they want to shape the continent's future to. be part of the african youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges. the shifts seven percent. platform africa. hello and welcome to another edition of your own max coming to you from so let's see what's making the headlines in today's show. let there be light creative paper from prague. sent us village visits call a christmas at home in finland and. treasure hunt how

experts of foods time and again by face fines. and we begin by shedding some light on the subject of lambs to french artist base ball though specialize in lancet with paper mushy figures they both put their own creative input into them she brings the a to stick sides to the scotus and he takes care of the more technical aspects michael like meghan lee met up with them for a closer look. these figures are light as a feather that's because they're sculpted out of paper into feminine forms which resemble dancers. they're called man was and are the work of french artist sophie moto and frederick di bruni frederick structures the paper and so she adds her touch to it by creating the various figures.

the put the electric parts inside the pleated section of the lamp and turning my. focus i think and sophie works on the personification of each character when he gets you know you have to. we both work on the concept of each slam. of our own range of skill and expertise it. looks good. sophie uses a paper maché technique to sculpt the figures this includes the use of different types of paper and glue to hold it all together. she prefers paper to other sculpting materials because of its flexibility. the made in france label doesn't come cheap but their clients are willing to spend seven hundred euros and upwards for a ham sculpted lamp. effect here yeah. there are many different

kinds of paper i started out using old newspapers that i gathered up you can use recycled paper so it's a good paper to start with and it's also very light. do they think it's a lot of freedom to work at home when there's also paper that's very valuable or there's a transparency to it or is there more of their papers that have a quality that makes a nice to work with and to touch and to mold. frederick learned about pleaded paper in their sculptures are a mix between art and technology and have made it to some of paris's best known addresses book or day one that cover you we've worked on some beautiful projects for over but i knew we made that was else according to the ballets an opera. created ballerinas and dancers for the different performances little place they are the better you know so we also liked working for one hundred seventy people which

is linked to the museum of decorative arts. as it is other there we were commissioned twice to decorate their windows both mr rogers that were really close to our hearts because we were a part of a specific place and we had to create works that connected with that place. that you artists are expanding their repertoire to include neon like they outsource the creation of the to lower their signature figure is of course including. the liner elements come in different form. some are shorter and wider than this. or we have others that are much larger. than the biggest we have measures one hundred fifty centimeters. with christmas just around the corner sophie and federico are busy making and shipping off lamps and other paper figures to clients

all over the globe. our american clients are buying lots of pieces like this one to put on top of their christmas trees. never no clue. no clue our australian clients like our little rabbit figures like this one. well in all colors if we want. and our french clients of whom there are also many really like these little characters either in wind or painted little we're very good morning homo it isn't that without our top seller other modern most us. in the know you sold about a thousand of them so far. whatever the time of year these decorative lamps shut a cosy light on any space. and maybe just the thing if you're still looking for that special christmas gift moving on now for a quick look at some other cultural highlights in today's express.

chester's soon near liverpool england has unveiled its top ten baby animals of twenty eight. among them cub kyra this is superstar and the first son bear to be born in a british zoo her pictures were an internet sensation. and this is baby elephant and john born three months later than expected the officials and visitors were a little worried about that but things turned out fine. this year visitors were also excited about the birth of a silvery given baby to proud mother to. each christmas then resume and start us home in reykjavik iceland turned into christmas wonderland. she starts decorating in the event that been

a has so many festive decorations and lights that she needs to shed just to store them all up to the holidays. she's especially proud of the christmas decorations on public. santa claus turned up at the paris aquarium on tuesday with goggles and swimming fans he spent a few minutes handing out food to some of the fish. people don't believe you know we're glad we're here today we got to see santa feed the fish it's great to do something like this right you feel christmas and now we're really in a holiday mood to. pay something on when. the paris aquarium covers an area of thirty five hundred square meters it features ten thousand fish and invertebrates in more than forty tanks.

certainly a strange place to meet in this week's serious home for christmas we are exploring the roots of christmas traditions in today's episode where tracking down this mysterious figure who is known by so many names santa claus father christmas saint nick where the only man in the red suit really come from which travelling way up enough to the finish provence of lapland where the region's capital on uni has its very own something close village and a man who claims to be the real deal well the locals call him you'll know pokie we set off to the arctic circle to find out is that really use something else.

