it's a global corona trisomy so you can find more information online d.w. dot com and don t w social media channels. hello and welcome to another fun filled edition of your max coming to you from the streets of berlin and i'm your host meghan lee today we kick off the show on a musical note with one of the world's best organise the american musician cameron carpenter would normally play here but since concerts and large gatherings are still restricted due to code 19 cover decided to bring his music to the people so

he loaded his organ onto a truck and he drove it to care facilities around the city the result was a surprise enjoyed by everyone. coming from carpenter has been in the need of the organ. during the weeks of crisis become clear to the coast wind farms to concert halls. always go into the courtyard of a senior citizens' home instead. exact locations of his appearances kept under wraps so the room people. concert only lose 20 minutes then comes the finale.

come on carpenters here to give people a bit of enjoyment in this time of coronavirus lockdown. but also a message. for classical musicians you know we spend our whole lives and our work not only studying the great works on the technique of our instrument but also learning what that music means and how to make it mean something to a person who's sitting just a few feet away but also in general you know the tiny part that i play in the whole tapestry of cultural life which after all gives us something to live for that is more than just eating drinking surviving time and carpenter may sound frustration even furious is understandable if he isn't patient to start performing again but he also says that he sees the fight against the virus as critical in time risk groups

must be protected. from sweets number 5 from cameron carpenter is 2016 noble all you need is. the plate is undergoing and he custom built for nearly 1000000 euros. the instruments is almost as extravagant as the musician. until he was 11 coming carpenter took lessons at home he did went on to study at the giuliani conservatory in new york city. his abilities extend beyond music and he keeps pushing them further. it's obvious he'd have little trouble working as a designer to. this wreckage more students beyond classical. please fly me to the moon the standard made famous by frank sinatra and dean martin . back in berlin one many. follows innovation there's

no way to ruin even so much as a sound check. it's quick and even dirty in the parking lots and back streets. with cameron carpenter just shuts out his surroundings when i'm playing the organ i'm i'm just in the world of the organ there's nothing that really comes into that world that's partly because of the organ itself it's a huge machine and you play it best when you understand it as a machine and sort of enter into it. the star organist has been living in berlin since 2010 and plays the goldberg variations on all the pieces by johann sebastian bach he sees bob as ideal for circumstances like this because the music is so it's so perfect it not only doesn't need my interpretation or improvisation but it it also can be simply

received almost like we receive nature whether one knows anything of music or not. the music is the 1st the music is great and it was modern it's not like organ music in the church by. the goldberg variations glorious i say do this more often anyway i think the initiatives fantastic. thank you now. live because on. just. somebody claiming the next concert coming carpenter plans to release the goldberg variations on cd. during the coronavirus lockdowns it's hard to predict the date he'll go ahead and record them he says what happens then isn't this hurts.

creativity is popping up all over the place due to the pandemic especially among street artists whether it's london hong kong or madrid walls are filling up with corona inspired art we met up with 2 street artist from berlin to hear more about their spin on this latest motif. all over the world in recent weeks street artists have given expression to their perspectives on the corona pandemic some with a sorely needed twinkle of humor others with agent messages to a weary public. one of europe's best known street artists uncle sam sends up the appeal to everyone to stay at home for street artists as the term

implies staying at home is hardly an option the street is their studio. it. is the biggest thing in the world at the moment so it's not really a surprise that you're seeing it come out on the streets that august august tends to take from the world i'm out where they can be heard lynn's power park is where the city street artists come together here they create one corona inspired mural after another legally bookie savage and me freethinker have themselves been infected with the spirit of the times and put their vision on the wall in spite of the lockdown. we're wearing gloves we're wearing masks you know this is probably better protected than most people out in the streets as well. yeah i did a lot of stuff at home but there's always a point where you you need to get out and do it on a little. one of his latest works depicts the

obsessive from lord of the rings together with. movies. with a roll of toilet paper the dominican born artist had already used. paper in his. role worldwide. because. unlike most other street artists new zealand. rarely begins with an image in mind he just starts painting the day that was announced in germany one particular theme kept going round and round in his head. a few hours later he completed his work.

in visualize certain connections his latest work includes the words in it together especially in uncertain times. if you can. you don't know when it's going to show when it's going to end like. this like all the uncertainty and play with your head up but. now a book you savage in any free thinker are getting together for their 1st collaborative mural infected by the corona virus while keeping the required distance and wearing masks they wore them even before the crisis it may separate people physically but it can bring them together emotionally hardly anyone here wants to stay home alone. a. couple of things. inside the house like here is not for.

