Furniture that is full of imagination and yet still functional. But we kick off the show with a balancing act of sorts the sport of slacklining or balancing on a high wire is hard enough and requires a great deal of concentration now add the extra challenge of playing an instrument or performing theatrical now they that may sound impossible but this is what a group of french performers are doing up on high we caught up with them at a church in france for one of their latest shows. Acrobatics at dizzying heights on a high line. It leads to the abbey church of cent. And southeastern france. Here the group will do so is putting on a show that combines music dancing acrobatics and puppet theater with extreme sports. We used a fashion which is highly i mean to make a scene india so high and become a sin. Yet we just want to bring. In the real space you know assume nobody ever play music before. You are not keeping your balance at such heights is already quite a feat but performing a choreographed routine while making music on top of that now thats showmanship extraordinaire. When youre focused on the music balancing on the line and performing it happens automatically and before i put my end you know im like oh it will never be a bird i knew my arm to balance and once i stopped playing i just couldnt do it and when they play music under 90 forget that im underlined. The members of the we do this have been performing together since 2016. The highlight of their career thus far was performing on chan many mountain in china. They also staged a multimedia show in a cave in the south of france. 2 would be do we try to introduce elements inspired by the local culture whenever we can at a concert in china we played a chinese drum on the net. And in the grotto we told a local legend. You see its. Were always searching for the most interesting places to perform so here to be performing in a church its a 1st time and to believe performing in the garden like this and in a religious context. Its really special for us to change the pre conceived ideas about locations like this. To the artists from our say came to sometimes 2 weeks before their show to develop the concept onsite. Dont like just kind of. Show we do so it means we are also from what we discover here so were in and we speak with the people of the village and we like to include. The place where we are from and. Falling d. M. Is sometimes town chronicler. One of her tales which deals with the villages social problems in the last century became the central theme of the performance. Of the i recounted local history but transposed it was making it more martin and accessible to everyone to want playing a Musical Instrument up there on a line without losing your balance thats impressive. Most of the groups performances also feature handmade props created with lots of love and care. We are gifted with this and we used. To make. The french performers are now looking for another unusual place to present their daring concept. After their debut performance on a church theyre now dreaming of stringing their high lines between the chips in pyramids. Were all afraid of running into that scary monster in the forests well thanks to danish artist thomas dumbo coming across a giant troll is a real possibility for the last couple of years dumbo has been building and hiding oversized monsters like little tilda in the countryside around copenhagen and now hes put together a troll Treasure Hunt but as he sees it there is no reason to be afraid. Yeah hes hiding in the forest while state has storm is watching every and long live is enjoying the beach. These mystical giant trolls in denmark. But what is going on and how did they cant hear. I think like anybody else my effects were up on fairy tales and folklore stories so i think thats also why i like to tell them oh and i for me trolls they dont need to be like evil they can also be good and in my favorites trolls they are the protectors of nature. Right now thomas down by one to his team of volunteers have. Finished strong. So this one here is called evolve and its like the little old but very intelligent troll. Van is one of 10 trolls taking cover in the countryside the story is a well known danish fairy tale thomas plans to finish the sculpture in 10 days at 4 metres in height is one of the smaller. Some of the trails sculptures can reach up to 18 meters high i like them to play with scale and make us feel small compared to them because we are really small compared to nature choosing the right materials is an important part of the princess this one here is made from a pole that i found just around the corner here and its the from the local fisherman they use them to tie their fishing thats all of course we are in the harbor. And this one is the inscription stone which is actually made from the same wood that comes from those rolling the weapons that they got a whole bunch of in the workshop. Aside from nails and glue thomas only uses discarded wood he collects them tearing him sit in his studio in copenhagen this what infinite used to belong to a shop big. To shut down. And i think that projects such as my art can maybe help alter peoples perspective from being something worthless to something with value 1st thomas makes sketches of his ideas. The heads and other details then put together in his studio all the other parts a created out in the. Good life some kind of peer group. Here thats always the last thing. Once completed the heads and ready to set off. That will go to australia and this one will go to the United States across the globe a total of 70. In places like belgium. South korea when im traveling out in the world i need to like find for materials locally because of course i cant bring it from china i just love to go on the Treasure Hunt to