doris crane the moment arrives. join the ring you take on her journey back to freedom news you know we're an interactive documentary the tour on the way to tame returns home on the w. dot com from raymond james. with just a week to go before christmas or getting ready for the celebrations with a special week of your imax i'm louise houghton and over here for the next half an hour taking you through the theme of the day which is creativity in winter. playing it cool or a visit to the i.c.'s music festival and the well. the live in

a way how to make the package from the bible. and its signature scripts by handwritten i to the still a favorite. each day this week we'll be focusing on the theme of winter and what you can do in this season be that's false eating drinking or getting come easy today we look at cold weather activities both in and outdoors scandinavia is known for its extreme weather conditions and yet it is often the far north of no way that an outdoor annual concert takes place temperatures is so low there that the instruments a made from ice for this concert but that is no guarantee that they won't melt before this hour is higher. as the day draws to a close in the no. region ski resort to the i low and the temperature plunges to

well below freezing you sometimes hear strange sound for miles around. once a year one of the strangest and certainly oldest music festivals in the world takes place here on a frozen lake. the musicians play instruments made entirely out of ice. the audience members are impressed. this is really impressive stage. i'm still wondering how they made it. to experience. on the phone. hard on the. expansion. norwegian percussionist teria is sunset came up with the idea for the festival in two thousand and six he has an ecological message that he's. prepared to climate change and some of the things on the ice.

and i think to some i'm told that. becomes very important for coming home to face. the annual festival last three days and always attracts thousands of visitors. the twenty six musicians who will perform make their instruments themselves almost at the last minute before the concert. they use ice that's been collected from the frozen lakes around. it takes some time to fine tune the instruments and find just suitable sound. which right new things. i normally do my job is to come up with ideas to get the program there are. so. this year we have these enormous

to far from the thing probably also have the drumstick african style drums of we haven't done before. the annual highlight is the midnight concert on the ilo those frozen lake needs an improvised from beginning to end. the musicians never know if their instruments will survive the two hour concert they tend to melt and the sound changes accordingly. oh all.

these strange and unique music performed in the arctic chill. however used to living as a cold temperatures the possibilities are endless i mean what is a few degrees even cooler and messy is out and frozen water wouldn't seem that ludicrous if you got used to it what it well that is what a less rancor and a group of filmmakers do in central finland they shoot videos upside down below the surface of the ice at first glance it looks like a sea bed but keep watching the direction of the bubbles and you'll soon say that there's no more to this than meets the eye. they're. late already become

a hit on the internet the weird the nice clips from other finnish diving group led by a lisa banker and you saw met. this is lakeside reality and. once again the group of video artists meet up here and go diving under the ice to make their films. in winter the ice is up to half a meter thick. to. the main to a lizard uncut is preparing for his on camera performance and is fitted with special equipment for spikes on his shoe soles are especially important to prevent him from

slipping on the ice. hardly dark as a performer i always have to know exactly what i'll be doing before i dive under that one time underwater it's difficult to communicate to. his friend and camera man you so metal will be busy with his underwater camera under the most taxing conditions. above the ice itself was takes care of the props. in the crazy to do this in the middle of nowhere. it is no notice at all. but it has. much fun. acrobatic talent is

a must and both performer and camera man have trained for this for a long time. the diving gear provides enough buoyancy number less excellent orientation and perfect balance are required to work upside down under the frozen surface. suddenly becomes down on the bottom of the icy surface transforms into a bizarre film set. the rules of nature are turned on their heads as the team plays tricks on our perception. bottles no longer float upwards but slowly sink to the ground. meanwhile the viewing figures of the crazy videos from finland keep rising they've gone at more than five million hits.

the shoots can take up to an hour. and remind you so metal is always happy to finally get out of the icy water. there are so many underwater films in the world. but we put our own twist on it and the diving film. that's something special. and it's fun because like are you happy for. her. whether they're fishing from underwater through a hole in the ice. sledding upside down beneath the surface. these finnish divers never seem to run out of crazy ideas.

