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unless it is to come to you from super would seem to be. very close to put it into active exercises are you talking about that d w dot com slash don't land on facebook in the uk still. german for free with w. hi everyone and welcome to a new episode of you max before we get started let's have a look at some magical moments of today's show. illusions read to a museum dedicated to the art of cars every. moment of fame and everyone can be a pop star at
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a karaoke event in berlin. comes place of origin not least because it is scottish collar paisley which is the namesake for the famous good sign. when we think of magic we think of people like david copperfield or heavy houdini who put on a spectacular show modern magic essentially got its start in a small town in france thanks to one man then. he paved the way to the kind of magic we know today and then the french town of la this whole museum dedicated to your max reporter maggie traveled there on a discovery tour. these dragons are just one surprise awaiting visitors at the house of magic in france they're part of an entire museum dedicated to be part of conjuring. this place is a must for anyone fascinated with magic or optical. from dragons to hard
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trades magic shows to a room filled with optical illusions this museum has been called a temple to the magic arts go inside the mind for. inside the house of magic it's filled with illusions and nothing here is as it really seems. magicians like match you my lady are also on hand to engage visitors in a bit of fun and mystery with their tricks speed imprecision is key here. i tried to find out the secret to this comic card trick but in the end i still had no idea of how it was done. to the. only source official. and i think we live in a society that is very rational. magic is the last bastion of mystery and secrets
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that exist and if you get a lot of people to hold on to some mystery that is absent in society. this man is widely considered the father of modern magic. he was born in the wire eighteen zero five and later moved to paris where he began his for reign magic by opening a theater his allusions soon became a hit with the public and whole deal with i. was a watchmaker and thanks to science he completely redesigned illusions but he primarily modified magic seems. cinema. whole before him there were sorcerers who tried to scare the audience. down dressed in her farm suit he had piano accompaniment for his magic tricks. man he created the image of the gentleman magician. influenced countless
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magicians after him the most famous of them was american illusionist harry houdini who even adopted and modified dan's name. magic of course is all about optical illusions and tricking the eye in here in the house of magic there is a whole room dedicated to this subject. unlike in other museums the house of magic invites visitors to interact with the exhibitions and go on a sort of magical mystery tour. there is also a magic show which takes place at least four times a day. thank you.
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thank you it's surprising and it forces us to cross-check things will get out of the show is that this ridiculous combination of. the must be some clever tricks that are very good. lawyers in the law are valley it's also home to a boil chateau once a residence of french kings the town has around forty six thousand residents so it relies heavily on tourism to survive but do the visitors really learn anything about magic during their visits i think you get there well it's not. just. from looking at the illusion if the bottles and the euro bills inside it really impressed me because you see an empty bottle but then all of a sudden it's there with the money and you can see how the magicians really use optical illusions to trick us. examples of how magicians have tricked their audiences through the ages are located throughout the museum but visitors won't
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find any answers as to how it's done. so my visit to the house of magic is coming to an end i must honestly say none the wiser but it has picked my interest in magic until the next time it is barred from war. and the dragons roar on luring visitors into their mysterious world. just like magic age old let us from an empress have suddenly appeared that and more coming up in today's express. some one thousand letters sent to germany's last emperor victoria are on public display for the first time near berlin. the personal letters were discovered a few weeks ago in the new colace where they'd been stored on noticed in a closet for over a century. members of the extended royal family wrote them to what was to victoria
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between eight hundred eighty three n.b.a. team eighty nine the still unopened on reloads are not part of the current exhibition the new promise in one nine hundred eighteen between the monarchy and the weimar republic. for several years now on the first sunday in august the townspeople of video in southern italy have been recreating classical italian paintings on stage. the theme for this summer's tel blows focuses on the drama of migration. the paintings were done by a tell your masters in the fifteenth sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. cattle in switzerland's high alpine meadows are being supplied with water by helicopter as this year's dry spell continues more and more springs in the swiss alps are running dry the farmers don't pay for this with military flights they
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count as training exercises for the pilots for centuries swiss cows have spent their summers on mountain pastors one cow normally drinks from fifty to one hundred liters of water per day. and ration a sub of yet make translates roughly to restricted area with specially to status well the perfect name for a dutch avella program which is satirizing international politics and the russian language program we meet the likes of vladimir putin and donald trump well as animated characters let's have a closer look. an alternative take on geopolitics donald trump and kim jong on. three of various global leaders starring in the enemy. nick. what also sets the three d. show apart is that it's created in the unity game development environment. the animated characters are played by real life actors filmed with motion capture bush