deep in the magical snowy landscapes of finnish lapland near the glistening city of or over near me is the place this santa calls. visitors from all over the world make the pilgrimage to santa claus village up in the arctic circle every year since one thousand nine hundred five santa has welcomed thousands of guests young and old right here in his own living room he listens to all their wishes hello i'm santa claus. quite real we are right now here at the arctic circle. k. twelve to the north but. to the world of fair it. was a wonderful place to make a worse place is one place where no one doubts the existence of santa claus i don't

think you're ever to all. fifty major nerd i order is there. anything you. want to really know whether you should be a lot but that's where i came here since it was actually would speak portuguese yet yes. i think polyglot are actually things like this. and every year about five hundred thousand letters and cards with wish lists arrive at his official post-office of course father christmas can't answer that many letters himself but he has a host of busy else who lend a helping hand and. if. we are open all year round every day and this is like a normal post office here in feel. it's possible. nice stamps and of course this is the place where all those letters to the santa claus comes to what people and children are right. visitors like to send postcards

stamped with an arctic circle postmarked to their friends and family as santa claus gives every letter his full attention but some are more memorable than others sometimes i letters. girls tell that they have everything they need but they know somebody who is. in need and they ask me to remember them. this kind of letters are very dear to our hearts. the whole theme park based on christmas in santa claus village visitors can experience the entire spectrum of the christmas season every day. for lovers of christmas the village near rovaniemi has been the place to get into the spirit for thirteen years now but hedging has it that santa is real home is much fun to know. we were always told that son or about on three that is the moment him called air

moment in because sound that good to hear all the way up the kids around the world . in a very remote there riyadh very close to you know russian border and it's hard to get in there that's why basically sanchez relates what's being it for the travelers to meet in a more easier way santa claus village is open all year round fast it feels much genuine in the winter months when the temperature drops to minus twenty degrees celsius perfect for a little jaunt with the dogs a. great beer full sleighs and a more stately pace so how does santa manage to deliver so many gifts just so many children. tara. it's all relative. and that's it you just have to go how to be in the millions of different places around the same time and after practicing it so well a couple of centuries i think i might it's quite well. the atmosphere gets really

cares in the evening with glowing campfires and entertaining music shops even the most stop on scrooge succumbs to the holidays in china. for those who want fortunate enough to visit him santa has this message. i wish you all a very very happy christmas. and if that's got you into the fastest spirit visit our website to let us know how you like to spend christmas and what you really need to make it perfect send us a photo and don't forget to explain why you like to celebrate this way and if your entry is chosen you could win an exclusive whist watch now how can you be successful on social media the young people who grew up with it might be able to answer that question so the logical step would be for them to pass on this

knowledge to others who are looking for the past to the perfect online presentation and that's exactly what young men from bell and is doing. i always liked sports even when i was in school. today start a man's popular you tube videos tell little stories from his life visualized with sketches. and this is this latest one today is donovan's you tube channel has more than two hundred fifty thousand subscribers has been producing clips since the age of fourteen a few years ago he started earning a living from them. tulsa thousand clicks earns me one euro two thousand clicks that's not so much this one only got five thousand views of this when i got there thirty thousand times so it only thirty four euros. i would have but sometimes my videos went viral and i made two thousand euro. stop it right off. but today shadowman is switching gears to help the friend on social media.

two years ago i coached a friend of mine and that worked out really well. with the office so i realized i have know how they can help other people become a success on you tube. you can see a postman is his latest client she's developed a range of big and beauty products but she still needs some advice on marketing them and social media and instagram in particular is coming. out of my home the facebook era instagram that is into grammont to me it's like wizardry i have no idea how it works or why people use the platform. to dominate the shift again. so i still need to learn all the ins and outs by bringing in cut us i believe social media is the future and i'm an expert in this field or a highly entertaining content for you tube and that's fun but helping others make

it on social media helping companies that have a good mission and deliver real added value that's even more fun for us. luckily no high end equipment is needed to make social media clips ok can you like talk something to what's to come are. coming around because his name. is the camera love it because i think whenever i visited my grandparents they'd say don't you want to find a proper job. but my parents were always very supportive of my father's a photographer so i helped him get more followers on instagram. through their father so common today to start a man is not in it to get rich he's happy to pick and choose whom he wants to help yeah. architects are not always presented with an ideal scenario sometimes they are faced with great challenges but every problem has

a solution as in the case of this family from. out in the south of germany they found the building plot their new family home but in fact it was just a rather narrow passageway nevertheless they managed to come up with a rather clever solution as they explained in today's. the finke family had been looking for years for an affordable building site near stuttgart. and then this one turned up. the plot of land was really inexpensive because it was unusually narrow. it's left over from a larger piece of property. even though it is not like you and the properties around here are quite expensive. but we found this site in a sling and. they used to be

