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discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. t.w. world heritage 360 get me out now. all apps like to talk on instagram revolutionizing the pop music industry is it all about 15 seconds old social media we'll be discussing not a mole 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 installation.
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tik tok 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 after this. post 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. me. 17 year old olivia ever agree go made headlines this month when her debut single driver's
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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 popular tech talk creators had uploaded reaction videos are used as background music for their dances. the song games even more momentum when used by fans to showcase their acting and look sing skills as part of a so called tech talk to 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 root it is a driver's license went from 0 to the top of the charts in
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a matter of days and all because of tick talk. well you know if they did an actress she is a bit famous but that doesn't explain the hewitt instant success so what happened on the day the sun came out golden tech talk just so random picked up you that you thought that song and have video and created a challenge and lots and lots of people participated in that talent so now we have all our a 1000000 videos you think that song want to talk and i mean even i use that song on one of my kicked off on my account to fill it with everywhere and then you know telephone with commented on the instagram polwarth and so it became this huge pop cultural moment really yeah ok so this is not the 1st time though that there's been a tick tock challenge has pushed to the top of the jobs i think you fleetwood mac. how the likes of to talk on instagram the change to how the charts in the last year what picked up and in 2nd re of which is the new video feature instagram you that
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that's kind of it picked up clone really but they encourage you to upload their own content but you someone else that's moving some of these people become really multiply if and that's new for social media because you know if you remember facebook was very much about copyright violations even taking you with a video down if they used popular music so i mean it's a bit ironic that now the feud to take took off get paid to to use the song and for instance charlie the mill you know she is one of the biggest dick 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 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 about the music sounds easy so why doesn't every pop singer do it
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well. actually not that easy because if you can 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 because she wanted to recreate it almost iconic beach scene don't cost a thing then you think 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 whole thing and saying can't wait for you know recreate it's new challenge but social media you thought they didn't like it they even criticized her for it why because they called her 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 and we don't have our own private jet to fly to the beast and we're not supposed to travel so they
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criticised her and made quite a few funny means around that making fun of the talents 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 am not sure why are. you very much of a with the thanks for. explaining all that now a look at some other cultural stories from around the world if we could get in new york where a must a piece of the italian renaissance painter bought it charlie 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 his finest portraits probably dates from the 1470s or 14 eighty's. to paris where british designer kim jones's debut
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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 wang which charts the misinformation and propaganda that accompanied the spread of the coronavirus in
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both rule and washington all day. 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 clear celeste's blooming world. i use actually and then i will use collage
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to plan my paintings and then one day i realize that the collage that i met a play or a 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. celeste doesn't want her creations to be seen as merely decorative but she does try to make them beautiful her works are shown in international galleries such as these canvas collages in sweden. and this mural adorns a department store in munich illustrations installations and glass sculptures are
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all part of her portfolio the artist draws inspiration from places with lush vegetation like berlin's patel called 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 both at all though i think that sometimes my gloom and nks 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 math earnshaw of ecological urgency and ecological hope or i'm trying to. her art is based on vintage naturalistic drawings of animals and plants mixed with
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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 is a kind of chandelier. claire celeste is still working on this hanging installation which she plans to illuminate with a 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
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have a message of hope as well 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. finally tributes have been pouring in for the pioneering american i. trist cicely tyson has died at age 96 she turned stereotypical roles for black women agreeing only to play characters that was strong positive and realistic long before it was popular to do so here she is in the autobiography of miss jane pittman. you think i'm crazy she.
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