The Red Bulletin October 2014 - US

U.S. EDITION

BEYOND THE ORDINARY

GLOBETROTTER BAAUER ON A SEARCH FOR SOUND

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ALL R AD

GADGETS

YOU MUST OWN NOW

Bike porn reaches new heights

FISH OUT OF WATER Pro gaming goes high performance

SLASH SPEAKS

OCTOBER 2014 $4.50 US & CANADA

A guitar hero’s influences

LENNY

KRAVITZ IT AIN’T OVER IT’S JUST BEGINNING

We have the best Weed in toWn (and we’re giving it away) this is guayule. it’s a desert plant grown without pesticides in the american southwest, and we’ve learned how to make wetsuits from it.

When we started building suits, we knew that neoprene itself was the most harmful material involved. Developed as polymerized chloroprene in the 1930s, neoprene has a highly toxic manufacturing process that combines chlorine with butadiene produced by the petrochemical industry. We did the best we could with what was available, but we knew we had to find something better.

Our search for alternatives led us to a partnership with Yulex, a company making plant-based biorubbers derived from guayule stems. Extracted in a waste-free, water-based separation process, we’re now blending natural guayule rubber into our new Yulex® suits to reduce our dependence on conventional polychloroprene.

We’ve also made this proprietary, game-changing biorubber available to the rest of the surf industry. Why? Because when volumes go up, prices go down; and when more surfers can choose less harmful suits, we all win. There’s no doubt that it’s a better path forward for all of us.

photo: Dave Sanchez Š 2014 Patagonia, Inc.

THE WORLD OF RED BULL

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LENNY KRAVITZ

A sit-down with rock’s Renaissance man as he releases his 10th album.

BREATHLESS The gentleman above you’ll recognize from the CDs of your youth and, possibly, the VIP rooms of certain Miami clubs in the late 1990s.

He’s Lenny Kravitz and he’s got a new album that he’s talking about on page 28. The gentleman to the right, however, you likely won’t, unless you spend your post-work hours watching his gameplay footage on Twitch while scarfing Chipotle. He’s Jimmy Ho, one of the gaming world’s top personalities. His journey from high school misfit to eSports champion is impressive. But perhaps just as impressive was his joining a bunch of top-shelf action athletes as they deep-dived Hawaiian waters in the name of high-performance training. The fish out of water story begins on page 40 and will have you gasping.

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“It’s about facing your fear—and conquering it.”

JIMMY HO, PAGE 40 THE RED BULLETIN

OCTOBER 2014

AT A GLANCE GALLERY MARK SELIGER (COVER), CAMERON BAIRD/RED BULL CONTENT POOL, STERLING LORENCE, SONSTAR/RED BULL CONTENT POOL, GREG FUNNELL, KEFFER, ZAK NOYLE/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

10 BEST SHOTS Photos of the month

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RAD COMPANY

Go behind the scenes of pro mountain biker Brandon Semenuk’s new film.

16 OUTDOORS Nature’s top adventures

FEATURES 28 Lenny Kravitz

The multiple Grammy winner talks his new album—and book

36 Angela Naeth

Ironman? Nah, Ironwoman

38 Baauer

Traveling in search of new sounds

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40 Jimmy Ho

The eSports champ pushes his limits as he learns how to freedive

46 Rad Company

Tackling the sweetest mountain bike trails around the world

58 Le Mans TRAINING: HONG 10

One of the world’s top B-boys reveals his training secrets, including light weights and lots and lots of practice.

Car-racing video-game stars make the leap to the famous real-world track

PLAY ON: LE MANS

What happens when a group of elite car-racing video gamers take to the realworld track at Le Mans?

36 82 NIGHTLIFE: PARIS

Party with the beautiful people—really, seriously beautiful people—behind the scenes at Paris clubs.

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ANGELA NAETH

As the Ironman championships start, one athlete takes it a mile at a time.

Well, actually, dozens of miles at a time.

ACTION! 68 69 70 71 72 73

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TRAVEL Git along, lil’ doggies PRO TOOLS Ready for some football?

TRAINING Break with the best B-boys WATCHES Regatta watches MY CITY A motorcyclist’s Barcelona SOUND SELECT Fake Shore Drive

presents up-and-comer Saba CLUB London’s Village Underground MUSIC Slash’s top 5 tunes GAMES Cést bon! Assassin’s Creed!

ENTERTAINMENT Timothy Simons SAVE THE DATE Unmissable events NIGHTLIFE Up all night in Paris GET THE GEAR Digital entertainment MAGIC MOMENT Special effects

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Visual Storytelling Beyond the Ordinary

The themes of ruin and redemption run concurrently in the movies of American director Robert Rodriguez, so it should come as no surprise that he’s decorated the conference room

REINVENTING THE PHOTO PART TWO OF OUR LOOK AT THE IMPORTANCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, 175 YEARS LATER.

„MEINE EINZIGE ANGST IST DIE ANGST SELBST“

„MEINE EINZIGE ANGST IST DIE ANGST SELBST“

PHARRELL WILLIAMS PREDICTS THE FUTURE at the headquarters of Troublemaker Studios with two of the eeriest and evocative symbols

MARC MÁRQUEZ: INSIDE TRACK 01

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of frailty and faith. The electric chair is a prop from his 2005 film Sin City; the confessional is

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Experience the new

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CONTRIBUTORS WHO’S ON BOARD THIS ISSUE RED BULLETIN WORLDWIDE

FABIEN “KEFFER” HEBERT

RALF HAUSER

CHRIS PALMER

Paris-based photographer Keffer started out in clubs taking shots of the trendiest party animals and star DJs to feature on his website, The Night Day. “I go out a lot because I love electronic music,” he says. “Dressed in black from head to toe, you can go just about anywhere in Paris at night—dance to trap music at the Social Club, enjoy a cocktail at the Silencio.” Or at an after-party in an apartment to shoot some of the most beautiful girls in the world. See night come to life on page 82.

For our feature on the new mountain bike film Rad Company, Canadian pro rider Brandon Semenuk had an immediate kinship with writer and fellow mountain bike fiend Hauser—who even lived for two years in Semenuk’s hometown of Whistler, in British Columbia, Canada. “Brandon is a hero of the scene,” Hauser says.

“Now his film has the makings of a classic.” Go behind the scenes of the movie’s aroundthe-world filming locations— from Canada to Fiji—starting on page 46.

Fly to Kona and hang around on a boat for a couple days.

Tough life, right? But for writer Chris Palmer, profiling eSports champion Jimmy Ho as the gamer learned to freedive was more than a surface challenge. “To be honest, I was a little worried because he was pretty shy and reserved,” says Palmer, a veteran of ESPN: The Magazine. “I decided to wait to interview him until after his last dive. He was candid and real—which is a writer’s dream.” See how Palmer got Ho to dive deep on page 40.

The Red Bulletin is published in 11 countries.

Jessie Ware is on the cover of this month’s U.K. edition.

BACKSTAGE

Photoshoot of the month

by Mark Seliger Over the course of a decadeslong career, Mark Seliger has shot more than 100 covers for magazines including Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and GQ. His portfolio features the spectrum of creative talent, from Hollywood’s A++ list to fashion glitterati and, of course, music’s top acts.

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Lenny Kravitz, as photographed by Mark Seliger in New York.

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C APE TOWN , S O UTH AFRI C A

TICKET TO RIDE Sea, spray, dodging kitesurfers: It’s all part of a normal day for Russian windsurfing champion Olya Raskina. After swapping her landlocked hometown of Moscow for a base in Dahab, Egypt, the 30-year-old spends five months of the year in SA. It’s where she can imagine her post-competition life. “There are lots of possibilities,” she says, “and one is opening a guest house in Cape Town.” Retirement is a way off, as Raskina is in the shape of her life.

