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our apps like to talk on instagram revolutionizing the pop music industry is it all about 15 seconds old social media we'll be discussing nothing more in a minute welcome to our culture also coming up today. they must yourself in the natural paradise is created by american artist class celeste who illustrates the fragility of our planet with installations. tick-tock a mobile phone app which boasts over $800000000.00 active users and is said to be worth $75000000000.00 and it's not even 5 years old and it is immensely powerful for instance seems to be able to create global pop hits in a flash is this a good thing and how does it all work i'll be discussing this with our social media

expert off to this. clips uploaded to tech tucker 15 seconds or less making the app the perfect platform for today's short attention spans but i still anyone with a user profile can upload video content viral dances and music videos are among the most popular content on the platform it's. called. made me. 17 year old olivia rico made headlines this month when her debut single driver's license hits 100000000 listens faster than any other song in the history of music streaming then tech talk was a big factor in the song success since within the 1st 24 hours of its release many poppy. our tech talk creators had uploaded reaction videos are used as background music for their dances.

the song gained even more momentum when used by fans to showcase their acting and look sing skills as part of a so called tech talk challenge creators showed themselves heartbroken during the 1st part of the video before transitioning into a glamorous version of themselves evidently the magic recipe for a viral hit. now i'm not a social media expert but my colleague or how to ruediger is a driver's license went from 0 to the top of the charts in a matter of days and all because of tick talk. well you know if they did an actress she is a big famous but that doesn't explain the she was instant success so what happened on the day the sun came out golden tech talk just so random tech took you that use that song and have video and created a challenge and lots and lots of people participated in it talent so now we have

all of our a 1000000 videos you think that song on take talk and i mean even i used that song on one of my picked up on my account to fill it with everywhere and then you know tell us with commented on the instagram poll and so it became this huge pop cultural moment really yeah ok so this is not the 1st time the there's been a tick tock challenge has pushed some to the top of the jobs i'm thinking of fleetwood mac. how have the likes of to talk on instagram the change to how the charts in the last year what picked up and instagram really of which is the new video feature instagram you that that's kind of it picked up clone really but they encourage you to and upload their own content but you someone else must know that some of these people become really multiply if and that's new for social media because you know that's where you remember facebook was very much about copyright violations even

taking you with a video of them or if they used popular music so i mean it's a bit ironic that now if she would stick to get paid to use the song and for instance charlie de mille you know she is one of the biggest take took off and reportedly she gets paid $40000.00 just to use the song in the video and dance to it so off of course all in the hope that this goes viral on the app and then goes viral in the charts and you have a number one hit so basically your song needs to have the potential for a good social media challenge then you go viral drugs at the top of the charts doesn't matter but the music sounds easy so why doesn't every pop singer do it well . actually not that easy because you can't plan a viral moment it has to be authentic because social media you know if they can spot a fake a mile away and that's actually what happened this week to jennifer lopez she uploaded a video on her instagram and had to talk and channel it because she wanted to

recreate it almost iconic beach scene i don't cough the thing the music video and so we see how strolling down the beach and she's throwing up an expensive watch and have fun with laughter and you know eventually this posting and saying can't wait for your recreate it's new challenge but social media you thought they didn't like it they even crittur 5 tough why because they called the tone deaf it's went out we're in the middle of a pandemic i mean how are we going to recreate this huge scene when we don't have our own private jet to fly to the beach and we're not supposed to travel so they criticised her and made quite a few funny means around that making fun of the talent so it's not that easy it's not even put jennifer lopez oh what a shame i was going to do a swing number which i don't know why are. you very much for a visit with the thanks for. explaining all that now look at some other

cultural stories from around the world to give to new york where must a piece of the italian renaissance painter bottle is just stretched a record price for a work by that artist at auction. the painting sold for $80000000.92 with commissions and fees young man with up around all is thought to depict a young nobleman showing off his own prize our possession a decorative medallion bearing the image of a saint it is considered one of the chinese finest portraits probably dates from the 1470s or 14 eighty's. to paris where british designer kim jones's debut collection for fendi brought some bookish glamour to his 1st show the collection was inspired by virginia woolf's novel orlando and jones recruited as many superstars and superstar models as possible with no live audience the model's runway was actually a cool glass maze and another debut this time in the united arab emirates the 1st

of a fashion week for men there a macho couture set the show in the desert with all the models wearing white and sporting various interpretations of the traditional dish. and in the united states where the annual sundance film festival in park city utah was for the 1st time a virtual festival and got on the way with a very topical film. in the same breath as a documentary by chinese american director none through wearing which charts the misinformation and propaganda that accompanied the spread of the corona virus in both washington. now the american artist claire celeste started her professional life as an arts ministry to dealing with other artists but see she soon changed sides as it were a memoir now based in berlin she exhibits her work around the world raw material is

