i got my license to work as a swimming instructor. and i wanted two children not to don't just mean that's just . what's your story take part cherish on info my grinstein. happy st nicholas day from berlin and welcome to zazen episode of euro max here's what's coming up. beautiful and coveted twenty nine thousand for really calendar was crazy by photographer with what's. easy and festive d.i.y. thanks chris shows us how to make christmas decorations. interactive and for risky

performance fall just to see long operates outside the comfort zone. we start off with an end of the year tradition every year italian tire manufacturer a pirelli issues a calendar which traditionally featured scantily clad ladies but when the past photographers of stage them models in erotic poses the calendar has now evolved to showcase more artistic photography for the twenty nineteen edition sculpture stuff and albert watson wanted to focus on people dreaming of things the likes of prima ballerina misty copeland model gigi had deed featured in this new coveted calender . glamour on the red carpet with halle berry. she had deemed. and let. and right in the thick of it scottish photographer albert watson.

for his perrelli calendar he photographed renowned actresses models and dancers. just like in films each had a particular role to play. the idea was that we made four little movies and put it together as one movie and these are the stills from the movie so that was the basic driving force of the idea of a boat for women that are thinking about their futures dreaming i'm visions. model and actress later. plays a painter who lives together with her boyfriend in a small room dreaming of making it to the top the forty year old french star posed for the calendar for the first time eighteen years ago. this time around she

appeared as a modern self-confident woman. it's not only being. a number six desire small like. and spiritual but being a woman. about creativity being strong and infinites know what she wants in life. american prima ballerina misty copeland's together with her colleague calvin roiled the third play a couple that dreams of an international career this time watson wanted the men who appeared in the calendar to be more than just props. were both there and sarah's aspirants have been. successful in wanting to dance in paris. was amazing to be able to remember what that feeling was like as a kid growing up aspiring. to dance. the calendar published by the italian

tire maker is being issued for the forty sixth time it gained cult status back in the one nine hundred ninety s. as the cow featuring many top models showing lots of skin shot by some of the world's best known photographers. the calendar has evolved since that now it features more artistic images that emphasize the model's strong personalities. watson also dislike the idea of a pin up calendar though the images exude their own eroticism he clarified any questions well in advance of shooting. for me the way i'm handling that is i simply ask the woman would you be photographed in the nude yes or no and she says no it's the end of the discussion. young american actress julia garner is best known for roles in popular television series in the calendar she plays

a photographer fascinated by nature. the twenty four year old was surprised and delighted when the renowned photographer asked her to pose for perelli. i was not shocked but it is shots the right you know when it's mixed emotions or just it's you know if you're shooting for proudly and and just knowing you know proudly i always know that the calendar they get the best artist in hollywood star halle berry hosted the calenders gala presentation in milan the ten day shoot took place in miami and new york and no expense was spared. i think that the whole idea that you have freedom that's why it's a great project because you have freedom and they support you to do your vision so that's why it's a great project for sure very few of those in the world very few. it looks more

like an exclusive photographic collection than a calendar and for the first time there's a picture every week rather than just once a month the limited edition isn't sold in shops the calendars are only given away to the company's customers and celebrities. we continue now with a dead devil sport called speed riding it's a unique activity that combines elements of kite surfing paragliding and of course skiing i know it sounds quite difficult and dangerous but when you watch the next report you'll also see that it looks quite stunning and luckily one of the sports pioneers likes to create films of the spectacular speed riding adventures we caught up with welly caxton holds a champion snowboarder who spent over ten years developing this adrenaline pumping activity. speed riding in the swiss alps gliding over hill

and dale with a special parachute and skiing down pristine slopes at more than one hundred kilometers an hour this is speed writing a combination of paragliding and skiing for swiss extreme athlete and multiple world champion only cation holds it's the perfect sport if you go for the feeling you get speed riding is incredible because of the combination you can ski off a cliff and suddenly you're in the air flying and below you can see the next slope so you swoop in and your back to scare this than to see them see fall. all you need is a pair of skis and an eight to ten square metre wing to go off piste. two chords help steer the wing into the air and back onto the snow. only has been doing this for ten years three or four times a week. for

mrs wright what it feels most to me is that it lets me reinterpret free riding on muta rights i can tackle new mountains and be the first to make the sense which wouldn't be possible otherwise the. only catch then holds was born to ski from an athletic family he grew up in the swiss alps now he's active in ten different types of sports including skydiving parachuting and skateboarding. he's been skiing since he was just three. he discovered snowboarding at the end of the one nine hundred eighty s. and went on to win fourteen world cup titles in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight he was the first snowboarder ever to win an olympic bronze medal in giant slalom at the winter games in nagano in two thousand and two thousand and one he won both world championships back to back it was free riding skiing or snowboarding on. piece that brought him to speed riding in two thousand and six he was one of

