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Hello and welcome to Inside Out with me, Diana Hawkesbury. This week, | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
it's no longer just one for the road. We investigate a growing | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
number of people driving under the influence of drugs. About going to | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
lose their jobs, their license. They don't think about this before they | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
go on the road. We report on Cumbrian farmers left out in the | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
cold by The National Trust. What would Beatrix Potter make of it all? | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
She would be horrified. How much has gone into tourism and every thing | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
else, I don't think the higher management have any interest in | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
agriculture. And we meet the Singh twins who are bringing their art to | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
life with augmented reality, just like the recent Pokemon craze. It | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
literally comes to life! New figures show that there | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
are a growing number of people on our roads driving under | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
the influence of drugs. Jacey Normand has been out | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
with the Cheshire police These videos show people driving | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
recklessly as they try The drivers' actions show a complete | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
disregard for other road users whilst speeding excessively | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
on our roads. They all felt they had a reason | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
to try to avoid capture. They were all found to be driving | :01:36. | :01:51. | |
under the influence of drugs. The latest video from the road | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
safety campaign THINK Those most likely to use drugs | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
and get behind the wheel of a car. In order to effectively police this, | :01:57. | :02:07. | |
the government changed the drug driving law in March 2015 which gave | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
Cheshire Police and Inspector Steve Griffiths additional powers | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
to combat offenders. In the past we couldn't test | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
on the roadside and since then We were finding there was an issue | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
with people using drugs before driving and this has given us a good | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
way of testing and taking them off But certainly what it's found | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
is there are people out there who do take those risks daily | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
and the amount of arrests we've had We're going to talk a little bit | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
now about Section 5a. It was introduced in March | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
2015 and includes... At this training centre, | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
these Cheshire police officers are learning how to use | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
the new equipment. And it will give us an indication | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
if it tests positive for either They're also being walked | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
through the FIT test, an American-style sobriety test, | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
which is useful in finding out if a driver's ability | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
is impaired through drugs. Officers have a power to do | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
a breath test for alcohol. A roadside test for drugs | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
and also one of these FIT. The only issue we have | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
is that they only detect cannabis If an officer suspects | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
there is impairment caused by any other type of drug, | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
the driver can be taken back There are a considerable amount | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
of drugs as regards to illegal drugs and prescription drugs which can be | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
misused and have an The drug driving law sets strict | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
limits for 17 different drugs. Police can now test for illegal | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
drugs like cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy, | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
but also prescription drugs like Temazepam or Diazepam, | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
used for anxiety and sleeping problems and also, | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
morphine-based pain killers. And these new powers | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
have produced results. In 2016, Cheshire Police arrested | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
over 966 people for failing a roadside drugs test, | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
and so far over 500 of those have been charged | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
with drug driving offences. One of the officers on the front | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
line is Chris Buckley. He's been patrolling the streets | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
of Cheshire for 12 years. Chris took me out on an evening | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
shift and he told me You kind of get used to not | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
sort of stereotyping, but what sort of cars/vehicles get | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
used by people who may use It is a bit of the bobby's nose | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
and it does literally become the bobby's nose as sometimes you're | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
following a vehcle and, believe it or not, you can | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
actually smell it coming You do have your own little ways, | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
all the places where you might go where you think there's a good | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
chance you might get somebody. What was the speed it down that road | :05:13. | :05:31. | |
you just came down? Do you know you have got a light out at the front? | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
Do you know you have got a light out at the front? | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
A broken tail-light and some questionable driving means Chris | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
has stopped quite a few cars this evening. | :05:40. | :05:40. | |
The majority of people wouldn't dream of drink driving. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
In fairness, you can can never go by the two-pint rule because you've | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
got a legal limit of 35 for drink driving and that could be | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
two pints for you, it could be three pints for me. | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
With the law being so new, I wondered how anyone | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
