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on the road use the studio superhero on a mission to change attitudes smart women smart talks smart struck a mature years and by no means missed out on the brink recently dangerous times. made for my. want to welcome to another exciting edition of your own max i'm your host meghan lea from a slimy subjects to intense friendships we've got lots in store on the show today here's a look at what's coming up. fake it meets the messiest first museum pays a tribute to twenty years country artists. old meets new exploring the northern
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charming city over blue back. carer's meets berlin sample french cuisine in the german capital. we get off the show with an unusual trend that seems to be developing in some circles playing with slime now this past time was popular when i was a kid but now with the internet slime videos are making it even more popular across the globe and while it might feel gooey in your hand slime actually has a calming even meditative quality about it but don't just take my word for it here's more from the world of flying. concentrate on the hands in this video and the sounds they make. and want to you feel movement i've made just draws you into it i think once someone has seen the video. like this low key running across them again and again. seventeen year old
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mary lou can adore slime videos the story is simple it's about needing folding and shaping slime in every way imaginable. for about a year now marie even has her own instagram channel called german slime café every week she posts new content she cooks up a slime herself in all different textures. it takes two and there are some that feel like a cloud and really drop right down or really viscous consistency or really jiggly you can make anything out of. her ears even found a way to make a profit from her passions she sells her own homemade versions of viscous substances to her fans we have a shopping website the demand is international prices range from three euros fifteen to eight euros fifty for the deluxe edition. as
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a zero ward this one goes down very well it's called loan because it has such a good crunch people go crazy for it especially in summer nobody can explain it that's just how it is. and clarke and i and lots and lots of people like the clear slimes if you're really lucky you can see right through it it's completely transparent who's like a pane of glass. slime videos have spread all around the united states and across the world gaining more and more followers the hash tag slime turns up eight point six million times on instagram you tube offers some twenty four million videos. working slime as many people's idea of fun and. it's totally relaxing i thought when i've had a hard day and i come home from school i'll sit down at my desk and need something or watch a live stream somehow it relaxes you i honestly can't say why but somehow it makes
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everything right again. the success of these slime videos may be explained by the phenomenon of a s.m.r. or autonomous sensory meridian response this describes a calming effect the comes from viewing certain images or hearing certain sounds like handling bubble wrap thank. you and this simulation of a visit to the hairstylist. from whispering. brought up or is. why particular audiovisual stimuli have such satisfying effects has not yet been adequately researched by neuroscience but studies indicate some preliminary conclusions. with. the assumption is that the
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release of hormones plays a role in a.s.m. or responses and they reinforce this feeling of well being. oxytocin for example is a hormone that specifically promotes and helps make for the. periods of bonding with an affinity for other people. with. also repeated movements and sounds have been known to facilitate a meditative state of mind. and. you direct your attention within yourself and that sets us up so we can relax in a specific way and. mary lou contrasts a nation with material that can be needed a marbled is its type or a city she regularly cooks up new variations in her mother's kitchen some of her discoveries on trade secrets. like what i can reveal a basic recipe this is just a common type of crafts with p.v.a.
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or polyvinyl alcohol would you need that before you can turn something into slime. and of course the result has to smell good she stopped his creation caramel coffee and that's what it smells like the most important though is that it has to be fun to work. out if it's just not tempting enough to get interactive there are plenty of videos on the internet to keep you happy. whatever floats your boat i guess we're going on now from that slimy subject to a brief look at other stories making headlines on the culture scene starting with one of my favorite singers ed sheeran who has just received yet another out delayed a war on that coming up in today's express.
