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on you put on a program to go and do it it would be show you have your kids show them attack our innovations magazine for. us from the every week and always looking to the future fund w dot com science and research for asia. i want to welcome to another edition of the show i'm your host meghan lee from dirty walls to pearl earrings we have lots of ground to cover here's a look at what's coming up. mr clean how klaus dolphin creates art on grain resurfaces. new and improved making the most of our
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discarded junk. and wine and dine at a german vision or with a new take on the bubbly. most prefer the artist look for empty walls to paste or spray paint on but they don't worry too much about whether the space is clean or dirty however with klaus douban the dirtier the wall the better and that's because he uses a high pressure cleaner to create his images now he calls his style reverse graffiti we met up with the artist at work in the south of france. painting with high pressure it's a way of life for german artist klaus dolphin. this time his canvas is a humble wall in the southern french city of sacha he plans to spray thirteen images of reverse scruffy to hear. dirt is removed from the wall
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giving rise to an image. i think of star that always i love working outside with all the challenges involved i'm often asked an interesting question does it bother me that the work is transients that it has a limited life span. but something temporary like this can carry meaning and messages about life when that is often used. his tool is a high pressure cleaner which he uses to spray water on to the wall darvon has worked for years with technician nick hytner from the castle company which makes the cleaners for this project the water for the high pressure water gun comes directly from the mediterranean. assurances that the beauty is in the fact that water is the only way to achieve such a brilliant contrast when you clean off the organic material it gives rise to such clear contours that lend the figures an astonishingly expressive quality think was
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a stone. dolphin used as wood stencil to create his reverse graffiti images. he's planned a series of thirteen portraits for the harbor wall portraits of people who once lived in set. of the. books and colleges with old photos of set and i've picked out the most expressive faces i didn't want celebrities but rather people whose faces really express something about life and that that was the only criterion just men women and children across section of society with the. city's location thirty kilometers. south of. it's one of the most important fishing ports on france's mediterranean coast. the harbor wall is one of its landmarks it's six hundred fifty meters long and nearly three meters high. the moral of the difference or the rhythm or lord of the
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office the harbor ward was the first building project the turn set into a city. of port was built three hundred fifty years ago. and that informed this artwork. on the first day dolphin completes three four tricks. in his day job he works as an art teacher but it's reversed chris features a copy pisces free time. he's collaborated with kaushal since two thousand and seven the german company is the world's biggest manufacturer of cleaning equipment their first major joint project was on the owner's dam in western germany with the work covering eight thousand square metres it was followed by blossoming flowers in japan in two thousand and eight and in two thousand and twelve a gigantic tiger in south korea. will be reversed graffiti is the perfect time form for me i've always had a weakness for large scale works now i can really bring that to life on dams
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there's no bigger canvas in art council has its own cultural sponsorship program along with more than three decades experience in cleaning monuments one of its most spectacular projects came in two thousand and five when it removed grime from the heads of the u.s. presidents on mount rushmore. it did the same for the statue of christ the redeemer in rio de janeiro at the helm and monument in germany. has cleaned more than one hundred forty tourist attractions worldwide free of charge. you don't need it. water or high pressure hoses. then you have to bridge the distances with power lines water connections and so on. you can also use generators to avoid long power cables. after three days darvon is finished and the said harbor wall is now probably the longest
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to open a gallery in the south of france. that's how long it remains depends on three factors the slope of the wall the direction it's facing and the climate my experience would say that because it faces north as a good chance this work will survive for at least five years. to people is the title of klaus novins tribute to thirteen city inhabitants although reverse graffiti fades over time his r.t. is likely to live on in the community's memory for years to come. the wedding of the year between prince harry and meghan markle is just over one month away but for those who can waited there is now a comic book recounting their love story that plus denmark celebrates a milestone birthday in today's express. the later. son would have turned one hundred this week to mark his centenary crown
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prince frederick opening an exhibition at the at sun center in showcasing the pritzker prize winners most important works among them his most to piece the sydney opera house. this is a man who we wish was still here and of course we should celebrate one hundred years because he is such an icon. but some conceived the center as a venue for students to meet and discuss their ideas for the future the building was completed in two thousand and eight a son's last work before his death the same year. crimes of the british monarchy can breed up on the latest royal romance in a new graphic novel by michael for the book entitled the royals prince harry and meghan markle describes how the couple met through a mutual friend in twenty sixteen. topics include harry's time in the military and michael's acting career. there said to my right all night in one thousand nine
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hundred windsor castle. in the demolition work has begun on the famous grandstand overlooking. a racing track. kilometer long race course was opened in one thousand twenty one and used exclusively for conversations until nine hundred forty when the stretch was integrated into a city moved away the last race on the obvious was held in one nine hundred ninety eight after which the grandstand was close to it since fallen into disrepair now part of it is being converted into an exhibition and event and should be finished in time for the race tracks hundredth anniversary in twenty twenty one. continuing now with our series on various musical instruments and today we take a look at the synthesizer a relative newcomer to the music family now first use in pop music in the one nine
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hundred sixty s. this is a sizer really took off in the eighty's when the company yamaha made it widely available bands like pink floyd journey or depeche mode would sound very different without them while we talk to a founding member of the german electronic band cough air about how the synthesizer has influenced their music. that generates a vast range of sounds and. one of the world's most famous play is. one of the founding members of german electronic music band cuff where. i was never a good violinist and i was an average recorder plath. want to get the feel for it the synthesizer is
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a really versatile and flexible instrument. victory here was a loss assistance for then. since the band played in the one nine hundred seventy s. were expensive and bulky. in the nineteen eighties bands like depeche mode helped to bring the synth into the mainstream it became these pop instrument of choice. developments in digital technology helped to make them more affordable to. the advent of music making software in the one nine hundred ninety s. enabled amateurs to produce electronic dance music from home. as well as on sex lives when we started in one thousand nine hundred six what we were doing seemed pretty radical people thought come on you can't seriously be using a computer to come up with a serious composition but we proved it was possible that.