us well of. these stones and so ok so you're. always going to choose the. street artists like in the free thinker and bulky savage use urban spaces for their gallery their medium of communication they interpret seams of social relevance but also to express personal experiences and that's what their public here in the park appreciate. it it's natural to more than normal and even expectable that people go out again also with the summer. and try to express themselves i think it's good that they're having fun with it. it's actually rather brilliant especially if you take it all with a little humor then you'll get through the crisis a little better it's really great. nobody can now denied that coded 19 has and will continue to affect the world often in profoundly negative ways but

some of what street artists are currently turning out is thought provoking in positive ways. and maybe even a bit encouraging. time now for universal favorite fries not french but rather. belgian anyone who has been to belgium knows that you cannot visit the country without trying the national favorite with both ketchup and manatees of course now our next report was filmed before the outbreak of the coronavirus because we wanted to find out what makes belgian fries so special in our series of food secrets we find out why. there's this thing to it. it's a little noisy. well for me fries when i come home from abroad from the from the holiday the 1st thing i buy a bunch of. when you party is

when you've got a new girlfriend when you go for fries with it when you've lost or you go we try and scream because this is old where everything is good needs to be. hello my name is. all over my name is. we run the pizza delicious pale french fries stand that we have been doing this for 32 years. or more customers eat good fries every day good fries are well cooked crispy assigned and soft inside more real and it is. less if the secret to good fries is to

choose between potatoes. we'll to work with pinch it potatoes the best for making belgian fries. is a very old potato ferocity the thing you see over. 100 years old but still now if this can be the bill in terms of taste and crunchiness. my name is that the calorie are working but remove it as a serious winter. or. even in belgium is a very small country as you know we have different sizes which you have to deliver in florence compared to what don't you know it from as we have say 10 or 11 well in the south of belgium they want 12 or 13 when. well off all the fries are to be 11000000000 meters thick that's the right size. really thinner

they'd get cold faster. but they're a 'd lot crispy at this way because the honest answer is there anything because they take up too much room of the bank and also end up getting cold much faster so a lot of what it will see it doesn't move. but on the body fat is like white gold for french fries that a lot of laws that keeps them soft plus gave them a late start on your heart they stay nice and crispy. also local authorities on the ankle steel bullets if you fry them in a vegetable oil or something else they burn to 1st see that subgroup reveal. how to me which fry is the quintessence of belgian just got this souls that have been something very simple yet every day i discover something new that doesn't work for the devil. in the names banal and left of i'm president of unit for the national association

of french fry producers we don't know who invented french fries but it was the belgians who made an arse out of them for sure for a bit. that wasn't. the potatoes or deep frying twixt. the 1st time at $125.00 degrees celsius to precut the on the 2nd time you increase the temperature to $155.00 degrees and no more we finish front of them as the orders come in and hung them out hearts to the customers reduced the chippy has to listen much more than look to know when the fines are just released all told us the difference what i flew to fly maker is the orchestra conductor is that there would be. put on the potatoes or frying up there's a singing to it legs. it's a little noise that's the song that comes from the deep fryer they sing while we fry. in fact french fries are

a meal in themselves you could be happy just eating fries with water maybe squit a little mayonnaise on them but even without current extraordinary meal. you have to look at what you do with all your heart that good that's very difficult when you do the same thing day in and tell you just inside a little cabin and sometimes for 10 or 12 hours. that's the secret and that's also my profession of it deals. and if you want to discover more food secrets on your remarks then go to our food channel on you tube read some stories creative chefs. to smell lots of credible the latest trends recipes to try yourself so i heard today i'm going to show you how to cook sustainable vegetarian food from

veggie to me and the secrets behind letitia. patios my life in a moment started this 13 year start to say. d. . that way you can simply subscribe and dan choi. boutique hotels have been growing in demand for years now many tourists favor unique sleeping accommodations over big hotel chains like in vienna for example that's where one hotel owner bought up a bunch of former businesses and turned them into cosy sleeping rooms for guests now before the lockdown one couple from hungary was looking for a special way to spend the night in the austrian capital. the hotel suite used to be a metalworking shop when guests daniel punk rock sanogo roshi open the curtains they find themselves looking out a shop window at a narrow view on a street. it's stunning to have the cars passing by so close.

