Edition of euro max im your host meghan lee will find out later on if our reporter actually came face to face with a polar bear but heres a look at what else we have in store. He copes with actual sawdust and dark meat the kitchen was served to step on views now. And he wont let himself be pinned down the violinist is found darva giant plays across all musicals from the store. But 1st up as you know with the right Photo Editing Software you can perform magic on just about any picture and that is what russian instagram artist igor the chance has done with album covers now he likes to incorporate himself into legendary scenes of the beatles madonna and guitarist tom petty among many others for the results are a funny take on the original cover and theyre proving to be quite popular on instagram heres a closer look. Baring her neck. And what is david bowie out to. The russian instagram a chance he gives famous album covers a new back story and gives himself a wrong in music history. Thing for me to make people laugh and sometimes i think i managed to do that with the pursuit of comments that people write them and sometimes people take a joke even further or joke about what they see and thats the best feedback i can get. Some. Humor creativity and a willingness to improvise a key cheering photo shoot chance hes covered. Today the idea is to turn the band queen into a 4 headed giant holding him in its hand. The 24 year old poses in front of the green screen that makes it easy to insert his function into the covers Later University student. Helps him get the idea shape chance he meets him regularly at a University Photo studio. Its all extremely spontaneous we usually dont even prepare props or anything but the during the photo shoot we figure out that we need something a piece of clothing or an object to find something in the studio with. The 2 friends usually edit the photos together. They try to match the details to the original and to get the proportions just right they only take about an hour to work on each. Chance he started this project almost 2 years ago now he uploads a new photo every few weeks he has nearly 27000 followers on instagram already. From hip hop to classic rock hill take on any style of music and any musician. Everywhere he goes live chance he is always listening to music his favorite genre indie rock and hip hop hes been living in volgograd since he started University Concerts by International Bands are fairly rare here even though more than a 1000000 people live in this city on the volga river. Nevertheless music inspires ecoli chance in all areas of his life including in his work as an advertising copywriter. By making these album covers i try to become part of the music scene its part of the culture. I dont make music myself im not good at making music thanks to the covers a consumer be closer to the musicians and i love that. Live chance he is always hoping for action to his album parodies most of all from the musicians themselves he takes them in his posts and has even gotten a few likes from the stars for him cover art isnt just something for vinyl collectors there from the age of the internet album covers are still very important because they are the face of a is the 1st thing that a listener comes across even before theyve listened to the music even if theyve streamed online or. After more than edited chance. He is still enjoying his project just as much as when he started. The instagram already has a lot of ideas speak his page he next wants to try and is himself into music videos one thing is clear chance his creativity music will remain a jumping off point. Now things are about to get cold and dangerous in our new series euro max to the max re send our reporters to some of the most challenging destinations around europe and today we are visiting a small town that is home to just over 2000 people and they share that space with polar bears now its not an easy place to live as our reporter nicole firth found out. It almost seems like the north pole is just over the horizon a last outpost of civilization and the frozen north you may well be wondering where on earth i am im in long year and small part. Im in Europe Northern most town and that is by far not the only record long european holds this norwegian city is a place of extremes and today i want to show them all to you. Just getting here is an odyssey from berlin and i make my way to oslo from there its another 3 hour flight i reach my destination there im greeted by the archipelagos most famous residents the polar bears. The south hard lines about halfway between the northern tip of norway and the north pole longer being with a population of around 2100. 00 is the largest settlement is on the 78. 00 north parallel no other settlement with over a 1000. And residents lines farther north. Time for a 1st look around but id rather go in the company of my guide fredericks river and tess rifle polar bears could be anywhere here real ones this time. This is the best thing with you when you go outside the town no secret trick to scare them away you know is to different kinds of best in the world wrong best and white bears. That. If its wrong ledo if its black fightback if its white good luck it. Not all animals here are quite a scary longer being is home to about a 1000 huskies out insult it takes care of 100 of them. Through. The eyes of these are the new low down came here in 2014 from mainland norway for about a year now hes been running the sled dock kennel even in summer when theres no snow on the ground he and his employees take the huskies out every day in any weather. Its so dramatic all the time even if you just if you look at that motel over there we can still see it but in certain situations here as well but with the snowstorms in the weather there could be a point where you call get help if something goes wrong i call that this you can make a bonfire if you get cold here you dont have firewood because theres no trees or. The lack of firewood isnt the only hardship and this former mining town. Due to the permafrost all of the homes here are built on stilts. Its practically impossible to raise livestock or farm still someone was brave enough to try benjamin vic martin