Fresheye Magazine. July Edition 2023

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l Sustainability A new reckoning.

l Travel update Where we are now.

l Cool indulgence Loving ice cream.

l Flower project A colourful pictorial.

l Swatch watch A NASA inspiration.

l Surf & Turf Doing it the right way.

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Cover image: Rolls Royce Spectre. The world’s first ultra-luxury electric super coupé is an emblem of artisanship in harmony with electric technology.

Sustainability

Sustainability is at the forefront of many peoples’ minds and businesses currently, as living and working in a sustainable way has become a necessity due to the modern flow of life that we have become accustomed to. When we hear the word “sustainability” many tend to think of renewable fuel sources, reducing carbon emissions, protecting environments and finding ways of keeping the delicate ecosystems of our planet in balance. In short, sustainability looks to protect our natural environment, human and ecological health, while driving innovation and not compromising our way of life as we know it.

There are numerous examples throughout human history where a civilisation has damaged its own environment and damaged its survival chances due to taking resources to sustain certain lifestyles. Sustainability takes into account how we might live in harmony with the natural world around us, protecting it from damage and destruction.

We now live in a modern, consumerist and largely urban existence throughout

Kindness to our world...

by Sophie Fitzjohn.

the developed world and we consume a lot of natural resources every day as a result. Urban areas consume more power than those who live in rural areas; however there are improvement to be made everywhere, as it is estimated that we use 40% more resources every year than we can actually put back, which must change.

The front runners in the cause are economic development, social development and environmental protection. These are the three

main sectors when sustainability is broken down into three main parts.

Within the economic development bracket, supply and demand market is a main focus as it’s consumerist in nature and modern life requires a lot of resources every day; for the sake of the environment, getting what we consume under control is the main goal. Economic development is based around giving people what they want without compromising quality of life, and this is especially important in the developing world.

The biggest topic when it comes to social development for many people right now is sustainable housing and how we can improve new homes and build from sustainable materials. Education is also a key aspect - encouraging people to participate in environmental sustainability is the first step and also teaching them about the effects of environmental protection is paramount; as well as warning of the dangers if we cannot achieve a positive outcome.

Also the biggest social activism movement related to the social development side of sustainability, has been programs such as Fair Trade and the Rainforest Alliance. These two programmes encourage good farming practices while ensuring farmers who produce luxury goods such as coffee and cocoa receive a decent living wage.

Environmental protection is the third

Sophie says.....

pillar when talking about sustainability, and to many is the main concern of the future of humanity. It defines how we should study and protect ecosystems, air quality, integrity and sustainability of our resources and focuses on the areas that place stress on the environment. It also concerns how technology will drive our greener future; the EPA recognized that developing technology and biotechnology is key to this sustainability, and protecting the environment of the future from potential damage that technological advances could potentially bring.

All these elements are crucial when it comes to improving the world we live in. As many of us have experienced lockdown recently due to Covid19; I feel that a lot of people have rethought their normal way of life and in some ways have realised how damaging their habits were to the planet and own wellbeing.

From no longer being able to travel almost immediately, to reducing our consumption of impulse buys and indulging activities. There’s been so many things that have changed, but it has definitely been a chance to step back and actually engage in the present. Even though many aspects of life have suffered, many other areas such as nature have thrived as a result of human activity being limited. And I think that’s been a huge lesson for everyone and future generations to come on how life could proceed and prosper in the future.

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”

Robert Swan, Author.

“Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.”

Dan Shechtman

Putting urgency on eco friendly.

Travel Update

There’s no denying that travel is back in 2023, thanks to a pent-up demand for all those vacations that were put on hold during the pandemic. But what are the best international places to visit? What are the top travel destinations around the world?

This year, the picks for where to go in 2023 span the gamut from European capitals to exotic beach escapes to sustainable rainforest retreats.

Keep in mind

With travel demand soaring and 31% of travelers saying they intend to spend more on international travel this year, costs on the rise and the airlines encountering record demand, don’t delay. Now is the time to book that bucket list trip of a lifetime.

