we've got some tips for your bucket list. manticore's. support for food. and some great cultural mores to boot. w.h.y. we go. 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. hi 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. to 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 kill 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

women they call we do you. think. this dutchman is said to have supernatural powers thanks to the many world records he says he's died $66.00 metres below the arctic ice skating traps he's climbed mount kilimanjaro in 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. in the human body is so much more capable than what we see in the cold is the great teacher. the seminar center in the dutch villages. where the 61 year old normally teaches others how to master their bodies. here's one of those seminars but kovac has

changed everything down. the women hoffman it comprises of cold baths meditation and a special breathing technique involving controlled inhaling and exhaling 30 times and then holding your breath. the ag drilon begins to work the body from the inside and then becomes included the breathing stronger and then use c.d.f. back 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 them hogs and he wants to scientifically prove his method works in 2011 it was injected with bacteria as part of a university study developed hardly any flu like symptoms unlike other test

subjects. but even if there are strong indications it's yet to be proven that hold strength in the immune system. more study needs to be done but i tell you the benefits huge. and the investment is very literal just go into the cold shall i swimming is it something straight it boasts a long history in europe whether this championship in finland is a game of chess in russia. or a movie or swimming in a venue in the netherlands in germany this is the 3rd winter that graphic designer carolina school is indulging in this icy hopping air temperature and lake blitzen say in berlin it's 2 degree celsius she prepares using vim hoff's and breathing technique. it still takes some real motivation and come on you can practice

transcending your rational understanding but in 1st time he knows and it gives you more self-confidence to say of such convent i can handle this and i'm up to the challenge but i can do it to. a 27 year old stays in the icy lake for about 10 minutes and how does he feel afterwards. but i'm 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 them with his son the youngest of 6 children. and hear of them hoffa's jumping off his back yard ledge with his neat. the water is of course i see.

reason for sought out the healing power of the cold was a stroke of fate his 1st wife with schizophrenia took her own life in 1905 being in agony of myself my own exile u.-t. my heart broke my mood which completely down shut but i had to be there for my children so i got a man up this when i went into the eyes and i did my breathing exercises it deeply odd until i felt. myself. that what helped him can do the same for others now as merely one of the 1000000 followers and due to the industry older and teach his methods all over the world thousands of people visit this on line in classrooms forces or learn to become trainers themselves.

to many people. is a sort of 2 groups but some criticize his personality cult. them call me iceman guru i suppose or what i have 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 other but. they are still have you here embrace their cold makes you really strong. now thank you. 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.

also you. 17 when i 1st posted to you 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 so lots of people shared it. alicia keys lots of famous famous accounts was sharing the image. should you may not have a fictional biography but she enjoys enormous success online. for instance she appears together with other digital models in a social media campaign for the french luxury label. one of the great benefits of working with digital models is you can send 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 spread to do tremendous amount of. real models stand in front of the camera and simulate. the human models are digitally replaced by shooting. books to take a virtual walk down the runway. 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 i think that they're not really ready for the kind of level of 3 d. that you know i want to. pandemic has increased the demand for alternatives in the fashion world. for the 2020 helsinki fashion week all 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 it has become serious competition for real models and influencers of. fashion editor maria one stick doesn't think so. this is definitely an artform in its own right and that's how i see it and i do think this is a lasting development about if they're going to but 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. with.

stacy and. when it comes to whiskey 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 go to botched 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. and pascal mcnair have opened the world's highest distillery. leaving. the idea of opening up at this elevation

a 3300 meters came about because we have a storage center for our barrels from the start it's a privilege to be able to operate at the still resists high up in the surroundings with these millions of truck with a liable to do. for a decade the 2 friends have been distilling whisky they call their single malt the rate a romantic word for sold in october 2020 they opened their distillery on the pits kotowicz at an elevation of 3303 meters higher than any other whiskey makers and advantages that the boiling point lies at about 10 degrees lower than a sea level. east us to be one of the advantages is that we have a slower distillation to at a lower temperatures. and this gives the whiskey 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 kind. the whiskey with so many world records in switzerland a whiskey nation after all. i don't think switzerland is a whiskey nation like all the other countries aren't either the ones who come closest are scotland and ireland or whatever while i'm away the changing facts a little encroaching on. more and more and better distilleries so i think 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. is skeptical whether distilling whiskey high up on a mountain will really influence the taste of the leg on one destiny for longer and alcohol's the stilt the better it is. doesn't matter if you have another or lower distillation point their own definitely the difference lies in the fact that you're just over the vaporization point when the spilling the little coats to the. back to the world's highest distillery here the spirit made from malta darley has to age in barrels for at least 3 years to rightly be called whisky. pope done very pleased that i whether the influence of this elevation will be apparent in 510 or

20 years is don't use our ambition as though to create a whiskey that's as close as possible to a scottish one so on the show clearly tastes like a swiss made product to make bodies no matter what the whisky ends up tasting like another valley and pascal 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 stuff on pops has perfected the technique of 3 d. in his artwork 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 will 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 illusions. here singer seems to be climbing from a no. and this looks like an actual miniature version of the eiffel tower. i was bored with painting the same things over and over the good artists had done thousands of times already i wanted to do something new something that nobody had seen before. stefan's 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 paintings on this are those with a spider sitting on a sheet of paper for example people are scared of them.

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

requires a good eye and special techniques. after all optical illusions only work when you look at them from a certain angle. the main effect with these lego bricks is that i stretched. those 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 stefan cuts off a bit of paper perfecting the optical illusion. that is 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 will force us into thinking the object isn't actually painted on the paper. and here's a 3 dimensional scorpion if viewed from one side at a 45 degree angle change your perspective and the 3 d. effect instantly vanish. 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. this 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 yuri and sound quality about them we

visited her at home in cracow for a closer look. these dolls are not toit's they're so realistic it's almost. especially when the polish artist monika most of the sets them up for a photo shoot. you could almost expect them to come alive. i'm beat $80.00 collector a photographer those photographs are. so be tainted those are my passion actually i spend already like more than 10 years of my life photographing. ball 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 a side in front so you can change the color of forests size so forth and so on so again need to appear like a different face and different new and different character. the dolls are often dressed in tailor made clothes this dress for example was someone by an artist of. different sizes of those so sometimes it's you know hard to find the right trends because sometimes the dress cease 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. things doors you know are so inspiring for me because they are no smiling city very or pretty serious or even sad over cry. it is soon possibly too tired to a more serious story snow of all toys thought about people who have gone to humans the motions. she showcases her art works on instagram and at 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 of an uneasy feeling in me i am up in on you but i wouldn't

call it fear exactly otherwise i would not be here live at the about it and i took up what i find most interesting is that they look like real human beings you can sense the artist wanted to create this optical illusion the google now. many of the photographs feature groups of dolls resembling families or siblings. monica most of exposure combine a fairy tale look with some dark horror and lots of atmosphere. and they certainly fascinating. ok of leds and 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 tuning in policy against.

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