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africa the. stories of both people do different shaping their nation. and their continent of africa on the move the stories about motivational change makers taking their destinies into their not. t.w. t.v. series food for. d.w.b. dot com we're going to move. on to your max fish and make you happy that's one of the questions we're answering on our show today but let's first have a quick look at what else is coming up. a remarkable woman french artist was you
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know has published a new book with travel skeptics. music hero british singer rick astley is back with a new album. sounds precious time pieces we've visited last week in eastern germany which is famous for its watchmaking tradition. to shop for clothes is a lot of fun but does fish and really make you happy we wanted to find out more and learn to copenhagen on the one hand because the biggest fashion week in albany europe is currently in full swing there and because according to the word happiness report the danes are always among the happiest people in the world's the so-called scandals sky have something to do with it let's find out. this year's copenhagen fashion week is a showcase of what's come to be known as scandi style thirty three designers from
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around scandinavia are presenting their creations for next summer in the audience is danish fashion reporter cilla henning she knows her way around europe scout walks and can tell us what's unique about fashion from the north to nagin fashion you can eat where it doesn't it's not so complicated you can mix it in different ways and if. it's like it's good every day you can use it if not why only cup hockey from the weekend but not to use it every day we pike around and even appeal to everyone to do that and we have a really kind of easy going and laid back attitude towards fashion so scandinavian style is comfortable and stylish these principles have guided designers at labels like danny or sam soon sam soon as well as newer competitors. and long. so i don't fashion capital city but that said we still have a really good approach to having this get made in all to me it's like being at a personal style everybody is kind about finding your own personality and your
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style and i think that kind of give us a lot we don't just want to be you know the girl with the bat i want to be the one who i trust with the things not on direction wardell way. the danes like to be cosy and comfortable or as they say the un's world happiness report often places the danes ahead or just behind the norwegians and finns as the world's happiest people does danish fashion reflects that to scandinavian fashion make people happy people don't seem stressed out much behind the scenes here at the fashion week whether for the label launches opening show or at the whole squad their label not even when things have fallen behind schedule. then months less than if you let stress take over nothing good can come of it anyway that's why it's so important for us to keep calm. and achieve our goals. the designers are often inspired by street style so alongside more natural tones lots of vibrant
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hughes seen on the streets of europe's northernmost cities were on the catwalk at copenhagen fashion week it's a concept that resonates with customers. personally and makes me very happy it's a way for people to express themselves and also for me so it makes me having to see all these different clothes and different styles that they put out there i just enjoy dressing up really nice i just think it makes me feel good when i look good as i think fashion makes. because it's about colors it's expression on people you know that what you wear is a kind of making a sick note and i think it has a huge impact on how we approach and look at people it makes you happy because it's a way to express yourself and know we to show the world who you are and there's no
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wrong way of doing it it's just showing your personal style i think a question can also. it can also make you feel a lot of other things because it's also an art form i think but for me definitely it can create some kind of happiness. so what makes the scandinavian designer so successful does being in a good mood help you be more creative. didn't from blanche says it does. to me inspiration is everywhere but i think i work best when i'm happy and i work best when i'm a young people i work best in the friendly happy environment and with people i love and trust because i put my work and say my marks down and i open my senses and to me that's the best way to be creative look show. positivity are very important to us both in the way we live and how we create our collections. but
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there's more to it than that according to me a couple gor a designer at samson and samson. were definite to sign for people to being able to move around to bicycle to work. to make their life easier and maybe in that way make them happy about that this time in the end. everyone here seems to agree fashion can make you happy a simple message that will hopefully make its way from copenhagen fashion week to the rest of the world. where here in berlin at the moment is very clear that our us areas possible it is just unbelievably warm in the german capital but also elsewhere in europe more now in today's express. as temperatures hit over forty degrees celsius in the shade in rome city authorities
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are offering free mineral water to tourists and residents. between eleven in the morning and four in the afternoon bottles of being distributed at venues like the coliseum. for people who are doing whatever they can to escape the school in temperatures the heat wave originated in the sahara desert in northern africa and has swept across italy and other countries in europe are. marching once again along the beaches of saving and the netherlands of the structure of the beasts. they're made of light p.v.c. tubing and powered only by the wind really so it's something special. you know we're using. the part of a project by seventy year old dutch artist taheri anson to develop his creatures around twenty five years ago. now they've drawn the attention of nasa scientists who have invited yancey to take part in a think tank on a possible mission to venus.
