here women are in charge. the archipelago has had a retreat or cool system for centuries from. the rare form of society. women differently. what to do with words. and how sustainable is this culture to move the leaders of the right girl starts marching on t.w. . 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. see how digital models are revolutionizing the world of fashion. and find out how a german artist makes trini motifs jump off the paper. but we started 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 a warm babs 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. because we do know is. that. this dutchman is said to have supernatural powers thanks to the many world records he said he's died 66 meters below the arctic ice skating track 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 contained people but. the human body is so much more capable than what we think the cold is the great teacher.

brim bronzes seminar center in the dutch village of stroke where the 61 year old normally teaches others how to master their bodies. here's one of those seminars but coping has changed everything down. the wind hoffman comprises of cold baths 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 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 coldness said to strengthen the immune system however taking a dip in an icelandic glacier would make most people's body temperature sink so low

we could kill them but not them hoff's and he wants to scientifically prove his method works in 2011 he 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 the whole strength of the immune system. more study needs to be done but i tell you the benefits huge. and the investment is very little just go into the cold shall i swimming is it something fresh posts a long history in europe whether it's championship in finland a game of chess in russia. or near swim in trying to make it in the netherlands in germany this is the 3rd winter that graphic designer parent you know

school is indulging in this icy hopping air temperature at lake blitzen saying in berlin it's 2 degrees 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 when 1st time he knows and it gives you more self-confidence to save so it's given i can handle this if 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 she feel afterwards. 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. that's my mind is blank and just in the here and now. this is vin hoff

with his son the youngest of 6 children. and hearing him hoffa's jumping off his backyard ledge with his niece. the water is of course i see. no. reason for sought out the healing power of the cold it was a stroke of fate his 1st wife was schizo phrenic took her own life in 1905 being in agony of myself my own exile u.-t. my heart broke my mood twitch 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 jim hall felt that what else can do the same for others now as merely one of the 1000000 followers on youtube.

and his children teach his methods all over the world thousands of people visit this online and classroom courses or learn to become qualified trainers themselves . to many people. is a sort of do group but some criticize this 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. i still have you here embrace the cold makes you really strong. bond. no 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 all digital models have been gaining in popularity in recent years and now because of the coronavirus pandemic they're even more in demand. they look. for several jobs at a time but they are. digital models like graham from the u.k. or newry from germany have been turning the fashion and influence are seen upside down since their debut is a few years ago. and the loss abilities are endless portray her underwater after dance on a volcano on another planet and that's the fascinating thing about it in. munich

based graphic designer created the manga style avatar noori who made her 1st public appearance in 2013. to him nori is more than a digital model she has a 21 year old living in paris and has her own biography. she goes shopping. meets friends. and promotes ecological causes. suber has his finger on the pulse and has helped new noori become the most successful virtual character and you're of the on instagram large fashion houses like for sutton. for tommy hilfiger her for ad campaign. international top models like naomi campbell or heidi clooney appear alongside nora and her non-human appearance. is intentional. and. i also think this kind of collaboration using

a digital character is something completely different making for a totally different experience than in the traditional sector. thanks in weymouth in southern england fashion photographer and 3 d. artist cameron james wilson also use this as brand ambassador. his agency only works with avatars as his 1st creation to do grand is a hyper realistic figure that attracted attention worldwide in 2017 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 was shooting who was shooting. and it just it just grew and grew from there you know a lot so lots of people. lots of famous accounts was sharing this image. 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 with shooting involves a tremendous amount of. real models stand in front of the camera and simulator movements. but human models are digitally replaced by shooting. to take a virtual walk. it's incredibly difficult to animate shooting because she saw realistic we did do a 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

review that you know i want to do for the covert pandemic has increased the demand for alternatives in the fashion world and for the 2020 helsinki fashion week all designers presenting their works using animated models online even though they may not appear quite as perfect and hyper realistic as shooting. but will digital avatars become serious competition for real models and influencers . fashion editor maria unstick 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 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 and mentions will be 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 its mountain station attracts winter sports enthusiasts. now. here at an altitude of over 3000 meters

entrepreneurs. and past have opened the world's highest distillery. the idea of opening up at this elevation 3300 meters came about because we had a storage center for our barrels from the start so it's a privilege to be able to operate at the still resists high up in the surrounding with these moments of the truck with that i've been sort of. for a decade the 2 friends have been distilling whisky they called their single malt the rate a romantic word for sold in october 2020 they opened their distillery on the pits cottage 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. we are it's the 4th island east to be one of the advantages is that we

have a slower distillation lower temperatures. and this gives to us ski many more floral notes. even if people don't automatically associate switzerland with whiskey 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 with keep on 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 k. . that whiskey with so many world records is 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 which are well on the way to changing thoughts a little encroaching on the there are more and more and better distilleries so i 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. is skeptical whether distilling whiskey high up on a mountain will really influence its taste in the one on one destiny for longer and alcohol's the stilt the better it is. or doesn't matter if you have another or lower distillation point on their own definitely the difference lies in the fact that you're just over the vaporizing should point when the still of the little cut to the. back to the world's highest distillery here the spirit made for malta

barley has to age in barrels for at least 3 years to rightly be called whisky. pope cliff that either the influence of this and the vision of the occurrence in 510 or 20 years is unknown where i'm vision as though to create a whisky that's as close as possible to a scottish one used on the ship clearly tastes like a swiss made product to make bodies no matter what the whisky ends up tasting like that now though villi and pascal might know 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 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 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 optical illusions. here singer seems to be climbing from it. and this looks like an actual miniature version of the eiffel tower. 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. stepped on realistic looking scorpion took 4 hours to create he chose the motif because most people keep well away from such creatures.

most successful paintings and there are those with a spider sitting on a sheet of paper for example people are scared of them. stefan pap's artworks are a hit and he regularly publishes them on you tube this video of stefan creating a 3 d. tarantula garnered over 12000000 views. his daughter's reaction might also explain some of the success. main job is painting commissions portraits based on photographs and sometimes 2 dimensional but also in 3 d. . this darth vader portrayed by an american star wars fan. in this scary looking snake really looks as if it can crawl through the room.

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. point. the main effect with these lego bricks is that i stretched them. 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 of 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. whatever it is it will probably look amazingly is 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 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. they specially when the polish artist monika most of the sets them up 1st photo shoot. you could almost expect them to come alive 'd. i'm beaten dollars collector photographs from those photographs and. so be tainted those are my passion actually i spend or i feel like i'm 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 the eyes so. she can look you know a side or in front so you can change the color of size so far distance along so the guy need to appear in a could different face and different than different characters. the dolls are often dressed in tailor made clothes this dress for example was shown by an artist heard. about 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 view worst fantasy. is those you know are so inspiring for me because they are no smiling actually they are pretty serious or even sad over cry. possibly too tired to a more serious story snow of all toys thought about people who have both humans and motions. she showcases her artworks on instagram at exhibitions like here in her hometown of krakow monica often stages her photo shoots at derelict or abandoned sites.

that she's given the dolls of poke an uneasy feeling in me. i wouldn't call it fear exactly otherwise i would not be here a lot of at the back didn't mention corruption is 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 the glue going out. many of the photographs feature groups of dolls resembling families or siblings. monica most of exposure combine a fairy tale look with some darker more 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

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