She only narrowly missed out on becoming the 2014 PWA Freestyle World Champion but is happy, for now, with a career-best second place. facebook.com/olya.raskina1 Photo: Kirill Umrikhin/Red Bull Content Pool

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S E AT TLE , WA S H I N GTO N

SKATE STYLE C.J. Rench is most aptly named: a sculptor and designer who specializes in large-scale metalwork that can be seen all over America. His latest project is the Red Bull Skate Space in Seattle’s Jefferson Park.

Skater Torey Pudwill had significant input into the design; Rench and his team studied T-Puds as he skated on mock-ups and parts of the sculpture.

“There’s a very artistic side to the skateboard scene,” says Rench, but this is “first and foremost a work of art, and then something skateboardable.” The skaters, including Tom Schaar, seen here, love it. redbull.com/skatespace Photo: Mike Blabac/Red Bull Content Pool

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TO RO NTO, C ANADA

ROAR SOUND

Most bands would say they occupy a unique place in music, but BadBadNotGood really are one-in-a-million: the only hip-hop jazz trio to have produced the Wu-Tang Clan, worked with Tyler The Creator and regularly have a man in a lion suit crowdsurf their live shows. At a recent Red Bull Sound Select Presents gig in their hometown, where they shared the bill with singer-songwritress Akua and producer-multiinstrumentalist River Tiber, Heavy the Lion was there to do his thing. He takes such pride in it. redbullsoundselect.com Photo: Maria Jose Govea/Red Bull Content Pool

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B U L L E VA R D

The greatest of the great outdoors

DAVID L AMA

Summit or nothing

At 16, he won a Sport Climbing World Cup gold, then four years later, in 2011, he retired so he could tackle the great peaks. He’s since looked down from the summit of Chogolisa in Pakistan and Cerro Torre in Patagonia. Next is Masherbrum, like K2 and Chogolisa, in the Karakoram mountain range.

“Its northeast face is like the north face of the Eiger with a Cerro Torre on top,” says Lama.

Impossible to the rest of us.

MANUEL FERRIGATO/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

The Austrian laughs at the idea that something is impossible, then goes out to prove otherwise.

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STEEP ASCENT Whether for camping, hiking or climbing, outdoor equipment sales are booming.

JESSICA BIEL

Hollywood climber

BEST-KNOWN OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT BRAND EARNINGS

She doesn’t work for scale, but she does scale for good causes.

$1.9

billion dollars

2000 1900

The star of The A-Team climbed Kilimanjaro in 2010 to raise awareness of the global water shortage. And in this dress she’s raising awareness of the physiological rewards of a 19,340-foot ascent. Next up: Everest, which is 29,028 feet.

1800 1700 1600 1500 1400 1300 1200 1100 1000

NORTH FACE

$595

900

million dollars

800 700 600 500

PATAGONIA

400 300

JACK WOLFSKIN

200 100 2009

MAMMUT

2010

2011

2012

2013

MEANWHILE: THE INCREASE IN THE PERCENTAGE OF OBESE ADULTS IN THE U.S. 1500 1500 1400 1500 1400 1300 1400 1300 1200 1300 1200 1100 1200 1100 1000 1100 1000 900 1000 900 800 900 800 700 800 700 600 700 600 500 600 500 400 500 400 300 400 Big mountains you’ve never heard of, unless you’re David Lama (facing page).

300 200 300 200 100 200 100 100 2009 2009 NGADI CHULI MASHERBRUM ISTOR-O-NAL 2009

2011

36.5%

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GETTY IMAGES, CORBIS

7 S EC R E T 23,000 - F OO T E R S

25,823 ft., Nepal

MANA 23,858 ft., India

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25,659 ft., Pakistan

LANGTANG LIRUNG 23,710 ft., Nepal/China

1990 2010 2010 2010

2011 2011 2011

2012 2012 2012

2013 2013 2013

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24,288 ft., Pakistan

LENIN PEAK 23,405 ft., Tajikistan

QUNGMOGANGZE 23,123 ft., Tibet

CRUNCH THIS DATA? Combined, these stats prove what has long been suspected: People wearing cool outdoor clothes aren’t always on their way to the nearest mountain.

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THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST RACES

Over hill and dale and ice You can keep your 26.2-mile strolls.

THE HOTTEST

THE HIGHEST

THE WILDEST

THE COLDEST

Marathon des Sables

Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon

Jungle Marathon

Polar Race

Where: Amazonian Brazil How long: 157 miles Terrain: Jungle Temperature: 104°F Record: 32h 18m Humidity: 99 percent Risks: Leeches, anacondas, piranhas.

Where: Canada, from Nunavut to the magnetic North Pole How long: 403 miles Terrain: Snow and ice Temperature: -58°F Record: 10d 9h 45m Risks: At 50 below, it’s not just the liquids you bring that freeze.

Where: In the Moroccan Sahara desert, route changing annually How long: About 155 miles over six days Terrain: Desert sand Temperature: At night 32°F, by day 104°F Record: 16h 27m Water required: 2.3 gallons daily Risks: Disorientation.

In 1994, one lost entrant was found alive —nine days later.

Where: Up and up from Mt. Everest base camp in Nepal How long: 26.2 miles Terrain: Himalayan Temperature: 50°F Record: 3h 28m 27s Highest point: 17,600 ft.

Risks: Yeti sightings brought on by severe lack of oxygen.

BARE IN RARE AIR

The freest climbing there is Nudists are taking over the mountains. We’re cool with that, but wearing shoes isn’t 100 percent commitment.

DIETMAR KAINRATH

K A I N R AT H: M OV I N G I M AG E S

PICTUREDESK.COM, HUBER & CO. AG, CORBIS(8)

Some say it’s the ultimate nature experience: heading toward a summit wearing nothing but a backpack and hiking boots. And a hat. But apart from that, everything is left swinging in the mountain breeze. Naked hiking is now so widespread in Switzerland that they have come up with a sign prohibiting it. A graphic designer originally devised the sign as a joke, only then to receive a lot of orders from municipal authorities.

Other sports that would be better in the buff: Naked sprinting Back to our roots, like in the good old days of ancient Olympia.

Naked soccer Who wants to stand in the wall?

Naked swimming Men would never stray from their lane thanks to the additional rudder.

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SURVIVAL

Danger for breakfast Three robust adventurers who have turned man vs. nature into a nice little job.

CAPLIO R4 USER(2), NEHBERG.DE, LAURA BOMBIER

BEAR GRYLLS Real men drink elephant pee and eat live grubs—at least this former U.K. special forces reservist does. Other things he has eaten include yaks’ eyes, goats’ testicles and scorpions; all organic.

Enjoy your dinner.

Watch him on: NBC

RÜDIGER NEHBERG Trained as a pastry chef but earned his bread journeying up jungle rivers and campaigning for indigenous peoples’ rights. The 78-yearold now wanders the Brazilian rainforest in regular pants and a T-shirt.

Read about him in: One of his dozen books

LES STROUD Is there anything this guy can’t do? He can check off successful musician, filmmaker and survivalist. Now he doesn’t employ a film crew, instead shooting all footage himself. But he does always carry his harmonica.

Listen to him on: his latest album Wonderful Things

BULLEVARD

ODDBALLS + NATURE = DRAMA

The Not-So-Great Outdoors

ALIVE

GRIZZLY MAN

127 HOURS

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Alex Supertramp has had enough of his suburban life, goes hiking around the U.S. His final stop is Denali National Park in Alaska.

PL ANE CAR RYING A RUGBY TE AM CR ASHES IN THE ANDES. THE SURVIVORS HAVE NO FOOD, APART, THAT IS, FROM ONE ANOTHER.

Documentary filmmaker Werner Herzog retraces the steps of Timothy Treadwell, who hoped to live in harmony with grizzly bears.

MOUNTAINEER TRAPPED BY HIS ARM IN A CREVICE. BUT FOR HOW LONG?

WHAT GOES WRONG?

NO MAP. NO CLUE. NO CHANCE.