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on wednesday the musical titanic began a two week run at hamburg state opera house it tells the individual stories of some of the people on board the ship that sank in the atlantic on its maiden voyage in one nine hundred twelve the production from london will sport german subtitles on its only stop in germany the musical by author peter stone and composer more yes to premiered for the first time in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven on new york's famous promptly. and now we continue with a very impressive woman falls was she became known as the companion of the famous painter puppet because so that's an onus of the fact that she's an outstanding artist you know all right even today at the age of ninety six she still has studios in new york and paris they met up with her and she showed us around and talked to
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us about all types. francoise gilo is ninety six years old. she looks back on a long productive and rewarding career in which she created over five thousand drawings and sixteen hundred paintings some of my knowing. three of her travel sketchbooks have just been published in a limited edition volume. this is where they make your own words. together. the images are in studies for later paintings for the works in their own rights. they capture the experiences she lo had in trips to venice india and senegal. when i was young it's
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a long time ago i used to go in the subway and make the bowings of people in the subway. and then you know i have a little note book in my pocket and not not do anything for me it just was i'll pass on it it's interesting to note that it knows a way faizal something but that doesn't mean i'm going to do a kid since that usually under completely i go away from nato. because. it's interesting but that's that maybe for i felt i felt for me as a. geo on the cold desert shaded from the sun by public because so for ten years she was the partner muse of one of the twentieth century's most famous painters and had two children with him. it didn't end well for the spanish master she low left him alleging infidelities and abuse. because i didn't take it
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very well. because france was you know painted before she met the castle and continued afterwards for the rest of her life for her that creation was a form of self affirmation. or works reflect the spirit of a century very neither radically abstract nor comfortably figurative but emphasise color space and rhythm. you know followed her own path. then thing is it is essentially they would not then there would not be that that's what i can say. does it has nothing to do with where there may be pending good
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or bad zero six s food or whatever venting is a kind of need like somebody needs to eat or to drink. smother madelaine was a water color painter her father a successful businessman. in one nine hundred forty one while studying law in paris france was secretly took drawing and painting lessons. two years later she decided to become an artist and her family broke off contact with her. and i've been painting since i don't know when and when men will not allow them to do the same. as an leave it was a. silly little things for young girls or something like that but in the twenty first twenty years and to me there were men. taken the power to bend themselves the man would all not them the same way but
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with their own their own power so to speak. france was. a woman who many has always been determined to pursue her own idea of art. the next artist has also worked hard for success i'm talking about rick astley thanks to his hits like a never gonna give you up together forever the british musician rose to world fame and the eighties and became a millionaire in his early twenty's so he treated himself to a long hiatus chandy five years but the break is over and now he's released his second album after a comeback it's called beautiful life have a listen. rick actually has released a new album. in
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the summer of one thousand nine hundred seventy the singer first catapulted to fame his hit never going to give you up top the charts in twenty five countries. actually was just twenty one back then it was a tavern time in his career. back in the day when you're an actual pop star i think it's it's very hard to just go and do that because you have to go into that like with a security person and then it becomes a bit of a mass you know it's not like a real life. actually scored several hits with his debut album although some critics complain that the sound was tepid in an exciting millions of fans for his records.
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and the singer's first success wasn't a one off follow up albums also climbed the charts. told with. the one nine hundred eighty s. fractured past the british superstar within the space of just six years he sold forty million albums worldwide. i. backed by the mid ninety's the demands of being a star began to tell and astley started thinking about quitting the business. oh. the problem with fame if you can call it a problem is that you don't get to turn it off even if you're on holiday on a beach. even if you're trying to teach your daughter to swim in a swimming pool you don't get to turn off. the dropped off the radar stop these
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career at the age of twenty seven just spend more time with his family for over two decades he kept a low profile that means twenty sixteen the former star celebrated a successful comeback we do concerts you know with soaring in september october november in europe and then we see then we go to the u.k. and. you can go on stage sing old songs sing some new songs now. and then go for breakfast the next day. and you know it's like having a normal life with the singer songwriter still likes to keep things as low key as possible even as he and his band laid the groundwork for a second career in the industry.
