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only a promise to his son to leave the jungle returning to the concrete and glass jungle of new york. the result reverse culture shock. the families with documentary from the forest stars caucus night on w. . welcome to another special edition of your own max today we're diving into the world of art here's what's coming up. it's an illusion to spaniards and that instagram masterpieces. all the work in the us is going to mazing disappearing act. and size issues the miniature
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world of photography. the city. we have plenty of brilliant artists coming up for you and we start off with a geo that's made the name on social media there are now one billion instagram users worldwide so you need to really stand out to gain a substantial following i'm not davis and danielle of the way that have made it the two spaniards play with patton's shapes colors and perspective to create truly unique images. an orange child becomes a fried egg on the wall. two balloons combined with a red dress create a smiling face. red stripes pose a danger to anyone who can run away fast and. there are photos by ana davies and. the spanish artist you want to set up these little masterpieces with the simplest
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of resources like type and combo. but to be famous this you must know if i had to describe our work in three words they would be creativity fun and minimalism i think that conveys our work pretty well and color true for words. and danielle publish their pictures on the internet to instagram channels have more than half a million subscribers. the photographs often play with perspective all present amusing scenarios. the holes in this ball become giant raindrops falling on ana's i'm relevant she and danielle take most of their pictures during their holiday travels. they live in valencia where they work together at home on their ideas. a huge success on social
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media came as a surprise. that it's crazy to think that we just did it for fun when we started now it's practically our job. i think what people like about our work is that they are highly structured pictures with clear lives and composition but above all we try to make them entertaining always with new creative ideas. when i. down now and i'm a first measuring best starters he is an architect she is an illustrator but neither of them works much in actual profession a growing number of companies or take. notice of the photographs and send the couple products like watches or clothing to be staged creatively for ad campaigns. like these when the break from a french fashion label thank want to. use the theme of color hide and seek their idea is to put danielle in a cone of light the same color as the jackets to make them disappear. the way.
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it all seems very simple. but it isn't. there's a lot of detail involved we have to find the right materials so it looks the way we imagined it you know making a photo is an elaborate process. part of that is finding the right location but then tears old quarter with its flamboyant architecture is usually not suitable to do i prefer minimalist buildings with clear geometrical forms. which is why the two head for an unattractive industrial area on the outskirts of town. near the highway they find looking for any conspicuous dark gray facade in a side street i don't know you're going to get all we have to do now is put up the set and wait until the light gets softer not so direct the shadows are too intense
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. with tape and yellow cardboard they assemble the flash light cone in which danielle will disappear. back home and danielle comb through the four hundred pictures to choose the one they like best a few small corrections and it can be posted on instagram. they have a simple strategy for getting as many reactions as possible. we only publish things we're really convinced about. it all takes too much work and that shows up in the feedback. people only react when we give it all we've got that's how we improve our technique we get better and more ambitious. to work on his photo was worth it within a few days it counted thirty three thousand likes from instagram users. and danielle already experimented with new ideas short vertical videos suitable for
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facebook that people can watch. there are so many pleasure and amusing at least stories waiting to be told. and we also have plenty to show you on instagram so follow us on d.w. your remarks to experience the best of european lifestyle and culture our next artist made her name on another platform you cheap. yana milosevic goes by the name kick and has amassed over fifty six million video views with her clips of body painting now that out for me isn't anything new in itself but pain to give yourself requires another level of skill and creations nothing short of incredible. the illusions are mind boggling. not just because they're nearly perfect fodder but
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because they're actually on a body. on a mineral ship which. has seen her you tube channel get millions of clicks by viewers worldwide. she set up a little studio in her apartment and spread to over fifty kilometers from the serbian capital belgrade. she liked to draw as a child and taught herself to paint today illusionist videos are her trademark. i live challenges and that's why i choose to do it and it's very funny when you make another nut in your stomach or you are i'm enjoying to do this because every day i'm someone else. launched her own video channel in two thousand and sixteen her international breakthrough came with wooden puppet dog a video that won or
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a top makeup artists award in serbia. she also made an appearance on spanish television. more than four hundred thousand fans subscribe to her you tube channel and regularly watch her videos she can't believe her luck. i'm so happy i am old vehicle you know from all over the world and you're talking when they write he says for rosie okies from wrong i have the feeling that i was there or i you know so it's a very special feeling. a mother of two in her mid thirty's she makes a living from her shuttle posting to new videos a week she gets feedback from near and far she can read the comments written in spanish. it is. what you do is spectacular you surprise me every time. i wish you all the best carry on. this. what does that get
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a lot. more than eight million people if you would this video alone but still worries about home who posts will be received i'm taking ok what if people don't like it or what do you like it you know and i was wondering all the time and when we do a live. i can toward to it and i as. my friend ok can you can you please read you. can spend two days preparing her designs scrutinizing them in the mirror to see what works and what doesn't like the knot on her stomach. she can work on a new body painting for up to eight hours drawing inspiration from music and her own experience. i had a problem with my ways and. i couldn't eat i lost my
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appetite. and. i felt that my stomach is you know not you know. the tricky part for the makeup artist is holding her breath for long stretches while she paints in the fine details of her works of art involve magic of some kind and blackwall. coke. and bread that are. not bad. in the body meaning illusionist can do more than tires off and knots she can put a spring in her belly. was part of her wooden property illusion one of her biggest challenges so far. that spring gave me sole watch trouble because it's very difficult to paint on your stomach on your skin on star trek because you can't you want to make picture.