How bad do things have to get before you’ll eat your friends? Pretty damn awful, so it would seem.

Treadwell should have asked himself: “Do the bears want to live in harmony with me too?”

Imagine convincing yourself to cut off your own arm, and then it turns out your knife is blunt.

HERO’S OUTCOME?

LEGEND TO SOME, BAD EXAMPLE TO OTHERS.

NANDO PAR R ADO, PL AYED BY ETHAN HAWK E, NOW GIVES MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES FOR $75,000 A POP.

BEAR SNACKS.

ARON R ALSTON, PL AYED BY JAMES FR ANCO, STILL CLIMBS MOUNTAINS. WITH HIS —SPOILER ALERT!— PROSTHETIC AR M.

IS THAT WILD HER B EDIBLE OR POISONOUS?

FEAR OF FLYING SAVES LIVES.

TRY LIVING WITH HUMANS FIRST.

When solo climbing, tell someone where you’re going and take a sharp knife.

WHERE AM I A N D W H E R E ’S THE CLOSEST B AT H R OO M ?

Navigation wasn’t always via an app. How finding your way has changed:

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STARS Even in the Stone Age, people looked out for Ursa Major and the North Star.

COMPASS Pointing south for the directionally curious in China for a millennium.

SEXTANT Invented over 250 years ago, its mirror-and-scope method is still used at sea.

GPS Since 1995, 24 satellites have you pinpointed, as long as your battery isn’t dead.

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KOBAL COLLECTION(3), PICTUREDESK.COM, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, CORBIS(2), GARMIN

WHAT FILM?

INTO THE WILD

WHAT DO WE LEARN?

Real-life natural disaster movies.

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BRANCHING OUT

Your next holiday: a treehouse Mankind came from trees and now we’re returning to them.

Gone are the days when hideaways in treetops were for children only. Now tourists vacationing in forests will find tailor-timbered restaurants and designer hotels in the branches of huge trees. But as with most other types of trips, treehousing doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg; it can also be enjoyed at a budget level, where you carry the accommodation on your back.

New Zealand

The Redwoods Treehouse in Warkworth has space, and cocktailhour facilities, for up to 50 guests.

California

REDWOODSTREEHOUSE, BENJAMIN ARIFF, TENSILE

This treehouse in Venice Beach is accessible to the open air and the creatures who dwell therein.

Anywhere

The Tentsile Tree Tent hovers between trees and makes you feel like you’re sleeping in a UFO. tentsile.com

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EXTREME EDIBLES

“BUT IS THERE A S I G N A L? ” Nature is all well and good, but it’s better when you tackle it with a smartphone.

PROJECT NOAH Identify every species you see with this all-app for outdoor types.

NOKIA LUMIA 1020 The 41-megapixel sensor saves having to lug a camera around.

Ultimate survival menu Stranded on a remote island, alone in the forest or losing your credit card: We’ve all been there. Order from Mother Nature.

FISH

DA N D E L I O N S

URINE

Attract them using insects, blood or vomit.

Catch them on a hook fashioned from a sharpened twig.

Save the guts as new bait. Beware fish that don’t look like fish.

A “delicious” coffee replacement. Wash soil off roots; roast until they are dark brown; boil for about 15 mins.

They contain eight times the vitamin C of lettuce.

You won’t die, but your kidneys will suffer. In 1994, Mauro Prosperi got lost in the desert on the Marathon des Sables and survived after eight days of self-hydration.

I N S EC T S

CAMBIUM

SNAKES

Avoid anything that has scales, is hairy or very colorful and the critters that smell, bite or sting. Catch them in the daytime as they crawl about. Swallow them raw or fry them.

The soft bit under the bark of many trees—types of pine, maple and spruce, for example—can be boiled until soft, then consumed.

Contains sugar, starch and trace minerals.

All snakes are edible and taste like chicken.

Trap one by the head with a two-pronged stick. Then cut its head off. Remove the skin, season and then roast over a fire. Easy.

“ Moth larvae taste like pistachios when you roast them.”

DIETMAR KAINRATH

BUG CHEF DAV ID GEORGE GOR DON

GETTY IMAGES(2), CORBIS(4), BILDAGENTUR-ONLINE/BEGSTEIGER

JOOS ORANGE SOLAR CHARGER Makes sense in a city, too, what with power-hungry cell phones.

CARRYING THE CAN!

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BULLEVARD Y

N

3.

Do you need to keep your hands free?

N

2.

Will you be in the air for more than two seconds?

Y

Hands-on footage Do you need to take a camera with you on your next adrenaline rush?

Take our test to find out.

Yes

Y

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1.

Y

Are you going to go quicker than 30 mph?

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GO! GO!

N O GO!

What are you waiting for? Put on your camera, jump out of a plane or whatever, then click upload. Just don’t make it too long.

Leave your action camera where it is.

On this occasion, you can use the camera in your cell phone to take a selfie by the sea.

No

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T O B O L D LY GO P RO

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LENNY KRAVITZ IS ON THE CUSP OF RELEASING HIS 10TH ALBUM AND A PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK THAT TURNS THE CAMERA BACK ON THE PAPARAZZI—IN HIS DOWN TIME FROM ACTING IN BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES. THE RED BULLETIN SITS DOWN WITH ROCK’S ULTIMATE RENAISSANCE MAN. PHOTOGRAPHY: MARK SELIGER PRODUCER: JOSEF SIEGLE WORDS: BRANDON PERKINS

Kravitz, 50, is the only man to have won the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance Grammy four years in a row.

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L LENNY KRAVITZ WRITES, PLAYS, PRODUCES AND ARRANGES SONGS THAT SOUND LIKE A MIX OF MOTOWN AND DAVID BOWIE.

enny Kravitz’s music has been pumped into the malls and public spaces of America for two and a half decades.

While it’s been a financial boon for the long-time rocker, the forced and repeated listenings have had another, less pleasant impact. His music has been so omnipresent for so long that it practically discounts his efforts. His songs have become easy listening—even though the creation of them was anything but easy.

There isn’t another black man in popular music who represents what he does—and it doesn’t matter that his father was white or that his mother was one of American television’s first leading black females. Kravitz is alone with his Gibson Flying V on that larger-than-life level. He wrote songs that sounded like a mix of Motown and David Bowie in a time when N.W.A started to explode into mainstream consciousness. Critics were quick to cry redundancy at a time when rock had turned grunge. And yet, Kravitz has always held firm to popular music’s rare feat: He writes, plays, produces and arranges almost everything.

Unlike so many single-named musical acts that reach the pop stratosphere, Kravitz truly is a band unto himself. There isn’t a gaggle of songwriters and studio musicians coming up with the undeniably earworm-y guitar riffs, basslines and hooks that have cemented the man’s 31

catalog into popular culture. Those anthemic power chords from “Fly Away” came when Kravitz was driving his jeep in the Bahamas; that Guitar Hero classic “Are You Gonna Go My Way” was written by him and long-time writing partner Craig Ross “in five minutes”; the heartbreaking swirl of “Again” that dominated radio programming in the early aughts came from his pains. Even when he chooses to let someone else play certain instruments on his records, he almost always writes the arrangements. His oneman methods have worked—to the tune of nearly 40 million records sold.

The music landscape has changed significantly since the release of Kravitz’s debut album, Let Love Rule, in 1989. Yet the process for this artist has stayed much the same. He recorded Strut, his 10th fulllength, in just two weeks, and mostly on his own. It will be released on Sept. 23.

“I tend to go away. I go to the Bahamas on a quiet island and make my music in the bushes,” he says from a rooftop lounge in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Sliding glass doors keep the city’s stifling summer heat at bay, haze and condensation blocking a stunning view of the Hudson River. “I did fly down string players, and there are three background singers on the album as well. And my horn players. But otherwise it’s just me playing guitar, bass, drums and keyboards, plus my guitarist Craig Ross, who has been with me for years. For the most part, it’s just three of us in the studio.”

