discomfort the. super smart you don't documentary on you tube. when you see pictures of the beautiful swiss alps you probably would not associate them with whiskey but in fact they are home to the world's highest whiskey distillery more on that later on in the show. and welcome to another edition of euro max with me your host meghan lee here's

a look at what else we've got coming up on the program. see how digital models are revolutionizing the world of fashion. and find out how a german artist makes 3 d. motifs jump off the paper. but we start off the show with a splash an icy cold water now it's no secret that cold water gives the body a boost but what about going for a cold swim in winter now i must admit i have never done this and i myself prefer warm bags but the benefits of a cold plunge are said to include a better immune system increase or chill ation and reduced stress well that all sounds great but it does take a great deal of motivation to actually do it so we met up with one man from the netherlands who is a record breaker when it comes to polar bear dips. i'm

going to take only d.r.s. . this dutchman is said to have supernatural powers thanks to the many world records he says he's died 66 meters below the arctic ice they think he's climbed mount kilimanjaro less than 2 days wearing shorts and run a marathon through the libyan desert without a sip of water. and he can endure 2 hours in a container of ice. and a human body is so much more capable than what we see in the cold is the great teacher. the seminar center in the villages. where the 61 year old normally teaches others how to master their bodies. here's

one of those seminars but kofi has changed everything. the women hoffman comprises of cold meditation and a special breathing technique involving controlled inhaling and exhaling 30 times and then holding your breath. the at drill and begins to work the body from the inside and then becomes a true deep breathing strong guy and that you see the fact directly because you feel it when you are in the cold water that you are able to stay there just because of breathing the cold is said to strengthen the immune system however taking a dip in an icelandic glacier would make most people's body temperature sink so low it could kill them but not jim hall and he wants to scientifically prove his method works in 2011 he was enchanted with bacteria on. a university study develops

hardly any flu like symptoms unlike other test subjects. but even if there are strong indications it's yet to be proven that the hold strengthens the immune system. during more study needs to be done but i tell you the benefits are huge and the investment is very little just go into the culture i swimming isn't something threat it poses a long history here of whether this championship in finland is a game of chess or russia. or me or swim in going to meet them in the netherlands in germany this is the 3rd winter that graphic designer apparently in a school is indulging in this icy hopping air temperature and lake beds and saying in berlin it's 2 degree celsius she prepares using vim hoff's breathing technique.

it still takes some real motivation and come on you can practice transcending your rational understanding but interest on he knows and it gives you more self-confidence this saves the tone given i can handle this if i'm up to the challenge but i can do it as. a 27 year old stays in the icy lake for about 10 minutes and how does she feel afterwards. i am really happy you can maybe see it so i'm totally awake and just euphoric if. i can't describe it really alive. and my mind is blank i'm just in the here and now. this is very hard with his son the youngest of 6 children. and hear of them hoffa's jumping off his backyard ledge with his knees. the water is of course icy.

receiving sought out the healing power of the cold was a stroke of fate his 1st wife was schizo phrenic took her own life in 1905 being an agony of myself my own exile my heart broke my mood was completely down shut but i had to be there for my children so i got a man up this one i went into the ice and i did my breathing exercises it deeply on until i felt. myself. that what else can do the same for others now as nearly one in a 1000000 followers on you tube pianists children teach his methods all over the world thousands of people visit this online in classrooms horses or learn to become qualified trainers themselves. to many people.

is a sort of proof but some criticize his personality cult let them call me iceman guru i suppose or whatever it's all ok and so on to me they don't call me no longer crazy. or an idiot or. whatever. they it's all positive i love it i love it. now i still have you here embrace the cold makes you really strong. no thank you that's definitely not for me and i can be sure that the model that you see here has also she's never taken a bath in her life well that's because she is a computer generated avatar who is breaking into the fashion world now you can put

these models in just about any situation and unlike real people these avatars will never complain well digital models have been gaining in popularity in recent years and now because of the coronavirus pandemic they're even more in demand.