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and sharon has been named songwriter of the year at the renowned i don't know that low awards in london the english singer picked up the prize on thursday for his exceptional body of work in twenty seventeen. the chairman's head shape of you won the award for most perform song of the year. because. brian ross a storm city won album of the yeah the awards on named off to composer ivan a fellow and are presented by the british academy of songwriters composers and on thursday in london for its not so. i'm by scene cow has given birth to a white cabbage belgrade's to white bison are among the rarest mammals on earth the female cat named has been certified to be in good health but isn't that an area. she's already trotting around her enclosure and. the vet said no other white bison
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calf has ever been born in europe. the original map of winnie the pooh's hundred acre wood is going under the hammer this sketch by illustrator d.h. shepard for the one nine hundred twenty six children's classic has not been shown in public for nearly half a century. it was animated for the disney classic winnie the pooh and the honey tree. the auction will take place on july tenth in london and southern bees expects the map to sell for one hundred seventy thousand euros. as they say opposites attract and this is not only true for couples but also for friends a good example of this can be seen with the too late artist francis bacon and alberto jackal metsi one was british the other swiss they didn't speak the same
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language and aside from being an artist these two didn't have much and common but they did get to know each other through a common news and then a true friendship emerged and now a first a joint exhibition with some of their works is on display in switzerland. it's the first time works by these two giants of the art world francis bacon and i'll bet you have been shown together it may be hard to believe but only now if someone had the idea for a double exhibition after all the two were bound together by a short but intense friendship jack committee began by saying i think from since you are going to stay living artists them of course they can. be said to you are the greatest living artists a mutual artistic appreciation that at first glance could seem puzzling their works appear so different. in the painter of tortured flesh is twisted heaps of people
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his lust for life force and aggression in search of the core of the human experience. in contrast. the sculptor his long legged human figures look so fragile that it gust of wind could blow them over but you too was always searching for answers how can figures be represented spatially what does it mean to be human. they were both obsessed by the human figure they were both obsessed by human fates they were both six three merely conscious of the present the. the ever presence of death of the shortness of life or the fragility of life quest for the intensity is the maximum intensity is also something that they have in
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common. and i think most of them were very intense person narrative big character and so there were made to meet each of them. they met in london in one thousand fifty eight the aesthetics. sculptor and the irish british bohemian what did they have in common the exhibition offers answers such as the cage motif cometti build shelters and experimental fields around his figures to explore their spatial proportions. and bacon's work the cages look like prisons or theatrical stages on which he places his bodies. pre-commit used certain stylistic devices like the cage to concentrate attention on the image that he taken from jack committee the striking parallels to both
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worked in tiny cramped studios chaos as a source of inspiration both were social outsiders jack a metal was in love with a prostitute the bacon was gay and both had one in the same news isabel ross store and she brought the two artists together. those artists wanted to portray her because of this kind of animal vitality she had. and just meant he was in love with. space and was in love with a. delicate we intended legion his girlfriend bacon splashed her on to the canvas wild and raw more a human animal than a woman but despite all the disfigurement it was there figurative thinking that connected them countless painted and sculpted portraits come together for the first time at the exhibition in basel switzerland. where it's
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a show that is not trying is a portrait of somebody it's much more so paltrow thought of their own and tell you more good and everything seemed to be more than was abstract out. they were like some volume from a great british. to unconventional mind swimming against the artistic tide of their day. and what else did they talk about. in a moment or two from stayed together and pulled right through the muck obviously we're going to bring with so they can bring to hardly commit to smoking to have a link and now for the first time the two artists works have come together in perfect harmony. when you're celebrating your eight hundred seventy fifth birthday then you'd expect to have a major party and that is what is planned for the german city of lubec the port
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city already has a very special flare nowhere else in northern germany are so many houses preserved from the middle ages eighteen hundred of them are listed as protected sites making new back a unesco world heritage site but the city has a modern side to it as well which makes its inhabitants quite proud. this is how the northern german city of loopback is advertising its big anniversary . is not a typical big city. but let it work its magic on you the idyllic village it's my beautiful home town but it's cute. this city has been writing its history for eight hundred seventy five years many memorable events took place at mary's church. if you shoot the church has played a key role in the history spectator if we think of the time the city was part of
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the hands the attic leadership the merchants and the various craftsman's associations have their chapels here in this church and were able to immortalized themselves here here all for even he had the task of mayors senators and important figures of the city hang here dished out much has happened here in the church. so mary's is one of the most important churches in northern europe for the anniversary passed the hobbit five leads visitors through his church in the evenings these are very special moments. back then ships left from here today it's a meeting place for amateur fisherman. blue bank was the heart of the hand the attic league for the baltic sea region salt and dried fish made the merchants rich they also traded calls spices and other speciality has. lubeck was the queen of the hand the attic league for five hundred years this part of the city's anniversary celebrations its fancy attic museum is presenting a special exhibition showing the influence that period continues to have to this