using recreational drugs could know the limits for driving. | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
It can't be measured in the same way that people do with alcohol. | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
I can't imagine someone would sit there on a Friday night | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
with their mates and think, "You know what, if I have | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
two spliffs tonight, I'm gonna be fine tomorrow, | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
but I won't drive tonight" and that's the trouble. | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
A lot of the times they'll say, "Well, I've not had any today. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
I had some yesterday or the day before. | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
I wouldn't dream of drink or drug driving" but unfortunately you are. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
And then, on a routine check, his copper's nose pays off. | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
Is it your vehicle? Are you insured and it? Really? You are not, are | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
Have you got cannabis in there by any chance? | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
I can smell it. Haven't got a driving licence? That would explain | :06:50. | :06:59. | |
That would explain your driving, then. | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
No insurance and a provisional licence. | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
I need you to put your tongue in the mouth like that. | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
Right, this takes eight minutes but we have paperwork. | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
You know cannabis can stay in your system for some time, don't you? | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
Right, that has indicated you've got cannabis in your system so I need | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
to tell you you're under arrest for driving with the drugs over | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
And also no insurer and is. -- no insurer and is. All right? It's a | :07:36. | :07:57. | |
good result for us. No insurer and. For him, his car has been towed | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
away. We've got a drug driver and | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
an unlicenced driver off the road. But for him, his car's been towed | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
away, or his girlfriend's car has been towed away, | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
so he's gonna get He's going to get | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
a disqualification. Been stopped dring | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
a motor vehicle... He smelt of cannabis | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
and failed a drugs test. At the station the driver | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
is processed and blood is taken by a nurse to find out what drugs | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
he has in his system. The results take about | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
a month to come back. He's just ruined his | :08:29. | :08:41. | |
life through stupidity. Throughout December, | :08:42. | :08:54. | |
156 people were arrested for drink driving with the drug driver arrest | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
figure at a total of 111. Both Merseyside and Greater | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
Manchester Police also reported an increase in drug driving arrests | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
in December, compared It's perhaps surprising that | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
in the space of two years under new laws that the figures for both | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
are creeping ever closer together. I've been to numerous | :09:11. | :09:26. | |
collisions where alcohol Also, being a family liaison | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
officer, you get to deal with the families and having to be | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
the one who goes and knocks It has a devastating effect on, | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
not only the vitim and the victim's It has a devastating effect on, | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
not only the victim and the victim's They can lose their licence | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
and they just don't think about this before they go out | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
on the road and it's selfish. coming up, I'm finding out how the | :09:54. | :10:10. | |
art of the Singh twins has been brought to life using the augmented | :10:11. | :10:11. | |
reality technology. Farming has sustained | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
the Lake District for centuries. But now one of the country's biggest | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
charities and landowners stands accused of being out of touch | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
with the challenges of working The peace and tranquility | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
of the lakes is being disturbed by mounting tension | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
between the National Trust The Lake District, loved | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
and revered by millions. But the inspiring landscape | :10:36. | :10:47. | |
conceals mounting fury. They are not believing | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
in the people who have been I don't think the higher management | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
have any interest in agriculture. The charity the National Trust owns | :10:58. | :11:07. | |
about a fifth of this dramatic It's always been a challenge to make | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
a living for the generations of But now those who work the land | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
say their landlord is out of touch and is making their | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
lives even harder. This is us - the landscape | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
is our identity. We've committed ourselves | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
as a family - three His landlord the National Trust has | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
given him a 15 year farm tenancy You feel you need | :11:40. | :11:49. | |
to speak out on this? In order for me to carry out | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
what we have done for generations they need to give me a platform | :11:58. | :12:06. | |
to do it, a secure platform, Isaac's concerns for his future | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
are just one of the things As you know this is a particular | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
landscape and to make any kind of committments to it, | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
it's a hard living and not Surely they deserve a bit more | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
commitment from you to them? I always see tenancies | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
as a marriage between two people, an organisation represented | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
by a person and the And it needs to make sure that | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
marriage works so you have break clauses during that period to make | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
sure it is working for them and it's The ones where it's | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
