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everyone is welcome to another edition of your own x. with me your host meghan lee here's a look at what we've got coming up on today's program. we'll see how one artist uses a dish in her expressive works. to believe we'll bring alongside one of europe's fastest unicyclists as she breaks records. but we start off the show with folk songs which are making an unusual comeback now have you ever heard of sea shanties these folk ballads were sung by sailors that during their work at sea now you're probably familiar with this one. what shall we do with the drunken sailor or one young scotsman decided to revive these centuries old tunes during lockdown in the coronavirus pandemic what began as a way to pass time for nathan evans has turned into

a runaway success and has even landed him a record deal. see there. was a simple rhythm and a centuries old melody has changed nathan evans live forever. one. man is a sea shanty evans' rendition of this maritime work song has earned the scotsman a spot at the top of europe's pop charts. it's amazing it's like a dream come true. i'm just we hope. that's because until recently nathan evans was a postman in the town of airdrie new glasgow in his free time he'd uploaded videos of himself performing pop or folk songs to tick talk at his followers request he

started covering sea shanties like johnny. in the moment. late last year evans landed a surprise hit when his version of the new zealand wailing song soon made the woman come went viral i thought. have a good. move on to the next song. that i expect. a song that would bend the charts and all. this song made a big splash and soon the internet was flooded with people singing well a man during the corona pandemic the sea shanty clearly touched a nerve as it tells of the loneliness that scene. in the cockpit is.

especially when everyone is stuck. everybody just. friends. and everybody sing along you can stomp your feet. you can play an instrument to the . show. yes just i think it gets everybody involved in. the sea shanties of being putting a smile on people's faces since the 15th century. would be out at sea for months so a shanty men were chosen to lead the singing in response songs would sing the man and the rest of the crew saying that response. in the digital age the internet community has taken the place of abode using tick tocks duet function virtual sailors courses have sprung up all across the globe. even prominent

musicians like us violinist lindsey sterling and british guitarist brian may have gotten swept up in this. i was speechless when i. seen all these people. it's just incredible. that. with a recording contract in his pocket nathan evans quit delivering mail to concentrate on his musical career he's currently working on his 1st album and eventually hopes to go into. one of his run aground.

again. i would i would do the opposite and take that as an experience and take it with me and i don't own job i just always i mean that's the only thing that also makes no difference to me they've said to nathan evans has cost off his safety net and is seizing his chance he's now $1.00 step closer to his dream of being able to live from his music one minute then it is done. and sticking with a maritime theme this next piece is all about the surreal fashion created by the artist van nerika. this headband is just one example of her conceptual art but others involve actual fish and as you'll see soon she incorporates them into her masks and costumes to express or even hide her inner feelings now we met

up with the artist in moscow to find out more. fish be a fashion accessory. that's how russian armenian artist veneer of her sorrow stages for a model at a photo shoot in moscow. the fashion designers unusual combinations have garnered her international acclaim. i have no humans with the materials and. i can come by and paper with. ways of the show because. i want to write a diary but for me i'm making a mask. to her masks are works of art and a means of self-expression. the new yorkers sorrow that has been working on her mask series since 2009 she's already made around 100 fanciful face coverings

ever since she finished her degree in fashion design in moscow masks have played an important role in her creations by mask i cover my. real face and it gives me a protection maybe and a feeling of safety and the mask is kind of her refuge for me because i want to show my real emotions. on the face marmar face but i show my emotions through the textures the technique and the materials. for the new yorker saw over designs costumes and props for theater productions like this one in the russian city of perm in 2020. 3 years before she worked on the fish project at moscow's gorky park. and in 2018 she contributed to the moscow staging of book land. time and again the designer mixes

materials that don't seem to go together. her current series fish and flowers is no exception because sorrow is inspired by fairy tales and surrealism fish are recurring symbols in her work ones that are meant to cause people to stop and reflect people. of. this dress with and always thought beautiful combined with flowers and. white paper it's very beautiful but it is kind of ok but not. to live in warrens of the dead and. it's kind of. wild and. because it's on her way to nikolai gogol house a museum in the russian capital she was invited to take part in a group exhibition here entitled the islands each participant was given

