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ten year old man she does not officially label she's a refugee from the civil war in syria. now she and her family living in turkey she's also getting help in un food coming invisible. to children of your. reports on sunday w c. o o from berlin and come to your room acts in today so we're getting very creative five sample like this. and that's what i think the spanish artist will make
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sculptures all of those leaps. up to textual art to the new film about the box movement. do it yourself are just making a wall clock out of building a pieces. like commenee other artists to do it on started off a painting oil on canvas but off the while he decided to try out new things he started working with leafs getting them straight from the trees the spanish artist collects a press of them and then the creative work begins he cuts some of the patents and believes he invented this special technique in two thousand and five and well guess who his news was back then a couple of. there's so much to discover in a single tiny leaf. these filigree most to pieces were handmade by
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spanish artist not enzo montoya did out and. he cut them into leaves harvested from trees and pushes. one this thing. when i go into the forest to feel more than anything it's just that i'm looking for peace and quiet. this is where my creativity really gets flowing there's a million again which of live. every year in spring that ends of money where to go searching through the forests of his home province guadalajara for just the right. technical draftsmen by trade he lives with his family in a village about seventy five kilometers north east of madrid. their house doubles as a gallery for his art
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a central theme is nature and people's bond with it. is especially drawn to working with the materials nature provides him. perfect on the perfect leaf doesn't exist certainly mental leaves grow in nature they have undergone a process of evolution. but it's precisely their imperfection that in my view that makes them perfect perfectly on some point of ethics. these works give little hint of the time effort and dedication that's gone into them. there empresses the fresh leaves and lets them drive for a few days. the leaves have to be drying. that cuts don't smear or discolor and yet most enough not to crumble. the image sensor is attached to the leaf with fixative then he carefully works his way around with
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a scalpel cut by cut. the committee of all. i was inspired when i watched a caterpillar getting its way through a leaf. yeah but i gave me the idea to cut my own designs into leaves. over time i learned more and more and developed my own technique the thing. depending on the design it can take lawrence i did on several days to finish the cutting into the almost meditative work. thirteen years ago to run still worked in construction when he lost his job is hit him hard but then he discovered his artistic bent. he started out painting in oils and later began his leave carvings. for him his has been a journey of self-expression. now going not part of.
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the scene one side of a leaf is turned to the light. the other stays in shade you know they're not there's a similarity there to us humans no. one side of us is visible the other is not. a hard thing when i work on a leaf i'm in touch with a side of me that isn't visible. i suppose you could call it the subconscious minds of. what a few things became clear to me and my talent which i'd never recognized before came to light. today that ends a man who i didn't makes a living as an artist. his works up published in design blogs the international press magazines books. his words are also in demand with companies for green media campaigns leaves cleanse the air of carbon dioxide and produce oxygen making them an ideal symbol for
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a healthy environment put it on sustainability and green ethics are very important . i want to express is that human beings original bond with nature. today we've lost this sense of connection. only if we humans manage to see ourselves as a part of nature that we can learn to respect our environment again. if they carefully preserved. ten years or more it's like nature itself they too tree fortunately neurons of man were did on keeps turning out anyway. and now it's getting really roil that a lot more in today's express all round up of cultural events in europe.
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it's official prince william will be best man at his brother prince harry's wedding it's a busy spring for the windsors on monday prince william and duchess catherine welcomed their third child in may prince harry is to wed meghan markle the couple have already become a favorite with royal watchers american tourists are snapping up memorabilia and visiting windsor castle where the royal wedding will be held. new exhibition called the age of cold a european history will open at the toll for i'm coalmining complex in essen on friday the show features some twelve hundred mementos illustrating how two hundred years of coal mining have left their mark on europe and on the rural valley of western germany. demand for coal as a source of energy was once enormous but today coal mining is on its way out in europe since the one nine hundred fifty s.
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one hundred twenty eight coal mines have shut down in germany the country's last coal mine is due to close later this year. two unusual buildings on the baltic island of reagan by engineer aldridge meter have been renovated the lifeguard tower in been states from nine hundred eighty two the music pavilion in the town of sustenance from nine hundred eighty eight. who died in two thousand and seven was a leading construction engineer in the former east germany he was known for his cast concrete buildings that featured curved lines and shell like roofs the music pavilion will host concerts while the lifeguard tower will be used for weddings. many know about our house today but of all peoples founded this movement and a design school called stop the house and by my in one thousand nine hundred nineteen the idea was still experimenting with a new phone. homes and painting graphics photography theater dons and much more
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later architecture and interior design became more and more important the balls continues to shape creative people even today next to a ball celebrates one hundred years and this already a new documentary about it cult ball hall spirit. the bounce house archive in berlin house is the world's largest collection of materials on the renowned school of architecture and design flaw building itself was the creation of powerhouse founder val take opiates copious also help to design a large scale housing project in berlin the new documentary shows how it drew on modern construction methods to create apartments for affordable living blue take me sponge of all is noir nat's analogously museum and the lengthy house are two more examples of the bounce house walls influence on berlin's cityscape. townhouse influenced other architects to like look old lucy who designed this apartment building it was originally public housing today the units are condominiums.
