every journey begins with the 1st step and every language but the 1st word published in the. rico is in germany to learn german why not with him it's simple online on your mobile and free stuff d w z e learning course nico speak german for me to see. if you come across a polo bit on one of these since. you don't have a car i think. pretty much. hand on that no hello and welcome to another edition of euro max i'm your host meghan li will find out later on if our reporter actually came face to face with

a polar bear but here's a look at what else we have in store. he copes with that actual song and barney think kitchen was there to step on these now. and he won't let himself be pinned down the violinist is found are big giant plays across all musicals on. 1st up as you know with the right photo editing software you can perform magic on just about any picture and that is what russian instagram artist igor the chance k. has done with album covers now he likes to incorporate himself into legendary scenes of the beatles madonna and guitarist tom petty among many others for the results are a funny take on the original cover and they're proving to be quite popular on instagram here's a closer look. baring her next 2. and one is david bowie up to. the russian

instagram a chance he gives famous album covers a new back story and gives himself a role in music history. from one of the main thing for me is to make people laugh and sometimes i think i managed to do that with a pursuit of comments that people write and sometimes people take a joke even further on for more joke about what they see and that's the best feedback i can get. something for. humor creativity and a willingness to improvise a key cheering photo shoot chance he's covered as. today the idea is to turn the band queen into for headed giant holding him in its hand. the 24 year old poses in front of the green screen that makes it easy to insert his function into the covers later university student . helps him get the idea shaped. he meets him regularly at

a university photo studio. but it's all extremely spontaneous we usually don't even prepare props or anything and during the photo shoot we figure out that we need something or a piece of clothing or an object and be find something in the studio with. the 2 friends usually edit the photos together. they try to match the details to the original and to get the proportions just right they only take about an hour to work on each. chance he started this project almost 2 years ago now he uploads a new photo every few weeks he has nearly 27000 followers on instagram already. from hip hop to classic rock he'll take on any style of music and any musician.

everywhere he goes live chance is always listening to music his favorite genre indie rock and hip hop he's been living in volgograd since he started university concerts by international bands are fairly rare here even though more than a 1000000 people live in this city on the volga river. nevertheless music inspires chance in all areas of his life including in his work as an advertising copywriter . by making these album covers i try to become perth of the music scene part of the culture. i don't make music myself i'm not good at making music thanks to the covers i can somehow be closer to the musicians and i love that. if chance he is always hoping for action to his album parodies most of all from the musicians themselves he takes them in his posts and has even

gotten a few likes from the stars for him cover art isn't just something for vinyl collectors . from the age of the internet album covers are still very important because they are the face of an album is the 1st thing that a listener comes across even before they've listened to the music even if they've streamed online or. after more than edited chance keep. still enjoying his project just as much as when he started. the instagram already has a lot of ideas for his page he next wants to try and edges himself into music videos one thing is clear chance his creativity music will always remain a jumping off point. now things are about to get cold and dangerous in our new series euro max to the max we send our reporters to some of the most challenging destinations around europe and today we are visiting a small town that is home to just over 2000 people and they share that space with

polar bears now it's not an easy place to live as our reporter nicole firth found out. it almost seems like the north pole is just over the horizon a last outpost of civilization and the frozen north you may well be wondering where on earth i am i'm in long year and small part. i'm in your northernmost town and that is by far not the only record long european holds this norwegian city is a place of extremes and today i want to show them all to you. just getting here is an odyssey from berlin i make my way to oslo from there it's another 3 hour flight i reach my destination there i'm greeted by the archipelagos most famous residents

of polar bears. to solve our lives about halfway between the northern tip of norway and the north pole longer being with a population of around 2100 as the largest settlement is on the 78 north parallel no other settlement with over a 1000. residents lines farther north. time for a 1st look around but i'd rather go in the company of my guide frederick frederick am tests rifle polar bears could be anywhere here real ones this time. this is the best thing to have with you when you go outside this town no secret trick to scare them away you know as to different kinds of best in the world black . and white bears. if it's well ledo if it's black fightback if it's white good luck it.