Kravitz adapted the album’s title from a mantra his grandmother often repeated: “Strut your stuff, baby. You look great.”

Looks do matter—and at the photo shoot for The Red Bulletin, it’d be easy to dismiss Kravitz’s need to approve every photo as a narcissistic by-product of fame. After each round of furious flashes, he steps out from in front of the lens—paying no attention to the stylist picking at his hair—to glance at the mobile monitor that displays the latest stills and debates them with acclaimed photographer Mark Seliger. But words like “composition” and “contrast,” “movement” and “pop” develop the dialogue into a legitimate study of form. It’s not just showy empty rhetoric, either. Kravitz knows his stuff.

The contract for his forthcoming photography book that turns the camera back on the paparazzi wasn’t just handed to him because he won the Grammy for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance four years in a row; it’s because the man knows how to frame an image.

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nd, to a modern celebrity, the cultivation of an appropriate image is an ongoing battle—one that Kravitz takes seriously.

“I want to look decent [in a photo], of course, but for me, when the composition—or [as] I like to call it the architecture of the photograph—is right, that’s what gets me excited,” he says.

“You can take 100 pictures of someone standing there and it’s just boring. I want to see movement. I want to see design.”

His Renaissance man persona has in recent years also included roles in Oscarnominated independent films—director Lee Daniels’ acclaimed Precious, the billion-dollar-earning Hunger Games series, and an appearance in 2013’s The Butler—which made President Barack Obama “tear up.” Not a bad five-year run.

Films of such magnitude require a lot of people—The Butler alone features a cast of approximately 73,452 actors you recognize—and certainly more than just three guys next to a Caribbean beach.

“When I’m in the studio, it’s just me.

It’s my thing—my music, my production, whatever I want to do ... me, me, me, me, me,” Kravitz says. “That’s what it is, but then to be able to get together with a group of people and serve somebody else—serve a character, serve a director— I like that a lot. It just takes me away from myself.”

It’s apparent that Kravitz has expanded his ideas on how a lucrative ship should sail based on his experience in film and design (his Kravitz Design firm creates interiors of buildings throughout the world), but it’s his corresponding time in the music business that has outlined the path for the release of Strut. The album will be his first produced outside of the major-label system; his own imprint—dubbed Roxie Records after his late mother, The Jeffersons star Roxie Roker—has partnered with a company called Kobalt Label Services on its release. KLS is not a traditional record label, but it seems like its business model is what record labels should have always been: It will distribute Kravitz’s music and cut checks, while he maintains rights and creative control.

He was never clueless to the details that comprised the currency around his art, but after 20 years with Virgin Records, his last album, 2011’s Black and White America, was released on Atlantic Records and heightened his involvement with the nuts and bolts of selling music. His frustration over the situation is still palpable to this day. “The biggest mistake of my musical life,” he says. “Horrible. They just f*ked me. It was bad. They don’t have the money they used to have—everybody’s job is on the line. One day this person is running it, two weeks later it’s someone else. But they let me down. They led me to believe things were a certain way and they weren’t.”

Years later and lesson learned, it comes down to the fact that he’s Lenny fricking Kravitz. He writes his own music, he’s sold 40 million albums—and so financial options outside of the traditional machine certainly abound.

There are many parts of being Lenny fricking Kravitz that create mystique: He hangs out with Mick Jagger in his own Paris home; his interior designs include chic hotels; his discussions of photography and art are informed. But above all that, it’s 25 years of music that has impacted popular culture with its omnipresence—perhaps none more than “It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over.”

“WHEN I’M IN THE STUDIO, IT’S JUST ME,” KRAVITZ SAYS. “BUT TO BE ABLE TO SERVE A CHARACTER, SERVE A DIRECTOR—I LIKE THAT A LOT.” THE RED BULLETIN

“THE CHAMBER,” THE LEAD SINGLE FROM KRAVITZ’S NEW ALBUM, IS ANOTHER CATCHY INTERSECTION OF UPBEAT FUNK AND BLUESY ROCK ’N’ ROLL—AND THERE’S A LITTLE DISCO IN THERE.

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s universally acclaimed as the careerdefining single from Mama Said is, “It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over” is also notable for how specific the track is to Kravitz’s life.

He wrote it as his marriage to Cosby Show star Lisa Bonet was falling apart. It’s a song he wrote about the reluctant eradication of young love—one that just happened to play out in the public eye.

While the celebrity machine was nowhere near the feeding frenzy of today, their breakup was indeed played out in the tabloids. So when Kravitz sings “So many tears I’ve cried/So much pain inside,” it’s hard not to picture the young couple— Lenny with his shoulder-length dreads, Lisa in her flat-topped hat—sitting on a couch at 3 a.m., exhausted from their efforts to make love work.

“It was truly the most definitive song when dealing with my breakup at that time—yet it was up, it was hopeful,” he says. “It’s one of those ones that in your career, you get certain ones that are just like—Ka-blam! That’s one of them ... and I knew it when I wrote it.”

The track reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and continues to get spins on FM

radio today. It’s such a monumental track that many people assume it’s a cover from Smokey Robinson’s day, including a few articles online that didn’t splurge for a fact checker. “What that’s saying is that they thought it was a classic,” Kravitz says, delivering his biggest smile of the day. “It just happens to be my classic.”

“The Chamber,” the lead single from Strut, is another catchy intersection of upbeat funk and bluesy rock ’n’ roll.

There’s a little disco in there, complete with a “Heart of Glass” reference. But as an older man who’s been through the wringer a few times, Kravitz better balances the muses in his life with a quieter existence. While the lyrics of “The Chamber” feel specific to a particular love gone awry, this time around there is no pretty face to pin the problem on.

However, even as he’s more prepared to keep his personal life out of the public sphere than during the days of young love with Bonet, or a decade later when he was engaged to Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima, he still wakes up as Lenny Kravitz—inspiring that lustful awe of 85 percent of all women.

“I’m always taken aback by that whole thing. I don’t think about it at all. I’m just trying to get up and get going and deal with my life. I think about the thing— the art—not the effect of me being out in the public eye,” he says. He punctuates his grandmother’s sentiment, one so simple it feels genuine: “We’re all freaks.

Nobody is normal. Embrace who you are and live it.”

Strut your stuff, baby. You look great, as do the photos. And even if they don’t, you still can play all those instruments.

Go behind the scenes at Seliger’s shoot with Kravitz at www.redbulletin.com Grooming: Lorraine Abeles; Production: Ruth Levy; Location: Mark Seliger Studio, New York City

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ANGELA NAETH

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Angela Naeth won the first triathlon she ever entered, despite changing her clothes completely at every stage transition. This month, the Canadian sets her sights on the big daddy of them all—the Ironman World Championship in Kona.

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Growing up in northern British Columbia, Angela Naeth experienced winter for six months of the year. Perhaps that explains why the rising triathlon star now lives in Las Vegas, smack dab in the middle of the crazy-hot Mojave Desert.

“I dreamt of summer,” sighs Naeth as she drives from summer training headquarters in Bend, Oregon, to a “shamanism retreat” with her coach, triathlon legend Mark Allen. “The most I feel alive is when I’m in nature and I feel that connection to being outside.”

Allen has raved about Naeth’s “monster cardiovascular system,” but her progression from Canadian rookie to elite triathlete has been a steady climb. Her grade school didn’t have an athletics program, so she lobbied her parents to allow her to run track with a club team. She became a fast enough middle-distance runner to escape the B.C. winters with a scholarship at the University of Missouri.

Naeth returned home with a master’s degree and prepared for a career as a physical therapist. But on long mountain bike rides in the Rockies, she discovered that she wasn’t ready for the 9-to-5 slog.

“I always wanted to see how far I could go in sports,” she says, “and I wanted to get to the top.”