working really well, where they are delivering | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
on the tenancy that they have signed, and it is working for them | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
financially and viably, The negative headlines | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
for the National Trust began here - at Thorneythwaite Farm in Borrowdale | :12:57. | :13:08. | |
near Keswick. Last summer the farmhouse | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
and the land were up for sale. The Trust bid nearly | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
?1 million just for the land - and that was ?200,000 over | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
the asking price. And the price was going down | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
at the time, anyway? Yes, the auctioneer was bringing | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
the price down and this National Trust person just made | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
an absurd bid of ?950,000. Peter lives next door | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
to Thorneythwaite farm and thought he was in with a chance of buying | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
both the farmhouse and the land. He's also a National Trust tenant | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
and was left fuming. Six generations of Edmondsons | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
here and we were going to continue to conserve the land | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
at Thorneythwaite as a farm for one It's ruined now - it'll | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
never be a farm again. Do you still stand by the decision | :13:55. | :14:04. | |
to buy the land but not the farm? We stand by the decision | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
to buy the land, yeah. We bought that land because we felt | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
it was of international significance, along with the other | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
land in Borrowdale, for the rich mosaic of farm farmland, | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
woodland and the fell. Thorneythwaite - | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
bit of a PR disaster. Yes, we regret we didn't manage | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
the communications the best we could and we were taken | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
by surprise by the scale of negative feelings towards purchase | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
because we imagined that people would think it was a good thing | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
that we were buying the land on behalf of the nation, | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
securing it. You go this way and | :14:41. | :14:41. | |
I'll go the other. Since the sale, Peter's locked | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
horns with the Trust. Relations are at an all time | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
low as he discovered the Director General | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
of the trust came to the valley Why did they not come and ask | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
for me to meet her there? Let's have it ironed out, | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
let's smooth things over. She hadn't the guts | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
to come and speak to me. We chose not to go and see | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
Mr Edmondson because we felt the relationships were not in such | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
a great place. But that was the time | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
to make it up, wasn't it? Yes, we could have done that | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
but we chose not to. It feels like, talking | :15:21. | :15:30. | |
to the tenants, the Trust has lost its way over | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
the last few years. There is a new Chief Executive, | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
new strategies and it all feels very Viv represents many of | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
the National Trust tenants and says her members believe farming | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
is no longer a priority. They have come up with | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
new strategies and conservation and biodiversity certainly seems | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
to be, you know, what they They will talk about farming | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
but it is lower down the list and as we look around here it's | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
the farming systems that have delivered this landscape | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
and are maintaining It's environment and farming, | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
not environment or farming. We are not after | :16:07. | :16:16. | |
significant change here. We are after an adaptation, | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
place by place, and the joy of the Lake District is is that | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
every valley, every one of the 13 You walk into Wasdale, it has a very | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
different feel to Ennerdale, and so the plans we talked | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
about earlier, the 10 year plans. We really do want to develop | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
more than 10 year plans, long term plans shared | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
with our tenants and the community, that set out the valley, | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
what is special about that valley and how we want to work together, | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
to develop it for the future. At the moment we don't have that | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
shared vision and shared plan that would maybe overcome some | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
of these problems that we've This farm in Great Langdale was one | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
of the properties given to the National Trust by it's most | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
famous benefactor - Beatrix Potter, I think she would be | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
absolutely horrified at how much they have gone into tourism | :17:05. | :17:15. | |
and everything else. Eric's devoted over | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
30 years to farming. He says the Trust now | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
has other priorities. I don't think the higher management | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
have any interest in agriculture. What's the one thing you'd | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
like the Trust to do? I would like to see them out | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
on these farms and showing an active interest in what our problems | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
are and what we need It's great coming on a nice sunny | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
day but you know what it's like. We are hanging onto a post | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
here because the wind Are you more interested | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
in tourism than farming? No, we are not more | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
interested in tourism. Tourism has a fundamental role | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
to play here and a lot of the economy in the Lake District | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
