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featured in video games his music is better to use. for his fans he opens doors to. sounds good. oh genre that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. when the wind picks up you can route through the scene move move move it forward and it's very difficult to truly go through. sometimes being a reporter can be quite a challenge hello and welcome to your own max i'm evelyn sharma and i'm so glad that you could join us first show you how max got on with that balancing act and
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just a moment but first here's what else is coming up in the show to be. what will we be eating this year the latest food transport two thousand and nineteen answer how a british photo artist takes old masters into the digital age. so huge figure is moved through the darkness carrying strange headgear what looks like something from a fairy tale is actually and all the austrian tradition groups of militarist go from house to house making loud noises to scare away evils there are a new series. your next reporters join in some strange but wonderful european traditions to find out what they're all about put to the reports the march turned out to be quite a challenge for our very own max marrow. you
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won't find this in any story i'm not carrying around this giant contraption just for fun i'm training for the march in a small town in austria sides come a good region. a tradition in which ringing bells and illuminations colorful caps are meant to scare away the evil winter spirits. i'm in snowy austria in this winter wonderland here where they have a wonderful and weird tradition of the glow where they chase away ghosts with these magnificent hearts i want to take part they all told me i wouldn't manage it i couldn't even make it for ten metres let's find out more. similar events are held all over the region but the most famous and spectacular because here. we're now with the rent boys and they're quite traditional so i wonder if they'd let me join in. several songs. it was.
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very clever the group has been around since one thousand nine hundred two but the weather has really been the best. weeks of the mission if it's been snowing heavily and will continue so it won't be easy to walk with them this time. thank you. it's result in particular will have a problem too much rain falls on the caps then they could get sagal right there varnished but we'll have to see. this sleet could ruin hundreds of hours of manual labor the head of the aisle to close that group. shows just how the caps are made at his workshop. the finish caps a stored here waiting to be used this evening and. it is. time to take a look at the inside which contains a wooden frame band real candles. so there's no danger that will catch fire it's
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not very likely has it ever happened on occasion the motifs are reminiscent of church windows black cardboard forms the frame for cutouts with colorful transparent paper all this to scare away evil when two spirits. believe in ghosts or believe in ghosts otherwise they wouldn't take part is going to. be out scorched earth group let me do a little test run before tonight's big event. the camera catches the wind like a sail. i've got a companion ballot to help me through the winter weather. even though home was our family's youngest son has his own capital ready. and my cap weighs around ten kilograms but some are heavier up to twenty kilos. back to the group. time to get dressed in white overalls
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like the others. so far i'm only allowed to help others put their caps on. the candles are lit at the starting point. the tension is palpable. and i'm getting my hopes up. i get to try on the belle belt but the cap is still not coming my way only locals are allowed to take part. once the candles are lit the men sing their traditional song to get into the spirit for the much. oh back in the day only single men were allowed to participate but the rules are not a strict anymore. the march starts with
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a bang they set off making an almighty racket and adding to pass as many homes and fields as possible on their way that's meant to bring the people good fortune and guarantee a rich harvest the members of the didn't but a group make their way to the town center like all other groups from agency around three hundred men take part in total. and finally i get my chance it might have something to do with the fact that the rain and snow have already caused irreparable damage to the caps there's not much left for me to ruin . i know. you know this is all i know. it's the last stage of the night for the. and it's a real honor but i'm actually allowed to walk with them but i quickly realize it was a big mistake not wearing gloves after just a few minutes my fingers
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a so numb that i can barely hold on but giving up is not an option after all the others have been doing this for hours. a well deserved mulled wine it was a heavy load to carry and a heavy load to bear the finally i got to take power. in the clock went off and now it's time to say cheers to the boys. the group share one last song and who knows maybe they have scared away old a ghost and this year's harvest has been saved. all of us. well done max. now what you can see here might look like something from a chemistry lab but in fact it is a futuristic kind of food production and researchers at the future food studio in vienna austria say we might be eating more food like very soon in the annual food
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report they reveal the major european trends and food and astronomy some of them have been developing for years consumers buying less need for example others however a little more surprising. one thing is already quite certain in twenty nineteen foods will be green but still look a bit synthetic science fiction movies warned us about this. fortunately this is also on vogue a juicy spring chicken breast with a thick flavor for wine sauce. once a year austrian nutritionist discusses the latest trends in her food report in two thousand nine hundred french cuisine makes its comeback but with a difference now cockle val's accompanied by falafel and couscous instead of the usual potato side dishes. plentiful french cuisine