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. the kind of. passengers our aircraft is heading towards a promising future when we reach cruising altitude we'll serve up the latest news. enjoy your flight. but. the program is produced for g.w. in the capital it's been broadcast since november twenty seventeen with a new episode appearing every week and all new production technique makes it all possible. cause our most valuable thing here. to make things faster to be our goal to develop things as fast as we can and show the results in a really nice and quality way. the time pressure is intense each episode script is developed over the course of the week then it's straight into the recording studio
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. not everyone wants to be filmed during their work for the satirical show some of the voice artists have russian clients too and they fear a backlash for being critical of the kremlin. this group has both speaking and singing parts. meanwhile five three d. artists compose new backdrops and props for the latest videos this time they need to add a bomb it might also be overwriting hats. objects are added or changed by drag and drop with the unity game development engine which has previously. used to program hip games like super mario run angry birds and monument valley. it was the left in creative producer who came up with the idea of using the game platform as a three d. studio he prefers to remain anonymous. we create twelve minutes of free. every week. without unity it would be impossible
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even for a big studio. the developers of also draw inspiration from well known music videos and movies here vladimir putin wraps along the coast in similar style to despots. and the terminator seems to have had a russian grandmother. motion capture is used to film the movements this special suit has forty two markers to capture all the actors movements and gestures. two dozen cameras are used to create a full three d. picture. that makes it possible to reposition the resulting figures later. it's not unusual challenge for the actors. it's hugely different from being on stage in the theater you put on the suit and i wonder with the role for example the trumpets putting on a really rough voice. hey you. think myself
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larger my body more massive so basically this is the pure arts of acting. for. a dedicated expert oversees the facial gestures he uses his fingers to position the mouth and set the right expression at the end all the individual parts are put together for one scene i ran there about twenty five different cameras from different angles and. there are cuts the best way to show the action and to show details to show that hall. well the speedy rendering process is a huge advantage success in both t.v. and social media suggests a promising future for the satire with millions of facebook you tube views. the show is broadcast on a range of channels around the world. you can also see it in russia and the use russian language program. very close still on office here in
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berlin is the motto of a place that's very popular especially on weekends i like to go there on sundays because there is something very special happening besides the huge fee market and extraordinary care oaky show no matter whether family or friends everyone i have taken there so far it was more than surprised the event has been taking place there regularly for ten years now the czechs both residents and tourists the event draw such huge crowds that some bouncer get jealous. on sunny summer sundays thousands of people flock to the empathy it or in berlin. for the legendary karaoke event some are there simply to watch or to dance while others actually take the stage because there were not just stuff you know there's always something unexpected but you never know what's going to come out of some stranger's mouth so it's always interesting on those pipes
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a response like yours you know. joe had who hails from ireland started organizing karaoke events here ten years ago he decides who gets to have his or her moment in the limelight. the waiting list for the want to be pop stars is long. you know the thing is that once you feel that this is a situation you know the feeling. something. for yeah. much you from strasbourg has been in berlin for five weeks he's tried to get on stage every single week he's going home tomorrow so today's his last chance. finally his persistence pays off. by a. bad. yes. yes a little bit more than before but it's not one and as i said that's what i like also. you know.
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one moment of fame and plenty of emotion every sunday at berlin's moer park. it's time now for a new episode of our serious you know mix the lax which takes us to iceland this time around the country is known for its breathtaking landscape with many volcanoes and space we were invited still a house there they kick which was once just an old conquered bungalow but make overture and it into a really modern home. hello welcome to my house. please comment. on it going to start just bungalow in a suburb of the icelandic capital break if it is a modern concrete looking villa with a previous lot. like almost all the houses here it was built in the one nine
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hundred sixty s. ana and her husband have modernized the bungalow and renovated it keeping with its surroundings. i am told to stay here all the lights and the nature to be in contact with the nature here it's very much a balance between inside and outside smriti you feel very. good connection and relaxed. the idea for the conversion came about in twenty fifteen the first are not only wanted to redesign the kitchen and dining room. but that led to a total conversion. now the response of room for ana and her husband and their daughter who often visits. the first one we started really to break things down it's like a journey you don't know where to where you're going because i mean there were
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thought there was so lots. that turned out to be have to say that because it was all this more and more and more. but it was also a sign to do it. hardly anything remains of the old house this special furnishing was the idea of a construction worker during the renovation he had cut. one piece out of that that's thrown wall to make a window and and from this piece he cut this out and got the idea to make this a laugh at this is. really the only piece from the old house that reminds me of this is that you sent us. this spacious open living space with many small cozy corners is a new feature. it includes a t.v. corner in the heart of the house. and office space in the rear.