find those things were going to make me really having so its a combination of like having people helping me organize before i arrive but then also just there going around and looking what is in the dumpsters despite the size spotting you troll isnt as easy as youd think that thankfully theres now an interactive treasure map to help us on that quest this family from copenhagen is on the look out. And she really likes. And to get her out and about to see a bit of the nature out here and then a Treasure Hunt is always great fun on the dot com hunters can access a digital treasure map using this map they need to 1st find metal plaques which then provide them with coordinates to the next clue. And so nice to be to see their people to call them and they use it and that is the whole object of my project is to learn people away from their comfort so finally at the end of the hunt. Reward away like kept a noun up until. One of his other troll friends. Thomas demos plan to get people out jules and into the nature of random seems to be working. And staying in nature most people consider weeds a pesky nuisance but for germans have paid up front they are the stars of his cuisine now he scours the fields for for wild herbs like a mug war or dandelion and he turns them into all kinds of healthy dishes now franken knows all about their Health Benefits and he shared some of this knowledge with us. 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I pay to franchise restaurant and tickle while ted speech or in many of his dishes today into his colleague down the aisle no i like making pesto from stinging nettles instead of just picking out leaves they use the entire plant. Just by the when youre cooking with nettles its important to take the female sees the best and its a perfect dietary supplement for a seed walnuts or of perfect way to enhance the nothing. To get the right consistency it will be ingredients and mixed with Grape Seed Oil before being pressured with a pest limb or to while out. To. Plenty dont extend lines and weeds to make sound it but the most important ingredient is. Ground elders also known as bishop sweet it tastes like kohlrabi carrots and parsley the ship sweet contains 4 times the amount of vitamin c. Found in lemon juice its also known to help me through my tears more to tackle a cold 1st the hips and chopped up into smaller pieces then they mix with grape seed all before adding marigold and tomato is good for my heart and soul into cooking these dishes and taking a pleasure in cooking is really important to get it right working with all these aromas and using all your senses thats the secret ingredient is a success. Is a trained herbalist who offers wild her tools in berlin shed like to pass on her knowledge of hips and greets making others more aware of them and uses. Many wild hips go in big cities like an interior you like these potatoes we use this here contains a lot of iron calcium and magnesium the iron plays an Important Role in keeping us healthy so i am i. The greatest compliment for us is watching people stare at the ground after a tour looking for wild cards they can all use we think we help preserve our native plants by raising awareness for them. And the more herbs they plant the less their yards look like sterile golf courses so. There are a couple of things to consider when gathering herbst like avoiding areas with heavy traffic and only picking plants that you recognize as the startup makes a run as it says for a while to could dispense with the tour was impressed by this age old knowledge. I think when you grow up in the study the diversity of the wild herbs surrounding you is something youre not really aware of right on rita site helmeted quote i called ever since i started using wild herbs my mom is so much more impressed by my. Cooking it gives my dishes a little extra Something Special to. Pay to franco knows all about the many uses of. Not only does he use them for cooking but he will say preserve them by making jam jelly. Hopes that yes it is restaurants will pick up on his fascination and love for me to. Induce were living in a Consumer Society where everything is readily available makes us neglect our own well being thats why wild herbs are so important to keep you healthy and should play a bigger role in our society. John mccain sees. Stories. Lewsey as. The smell amazing the best chefs with their best tips from meat dishes to begin diets and all the recipe secrets while. Europes diversity is a smorgasbord. Subscribe and enjoy d. W. Food. When was the last time you were in a bookstore while Digital Media and Online Shopping have long put many out of business and even now the Worlds Largest book fair in frankfurt is only accessible virtually this year but german for tara for Horst Friedrichs wont let us forget the charm of the actual bookshop so he has set out to show us the beauty that they have to offer. These images give us a unique insight into the world of books presenting some of the novelist and most interesting bookstores on the planet. Now theyve been gathered together here in bookstores photography a horse a fried rice homage to books his book is the result of 2 years of traveling to 8 countries. Every bookstore you enter is the ultimate feeling of books on shelves. But i wanted to show the shops that distinguish themselves from the rest either through their selection or their concept and concept. In his adopted city of london has also captured images of speciality bookshops like mikes brothers founded in 853. 00 its one of the worlds oldest and ticker tarion booksellers the most valuable item currently in stock 2 pages from a 670 year old manuscript about the travels of explorer marco polo the asking price 200000. 