ah, in 30 minutes on the w, and we've got some hot tips for your bucket list, a magic corner trip hotspot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot w travel. all we go ah, ah, ah ah, there is more than meets the eye when viewing this a magical glass cube. we visit the artist behind these optical illusions to discover how he creates them. everyone and welcome to another edition of

your own max with me, your host. megan lee. here's a look at what else we've got coming up on the show. d w reporter rachel stuart, explores the germans love hiking and we meet some chickens who really know how to strut their stuff and become models. and but we start off with the story that sounds like a fairy tale. a teenager from a small town on her way to stardom 14 year old singer sarah james comes from poland, but she decided to take her chances. an audition, for one of the world's biggest talent chose america's got talent. what has followed has been a whirlwind of attention and excitement. we met up with her to hear about her musical journey so far, even at such a young age. oh,

oh. oh, oh my god. i never sir james and i am 14 years old. and i really love music, i really do so i, sarah james of poland is living the dream, shared by many young female singers all over the world. she made a name for herself with her virtuosity, and collected a fanbase of millions. oh me thing then is just just my life is just the thing that i'm when i'm wake up from the bad i be like there are you gonna think oh is the you know? nothing for me and i just, i was born with an is just, you know, it is my life. 6 0, in june sarah tried her look on one of the worried leading casting shows,

america's got town in the united states. even jury member simon cow as usual poker face revealed how impressed he was, and he sent her straight on to the front. it was one in a series of big successes for the young thing. she won the polish merchant of the boys, kids and represented poland in the junior eurovision song contest in paris. coming in 2nd to be so young in, you know, just before men and let of stages and being different countries in cities and everything. it's crazy. it's actually really crazy and really surprising because i've, it's, it's just a t ring. it just assume that i'm livin something and expect the bombings ah, sarah james is in touch with fans around the world on social media. she has more than a 1000000 followers on tick tock. her photo was even seen in new york

city's times. square of this year. her home town in poland is optional. oboski population less than $4000.00. but she also has african roots. my that is a g m on the sa polish girl. and yeah, i'm a mix gal, you see be in africa is just, it's just amazing thing is just, you know, imaging's and, and in my blood and the music that i listen to with african, the music's like kunkle book cook gauge is that the whole wheat and it did always a hub guzman when i was into full. yeah. this is my father. it with me. looks like earth moped up being b. this is my mommy and me when i was, i don't always. so here we was in my family, a thing in some adventure, you know, right now in that spend a lot that much time because you know, it's like an a busy,

busy woman. well, it is sometimes lizzy days like old. you know, this kind of like just a small, small, small baby. ah, it's not easy being a star. sarah has just completed music school but carries on with singing and piano lessons. challenges of eunice thinker and i would say, oh, i think you know, yeah, wake up really early sometimes are gone back from work really, really, really are the at at night actually. um, kind of loneliness sometimes because you don't see benches like out of his like of my friends da much, you know, sometimes it just like you, you just tired and usually just being exhausted. yeah. and she's off to the next appearance sarah james will be performing alongside to barons and arsenal. lebowski is summer concert. she's the star of the show. her mother attends

every concert. oh is a little bit stress her but so we are happy that she is the star devon and this is so oh, to festa. not confess, really are career and all the think so to reach a larger audience. sarah, often things in english. her latest single is titled my wave and she's already signed with a major record label. ah, the dreams for my future, i would say just be in the stage to sue gift people, my whole heart with music, you know, and just show people mine just me and, oh, just me and my music. and i hope they people love it. you know? ah, and she'll keep on living those dreams that her next performance is in the us,

where she hopes to win the hearts of the audiences. injury in the live shows of america's got talent. and in september, maybe even the big price. ah. then of course we wish her all of luck. next up we had to austria, to me, an artist who creates illusions in glass. in his latest works, thomas medicos employs a special technique. as soon as you move the artwork or you yourself move the image completely changes like magic. oh, we got a sneak peak into the intricate process which goes into these optical anomalies. ah, works us in glass. every side reveals a different subject. the ashes calls these installations,

