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climate change. pollution. is a good time for good news. for a couple of people and projects that are changing the environment for the better it's up to us to make a difference let's show. people what. the environment magazine. long d w. i want to welcome to another edition of euro max from flower displays fit for a king to luxury chocolate treats we have lots of fun topics on the show today here's a look at what's coming up. singing songs music maker routes. and careers
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unusual instruments. are disagreeing range from an down your boss is a top floral designer for the belgium. frequent flyer german artist who of these funds bismarck is in the ground around the world. but first we start off the show with this week's series on musical instruments and singing songs have been a part of that family for about one hundred years now the most famous player of the singing saw was arguably actress marlene addict who played it at how they would parties all the musician and locksmith ralph produces his musical saws in a workshop in germany and he delivers them to customers all over the world well we paid him a visit in the studio. this
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is an area for a kind of sound a musical song accompanied by a harp people mostly think of saw as a something used to cut wood. but for real stuff isn't there his favorite musical instrument he spends his days performing teaching and making singing songs as. i was always on the lookout for across something i could make i worked as a guitar technician i was used to tuning instruments but i never built any myself and that to me is what it's all about to explore it and to stay on the ball. musical saw its first coach to his dance attention when he saw the cult movie delicatessen many years ago. the scene featuring two characters playing a saw and a cello on a roof is one of the movies most well known sequences. to metallic but if involved when i saw the film i thought wow that's an incredible sound thing and. i want to
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try that myself. but it's haunting and special. you know i've never heard anything like it you know look i'm for it like bottom sound for the instrument get heard first he started playing sauce but then he also started making them nowadays he produces about one hundred singing songs per year each one is unique accomplished under the public a lot of the sound results from the s. curve of the blade so if i bend the saw in just one direction you'll hear only a screech at best. but when i then the blade and twist it into two directions at either end to get an s. curve. it starts to vibrate to the point that but control. the sound also depends on the length and take this of the plane. and the surface might have been sanded differently. a closer look reveals that
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a typical feature of a song is missing. a proper sort of course has teeth. that way you can saw the news the other side to make music. but regular tunes tend to be too thick. this material is very flexible. there pink that. you couldn't use a real cross cut so for this initially i made my singing stalls with teeth but that made them awkward to handle. and teeth on exactly ideal if the musician is wearing trousers or address. it in the living saw. singing songs also have handles customers can choose from a variety of different words to the side usually it's a grip to the tip of the plate that makes it easier to play. the instrument any day came in the one nine hundred twenty s. german film star molina dietrich often performed with the song and brought it into
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the spotlight in hollywood. but since then it's fallen into obscurity. and i think it is the sound of a musical so it's of course special with the normal ear couldn't stand to listen to it for ninety minutes at a stretch usually it's only played for two minutes or so maybe five or a maximum of ten minutes after that you have to have something else the sound is very piercing and really irritates some people. but it also has its fans. a sing song world championship took place in poland in two thousand and eleven. took fourth place where if you look at other stories making headlines on the cultural scene and a new addition to the word issue a royal family is expected shortly that was paris bustling with act following
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renovation work the ritz hotel in paris is preparing to auction off some ten thousand objects from its more than one hundred years history among the articles that will go under the hammer is above town from eight hundred ninety eight here the hotel. curial has reconstructed some of the most luxurious rooms for potential beyond. the famous coco chanel suite. the auction kicks off next week and is expected to bring in proceeds of around one million euro. ditto to the union jack fans of britain's royal family have been arriving outside seven mary's hospital in london. catherine duchess of cambridge is expected to give birth to her third child there any day now. might be a bully i'm not sure that whatever is over that might balance out. the number of people awaiting the royal birth outside the hospital is expected to grow
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on monday police sets up security barriers. the first digital art center in paris is set to open on friday with a little help from one hundred twenty video projectors visitors to the ten metre high rooms in the i tell you the new will be able to walk through some of the world's most famous paintings. the exhibition will begin with works by christopher sim and. the organizers seem to use digital technology to introduce the fine arts to his wider public as possible. have you ever wondered how certain people land certain jobs well daniel lost a well known florist from brussels got his start out in the field getting his hands dirty well now decades later aust is a supplier of flower arrangements to the belgian royal family but they aren't his
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only customers he's in demand worldwide and is now considered one of the best florists in the world. to stick flower arrangements on display in japan for us over at an indian wedding in italy. arrangements are and the world over. the belgian turns everything green amazing displays. in his home country is known as the picasso with flower arranging but compliments like that just make the modest florist smile. many people say he's an artist. of the flowers. but on my name.