00 euros even if max now reaches many customers online to him printed books are no relic of the past on the contrary. Theres nothing like the light coming from a book. For use it makes everyone beautiful handsome and clever it is exactly the opposite over a computer screen which makes us look probably. Also doesnt fear the internet giants. It offers a special service. Each month the staff at. That recommended read isnt based on a computer algorithm but rather on the knowledge of fundy fellow day until. All together they read over 600. 00 books a year Queen Elizabeth the 2nd is among the customers on amazon you might get the rhythm where your only reading. Might be different authors might be slightly different. But he wont sort of go outside the box thats what we try to do we try to find books that he wouldnt have picked up. A window with hurlingham books is the most colorful one of all and thats a testament to the shops concept the books dont appear to be sorted in any particular way. The store looks like one huge warehouse. Full locate every book has organized chaos attracts customers like. Even when it comes to chain bookstores it feels like very clinical the way things are laid out and it almost dictates to you whereas i think in a bookshop like this where its kind of a bit more of a ramshackle experience it feels. Like you could come out with. Some people purposely leave a book behind when they visit the floating bookshop on the water on londons regent can now. On instagram so we want to. Be tasteful presents photos of 47 bookstores. Like the history of the. Town and the book painted in a. Church back from the 13th century. Portugal. Harry potter novels. Shops will always exist simply because books are so important like the air that we breathe you know from without books there would be no civilization. To books and books like. Can you imagine a ping pong table for the dining room or a flying carpet as a chair or these are just some of the designs pfiesteria. Now his furniture looks surreal and is full of dream like wonder we caught up with the young designer at his studio on fibrous to hear more about what inspires him. The cityscape of a modern metropolis dotted with skyscrapers in the table. Its designer. Calls his functional artwork the wave city table. I went to we are restaurant and while i was sitting there i was there during the shape of a rug this interesting shape so i thought oh you know what buildings will be interesting so. I did a rough sketch with buildings and i did the 3 d. Model on the computer so when we made the 1st evolute really really good fans of Designer Furniture agreed the wave city table has made famous even features in the Permanent Collection of the louvre. He says surreal furniture has a design language all its own whether its a comical figure holding a surfboard. Chairs inspired by a latin spine carpet. Or a mountain wire mesh that props up a ping pong table and doubles as a dining table hes inspired by the Natural Beauty of his homeland cypress. Because if you look at nature hes beautiful in the future look closely or even if you look on their microscope you find all these unique patterns in joe metrical shapes and fascinates me because i think the best art take this nature a glass drop of water that creates a ripple effect. When rockets lifting off carrying glass table tops you can see the Mediterranean Sea and the clouds above cypress reflected in his work. Many of mousavi says designs rely on 3 d. Printing technology which enables him to create the most unusual shapes quickly. The 13 d. Printers in his studio help him produces furniture. B. C. Biodegradable plastic this posting is very slowly anyone break very easily in addition to black the weight city table also comes in a wood finish. The table shouldnt break and someone sits on it to increase its store ability. And a metal worker spent a lot of time fine tuning the design. Were using studio we get the place here are big sheets of metal we cut them in the dimensions other we want and then we use the machines behind us to bend the steel into their shape of the table it turns out to be not very very easy because you need to get it precise so. Processing and try. We got it right b. And then the 80 kilograms plates are clad with wood painstakingly and by hand a carpenter joins the maple veneer sheets together he cant afford to make a mistake otherwise the entire work will be ruined the craftsman must glue the thin wooden layer to the curved metal plate precisely to the exact millimeter so that meant something to disability and heaviness and they would it gives you the illusion of its all wood. For the black version the metal is coated with powder based paint. Then attaches the buildings using a special and he says. Its a very very very solid piece is. So you can see there. The table bends but its not actually coming off a trained model maker. Spent some time in london working with the world famous architect Norman Foster after that he returned to cyprus. Cyprus is a small island that is very quiet as well here so i like quite places a lot of people are saying you can do anything here is quite is very difficult to do here because of the limitations of the infrastructure and everything of the void island but there are ways there are ways if you really want to to do it you can do it you just have to find those ways and judging by his success it seems as indeed found the right ways his creations now sell for as much as 35000. 00 euros. And with that we wrap up another shot now and dont forget to follow us on social media and please be sure to check out our website for this weeks drop in if you take part you might become the proud owner of a tablet as always for me in the research crew here in berlin thanks for tuning in seeing and see. Blue. Blue. Blue. 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