animal fee cubes. my name is, i'm thomas medical, i'm an artist and i mostly work with glass. you meant to class the animals move at the ceiling that he most of the animal for cubes consist of a $144.00 strips if it's extra for images are scattered across these strips and fragments of toilet own. so if you walk around the cube or turn it new images come together every 90 degrees on to cut a noise below. to summon thomas medically has salt his cubes as far afield as the us and canada. glass has fascinated the artist ever since he learned how to work with it. at a glance, look in technical school, my countrymen, glassing, it's harder to work with glass intuitively then for instance, with clay or a canvas m. like at the same time, it's a material that's very closely bound to the refraction of light went up and it

displays many ambiguities. it has something ethereal about it because it's so transparent, so constant is but an animal from wilderness gets in the animal for cubes contained for images, and miss and the 2 opposite each other have to fill out precisely the same area offshore. so when you view one of them that covers up the one behind it, each really cut it's the difficulty is to develop images that depict different things, but still cover the same area. also, you have to make certain compromises and game of the system. so the to image is always share certain aspects slightly, but sometimes they lead you up. a blind alley, us will suck, then i realize it's not going to work and i have to try something else. again, this is nice volume miss. medica has got very different works on display in his hometown, innsbruck, austria, for example, this installation titled kona,

kona eyes anchor albert cohen. i started out in a very small format, instantly, this old and one day i drove past the entrance to a parking garage and it occurred to me that it could serve as a kind of massive display case. next up is on these cryptogenic sculpture in itself is a work that looks back at you schulty and you look at it and it looks back. i say that in general, art doesn't come into being until a viewer gazes added, anton and t. mm. another recent project is this installation in a d tradition hydroelectric plant. the reflections make the old turbine hole, and the viewers themselves a part of the outlook the insulator on the dietetic m, the installation hanging mer, attempts to redefine the space from an industrial one to an artistic one. in the slee long and i'm consolidation because it's now listed as a historic side,

and the turbines are very dominant. it was important to take up the theme of the space itself. the steam at his homes of took hyphen in late summer or early autumn, the artist hopes to unveil his newest glass cube in ins. brooke, in the mean time, he's got a lot of fragments to cut out and paint. what's that to me than this quantity? i'm what's fascinating about painting glass is that it's a very old technique dating back to the middle ages entrepreneur and i think it's exciting to integrate a very old craft into something new. and i make use of this old technique that you tried and tested for something contemporary taken us issues to prevent, ah, thomas medical says animal fit glasses plays with perspectives and perceptions. ultimately, the us is in the eye of the beholder. when

it comes to describing certain characteristics about germans, many people might say that they dry, very fast, are never late and have no sense of humor. now these of course are cliches, but one thing you might not know is that many germans means serious business when it comes to walking or hiking. having all of the right accessories is very important. now d w reporter rachel stuart, takes a look at how germans hit the trails compared to everyone else. have you ever been now? you're on holiday and you decide to go for a hike, but it didn't really prepare for it. and of course, who do you come across on the trial? a german? ah, wow. serious shoes? check out that practical base ruck that the classic leather jacket. what's the special trials of nipples at the knee?

oh boy. please, i will walk in. ah. the german loved to walk, of course, was walking, and his walking is on touch. but see a gun on sunday stroll has long been an established feature in the lives of many german families. but a step up from this is vanda or hiking. the difference isn't necessarily about grade, you know strenuous, no, it's that bond on involve planning a route, a schedule and equipment. hiking is the most popular outdoor activity in germany. whether it's a longer journey would stop. i was in hiking huts or quick data for the weekend, young and old in any season. they just love it. smart feature makes you happy who my hiking warms the hot 19 good. it's been a lot of time endorse, so it's great to be able to nature word as it really helps to relax and it keeps you fit. germany just has the right climate for hiking. i get my best idea hiking.