in particular comes from tourism. A lot of our farms have diversified | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
over the years based on the back of the tourism industry, | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
and the Trust as a whole, Glad to speak to you, | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
of course, Mike. We would also have liked to have | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
spoken to the Director General Can you give us any guarantee | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
that we will be able to get an interview with your her | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
here in Cumbria and get But that is a question for Helen | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
herself to answer, not me. The day after we met Mike, | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
his boss, Director General of the National Trust, | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
Dame Helen Ghosh, came to Cumbria and told a conference of farmers | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
and conservationists suggestions the Trust was losing its commitment | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
to upland farming "could not be The past few months have been | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
a bruising experience for both the National Trust and some | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
of its hill farmers. If this landscape is to be more | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
than just a beautiful backdrop then some sort of lasting peace needs | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
to be brokered which will allow it to continue to be a vibrant | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
environment for both Liveable artists -- Liverpool | :18:58. | :19:18. | |
artists the Singh Twins have never been afraid to tackle difficult | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
issues and their Indian heritage with their artwork, now they are | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
embracing the latest digital technology to bring their art to | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
life, as I've been finding out. There is more to the Singh | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
twins than meets the eye. And the same can certainly be | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
said for their artwork. It reflects who they are - | :19:40. | :19:56. | |
proud Scousers who love But who are also in touch | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
with their Indian heritage. They are currently working | :19:59. | :20:24. | |
toward a major exhibition Their work is intricate | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
and painstaking. There's a lot of pleasure that comes | :20:27. | :20:36. | |
from creating something that is so technically | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
skilled and decorative. You feel a sense of achievement so, | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
although your neck and your back is aching and you feel you are never | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
going to get through this I think the end result makes it | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
worthwhile and that challenging yourself to progress and become | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
better and better at They were awarded MBEs by the Queen | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
for their artwork in 2011, and made Honorary Citizens | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
of Liverpool two years earlier. But, amazingly, they didn't | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
originally plan on becoming artists. We had no intention | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
of becoming artists actually. We were thinking of going | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
into academia and teaching Fate has a funny way of pushing | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
you in the direction that you actually had no idea that | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
you were going to end up taking. In 1980, aged just 13, | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
they embarked on a journey to India that would change the course | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
of their lives. My father and his uncle built this | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
homemade motor-home. A Bedford van, which they cut | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
the back off and they revamped it so it had living quarters | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
and a kitchen and a shower and, quite spontaneously, | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
we just jumped in this vehicle one day and trundled across to India | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
through Europe and the Middle East, right the way through | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
the Iran-Iraq War, I have to say, and then spent a month in Pakistan | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
trying to get into India. And then eventually got | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
across the border and travelled for eight months around | :22:08. | :22:09. | |
India itself. Well, it started off as a one-man | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
trip and so we told our school we were going away for a month | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
and then a year later we came back. It really opened our eyes | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
to the whole diversity of Indian culture, not just the arts, | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
but the history as well and I think it was a real turning point | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
in our lives and having an influence on, having a real pride | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
in our Indian heritage. And it was during this first visit | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
to India the twins fell in love with Indian Miniature, | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
a traditional Indian art form that We were just bowled | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
over by this style. But it was something | :22:44. | :22:59. | |
that was so exquisite in the detail and the draughtsmanship | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
and the vibrant colours So the works were literally | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
illuminated, almost jewel-like. But the seed was planted and, | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
when they went to university, the twins decided to pursue | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
their interest in Indian Miniature Painting, something that | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
would ultimately bring them into direct conflict | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
with the university. The tutors felt that it was backward | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
and outdated and really couldn't see any place for it within contemporary | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
art for this particular style. So unfortunately we had | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
a battle on our hands. And it took several years | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
to confront the university and get the grade of our final degree | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
upgraded and to get these And it eventually did | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
happen after many years but there was an independent panel | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
