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This week's Clicks travel across three countries and five very different moods — an ancient Roman theatre in Provence ablaze with a thousand candles, a golden wheat field catching the last light of a long summer evening in the Upper Rhine Plain, a chalk dreamscape sketched across a New York park path, a sun-drenched university courtyard in Bavaria quietly being reclaimed by trees and grasses, and a white floatplane gliding across the fog-green waters of Ketchikan's harbor in Alaska. Each of these moments happened, was felt, and is now certifiably real — signed and stored inside the Digital Trust Network exactly as it looked in the split second the shutter dropped.

Settle in and let these five Clicks carry you from the glow of two thousand years of performance history in Orange, where Louis XIV once called the stage wall "the most beautiful wall in my kingdom," to a grain field in Baden-Württemberg where June evenings stretch golden until nearly half past nine, on to a Staten Island pavement turned chalk galaxy by small, ambitious hands, then across the cobblestones of Regensburg's Universität campus where modernist geometry is slowly softening into green, and finally onto Ketchikan's waterfront where a floatplane lifts off into the spruce-covered mountains of the Tongass — the kind of commute that simply cannot be invented.

Throughout the week, the team handpicks Clicks to promote the different feeds and Clickstars on social media, like X, Instagram. They get a tip from Nodle for their contributions to the network, Click archive and creativity — if you want to get highlighted by the official accounts, keep on Clicking, yours might be next!

In this week, the archive grew by 381 Clicks, totaling a staggering 77,071 certified media that got put on the chain. Week by week, contributions all over the world contribute to Nodle - the first Trust Network that empowers creators and enterprises alike through their Android and iOS apps.

Where: Orange, Vaucluse, France
Feed: Festivities

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We open the week with something ancient and unmistakably alive. The colossal backdrop in this Click is almost certainly the Roman Theatre of Orange, one of the best-preserved Roman theatres in Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1981. Built under Emperor Augustus in the early 1st century AD, its famous stage wall stretches about 103 metres wide and stands up to 37 metres tall — a structure so commanding that Louis XIV himself once called it "the most beautiful wall in my kingdom."

Over the centuries, that wall lived several lives. When the theatre was closed by imperial decree in 391 AD, it became a fortress; during the Wars of Religion, entire households found shelter in its seating tiers, with houses literally built into the stone. The 19th-century French state undertook major restoration work, and from 1869 the site once again welcomed audiences for the "Fêtes Romaines" — grand theatrical evenings that drew legends like Sarah Bernhardt, who performed Phèdre here in 1903. Out of those celebrations grew the Chorégies d'Orange, today considered the oldest lyric-arts festival in France, its name borrowed from the ancient Greek khorêgós, the wealthy citizen who traditionally financed public performances.

Since the "New Chorégies" format was introduced in 1971, the festival has focused on opera and symphonic concerts, typically in July and August, drawing audiences of 8,000 to 9,000 people per evening. But what this Click captures feels like something even more intimate — a candlelit event outside the main festival calendar, when lighting designers wash the ancient stone in gold while the summer night holds still. The image shows a pianist seated at a grand piano at the base of the illuminated wall, completely surrounded by what appears to be thousands of individual candles or tea lights that cascade across the forecourt and up the theatre steps in a continuous sea of warm flame. This format — a solo musician engulfed in candlelight against a monumental ruin — has become a growing tradition at historic European venues, designed to collapse the distance between performer and stone, between now and two thousand years ago. Seen that way, this Monday Click is the perfect opening note: quiet, luminous, and carrying the weight of a very long story.