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attention. 17 when i 1st heard fitzhugh online i posted it to facebook and i had no idea what was going to happen and everyone was asking me like who is shooting who was shooting. and it just it just grew and grew from there you know a lot about some people. alicia keys lots of famous famous accounts was sharing this image. should you may not have a fictional biography but she enjoys enormous success. she appears together with other digital models in a social media campaign for the french luxury label. the great benefits of working with digital models as you can find them anywhere in

the wallet and i think that is probably one of the best advantages right now although 3 d. is still quite expensive because doing a photo shoot for a fashion shoot do tremendous amount of work real models stand in front of the camera and simulate remotely. human models are digitally replaced by shooting. to take a virtual walk down. it's incredibly difficult to animate shooting because she saw realistic we did do a show we did our own show for my own use when we. produced a minute long presentation in collaboration with. the case where a lot of the fashion brands i think that they're not really ready for the kind of level of review that you know i want to do. that pandemic has increased the demand for alternatives in the fashion world and for the 2020 helsinki fashion

week designers presenting their work using animated models. even though they may not appear quite as perfect and hyper realistic as shooting. but will digital out. but has become serious competition for real models and influencers. fashion editor maria one state doesn't think so. far this is definitely an artform in its own right and that's how i see it i do think this is a lasting development about think about i think that once this year is over people will look forward to going places talking to others and seeing clothes on real people mentioned to me and. whether as an art form an alternative to real models or a clever influencer strategy digital models are here to stay they seem increasingly perfect and even talk to their fans.

when it comes to whisky you could arguably say that the best brands come from scotland ireland or even the united states well you wouldn't necessarily associate switzerland with the spirit but the distillery located high up in the swiss alps has put itself on the map with the world record we went there for a closer look. this is the pits in southeastern switzerland it's mountain station attracts winter sports enthusiasts. and now. whiskey lovers here at an altitude of over 3000 meters swiss entrepreneurs going on the railing and pass comment now open to the world's highest distillery. the idea of opening up at this elevation

a 3300 meters came about because we had a storage center for our barrels from the start it's a privilege to be able to operate a distilleries this high up these of these surrounding with. these moments of this as a backdrop with that i want to do for. for a decade the 2 friends have been distilling whisky they call their single malt the rates a romantic word for sold in october 2020 they opened their distillery on the pitch quite a batch at an elevation of 3303 metres higher than any other whisky makers and advantages that the boiling point lies at about 10 degrees lower than if the levels . are just the 4 east of the one of the advantages is that we have a slower distillation 2 and a lower temperatures. and this gives the whisky many more floral notes.

even if people don't automatically associate switzerland with whisky the country holds a surprising number of whisky related records down in the valley the resort town of some more it's home to the world's largest whiskey bar it already has 2 entries in the guinness book of world records here gas can choose from over 2500 different varieties of whisky. the mountain village of santa maria around 50 kilometers east of san moritz is home to another guinness record holder the smallest whiskey bar on earth and just $8.00 square metres of space serves up some 300 kinds of whisky with so many world records in switzerland a whisky nation after all. i don't think switzerland is a whisky nation like all the other conflicts aren't either the ones who come closest and ireland which are well on the way to changing thoughts a little encroaching. more and more better distilleries so we think in the next

decade things will change a lot. isn't just a barkeeper he also manages the whisky museum and makes the spirit professionally in the cellar located at an elevation of 1400 meters the boiling point of alcohol is also. lower here than at sea level those omar is skeptical whether distilling whiskey high up on a mountain will really influence its taste. for longer and alcohol's the stilt the better it is. if you have another or lower distillation point on their own. the difference lies in the fact that you're just over the vaporization point when the spill and the little cut. back to the world's highest distillery here the spirit made from malta barley has to wait in barrels for at least 3 years to rightly be called whiskey. hope done via belief that i'd rather the influence of

this innovation be occurrence in $510.00 or 20 years is. because our ambition is not to create a whisky that's as close as possible to a scottish one so in the should community tastes like a swiss made product which make bodies no matter what the whisky ends up tasting like another valley and pasco meant no couldn't have found a more stunning location to make or drink it. well if you're interested to find out more about food and drink around europe then you can visit our you tube channel d.w. food. in our next report we are about to meet a master of deception german artist stefan pops has perfected the technique of 3 d. in his art work this portrait artist found 3 d. as a way to steer away from conventional drawing and painting he let us look over his shoulder as he worked and some of his subjects well have you squirming in your seat . watch out for

