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almost the same core to the social inequality that the freedom of the press. we've gone that far to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans and see the microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is johnny paris and i work. i want to welcome to another week of your remarks i'm your host meghan lee from gallo van ting in venice to making of musical instruments we have a packed show in store for you here's a look at what's coming up. cereals to do sir
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a new museum in venice showcases casanova. instant gratification the enduring appeal of the polaroid. and insider travel tips a barcelona blogger shows us around town. the word casanova is part of common everyday speech synonymous with womanizer but the man who is actually responsible for its meaning jacomo casanova was an italian philosopher and writer from venice his own my biography called story of my life is considered one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of european social life during the eighteenth century well now a new museum in venice gives visitors a closer look at the other aspects of casanova's life.
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a trip back in time to a more lavish era many say the city of lovers on the adriatic is the most beautiful in the world but not everyone knows that venice is also the birthplace of one of the most famous lovers of all time. casanova. he was going in this alley in seven hundred twenty five. a small marble plaque commemorates one of the city's most colorful sons. i admire him a lot his not only about lover i think but also his good translator he bidets the lottery a fraud in france his sole carders that he only a prisoner that succeeded in escaping the body if you've got a. clear who is a student who came from paris for two days to find out more about casanova and she happened to meet another fan kano poet who just opened the first museum dedicated
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to casanova. and this employees think a lot of tourists take selfies in front of the plaque. that's why i think venice should have more cost and over than this because people are curious about him and want to know more on the borders it does it on topic yes the disappearance of the north. pole not so papa found in the country a geo district this is where the businessman found a space for the casanova museum which he financed himself. six rooms allow visitors to explore who casanova really was more than just an eighteenth century playboy. because on all the more formal casanova was much more a great writer a philosopher and musician alchemy and even a spy his thoughts on other. multimedia technologies introduced the
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famous figure beginning with his youth in venice and continuing up to his death in seven hundred ninety eight casanova was a free spirit and an adventurer his restlessness pushed him to travel throughout europe where he met important people of his day like french philosopher and russian empress catherine the great. casanova's twelve volume memoir provides plenty of interesting insights into the eighteenth century life but the venetian is mostly famous for his a rhotic escapades they've inspired countless films and helped turn casanova into a legend. a smartphone app who guides visitors outside the museum in the footsteps of the famous lover. cousin of his mother was an actress this small porch is where he grew up in his grandmother's house later he said to have lived with his father by
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the grand canal in the. next the app brings visitors to the piazza san marco to the famous cafe florian this is where the mission high society met during casanova's lifetime. we have ended up in space so the other person overcame her off of the government especially during the carnival they were also cited he sat in one of our aims and flirted with women. or that he was one of venice has great characters and a highly refined man at our. vasaloppet so i got a little bored. but casanova also had enemies in seven hundred fifty five he was arrested by the inquisition and thrown into a dungeon. here in the doge's palace in a small cell with a lead roof the master of seduction was imprisoned for a year before managing to escape. he would later write
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a book about his flight over the rooftops it became a european bestseller and brought him plenty of adulation. settle down arthel and he stayed here across the canal. as a story of his flight definitely helped cost and over make himself more interesting to many european aristocrats at the time and they would all buy the good better you know they'll just want you to casanova also leads to this small town for the real to abridge it's reputed to have been constant favorite and the highlight for claire . this attracted to all and not only because he's very handsome but also he's really talented i think he has so much confidence in himself and he does magic. of course you shouldn't take everything in casanova's memoirs at face value but the hunt for clues is exciting and gives fans of the world's greatest lover
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a chance to discover a different side of than us. from an italian heartbreaker to a french one in the cinema legend paul belmondo the french actor has had a successful film theatre in producing career spanning several decades while he shot to international fame after the movie breathless in which he played a criminal playboy belmondo has just turned eighty five and we take a look back now at his life and work in celebration. his face is unmistakable john paul belmondo has appeared in nearly one hundred lives. in september twenty sixth team the french film icon was joined on the red carpet by a famous compatriot sophie marceau. the man that was being awarded a golden lion for lifetime achievement at the venice film festival i thank you thank you the ceremony he
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recalled his acting debut decades ago in italian film. when i was young i was eighteen i went to rome. i went looking for chennai cheetah. i searched and i searched and i searched but i couldn't find out. you know all so i went back home. and then vitoria they seek god. he sent me a telegram asking me to work with sophia loren who on the. so. all . that was in one nine hundred sixty belmondo appeared alongside lorena in the war film two women the italian actress was already an international star.