not all animals here are quite a scary longer being is home to about a 1000 huskies out insult it takes care of 100 of them. are still. rising these are the new go down came here in 2014 from mainland norway for about a year now he's been running the sled dock kennel even in summer when there is no snow on the ground he and his employees take the huskies out every day in any weather. and so dramatic all the time even if you just if you look at that over there we can still see it but in certain situations here as well but with the snowstorms in the weather there could be a point where you called to help if something goes wrong i call that this you can make a bonfire if you get cold here you don't have firewood because there's no trees or . the lack of firewood isn't the only hardship and this former mining town.

due to the permafrost all of the homes here are built on stilts. it's practically impossible to raise livestock or farm still someone was brave enough to try benjamin bit more chefs from the us. around green finally he plant. herbs and vegetables and his polar greenhouse. can even tease the arctic. is a group of. benjamin 1st came to solve our back in 2007 and fell in love with the place the only problem was the lack of greens but i wasn't happy with the food situation you know you pay 50 krones for iceberg lettuce that's a lot of money for iceberg lettuce and the stink in home i would never even eat i wouldn't even need if somebody gave it to me but here i'm like. you know you have

to eat because you don't have anything else and i just was so frustrated you know this is i have to do some either i leave or i have to do something. now he's applied local restaurants like the group of lager at what is our base here fine dining is served up and the former coalmining warehouse head chef phillips has served the likes of the norwegian royal family. philip has lived in longer being for 3 years as a chef year he's got to meticulously plan every meal well in advance has been made to order the amount for a month to hit and very often we run out of something and you don't have a place where you can go and buy. so we have this. good gracious here we go the restaurants so if i don't i'll do something i will go out there get from get a restaurant. the next morning i prepared to make an expedition.

frederick back takes me to one of the nearby fjords. he wants to show me the wall of the 2 numbering tidewater glacier. every time you come to a small boat or get all to nature they like this different and that's makes it very special because it's like seeing a new place every time you get out. i'm truly impressed with long here being the northernmost town on earth. here along your being i've encountered far more extremes than i could have hoped for no polar bears but i did meet a bunch of extremely kind hearted people who all seem to share a deeply rooted passion for this truly extraordinary place extremely worth a visit. his

friends and family know him as pace have fallen but the rest of the world knows him as d.j. bobo this western music producer made a name for himself in the 1990 s. with a string of dance hits suspect he is the match. up with never least like them are trying to get started school. year old max sat down with d.j. bobo for an exclusive interview to talk about his life and career. to you both about it we brought some pictures for you can you show us the 1st one sure i'm curious. for. 2 fish is that classic d.j. ok that's it because sure the ringmaster that's from 2014 i like that yeah that's me.

latino's when you perform in the bit like a football game you have to deliver the goods in the audience will give you something back if you don't play well the crowd will stay firmly in their seats but if you play well there on your side. in south america the audience is in charge from the very start they're louder than you are. so you have a very emotionally charged intense relationship with them and they have got another piece for you take a look. oh no that's how the way giving me a bravo auto and. that was a long time ago but you can still feel stadiums what's your secret. yeah. actually we've been trying to figure that out ourselves for years i always say to my people guys to stay ahead of the game and that's where we're going to be and i don't mean just in terms of success but in terms of growth we're always driven to

discover something new and put it on stage and i think a lot of people come to our show to experience that fusion of big hits and innovation at least i hope they do. right hopefully this is. what you prefer champagne no smoothies smoothies sports car a bike. say the sports car the city of the countryside the countryside cooking a bank. i can't do either even though i trained as a baker. baker. baking is definitely easier. baking the mountains of the ocean the ocean. and we've got a photograph for you. lovely africa where was it taken it must have been ethiopia. and. i was visiting a school nutrition projects programs. there with the un's world food programme what

can we learn from africa. they enjoy life the people they respect nature most of us here in the west are mainly concerned with things that really aren't very important. they have to take care of very basic matters like making sure they get enough to eat. being part of their communities and. the not all special for instance what we can learn is that they're probably happier than we are because we're constantly wanting more and more standish for me to meet the economic collapse and what's the proudest achievement. of to my 2 children so says they're the best things i've ever done. thank you t.j. . thank you. and you can see that interview again on our you tube channel turning now to another swiss innovator chef chef on these now when he strolls through the forest in his

native switzerland he takes home everything he can find with him from haiti and stones to wood her ashes and it all ends up in his kitchen now in his search for new flavors the star chef works together with forester's perf you murs and archaeologists we join him out in the woods to find out how to cook award winning dishes with sawdust. out in the swiss mountains with his dog. they're looking for some tasty pieces of wood this spruce tree seems promising. with pretty much all the trees that grow in switzerland almost all of them are in the forest it's nice. to. pine for. the 1st thing he does and if it. does it is turtles fabulous

stone by the author. of the trees or will be captured in addition he's planning. home turf. frequently scours for ingredients. these pieces of pumpkin have been lying on and few days give the pumpkin an added flavor . several wonderful citric. acid they produce. better than us. for the last 25 years and his team. in the village of must have been serving up swiss nature on a plate sometimes some heavyweight appliances are needed the pine bark turned into shavings and put in a cooking pot. shavings over an open fire.

