discomforts. subscribe to the documentary on you tube. hi and a very one welcome to the show here's what's coming up today we stop in a winter wonderland. fun in the snow cross plating is proving to hate on the ski slopes. as time goes by a german artist reinvented thanks to clarke. cooper

folksongs a british chap and his experimental it would be good. if you have a hike to through the mountains in snowshoes you will know how exhausting it can be not just going up but also coming down and that is why across blighting makes things easier it's a combination of ski sticks and mini skis with a difference because you can exchange the surface of the skis one for going up hill and one for coming down so we went to the ski slopes of switzerland to find out more. scheme down a mountain on snow shoes well almost these winter sports enthusiasts are wearing cross plates a cross between snowshoes and mini skis right now the coolest thing in the milton's in switzerland. i'm a little surprised how well you can go downhill there is for me it would be an

alternative to simple snow shoeing but i did. the swiss town of coure from your winter sports lovers can take the cable car up to brown bluish mountain. on the way to them or kilometers of ski slopes hiking and cross-country trails as well as plenty of routes to go snowshoeing. verner stoffel runs an outdoor sports school here for years now he's been offering cross plating courses cross plates let's sports enthusiasts climb up a hill and then ski down it's all they have to do is flip over the pivoting plates on the underside of the blade one side is for climbing the others for collecting people so this is basically you can use them everywhere. because the ski short it's a bit wobbly and harder to control than regular skis. monkees but parallel skiing is easier than with longer regular skis but it's by long time to. cross plating has

only been around as a winter sport for a few years so the school offers half day introductory courses where people can try them out. they start off on a flat practice as you say to ski it's a funny feeling that i wanted to go snowshoeing for a long time going up well probably be easier than going down. i'm a bit anxious but i hope it'll work out but officer hopped. up with a fellow. on their feet they go for a climb. heading out of the foggy valley and towards the sun. cross plates were invented by swiss entrepreneur fellow gurche now seventy nine in the one nine hundred sixty s. he designed the skeeter in finding the still commonly used today the idea for the cross plates came from his son peyton who either felt like walking down

a mountain after a day of snow shooting. the stuff that got us in the mom lost and then i thought there must be a way called by father because if there's anyone who could do this it's my father who catch my father so i called him up still in my gear and said dad we've got to invent something like the fact that you're missing bus if in the cross plates went into mass production in twenty sixteen or ninety centimeters long and cost around four hundred forty euros a pair when it comes to climbing or hiking they're not much different than regular snowshoes even in deep snow they won't sink or slide around but they take some getting used. to sneak so. you can't just use them like regular snow shoes on with this sporting gear you really do need a bit of practice to ski. and change the plates. cost

blades aren't meant for performing acrobatics stunts still they can navigate a slightly hilly the scent with these though they have a tougher time with slopes that have brought straw covered with fresh snow. noisily either not so good on new snow it would be ideal to try them out with more granular cones no miles to prove you. still today everyone across blades makes it to the next village in one piece. yeah from the ski slopes of switzerland to the catwalks in paris it's ought to week there that and much more in express. if this week's old group shows in paris are any indication

a look for this summer is opulent fashion houses large raunchy presented for luminous evening gowns suited valentino and i'm sure no. models sported. fits. also turned heads with sheer fabrics as did valentino. head coverings reminiscent of glittery bathing jams are all the rage at the day your show. similar creations were on display at. a wake wrapped up in paris on thursday. museum has implemented a travel ban on its version of the artist's famous sunflowers painted. x. ray examinations have shown that the artwork which dates from eight hundred eighty nine is in a stable but fragile condition. and restoring the picture is proving difficult.

for chest. safety at least with the methods and it's available. after it's been given a careful cleaning this fine golf masterpiece will once again be on show in amsterdam at the end of february. the ski resorts evolved in the french alps is playing host to the thirty sixth international snow sculpture contest seventeen teams are taking part in the competition to make the most spectacular creations sculptors hail from nine different countries and a four days to carve the creations from the fifty cubic metre block of snow. a journey of the public will determine the winners. clucks was

a famous they are typically sylvania for holiday makers who visit the black forest in germany for many germans they find them a little bit kitsch she a bit too much of a cliche and now there's an alternative cuckoo clocks made by you don't say mum i'm in a funk for his cuckoo clocks very different. league concrete apartment blocks as far as the eye can see you don't seem a man has an appreciation for this kind of a static he's exploring frankfurt seeking inspiration for his art he's really fund of this sort of architecture the physician and hopeful i appreciate the different colors inside and on the washed concrete i like the weird interplay of colors the house is what fascinates you so much. that this is sure all this beautiful ugliness . that is then used to look at the satellite dishes from some sort of symbols or symbols of the ghetto and look shabby. this shows you how the people are doing

and how the have nots lifted some. of these cuckoo clocks are inspired by this architecture and artistic form of protest highlighting the lack of affordable housing in frankfurt today but they're also a homage to the prefab apartment blocks so many people call home. fittingly giteau symon calls this corky take on traditional black forest cuckoo clocks cuckoo clock. vs who published for him i saw my first cuckoo clocks by hand he says but that was really difficult. as these buildings in the windows are extremely symmetrical. that's why i got myself a laser cutter so i can cut these shapes accurately and symmetrically.

