the history of the slave trade east africa's history. describes how the greed for power and profit plummeted and entire continent into chaos and violence. this is the journey back into the history of slavery. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 10th on g.w. . the full. moon. when you see pictures of the beautiful swiss alps you probably would not associate them with a whisky 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 3 d. motifs jump off the face for. 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. they will be ours. 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 feeding trough he's climbed mount kilimanjaro less than 2 days wearing shorts and run a marathon for the libyan desert without a sip of water. and you can endure 2 hours in a contained little boxes. and a human body is so much more capable than what we think the cold is the great teacher. when brown's a seminar center in the dutch village

a 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. the wimp hoffman comprises of cold baths meditation and a special breathing technique involving controlled inhaling and exhaling 30 times and then holding your breath. the ad drilon begins to work the body from the inside and then becomes included the breathing stronger and then 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 them hoffs 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 the immune system. you're more study needs to be done right i tell you the benefits huge. and the investment is very little just go into the cold shall i swimming is it something trent it boasts a long history in europe whether it's championship in finland a game of chess in russia. or near swim in training camp 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 and lake blitz and say in

berlin it's 2 degree celsius she prepares using vim hawse and breathing technique. it still takes some real motivation and come understand if you can practice transcending your rational understanding reading 1st time he knows and it gives you more self-confidence the surface can give and i can handle this and i'm up to the challenge but i can do it. the 27 year old stays in the icy lake for about 10 minutes and how does he 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. and 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. reason for 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 in agony of myself my own exile u.-t. my heart broke my mood was completely down and 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 on until i felt. myself imhoff that what else can do the same for others now as nearly one and a half 1000000 followers and due to. this 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 hoover of but some criticize his personality cult that now 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. i'm 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 well digital models have been gaining in popularity in recent years and now because of the coronavirus pandemic they're even more in demand. but they are. under water.

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 of people shot it. alicia keys lots of famous famous accounts was sharing 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. human models are digitally replaced by shooting. to take a virtual. it's incredibly difficult to shoot on because she certainly stick 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 3 d. that you know i want to. pandemic has increased the demand for alternatives in the

fashion world and for the 2020 helsinki fashion week designers presented their works using animated models. even though they may not appear quite as perfect and hyper realistic as shooting. but will digital out. but ours become serious competition for real models and influencers. fashion editor maria one state doesn't think so. 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 this 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 riders here at an altitude of over 3000 meters swiss

entrepreneurs going on the railing and pass comment never have opened the world's highest distillery. the idea of opening up at this elevation of 3300 meters came about because we had a storage center for our barrels from the start and it's a privilege to be able to operate at the still resists high up these of these surrounding with. these moments of this as a backdrop with that i've been sober for. 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 pitts 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. rise the 4th. us to be 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 is switzerland a whisky nation after all. i don't think switzerland is a whisky nation like all the other contracts aren't either the ones who come closest. to changing thoughts

a little encroaching. more and more 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 its taste. for longer and alcohol's the stilt the better it is. doesn't matter if you have another or lower distillation point the only. the difference lies in the fact that you're just over the vaporization point when the still in the middle coats to the. back to the world's highest distillery here the spirit made from malta barley has to age in barrels for at least 3 years

to rightly be called whisky. pope done view and whether the influence of this and the vision will 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 michigander it tastes like a swiss made product which make bodies no matter what the whisky ends up tasting like another village and passed down that 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 optical 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 the 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.

most successful paintings and there are those with a spider sitting on a sheet of paper for example people are scared of them. stefan pops hits and he regularly publishes them on. this video of stefan creating a 3 d. tarantula 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 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 can crawl through the room . and this glass of water is

also a you tube sensation. creating these amazing artworks requires a good and special. 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 them. so that when you point 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 once it falls 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 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. it's especially when a polish artist monika most of the sets them up 1st photo shoot. you could almost expect them to come alive. i'm beat $80.00 collector photographer bowles photographer. so between tito's are my passion actually i spend i 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 size so far it's unsettling 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 shown by an artist in terms. of 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. stories you know are so inspiring for me because they are no smiling actually they are pretty serious or even sad over cry. it is soon possible to tire to a more serious story snow altoids fucked up shambo to 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.

but i am not the dolls of folk an uneasy feeling in me. having on you but i wouldn't call it fear exactly otherwise i would not be here a lot of the above didn't mention gumption is 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 glue gun now. many of the photographs feature groups of dolls resembling families or siblings. monica most of explosives 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 draw 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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