and if you want to say well from the finish divers then you can easily see them on each. way ten outs a focus on two gemini artists who are lighting up forests for their projections and imagery within and it's a combination of techniques they bring life to the darkest of nights and images they produce about magical and mesmerizing that you may also have perfect to not digitally manipulate anything in post-production so the key for them is in the preparation and i can take hours in the cold winter nights. glowing shapes in untouched nature surrealistic images from a short film lucid by the german artists collective by one. and

none of this is done with computer animation even images that seem inexplicable are real objects and were actually installed in the surroundings. and fruit trees from sure put on lot of physical work and creativity into their art . among other things they use luminescent wires and objects to create their illusions. we do this and the thing that blows apart it all depends on how you stage it did a thing. but the techniques and materials i use range from household items for example the sphere shape as a layer. to. projections i mean for example we have one shot with a triangle we cut it out of cardboard and then just object to the colored light onto it. the some point you have would have. in

twenty fourteen the artist duo shot the short film bio luminescent forest here to all the light effects are projected directly into the setting rather than manipulating the images on a computer. direct my wad and freakish i'm sure employed and even now print technology for this called projection mapping parts of the forest are illuminated the facts on irregular surfaces and textures are taken into account this requires not only a precise plan but also patients. especially when the illuminated objects are not only three dimensional but also animate. as we usually we only project light onto inanimate objects but we also wanted to use animals ones that don't move much or that hold still for a while but with a frog we have to film for five hours because it kept jumping away because. for

other projects the light artists bring a bit of nature into the city. for example their new project in paris in twenty fifteen. astonished the audience with the projection of a gigantic spider. first they had to build a cardboard model of the building and film the spider inside it then they projected the video onto the inside walls of the building for the illusion to be perfect the dimensions and perspectives had to correspond precisely. when it is with the manoir for us it's important to trying out new techniques for example in our next project we might work with fire or with water with or whatever. with a wide range of the. we don't want to limit our so incident i'm saying that i think that's what enables us to always have new themes and to be able to convey a feeling i don't understand the difference of i'm going to. die who will

continue to create illusions in the future without image editing using physical exertion and ingenious ideas. now billowing so people is usually something that you'll see kids doing in the summertime but as you know our show today is all about winter activities and strangely enough blowing bubbles can be done in the cold tape in fact if the conditions are frosty the bubbles will actually free and the crystal eyeballs make a great subject the king photographer. a different take on the concept of ice sculptures frozen bubbles. in subzero temperatures soap bubbles become rigid and well when they collide with another object. as long as they stay frozen they can last for

several days. for amateur photographers from northern germany wants to take the perfect ice bubble at night the conditions are good hardly any wind that's when the bubbles freeze best. not to time august alsina before they look so magical and they're frozen a bit like a crystal ball and it's fascinating to record on camera the way i've just a freak and gradually becomes this solid glow it is like. a time lapse video of a frozen bubble in the making at minus sixty three celsius in real time it takes two minutes. the perfect bubble mixes half dishwashing liquid in half water plus starch. because we're using sugar but you can also use glycerine or quark. it's just there to make the consistency a bit stronger so the bubbles are more stable when they're forming laws about it

and. another chip use a straw to blow them up they're easier to position and they hold better. and are committed to being in the cold for long enough is what it looks like you really think you. know but if we touch it you cannot smartass. just like chewing gum yeah like getting them. the results of the nighttime shooter quite spectacular a long stint in the cold paid off. duty and melanie are conducting their next experiment at sunrise they want to see the effect of a backlight but it's too windy this time in the bubble won't freeze completely. but they managed to get a decent picture. just in time. for

a couple more days frozen a few places you can still throw it in. the bubble hadn't frozen entirely but there are a few but literally ice crystals this soon as it's cold enough the four will be out again on the hunt for that perfect ice bubble until then they'll have to make do with the regular variety and they're pretty nice to. have all of the images resemble bubbles that you appear on christmas trees as well very festive it is the time if the decorations of course and something that is popular as i have in many hinds during the holidays a candles we met up with a german artist who works with waxes have material of choice she loves the transparency of wax and the effects she gets when putting the lights behind them has helped her receive well wife recognition. flowing room installations glowing objects. who promotes creations are made out of