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cosy house on this fifteen years ago local busey's beneath your own building still had rental units that were social housing that's part of what's so fascinating about look. and you go i wasn't part of the bauhaus school but he was part of that larger movement bosses and powers was part of the oven god that flourished after the first world war was over nazis came to power in germany and that is inversion exists now it was a center for many new developments which also helped shape modern architecture modern design social housing and to a lesser extent education. really good. many of the ideas we see in our modern cities at least in the northern hemisphere were profoundly influenced by the powerhouse movement and of course the minister not. gun stark could practice the new documentary examines
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a century of bauhaus and the social utopia it sought to create the filmmakers traveled around the world in search of what remains of that vision isn't compatible with global capitalism and the rise of a new real estate market the film follows a volatile kopi. it was as he founded the bauhaus in the city of weimar in one thousand nine hundred and moved it to death sound six years later. in their guises bar where is the bauhaus spirit does it still exist today or did it just belong to that group of visionaries of those dream of. the hundred guns and they had an entirely different starting point for the architecture and design and for that many wonderful objects paintings and models. of the world they also developed very unusual and amazing teaching methods. the found her sought to blur the lines between arts technology and crafts the vocabulary and language of design this gave rise to instill noticeable today remember when it was you just do
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you fish anyone who's interested in the history of. both as a wreck or to what happened in the past and has something better still meaningful and relevant today will enjoy this film. to come out and from who don't who are. building for the future one hundred years something house. well special burden is also part of our series europe's famous landmarks over this week and next we're featuring the top ten european sides according to instagram and by the way you also find small stories matching our serious on our instagram page now a child speech in prague a small and just approach it is the symbol of the czech capital is one of the oldest stone bridges in europe one average some thirty thousand people visit it every day well no wonder the painter and the view of the city from there is really
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awesome. fifteen bridges span of a tower as it flows through proc the oldest is the charles bridge at over five hundred meters it's the longest down think bridge in europe it's named after the holy roman emperor charles the fourth who said to have laid the foundation stone in thirteen fifty seven. is done yet batman runs the charles bridge museum and has also had a few historic river boats restored so sightseers can go aboard to get a view of the bridge from the water. it connects to my last straw now or a lesser quarter below prague castle with the old town. with that in the at the at some of the survey recently asked the czechs what historical figure they think is the most important. they answered with king charles the fourth because he built things like the charles bridge. starboard just get out of.
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the old town bridge tower one served as a victory arch bohemian kings pass through it on their way to their coronations. to begin mother he couldn't study here don't see the cities and countries. king charles. and patron saints sigesmund procope use and details. of the beat. every day an estimated thirty thousand people walk across the charles bridge it's a favorite photo backdrop for newlywed couples from as far away as asia and a favorite spot for street artists of every. boat trips on the boat are a hit with tourists. busters find an ideal stage here so. it's lovely person here and nice
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atmosphere and love this bridge. the charles bridge is lined with thirty statues of apostles angels and theologians but these are copies the originals are kept safe and sound in the museum the oldest one is unique. that is the statue was the first to stand on the bridge. it was both here and six hundred eighty three it depicts st john of nephi and it's the only bronze here saint john is the patron saint of bridges the world over but especially in europe i like him in particular that he protects people who work on the water milk up america but off you go your body. on the man not banks the sixteen arches up the charles bridge dominate the view. i like it in the morning early in the evening you know people it's
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a good place very calm as you cross the bridge it's like you're taking a step back into time so you're getting the history and you're crossing the river and you just get that feeling of you're in prague and it's beautiful. your room x. viewers who have fallen under the bridges spell have sent us some of their photos. he's done yet batman often crosses the ten meter wide bridge himself. he's like you know most of them every day i walk across the bridge to get to work. but it's not just a transit route to me. i'm inspired by it spiritually as well as you see here that it makes me think about history as well as the future because a little bit will still be. done yet batman has made
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a little history. on this bridge as well at his initiative the festival is held every year in may in honor of the bridge and its patron saint. then the stars shine not only over but into round the charles bridge. another top european landmark is of course the eiffel tower in paris you could be the proud old often i've a tower as soon however as seen here in the background it's a mini version of the original from france we give it away to the lucky winner of a photo contest just upload a picture that shows you in front of your favorite site more information can be follow websites just go to d.w. dot com says lifestyle and good luck. the german pianos news found as a music a maverick he's an awesome piano player who's classically trained but also create
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sounds out of everyday objects such as toilet brushes and draws sometimes it travels so concert with two tons of equipment is scott a new album out called old melody and it's currently on a work from od'ing it. is music is almost like a painting. for me i love that i put together a landscape of sound old made out of individual parts as mystical. as i listen to come here so much i can't anticipate in the rehearsal room realize this alone i hear it with different ideas it's very different when i play it for a thousand people all i need people around to make the concert really good so.