She remembered watching an Ironman event on TV when she was 10 and in 2007 decided to jump into a local triathlon. She felt confident about her biking and running ability; she had been a lifeguard in high school, so she knew how to swim. She did everything wrong that first race—including complete clothing changes during the three stage transitions—and still managed to win.

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“I thought, ‘Man, I can do this,’ ” she says.

Naeth journeyed south again in 2008, this time to a triathlon training camp in California. A coach spotted her potential and encouraged her to go pro. She did so that year, winning in Boulder, Colorado, at the Olympic distance. But as she transitioned to the 70.3-mile distance of the Half Ironman, injuries and other distractions kept her from the winner’s podium. One wag dubbed her the “Susan Lucci” of the triathlon for her many runner-up finishes.

She eventually switched coaches to

“I always wanted to see how far I could go in sports, and I wanted to get to the top.” join with Allen, who emphasizes holistic training principles to avoid burnout and injury. They worked on improving Naeth’s swim stroke and running form as well as building her stamina. Soon she was racking up victories, including three at the 70.3-mile distance in both 2012 and 2013 and one at the Leadman 125 in 2012.

“People ask me, ‘What’s your fastest time?’ ” Naeth says. “Honestly, I have no idea because I don’t pay attention to that.

I go out there and race. I let the race dictate how I am and I try to get the best performance I can out of myself that day.”

Naeth then geared up for the grueling demands of the 140.6-mile Ironman. She

completed her first in 2013 and another in 2014, finishing fifth and sixth respectively. “When I did my first full Ironman, I was very scared of the distances,” she admits. “I’d never run a marathon in my life, let alone more than 18 miles. It’s a different kind of hurt. It’s kind of a dull ache that gets worse and worse, whereas with the Half Ironman you go through that pain pretty quickly, like pulling off a Band-Aid.” Now Naeth is poised for the ultimate challenge: the Ironman World Championship on the Big Island of Hawaii in October. The original Ironman remains the most storied and intimidating triathlon on the planet. The event starts with a 2.4-mile open-water swim in the truculent Pacific Ocean, transitions to a 112-mile cycle past lava fields and through the “ho’omumuku” crosswind that blows up to 45 miles per hour, and concludes with a 26.2-mile marathon run in scorching heat.

The nearly nine-hour pain-palooza strains the limits of physical and mental endurance, where athletes must battle not only the other competitors but themselves. Naeth plans to tap into her mental strength by not overthinking.

“The best races that I have are when I have nothing going on in my head,” she says. “Just the feeling of now: It’s all just in the present moment.”

Naeth and her husband, triathlete Paul Duncan, recently journeyed to Hawaii so that she could train on the Ironman course. “I would love to be a contender,” she says. “A top 10 finish would be amazing for my first time out.”

The Red Bulletin Presents goes training with Naeth in Mt. Shasta—video at redbulletin.com.

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Harlem Globetrotter To escape the success of “Harlem Shake,” producer Baauer traveled to the ends of the earth in search of sounds forgotten in the digital age.

The quest is as contemporary as they come: Find something that doesn’t exist on the Internet. Have an idea for Cheetos-based art? Already a Tumblr page. Want to see what happens when you connect hundreds of 9-volt batteries? Check YouTube, dude. Need some really crazy sounds to put into Ableton Live for your latest remix?

There’s plenty of that.

For Baauer—the Philadelphia-born producer trying to escape the traps of a heavy music crown delivered by his “Harlem Shake” success and the viral sensation that ensued—the quest to discover music that doesn’t exist online meant going to remote regions of Japan and the United Arab Emirates.

“Did this come from a lack of sounds?

No, I wouldn’t agree with that at all,” Baauer says from his temporary headquarters in Los Angeles. Harry Bauer Rodrigues still claims Brooklyn as home base but is out on the left coast to be closer to the musicians he’s working with for his yet-untitled debut album.

“When I was on the Internet looking for shit, you can find anything—anything you want. I wanted to find something that I couldn’t find on the Internet, which is hard.”

From Japan’s ancient Imperial courts to visits with desert tribes on the outskirts of Dubai, Baauer scoured the countrysides for unique sounds to inform his tracks. He recorded bubbling sulfur deposits and the swooshing of falcons on the fly, as well as rare traditional instruments made from the most surprising materials.

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preserved. It still has the shape of a goat, which makes it really bizarre,” Baauer says of the instrument, which is similar to the gaida found in the Balkans and Southeast Europe. “You blow into a tube and it plays like a bagpipe. My friend played it a little bit and he was really good at it, which was tight.”

Baauer’s productions are recognizable by the bass and the build he layers into every track. “Higher,” his Jay-Z-sampling co-production with Just Blaze, ascends up M.C. Escher–like stairs at a dizzying pace before letting the bottom drop out

“I wanted to find sounds that I couldn’t find on the Internet— which is hard.” in one of those moments that keeps electronic music alive and vibrant.

And then there’s “Harlem Shake.” The song’s cumulative YouTube views number well over a billion, reaching the plateau in a matter of months, which changed the way Billboard calculates its charts.

Perhaps the very reason the meme achieved a viral peak of 4,000+ uploaded videos in a single February 2013 day, according to YouTube, was the song’s accessible 15-second build and bass drop—15 seconds of insanity that ends with a convenient death rattle. Its catchiness played to the Internet’s 30-second attention span, just as the video’s setup was easier to re-create than

a captioned jpg of a cat. It only required a camera held steady and some friends; editing meant one single cut.

Good Morning America may have called, but Baauer barely saw a direct dime in earnings from “Harlem Shake.”

He didn’t make the video that started the phenomenon—that was some bros in Australia—and he didn’t clear any of the samples that would have made the song legally legit. Indirectly, of course, its success secured a gig or two for the 25-year-old.

“You should always clear your samples,” Baauer says very succinctly.

“I was just sitting around my bedroom; I never imagined that it would happen like that in a million years. Whenever possible now: [Use your own] recordings.

Record yourself or someone else saying it. Now, with this Red Bull thing, going out to find new sounds was perfect.

These are all my sounds.”

This November, Baauer’s soundfinding journey to the ends of the earth will appear as a documentary on Red Bull TV. Inspiration from the trip pushed the producer’s sensibilities beyond his own expectations. His excitement over these new sounds is palpable both in the music he’s churning out and in his voice as he talks about it.

“It’s a fun little game to make a song only out of these sounds that I got, and I’ve already ended up making three or four,” he says. “I’m using them in other productions, remixes and other stuff. It’s just an amazing palette. Like a painter who got a whole new set of colors after using the same ones for years and years.”

Hear Baauer’s five favorite found sounds over at redbulletin.com.

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Breaking down “Harlem Shake” The various videos featuring Baauer’s track reached 1 billion YouTube views in two months. By contrast, his colleague in the catchyas-hell video category, Psy, took six months to reach that number of views with “Gangnam Style.”

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ll he wanted to do was breathe.

A taste of air would have been like the sun on his face for a thousand years. But at that moment breathing was the last thing he could do. He heard the voice of his diving instructor, calm and supportive, pushing him toward his goal.

“You’re almost to the surface,” said the instructor reassuringly. “Relax and stay calm.” He began a countdown.

15…14…13…

But Jimmy “DeMoN” Ho couldn’t hear him. The words blurred and dissolved into thin air. The very air he craved.

12…11…10…

As the countdown stretched for an eternity, Ho struggled. His body convulsed. His toes curled. His diaphragm ached. He pursed his lips and puffed out his cheeks. This was hell.

9…8…7…

“You’re almost there,” the instructor urged. “You’re about to break through.”

Ho’s faced turned beet red. There was one way out, and he wasn’t going to make it.

Ho is one of the top eSports competitors in the world, a multiple-time champion at DOTA 2. His usual domain is to the right—with teeming masses of fans online watching him play at a tournament. But he believes that pushing his physical and mental limits can invigorate his game.

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former Canadian diving pro–turned– instructor Kirk Krack. This year’s talented group has amassed nearly 30 X Games and Olympic medals among them and included Travis Pastrana, Ironman Matt Poole, and freeskiers Dara Howell and Bobby Brown.