distilled into a vent that has a delicate taste. of uses the vinegar as flavoring. it goes well with venison. the garnish is roasted pines. needed like a stone pine nuts a dish composed of 100 percent natural ingredients the 2nd course is the formic acid flavored pumpkin which is supposedly also very healthy these know once his dishes to. the sense of his signature style has earned him all sorts of nicknames. stories the kitchen alchemist or the sorcerer. is just a few of the ways people have described me. he works his magic in an old barn this is where business stores these ingredients. the.

pine bark dates back to the stone age it's 14000 years old there was found in a prehistoric forest buried in loam. we use it to smoking radio station. he also finds a use for rusty nails and horseshoes and even stones the inventive chef turns them into flour made of swiss light iron ore and ground. to a flower made of rock or minerals is very healthy so long as you don't eat too much of it already granted every day and it does me a lot of good tools for. today he's using it to make a dessert i scream made of stone flour and served on stone.

that this business might be a sorcerer but he's quite a showman too. and his shows can be quite spectacular he prepares bone marrow and full view of the guests they love it and so do the critics on the sneers ancient cuisine has earned him a michelin star and 17 talks. that. stand not to forget the experience they say later they can remember every single thing they hate and that's what's so special there's nothing else like us fish. growing number of chefs try to copy stuff on trees near style but they can't keep up he's always refining his technique and recipes and he's not likely to run out of ingredients any time soon. and finally we take a look at a musical prodigy violinist is congo with jaya began playing the violin at the age

of 4 by the time he was 11 he had been accepted into the college of music in berlin well now at $32.00 he's performing on stages all over the world. didn't. fit. the many faces of these kind with jaya a musician who doesn't like to be pigeonholed either musically or personally the berliner with indonesian roots is an exceptional violinist who finds inspiration outside the world of classical music some call him eclectic but he says the news it is all that matters. we make music to touch people to move them and to reach a point where we ourselves are so touched on stage that we can move others it doesn't work any other way than a method for the whole. indonesia is kind are we jaya visits his

parents homeland regularly he's a major star here. appearances in commercials and t.v. shows have made him a household name in indonesia here he performs in big concert halls like last year in jakarta at this benefit gonna for tsunami victims. i tried performing this balancing act popstar in indonesia classical artist in germany are hard for but a while back i decided i only come as a package deal with him in the so even if i'm performing entails and in the nature and playing for the president i try to remain true to myself and be as authentic as possible. at a club in cologne germany which doesn't just perform classical music he plays everything from johann sebastian bach to

a cover of chandelier from pop star sia. it's a she says speak to me and it doesn't matter to me which is genre they belong to that's my goal in concert to break down this compartmentalisation people who come to my concerts should know everything's on offer. as in his music we john likes to try out different things and play with his image and not just during photo shoot. on stage i like to wear outfits that underline my interpretive approach so they can

vary a lot from extremely simple solid black and totally minimalist to totally over the top the it all that's what i like in music too and i was even closer. with jaya began playing the violin when he was just 4 he was inspired by his grandfather who was a composer. after studying violin at berlin's university at the arts with jaya began collaborating with world class conductors like. in berlin he met up with composer geoffrey ching who was born in the philippines and now lives in the german capital ching ri composed a piece by beethoven specially for him he's going to is the most amazing musician i admit because besides his absolute technical preparation been the most difficult and challenging contrapuntal classical works he has

a personality all of universal appeal. here he is recording demos for his next album which will boast a colorful mix of styles among other things the musicians. experimenting with a piece by italian baroque composer pietro antonio look at any. violent east is kind are we jaya a musical maverick at home in many different worlds. and with that it's time to say goodbye as always thanks for joining us and we'll see you again soon.

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