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the young gun promising journalists who are now making names for themselves all over the. song might get along the way songs like bono. with continue. their experience of freedom in a sense is like the unions of that u.k. visit that what you call come back. when in your city what i work and did nobody. ever want to welcome to another edition of euro max today we are on the move here's a look at what's coming up. truck art
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a mobile art project takes to the roads in spain. back to front profiling all that all over curtis and his take on her tara feat. the tourist magnate modern day pilgrims on the way of st james. there is a clear distinction between the ard we see on the streets and the works in museums but more and more there is crossover between the two mediums street artists are displaying in galleries and museums and now in spain a group of contemporary artists have taken to the streets so to speak for the truck art project now i traveled to madrid recently to see what this involved. at first glance this may look like an abstract painting on a wall but look again and it's actually a work of art on the side of a truck. this is a truck art project an initiative in madrid twenty nine of spain's most established
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artists have taken part. as one of them. well it's a painting in movement on this i feel you. for this project was a challenge but in a positive sense. paintings normally hang on walls and not between cars that are zipping by. my clients paintings usually hang in galleries and museums including the well known ran us afia in the spanish capital but he stepped out of his normal element to participate in this project. my end of august also took part she's been active as a professional artist for fifteen years her works often involve graphic allegory.
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the chalk on project is now an important part of my work. and i look at lots with the symbol of the sacred hot and senses symbolism important in my own lives i decided to put it on the truck. about the artist for the truck art project were chosen by the curators. when they come to me the first wanted to do on the street and i came up with a ring you know on in their brain there's. different art these are not normally used to show in their art. in the streets and normally they're only did this painting me to. endure. annabel rica is also one such artist her words are often quite colorful and playful aside from painting a truck she was also commissioned to paint a mural on the transport company's grounds.
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and. an infant that it was a big challenge to adapt to the. modern in such a short period of time. but it was amazing to take part in this project. you know. it was something new for me because i'm used to working in closed rooms with viewable formats. the trucker project is the brainchild of entrepreneur high mccall so he started this transport company five years ago but his true passion is art which is displayed on the walls both inside and outside of the company. funded the truck art project with money from
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his transport firm. it is important that companies these days use part of their profit to return to the to the society and i think that they do say. social responsibility or corporate responsibility and and we are promoting our time letting and some people enjoy. the trucks operate all over spain so the public at large have a chance at funny member. on the road or in town for know their numbers are limited the coast says looking to expand the project to one hundred trucks or more and early next year there will also be an event for all the trucks can be seen together
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in one big road show. the next edition of the asterix and comic books has hit the bookshelves now the story recounts the adventures of the galaxy hero and his portly sidekick but this time in italy more on this at the top of today's express. at long last he's back with a new adventure asterix and the chariot race. the thirty seventh comic in the series has asked it's an ancient italy for the first time aside from a few brief appearances in rome on previous advantages this is the third story penned by julian fifty and drawn by da. dio took over from asterix is now ninety year old in the strata of best in two thousand and nine. among this year's laureates for the premium imperial our spanish architect raphael
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mondeo and left three an american dancer and choreographer mikhail baryshnikov. the award ordering them for their life's work is one of the most prestigious international art prizes and it comes with an award of around six hundred thousand euros it's presented every year in tokyo. on friday the british library will get a touch of wizardry with the exhibition titled harry potter a history of magic. it looks back at the twenty years since the publication of j.k. rowling's first novel harry potter and the philosopher's stone. on display are copies from the author's private archive alongside numerous manuscripts illustrations and other treasures from the british library's vast collection the exhibition will run until february twenty eighth twenty eighteen.