“Our goal is to teach athletes how to manage stress, whether it’s real or imagined,” Krack says. “A leaky mask is real; sharks closing in on you is imagined—yet both create stress.”

What Ho was in for he could not know.

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ike a lot of kids, Ho had a casual interest in video games—Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario Kart were typical after-school pastimes. He’s the second oldest of five siblings; his parents Ronald, a mechanical engineer, and Lisa, who works in a nail salon, encouraged him to get involved in traditional sports.

“But honestly I sucked,” says Ho. “My parents forced me and my brother to play soccer, but I didn’t enjoy it.”

Then in 2003, when he was 13, his brother introduced him to the WarCraft 3 custom mod Defense of the Ancients.

His skill level increased steadily over several years, and he began attracting interest from sponsors who would supply him with headsets, keyboards and other equipment. The fledgling eSports industry was then beginning to take shape, and Ho managed to pull in a couple hundred dollars a month.

With his cherubic face and quiet demeanor, the soft-spoken 24-year-old introvert could still be mistaken for a high school student today. But those are days he’d like to forget. His time at Ayala High School in Chino Hills, California, was littered with poor grades, suspensions and angst—he was bullied.

DotA, an online multiplayer war game, became his salvation. He would play it 14 hours a day. After a year of almost complete isolation, Ho emerged.

He had made incredible strides in DotA, attracting the attention of fans and sponsors worldwide with his late-night displays of brilliance, but his health and relationships had been severely compromised.

“Some of my friends actually thought I was dead,” Ho says. The ones who reconnected with the teenager saw a ghost. He was pale and gaunt. At 5-foot-8 he barely topped 100 pounds.

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Then the air trapped in his lungs for nearly two minutes came bursting forth with a violent, primal gush. His exasperated exhalation was wrapped in a frustrated scream. He didn’t make it to the surface. He had failed.

He sat up on the palm-tree-print carpet in a small air-conditioned conference room of the Royal Kona Resort in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, as his chest heaved. Better his failures happen here than the following day in the 100-foot-deep bay armed only with a wetsuit, snorkel and a determination to survive.

This was Ho’s introduction to freediving. For five days in early August, the DOTA 2 pro video gamer joined seven action sports athletes for a training camp in Hawaii designed to throw athletes out of their comfort zone with the goal of sharpening their focus, drive and mental acuity.

All of Ho’s classmates successfully completed the practice drill, but he wore a look of frustration. It had been a tough stretch for him. At the DOTA 2 Championships in July, his team finished 9th, earning only $50,000, compared to the $500,000 they would have earned if they finished one place higher. His confidence had taken a beating, and now—at the very camp where he was looking to rebuild it by pushing his limits—he was flailing again.

It was a primal reaction; he was afraid of what his vast new oceanic nemesis had in store. But that’s why he was here. “It’s about facing your fear and conquering it,” says Ho. “You can’t let fear win.”

The Red Bull High Performance Camp, in its second year, is run by 46-year-old

YOU CAN’T LET FEAR WIN.

At the Red Bull High Performance Camp in Kona, Ho at first struggled with freediving technique.

he’ll jump on online streaming service Twitch at 10 p.m. to show his DOTA practice sessions. He’ll garner as many as 8,000 viewers—who will beg for marathon sessions late into the night.

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FREEDIVING WAS TO HELP HIM MANAGE STRESS. eSports achievements. The 2011 arrival of DOTA 2 was announced with a $1.6 million tournament. “My dad thought it was bullshit,” Ho says. But as a member of the team Meet Your Makers, he finished fifth. When he showed his father a bank statement for $16,000, his share of the loot, Ronald beamed. He saw it as a sign of maturity when his son began paying his own car insurance and cell phone bills.

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ow Ho has learned to budget his time between gaming and training. He gets up at 8 a.m. on weekdays and practices DOTA until 1 o’clock. He’ll sneak in a quick nap before hitting his local 24-Hour Fitness for a two-hour session starting at 4 p.m. Before heading home he’ll stop at the grocery store to get food to prepare. Normally, 44

ealing with the whims of the ocean, however, was a different matter. In daily four-hour classroom sessions at the camp in Hawaii, the athletes studied the physiological changes depth has on the body.

But Ho was lost. He had trouble mastering his snorkel and was preoccupied with the embarrassment he would feel if he called out to Krack to save him from drowning. Krack had trouble getting Ho to let go of the flotation device. Ho began to have a panic attack and couldn’t control his heart rate, essential elements to a smooth dive.

“It was bad,” Krack says. “We all felt horrible for him.”

The incessant chop of waves wasn’t helping. Ho gagged on the salty water. He headed back to the ship and didn’t attempt a dive. And vomiting on the boat didn’t exactly help his confidence either.

At dinner that night the rest of the campers laughed as they recounted triumphs from the day’s outing.

“Everyone was having so much fun,” Ho says. “Why wasn’t I having fun?”

He went back to his room and threw up again, then went to sleep, the ache in his belly exceeded only by the one in his heart.

Then something happened: The rest of the campers rallied around him.

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n the last day of camp the water was so blue it glowed. It was paradise. In this place fear did not belong. Ho knew that.

He was the first camper to put on his wetsuit and get in the water. He set a goal of 20 feet. His head disappeared below the surface and re-emerged nearly 40 seconds later. He hit 26 feet. He pumped his fist; his confidence soared. Pastrana shouted encouragement as he bobbed in the water. The support was contagious.

“Way to go, Jimmy!” boomed Poole.

By day’s end he would reach a depth of 70 feet.

Back on the boat he exhaled, safe in the knowledge that he had vanquished the fear and doubt to the deepest depths of the blue abyss. The sensation was like none he’d ever had before. He stared ahead, his lips forming a nearly imperceptible smile.

This was his moment.

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Brandon Semenuk comes from Whistler in British Columbia, Canada, a world capital of action sports. He first rode a cross-country mountain bike when he was 6 years old and soon discovered the delights of downhill and freestyle. He puts his reputation as a child prodigy down to his revolutionary riding style.

In 2008, when still just a 17-year-old rookie, he took the victory at Red Bull Rampage, an event on the international big mountain freeriding calendar that unfolds in the unforgiving terrain of Virgin, Utah. Since then, he has regularly won more coveted dirt jump, slopestyle and freeride titles. After the success of his YouTube series, Life Behind Bars, he spent a year making an ambitious full-length mountain biking film, Brandon Semenuk’s Rad Company.

U TA H Rad Company showcases the talents of a group of remarkably skilled riders, including Cam Zink, Cameron McCaul, and Stevie Smith. They’re notable for their array of competition wins and the incredible maneuvers they pull off. One of Zink’s records is for the biggest backflip, which included an 85-foot drop. Semenuk matched each rider with the most suitable location for his talents. In Utah, he showed what he was made of.

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A standard slopestyle track prepared for competition has dirt jumps, ramps and drops.

After the Rad Company crew rolls in, such a place ends up looking like a junkyard: Stunts become XXL in scale; approaches and landings are perfect; unusual components, such as old logging equipment, become integral to the course. Riders were given a week to practice on Semenuk’s creations. Filming would turn out to be as tough as anything they had experienced. No one came away unscathed.

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“SHOWING THE FANS THE MOST PROGRESSIVE SIDE OF MOUNTAIN BIKING IS WHAT THIS FILM IS ALL ABOUT.”

NA DI, F I J I The production team had an arsenal of highend cameras that would not be out of place on a Hollywood film set. Not a single moment was missed; every move was captured from multiple perspectives. Drones, Steadicams and cable cams—remote-controlled cameras strung on steel cable systems—were also employed. The crowning glory was the use of an HD camera system installed on a helicopter to get incredible aerial shots.