Where to Go: Noto Valley, Sicily

Why: Film and television tourism has always been a thing. It’s arguably Italy’s best PR asset and there’s no doubt that this summer, the Sicilian town of Taormina will be jam-packed with The White Lotus fans.

Where to Go: Isle of Skye, Scotland

Why: The Isle of Skye became famous as the place that Bonnie Prince Charlie escaped to after the Battle of Culloden, thanks to local

hero Flora Macdonald. (It’s also home to “The Skye Boat Song,” composed by Sir Harold Edwin Boulton in 1870s and now beloved of Outlander fans.) Part of the Inner Hebrides, Skye is now a place to escape the pace of modern life and take a breath. “It was, and hopefully always will be, a sanctuary.

Where to Go: Istanbul, Turkey

Why: With its layered history, magical waterways, and breathtaking vistas, Istanbul has always been known for romance. But this city that straddles Europe and Asia is also a kinetic modern metropolis revitalized recently by a string of ambitious new projects.

One is Galataport, a mixed-use development with a gorgeous waterfront promenade, acres of retail, a futuristic underground cruise port and dining hotspots like the seafood-centric Sait, trendy fusiony Roka and the Populist bar, which serves up local craft beers and incredible views.

Where to Go: Japan

Why: After nearly three years of borders being closed for travel, the glorious country has finally re-opened, and it’s even better than ever. According to the Japan National Tourism Organization, tourism has been spiking since the country reopened in October. This article as seen at www.forbes.com

The world is mostly open again for the second time in three years. Additionally, there are virtually no domestic travel restrictions. Going abroad is also relatively easy.

Cream of the crop

Ice cream - arguabely a prime global favourite by Dennis Sterne.

Not liking chocolate puts you firmly in ‘The Weird Club’ in my book. Not liking ice cream I’m afraid puts you in the same club only your rank is ‘Club Leader’. To me, ice cream is without question one of the food of the Gods. From childhood it is rightly considered a treat amongst treats and has the capacity to anethetize in the most pleasurable way while warming the culinary senses. Looking for an ice cream that sits somewhere between Carte D’Or and a freshly scooped gelato from the streets of Florence? I’ve handpicked London’s poshest ice creams you can buy from the supermarket (or a fancy food store), so good they will make you melt.

Oppo

Launched in 2014 by brothers Harry and

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Charlie, Oppo ice cream is all about giving customers a healthier choice of ice cream with all the flavour – each tub only comes in under 200 calories per half tub.

Remeo

Ice cream, sorry gelato (they’re very particular about that) so posh it actually looks like a face cream. Inside these pleasing on the eye pots you’ll find a modern take on Italian gelato, made using the highest quality, environmentally conscious products in Italy.

Hackney Gelato

If you live anywhere near Dalton, London Field, etc, you’ll be familiar with these little pots, usually spotted in the hands of hipsters walking around E5/E8 way.

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Ice cream

Happy note: Grab a spoon and dig into your favourite flavour of ice cream, because eating ice cream can actually cheer you up! There is a scientific explanation for the same – when you eat ice cream, your body produces a hormone known as serotonin. Serotonin, which is also known as a feel-good hormone makes you feel happy!

Pure gleeful indulgence....

“I don’t have a sweet tooth, normally; I’m a salty-savory girl. But when I’m pregnant, almost as a ritual, at 4 o’clock, I’ll have cookies-and-cream ice cream!”

- Ivanka Trump -

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chefs, Sam and Enrico, who cut their teeth working at the Michelin-starred Locanda Locatelli. They now make ice cream for a living (the dream) and damn good ice cream it is.

Grom

Considered one of the best ice cream shops in London (they also have outposts all over Italy and stores in Hong Kong, Paris and New York), gelato doesn’t come much better than this.

MiiRO

Posh ice cream doesn’t have to come in a tub, MiiRO’s posh creations come in stick form, perfect for these hot days in the garden or at the park.