he works with great precision paying attention to the smallest details like transforming tiny buttons into minute satellite dishes. creates limited editions of twenty five cuckoo clocks each. block symbolized germany and so do cuckoo clocks so it's a symbol of them both they both go together very well. he's also deeply involved in the graffiti and street art scene and for several years he's been getting commissions to create large format miracles. appreciates many things that others consider ugly during inspiration from apartment blocks and from buildings with a unique history. like the tower that once belonged to the university of frankfurt

but was demolished in two thousand and fourteen. that. it. also finds inspiration in brutalist architecture from france and the u.k. . blocks meanwhile are highly sought after he sells them around the world for three thousand euros a piece. fuck them over my ask buyers to send me a picture of where they placed the clock and sometimes they live in these swank he really has put the prefab cuckoo block on their walls it's really funny. that's the irony of the success during. those latest project meanwhile involves creating homes for indigenous birds and insects. he's even

developed an eco insect hotel. inspired by the housing blocks of hong kong pinning instinct. told. great musicians who play an instrument all have something in common they need to talent but they also have to be devoted to their art which involves a lot of practice and they need to have dexterity in their fingers are in the case of the german home play a fix key is that it's in his toes he was born without arms but with sheer determination he has become a muscle office instrument and is now a world class hall player and gets concerts with every now and august for us so take a look this will amaze you. felix klees and the camelot a salzburg austria are rehearsing mozart's horn concerto number three. shots through a little bit over the top of. the musicians spend hours rehearsing

until everything is perfect their recording all for one concertos bible i'm a dale smuts art. mortared is it about when you see mozart's musical score it doesn't look all that spectacular but in reality there is so much to it. times there is just half a bar separating a really happy section from a really sad one what one would have attacked at social it in the third movement for example are all in six eight time exactly that so one is like a pop up up up up up up up up in other islamic up up up up up ordered out of pop out already so they're quite similar. in.

the moment her souls are hard work how does felix please a cow. does his leg cramp up after a while. you know not really i think playing like this looks more spectacular than it actually is it really is an exhausting or awkward or painful or anything like that about soft or doesn't like them well piano players can suffer from tendonitis maybe they should switch to playing with their feet term i don't know if using the wrong limbs i guess. excludes or was born without arms. at the age of four he decided he wanted to play the horn. though he no longer remembers why he chose this particular instance. and one of the hardest around. his parents and music teachers tried dissuading him but he couldn't budge.

he thinks the real challenge with this instrument isn't playing it without arms. the real challenge is getting a little tension right in the we are used to own the articulation of breathing so those are the kinds of problems that all foreign players for isn't. going to stop. well it's stunning to see him playing with just his feet it's even more impressive to hear him playing to witness his brilliant musicality and artistic talent. time now for something to even our serious euro max cat and so they wear off to the scottish capital ed in prague where quite often hardy meat dishes are on the menu this may have been the case in the past but scottish cuisine has come a long way in recent years and in paul what's what's restaurants there is

a real variety on the menu including cauliflower in a curry paste so uppity. football which would the fruits of the forest are not only of the sweet for i.t. . i'll take a plant and i'll break it down so i get the smell and see what some of. their memories get evoked by so you've got out in the smal or a sick just smile and you know any stuff think you know how can i take this in green and it into my my saw cuisine style. which would of been his own restaurant in edinburgh in two thousand and seven on the menu you'll find everything from scallops with the starter dust to his version of scotland's. national dish with which fiction. is really sort of evolving now this does that there's

a preconception around the world that it's all deep fried and all the healthy you know we've got some of the best chefs in scotland now bringing their own unique style and uses of local ingredients. which replaces great emphasis on healthy and low calorie his vegetables are. earthy in edinburgh office and specials straight from the small farms in the region. is important because you get the freshest ingredients you get for free schools you see you know where it's good for who grew it. when it came out the ground. callie shell is a staple of scottish cuisine full which would transforms the vegetable into a dish with curry puree and. it comprises red and reminisce. paste coconut oil and nuts. first cut the cottage salad. and then add a little oil. cauliflower the way we do is the charring of

real action the flavors of the cauliflower. it is then placed in the oven for fifteen minutes preheated to two hundred twenty degrees celsius part of the color palette is trimmed and fried in a pan. spoonfuls of curry paste. two hundred million pieces of coconut. oil. and then blend in the mix. and put on your car each cauliflower puree on. the floor it's from the revenue boiled. three minutes. critics are calling from the oven just let's just start suffering through.

that. and to further enhance the smoky flavor the vegetable is fried in passing. and so now a colorful i was ready we're just going to take the green leaves for these the whole pot this is just going to start wilting them down. time a little bit right the oil field that's ready to go. home which wood is keen to use every single part of the vegetable and in the case of the cauliflower that includes the leafs which serve to lead the dish and those he played on the wilted green leaves. finally sprinkled with crust cashew nuts and he would cut it out with it's ready to say. budgetary cuisine in mainstream restaurants it was it was an overlooked thing fall for so many years but now in scotland we've got such great farmers producing such wonderful vegetables that you know we can

actually create dishes out of these using our skills and expertise to really sort of make these vegetable sing on the plate. and musical combination that will make you down from oh. well the year is still relatively new and with a new beginning there are going to be new changes to show as well because you know max continues to develop we're always trying to keep up with the times and very soon you know max will have a completely new look so what's going to change here's a preview. visuals are more powerful the stories more compelling the adventures more thrilling this is the new euro max now coming to you once a week. i don't know i also don't. like that you're max's new orientation

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