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They show the extent of planning required for even the simplest shot. Lighting and electrical rigging were transported through rough terrain on foot. Weather was observed weeks in advance to find optimum filming conditions. On the other hand, rain systems were installed in the middle of forests. Before all that, months of work with excavators and shovels was needed to create perfect trails.

“THIS FILM WAS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF WORK IN AN INCREDIBLY INTENSE YEAR. BUT WHEN YOU SEE THE RESULTS, IT WAS WORTH IT.”

FROM CONSOLE Jann Mardenborough: From video-game whiz to pro racing driver.

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he circuit at Le Mans is a holy temple of motorsports, thanks to the famous 24-hour endurance race it plays host to annually. The format of that race is deceptively simple: Teams have three drivers who rotate stints behind the wheel for a day and a night. At this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, four young men arrived here by a most unorthodox route—by being good at video games.

Englishman Jann Mardenborough started out as the winner of the 2011 GT Academy Europe, a contest for the racing video game Gran Turismo; he made his debut at Le Mans last year at age 22. Mark Shulzhitskiy, 25, won the GT Academy Russia in 2012. For this race, the two gamers drove alongside British pro Alex Brundle for Oak Racing in a Ligier JS P2 with a Nissan engine, as part of the Le Mans Prototype 2 category. Two other recent GT tournament winners—Lucas Ordoñez, 29, of Spain and 27-year-old Wolfgang Reip of Belgium— teamed with Japan’s Satoshi Motoyama for Nissan Motorsports in the Nissan ZEOD RC, a hybrid electric in the Garage 56 category for experimental vehicles.

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NO LONGER A GAME The idea was hatched in 2008, when Nissan and Sony first posed the question. An online selection system produced national gaming champions across Europe, who then went to England for an intense race camp combining physical training and driving sessions in the simulator and on the track at the Silverstone circuit, 60

northwest of London. After the weeklong program, a promising gamer would then follow an intensive training schedule under the watchful eye of Nismo, Nissan’s performance motorsports division.

Next came an immersive introduction into competitive motorsports. Mardenborough, for example, is currently competing in the GP3 classification; Shulzhitskiy, Ordoñez and Reip also race professionally. It’s a dazzling transition from the virtual to the real world. As the Englishman prepares to take part in the drivers’ parade through the THE RED BULLETIN

THESE FORMER GAMERS ARE NOW PART OF THE MOTORSPORTS ELITE. Wolfgang Reip, a fast Belgian.

Oak Racing’s car hits the circuit. The driver is only the final piece of the puzzle: No car can race without a team of top engineers.

Alex Brundle (left) is the son of former F1 driver Martin Brundle, but his co-drivers come from a world of virtual motorsports.

Off the track at Le Mans, the campsites abutting the circuit are full of all kinds of fans.

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Tension mounts in the Oak Racing garage as their car drops back through the field.

The ZEOD RC does a complete lap in electric mode—a major achievement for an experimental car.

streets of the city of Le Mans on the eve of the 24 Hours race, he recalls his former life. “I got into GT Academy in February 2011,” Mardenborough says. “I was an average student at the time. My mates were traveling to Australia, to the States. I was at home playing my PlayStation and I was happy. I started competing online because I had nothing better to do.”

SPACESHIP IN ACTION For others, the transition to real-world racing isn’t as smooth. At 3 p.m., Ordoñez’s gaming teammate, Wolfie Reip, is starting his first Le Mans at the wheel of the ZEOD RC. The futuristic vehicle is taking its time to come back past the stands opposite the pit wall, where some spectators have put up hammocks. Unfortunately, those fans will not have long to watch this spaceship of a car in action before it has to be retired with gearbox failure just 25 minutes into the race. But Le Mans was still an achievement for the ZEOD RC, as it clocked 186 mph in qualifying. During the warm-up, Reip drove one complete lap with the car in silent, full electric mode.

Ordoñez remains positive, despite being deprived of a race, and is proud of his co-driver. “Wolfie made history by driving a complete lap with the car in electric mode. That’s great news for everyone in the team, the mechanics,” and then he stops, his eyes still on one of the TV screens set up in the room. “Ooh! Did you see that?!

That guy almost killed himself!” As heavy rain falls, one car almost leaves the track on an overtaking maneuver.

In the Oak Racing garage where Shulzhitskiy is based, there is no such disappointment. As the hours pass and the lap counter ticks over, the pressure on the mechanics increases. There are only rare moments of downtime during the 1,440 minutes of the race. It’s all about waiting, then bursts of action, then more waiting, and yet more bursts of action. The car impresses with its consistency lap after lap.

Russia’s Mark Shulzhitskiy conquered this year’s Le Mans.

Two years earlier he was a student and had never raced a car.

GENTLEMEN DRIVERS Eight hours into the race, night falls and everything changes. Drivers have to be twice as cautious, but excitement increases in the campsites around the circuit.

Some tents are pitched next to Ferraris and muscle cars. At

“ W HEN YOU CAN DO 186 MPH ON THE MULSANNE STRAIGHT AT NIGHT WITH NO CARS AHEAD OR BEHIND YOU, THAT’S REALLY COOL.” —JANN MARDENBOROUGH one turn, what looks like a customized truck is open at the sides, allowing its occupants to watch the race from bunk beds 100 feet from the track wall. At night, cars tend to scrape against the wall more than they do in the daylight.

One peculiarity of the race—and perhaps a comfort for the gamers new to the track—is that Le Mans welcomes “gentlemen drivers,” or amateurs, a class that often includes celebrities such as Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason or Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey.

Shulzhitskiy believes he’s experienced enough that he has to keep an eye out for them.

“You have to avoid trouble at Le Mans,” he says, “because there are drivers here who aren’t as experienced as the professionals, and they can do crazy things. You have to drive a solid race without making any stupid mistakes.” The Russian is as good as his word, helping Oak Racing stay in the top three in the LMP2 category for most of the race.

But as the race enters its 23rd hour, the black-andorange Oak car is now further down the field. There’s a war-room atmosphere back in the pits. The car comes in for a long stop. Spark plugs and an ignition coil need to be replaced. Mardenborough, Shulzhitskiy and Brundle have given it their all but finish fifth in their category and ninth overall.

AN EYE ON F1 Audi’s excited fans invade the track and the pit lane to celebrate the German team securing the two top spots on the podium. Shulzhitskiy, the last man to drive the Oak Racing car, walks to the pits to meet with his mechanics and engineers. They are his first line of support, and together they have collaborated closely, defied the clock, bad weather and technology to survive Le Mans. Mardenborough says his favorite memory of the race is “when you can do 186 mph on the Mulsanne Straight at night, when there are no cars ahead of or behind you. That’s really cool.”

Nismo announces that their Nissan GT-R LM will be put forward for Le Mans in 2015. Will Mardenborough be there? “I have to keep on working hard in GP3 and remain focused on that,” says the 23-year-old. His dream is of a career in Formula One. It’s a far cry from pressing “start” on a video game. gran-turismo.com

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Wild ride

MASTERED MOUNTAINS, BEATEN BUNGEE JUMPING AND SUSSED OUT SKYDIVING? TRY MOTHER NATURE’S MOST EXTREME CHALLENGE AT RODEO SCHOOL IN CANADA.

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NOT SO WILD WEST ONTARIO OUTSIDE THE BULL RING

FALL If your nerves need a little calming after a close encounter with a bull, the natural beauty of Niagara Falls could be just the thing. niagarafalls tourism.com

B ULL RIDING UNPREDICTABLE, THRILLING, ONE TON OF NERVE-SHREDDING FUN: RODEO IS NOT JUST FOR COWBOYS. The first thing you need to ride a rodeo bull is bravery.

“Bull riding is the most dangerous sport in the world,” says Brandon Moore, a third-generation cowboy who’s been riding professionally for 23 years and who owns Bramer’s Rodeo School in Hillsburgh, Canada. “I’ve broken my pelvis, I got my face stepped on and broke my eye socket, pulled my shoulder out, broken both ankles. Injury is inevitable, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.” Once you gain the courage, it’s time to get on the back of the beast.