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perfect. it's motivated to keep perfecting her body paintings by her dream of what the future could hold my dream is one day to be on the red carpet and. cold. hollywood may or may not be on the horizon in the meantime she's busily creating body painted our den tutorials for her fans. among those who shared his videos is american actor charlie sheen but she remains dedicated to perfecting her art and she certainly isn't the time to lose or at over her success. now kiko may draw on her body but most artists draw or paint on paper but russian born artist yulia brought skyler certainly likes to think outside the box she works
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with paper creating fascinating three d. images by folding rowling all bending it some works can take several weeks to complete but it's worth it designs have even been used on postage stamps. you have to look twice to really understand what this work of art is made of it's comprised of hundreds of little strips of paper which together form a picture but it's the combination of colors and shapes which gives the portrait its depth paper artist and illustrator u.d.r. broadscale created these works she's been fashioning paper three d. pictures for a decade. they purchase just amazing things like simple versatile there are just so many things you can do to you can fold it
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it can cards. to know your name with her you like to use it. julia came up with the idea of creating three dimensional objects from paper when she was experimented with her signature after that are objects evolved to be more and more complex. the russian born artist works at her studio in some top north of london she uses a technique known as quilting paper filigree it's achieved by rolling strips of paper into coils and folding or curving them into different shapes. when they're glued together it's quite striking and exacting work. the mental easing this technique and working with paper is just the time it's so time consuming it's labor intensive takes days and weeks to create primitive lists mall sizes are torak there are lots of details to incorporate they
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have to be really patient and julia is often inspired by plants each of our artwork starts as a sketch then comes the detailed work. she cuts the paper in strips for the hobby knife then shapes them into individual element. finally she posts images of the finished works on instagram she has more than thirty thousand followers. the advertising industry has also taken an interest in unity as paper art she has created works for an american airline. a japanese design a fragrance. and a british car brand. religious even grace postage stamps. and not long ago one of her designs was reproduced in a larger format in central london now serves as a window display in a clothing store first step in the artist's next direction. my plan is to also try
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to work on the slightly larger. art form and make the impact. on the larger scale. my next goal is to try and find a way to. make it. has no desire to experiment with other materials she's already found her ideal medium with paper her ideas blossom. zaga in burgos one of the most successful three d. illustrators in germany that's because she sees creative potential in ordinary objects making a dress out of salad leaves or a drink out of paper or graphic illustrations have made it onto the covers of international publications and since she works here in berlin we thought we'd pair a visit to a studio. a sunday breakfast made of paper.