i just thought it had so much tradition. germany is a hiking nation man. can. you can relax and get away from daily life. you might need other nice people. it's great all around. would say that the gentle been raving the hill since time immemorial. not quite 2nd day hiking with religious pilgrim tradesmen scholars and vagabonds in the german mountains and far as seen as uninviting dangerous. it was until the 1800s that german nature got itself some good publicity, courtesy of the romantic poets and painters joined forces to pick up the great outdoors people started to realize they could walk for pleasure. the arrival of the railway men even 52, had easy access to the countryside. and then the germans to put the germans do best . they got organized. they formed hiking association marked out pause, and even set up the 1st ever youth hostels. oh, sadly, even the wholesome pursuit of hiking couldn't escape the shadow of national

socialism. the nazi so hiking as an elitist selfish hobby. and they funneled youth hiking members into the hitler youth. but in the past 4 years, a renew connection to nature became part of the healing process. the manager evans today hiking is more popular than ever, and it's big business the gym and spend billions of yours every year. on hiking trips, i'm fancy equipment. the certainly plenty to keep them occupied in germany. them 300000 kilometers, assigned posted hiking routes along forest trails, alpine tracks wine, valleys and cuz the one where the germans are no longer just hiking a home. what in full will indulge that hiking habit while holidaying abroad as well? wherever they are, does another vital element to a gym and hike. it's so important. it's got its own verb. i'd kill them all stopping off for refreshment along the way. maybe isn't it sold some cake or just a cold been to give you energy for the law?

well the german word vonda last or wonder last has also made it into the english language. now what do you most associate with german culture? go to our website and let us know now we're ruffling off a sweatshirt and a bag, but you can get this sweatshirt from d w's and centered collection, which gives tips on how to access band media. now when i was growing up in the united states, we often ate tortillas, or flat red from corn wrapped around beef or chicken. so you can imagine my confusion when i went to spain and ordered a tortilla and got a potato omelette instead. now what i discovered was that spanish tortillas are a beloved favorite eaten morning, noon and night. the tortilla can be considered a national dish in spain. in

barcelona, near the secret of amelia, one little restaurant boasts over 25 kinds of tortilla. and isabel color, toyota has been preparing this culinary classics for 40 years now. but i mean as a lady, mental it's a dish. my grandma would always make up e cleanser you when i was little. if you'd ask me, what's your favorite food master? i'd always answer grandma's tortilla in yellow. it means a lot to me. if so, if he got was mucho ala hello, my name is isabel keller to you, and i'm the owner of the restaurant law. say about your voice, i'm going to show you how to make a spanish tortilla on your lap. the spanish tortilla is actually a pretty simple dish and has few ingredients. but i want to make a t o t a. you need 3 eggs, maybe a half an onion, and to potatoes, not but that. those blue isabel color tell you shops for fresh ingredients every

morning. that dorothy evian event that he is with 1st invented in spain, in the 18th century as a cheap and hearty meal. what's going on? element of the foot alvarado. there was already the french, almost all tortilla as we call it. native just beaten, baked and rolled up eggs at diesel e and oriental. set our own eggs specialty a pot. we added potatoes level, ocoee, se. and if we're lucky, barnett lyla. but the disadvantage tortilla matter of the espanol. it all starts with the potatoes and her potato of choice is the mona lisa variety. if upon review and for the great, for spanish tortillas the way we make them up, if they're not starchy, they are very waxy. that make that imperfect to peel cause with and fry. the lot of got a bad afraid. if bobby, in an i used the same normal onions, i generally cook with another coffee. not it figured it was my grandmother's secret

was to cut the potatoes, very thin. white said that they get all crunchy and to moisten them with the beaten egg like diesel. the most important rule is to pre cook all the ingredients of a tortilla. except the eggs let but that done love. when you come to put the rule potato, da, da salvia that would ruin everything for this committee because then you'd have to roll potatoes in your finished tortilla for you la. you always have to deep fry them before mixing them with the eggs. okay. it takes just 2 minutes and they're done. this is for yes, but then i use some paper to so cut the oil, get that a little boy. so now the potatoes, the done by layer that there is, there were many other emo's law, but that by itself and it's time for the onions e outta how much of it that they have. oh yeah. and just like with the potatoes, the thinner you slice the onions, the better the tortilla effect, all you cook them in their own juice. we add a bit of oil. have you got they did e,