a chef from the us. Now some green by the way eat less. These herbs and vegetables and his polar greenhouse. Can even tease in the arctic. As i go to. Benjamin 1st came a small bar and back in 2007 and fell in love with the place the only problem was the lack of greens but i wasnt happy with the food situation you know you pay 50 kroner for iceberg lettuce thats a lot of money for iceberg lettuce and the stink in home i would never even eat i wouldnt even it if somebody gave it to me but here im like. You know you have to eat because you dont have anything else and i just was so frustrated you know this is i have to do some either i leave or i have to do something. Now he supplies local restaurants like the group of lager and with his arms here fine dining is served up enough former coalmining warehouse head chef phillips has served the likes of the norwegian royal family. Philip has lived in longer being for 3 years as a chef year hes got to meticulously plan every meal well in advance. Or the amount for a month to hit and very often we run out of something and you dont have a place where you can go and buy. So we have this good gratian here we go the restaurants. So if i run out of some think im going to take it from get a restaurant. The next morning i prepared to make an expedition. Fredericks train back takes me to one of the nearby fjords. He wants to show me the wall of the 2 numbering tidewater glacier. Every time you come to a small boat or get out and nature did like this difference and thats makes it very special because its like seeing a new place every time your thought. Im truly impressed with long here being the northernmost town on earth. Here along your brain ive encountered far more extreme than i could have hoped for no polar bears but i didnt read a bunch of extremely kind hearted people who all seem to share a deeply rooted passion for this truly extraordinary place extremely worth of as. You are. His friends and family know him as paid to have fall money but the rest of the world knows him as d. J. Bobo this was a music producer made a name for himself in the 1990 s. With a string of dance hits. Because the magic. Number never. Like something were trying to get a head start the school. Year old max sat down with d. J. Bobo for an exclusive interview to talk about his life and career. D. J. We brought some pictures for you can you show us the 1st one sure im curious. To is that classic d. J. But thats it because sure the ringmaster thats from 2014 i like that yeah thats me. Youve performed over and over the world which audiences have you most enjoyed the latino latinos when you perform in europe its a bit like a Football Game 1st you have to deliver the goods in the audience will give you something exact if you dont play well the crowd will stay firmly in their seats but if you play well there on your side on me. In south america the audience is in charge from the very start and theyre louder than you are. So you have a very emotionally charged intense relationship with them and i have got another picture for you take a look. Oh no thats how the way giving me a bravo auto or. That was a long time ago but you can still feel stadiums whats your secret. Yeah. Actually weve been trying to figure that out ourselves for years i always say to my people guys to stay ahead of the game thats where were going to. I dont mean just in terms of success but in terms of growth were always driven to discover something new and put it on stage and i think a lot of people come to our show to experience that fusion of big hits and innovation at least i hope they do. I hope this is. What you prefer champagne no smoothies smoothies sports car a bike. Night say the sports car the city of the countryside the countryside cooking and baking. I cant do either even though i trained as a baker. All spick. Baking is definitely easier. Baking the mountains of the ocean the ocean. And weve got a 3rd photograph for you. Lovely africa where was it taken it must have been ethiopia. And. I was visiting a School Nutrition projects programs. There with the Uns World Food Programme what can we learn from africa. They enjoy life the people they respect nature most of us here in the west are mainly concerned with things that really arent very important things to all they have to take care of the very basic matters like making sure they get enough to eat. So being part of their communities and. The not all special forces what we can learn is that theyre probably happier than we are because were constantly wanting more and more standish for me to me being in najaf whats your proudest achievement. Off to my 2 children to so theyre the best things ive ever done. And i thank you d. J. Thank you thank you. And you can see that interview again on our you tube channel turning now to another swiss innovator chef chef on these now when he strolls through the forest in his native switzerland he takes home everything he can find with him from haiti and stones to what her ashes and it all ends up in his kitchen now in his search for new flavors the star chef works together with foresters perf you murs and archaeologists we join him out in the woods to find out how to cook Award Winning dishes with sawdust. Out in the swiss mountains with his. Theyre looking for some tasty pieces of wood the spruce tree seems promising. With pretty much all the trees that grow in switzerland almost all of them are in the foster system. And today. On spring pine. The 1st thing he. Does that is turtles fabulous stone by the yard from. The trees will be captured in addition hes planning. Home turf. For ingredients. These pieces of pumpkin have been lying on and a few days and. Added flavor. A wonderful citric because of all the former they produce. Better the elements. For the last 25 years and his team. In the village of. Have been serving up swiss nature on a plate sometimes some heavyweight appliances are needed the pine bark is turned into shavings and put in a cooking pot. Over an open fire. Distilled into a venue that has a delicate taste. Uses the vinegar as flavoring. For example it goes well with venison. The garnish is roasted. And stone pine not a dish composed of 100 percent Natural Ingredients