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native instruments has its head office in the crowds big district of berlin. with branches in l.a. tokyo london and paris it's become the global leader in what's called softsynth. the programming is done in germany. algorithms are used to generate different sounds. he does in cement cling to look masculist of the code determines the sound of the instruments report on court and we've got a big team of people working on refining. the instruments of. i'm fine tuning the sound clung not white it's a foreigner. developers working for native instruments made waves in the year two thousand when they replicated the sound of the hammond organ. in twenty thirteen monarch software hit the market. this in three previous the
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analog sounds of a street assesses. that it's not all about copying other sounds the bell and bass developers have also produced their own since one of them is called massive. passive and sounds. very aggressive. you can produce a lot of distortion. want it suits all kinds of genres. some musicians like undetermined of german electro bands mass on mass now exclusively with soft synth. other prominent clients who visited native instruments include madonna u two and caltech but many less in their musicians pass through is well. it's great for people who can't afford to buy all their stuff you can work with the
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equipment without having to spend thousands of euros or so. many musicians using a software synthesizer funded trying to get used to not having a keyboard. some native instruments tries to replicate the feel of a piano or an organ. in berlin the company's developing input devices for software control which resemble normal people words. now before we still have ten fingers and two hands so long as we can use them i think we'll continue to play actual instruments. that might change in fifty or one hundred years but until then we'll make do with buttons in case the. lot isn't. people are fed up with messing around with virtual things they want to actually touch and feel stuff. it's the same with cooking shows you can watch
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people cooking but you can't smell the food you can't taste it and it's similar. that's why there's still demand for old school synthesizes software based instruments have a place in modern music production but connoisseurs know that nothing beats analog . and now is a good time to let you in on this week's contest we would like to know if you play an instrument and if so let us know when you can qualify to win a euro max watch please go to our website for all of the details now you might want to think twice the next time you throw something away because perhaps there is another use for the item upcycling has been a popular trend for a couple of years now and you would be surprised at what some designers are able to create. in the morning she is in his. measuring and building. he owns his
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livelihood by making new and unexpected objects out of old ones other people's junk is his precious resource. and you can take something like this shopping trolley. and this and. combine them. and make a low chair on rollers. he finds new uses for other people's trash like this so drainfield that he fished out of a skiff then turned into a little lamp and this seeming lamp of welded skylight salvaged from a demolished building it's been exhibited in a local museum discarded cross-country skis have morphed into a contract and an old fridge into a wine bar the fourth. i think is fascinating that and start of throwing things away you can take them apart work out how they were made. and fix them to make
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something new out of them whereas my. house just studying drama force well has she went on to forge a career as a director and filmmaker but then he discovered up cycling. in nov second d. this cycling includes the concept of up of making something better out of various elements. if you find two bad chairs and turn them into something useful. it gives him a sense of empowerment the feeling he can make a difference. but now you can sit on it and move around. the it's easy to throw stuff away let's say to make unique pieces from other people's trash these piano pedals are being repurposed. now sound of them. many of the paddles have holes in them. then you can take another component from
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the piano. remove about half the packs. then and then. make it into a rack for kitchen utensils. your hobby in order. to close one has already turned other parts of the piano source today jesse into new items for clients he's been commissioned to refurbish an entire room. for a couple who are teachers he designed a loft bed as well as shelves of book ace and stands custom built around a wardrobe they inherited. at the most because in the wardrobe we'll have to go more to the right or left to create a better sense of space. and. every piece of wood has a rich history including the piano lid from a dresser. to one or two hundred years old. and here's a door made from an old table. the idea is to take old materials used elsewhere and
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turn them into something different. the upside one has to hurry home to look after his daughter mila but everywhere he goes he keeps an eye open for junk he can use he says more than half the things germans toss in the trash are still in working order. this discarded cupboard door high. potential. in human brains someone who needs shelves. if into a beer desk will soon. call swab and get back to work in the afternoon he still has to vanish the dining table so the x. floor boards become a smooth surface that's easy to wipe clean hardly any of his own furniture is store bought your bed i made this center brothers bed as well. also custom built above everything is designed to be space saving and functional he
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worked on this piece for weeks sort of how it has to last and if possible be attractive and made of old materials and i try to maintain a sense of its previous purpose that's my idea of the american financial no i can't . swallow cause he wouldn't even think of throwing anything away he can make something new out of anything let alone all he needs is the right idea. and a lot of energy bell looks like a lot of work but a very creative nonetheless all right now you know you have made it when you have a statue unveiled in your honor for our ongoing high five series we take a look at some famous people who have been bestowed such an honor but when you see the following statues you'll see that it's not such an honor after all here are. five monuments of european stars but many surprise here.
