Meet the artist who draws pictures with typewriter
London: London based artist, Keira Rathbone, makes one-off complex images with the help of typewriter. According to the Huffington Post, Rathbone said she began experimenting with the typewriter art in around 2003 and when she started typing out and about in London and Bristol, she realised that it was very unusual, Metro.co.uk reported. Now people from all over the world contact her to tell her they are inspired or enquire about buying work or want to hire her to type at their events, she further added. Rathbone has sold art around the world, online and even in Selfridges department store. (ANI)
World’s tallest man at 8ft 4in dies in Ukraine
London: A Ukrainian farmer, believed to be the world’s tallest man at 8ft 4 inches, has died aged 44. Leonid Stadnyk, from the Ukrainian village of Podoliantsy, died Sunday from a brain haemorrhage after health problems. Stadnyk’s feet measured almost 18 inches in length while his palms were more than a foot in diameter. He slept on a billiard table as the bed was not big enough for him. However, he was too shy to be measured for the Guinness World record books, ‘mirror.co.uk’ reported.
“To me, my height is a curse, a punishment from God, not something to celebrate,” Stadnyk had said in an interview. “I don’t want or need the fame that this would bring so I have no desire to be in this Guinness book,” he had said. At the age of 12, a benign brain tumour over-stimulated Stadnyk’s body’s production of a growth hormone. At one point, his condition, called gigantism, left him growing at the rate of roughly a foot every three years. According to a Guinness World Records spokeswoman, Stadnyk was contacted but seemed like “a very shy guy.”
“He doesn’t want us around,” she had said. The Guinness record for the tallest living man in the world is held by Sultan Kosen of Turkey, who measured at 8ft 3 inches in February 2011. (PTI)
Drop in Indian tourist in Singapore in H1
Singapore: The number of Indian tourists in Singapore dipped by one per cent on the year to 492,000 in the first half of 2014, according to latest offical figures Singapore Tourism Board (STB).
Spending by Indian tourists during the first half was also down by three per cent on the year at 284 million dollars, Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said today. However, India remains the top five tourist generating markets for Singapore, the STB said, adding that Indians are the third largest spenders in Singapore.
Overall, tourist arrivals in Singapore were down by 2.8 per cent at 7.5 million due to a 30 per cent drop in visitors from China. STB said 871,000 Chinese tourists visited Singapore during January-June 2014, this was 30 per cent drop on the year due to new restrictive China Tourism Law implemented in October last year.
In addition, regional events like the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, the abduction of Chinese tourists in Malaysia, and the political unrest in Thailand have all had a dampening effect on Chinese tourism, said STB.
Singapore received 1.525 million tourists during the first half from Indonesia, a three per cent from its largest tourist generating market. Tourist arrivals during the first six months fell by 2 per cent to 592,000 from Malaysia and dropped 3 per cent to 529,000 from Australia, the third and fourth biggest markets for Singapore. Tourism receipts continued to grow at 5 per cent year-on- year to hit 6 billion dollars, while gazetted hotel room revenue rose 8.8 per cent to 1.6 billion dollars. (PTI)