An artist’s string art portrait breaks Guinness World Record

An Iraqi artist Saeed Howidi Bashoon, used 500 pins and 21,775 feet of string to create a portrait of Egyptian vitiligo advocate Logina Salah, that covers an area of 67 square feet, 20 square inches.

Salah, a makeup artist, has vitiligo, a condition that affects skin pigment. She aims to help women accept their unique attributes.

“I had my battles for acceptance for the past 15 years. Today, being on a work of art that holds a Guinness World Records title makes me feel empowered and responsible to spread strength and hope for those who share this skin-disorder,” Salah told Guinness World Records.

World’s largest snow globe collection

Wendy Suen of Shanghai hold the record for the largest collection of snow globes with 4,238 pieces!

“Whenever I see a new globe that I don’t already have and matches my selection criteria, I have the urge to get it,” Suen told. “Instead of buying any globe, I am now only attracted to globes with better craftsmanship, prettier looks, more creative designs, or it’s a discontinued globe that is rare,” she said.

Now she is more selective about what she adds to her collection because she is running out of room. Suen estimated she has spent about $165,000 on snow globes over the years. Her most pricey piece is a Louis Vuitton-designed globe that cost her about $9,900.

It’s raining fish!

Officials in Texas town said residents weren’t just imagining it when it seemed to be ‘raining fish’ during a storm. The city of Texarkana said in a Facebook post that it was indeed “raining fish” during recent rainstorms.

Multiple residents took to social media to share photos of the fish that fell from the sky.

“Animal rain is a phenomenon that occurs when small water animals like frogs, crabs and small fish are swept up in waterspouts or drafts that occur on the surface of the earth. They are then rained down at the same time as the rain,” the city’s Facebook post said.

The TV screen you can taste

A professor at a Japanese university unveiled his latest innovation: a TV with a screen the viewer can taste.

Homei Miyashita, an associate professor in the School of Science and Technology at Meiji University, said his “Taste the TV” uses a combination of 10 flavours to create the taste of the food pictured on the screen. The flavour is dispensed onto a film that slides onto the screen, allowing viewers to experience the taste of the food they are seeing.

He believes the technology could be used to give people unable or unwilling to travel, the ability to sample flavours from around the world.

“I hope people can, in the future, download and enjoy the flavours of the food from the restaurants they fancy, regardless of where they are based in the future,” Miyashita told reporters at a demonstration.

Published in Dawn, Young World, January 8th, 2022