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has become very sense in its ways very musty it hasn't changed at all but now it's starting to move among other things french cuisine is ninety reinventing the classics and it'll new a fresher and lighter until now an entirely new influence and it's about this that i mean. how do you let's let drops by helga a viennese start up health is short for healthy algae. and here it is the ultimate green food. she has seeds oat bilk and dried chlorella algae are mixed together to make a pudding. to an equal it's a wonderful combination. tend to be really opens up a world of flavor totally different from the dried varieties we know from asia i can well imagine using this. first the. next snack is spicy or
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algae crackers with an algae homo step go green is the slogan of a movement championing lots of chlorophyll in food the pigment is said to vitalize the body. for example in this soft drink. from the folks over fifty percent of this very tiny micro algae is made up of protein and that becomes especially interesting when we think about how we're going to supply eight to ten billion people with protein in the future meat. this farm in the state of saxony and held in eastern germany grows the trendy freshwater algae the water filled system of glass tubes is five hundred kilometers long. this is a stimulus big systems can be set up where conventional farming isn't possible here we can have agriculture even with no fertile soil considering how fast the algae grows it shows enormous potential especially since it contains all the nutrients we
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expect our food to deliver. stops by the taster e. a shop in vienna based on a unique concept the patrons can try out innovative products mostly from smaller companies before buying them the taste is just what its name implies. a long running trend is centered around insects here in a trail mix with crickets and worms. when you want to buy me i think together with a hint of sour from the berries it's a really wonderful mix joe the nuts complement the flavor of the meal worms it's a nice light snack with a good portion. proteins. and finally there's a trend called healthy hedonism it sounds almost like an oxymoron but if it's done right keeping health aspect in mind it can work. in
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a culture we've long believed that if it's too good it must be unhealthy but in france it was just the opposite they believe if it doesn't taste good we can't be healthy. pools. so once again french savoir vivre is shaping our philosophy of eating and living depriving yourself was yesterday. and a time when all we have left to eat is algae maybe here sooner than we think. and if you want to learn more about the latest cullen area trends check out our you tube channel there you'll also learn about the latest developments in the way we shop you can find us at you tube dot com slash d.w. you're a mac. now this is no new food and lemons have always been very popular in the south of france each year the town of montauk holds a magical lemon festival it features statues like this one created from citrus
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fruit though there is a much bigger and even more artistic but then my scout chair is destined to become lemonade for my colleagues later on anyway. that's them boy independently made out of oranges and lemons. ten decorated floats accompanied by acrobat sounds musicians parade down the seafront prominent for two weeks the town of montauk on the french riviera is turned over to a celebration of. the entire world knows what lemons mean to us they symbolize the town of monto and the joy of its residents told. locals call the lemon the golden fruit on the temple is out all the stops for the annual festival of citrus fruit. and months of work have gone into the preparations. we put so much work into place and the result is very satisfying
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to think all the dismissal of. this industrial park on the edge of town is where the sculptures are made. their first designed in a three d. computer model then i unbalance a welded to make the frames the fruit is attached at the last possible moment if it's not fresh it will form off. to the from the rubber band goes underneath here and then it's pulled tight where. the fruit will be held by it's all going to take a team of seven or eight people two days to decorate a single flood so we use thirty kilos of fruit per square metre on every single float over it go to the shop. this year one hundred sixty five tons of citrus fruit went into the decorations. lemons have been cultivated in
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montana to seven hundred years and have helped bring prosperity to the region one hundred years ago one tong was europe's largest lemon producer unfortunately. that's changed so that's from a mother who has won numerous prizes for the quality of the sixers fruit. lemons from our less acidic and they stay fresh for a long time our soil is the reason they grow so well we have very sandy soil here there's a broom and. my ancestors earned a living from lemons just as i do today if you do it properly this route is a gold mine. on three nights the below there is gardens in montana are illuminating. the fantasy world of yellow and orange lights up the night. it's one of the festival's highlights.
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only because i'm good i'm very impressed this is wonderful really lovely to see how much work went into this it's really impressive. that's wrong this is incredible work amazing it's all. filled with light sound and fragrance the annual lemon festival in montana is one of a kind. by the way once the festival is over the fruit which is still good enough is sold not thrown away what do you think about artworks made from food join us in the discussion on facebook with love to hear from you and now from lemons to win on us the visit of a swiss back manufacturer found a new and sustainable way to use the banana plant to create chic accessories and it's already bearing fruit. bags made from banana.