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grapes made of marbles. meat made a vegetable. brain made of wool. or even a whole head made of food. zahra illand bag it is a visual storytelling everything around her serves as a source of inspiration and of materials too so when she's out shopping there has studio in berlin she's also working but even today i love about the i love all materials of course but i've been especially fond of fruit and vegetables for a long time because i'm fallible ie because they're so varied and the colors are so vivid there's always an element of surprise because i don't know what i'll get it's an organic material side we've all got this is my. this is the studio where sorry
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limburger test the limits of traditional graphic design work is featured in adversus mints glossy magazines galleries and he's anything but flat she describes herself as a three d. illustrator combining techniques from the realms of graphic design and photography . the main interest lies in meticulous craftsmanship elin badger grew up in munich where her mother designed jewelry and her father ran a hip restaurant. lived after his bust i have my passion for crafting things probably goes back to my childhood i belong to the generation of children who grew up without t.v. or at least with less t.v. and without a computer and the digital world so there was enough time and space to make things with whatever was around four hundred.
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the pantry in my father's restaurant was my playground when i was around four fundamental. lifelong interest in food. study graphic design in london then set up a jewelry label with her boyfriend up the. she felt limited in her creativity so she started sending her three d. designs to magazines and got rave reviews. feature on the covers of leading publications all over the world.
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i think that as soon as you touch things with your hands and let your own energy flow into them something different emerges that's perhaps more human and not quite so flawless that interests me more than the perfect surface of a computer monitor. approach. she regularly creates stunning displays for the luxury brand as in germany she loves challenges and wants to look good from. she tends to collaborate with. projects. she worked with. create these. thing my career actually began with a big failure. design agency. and they let me go after three weeks.
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by i going assigned to redesign an opera magazine and when the creative director saw my result he said it was unfortunately no better than the original so i had to go with. heft. but he did something that was encouraging for my future he said my portfolio looked more like a box of magic tricks than a traditional designer's portfolio and that i didn't have to worry i would make it somewhere and i'm missing the kind of. the truth. and she did today. is one of europe's most successful illustrators mistake of will style is in the world. what if we were shrunk down to a fraction of a size how many films and books have explored that question and a french photographer is determined to show us the answer. minute to figures to do
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that creating allusions and fooling those who set eyes on his work. a closer look reveals it's only a toy. everything's cute emerges from iceland spokane expands. you know so she is the title of an ongoing photo project i've also been sitting. you know being a boy i had many small cars and i was playing like this imagine it on the road or of the road and. you know when i was four or five and know i do it in really my photos. in this paris studio the photographer brings his toy cars and other small scale things up to life size and he varies the depth of field to how create the effect of full sized objects attending to even the smallest details just as
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important is imitating natural light such as the sun sets here. and. finally he touches at the reflections and shadows on the computer to make sure the two image planes merge into one. at first glance the illusion is almost impossible to make out. the hard part of creating these images will be in. creating something global and logical when you arrive in the in front of a printing at first you will see all that's nice and your own you wish there something else but enough so this is an example from the start shit but it it's the same for the other photos here is. his starts playing with altered dimensions in two thousand and seven with his first serious plastic life liberation two
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centimeter tall figures from the miniature world to welcome them into the real universe. they helped us solve a lamb chops thing ad campaigns for luxury labels louie the tough. times cut. plays with our perceptions of dimensions of space and time. in doing so he creates all seeks out new worlds in places far away. he had to leave france for iceland to find suitable landscapes for his current series. friends accompanied him to the wind swept arctic island. goes to personal as well as climatic extremes for spectacular nature. i went once in finland and i discovered a lost place it's a small hill with a forest to three frozen and i spent one night alone i saw
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a few prints of any moles and visit guys who were the only one who had been with me there. was a guy feels drawn to europe's fall north to search for fantastical landscapes and new perspectives. he gathers pedals and rearrange them in their original environment but magnified thousands of times. there when the rain the cold and it's so good just a few hours there one afternoon there and you come back and you're full of new things and new energy i don't want to to be patient i don't want to be bored i don't want to be normal not to normal at least and i want to live strong things and to have strong feelings. as a father of three children he's gained an eye for the smaller things in life and he's rediscovered something of his own in the child. and i just realise that this
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isn't the solution and. i'm. i'm scared to get those ideas actually this is this is the reality. of. the same ingles reality and imagination is but it is a return to the visual world of childhood and. that's all from us for today if you fancy watching more you can find all your remarks reports on our website d.w. dot com slash lifestyle we're back tomorrow with another playful special i hope you can join me again for that thought from all of us here you know max i've watched enough. you know our next hero max special edition. barnaby dixon a talented property here from britain. so let me as
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