that was set up to look at our case The university had to increase | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
the grade that they originally given but not to the extent | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
that we had wanted. Do you ever look back and think, | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
"Wasn't that a ridiculous period Yes, it was actually a very | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
depressing and upsetting time But I think it's also strengthened | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
us as artists and given us a sense of purpose and meaning | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
within the work that we do. The twins have never been scared | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
to tackle controversial With the Iraq War for | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
example it was something, a painting that we did, | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
which was called Partners in Crime: Deception and Lies, | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
which was about the whole debate That was an art work that actually | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
happened a couple of years We've always learnt as artists that | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
it's sometimes not always the best thing to jump in and be current | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
because as these arguments It gives you more food for thought | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
and a balanced view to then Similarly with another political | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
painting called 1984, which actually depicts | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
the Indian Government's storming attack on the Golden Temple in 1984, | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
which is the centre of the Sikh Again, that painting didn't actually | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
occur until at least... Yeah, 1999, the major piece | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
that came out of that. Their latest work of art | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Indigo will form part of their next exhibition, | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
examining the relationship between India's ancient blue dye | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
and the history of global trade, The focus is a 17th century queen | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
called Mumtaz Mahal. So she's dressed in a traditional | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
17th century dress for the top half, but for the bottom half | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
she is wearing a pair Most people think that blue jeans | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
was invented by Levis, you know, But actually if you dig deep | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
enough you will find these indigo dyed jeans, | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
or denim fabric trousers, were worn by sailors way back | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
in the 17th century in Indian ports, you know, in a place called Dungri | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
in India where the people were producing this sturdy clothe | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
and dying it blue. Which is where the word dungaree | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
comes from, of course. Do you love bringing that knowledge | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
to a wider audience? Because many of us, some people | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
will, but many of us had no idea. Yeah, that hidden history | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
is something that really fascinates us and you know we take so much | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
for granted and there are so many surprises that pop up and you really | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
delve into a particular subject that you think you know all about but | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
actually you know very little about. In a ground-breaking venture, | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
the twins have teamed up with a creative design technology | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
company from Liverpool to literally bring their art work | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
to life with an app. Well, Andy, here we have | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
the artwork of Indigo, I can get that but what I don't | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
understand is what you guys have done with the app | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
to enhance this artwork. So you hold the iPad or iPhone up | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
to the artwork and it comes to life. It literally comes | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
to life, doesn't it? So you can hold it up to any aspect | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
of the artwork and click on. You can click on this bit | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
there and it brings out some information about that character | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
in the artwork. So you've got a text | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
box that explains all All the time it's moving | :26:56. | :26:57. | |
and growing and developing. The flowers are blooming, | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
the religious icons You've got serpents | :27:02. | :27:02. | |
swimming in the sea. I mean, it really does enhance | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
the work and this is sometimes the challenge between technology | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
and art to make them We were really interested in how | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
we could do something subtle and inspiring and continue the Twins | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
artwork and do something that was The twins are planning to use | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
augmented reality with as much of the artwork in the exhibition | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
as they can. For us as artists to have our work | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
interpreted this way The audiences are going | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
to have a real fun time It's so much more enjoyable | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
than reading reams of text The Singh twins have come a long way | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
since that first trip to India. But, as they have always done | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
in the past, they aren't afraid The ideal would be to have | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
all of the works augmented I think this would be a real | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
showcase for the exhibition. But to have all the works | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
with the ability to be experienced in the same degree and magical | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
experience would be fantastic. The possibilities are endless | :28:15. | :28:16. | |
because once you have done one series of work you can apply that | :28:17. | :28:18. | |
same technology to another series of work and it can just go | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
on forever really. Honestly, it's amazing how that | :28:22. | :28:29. | |
artwork comes to life. Inside Out is back next Monday. Goodbye. | :28:30. | :29:05. | |
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