you. would be able to send. yours to us. and that's why you see the stories reporter every weekend on g.w. . when you see the 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 megan 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 face 1st. 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 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. i'm

they call me d.r.s. . this dutchman is said to have supernatural powers thanks to the many world records he says he's dived 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. in a human body is so much more capable than what we see in the cold is the great teacher. when runs a 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 coven has

changed everything down. the wind comprises a cold meditation and a special breathing technique involving controlled inhaling and exhaling 30 times and then holding your breath. the adrenaline begins to work the body from the inside and then becomes true to deep breathing stronger and that used c.d.'s 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 jim hall and he wants to scientifically prove his method works in 2011 he was injected with bacteria as part. but 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 whole strength is the immune system. but. you're more study needs to be done but i tell you the bad efforts are huge and the investment is very little just go into a cold shower i swimming is it something fresh it boasts a long history in europe whether this championship in finland is a game of chess in russia. or i think you're swimming in favor anything in the netherlands in germany this is the 3rd winter that graphic designer carolina school run 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 breathing technique. it

still takes some real motivation and come on you can practice transcending your rational understanding where the 1st time he knows and it gives you more self-confidence this saves that's given if i can handle this and i'm up to the challenge that i can do it. the 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 them hoffa's jumping off his backyard ledge with his knees. the water is of course i see.

the reason for sought out the healing power of the cold was a stroke of fate his 1st wife with schizophrenia and shook her own life in 1905 being in agony of myself my own exile 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 when i went into the ice and i did my breathing exercises it deeply odd until i felt. myself jim hoffa that what else can do the same for others now as merely one of the 1000000 followers on you tube. children teach his methods all over the world thousands of people visit this online in classrooms courses or learn to become qualified trainers themselves.

to many people. is a sort of group but some criticize his personality cult that 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 i love it. nice to have you here embrace the cold makes you really strong. bond. you know 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.

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1017 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 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 famous accounts was sharing the image. should you may not have a fictional biography but she enjoys enormous success online. 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 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. stand in front of the camera and simulate. human models are digitally replaced by shooting. she has to take up. it's incredibly difficult to animate shooting because she's so realistic we did do a show we did our insurer 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 3 d. that you know i want to use for the 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 at. qatar's 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 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.

who can. see and. 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 a 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. and now. here at an altitude of over 3000 meters swiss entrepreneurs. and pascal met now have opened the world's highest distillery.

leaving. 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 so it's a privilege to be able to operate at the still resists high up in the surroundings with these moment of. with. 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 pitch quarter veitch at an elevation of 3303 meters higher than any other whiskey makers an advantage is that the boiling point lies at about 10 degrees lower than if the level. we are is the 4th boiler east of the one of the advantages is that we have a slower distillation over temperatures. and this gives the whisky 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 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 sam moore 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 high. of whiskey with so many world records is switzerland a whisky nation after all. i don't think switzerland has a whisky nation like all the other countries aren't either the ones who come closest or scotland and ireland or whatever while i'm away the change impacts a little encroaching on. more and more of your 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 those omar is skeptical whether distilling whiskey high up on a mountain will really influence its taste in the lead on one destiny for longer and alcohol's the stilt the better it is me. 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 vaporize they should point when the spilling the little coats 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 whiskey. hope dumville belief that either the influence of this and the vision of the

occurrence in 510 or 20 years is over don't know what our own vision is though to create a whiskey that's as close as possible to a scottish one so in the should community tastes like a swiss made product make bodies no matter what the whisky ends up tasting like but now the valley and passed down that now 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 illusions. here singer seems to be climbing from. 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. stefan's 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.

stephon pops artworks aren't hits and he regularly publishes them on you tube this video of stefan creating a garnered over 12000000 views. 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. this darth vader portrayed by an american star wars fan. this scary looking snake really looks as if it could crawl through the room. and 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. using. the main effect with these lego bricks that i stretched. 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 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 would 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. as ambitious plans for creating vast outdoor 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 realistic. another artist who likes to flirt with deception is polish a photographer monica must have it she uses that 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. especially when a polish artist monika most of it sets them up for a photo shoot. you could almost expect them to come alive. i'm beat a $1000.00 collector photograph or post photograph and. so be tainted those 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 the eyes so. she can look you know a side in front so you can change the color of size so far it's unsettling 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 and large it is very. different sizes of those so sometimes you know hard to find the right trends because sometimes the dress is to be too small the dolls leather boots are color coordinated with the dress monaco wears gloves so as not to smudge it's telling hitmaker. she wants her

photographs of the dolls to stim. really the viewers fantasy. these doors you know are so inspiring for me because they are no smiling city they are pretty serious or even set of crying. possible to a more serious story snow of all toys thought about the people who have both humans and more says. 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. among the dolls of folk an uneasy feeling and me. i wouldn't call it fear exactly

otherwise i would not be here live at the back didn't mention gumption 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 because. many of the photographs featured 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 fascinate. 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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