simply paper but she creates extraordinary immersive collages that bring the viewer into a natural paradise and there's an environmental message in all her work to. this nature collages assembled from hundreds of paper images ringback the installation biodiversity celebrates the wide variety of species welcome to claire celeste's blooming world. use actually and then i will use collage to plan my paintings and then one day i realize that the collage that i made a plant painting was actually much better than the painting itself celeste is inspired by natural history images of flora and fauna from around the world the american born artist is based in berlin from where she creates works like biodiversity a tribute to nature but also

a warning. it was originally only about nature but then when i realized just how many spaces in my artwork are vanishing or have are to vanish to pick am impossible to ignore and has since become i think the most important part of my artwork. so i just doesn't want her creations to be seen as merely decorative but she does try to make them beautiful or works or shown in international galleries such as these canvas collages in sweden. this mural adorns a department store in munich illustrations installations and glass sculptures are all part of her portfolio the artist draws inspiration from places with lush vegetation like berlin's botanical garden as a diplomat's child she lived in many countries such as thailand brazil italy and the united states exposing her to the joy of nature's great diversity the threat to

the environment is a source of worry for her. during quarantine the 1st short 3 weeks i remember looking at my artwork and thinking that the planet doesn't need birth at all i think that sometimes my gurus and the ngs are perhaps not. very environmentally friendly and this is a question that i have but i've recently decided that i'm going to continue making my art because i think it's really important as a vehicle for change and that i'm giving people a method of ecological urgency and ecological hope or i'm trying to. her art is based on vintage naturalistic drawings of the animals and plants mixed with present day photos. like the idea of birds from 20300 years ago co-existing with contemporary ones i like that there is sort of this seamless timeline that's connecting the older drawings to the contemporary photography. she began by cutting out suitable images for her collages and in the

process realize that quite a few of the depicted species are now extinct. nowadays celeste uses online archives she starts by composing her nature collages on the computer then she prints them on recycled paper and cuts them out her latest work using that approach as a kind of chandelier. claire celeste is still working on this hanging installation which she plans to illuminate with the lamp. her original plan was to burn the work after its completion as a protest against the extinction of species. i think it's important to have a message of hope as well and we have the tools to make the changes that we need to to save ourselves and i i want that to be part of the message as well so perhaps i won't set this on fire. instead the flames are made of paper and can be attached or removed depending on the message claire celeste hopes that her beautiful artworks

will raise awareness of how endangered that beauty is. finally tributes have been pouring in for the pioneering american i. trans cicely tyson who has died at age 96 she turned down stereotypical roles for black women agreeing only to play characters that was strong positive and realistic long before it was popular to do so and she is in the autobiography of miss jane pittman. you think i'm crazy. now. just to this change oh oh oh oh ok. i'm oh no no. no. i think i look forward to excuse me go.

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news said that i mean if there's nothing here to remind me of my birthplace. that there was once a beautiful square more enough space where i remember trees and benches. but it's membership a shot being that i was born in warsong into a traditional jewish family. i went to a preschool for jewish children where they taught polish but me and at home we spoke yiddish but i had no prior. with the polish language we spoke that to.

well you just said the jets kovi my parents lived in warsaw my grandparents to. we lived to 91 july streets all book by the gate was a tiny shockey square which was owned by a jewish neighbor. shots. he had this trick where his spare time just to chase fingers together with a needle to keep the review in the of course he made a huge impression on os kids and it would be horrifying if i. don't know what sort of career he had a daughter called long you could who was friends with my sister. initially poor person we have just might normal neighbors. nobody peter moylan my street was no holy p.s.v. just sometimes i can see it more clearly than the warsaw around me today's. in my

memory it's still the same. in the morning the warm pretzels would be delivered by me they were called bagels i likely won't find bagels like those anywhere these days but you could take one and twist it around dies you a. little bit in my mind parents have to 59 mushy coves get straight to it was a so-called good neighborhood. my and my nanny would take me to the church of the holiest save yeah i remember we had to recite press that some children would say they didn't know the president but i felt i knew them because my nanny told. number that there even though a little better me the war began at the jordan talk on bag attain a straight as i was sitting in a sand pit so my mum came over to show my arm she said there's a war what are we going to do.