wax. eager to promote starts her day in her studio at the stove where she melts large paraffin slabs she started out studying painting but in the meantime she's worked with wax for many years. it's the perfect material for the effects she seeks. to construct since the strands loosens men including that something is there but you can't really see it. as it would and the blur ness that you have when you remember something it's never absolutely clear it's about trying to recapture impressions and feeling. and i think the material i work with expresses that very well. when i'm back of alice the . caliber from fishing i work with five different kinds of paraffin

one of them gets a chapel surface when it cools. or and i'm going the other extreme is one that creates an incredibly smooth surface on this i can affect that but in reality every slab i bore is always surprising for me and that's what keeps it interesting for me i'll slap this one and. color light and form it's there interplay that creates the effect in your group told once. she's won many prizes for works and she's exhibited them all over the world here's one of her wax rooms in omaha nebraska. where wax vases were shown in glasgow scotland. seen made of wax also in glasgow at the lighthouse design museum.

in her dancing water lilies piece she floated wax discs on a pond in toronto canada. in a good protos cast countless wax slabs and discs over the decades and melted countless ones down again if their color surface texture or degree of translucence didn't please or. her work subjects are stable as long as they aren't exposed to excessive heat or direct sunlight the light sources in her wax lamps all burn cold. people who have bought my last repeatedly tell me that when they switch them on it's like turning on their hearts and the lamps bring a smile to their lips but what could be better than that. skips. a deal it carries even this time of year as well now we end the show today by

looking at the awesome handwriting something that probably many of us have not done for a while but at christmas time it's fitting to have calligraphy on christmas cards and christmas party invitations the style is both traditional and festive and there are many people who make a living by bringing the beauty of this dying art form back to life. there was a time when everyone wrote with a flourish. today hand lettering as an art form that is ever growing in popularity . because it's not just visually appealing it's a rewarding past time. this old fashioned way of writing as talking calligraphy workshops. it's hard actually because you aren't accustomed to that it's fun and you see results pretty fast. i only ever

saw it on instagram and admired how beautifully some people are able to write. calligraphy classes are growing in popularity in many places and germany is a case in point. i did a long workshop with expert chris confort in hamburg cost more than three hundred euros and attracts professional graphic designers as well as amateurs it's an analogue trend. is it my rebuttal i once heard that a technique turns into an art form when it becomes obsolete and maybe hand lettering popularity comes from the fact that nowadays people even type their grocery lists into their phones and generally write less and less by hand so there's a yearning to go back and take a pen in hand precisely because you hardly need one in daily life anymore. chris comprehends made a career out of calligraphy apart from holding workshops she's written a book on hand lettering perelandra handwriting also graces the book cover she's

been commissioned to design for publishers and agents. as the world goes digital many companies have recognized the appeal of adding a personal touch through hand lettering define are you mom i'm publishing is are currently doing everything they can to lend books a special and tactile touch so a font that you can tell is handwritten to. it's the bill i see it as a counter trend to all the polish surfaces we have on our phones and computers. and wrong lettering that grabs the eye is a trademark of artists ryle see who boast one hundred thousand followers on instagram optical illusions i want to specialties. he comes from the french speaking part of switzerland but he now lives and works in berlin. he calls his work one hundred percent analog. even when he draws computer pixels by hand.

rossley creates logos for sporting goods firms and restaurants. he also shows his lettering art and galleries. i think that one of the main reason why i'd like to do it by one is when you do it with a computer it can be as beautiful as you want but somehow it doesn't exist. it it's all need light and pixels whereas this is and then we can talk to it's here with us you know. after a few hours of intensive tutoring at the workshop in hamburg the novices are already producing some impressively swirling scripts mindfulness patience and dedication and lettering demands qualities that have become rare in our fast paced world. but rather than spelling an end to the art of handwriting it appears the digital age is fueling its renaissance. unfortunately though that is the and

all of our show today a focus changes each day of the week so do you keep watching i'm going to reveal what we have in store for tomorrow i'll be on the show tomorrow as well but the now from myself and all of the team here in the studio might. be. coming up on the next special edition of your a max a look at the man otherwise known as roller man extreme athlete johnny will do. plus one of the best free riders in the world before viking now. and surfing in the most northern spot in the world that and more next time i'm sure on x. . the

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