but the 2nd course is the former acid flavored pumpkin which is supposedly also very healthy these now wants his dishes to appeal to the senses his signature style has earned him all sorts of nicknames. Or stories the kitchen alchemist or the sorcerer. Is just a few of the ways people have described me so its lovely. He works his magic in an old barn and this is where Business Stores his ingredients keith he called. This pine bark dates back to the stone age its 14000 years old it was found in a prehistoric forest buried in loam. We use it to smoke. He also finds a use for rusty nails and horseshoes and even stones the inventive chef turns them into flour made of swiss light iron ore and granite. Style. Flour made of rock or minerals is very healthy so long as you dont eat too much of it already granted every day and it does me a lot of good. Today hes using it to make a dessert ice cream made of stone flour and served on stone. That. Was a good vision or might be a sorcerer but hes quite a showman too. And his shows can be quite spectacular he prepares bone marrow in full view of the guests theyd love it and so do the critics on the sneers ancient cuisine has earned him a michelin star and 17 talks. That. Stand not to forget the experience they say later they can remember every single thing they did and thats whats so special theres nothing else like us for that. Number of chefs try to copy stuff on these newer style but they cant keep up hes always refining his technique and recipes and hes not likely to run out of ingredients any time soon. And finally we take a look at a musical prodigy violinist is congo with jaya began playing the violin at the age of 4 by the time he was 11 he had been accepted into the college of music in berlin wall now at 32. 00 hes performing on stages all over the world. Didnt. The many faces of these come down with jaya a musician who doesnt like to be pigeonholed either musically or personally the berliner with indonesian roots is an exceptional violinist who finds inspiration outside the world of Classical Music some call him eclectic but he says the music is all that matters. To madly we make music to touch people to move them and to reach a point where we ourselves are so touched on stage that we can move others it doesnt work any other way a method for. Indonesia is kind are we jaya visit his parents homeland regularly hes a major star here. Appearances in commercials and t. V. Shows have made him a household name in indonesia here he performs in big concert halls like last year in jakarta at this benefit gonna for tsunami victims. Is up with sideline i tried performing this balancing act pop star in indonesia classical artist in germany or cards were but a while back i decided i only come as a package deal with him so even if im performing entails in indonesia and playing for the president i try to remain true to myself and be as authentic as possible. At a club in cologne germany which doesnt just perform Classical Music he plays everything from Johann Sebastian bach to a cover of chandelier from pop star. Piece is speak to me and it doesnt matter to me which is genre they belong to thats my goal in concert to break down this compartmentalisation people who come to my concerts should know everythings on offer. As in his music we just dont like to try out Different Things and play with his image and not just during photo shoot. On stage i like to wear outfits that underline my interpretive approach so they can vary a lot from extremely simple solid black and totally minimalist to totally over the top the it thats what i like in music to michelle han i was even closer. With jaya began playing the violin when he was just 4 he was inspired by his grandfather who was a composer. After studying violin at berlins university at the arts we jaya began collaborating with world class conductors like soup. In berlin he met up with composer Geoffrey Ching who was born in the philippines and now lives in the german capital ching ri composed a piece by beethoven specially for him hes going to is the most amazing musician i admit because besides his absolute technical preparation in the most difficult and challenging contrapuntal classical works he has a personality all of universal appeal. Here is recording demos for his next album which will boast a colorful mix of styles among other things the musicians are. Experimenting with the piece by italian baroque composer Pietro Antonio look at tammy. Mylan ist east kind are we giant a musical maverick at home in many different worlds. And with that its time to say goodbye as always thanks for joining us and well see again there. Are. Come up. To 77 percent of the street today from in theosophy. How does this country and indeed africa and the rest of the world define that line between freedom of expression and town for. A trip is a vehicle its a field trip to come easy to issues. That speech that brings all this problems to the country that gives a 77 percent to. 30 minutes r. T. W. Is the human race destroying itself. We are ruining the basic elements of our existence or using too much water and were colluding. Moderate is life. Going to move most of my swimmers for ever but they wont. Move. When the rain stops. In 75 on w. And i dont need to keep a date on the books both for over lunch and home the 4th time to do the solo the closeness the middle. East the bottom of the ballets at the last dragon those words as you call them harm to your. Degree but on. W. s crime fighters are back ever goes most successful in radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate speech color of the mention of sustainable charcoal production. All of a sows are Available Online and of course you can share and discuss on g. W. Africas Facebook Page and other social media platforms. Hard ciders tune in now. And beethoven is for platos it is for everyone the flame beethoven 2020 vision the 50th anniversary here on d w. Player. Play. This is the daily news live from berlin italy tightens its lockdown as the krona virus claims even more plot the death toll leaves by 627 people in a single day thats the biggest 24 hour increase for corded anyway. 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