it's the special quality of the nazi system. people who had the energy to develop something had the power to do it. mr denninger took over moscow in early december $39.00 he had the idea to invite but of course to come to wausau and build a german bow 5 i took goes upon the advice of mr they had developed

the dream of reducing or so. next to nothing. on the screen is the visualization from one of my projects it's based on fascist plans for the construction of a new german city in the noir start of rochelle this is a virtual reconstruction of that new warsong this is the city center it's a relatively small city the entrances were to be guarded by watch towers on all sides stations army scanning studies are the main buildings of the new german warsaw why i'm going to start out. the cancer on the progress

side there was to be a district for poles who if we slowly exterminated to the new german city of warsaw was to be inhabited only by germans and there was to be no jewish population when you average. with regard to warsaw the furer has decided that the reconstruction of that city is a major polish metropolis is absolutely out of the question the fear is wishes that in accordance with plans for the territories development under the general government warsaw be reduced to the level of a provincial city from the diary of governor general hans frank. once the germans arrived the terror began almost right away with various official announcements and notices social change. was not given measured

of all jews were forced to wear arm bands with the star of david it was off and that would usually. be. in my mind. and this was a form of degradation at any moment i could be humiliated or unusual. in the spring of 1940 consultations began with a view to creating one or more jewish housing districts within the city of warsaw in the end however it was decided that a single district should be established in the area where jews were traditionally the majority. dr friedrich scarlet s. as. head of division of regional planning office of the governor of the district of warsaw.

where was the jewish neighborhood in warsaw there were jewish neighborhoods. where it was almost all jewish when your 3rd of the city you're all over the city and the interaction with 9 jews was a normal day and that comes to a crashing halt when the building of the warsaw ghetto wall which goes through the heart of the city and divides jews from non jews as they were never divided before. more. like a cover out to lure on the wall didn't appear suddenly bits and pieces of all started to be built from april $1040.00 these were sections of wall or barriers but barbed wire they popped up in various places as they're gone on of course the

revolution of new stuff. i had no idea i was jewish i say 1st i was asking them why do we have to maneuver and later what does it mean that i'm jewish and why do we have to leave our homes with an emotion opals church and on. 'd their cultures different of that that the get shown when we arrived in the ghetto the 1st thing i saw was a horrible poster i didn't want to be like that on the pope's death and i was distraught had been forced to live that. i thought that every geezer had to look

like that i was so terribly humiliated by a vase i said to my mom i didn't want to be a jew when he told me that i wanted to go back to moshe comes to the streets of rid of culture and why was all this happening anyway and actual costco no longer have to let him go to auction very. notice by order of the district governor and effective immediately a self-contained jewish quarter is to be created in the district of warsaw with a view to preventing the spread of disease in the city of wars or a boundary running around the jewish quarter has been established all borders traits not to be closed off from it on both sides as follows. from g.l. not to crew lives gun and water. and jealous not from 2 to none and stripper none. from stripper not to 2 and me a john from me a john and to spread and cause he marries when.

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she sorcerer's a mission you scalia but we already lived in the area that was now the ghetto because more and ascii square was inside the area jews who lived outside the ghetto had to move in and poles who lived in the ghetto had to move out. of their children this led to very painful situations for people they left their homes they left their furniture and possessions carrying only a few small bundles with them. in the ghetto became very crowded. the jew we've all seen the images of the acts not the jewish community something

similar happened the other way around too there were tens of thousands of people like us i remember sitting on a cart full of our things. we were thrown out of because the ghetto was created there was no the soon as they got the goods we were moved to pleasure street number 5 apartment 100 in tampa it was a ruin. measures involved the resettlement of around $700.00 if nic germans 113000 poles and 138000 jews the warsaw jewish housing district is an enclosed area cut off from its surroundings by walls fences and so on movement of persons and goods in and out of the area used by special permit only. talk to friedrich s s

were head of division of regional planning office of the governor of the district of warsaw. no she should of sky is actually more diversions here as our tradition is always looking for contact sound sign to get a war going to get rude. or trying to cool lawyer should 1st lawyer came to us some branches treat the the we weren't well off at the time. over jewish in the middle 3 siblings my mom and my dad data and my father different smuggling because there was no other way that in the sense. i lived but my mother put aside potatoes and feelings for her.

own year later lonni or stopped coming. in the trigger yeah of course we didn't know why. but the maya just. after that my sister simply disappeared on i.e. i don't know how she and my father just ceased to exist. i don't remember any farewell or any of the circumstances maybe my memory suppressed it because it was too terrible the laws that. pushes the other services though villian the city center was cut off and ceased to function normally. cops and when you see which part of the city made up the ghetto you realize it was really the heart of warsaw. isn't used to shoot if you take into account that the germans also carved off

a piece for themselves what was left of warsaw for other residents was just a small part. of. the german housing district has been created for the protection of the german population at their request the police cannot guarantee germans living outside of this district the same degree of personal safety as is provided to those living within it hunts nazi party. warsaw.