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david bowie was known for his ever changing personas in trying to sculpt an equally a tactic statue of a length musician the maker of one artwork could have used a touch of bowie's genius our first place bowie with horse legs whatever the artistic intention not even bowie could have related to this one. the guy is a politician entrepreneur and hollywood actor in twenty eleven his home town of tal in austria dedicated a museum and a statue to its famous son our fourth place goes to this three hundred kilogram power house made of bronze the former mr universe himself commissioned an american artist to create the work. schwarzenegger began his career as a bodybuilder. talian actress gina lollobrigida had a more direct hand in the appearance of her statue the screen legend has worked as
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a sculptor for decades so in two thousand and one it was time for a self-portrait. third place goes to gina lollobrigida in her role as esmerelda more than sixty years ago. british actor colin firth has specialized in romantic leads since starring as mr darcy in the t.v. adaptation of pride and prejudice. scene where he emerges dripping wet from a lady turned into an overnight sex symbol. later mr darcy resurfaced as a statue in the different lakes in british politics part of a p.r. stunt it's number two on our roundup of off the wall celebrity statues. scenery in sudan is the current culture of ryall madrid and the french legend but
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he's probably best known for the head but he administered to an italian defender in the two thousand and six world cup final he was punished with a three match ban and a fine but he'll always have this reminder of his infamous foul cast in bronze our first place we think the pair look a bit like ty tango dancers. see i told you so all right now it's time for something to drink and normally you would drink white wine chilled in a glass but two entrepreneurs from germany have come up with another way to enjoy the drink in the form of pearls now the french would probably disapprove of this sort of tampering but in china wine pearls are a big hit. this is a new rule to enjoy in the. south in general i make you daniel cool now. creates a taste explosion with
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a little sweetness inside we've put a line into a product where it's never been before. the close maybe a new product but they've already found a following particularly among chinese girl names. german products are always well received in china where people are enthusiastic about wine and there's a big market there particularly for sweet wants. i haven't done business in china yet but i think these wind could be the ticket to introduce my wine to the chinese market with wide all indian doctor and. has more than twenty years experience of doing business in china and developed the one pulls with danielle what began as a p.r. stunt has turned into a best selling product. asian customers open the can and start spinning it out because it just tastes great. so it's a completely natural product with no chemicals or additives made from an extract so
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it's totally vegan. that this plan though they won't reveal any details right now they're experimenting with resonate with red wine. china is a big market. for up it says the girls are highly does the child. drink salt with sweet desserts or cheese they go very well with all of these things . or with fried fish on beetroot with potato chips. now will take your wonderful great the fish. even a good between meal snack. is. this tastebuds comes from a neck you like a strong i mean it's a more concentrated flavor in the mouth so people really like it the moon is a thing called the surface. poles make full creative cuisine from appetizer to main
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course and still very smooth there's no limit to the ways they can take the taste buds. a bubble tea comes from china so it's no surprise that this new product is ahead there and with that we come to the end of the show don't forget to check us out on social media which is facebook or instagram for more on the program as always for me and the rest of the crew here at euro max thanks for tuning in and we will see you again tomorrow. on the next edition of your i'm max page says the world's smallest republic the central neighborhood in the lithuanian capital vilnius it's home to many artists and the republic of this in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven it has a constitution currency and a president who works out of the seat of government in a local café state of the art in paris next time you're
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