a driveway here but it wasn't being used so we got a good deal. of help. and that's how it all started. if you subtract the required minimum distance to the next lot the property measures four point seven meters wide fourteen meters long. and i had to ask my husband you really think we can build a house here and he said i've got a plan and i said ok go for it and the basic down line. for architect thomas fink this was an exercise in how to save space. we use the world's thinnest walls he's probably covered up panels such as six said to me just pick six in the middest i'll get. polycarbonates or thermal plastic polymers that are used in a wide variety of applications there are durable planting some grades translucent. i didn't ask i'm talking during the first couple of days the sun was shining and the front of the building kept making these popping noises because the material

kept expanding and contracting and if there's it's kind of spooky at first but we got used to it pretty fast. to. think family home as a total floor space of one hundred forty seven square meters private rooms on four levels we kept construction costs low. to the essentials. that meant no expensive windows on the long side walls and no expensive interior construction just concrete and cement based flooring it looks like a work in progress but it's not use the body cavazos to frame the surrounding countryside so the landscape is like a big old decoration shop and the scenery changes with the seasons you know ya just like. at the front of the house they have a nice view and in the back a small garden the color scheme is just white and grey except when they light up

the polycarbonate panels. you know my husband likes it i don't use it a lot except when we have company. so on a narrow plot of land the finks managed to put a house that lights up their life. believe it or not fake news has been around for a very long time throughout history experts have repeatedly come across finds which they believe to be a sensation until they were told otherwise now an exhibition in the german town of hit is is dedicated to some amazing false finds and sometimes they are just as exciting as we treasure. it was an archaeological. sensation in one thousand nine hundred sixty is gold tiara it was offered to the louvre in paris it supposedly just been discovered and was sent to date from the third

century b.c. the museum paid to record some for the artifact at first it seemed like a good investment the singer tavernise drew large numbers of visitors that homs would idle but then a couple of archaeologists said the way the depiction xy ranged is a bit unusual a bit awards for the status quo and one day a man from a desk named israel rushkoff skee came and said excuse me but i made that. district up in the past and they thought of he's crazy he's just a guy from the countryside some kind of craftsman seeking attention and then that's established as. unfortunately for the louvre the goldsmith was able to prove his talents by reproducing part of the tiara. to art dealers had commissioned him to make the piece based on historical drawings the loo for quickly removed the object from its display and was subjected to much derision today the tiara of so your

toughness is regarded as the most famous fake in archaeological history. there were printed sales museum in here this time is now devoted an exhibition to stories like these. to show on errors and forgeries in archaeology features more than two hundred exhibits their history is often amusing and whitening and no more relevant than ever fetch from us that we can not spot on the floor trees are clearly a very exciting topic fake used every day we deal with fake news or not fake news what is facts and what isn't and it's a topic which people in politics science but in culture as well have to deal with all the telling and that some us. so it's hardly surprising that mistakes are made . like in one thousand. thirty eight when these metal pieces from an old bucket were mistaken for a priceless royal crown. and there was clearly some wishful thinking

involved when bones allegedly belonging to the skeleton of the unicorn of peddling borg were discovered in the hearts mountains in six hundred sixty three. using bones and tusks from mammoths researchers reconstructed the mystical creature that they clearly wanted to believe in my head. they keep thinking about what it could look like because of course no one had ever seen one in the side of the so they were different consideration yes that it looked like a host with a hole and all something else entirely that's you of us with what we see here is a replica based on bones that really have been found though they weren't from just one animal but from several and. even got paid venom bly peanuts included a drawing of the find in his standard work on paleontology the polymath fell victim to a hype that began in ancient times and peaked in the middle ages that continues to this day it seems that unicorns never go out of fashion.

this isn't an archaeological error but it is the most famous forgery in post-war west german history the hitler diaries in one nine hundred eighty three down magazine fell for these fix. the weekly news magazine paid an art forger a huge nine million dollar marks for the diaries before going public with their seemingly sensational find and he doubts as to their authenticity were simply dismissed until the diaries were exposed as fakes. the diary in an exhibition comes from germany's federal archives just one of the sixty volumes forged has been loaned out the scandal surrounding the fake their diaries certainly made one thing clear if it seems too good. to be true it probably is the heart of a good even though new facts are produced every day you have to deal with them in

a critical way you need to consider whether the great story of being told is actually a fact just. those sometimes fakes are at least as interesting as originals as this exhibition in hilda's sign clearly shows. well the saying goes to humans and with that we read the show for today thanks for tuning in and hopefully we'll see you again tomorrow and of course in the meantime you can follow us on social media until we meet again on that and try out your. own take on. our. next time on your own marks the tenth edition of a sour croom festival is now underway at a ski resort in the french alps the festival is more than a respected in the film industry and attracts among some famous faces. cinema

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