'd 'd night and day by rail in comics and buses jews arrive here from polish towns and villages. the individual vanishes in this enormous human mass people are crammed in individual faces around recognizable.

the german army and civilians must in any event be protected from the jews immune carriers of disease the separation of jews from the rest of the population polish as well as ethnic germans is a moral and political imperative traffic in the center of warsaw has also been only minimally affected by the creation of the jewish housing district. in the interests of the van dam the economy great care was taken to ensure that certain main thoroughfares would remain cross a bill without obstruction to through traffic waldemar sherman s s standout director of department of resettlement office of the governor of the district of

warsaw. guesstimates you could buy use of to the jello the german planners divided things up each administering their division. they even designated which streets the tram would travel along to shorten its route through the ghetto that created 2 ghettos it was all a terrifying mishmash of evil starship was necessary ended up dividing the jewish district lost them gives them such a district was cut and the 2 parts by the critically important tram line that ran along but not all you have is with. the ghetto was divided into 2 ponds a small ghetto and a launch one. in order for jews to move back and forth between the small and the launch it was necessary to stop the flow of traffic at intervals since this was

inconvenient for the germans jews were given permission to cross over as in pretty quickly as possible. because i won't tunnel i would see from a distance the crowd milling at the corner of cotton people would be shifting restlessly on the spot waiting for the german police to decide when the traffic on caught my eye was light enough and the crowd on july think enough to warrant letting the jews across the street. when the moment finally came the police cordon would pond and the impatient crowd would such forward in both directions pushing each other over in

a panic to distance. from the dangerous german presence and melts once more into the depths of the 2 catarrh. star can you pass a line in the pavement shows where the ghetto border brand how the ghetto fare into war star. go dauphine sure it wasn't an isolated island is around it by the unknown it was embedded in the city. in each

plaque there's a marker showing where we are the parts of downtown borstar that were torn away are elevated which will get nearly 30 years. now so is the news a 1000000 thomas left and my intention was to show the ghetto in real space how it was and where the boundaries don't boo. hooo.

who can read. what. we really. took during any real opinions are both yemeni i jus who didn't have a lot of money or didn't have a poll who was his friend she didn't stand a chance. there was nothing he could do. in the bush he

cared only about what he would eat the next day and what he would give his children yeah. it's a. show. i was one of those who didn't have anything. coercion changed clothes and about 80 percent of food in the ghetto came from smuggling of not from official suppliers authorized by the german. male kenyans and if someone had money they could get things into the ghetto somehow i went through with mr trent passing through and were a nasty square and as it turned the corner items were thrown out could a stop in a get out this was outrage carried on the 3rd party that wonder of the kind there are thought you. busy busy busy busy busy busy busy busy busy

busy busy busy busy were. in some places the ghetto walls did not come right down to the pavement at regular intervals there were openings at ground level through which water flowed into drains running along the sidewalks these openings but also used by children for smuggling tiny dark creatures with legs like matchsticks would converge on these openings from all

sides terrified eyes darted from left to right and frail poll was dragged through bomb goals that were often bigger than the tiny smugglers themselves. 'd 'd

notice. any jew unlawfully leaving the designated housing district is to be punished by death the same punishment will apply to persons who consciously protect such jews or in any way a system also or 10th of november 1941 dr fisher governor. yes but a lot of sienna is a very important street today i feel this is a street i was scared of and i still am to this day you couldn't. i've never walked the street without feeling afraid behind this wall i spent more than 2 years in the get away with my family.

when i 1st found myself back here i began looking obsessive lee for the holes through which my mom and i had escaped i just did that going back in time trying to figure out where that whole could be. but the hole was probably somewhere else further on. to lead me the. color and you know when i look back i see 2 years of humiliation imprisonment and hunger and fear hold huge as i said i'm scared of seattle streets i still expect to i the see all remember something terrible that.

all around i could see hand counts and on them bodies of men women and children piled callously one on top of the other. i became aware of a strange vaguely sweet and sickening odor i've never smelled before. a jewish policeman explained. next to the jewish cemetery there was once a launch beyond today it's one of the biggest mass graves ever filled with the bodies of jews from all corners of europe.

could this be real how is it possible that a human being or flesh and blood should have to die in such a pitiful fashion. german occupation murdered 90 percent of the jews here. is heartbreaking and if you can imagine that not only does the wall go through the heart of the city right in the middle of a street it stops but on the other side of that wall. starvation disease and very soon after deportation to death.