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actually from banana tex a fabric produced using fibers of the banana plant. the fibers are derived from the fruit itself from the stocks banana tex was developed by the question background. they have already been awarded a design prize for their work by a swiss magazine. question is based here in zurich switzerland in recent years its founders who include christian. and hunnish have experimented with a variety of sustainable materials. on phone. we started off with cotton and spent a couple of years developing an organic cotton fabric. at the same time we experimented with linen hemp and bamboo and in the process we stumbled upon banana fiber so for a way we were impressed by its attention. also known as manilla
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hemp is native to the philippines and has been used to make items such as rope and fishing nets since the nineteenth century the plant grows wild in the jungle not on plantations it doesn't require any irrigation fertilizer or pesticides the fibers are dried nearby and there are later turned into paper. when you twine the banana fibers right away and turn them into young and then we've them it produces a really irregular cough but through this intermediary step this paper we can even it out. at a specialist weaving mill in taiwan the paper is turned into fabric the paper is cut into thin strips that are twined into yarn and then woven the resulting fabric makes its way to neighboring china where the bags are manufactured in working conditions which meet new standards. the bags
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design also plays a decisive role the details are well thought out the style is casual and functional . the collection is being sold in some two hundred stores worldwide a bag made from banana fiber costs around two hundred twenty euros a model range is limited at present but more designs are in the works. even how during the course of its developments we also discovered that lots of companies were interested in trying it out. we were a bit surprised by the demand and by the fact that need for sustainable materials is so great across many industries the store here feeling is three zero courses the swiss label creates urban bags for environmentally conscious trendsetters and if their bags ever go out of style they can just compost them.
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museum goers often have to queue for hours to see paintings by all the masters like leonardo da vinci but what do these artworks really mean to us today how can we have relate to what the artist was trying to convey these are questions that fast from the british photo artist emily all church and she finds the answers in her very own individual way. the tower of fable is a recurring subject throughout our history photo artist emily all charges given it a new spin this piece was created after the e.u. referendum and what i really want to do was show you britain that in this entirety right now with and really pivotal moment in british history this is manchester birmingham and the portal of the cardiff millennial center. sections here of street art and i. wanted to include this this is
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by an artist nathan coley and there will be no miracles here and to be honest it kind of summed up what was going on in the feeling of peace. i would say that my photographs are made not taken so they're very highly complicated photographic digital collages where i recreate old master paintings and prints from a contemporary perspective. emily collects and arranges hundreds of individual photos for her digital can use. the composition structure was taken from another old master the eighteenth century italian edger giovanni battista put in a.z. known primarily for his copper engravings of ancient roman landmarks and your church is fascinated by his architectural fantasies some of which are kept in the
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library of the sir john so museum in london it's always really exciting to get. to print and i've always loved her and particularly i know this image it's one of his most famous ones but. this is the first time i seen it in the flesh i just find it really inspiring i love seeing the drummer in here pyramaze is via appia in rome inspired her latest work dealing with the housing shortages plaguing modern london she took thousands of photos all around the city. thing at the architectural shapes and finding similarities i'll take various images and then i'll work out what fits best into the by the composition. the digital processing is the most time consuming part emily all church picks out details from a great cache of photos and manipulates. sizes colors and shades until they fit
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into the greater whole pixel by pixel she pieces together her image based on the original artwork the final image is made up of several thousand layers. her latest work titled ghost towers debuted at the twenty nine hundred london oxfam . ghost towers refer to the many empty luxury flats to be found in london's high rises while at the same time many local people can't find an affordable place to live. the people sleeping on the footpath the people you know the future people will be living in these big buildings so it is quite quite an interesting piece of work. you kept a millionaire to think oh all right recognize that building. in recent years and many old church has been coming to asia in search of new motifs she plans to follow in marco polo footsteps on the silk road her approach to art is simply turn the old
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into the new. and even the tower of babel has made it to hong kong. the fashion world as mourning the loss of one of fifth grade us designers karl lagerfeld it's hard to imagine what it will be without him here max has often reported on the great man in this fantastic creation so today and he would like to finish just so by paying tribute to karl lagerfeld by showing us some beautiful moments and half life.
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bolin. illegal global. elite. for a longer. model a man who will be sadly missed and not only by the fashion world.
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