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there is a room with a fireplace on the lower level. of the furnishings are a mix of souvenirs and functional furniture when it comes to interior design on a place is great importance on quality and continuity i think it's good to keep old . faces also yes for sort of the past quarter members of the past year have. not as bungalow has three hundred forty five square metres of indoor living space. remodelling instead of building a new prove the right decision in addition there is the newly designed outdoor area with the typical icelandic thermal baths and. i was happy with my house before and so i would just wanted to have anyway yeah i think you'll see the. around the house and then you break all the facts and make them as you want to have. the
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best of both a mix of old and new classical and modern the bungalow is now exactly the home on a good starter always one. interior design at its best check out our you tube channel detail the interior design stunning ideas spectacular buildings and d.i.y. tutorials on home decoration we'll take you inside the most beautiful european homes show you the latest in furniture fabrics and accessories subscribe and don't miss out. see you on you tube. tastes differ especially when it comes to clothing my grandma always sad most trends are back in fashion again some time she was absolutely right remember the paisley pattern for example is one of the oldest fabric designs and it was invented more than two thousand years ago and persia but it got its name
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a lot later in scotland guess where in the tunnel the same name paisley the city is located sixty kilometers west from the scottish capital edinburgh and it's the next stop and i was serious regional success stories. welcome to the scottish town of paisley near glasgow paisley was a hobby of the textile industry back in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. the town helped to make the pattern of the same name famous and you'll come across it here where ever you go. to. paisley originated in persia over two thousand years ago the pattern spread across asia sweeping through india before arriving in europe in the fifteenth century and eventually making its way to paisley scotland's. the so unique the brick is
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a fashion to the should room and it is where worn all over the roads. the pay sleep pattern is seemingly indestructible and it looks particularly funky on shoes. it's once again in demand in the fashion world. top designer just sounders using it. the italian from gucci likes to use paisley for their ties and it's even a popular look for house pets to. have a permanent exhibition in paisley explains how the famous pattern got its name and what it meant for the scottish textile industry priceless sample books are kept here including design templates for scarves and weaving fabrics.
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these are actual presence here were created in pairs in the south but the they're obviously inspired by the indian prototype from the customer shawl but these are from around the. in the nineteenth century paisley scarves were popular in chile scotland queen victoria ordered them by the dozen and introduced them to british society and the patterns changed over time and there has always been much speculation about their symbolic meaning. it was supposed to be. the tree of life the various other meanings like that but. when it was used on the paisley shawl in the nineteenth century it was simply a decorative device. hippies embraced the paisley pattern during the flower power movement of the one nine hundred sixty s.
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and seventy's. the beatles wore it as did the indian musician ravi shankar and some. indian lifestyle was in at the time and the paisley motif symbolized it. that. you're guaranteed to find a painfully scarfs here in these two old weaver house it was called the smash shot cottages. was built about one thousand nine hundred forty seven hundred forty and they had laid hundreds of population there's looks about seventeen thousand and about fourteen thousand that involved in the leaving industry. the whole family of weavers would have lived and slept in a room like this one. reading the scarves that found favor throughout nineteenth century europe. many visitors like to take home a scarf as a souvenir adorned with the famous pattern that has lasted for over two thousand
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years. well our current draw will not last that long but you still have a chance to take pride we would like to know is there something that has made your hometown a region famous the world over to find out more just go to a web page t w dot com slash lifestyle and when you write into us you will automatically enter our daughter win an exclusive your next watch so good luck with that and i hope you can join us again tomorrow for the next episode of your mats under them thanks for watching by. next time on your own max comes was you know the only woman who ever lived barbara become so she's also a successful artist herself and now she's featured in a new limited edition book showing previously unpublished drawings and illustrations are always ninety six years old and losing in paris and new york
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