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his concerts are so now he's already incidents mistake. in stone composes these pieces in one of the studios that used to belong to the phone the east german radio station in berlin his studio is stuffed full of old equipment a testament to years gone by. sometimes he spends the night here it's like a second town. on the laptop and i always lose my overview that i get across to phobia in that thing using the mouse makes me feel like i can't move or feel anything and i don't have complete freedom with a computer the butt. being able to use this draw to make a sound. that's complete freedom to get the resonance from the words and it's not
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really possible to simulate all that on the computer yet it's unruly and it's in the law finish please move. only uses the computer to save his work and control a few instruments he's fascinated with the sounds he can tease out of objects as he experiments with them. some years ago he inserted an extra pad of felt's between the hammers and strings in his piano. in the meantime he's become known for this gentle atmospheric sound. as the village i know is that certainly one of the secrets behind the various details that i incorporates and for but mostly it's the fingering the way my fingers distribute the volume the way i hit a given note torn do i hit the key at the back or at the front. door. you might think it doesn't make any difference but as crazy as it seems even each
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hand sounds different on the piano. man has almost become one with his instruments he's been experimenting with them since he was a boy. i did without a lot of other things i didn't have the money to go out didn't have the brand name clothes a little more no other hobbies no extras i'm an extra i put everything into my instruments and equipment being a license to can. sometimes his music can sound sparks and minimalistic other times sweeping or even grandiose. organ pipes in the background are another addition to his sound palette. people tell me all the time that one will notice if you do this or that good but that's a drastic underestimation and i've never made that mistake instead i tend to overestimate
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what people notice if i put a huge amount of effort and concentration into my work because i know that we do notice all the subtleties even if people can't put what they're hearing into words they can still feel it and still. spent a year and a half working on his new album titled all melody the result is a layered landscape of sound some critics have called it to light weight but funk shrugs that off he wants to bridge the gap between electronic dance classical and pop music. i want to explore them out of the human soul through its father's derivatives in a way. i'm sorry by the music so is my music can even begin to do justice to what goes on in the human heart and to mention that would make me very happy in all
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three of those you can't do that by following the rules of a single genre people are more than that. intense and absorbing music exposed to texture. and now it's time again to get creative idea why series create a lot of things to brighten up your home in just a few steps and today all acts but the hands and shows us how dominos can be used for more than just again. today our so you know how to make. you need a plywood board this one is forty centimeters by forty centimeters. around objects are used as forms sheet metal. twelve dominos in the color of your choice. classic movement sorry ordered one on the international. i brush and some paint for
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a modern mock looks are used a mint green. some sandpaper and a cordless drill and a six minute base. and a hot glue gun. first strong circle on your plywood then so i use the circle with the jigsaw smoothed the edges with the sand paper apply the paints with the brush and also brush the answer edges that the paint dry. measure the hole in the middle of the boards and. never put the dominoes in order use a ruler to measure the distances between the pieces sorry left three centimeters between each piece and one and a half centimeters to the azure edge mark the positions of the dominoes with a pencil. the pieces can now be fixed in place with the hospital.
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finally attached the movement. out of that was a little too fast for you take your time and have a look at our you tube channel need of the new interior design if that and of a d.i.y. is a fair and also. chair and interior design well that's all we have time for today so i hope i'll see you next time on to about five. next time on your own max lynn is a melting pot of cultures and has a vibrant and diverse restaurant scene one of the best places to enjoy specialties from novice machine dog owner concrete dust to typical ocean fish pie a salad with sweet saltine sour and spicy next stop on your all mix.
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