And furniture that is full of the imagination 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 by 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 scent and baby and southeastern france. Here the group will do so is putting on a show that combines music dancing acrobatics and puppet theatre with extreme sports. We used fashion which is highly i mean to make a scene india so high and. Yet we just want to bring. Out in the real space. Nobody ever play music before. Trying to. Keeping your balance at such heights is already quite a feat but performing a choreographed routine while making music on top right now thats showmanship extraordinaire. When you focus on the music balancing on the line and performing it happens automatically and before i put my end zone im like oh i will never be a bird i need my arm to balance and once i have stuff playing i just cant do it and when they play music on the line they forget that im underlined. The members of the we do is have been performing together since 2016. Highlight of their careers 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 you have to be performing in a church its a 1st time and to be 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. The artists from our say came to sometimes 2 weeks before their show to develop the concept onsite. Dont like just be focused on a. Show we do so it means we spiral so from what we discover here so were in and we speak with the people of the village and. Include. The place where we are from and. Falling d. M. Is a yes 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 who will want playing a Musical Instrument up there on a slant 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 and pyramids. Were all afraid of running into that stary 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. Stannis hiding in the forest. Storm is watching every and long live is enjoying the beach. These mystical giant trolls. But what is going on and how did they cant hear. I think like anybody else my atack were up on fairy tales and folklore stories so i think thats also why i like to tell them oh and for me trolls they dont need to be like evil they can also be good and in my favorite trolls they are the protectors of nature. Right now thomas down by one to his team of volunteers have only got eyes for this trunk. So this one here is called even 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 make sure choosing the right materials is an important part of the princess this one here is made from a poll that i found just around the corner here and its from the local fishermen they use them to tie their fishing thats all of course we are in the harbor. This one is the inscription stone which is actually made from the same wood that comes from those rolling weapons that day i got a whole bunch of in the workshop. Aside from nails and glue thomas only uses discarded wood he collects ontarians keeps it in his studio in copenhagen this wooden fence 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. They had some other details then put together in his studio. Created out. Of it like some kind of. Computer on however thats always the last thing that i put in. Once completed the heads are ready to set off. This one that will go to australia and this one will go to the United States across the globe a total of 70 up cycle hiding in places like belgium. South korea when im traveling out in the world i need to like find the materials locally because of course the came from copenhagen 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 going around and looking what is in the dumpsters despite the signs spotting you troll isnt as easy as you think but thankfully theres now an interactive treasure map to help us on that quest this family from copenhagen isnt looking to have a daughter who is 10 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 trail map dot com hunters can access a digital treasure map using this map they need to 1st find metal tracks which then provide them with coordinates to the next clue. Its so nice to see the people who use it and that is the whole objective of my project is to learn people away from their comfort so finally at the end of the hum. Reward away like captain nalla and his band. One of his other troll friends. Thomas demos plan to get people out to do all this 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 to franco 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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Found in lemons its also known to help with rheumatism or to tackle cold 1st the hips and chopped up into smaller pieces then they mix with Grape Seed Oil before adding marigold on tomato juice is it 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 as if that is the secret ingredient is a success. Is a trained herbalist who offers wild hook tools in bend shed like to pass on her knowledge of hips and making others more aware of them and uses. Many wild hips go in big cities like going into you like these potatoes weeps this year contains a lot of ironic calcium and magnesium the iron plays an Important Role in keeping us healthy so i am i am. The greatest compliment for us as 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 herbs like avoiding areas with heavy traffic and only picking plants that you recognize the startup makes around as it says for a while to dispense with the noise impressed by this age old knowledge. Because i think when you grow up in the city 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 wild have not only does he use them for cooking but he will say preserve them by making jam jelly syrup. And oil. Hopes that yes this is restaurants will pick up on his fascination and love for me to. Do for a 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. Like you see these. Stories. To ze as. The smell amazing the best chefs with their best tips from meat dishes to begin diets and all the recipes secrets welcome to my world europes diversity is a smorgasbord to my list. Subscribe and enjoy deep 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 freighter thanks homage to books his book is the result of 2 years of traveling through 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 antiquity tarion booksellers the most valuable item currently in stock to pages from a 670 year old manuscript about the travels of explorer marco polo the asking price 200000. 00 euros even if owner at max now reaches many customers online to him printed books are no relic of the past on the contrary. Theres nothing coming from a book. For use it makes everyone beautiful have been clever it is exactly the opposite over computer screen which makes us look probably. This bookshop in mayfair also doesnt fear the internet giants. It offers a special service. Each month the staff at. That recommended treat isnt based on the computer algorithm but rather on the knowledge of the funding fell a day. Well together they read over 600. 00 books a year Queen Elizabeth the 2nd is among net customers on amazon you might get them where your only reading the same book or over and over again they might be different authors might be slightly different. Genres but you wont sort of go outside the box thats what we try to do we try to find books that you wouldnt have picked up. The show 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 where house. Owner ray cole every book his. Tracks 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 i mean. Some people purposely leave a book behind when they visit the floating bookshop on the water on londons regent canal. The old. On instagram so we want to. Pay for it all in its. Present. Bookstores. Like the history of the. Book. From the 13th century. Harry potter novels. Shops will always exist simply because books are so important like the air that we breathe without books and 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 by. Now his furniture looks so real and is full of dream like wonder we caught up with the young designer at his studio on cypress to hear more about what inspires him. The cityscape of a modern metropolis dotted with skyscrapers in the table. Its designer still used calls his functional artwork the wage city table. I went to we are restaurant and i was sitting there a bus that during the shape of a rug this interesting shape so i thought oh you know what buildings would 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 it will look really really good bands of Designer Furniture agreed the wave city table has made musard east famous it even features in the Permanent Collection of the louvre. He says its a real friend a chair has a design language all its own whether its a comical figure holding a surfboard. Chairs inspired by a latin spying 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 cyprus. Because if you look at nature hes beautiful and if you 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 architect these 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 produce his furniture. B. C. Biodegradable plastic this posting very slowly anyone break very easily in addition to black the weight city table also comes in a wood finish. The table shouldnt break if someone sits on it to increase its store ability. And a metal worker spent a lot of time fine tuning the design. Were using steel we get plates 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. Weve 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 made some good to disability and heaviness and there would be a good few they usually its all woods. For the black version the metal is coated with powder based paint. Then attaches the buildings using a special ed he says. Very very very solid pieces and. 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 it 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 shout 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 and see. Dancing overcome boundaries. Changing the world with dance. No words required. 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