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conny plank was a music producer who shaped germany's electronic can use it seen like no other and he began working as a sound engineer in the late sixty's and he went on to produce numerous bands from new wave to the genre known as crowd rock well a new documentary about his life and work was released last month and it just scratches the surface of cannae plunks prolific output. yes. the debut album by british pop duo your is mix. ultravox is vision of vienna. and italian pop classics by john and the name. again this is. all produced by kani plus the musicians who
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loved it and saw him as a kind of eccentric father figure. and shingled school i use any time i can to work with groups and to find new possibilities. and new forms of sound. in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and early seventy's bands like cough truck con and noise seen here were shaking off old conventions and revolutionizing rock music. conny plank was the one sitting at the controls even david bowie was impressed with the new crowd rock scene. conny plank son stefan practically grew up in his father's studio. now he's made a film about his dad. the new i'm just
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people would say hey aren't you coney son how did he do what he did by sitting there and i didn't have an answer for that every so often i'm full but now i do and four and the answer is that he likes musicians who are authentic to the music and and he savored those moments when a man was just coming together band and really becoming a unit the fall and the siesta multiband filled. kind of clock studio was not in west berlin but in a small town outside cologne in a farmhouse that plunker. convert. the fittest oh that is the horse stalls are now the control room where all the equipment is used the mixing desk. far away from the charts the record companies the journalists only the music matters. here is mix we're still trying to find their feet when they recorded their first album here him one nine hundred eighty one the influence of
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krautrock is easy to hear. that was before their big breakthrough and conny plank showed them the way they're . going. to fall that if you sat at the back and listened engineer the busa it was allowed to go touch the disco and anything you suggested. there would be no econ to that because you know the levels will be kind of up at the bands off the often encourage the band so that at some point they were basically just jamming a bit in the studio and he listened very carefully to what would happen then he could get out and then he'd say don't do that don't change anything that we're recording and just like that all. in the early one nine hundred eighty s.
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west german band d f came to the studio they planned to record an album in three days they spent the first two experimenting. kone let the musicians do their thing and then he gave it all a lift who could use them. the result was d.f. provocative classic tungsten muscling me in one thousand nine hundred eighty one. but. it was a hit by. i mean to me money is something that runs in and out just like my tapes and it runs through it and gets used and. that's why we have a slightly different understanding of capital than the major industries. county plant died of cancer at the age of just forty seven the film pays tribute to a man for whom experimentation was always more important than success for home
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music was not a product but i must post for those who make it and for those who listen to it. switching gears now and for those of you in need of a coat rack but can't find the right one then why not build it yourself our resident d.i.y. expert sorry hansen shows us how. hi i'm glad the first impressions matter so it's great that people will think and that. today i want to show you how to make a co-director out of your class so you know. you need a glued spruce wood board which you can get at the hardware store zari chose one
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that's a two by twenty centimeters. wouldn't close hang is that he is using six identical ones hand so to cut the clothes hangers to size a piece of paper is somewhat larger than one of the clothes hangers a pen or pencil and a roulette. a power screwdriver a four millimeter woodrell and a flat drill bit. cabinet suspension brackets and compatible screws. phillips two millimeter woodrell and twelve compatible screws. sandpaper. painted in a color of your choice is obvious using chalk paint because it creates a mat finish you can also get it at the hardware store if you need a container for the paint or rubber band and a paint brush of course transparent would wax to seal the paint. first place one of the clothes hangers on the piece of paper and trace its outline. then determine the place where the clothes hanger is to be sort of pass mark the spot with
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a pencil and ruler and transfer that line to your template. now you can use the relates to place each of the hang is on the template in order to get an exact line for the cutting. using the handsaw saw the clothes hangers along the cutting line. when you've completed that step measure out the positioning of the handles on the wooden board first measure the desired distance to the outside edges. exactly as decided on a distance of ten center. it is to the side five to the top and six point five to the bottom use the pencil to mark where you want the drill holes to be starting with the first pencil mark make a cross above and below if you twelve centimeters so that all six clothes hangers can be placed equidistant from each other then drill the holes with a wooden bit you can smooth out the drilled holes with a piece of sandpaper. in order to hang the coat track put the cabinet suspension brackets on the reverse side first drill the holes fill them with
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a flat drill bit you can find those in every hardware store along with this is a bench in brackets. now you can paint the wooden plank as desired on all sides allow the painted draw authority that takes about half an hour which will paint then seal the surface using transparent well supplied with a paint brush or cloth. now you can mount this is pension brackets using the palace screwdriver and the screws on the left and right sides of the board. it's best to use a small drill bit to make holes in the clothes hangers before mounting them on the board position the holes exactly in the center and screw the hang is to the board from the back adjust the positioning as needed to. mount all the clothes hanging is this way. and then your career track is finished and ready to be hung on the wall. if you like you can pay back. or that will give co-directed