its first pioneers. there as snowboarders as a snowboarder free riding on open terrain was always a big thing for me when i went to my final olympic competition in two thousand and six i wanted to concentrate on free riding from then on to writing cause but then i saw the first images of speed riding and i knew this is my saying this. in two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight only cashed in holds made a movie about speed writing his film play gravity shows the first speed writing dissents down the three swiss pigs mench and young trial since then willie has also specialized in producing sports movies. when mr i'm not very good at not doing things if i see something i'd like to do i need to try it. speed writing is expensive but he highly recommends not scrimping

on equipment all told a good parachute costs about three thousand euros and high quality material is the only way to ensure a safe descent he says today he and his friend want to try out a new route they start about two thousand seven hundred meters up in the bernese alps first they study the terrain and determine the route good preparation is vital . to get speed or obviously speed riding is dangerous you have a quick wing it's small so you can build up lots of speed but it's handling is sensitive if you manage it properly there's no problem but you really need to know yourself and your own limitations you need to know the weather conditions the mountain it then it's fine and then this is absolute ok sounds simple enough but it's far from being a sport for the masses experts gauge there are only about six hundred speed riders worldwide.

to be riding at speed writing has really developed over the last ten years there was a little boom and lots of people got excited and joined but the noticed if you don't keep it up regularly it gets dangerous and so they lost interest today you have a core group of people who speed write like me and do it reading frequently writing so with that i make with few thought. only question holds wants to continue developing the sport is landing in the shuffle bear valley marks the discovery of yet another speed writing trail. sign for our express today we had to berlin and london to get up to date with the news in europe but first off we stay in the snow and travel far up north to the edge of the arctic circle to capture glow. father christmas. on st nicholas day a large number of tourist visited the santa claus village at the edge of the arctic circle. the theme park near the finnish town of rovaniemi is generally considered

the home of the man in red wish lists from all of the world piled up at the post office and you can also send holiday greetings from here with around half a million visitors a year santa claus village is the most popular tourist destination in the region of lapland. the berlin park zoo has published images of the latest addition to their animal kingdom six days after it was born a polar bear cub can be seen snuggling sleeping and nursing. the youngster hasn't left the cave where it was born and zookeepers aren't allowed to approach vets will only find out in about eight weeks whether the cub is male or female until then peace and quiet is what the baby polar bear needs most. a special display is on show with the victoria and albert museum in london where a number of renowned professional architects have built sixty houses out of

gingerbread and suites the models are meant to show what the city of the future could look like one is it is-i and submitted by the office of star architects and norman foster visitors can view the gingerbread city from the eighth of december to the sixth of january they're asked to resist the temptation to eat the sweet buildings. more gingerbread is coming up in today's installment of this week's series sweet delights nuremberg in germany is world famous for its soft variety of gingerbread some even see it as the birthplace of the seasonal pastry. records show that it was first made that as early as thirteen ninety five the city in northern varia even boasts a museum dedicated to exchange of bread tradition so let's get let's get a taste of it.

the castle st lawrence church the medieval town center nuremberg has much to offer and when the christmas season comes around the city boasts yet another attraction its famous gingerbread the sweet treat to be found on almost every corner and the greatest selection of gingerbread is available at the famous christmas market. people with a sweet tooth flocked there all day so what makes this gingerbread so special. to the point that it tastes like chocolates and cinnamon just like christmas which . as we know modern industrially made gingerbread just takes three seconds but here in nuremberg the gingerbread has a special spicy favor of machir great taste delicious it's neither too hard nor too

so you see that has a special fresh flavor and very. much nice combination of spices. nuremberg gingerbread is an export sold to fans the world over. gingerbread glazing comes in all shapes and forms but the key ingredients of nurnberg traditional gingerbread remain the same. it's a centuries old recipe and it here too religiously by one of the town's most famous gingerbread bakeries. bringing on the news let's start with the nuts we use three kinds i'll mend walnuts and hazelnuts we grind them up. and we usually add flour to our agenda press one of the most important ingredients in the middle ages is honey . to make it originally came from wild bees in the local forest we also have some ingredients that are unique to our new gingerbread. candies orange and citrus p.-a

and various spices. in the middle ages these spices came all the way from madagascar india mexico and sumatra the first mention of a gingerbread bakery in nuremberg dates back to the fourteenth century sixteen forty three the town's gingerbread makers formed their very own guilt and developed a unique mix of gingerbread spices. you have to do is includes cloves of course i'm on ginger korea under. and fennel to be honest a unique combination of spices aziz for each kind of ginger graduates in the middle ages this was a cosy guarded secret and it still is today it's a tag that not stice is dried fruit plenty of honey and a pinch of flour and you get ginger bread dough in a local museum master baker and joseph shows visitors how to make the tasty treat