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very blue the title is not important. opened his first florist shop in one thousand nine hundred eighty. four years later he moved there with his family in two thousand and three he opened another store in the belgian capital brussels today he's a well known figure in the country. discovered his love of flowers at an early age . my grandfather was a farmer. i was already flowers and at that time the pits. were still open and i fell into that pit. almost lost my life and my grandfather just arrived i think. any of. my. flowers were to become his
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overriding passion. among. the belgian royal family. top fashion labels. this is for the fashion designer. this is his favorite flower and. it is it became iconic or because it has been maybe copied fifty times. and beauty brands also embellished their images with signature look. it's the back of the. cosmetic shop in in getting into. and this is there is it's called korean but. it's done one by one and there is.
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that project took two days and nights his wife marianne has played a key role in his career. my wife i would be nothing i wouldn't be famous and nobody would ever exist in the she was my she was stabilizing me she was keeping with my two feet on the ground. that's all. the two married forty years ago there were a few speed bumps my father and mother didn't want us to get married and her father and mother. to get married and the priests were talking about because he made a mistake. he was talking about another couple and it was. made a terrible mistake. don't forget it will always be first
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with these flowers and then you will be second. yeah that's true yeah. sort of passed on that passion for plants to their daughter and she runs the business in brussels. doing the impossible and doing it perfectly that's what drives generations twenty seventeen turned royal wedding in the emirate of man into a scene out of a fairy tale to do it she had to fly in over thirty thousand flowers from the netherlands by hand and arranged them while ensuring they got enough water. one hundred people to meet for two weeks. has followed in her father's footsteps after years of hesitation on his part she finally convinced him to work his court florists with a belgian royal family i think it's it's life and it's something you have to deserve every time again because it's not something that is guaranteed for years to come so again there is
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a pressure. daughter apparently fried pressure donald's just returned from new york city's but tanika garden into a sea of kids. the orchid show will be on display until the end of april. the sixty two year old has already moved on to other challenges working with flowers is one of the most a family of art forms. and this is my love. that's that's important i like to like what i do i'm always forced to make new things and that is why i like about it and belgium's most famous florist plans to keep on creating masterpieces for years to come. but the artist in our next report tries to strike a balance between outdoor adventure and large scale installation uli is fun
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bismarck is a master of experiments connecting art with science and challenging our perception of things while his installations video projects and performances have earned him the evolved art prize worth a total of eighty thousand euros well we caught up with him here in berlin to hear about this latest projects. see. the pressure inside this balloon has to be just right for this special artwork to function probably it's connected to he will use one bismarck so-called top shot helm visitors at the gallery and even the most often don't see the helmet can then see themselves from above thanks to a downward facing camera dangling from the balloon. it's a folks a kind of out of body experience bismarck's art is all about playing with how we perceive things. but this was the first work where i said ok this is finished i
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want to get it was stage where i can put it on display during. his market work in his but in studio. his conceptual art involves a fair share of workmanship there's plenty of sanding and welding involved some parts need to be riveted glued. sliced it's probably hard to understand as an outsider just how elaborate these things sometimes are experts with lots of know how i needed to develop them what we're doing here is a kind of research a different kind of research into totally different things. like what it's like to live inside a spinning bowl that rotates fifteen times a minute for four days the artist had no idea what to expect. from after the experimental i do these experiments because i don't know what will
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happen a week before the exhibition i briefly stepped inside the ball and instantly felt queasy and i thought oh my god this won't work but after a while i learn to cope and i overcame that initial motion sickness. do the minimum for what about been part. time the spinning. much work egocentric system. in it you'd better find something to keep yourself occupied if you don't want to feel miserable. bismarck's offices right beside his studio as high demand for his works and he's often busy planning trips abroad to showcase them his ass takes him around the world. in his punishing series the artist of which a series of landscapes from the waves off topic up on a beach to the swiss alps. he was end up wondering just what it is he hates so much about nature and that's exactly the kind of response bismarck wants to elicit but
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he refuses to explain his works. in twenty fifteen he got a dozen assistance to spray paint a section of mexican rainforest in white paint but that was just the first step. to devise a good deal with the basic white clay i guarantee that everything got painted afterwards so what you see at the colors that were picked by the person who repainted it with the proper thought. bismarck's assistance then went on to paint the rain forest a second time in different shades of green using environmentally friendly paint of course. it was important to me not to have a negative environmental impact so we use colors that are toxic with you know i had to drink the color in front of the eyes of the locals to prove it wasn't toxic and wouldn't damage the environment. landscape painting in the jungle on
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a scale of one to one. indigenous people are used to crazy white people coming to them with all kinds of projects or because they're building a road through their forest or extracting oil. building a hotel or setting up a plantation. so the people there viewed painting the rain forest as one of the nicer requests. some part of me become. bismark is also fascinated by rocks with blowing them up to be precise. then he likes to piece them back together again just another of his quirky works in some ways not all that different from top shot helen. who has a small head it's a fourth provoking experience. place this man says he has tripled vision.
