbles and illuminated with light effects. "I have been doing this show for 20 years now. This is my first time in the Middle East and the audiences have been wonderful," says Fan Yang.
Originally a scientist, part of Yang's studies involved experiments with water, and as a sideline he started producing effects with bubbles. Eventually, the sideline became a show in itself, and Yang found himself in demand all over the world. "I started performances in Canada and the U.S., and then all over Europe. The art developed with the start of the Bubble Festival in Seattle, followed by more festivals in Toronto and Singapore," explains Yang.
"I regularly do TV appearances, mostly in the. I have done shows on the David Letterman Show and Jerry Springer Show and a short film about the art on the Learning Channel." Children, and maybe a few adults, can also try their hand at the art of blowing amazing bubbles by purchasing a small bubble kit on sale at the show, which has been specially created by Yang. It includes frames and bubble liquid to allow one to try out a whole host of different effects.
Yang performs four shows each evening at Deira City Centre on the main stage. Shows start at 5pm, with the last performance beginning at 8:45pm. Each lasts approximately 20 minutes.
World record holder keeps audience in awe while performing show
4/5/05 ~ The Daily Titan
Fan Yang showers the crowd with thousands of bubbles at the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana. Yang is a nine-time world record holder. His longest bubble is 156 feet. He will be performing through April 17.
He emerged from the shadows dressed in black. With a single sweep of his wand, thousands of bubbles floated toward a group of children seated on the auditorium floor of the Discovery Science Center in
Santa Ana.
With viewers’ eyes fixated on Fan Yang, a nine-time Guinness World Record holder, he transformed soap and water into works of art. His first creation was a bubble within a bubble. Then, taking a puff from a cigarette, he took a soapy straw and blew smoke into the middle bubble, making a white-clouded ball within the clear bubble. With the skill of a lion tamer, Yang fanned the double bubble upward with his hands until the outer bubble popped. The clouded bubble lingered mid-air before bursting and leaving only a puff of smoke. “I love the bubble,” Yang said. “I don’t smoke, but smoke makes bubbles visible.”
He used a smoke machine and two foot-long, clear, plastic tubes to fill his bigger bubbles. As his creations floated away and popped, soft music filled the air and a rainbow of lights flickered as he set up for his next demonstration. Yang sprayed water on a small round table he had pulled to center stage. Then, he built a set of bubbles resembling a bunt cake on the table. The rainbow of lights flickered from red to green to yellow, making the sculpture radiate with color.
“Smoking is bad for your health,” said Yang as he filled the bunt cake bubbles with smoke and added another smoke-filled bubble on top. Next he poked a hole in the top of the bubble mound, turning the
creation into a smoking volcano. “Let me guide you into a world of imagination,” said Yang as he
continued to make a bubble within a bubble and filling the inside one with smoke. This time, Yang dazzled the audience by putting his soapy hand inside the outer bubble and pulling out the smoke-filled one without popping either bubble.
After making a few beach ball-sized bubbles, Yang dipped his giant bubble hoop in the soapy mixture and, with magician’s flare, pivoted, making an 18-foot bubble. That may seem impressive, but only until
people learn that one of his Guinness World Records was creating a 156-foot bubble.
Yang has been making bubbles for 22 years and said he got interested in the science of bubbles when someone gave him a bubble gadget as a gift. He was curious about why bubbles pop. “Bubbles like humidity,” he said. The humidity is why he sprays water on the table and sometimes into the air.
Bubbles at a science center may seem like foolishness to some, but according to a sign at the Bubble Pavilion, bubbles always form a sphere no matter what shape the bubble wand is.
The 9th annual BubbleFest is the most popular event of the year, said Roxy Nava, the manager of exhibit operations. When Yang’s show was over, people exited to the Gazillion Bubble Pavilion where children of all ages were making bubbles from hoops, straws and bubble toys with help from the staff of the center.
“There are three reasons bubbles pop,” said Janice West, a staff member working in the pavilion. “The first reason is because the air is too dry, the second reason is because the bubbles get too thin and the third reason is because bubbles don’t like to be disturbed.” The best way to make big bubbles is to use a lot of soap and to move in slow, fluid motions.
If people look at the color of a bubble, they will see that “the color is related to thickness,” West said. There is a rainbow of color in a thick bubble. When a bubble is about to pop, it will lose its color, West said.
West has a recipe for making a good bubble solution — one gallon of water, one cup of dish soap (blue Dawn or yellow Joy dishwashing soap) and one-quarter cup of glycerin, available at drug stores.
People who want to be amazed or inspired by Fan Yang can visit the Discovery Science Center and see shows daily through April 17.