Where: Hambrücken, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Feed: Nature

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From ancient stone to open sky. Tuesday's Click lands us in the flat, fertile heart of the Upper Rhine Plain near Hambrücken, a small village in Baden-Württemberg where wide fields and forest edges frame some of Germany's most quietly spectacular sunsets. The Upper Rhine Graben is a rift valley formed over millions of years of geological drift; today its warm climate and deep alluvial soils make it one of the country's most productive agricultural regions, particularly for the cereals — wheat, barley and rye — that stretch to the horizon in this image. Around Hambrücken, those fields are regularly broken by the Lußhardt woodland and other protected forest areas, which is why sunsets here so often drop behind a perfectly dark treeline, exactly as they do in this Click.

In June, the sun doesn't set until around 21:30 in this part of Baden, which means the golden hour is genuinely golden — long, low light that skims across grain heads and edges every stalk in something that looks almost silver. The week between the summer solstice and the first days of July is a particular pause in the farming year: the fields are full and ripening but the harvest is still weeks away, so the loudest sounds tend to be skylarks, the distant hum of a tractor, and the faint buzz of the power lines that thread across the Upper Rhine landscape just as they do in the image — pylons and all, those unglamorous fixtures of a working countryside. That detail matters: this is not a postcard field, it is a real one, with the infrastructure of modern rural Germany written plainly into the frame.

All of this builds toward Erntedankfest, Germany's traditional harvest-thanksgiving celebration, held mostly on the first Sunday in October. In rural Baden and across the country, churches are decorated with sheaves of wheat, fruits, vegetables and woven "harvest crowns" of local grain, in a custom that layers Christian tradition over far older pre-Christian harvest offerings. Today the festival means special services, processions, music and communal meals, with much of the decorated food later donated to charities. This Tuesday Click — a Hambrücken grain field catching the last light of a midsummer evening, pylons and cloud-streaked sky included — feels like a quiet prelude to all of that: one square of the Rhine Plain in the moment between growth and gratitude.

Where: New York, New York, United States
Feed: Street Art

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Midweek, and the journey lands us on a Staten Island pavement that has temporarily become a chalk galaxy. The image shows a large-scale chalk drawing spread across concrete tiles in front of two park benches — all soft blues and pinks, with what looks like a figure, floral shapes, and sweeping planetary curves rendered in pastel. It is entirely at home here: Staten Island is dotted with dozens of neighborhood parks and quiet public squares, many of which quietly transform into informal art studios on summer days as soon as the chalk comes out.

Across New York City, chalk art carries a long and low-key tradition stretching from the sidewalk artists of Washington Square Park to the community "draw the city" events that have filled plazas in all five boroughs for decades. In recent years, parks organizations and cultural groups have leaned harder into this by hosting dedicated workshops and festivals that treat the pavement as a temporary gallery. The underlying idea — that public space belongs to whoever is willing to put color on it, if only for an afternoon — sits at the heart of New York's creative street culture, which has always been more democratic than any gallery wall.

What makes chalk art particularly compelling as a subject for the Click feed is precisely its impermanence. The moment captured here, a calm park corner with benches waiting empty and a pastel universe spread across the tiles, is already halfway to gone. Rain or a week of footsteps will erase the whole thing and leave the grey concrete ready for whoever comes next. The Click catches that in-between instant when the art is still fully there but the people are already gone — a certified record of something that will quietly disappear, which is exactly the kind of moment the Digital Trust Network was built to hold.

Where: Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany
Feed: Architecture

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Thursday brings us home — to Regensburg, Bavaria, where a wide, sunlit courtyard on the Universität Regensburg campus shows exactly what happens when modernist architecture starts to breathe. The photo captures an open, cobblestone plaza flanked by clean-lined concrete and glass buildings of two or three storeys, with circular raised planter beds at its centre — generous rings of grass, shrubs and young trees breaking up the geometric severity of the space. It is the kind of courtyard that looks calm on a June afternoon precisely because the semester is winding down, the students have scattered, and the trees are just quietly getting on with their work.