Booja-Booja

Sticking with the dairy-free theme, you may know Booja-Booja for their posh, no-dairy chocolates. While I’d quite happily devour a box of their truffles, summertime calls for something just as chocolatey but a hell of a lot colder. Enter their incredible range of ice creams, from fruity rippled concoctions to truffley topped delights – if Willy Wonka were a vegan he’d make these.

Ice cream

It helps boost your Immunity:

Ice cream is a kind of fermented food and it is said that fermented food is beneficial for our respiratory and gastrointestinal health. A better respiratory system and improved gut health would eventually improve your immunity.

Mentioned brands available at Ocado and Waitrose.

It Is Loaded With Vitamins and Minerals: Ice-cream contains milk and milk solids, which means whenever you eat ice cream, your body obtains the goodness of vitamin D, vitamin A, calcium, phosphorus and riboflavin. Apart from this, the different flavours add extra nutrition quotient to it. For example, dark chocolate ice cream is loaded with antioxidants and flavonoids, which helps in lowering your bad cholesterol and helps improve your heart health.

- Snoop Dog -

“When I’m no longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.”

This is the Rolls-Royce Spectre. It’s the first ultra-luxurious electric coupe ever made and is one of the most opulent EVs ever built. The Spectre is a gigantic two-door coupe. It’s as long as a Mercedes S-Class Maybach and it weighs nearly three tonnes.

It features the widest grille ever fitted to a RollsRoyce, and the largest one-piece body panels. These stretch from the front windscreen all the way to the rear bumper, completely surrounding the brake lights. The body has very few creases and hard angles – especially when you look at it from the side. This pared-back design helps emphasise the vast 23-inch alloy wheels.

Put all this together, and you can bet the new Spectre will be one of the most imposing-looking cars on the road.

By ensuring from the outset that the Architecture of Luxury could be tailored to the requirements of an all-electric Rolls-Royce, the marque’s engineers ensured the continuity of experience from its current portfolio, each evolution of which has done much to secure the brand’s ongoing global success. Indeed, the inherent flexibility of the architecture and ease of integration of an electric powertrain has freed engineers, designers and craftspeople to focus on the quality of experience, authenticity of design and innovation in Bespoke.

Future spec

The extraordinary undertaking of finessing Spectre enters its final phase before concluding in the second quarter of 2023. Rolls-Royce Spectre is expected to have an all-electric range of 320 miles/520 kilometres WLTP and offer 900Nm of torque from its 430kW powertrain - anticipated to achieve 0-60mph in 4.4 seconds.

Spectre

Architecture: For Spectre, RollsRoyce engineers have unlocked further benefits.

The sophisticated extruded aluminium sections and integration of the battery into the structure of the motor car enable it to be 30% stiffer than any previous Rolls-Royce.

There’s a lot to be said for what attains to be a future car. Beauty, form and function...

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Inside, Spectre is provisioned with the most technologically advanced Bespoke features yet, drawing inspiration from the timeless mystique of the night’s sky.

Prophecy:

In 1900, Rolls-Royce co-founder, Charles Rolls, prophesised an electric future for the motor car. Having acquired an electric vehicle named The Columbia Electric Carriage, he foresaw its suitability as a clean, noiseless alternative to the internal combustion engine - providing there was sufficient infrastructure to support it. Today, more than 120 years later, the time has come for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars to fulfil the prophecy of its founding father.

Future Car

The proportional demands of Spectre’s scale required Rolls-Royce to embolden its wheel strategy. Spectre is the first production twodoor coupé to be equipped with 23-inch wheels in almost one hundred years.

Future Car

Space: Inside, Spectre is provisioned with the most technologically advanced Bespoke features yet, drawing inspiration from the timeless mystique of the night’s sky. For the first time on a series production Rolls-Royce, Spectre is available with Starlight Doors, which incorporate 4,796 softly illuminated ‘stars’.