the venue let them simmer slowly on. a very low hate will lead bermuda. it takes quite a while, but the result is great at the ample. but okay, that movie and the restaurants name lefebvre means onion in catalonia, and here they simmer their onions for 3 to 4 hours to give them the right roasting flavor. and now it's time for the eggs. some salt. pork on the next task is to beat the eggs and add the deep fried potatoes and stewed onions . then she carefully mixed it all together. an she shares a little secret with us out i. now the trick is to let everything set for 10 to 15 minutes. those continual tough gothic it up helps the potatoes absorbed the egg flavor level. the potatoes, talk to the eggs when it will in a coded pan covered with oil. she fries the tortilla mixture,

and once the bottom is solid, she flips the tortilla over. you could okay, lot of fun. we spaniards couldn't live without potato tortillas. the other part that we all ate, the most children in your home was coming up. and when you've had to miss the kid, you crave them the rest of your life, your brad decker, whose tunnel i don't know, anyone who doesn't like to t as it was from out of debt, but that's not normally. everyone wants some, not talked about that. the op at this and the dish never gets boring. you can always spice up the standard tortilla recipe with new ingredients, collect spinach, or go cheese, and it's delicious any time of day that does look delicious. ok, dogs and cats tend to be the motif of choice for many photographers. so it may be surprising to see 2 italian photographers choose chickens as their primary subjects

. what they believe these feathery creatures are highly underestimated as pets and as models. so they've created a book to get people talking rather than squawking about chickens with proud and self assured, and with elegant feathers. these words describe the ornamental chickens displayed in coffee table books by photographers, my tail trying celine, and marino monte. from milan, they both openly admit there, fascinated with chickens, and have even acquired a few of their own. their pets could just as easily struck the cat walk. i've got that before we can run them, all right, and it was a love at 1st sight. i never would have expected in vain. any mighty hearing on 40 chickens make very good motifs for their very photogenic origin and great models, similar that they know right away what they're supposed to do. because of that,

you don't have to explain it to them with the name, vocal rhetorical. they need hardly any makeup diver from our experience in the advertising and fashion industries. chickens are the best top models and the most natural up. we should. i'm all of us. and they also seem to be the most patient. they obediently follow whatever directions to photographers give them. for their latest project. mateo tron celine and marino monte post 2 chickens teach from one of a total. 60 breeds as lovers chicken and love is the snappy though somewhat tongue in cheek title. the aspect okesha that i thought to leave you a loss, but we were primarily interested in the aesthetic aspect. the ok boys will chase so they love that explains the beauty and success of the book lability project door. so you just don't expect chickens to look so grants. 5th up i believe. i think with any minute like kevin, the proud rooster and mateo trench alaneese garden in milan,

he and his hens, chanel and samantha, our house chickens of the cochin breed. queen victoria introduced these unusually large chickens from asia to europe in the 19th century. for chicken in love, the photographers brought roosters and hens of different races together, as couples. a dutch crested with a bantam, wyandotte, a silky, with an or being 10 can 30. i mean the visual because he found out a lot of we went searching for what chickens look best together edge, but not like a breeder. would ya think? we mixed the breeds and sexes to get a colorful variety like we have in our human society. you money thein guacamole. and what about to roosters? why not and oh, the rooster may protect his hens, but he doesn't have that great reputation. as a romantic lover, guy loom guy,

the rooster is the worst example and absolutely not a role model. when it comes to romance, yellow fi doesn't do anything when he doesn't produce anything the way. and he dominates hundreds of hens we. that's definitely not politically correct. i regard, but it works after a lot of my food seal. ha ha. ah, right lisa. now is offended highly. we've heard his feelings. ah, it's no real tragedy. everything always revolves around him. the rooster. but now my tail trying celine and marino monte have proven that hens too, can hold their own in the spotlight with but have they solve the puzzle of why the chicken crossed the road? we'll see next time. okay. and that was all for today over good to go to our website, to take part in our viewer, draw and follow us on social media. as always, thanks for watching. and we will see you again because

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