a room and free reign to show off their creativity. the new yorkers sorrow installation features paper flowers printed with images of meat here too she makes a connection between pretty plants and dead animals. paper is one of her favorite materials to work with. paper. so there's nothing more for white sheet of paper. paper also plays an important role in her latest photo shoot. i'm never satisfied. with that makes me do it again i'm always looking for perfection of. the new

york because sorrow those stages so real dreams were. holds unmask her passion for the absurd. who doesn't like a nice creamy bar of chocolate well the swiss are masters when it comes to making it so what better place to head than switzerland for a lesson in our food series food secrets we explore what goes into european specialties that everyone knows and enjoys so for a glimpse into the secrets behind milk chocolate we met up with experts in the kitchen and in the field. whenever i go on vacation i always bring chocolate along always.

without cocoa there's no chocolate no way around it. there are the only swiss chocolate is a kind of milk chocolate and we produce a dark chocolate which contains 56 percent cocoa how. i'm a co-founder of the floor chocolate factory and we produce chocolate by hand to show . you how thing in the end the main ingredients for chocolate include 1st of all sugar that's ok then we add cocoa butter which is the fat crust from the cocoa bean from the board that done some next is the milk powder so if we're making a milk chocolate it's. the cocoa beans are the most important

ingredient for making good swiss chocolate. go regional cocoa dairy from south america and then came to central america and eventually to africa . my name is christian values i'm originally from colombia where i run a cocoa plantations and i chose cocoa because i've always wanted to do something that connects my 2 countries of origin switzerland and colombia will be in the. nature of the cocoa tree grows up to 5 metres told me the pods grow on the trunk and not the branches like normal food stewed by the normally pretty thin. no but i wanted to take the cocoa pot and cut it open and you'll find the being as you saw it the fruit you place these fruits in wooden boxes and cover them with banana leaves and i mean this introduces you to stand bacteria which initiate fermentation then 48 hours later you turn them over this process takes $5.00 to $6.00 days in

all and you have to keep turning the fruit to different intervals and depending on when you turn them you can bring out certain flavors to make your. brain to go. on to ask the 1st thing we do is window that the months to remove the skin sport and shade and i hope that when you will know that you peel the skins off and you end up with cocoa. pieces of the beans and this is where a recipe starts you think the crowd. mix when we lay the cocoa out on these baking sheet and then we roast them in the other and so each recipe requires a different kind of roast and lose the. fish and meat fresh milk has more and more don't go together well so we can't work with fresh milk we always have to use milk powder horn put it all back and.

i think i did here i have the roasted nips. and this is a stone grinder i made sure you do this crime they don't have to have this one has to granite stones and they and the kettle turned on it which causes friction and now i'll pour in the cocoa knaves nice and slow. but this time for the sugar. free comes along i pour that and gradually as well if i'm to be when it's created a paste i can add in the melted cocoa butter cow both at the station. they may go into the grinder works as a conscious at the same time you. just to show conch in means stirring the cocoa paste to mix air and to execute on that which reduces the acidity me tell you know that's what gives our chocolate this very fine sweet taste that using bombs fine him.

to move the shaking table gets out of all the air bubbles still trapped on the chalk but we don't want to be bubbles in the chocolate bars. and i think we can make a lot of people happy with our chocolate and that's why this is my dream job. yummy and if you would like to see more reports about mouthwatering specialties from all over europe and make sure to check out our you tube channel d.w. food. galaxies. stories. to see as

a logical smell amazing the best chefs with their best tips from the need to shift to begin diets and all the recipe secrets while some oddball europe's diversity is a smorgasbord to my list but you know. subscribe and enjoy deep w. food. biking through town or on trails is tricky enough on 2 wheels especially when you pick up speed so you can imagine how hard it might be when they're navigating on only one will know the producers of the show went to a lot of trouble to bring in a unicycle into the studio and this is where i could probably demonstrate for you but instead of breaking my neck i will leave it up to a young german woman who is breaking records on her unicycle.