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and the title of recounts lee's new album reflects his approach perfectly it's called beautiful life. and now it's time again to get creative and you can join in at home and our you know max d.i.y. serious we have some inspiration coming up for you we show you how to brighten up your home in no time with just a few things today oh expert explains how to build a really i catch in shelf we show you why it's perfect for the summertime and for popsicle love. popsicles. afterwards. with their hands all
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kinds of things such as these honeycomb shelves here's what. you need at least one hundred and twenty popsicle sticks would go in. one large piece of paper. and he said if you can use decorative painters tape. a pen. a ruler. and a compass. let's get started first a hexagon this is an easy way. to draw a circle on the paper the radius should be the same length as your popsicle stick minus eleven centimeters. find where the two points of the circles are eleven centimeters apart and draw a line across repeat five times and you have a hexagon. stack six popsicle sticks alternating pattern along these lines and fix the three bottom ones with tape. gently move the three sticks to decide to appoint
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a drop of glue to each end of the bottom three sticks then carefully press them back on. continue gluing and sticking in the same pattern until your shop has to decide to step. i have twenty popsicle sticks on each side. to make sure the ends are exactly on top of each other. once you're done you can remove to tape and let the glue dry for about an hour. and just like that you have an inexpensive and quickly built shelf. i have so many parts of the coast to be able to build these shelves just kidding it's easy to buy them online involved and when you've had enough of these shows you can stack them on top of each other and turn them into a candle holder this is what it looks like. and
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if you want to get inspired some more and want to see that video again or other interesting d.i.y. projects just go to our you tube channel d.w. interior design and there you'll find plenty of creative ideas for your home and there's also much more to discover and now we continue with another had a craft but a much more mechanical in today's episode of always serious regional success stories we're heading to a place that is a longstanding watchmaking to dish and the time of the lawsuit is located thirty kilometers south of destiny in the eastern german state of saxony it is home to many watch manufacturers the telstar describes itself as the city of watches made piece from there can cost as much as a car yet the watches are in the mamba fans the world over. time is of the essence in the tiny town of glass who to the or mountain region glad
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to do it is a center of eastern germany's watchmaking industry timepieces have been made here since the mid nineteenth century. but like wearing a watch just to keep up the tradition for cell phone doesn't work and i want you to take what. is good for our feels good to have a watch that you know get a woman i like telling time with a real watch. eleven watchmaking firms are based in glass or to many of them have customers all over the world like normal. or the class who took. six. it employees at its headquarters here in. the sense of the all i'm quoting in the balance wheel the balance is the heart of the watch and it's something very special when you can see the heart of a watch starting to be in the distance and. depending on the model it can take between a few hours and several weeks to assemble
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a watch despite the popularity of quartz timepieces mechanical watches and clocks are becoming trendy again and watch makers like us a cutout love this intricate work. and you have to be very patient and you have to be willing to keep learning new things and you need to love what we do here. this quest for perfection. not the interface. that quest began here over one hundred seventy years ago with precision pocket watches. watch production continue during the communist era in east germany today class who to oregon now is constantly developing new models and makes all its own parts. the watches sell for up to several hundred thousand euros one of the more unusual models is this watch
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for world travelers. main priority was to make it easy to read the two time zones can be read simultaneously and you can set the time zones by turning the crown here on the bottom right and then setting the i.r. to airport code of the country you're traveling to i see that as a bit of land in the theater. to watch museum in glass or to is a big draw for history buffs. the first watch factory was founded here in eight hundred forty five by ferdinand and. an astronomical clock which was coming. they did in one thousand nine hundred five is a unique specimen is because i'm too soon to be able to house and see who will tire him though there are more than seven thousand eight hundred parts all told behind the seventeen clock races in three to four of those. for it to be just three to five editions of this clock worldwide and in terms of
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precision and perfection our clock is probably unique. the actual knows the story behind each time he says including those from the communist era in one thousand nine hundred fifty one all the companies were nationalized and merged into the classroom to watch enterprises or g.-u. be the q.b. had those done i think of course the g.u.b.b. had to operate according to a different philosophy for away from luxury watches and instead produced watches there were long lasting robust precise and affordable fast youth and colorful the legendary east germany much was a men's wristwatch with an automatic winding mechanism that was called speed c. much economy itself you know it seem odd to practically every day we get visitors who are still wearing those watches from the one nine hundred sixty s. seventy's or eighty's. safety of zero seven zero. an interest in the state capital of saxony the big watchmaking firms like glass who to. come up market
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boutiques nowadays the brand is exported around the world especially to asia where watches from this tiny town in germany are more popular than ever. well time flies also if it comes to our current drawl so take your time and join in matching to our a serious regional success stories you can win our own your next watch this time are out all you have to do it just go to our web page e.w. dot com says lifestyle and tell us what makes your hometown a region famous and if you do your name will be entered into our draw so good luck i'll keep my fingers crossed with a. ten years from now with an album create a fight and fishel much more so don't miss the upcoming episode of your next under them thanks for watching us here out by the. next time i'm duramax richard cucolo and his very individual take on famous landmarks
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the british artist doesn't need a lot of extra equipment just some black people and a scout cookie usually publishes his pieces only on instagram now for the first time his work is also on display offline using black cutouts to make the world little colorful mix time on duramax. move. move move. move. move. move move. move.
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