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the young french actor had his own major breakthrough that same year with another film as the antihero is shown with existential gangster movie breathless he plays the part of a petty criminal who shoots a policeman. while on the lam mondo's character falls in love with a woman who in the end betrays him his last words made film history. and on the hit . this final scene lifted the then twenty seven year old to world renowned. breathless was a massive hit and was soon considered a classic of the new belt filmmaking movement. as time passed belmondo began to play other types of roles in more commercially successful comedies and action films. his pain grew quickly
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fans love the actor as well as his movies. he enjoyed playing traditional macho roles like here as a french legionnaires and. worn in one nine hundred thirty three in a suburb of paris as the son of a renowned sculptor the mundo was an avid boxer as a teenager but. then decided to train as an actor. his memorable face and cheeky grin became trademarks and standout roles like the warm hearted and funny role the rebel with a big mouth for the action hero who worked without a stunt double. in france the mundo soon became a household name although some film critics complained he had sold out. by the early one nine hundred eighty s. they better as he was known was shooting an average of three films
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a year. in real life the road was a little rockier for the box office darling el mundo suffered a stroke in two thousand and one that he was unlucky in love both of his marriages ended in divorce. he also eventually parted ways with former playmate barbara. she was by his side at the two thousand and eleven cannes film festival when he received a golden call to honor his life's work. i still love cinema if someone offered me a part i like i play it all came a praise. john paul belmondo even at eighty five the legendary french actor still enjoys the spotlight. married men in the u.k. carried an extra load on their backs over the weekend and in london the stars of the third avengers film took to the red carpet that and more in today's express.
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on sunday the stars of the film avengers three infinity ward attended a fan event in london among them were british actors benedict cumberbatch and tom holland in the third part of the series more superheroes than ever join up to confront evil on the silver screen. it's kind of relaxing going into a film not having to worry about new relationships because you already know everyone. this side by extravaganza will premiere on april twenty third. the town of dorking hosted the eleventh annual u.k. wife carrying championships on sunday with men taking back in their spouses over a slippery two hundred fifty four metre course the proud winners chris happy fourth and tunisia prince will now represent their country at the world championship event
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in finland at the. beginning of july. the national gallery in london officially opened its manet and architecture exhibition on monday it focuses on the role the buildings and structures played in the work of the french impressionist more than seventy five of the artists paintings are on display he could use the regular shape of architecture against the irregularity of nature so that's a great diversity of range to the way buildings were used and all those work the exhibition is the first in london to be dedicated solely to the artist work in more than twenty years on an architecture runs until july twenty ninth. the world's largest trade fair for musical instruments is underway this week in frankfurt so in that vein we're taking a look at five manufacturers of instruments starting with one company which produces bass guitars yes the rich are in a seam only make about seventy instruments per year and most of their customers are
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in the us and they've included some of the biggest names in rock n roll history. this is young and his workshop in davis time in southern germany. when richard builds a guitar he's in a world of his own. because he's very meditative when you get absorbed in a wood and imagine how you want the guitar to look. and then you remove wood from the places it doesn't belong and. this bass guitar is for the brazilian band george a question. church a question is massively popular in south america the group has sold several million
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records. and. they're a little different in that you get a feel for the spectrum of harmonics the response the high frequences and fresh. you get an idea of what it will sound like later for. winter loves to experiment one of the instrument makers ideas was to immerse the body of a guitar in wine for more than a year the piece of shaped aged in a five hundred leader barrel of riesling. at the end of two thousand and seventeen the bass made from it was auctioned off for a good cause. isn't actually the best wood for guitar building but the wine removed some of the
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particulates suspended in the piece improving its sound quality it's. great it's a little harder and more aggressive i wouldn't expect that from this region. which are built his first bass in his mid twenty's since then he's made a big name for himself in the field the world over he constantly experiments with new shapes and surfaces musicians who perform with madonna and elton john played his instruments in the late superstar prince was also a client of the diet a time workshop. was. in. the news i was in a supermarket in hollywood buying milk. and prince called me on the space his phone from the rehearsal room and ordered an instrument and.
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credible. transcript. of the guy. i. really feels connected to new york. where he had his breakthrough the united states is the most important market for electric basses in guitars. even the metropolitan museum of art has purchased one of the german instrument makers spaces. but he's still a little nervous when he hands over a new instrument to its buyer will the brazilian musician like the new bass. like a dream. the brazilian has found precisely the sound he was looking for. all the wrong for.