they are going to make up to 40 kilometers an hour. coming up the combination of speed balance and the high risk is what fascinates me the most. just day riding high in the saddle. can keep so concentration. is on the road a little good presents an obstacle. i do have a handlebar but it's mostly so i can lean into the wind and not for support on bicycles you can hold on to the handlebars and the unicycle doesn't have anything to stabilize you say you have to find your center and learn to build speed and confidence without using your hands. and he takes years of practice to learn to ride with this kind of speed and skill even as a little girl. magically drawn to the unicycle and began taking part in

competitions talented hasn't always been well appreciated on the contrary. as a kid i get in trouble for tipping my chair up on one leg a nursery school and rocking back and forth while. they told my parents they suspected i had a movement disorder. but my father was sure that wasn't true and he got me into sports that was the best decision he could have made and i'm very grateful to him for it. now what aged 20 she's collected medals and prizes the world at the 2018 world unicycling championships in south korea she churned out 5 world champion titles in various disciplines. finally in 2020 the world record for the longest distance covered in one. with over 33 kilometers on her unicycle she even beat the men's record.

in fear in many of the physically demanding sports that's just unthinkable that was another huge step forward and it's really special to me. yana bag was born in the french border region for. now she lives in berlin and hopes to study lol she set up a little workshop in her room in the apartment she shares she owns 15 unicycles for various purposes one even has started tires for off roading. as often as she can she takes off to go driving cross-country another discipline that yana 10 a bag and holds a world champion title pool. and the only one she's got the injured herself doing. there's been more than a mountain biker hit my unicycle from behind in a mud hole and my leg got caught in between his crank and my shin bone. i finished

the race and won but afterwards i had to go to the medic. was pretty swollen up but that's the worst that's happened to me outdoors so far. in comparison the ride home through both means rush hour traffic is like a walk in the pocket a unicycle in town may be an unusual sight but it's quite legal and it helps keep you on a turn on bag and in shape for the challenge is yet to come and read my one hour world record leave some room for improvement i'd say there's also a 24 hour world record in a cycle writing i'd like to go for that one too you can sit on the cycle for a long time you just need to practice. on a 10 bagger and decide she's practiced enough for one day and treats a sofa to a gentle stroll into the sunset. in this digital age we would expect that most anna mae. are done on the computer but some artists prefer methods that stand the test of time such as stop motion animation this

technique of filming characters in movement has been around for a couple of decades and it is a popular way of entertaining the masses well i caught up with one stop motion director in paris who showed me more. this is american actor leonardo dicaprio in a way you've never seen him before in stop motion animation action. this is the work of french director victor who makes animation films and ads in his paris studio. i really like stop motion animation because it's something very dumb as you go again you can touch it you really feel what you are doing i mean with your hands. and though so i tend to draw and i'm going to choose subjects we wanted to make stop motion and i think this is the best way to make it

a mission. bigger has been creating stop motion animation for 13 years he taught himself how to do it after stunning film in the czech capital prague that mission any mission is a very long process you put the puppets in the position you make it to movement you take a picture you make it as a movement you take a picture and so try to redo original movie you have in. this 5 2nd clip took 2 hours to make. his animations cover a wide range of schemes including this film featuring a 3 d. superhero. other clips are simple loops made for fun for instagram. this animation highlights actor tom cruise's stunts from his movie mission

impossible. and victor's bear often makes other popular appearances on social media. but it isn't just for fun the artist. and his money with animated ads for big international companies. 3 years ago i decided. to put all my work on instagram and to publish. a new mated loops every weeks. it meets a lot of success it was very unexpected but now i have more than 300000 followers. and i get a lot of commission directly via instagram. picture trying to find a sense of humor in his everyday surroundings this is where he gathers ideas the

challenge lies in bringing ideas back to the studio and turning them into mini works of art the finished product is it always what he expects when it's done i'm very happy to look at it from my frame because while i was in the meeting i was focused on what i was doing so sometimes i didn't notice i did so move was a move. after all this time i keep surprising myself. and victor continues to surprise his fans as well with his unique and unusual classic form of animated photography. and with that we come to the end of the show but don't forget to log on to our website for this week's draw as always from me and the rest of the crew here in berlin thanks for tuning in and we'll see.

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