The Universität Regensburg sits on a 150-hectare site on the Galgenberg hill in the southern part of the city, established from a foundation stone laid in 1965. For decades the campus grew in the rational, traffic-free grid typical of West German university construction of the era: broad plazas, wide stairways, buildings arranged around open squares like the one in this Click. In recent years, the university has put a deliberate focus on making those squares greener. Previously gravelled courtyards were transformed into planted green spaces, with new trees and shrubs added to cool the microclimate and support birds and insects — the circular planters visible here are a direct expression of that shift in thinking. The nearby Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH) Regensburg has followed a similar path, and the two institutions together shape a campus landscape that is gradually softening its 1960s edges into something more alive.

This Click fits neatly into a particular moment in that story. A new L-shaped workshop complex designed by hammeskrause architekten — celebrated with a topping-out ceremony in 2025 and due for handover in 2027 — will bring physics and biology workshops, technical services and logistics under one roof, with biodiversity roofs planned to extend the network of green surfaces across the entire campus. The Thursday image catches the quieter side of all that ambition: a sun-drenched courtyard on what looks like a weekend morning, with no lectures underway and no bicycles rushing past, just light crossing the cobblestones and a few young trees doing the slow, patient work of turning a concrete plaza into a place worth sitting in.

Where: Ketchikan, Alaska, United States
Feed: General

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We close the week on the water. This Click was taken on the waterfront at Ketchikan, Alaska, where a white floatplane taxis across the rippled grey surface of Tongass Narrows, low forested hills rising directly behind it and a row of dock buildings lining the far shore. Framed by the yellow-edged concrete barriers of the pier in the foreground, the scene is exactly what Ketchikan looks like from every dock and parking lot in town: sea, timber, boats and planes sharing the same narrow strip of water as if no other arrangement had ever been considered.

Ketchikan markets itself as Alaska's "first city" — the first major port that northbound ships reach along the Inside Passage — and its harbor sits on traditional Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian lands that have been tied to salmon and cedar for centuries. The town calls itself the "Salmon Capital of the World," and the claim is not entirely without basis: massive seasonal salmon runs still fuel local fishing fleets and smokehouses, and the city's character is inseparable from the rhythm of the fishing calendar. Floatplanes are equally woven into that character. Before Ketchikan International Airport opened in 1973, scheduled passenger service depended heavily on seaplanes shuttling to nearby Annette Island; names like Pan Am and Pacific Northern Airlines once ran amphibious aircraft directly into the harbor. 2022 marked the centennial of Ketchikan's aviation story, commemorating the arrival of the "Northbird" flying boat from Seattle in 1922, widely celebrated as the birth of commercial bush flying in the region. Today those same sheltered waters are the launch point for flightseeing trips into Misty Fjords National Monument — sheer granite walls, waterfalls and hanging valleys carved into the Tongass National Forest — the kind of country that makes the moment a floatplane lifts off the harbor feel genuinely extraordinary.

Running parallel to all of that aviation and fishing heritage is Ketchikan's deep Indigenous story. The town and its surroundings hold one of the world's largest collections of standing totem poles, preserved and interpreted at the Totem Heritage Center, Saxman Totem Park and Totem Bight, each carving telling clan stories bound up with salmon runs, coastal trade and the long relationship between people and this particular stretch of Inside Passage. The Friday Click — a floatplane on calm water, forest behind, dock in front — holds all of that in a single frame. It is Ketchikan in its natural state, and a fitting way to close a week that traveled from a Roman stage wall in Provence to a chalk drawing in Staten Island to this: a working harbor at the edge of one of the wildest forests on earth, where the week ends as quietly as it should.

This week's Clicks reward exactly the kind of attention the network is built for. An ancient theatre in Orange glows with candles two thousand years after its first performance; a grain field near Hambrücken holds its breath between growth and harvest; a New York pavement carries a chalk universe that will be gone with the next rain; a Bavarian university courtyard is slowly, deliberately going green; and a Ketchikan floatplane crosses a channel that has served as a runway since 1922. Five moments across France, Germany and the United States, all certified, all real, all worth a second look.

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