you see the people walking by the cars but it's as if they don't even notices and they do a little it doesn't bother me. 'd to tourists from hungary or staying at the creates a hotel a project launched by architect teresa in 2012. she had 26 empty business addresses converted into hotel suites. shoemakers and taylor shops as she turned into unique surroundings to spend the night and. made this way all the guests have their own rooms around town their own feel good. they can embark upon their own adventures right on the street the whole infrastructure you normally find within the complex of the hotels buildings has been spread out horizontally all around a great so our neighborhood as we call it it. creates the hotels guests use

a custom app to locate the projects carefully selected partners here breakfast is served just around the corner in the cafe. rather than have the souvenir shop in the hotel lobby guess what. for gifts in the media area for example designer judith jewelry shop. at macy's foods delicatessen shop owner robert. is a view news institution. you're always here anyway. me all the corporations like this are a good thing so we won't have any more empty shops. revitalizing the globe to buildings and spaces is a main focus for to receive. a key state open by entering a code takes on the function of the reception for each suite the conversions were inspired by the locations history. for the service design we took the past use of

each location into consideration in this case it was a tailor shop we had a room height mural made the young lady here is wrapped in the same fabric we used to a poster of the open closet that tells the guests that they are indeed in vienna in a former business location these are not your average hotel rooms this is kind of. everywhere the trend is towards centric hotel concepts amsterdam offers beds and a decommissioned harbor crane and disused bridge keepers cabins and travellers wishes and tastes are changing to the tourist of today goes looking for the pulse of a city off the beaten path. at the pumps and is at least they can get tips from genuinely any that is from us on what to do around town that makes the guests staying with us of the any of our short time but subside but once you know there's something shall we go. there at the affectively makes the tourist a townie hidden away behind

a nondescript facade is one of the end is trying to use night shops the motto. spoken i would have found a clue but went on from outside it looks like nothing. after a long day full of new experiences the old metalworking shop is as welcome as any badger. or do you know i've been to vienna quite often and seen a great deal this was a completely new experience. i got a hold of the repression of. so the best i can do you know even better how the people of the end i really live. at 1st it was very new especially the rooms location where i'd go right out on to the street 1st thing good but the connection to town is right there to. stop. sleeping in a shop front a guest can get to know the city of vienna from a very personal side. and finally forget

wiener dogs mice or other funny characters made out of balloons for parties the scottish artist terry cooke puts a new twist literally on balloon figures by creating colorful birds he then sent them out nature and he photographed them it's truly art imitating life. from a distance it's home to 2 lives bert from the balloon bird. scottish born terry cook shaves birds from duluth. on the bill for the daily is a not much has materialised latex in a variety of colors and sciences only recently discovered balloons as a medium of artistic expression i made one or 2 balloons for my niece's birthday

party and then after that i thought cool might be quite interesting try to make something. kind of more realistic so right because they don't look realistic but would be closer to nature than the usual stuff that you see every cook studio. the attic of his house. he lives in aberdeen scotland and teaches in a college there reserving his free time for his art. so we cook long since learned to churn out the balloon of the most familiar from children's birthday parties. but it takes hours for him to finish one of his blue birds. depending on which bird it pick. a look at a couple of images for all like google or something like that and so you can understand how the feathers you kind of pick up the balloons you want and i just have a go from there basically there's no right or wrong way to do it there's no there's

no rules for as long as you can it can tie him into a shape that sort of vaguely resembles them. then you're on a winner. cock aspires to make the balloon birds look as realistic as possible. then he heads out to the park their photographs the balloon birds in the natural habitats of their life counterparts. those with today's not touch. all in all the like little bits of barking stuff they stick their beaks under and pick out little bugs and things like that. but i just read it has a really cool looking little bright colored bird. clinging upside down to a tree trunk because how they're not hatch usually appears in the wild and that's have terry cook positions it's likeness in latex.

of birds and so i've been a kid. like completely obsessed with birds i love all animals but specifically birds. i don't even know why. he concentrates on birds native to his own country. and also the photo shoot cook takes bluebird home again. leave his mark good nature that way. and with that it is time to say goodbye but don't forget to check us out on social media for me and the rest of the crew here in berlin as always thanks for tuning in and we'll see against him.

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