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right. around right here. right now is a good time to let you in on this week's contest and we would like to know if you play an instrument yourself if so please let us know and go to our website for all of the details right now a days most people don't think twice about taking a photo with their phone and having an instant image but back in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's instant cameras were something of a revolution in photography and the quality wasn't so great but that wasn't the main attraction now an exhibition in northern germany puts the polaroid camera front and center with hundreds of interesting instant images. those were the days spanked when you could take up to five minutes for a picture to appear after you press the shutter. looking roy project in hamburg cops back to the heyday of the instant camera from the one nine hundred seventy s. to the nine hundred ninety s.
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around ninety different models are on display in the exhibition including many of the earliest prototypes. and. people were so excited emotionally by the public we're going this is amazing the color is so vibrant you can see that here the color is so alive the exhibition also includes two hundred forty polaroids taken during the decades of the cameras popularity including works by andy warhol and other renowned artists. having a picture doesn't actually make you develop more quickly but it can bring back memories people loved it because it brought them together taking the picture is not with a smartphone there isn't so much. you know communal it's not so communal and the inventor said that that's what he wanted. he wanted to create a new kind of friendship. digital photography and the quick gratification it brings
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at first seems to herald the end of the polaroid a retro trends have helped revive interest. there are now sleek new models for sale and even asked for smartphones to give digital sean unmistakable polaroid look. it's real it's authentic everybody knows about the digital camera it's false everybody knows it can be tricked everybody wants to look younger everybody wants to look more beautiful more social more successful happier right and you can you can make happy happy as it looks like happy or make everybody smile but you couldn't do that with polaroid. if you still have an instant camera started away on a shelf somewhere dusted off and bring it along to the exhibition and enjoy the five minute white after pressing the shutter.
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in time not to take a trip thanks to a viewer request from chile isabella big cool now would like to know more about the spanish city of barcelona now it's located in the northern part of the country right on the coast and barcelona offers a great combination of beach and cultural activities now this city is synonymous with the architect antony gowdy who left his mark on the park's buildings and most notably an unfinished cathedral well despite the recent political turmoil in the city barcelona remains spain's top tourist destination and here's why. it's impressively diverse both catalonian and cosmopolitan barcelona is the city with heaps to offer according to. the writer and blogger knows almost every corner of the city and lots about its history.
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is that my thanks to the sea barcelona is connected via trading routes across the mediterranean with the rest of europe it's the sea that made barcelona into a city that. to get an impression of the size of the city we had for lunch a week the hill that overlooks barcelona. was a thank you from here we can see the entire city including the psycho out of familia which will be the highest building in barcelona one day eight spires have been completed up till now. another ten still have to be built you can take a cable car up to the top of the. one hundred eighty four meter high hill one middle foundation was set up here on monday week in one nine hundred seventy five during the artist's life time middle was keen to create a museum for his works in a place that had inspired him. in one dream.
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miro does not have as much of a connection to nature as in his summer house but this is still a place that's close to nature one minute with only his wolf and nature is a constant reference point in narrows you from that if it in fact understand me to . barcelona has a wonderful natural setting. is keen to show off which in most likes about her home city in her blog. the barcelona i like. her favorite church is located in the old fisherman's quarter of elbowed sentiment them out it was built in the fourteenth century in just fifty five years by bell and gave them on the good. the church is catalonia is only entirely gothic structure left standing. it's a must on this tour between the mountains and the sea in less than a third of the two figures at the doorway are the stone masons who dragged the
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stones from mulch a week on their way back down the coast to build the church of santa maria del mar it was great last night yes it was. after a good meal it's time to head for the next hill past until these famous houses castle but show and cousin to one of europe's most unusual architectural complexes listen to mud in his study send powell it was built in one thousand nine hundred two by luis dominical went on a and declared a unesco world heritage site in one nine hundred ninety seven. this place used to be called the shaven mountain because there was absolutely nothing here. this was where the architects built the hospital the more you know one of the most innovative of its time in the lot he built the site at forty five degrees to the city grid of the district lending the complex a perfect north south axis not. to round off the day we hung on
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a historic tram to reach the city's highest point the five hundred twenty meter high t.v. double. there can't be many amusement parks with the rides on for such spectacular views. in barcelona you're always walking up or down you could say it's built on seven hills like rome more or less my son and. so if you're off to barcelona remember to pack some comfortable shoes. and with that it is time to say goodbye don't forget to friend us on facebook for more on the show as always thanks for tuning in and we will see you again tomorrow . on the next edition of
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