a dangerous scorpion. but look closer and you'll see it's only an art work created by. the artists from northwestern germany is a master of 3 d. optical illusions. here singer billy eilish seems to be climbing from a notepad. and this looks like an actual miniature version of the eiffel tower. one of those i was bored with painting the same things over and over that good artists had done thousands of times already i wanted to do something new something nobody has seen with. stefan eerily realistic looking scorpion took 4 hours to create he chose the motif because most people keep well away from such creatures. my most successful kind of paintings and there are those with a spider sitting on a sheet of paper for example people are scared of them.

stefan pops artworks aren't hits and he regularly publishes them on. this video of stefan creating a 3 d. tarantula garnered over 12000000 views to. his daughter's reaction might also explain some of the success. stefan's main job is painting commissions portraits based on photographs and sometimes 2 dimensional but also in 3 d. . this darth vader portrait was bought by an american star wars fan. you know this scary looking snake really looks as if it could crawl through the room. in this glass of water is also a you tube sensation. creating these amazing artworks

requires a good eye and special. after all optical illusions only work when you look at them from a certain angle. but. the main effect with these lego bricks is that. so that when you put the painting down it looks as if the proportions are correct. getting the details exactly right is important that means adding the scorpion's shadow and tiny hairs on its sting. finally cut off a bit of paper perfecting the optical illusions. that's really important for the 3 d. a factual it must look as if the object extends over the edge of the sheet of paper

one it's a fools us into thinking the object isn't actually painted on the paper. and here's a 3 dimensional scorpion viewed from one side at a 45 degree angle change your perspective and the 3 d. effect instantly vanish. as ambitious plans for creating vast outdoor 3 d. art works. like creating a 3 d. pattern in a cornfield and then filming it from above with a drone to capture this effect. so. his motif just yes whatever it is it will probably look amazingly realistic. another artist who likes to flirt with deception is polish a photographer monica must of it she use this lifelike dolls as her subject and puts them in situations to evoke a range of emotions now her photos have been yury and sad quality about them we

visited her at home in cracow for a closer look. these dolls are not toys they're so realistic it's almost. especially when the polish artist monika most of the sets them up 1st photo share. you could almost expect them to come alive 'd. i'm beaten dollars collector photographer bowls photograph and so the changing toes are my passion actually i spend already like more than 10 years of my life photographing. jointed dolls come from asia they can be arranged in all kinds of poses thanks to their ball and socket joints monica owns over $25.00 of them she gets

a russian artist to paint their faces and body parts courting to her exact requests a new character is created for each photo. so you can exchange her eyes so. she can look you know started in front so you can change the color of forests size so far distance along so again need to appear like a different face and that different new and different character. the dolls are often dressed in tailor made clothes this dress for example was shown by an army to her. different sizes of those so sometimes you know hard to find the right trends because sometimes the dresses to be too small the dolls leather boots are color coordinated with the dress monaco wears gloves so as not to smudge its delicate makeup. she wants her

photographs of the dolls to stay. emulate the few worst fantasy. doors you know are so inspiring for me because fay are no smiling are actually very are pretty serious or even sad over. possibly too tired to a more serious story snow altoids talked about the people here both humans and more says. she showcases her artworks on instagram and that exhibitions like here in her hometown of krakow monica often stages her photo shoots at derelict or abandoned sites. but i am not the dolls evoke an uneasy feeling in me new book i am not the one you knew but i wouldn't call it fear exactly otherwise i would not be here out of it

the about it when i took up shows what i find most interesting is that they look like real human beings and you can sense the artist wanted to create this optical illusion because all growing up. many of the photographs featured groups of dolls resembling families or siblings. monica most of exposed combine a fairy tale look with some dark horror and lots of atmosphere. and they certainly fascinating. ok and let's end the show on a lighter note don't forget to enter our latest drop for that just go to our website for all the details on how to receive this d.w. backpack and some other goodies as always for me the rest of the crew here thanks for turning in policy against.

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