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day nowhere else in northern germany and as so many houses from the middle ages around eighty percent of the old town is a unesco world heritage site the city is also proud of its three famous sons philip hunt good to cross and thomas mann. because that's one of the fascination that comes from having three nobel laureates. lucic is i believe unique in germany i think this is simply a treasure for people who are interested in literature. and shouts i'm going to cast immortalized his love for lubeck in a poem but lou backers have long forgiven thomas mom for the fact the characters in his novel wooden box closely resembled prominent citizens and didn't exactly cut a sympathetic figure says but later did mom for twenty five years she has also worked with this museum the book and pork house which is a magnet for tourists and locals it's also holding
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a special exhibition for the big anniversary. it's one of the city's hot spots as it was in the middle ages the shopping streets around the city hall unusual businesses such as this more than in shops in an area that was once home to craft guilds make the city so special. that the city center is an island and you can do everything on the island there are many small shops and cafes in the city and everyone has a place where they can relax to work on. the people of lubec are bringing their heritage into the modern day you can drink coffee and there are four hundred fifty year old merchant's house but that was not always the case you know. court yards used to be where the wells were but also the out houses and cesspools today we use them for much nicer things we have a cafe here. as you back celebrates almost nine centuries this year its
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people hope for many festivals and events will bring a lot of new life to the old city. hall that partying has certainly worked out my appetite and luckily for those in berlin you don't have to travel very far for international cuisine the german capital is a melting pot of cultures and some people who come here to visit like it so much. they decided to stay and open up restaurants like regina lamas there he decided to imitate a typical parisian bresso leave it right here in berlin then for our series fifty kitchens one city he prepared one of his favorite dishes it's french of course so one of fifty. thank you just make sure there's nothing better in life than to spread a little joint to others i've discovered the best way for me to do that is to share good food good wine and a little schumer with my guests. and just in twenty thirteen frenchmen.
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fulfilled a dream by opening his own restaurant he had only just turned thirty he offers classic french cuisine with a twist the menu changes throughout the year to reflect the changing seasons. there always for starters four main courses and three desserts his passing brings a little bit of paris to the heart of berlin. it's cool to have these two parties yeah it's a standard concept in paris. we use market fresh ingredients. and we don't have a big menu. it changes every week or ten days. and then we have one hundred eighty different wines on offer. it's designed to be addictive for the guests. because she was born in one thousand nine hundred eighty
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three in the french capital he grew up with great food his father had a restaurant with two michelin stars and is still his great role model and this really he wanted to be a soccer player but on finishing school he decided to train as a chef in paris then in two thousand and eight he moved to berlin. five years later he opened the capacity in. the decor is typically french. ceramic floor tiles wooden chairs without cushions and no table cloths. the why is presented on traditional wooden shelving the tables are positioned quite close together purposely so that the diners can engage in conversation if they want to. be in. the sun and you know what i really
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appreciate about berliners and what makes working here really fun is that they're happy to be educated when it comes to food and drink minimum with these and they're always happy to take advice or and it's not always like that in france because the french always think they know better than the train star both of those then fuck off. in france good food is a way of life. the french tradition of cuisine and fine dining goes back to the seventeenth century in those days it was reserved for the king and the nobility it was during this time that the first cookery books appear and even today they're still the go to text books per fine french cuisine. influence of french food goes way beyond the countries for others it's become a benchmark for fine dining although over the world.
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but each individual region of france has its own cullen airy specialties which has led to great variety. differences of consumed in the french tradition and seasoning are used to bring out the flavor of the main ingredient such as pork belly for example in fear of going rather than the herbes dominating the flavor of the main ingredient in the medium but one way to describe french cuisine and beef in france is your vision and. taste of paris and berlin district it's a neighborhood that was once at the heart of former west berlin. the german capital covers an area of nearly nine hundred square kilometers making it eight times the size of paris. is enormous there has been heritage his love of berlin from his
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mother who was born here in the city. in berlin you will free to live out your own ideas. you need to stick at it but it's definitely possible going i could never invite me to restaurant in paris for example with the conditions are much tougher and you need a lot more money for them feel. great. this . is both coast and some a year and all the ones on offer are of course french. but in the kitchen he has an international team of staff all of whom have worked in michelin starred restaurants and various parts of the world. the mission guide has repeatedly awarded the casa. the plum all indicating good value for money .
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not slime but mud and that one is our winning photo this week from four hey mendez cost us from a mexico so thanks to you jorge and your kids and congratulations you have won yourself an exclusive one of a kind your own max watch so enjoy that but don't drop it in the mud and for the rest of you keep taking part in our weekly drives and maybe you'll strike it lucky as well with that we're out of time for me and the rest of us here at euro max as always thanks for tuning in and we'll see you right back here tomorrow for our highlights edition until then and buy from berlin. next time on your imax the highlight show. with high end fashion for of luxury vacation. italy's lake
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