first the dough is spread onto a thin wafer by hand. this is what we've been using these tools for over two hundred years. after the toes been shaped and decorated goes in the oven for fifteen minutes that way it stays moist. gingerbread is part and parcel of christmas just like festive candles carols and hot mulled wine which by the way tastes great with gingerbread. if. we keep things christmassy in our ongoing series d i y every week we present you new home improvement ideas and it is the season to deck the holes with all sorts of lovely ornaments today our resident expert hangs in leaves shows you how to make a modern christmas style feel home in just a few easy steps let's find out how it's done.

there it's tension the f.n. season is for me the time when i take it a lot to make it feel really comfortable today and making a beautiful christmas stuff and now i'll show you how. you need a styrofoam ball six centimeters wide. and about a hundred gudinski was twenty centimeters long. also some nylon string. a ruler and a mock up. and spray paint every white. let's go some by covering your styrofoam ball with dots make sure they're spaced about one centimeter of how it's. time for the skew is. lined you rule out with one and a few wooden skewers and mark them at three centimeters.

make sure the distance is always marked exactly the same so your story turns out symmetrical. else take the good and screw us into the bowl to where your mouth is. and just like that you have to stop. but it's not ready until it has to right color i chose to pay mine ivory white it's best to use just gray paint also even if it is cold let it dry for two hours. run six completely dry and rub some nine string around your bowl and make it tighten or the length of the string would depend on where you wish to hang your straw. a while to start is done they're easy to make soon why not experiment with different sizes and colors. as you can see christmas decorations don't always have to be red. greeno go to try

out some discrete colors that harmonize with your warm furnishings for example i think that looks very smart. and if you'd like to get more d.i.y. tips you can find plenty of videos on our you tube channel d.w. interior design make sure to subscribe. our final report of the day focuses on a rather daring performance artist seem unfair likes to test the boundaries of social norms he loves interacting with strangers taking them out of their comfort zone whether that's unsuspecting passers by or even juicy policeman the german artist is always up for a bit of fun we met up with him in the town of aden kogan in southern germany.

performance artist ziman fettle specializes in interaction. and that's a nice spot yeah thanks i'm waiting for someone to help me up. but will need anyone help. when interviewing the reporter and crew have to be ready for anything like being pressed into serving as counterweights well the artist perches on a plank a bunch of ground. in mine i would bet you top that. in my work the observers become a part of the work because they have to participate if i'm going to be able to create works like this and so if you were to get up i'd fall and your actions would have consequences for my performance. so as i think i did in time people can always bring my work down to it if they want to play and.

truthful likes to make people feel unsettled often he puts his own physical health and stake in his performances his body is a means to an end. the outcome of an experiment is always remind open. tefl meticulously plans out his performances in advance especially the where and the house. like this one in the iranian capital tehran for instance. except you don't miss that's right i stated that because i realized that people that didn't know much about performance art on its most of them know nothing at all about him and i realized the viewer would have to become part of the work otherwise

i'd fall down the stairs obviously i don't explain a performance through words but by making the possible a part of it by having them hold on to me otherwise the whole operation will fail i think it's when i give a certain amount of trust and the viewers show trust in return it was when they become also the operation and i don't let me go or not dialogue is an important part of my work it's about building structures for human relations and testing them for george billeted as many of my works have any simple in concept but they can become incredibly complex as you begin to see how people function and act of advice and you can see that in just five minutes when you're carrying them on your shoulders for instance sort of but for an hour or two. at most of the. supposed longest grand daddy she wants to get you have to find a person to take my place yes ok.

i'm going to. see unfair fall gets total strangers involved and places himself at their complete mercy. passers by react to his experiment here in paris in different yet amazingly similar way it becomes a study in human interaction. so scientists have it's interesting that nobody in any of the cities i've been to has let me fall i don't know if it's something global but it does seem to be a constant that one chip entered into a dialogue with people they can't let you. go apparently the same applies in small towns as well and up the hill. what seymour infantilism after is pretty

universal after all he just wants a helping hand and he doesn't want anyone to let him down but even if they did that's also part of life and yes art yeah they're going to do. that's all for today but i'll see you again tomorrow for more your max where we will be revealing this week's competition when to so keep your fingers crossed for more european lifestyle and culture check out instagram and facebook pages at d.f.w. your remarks a lot from out. next time on your of. the longer hours of darkness at this time of year has more chances to take a longer look at the stars in the night sky photographer beyond push old enjoys looking at them at any time of the year and captures the most beautiful images of

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