Alongside the extraordinary, illuminated surfaces, Spectre is equipped with a completely redesigned digital architecture of luxury named SPIRIT, presented in quintessential Rolls-Royce style.

Spirit: The Spectre will have a redesigned Spirit of Ecstasy, the flowing robes (often mistaken for outstretched wings) will be reshaped for a realistic look with a lower, more dynamic stance which will make her more aerodynamic. The new Spirit of Ecstasy stands 82.73 mm (3.3 in) tall, compared to her predecessor’s 100.01 mm (3.9 in). This brings her much closer to the original drawings made in the early years of the 20th century. This iteration of the Spirit of Ecstasy will appear on all future models succeeding the Spectre.

Future Car

Bespoke: For the first time ever, clients are now able to extend their Bespoke commission beyond the physical world and into the digital architecture that underpins SPIRIT. Inspired by the marque’s clients’ love of bespoke timepieces, the colour of the dials can now complement the interior hue of the motor car.

The future begins: Rolls-Royce Spectre is more than a motor car. It is a statement of intent and a symbol of a bright, bold future as Rolls-Royce progresses into an all-electric era. This commitment to an all-electric powertrain will only enhance the Rolls-Royce experience - instant torque, silent running and the sense of one imperceptible gear have defined the characteristics of an extraordinary canon of products dating back to the very first Rolls-Royce, the 1904 10 H.P.

As with all Rolls-Royce motor cars, Spectre’s interior suite offers clients near-infinite Bespoke possibilities.

Bespoke stitching, embroidery and intricate piping has, as ever, been considered in their inception.

Flower Project

fresheye captures the power of nature through flowers. From the outdoors to the florist, experience the intricate beauty of flowers this summer season.

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Flowers

- Photography by Dennis Sterne -

Flower Project 2: Part of photography projects throughout 2022. Shot on i-phone 11.

Wild Red Rose

Chrysanthemum

Hydrangea Magical Pearl

Pincushion Protea

Tiger Orchid

M O ON

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Swatch

Watch

Feel: All dials carry the OMEGA X SWATCH branding, as well as the iconic Speedmaster logo and the new MoonSwatch logo. The glass construction, the “hidden” S integrated in the center of the crystal, the fine and sophisticated circular pattern on the dial outer ring and the subdials, the sharp and smooth lugs construction, the iconic “dot over 90” detail on the tachymeter scaled bezel, and of course the unique Bioceramic touch are common to all models and stand for passionate love for details. All hours, minutes, chronograph seconds hands and hour markers sport superluminova for a perfect glow in the dark.

Reach for space and explore the universe with Omega X Swatch. Dream big and Fly High with iconic Speedmaster and new MoonSwatch watches.

Watch

Spec: The watches have a 42-millimetre (1.5 in) diameter and 13-millimetre (0.5 in) thickness, and Super-LumiNova for the indexes and hands, which is the same lume as that used in the Omega Speedmaster. It has a quartz ETA movement.

Aesthetic: The MoonSwatch is a faithful celebration of the original Omega Speedmaster, revealed to the wearer in so many different ways. Firstly, they are the same size as the Moonwatch – 42mm in diameter and 13.25mm thick. The hands and hour markers are identical and sport SuperLumiNova. And even the tachymeter insert has a dot over 90.

It was inevitable that one day Daniel Craig - exclusive wearer of Omega watches since he became Mr James Bond - would bag himself a MoonSwatch.

Watch

Brand: Swatch and Omega have come together for an unprecedented, innovative take on the legendary Speedmaster Moonwatch. It’s the first time in history that the coming together of two legendary watch brands has occurred, and it’s a major deal for the Swiss watch industry as they look to attract a new and younger demographic.

Watch

Brand extension: Each of the 11 variations celebrates the original Omega Speedmaster, as well as a different planet in the solar system. Cases are made from the Swatch patented bioceramic material, which is not only eco-friendly but extremely affordable. Bioceramic is made from a combination of zirconium and bio-sourced plastic – both light and incredibly hardwearing.