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moving on to another type of experiment a do it yourself project and this week our resident a d.i.y. expert franz in kuwait us shows us how to make use of some of our old photo negatives that may still be lying around the house we learn now how to turn them into a positive source of light. hello i haven't been and i'm sure that those of you with i don't know photos have lots of negatives lying around today i will show you how you can make this really original from the you on the table and made with this movie and leave out that didn't get too hot to. the negative. much fog and. the brush. put down
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a working surface advantage is very sticky and measure out how long the negatives have to be to fit on one side. i do the film strips horizontally but they also look really great when. sticking negatives. i go to the perforated sides so they overlap and cut of protruding and. from time to time at the very end spread your view over the negatives as well with the negatives along all the false sides. once you finish doing it you can stick down the edges with tape so the corners of rounded off. and now you're very individual and it's finished and you can bask in memories of days gone by. i use color negatives you can also use second white negatives which are good at the level set and read.
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into your design at it's best check out our you tube channel detail interior design stunning ideas spectacular buildings and d.i.y. tutorials on home decoration will take you inside the most beautiful european homes show you the latest in furniture. bricks and accessories subscribe and don't miss out. on you tube. and finally it's time for something sweet master chocolate here kevin cool experiments with a wide variety of ingredients when it comes to making the right piece of candy whether light or dark flat or a sculpture he turns chocolate into art now cools masterpieces have earned him top honors in the chocolate world so let's see for ourselves the passion behind this pleasure. many would agree
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this is a dream job having kugel what's with chocolate every danny some better some. but always of the highest quality. from the town of nufringen close to stuttgart likes making people happy with his sweet creations. i love it because we set a really great product and ninety nine point nine percent of our customers are happy while they're here that's a nice feeling. a young entrepreneur has made a name for himself in the business the twenty thousand german chocolate must also did well at the world championships the following yeah and he is now the official ambassador for chocolate from ecuador he never tires of working with his favorite material. especially pure chocolate because it's so versatile there's the taste because it has so many different aromas and you can combine it with practically anything and you can also make things with showpieces sculptures models
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so you have both a taste and design element. experimenting with countless shapes and texture. combinations of spices fruits turned alcohol one even fills pralines with goose liver. he doesn't mind that people sometimes find his ideas a little odd. sometimes people come and read the description and say my reading this right that's when i noticed they think i'm a little crazy but when they try it they almost always like it because it works it tastes really good taste experiences like those otherwise found only in top restaurants spices might carell but they never overwhelm the chocolate that's what his customers have come to love. i turn into a kid there it's like paradise. i love chocolate more than anything. from a joke that like food involves quality of life you have to be careful not to go overboard
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of course but here you can let yourself go a little the sin is worth it. whether filled with straw champagne lemon grass or peanut caramel these pralines are in a league of that. google will say what's with bros marie rose petal and fled to sound. but sometimes inspiration strikes when you're at the market and see spices all herbes sometimes it strikes in my sleep i wake up in the morning and have new ideas and. prefers not to blend chocolates from different regions and finds his bins directly from small farms. even though he works with chocolate every day he still can't resist occasionally some playing his n.y. has. swallowed it i don't eat huge amounts but i do taste it
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and every day i have a piece with my coffee. for what other. creations like his mouthwatering chocolate stroll brain almost too good to eat. i worry that it's time to say goodbye as always for me in the earth's atmosphere you're all right thanks for joining us once again. next time for your attacks frankfurt based artist peter shore and bonds collects old computer keyboards and turns that components into works of art with motifs from the world of computers he can spend up to two hundred hours on a single picture. of recycling next time on your imax.
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