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a nice romantic event it's a lot. more advanced project if you ask me but if you would like to see that video again and try to yourself then just go to our youtube page called d w interior design all right moving on now to british and french harbor for all over curtis who has his camera out at all the major landmarks but instead of shooting the obvious curtains captures the atmosphere of the surrounding area now you might not even recognize where the picture is being taken that is exactly the point of his photography. this is buckingham palace as we know it the official london residence of the british monarchy and a tourist attraction that's been photographed millions of times. british
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photographer all of a cut his time taste back on fantasy to capture an entirely different picture. the picture was taken because i find the humor of the white people some of these like asians particularly interesting. they stand in a way they do peculiar things that i'm completely invisible because i'm just another tourist to them. with this method is produced on usual images for his series of. the famous sights visible they can only be guessed at best for example behind this. is the taj mahal in india. and this is what all of a cutting. back on the colosseum in rome. took this photo at the foot of the statue of liberty. the long view spending one place the more the landscape yields it starts to speak back to you and i realize that one
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of the things that these locations have in common is that people spend very little time there have a cup of tea and ice cream and they go on to take a box yep in that scene it done it. for this project all of a the whole world for four years taking photos in the vicinity of forty four tourist attractions. it all started with the pyramids in egypt. i was in cairo on a job and took the opportunity to visit the pyramids like any tourist would when i go i was surprised by half a million the place was even gotten a visit. before so i walked around the base of the pyramid and find myself looking back out to the suburbs of giza and i was really struck by the in congress nature when i was seeing this brand new private golf course sandwiched between the old city and the desert. place was the start of
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a journey that's also taken him to rio de janeiro and the lincoln memorial in washington. he turned his back on the great wall of china. as well as lenin's two in moscow that the last piece from the front not that overlooked in the sense that we looked over them. but they were overlooked in the sense of the neglected not just photographically the neglected environmentally and then a glinted architecture. for now curtis has had enough of photographing tourist attractions . he discovers one more motif of the buckingham palace. we've got three cowboys over here i mean for me that is fantastically interesting it's surreal it's in congress. and it's very funny. you know i would never have scripted that in a million years and yet there they are. the way of st
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james is a popular pilgrimage for groups of all ages now it's actually a network of paths that runs throughout europe now all roads lead to santiago de compostela in spain but the best known part is the last section which covers a stretch of eight hundred kilometers across northern spain to the final destination of the shrine of st james now the route is called camino and it's been a unesco world heritage site since one thousand nine hundred ninety three. well while the pilgrimage has always been an important spiritual journey for many christians its popularity is now growing among ordinary tourists. since the one nine hundred ninety s. the number of pilgrims walking the way of st james has tripled twenty seventeen will be another record year on the camino decide to go hiking holiday instead of a spiritual journey. what is the height doing to the camino and the people who walk
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it. the first pilgrims get off to an early morning start like here in sharia and go. you're not alone for long runs off from hit only has been on the trail for two weeks now. and i don't know how much time we will have. maybe when you know when you. i'm planning to go to. the u.s. the point the money and they do pay. most of the pilgrims choose the best known route to what is believed to be the grave of st james called to come you know friends say as it goes from france to santiago de compostela it's eight hundred kilometers long people go by foot bicycle head lately by taxi. like. oh yeah five minutes five minutes by taxi anyone can do that.
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we have with you just and it would just have a. lot of these mexican women book their pilgrimage on line including route mapping luggage service and daily taxi rides camino komodo the relaxed way to get to your destination. twenty one kilometers and six hours later a rest stop in porto marine the pilgrims passport is a kind of merit page collection stamps from every station is proof of the kilometers travelled. friend and merissa used to work in the fields now they run a hostel and restaurant the influx of pilgrims has given this agricultural region a real economic boost. some five hundred hostels have sprung up along the camino. okies though we used to be very isolated here but this development is wonderful we can all make it to them now we can and money and that's good and we are not. the
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next stage ends in palestine or a some seventy kilometers from santiago. the missionary hopes that the increased traffic on the camino will also benefit the church. they don't observe it pilgrim sort of the path with those who have no faith. they come into contact with each other and talk to each other exchange experiences that's infectious. nonbeliever starts reflect through contacts. back. for their religious spiritual or simply emotional those moments exist when the spirit of the way of st james appears . so beautiful. downy approach to late season is worried that the tourism industry will ruin that
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spirit it makes the pilgrimage too easy. with a lot of people don't even carry a backpack but at the end of the day the camino is a metaphor for life. and you carry all your problems with you in your back pocket with what you know. just five kilometers to go to santiago de compostela back to reality the final leg leads through an adult's trail zone and the tourist area. finally we reach the cathedral of santiago. some people are happy others are pensive everyone has reached their own destination. this path is unique and it needs to stay that way that's the great hope of the people who walk it with such great expectations. and with that we wrap up today show as always thanks for tuning in and we'll see you again tomorrow . next time on your own backs
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