The MoonSwatch is finished on a Velcro strap that feels utilitarian - indeed like something you’d find on an astronaut heading into space.

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Right: Prawns and steak.

Middle: Lobster and steak loin.

Far right: Scallops and lamb bites.

Surf ‘n’ Turf the right way

Combining land and sea for dining.

Surf and turf or surf ‘n’ turf is a main course combining seafood and red meat. A typical seafood component would be lobster (either lobster tail or a whole lobster), prawns, shrimp, squid or scallops, any of which could be steamed, grilled or breaded and fried. The meat is typically beef steak, although others may be used. One standard combination is lobster tail and filet mignon.

Surf and turf is eaten in steakhouses in the United States, Canada, UK and Australia, and may also be available in some British/Irishstyle pubs in those countries.

Surf and turf is often considered as an example of conspicuous consumption and kitsch, as it combines two expensive foods

which are not normally considered to be complementary. The point of surf ‘n’ turf is to maximize hedonistic extravagance.

Main picture Ingredients:

10.6 ounces giant king prawns (300g)

17.6 ounces mussels, cleaned (500g)

4 pieces salsiccia sausages (casings removed & meat separated into small pieces)

1 medium yellow onion, cubed

1 small fennel bulb, thinly sliced

2 garlic cloved, minced

1 package of mussel seasoning

250 milliliters dry white wine

3 tablespoons Pernod

8 sprigs fresh tarragon leaves

2 small crushed chilies

250 milliliters heavy cream

2 tablespoons fresh dill

6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

freshly ground pepper & salt

1 lemon, sliced

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Note: Keeping your home clean is simple with the All-in-one Clean Station. It does all the hard work, effectively* emptying the dustbin using “Air Pulse” technology and trapping 99.999% of fine dust** for maximum hygiene, while recharging the battery at the same time.

Clean your home effortlessly with easy control and movement. A lightweight vacuum cleaner design ensures maximum usability and reduces the strain on your wrist. As the handheld body weighs just 1.44kg.

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Samsung

Removable and longer-lasting Battery: With up to 1 hour of runtime, there’s plenty of power to vacuum the whole house in one go. It’s all thanks to the long-lasting, removable battery, which can be swapped over with a spare, giving you up to 2 hours to get your home spotless. Using Samsung’s unique technology, the battery retains 70% of its original performance up to 500 cycles.

Pick up everything from spilt cereal to pet hair in seconds, thanks to a powerful Digital Invertor Motor making for a super light, yet powerful vacuum. With the improved stator, rotor and 3D fan, it’s now 47% lighter, delivering up to 210W of suction.

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Samsung

Room to breathe: You spend ages getting rid of the dust from your floors, only for it to escape from your vacuum into the air. Not anymore. The 99.999% Multi-layered Filtration system traps 99.999% of dust*, while the Jet Cyclone catches fine dust** particles like pollen and mould. It means you can make the air in your home as hygienically clean as your floors

Say goodbye to unreachable dust with the extreme suction power of Samsung’s Jet Cyclone.

Creating a big caffeine hit

Lockdown new wave beverage.

Dalgona coffee is whipping the internet into something of a lather. Thanks to it’s simple ingredients and picture-perfect good looks, the drink has become a global social media sensation and is now most searched for type of coffee worldwide, according to Google trends.

Since the first day of lockdown, internet enquiries for dalgona coffee in the Uk increased by 1,900%.

The drink consists of instant coffee and sugar whipped into a frothy foam, served with hot or cold milk.

It is named after, and is said to taste like a traditional honeycomb toffee made in South Korea, where the trend started.

Since then #dalgonacoffee has had nearly 350 million views on TikTok and almost half a million posts on Instagram. No doubt the extreme popularity of dalgona was fuelled by coffee lovers missing their flat whites.

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Delgona Coffee

From the first day of lockdown on 20 March to the height of the novel drink’s online reign on 5 April, daily searches for dalgona coffee in the UK increased by 1900 per cent according to Google Trends.