“I honestly didn’t know what I was getting myself into,” says Chris Toledo, 23, a medical student and, since his bull-riding experience, a rodeo medic, a task he describes as like working in an emergency room.

He went on a two-day riding course with Moore in May of this year. “After learning the ground rules, we went on a mechanical bull to get a feel. Four hours after walking in there, I was getting onto my first bull!

“I was only on that bull for four seconds, but they felt like an eternity. It was just me and the bull. Until I got thrown off, then I was suddenly back. There was so much adrenaline pumping, and I saw the bull running toward me. He started A two-day course at attacking my legs until someone Hillsburgh, in grabbed me and threw me back into Ontario, Canada, the chutes. I’d had the most killer costs $270. bramersrodeo.com thrill. I knew I was hooked.”

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Ride ’em cowboy: Come to grips with a raging bull.

CRAWL Crawl and climb through a world of caves 82 feet below the surface of Collingwood. Follow the sounds of water to find the freshwater spring. adventureseeker tours.com

ADVICE FROM THE INSIDE CORE VALUES “You don’t have to have a lot of strength to do this,” says Brandon Moore. “It’s balance and technique over strength, as no matter how strong you are you’ll never be able to out-muscle a bull. Finesse and a lot of heart are what will keep you on top.”

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“If you’re not used to riding an animal with a mind of its own, have a few horse-riding lessons before tackling a bull,” says Chris Toledo. “It will psychologically prepare you. You have to accept that you’ll never be totally in control.”

ENTHRALL The Thousand Islands region, an archipelago of 1,864 islands near Lake Ontario, is a scuba-diving mecca, with something for every level of underwaterman. exploco.com

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Down cold: Hong 10 performs his signature Freeze move.

Feline good: Catinspired Kim HongYeol, alias Hong 10

Animal instinct BREAKDANCING B-BOY CHAMP HONG 10 GETS RIPPED WITHOUT HEAVY WEIGHTS AND MAKES LIKE A SNAKE TO STAY STRONG.

Hong 10 works out daily to improve the flexibility of his spine and his sense of balance: two sets of 50 reps each of the cat and cobra yoga poses.

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CAT: Prop yourself up on your knees, lower legs and hands (hips above knees; shoulders above palms); keep your back straight and flat.

Let your back drop, so that your torso sags, and tense your arms; as you breathe out, raise vertebra after vertebra to form a cat’s arched back.

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“The only weights I use are 1 lb. and 2 lbs. to strengthen my wrists, which come under strain,” says Hong 10. “If you want to take a tip from me, work out daily. You should have attainable goals, and don’t put yourself under too much pressure. That’s the best way to avoid injuries.”

COBRA: Lie flat on your stomach with arms and legs in line with your body, forehead touching the floor and palms at chest height.

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Tense your leg and buttock muscles; push your torso off the floor with your arms, lean your head back slightly, looking up as you do so.

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“I started dancing when I was 14,” says Kim Hong-Yeol, alias Hong 10. Each of the South Korean’s muscles looks defined, and yet he claims that he’s “never lifted any heavy weights in my whole life.” The two-time Red Bull BC One champion (2006, 2013) prefers bodyweight training to develop the strength and power he needs, not least for his signature move, the Hong 10 Freeze.

The 29-year-old starts his daily one-hour workout with push-ups, followed by squats and sit-ups: two sets of 50 reps for each.

Then comes work with light dumbbells (see below). He finishes with what he considers to be the most important element: yoga. “The cat and cobra are the best way to strengthen the lumbar column [lower spine], which we breakdancers put under enormous pressure.”

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OMEGA SEAMASTER Very simple, fiveminute start display mode uses the Regatta Indicator on the minute sub-dial.

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REGATTA WATCHES FOR YACHTSMEN, CHOOSING THE RIGHT ONE IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VICTORY AND DEFEAT. The most important time at every sailing regatta is the last five minutes before the start. During this countdown, a battle rages on race seconds. In those moments, a sailor has to be able to read the water between the skippers precisely how much time is left as they vie for a strategically until the start at first glance, even perfect position to cross the starting line exactly where they if the seas are rough. want. It’s a superThe watch needs to be condensed version of light and accurate, the battle for pole waterproof and shock resistant. position in Many sailors Formula One. think the best So it’s hardly regatta watch surprising that currently is made competitive sailors are

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readability. The length of countdown can be set simply and flexibly and, equally important, it can also show the time left until the final five-minute countdown at various regattas. A touch of the orange push-start at 4 o’clock is all you need to set the countdown.

Once that time is up, the chronograph just carries on, thus becoming the stopwatch for the race itself. To stop timing, press the push-start at 8 o’clock to reset both chronograph hands to zero.

If pressed while the hands are still moving, it automatically activates a function known as Flyback, which allows you to set a new time interval without having to use the stop or reset buttons.

ROLEX YACHT-MASTER Aligning the bezel, the crown and the push-start at 4 o’clock sets a countdown of up to 10 minutes.

ALPINA ­ YACHT TIMER A 10-minute countdown is preset; the word “start” is illuminated in bright red in the final 60 seconds.

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BARCELONA MOTORCYCLE ACE DANI PEDROSA GETS REVVED UP BY HIS FAVORITE CITY. “What is it that makes Barcelona different from other cities? People here just don’t seem to get hectic,” says Spanish MotoGP star Dani Pedrosa, a man in a long-term love affair with the Catalan capital. “People even stay calm and relaxed when the traffic gets really bad. The same goes for the day-to-day: Little shops shut down for a three-hour siesta in the afternoon and no one has dinner before 10 p.m. And while we’re on the subject of food, try the small, inconspicuous places that locals go to. The paella will be cheaper and just as good as on the beachfront at Barceloneta. One tip for drivers and motorbike riders: For the most part, the streets are laid out in a grid system, so there’s no problem getting from A to B. This place isn’t just relaxed. It’s user-friendly, too.”

Its surrounding mountains are mountain bike paradise. Fantastic forest trails lead down from the top of the tallest, Tibidabo, back toward the city. singletracks.com

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1 W BARCELONA Plaça de la Rosa dels Vents, 1 “A five-star hotel with the stylish Eclipse Bar on the 26th floor. As well as the excellent array of cocktails, there’s also a great view of Barceloneta. But be warned: There’s a dress code.”

2 LA RAMBLA PROMENADE Plaça de Catalunya to the port “Maddest place in the city. Mime artists, acrobats and performers everywhere. You can watch all the hustle and bustle in peace from the restaurant La Poma.”

3 CINEMA COLISEUM Gran Via d.l.C. Catalanes 595 “This cinema dates back to the 1920s. Its single screen

has three levels of seating, and it can accommodate roughly 1,700 filmgoers. Non-Spanish speakers like it here because it shows a lot of foreign films with subtitles.”

4 SANTA EULALIA Passeig de Gràcia, 93 “This is my favorite shop. It’s where I have my suits made.

It’s absolutely huge, and full of the latest stuff by big-name international designers. Have a coffee on their terrace once you’re done shopping.”

CIRCUIT DE BARCELONACATALUNYA Put your foot to the floor where professional racers do the same by booking a session in a car or on a bike at one of the great F1 and MotoGP arenas. circuitcat.com

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5 BLING BLING Carrer de Tuset, 8 “For dancing after 2 a.m. in Barcelona, this is the place to go. The legendary lightshows are really popular with the locals, but don’t worry, tourists are welcome too.”

Own long pants, sturdy shoes and a valid driving license? You can hire a 250cc quad bike and thrash it through the Catalan countryside. lifestylebarcelona.com

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RON OF JAPAN Known for their incredible hibachi grills and egg sauce, Ron of Japan is your best bet if you’re looking to spot a rapper or NBA player. It’s the spot for Chi’s artistic and athletic elite.

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FAKE SHORE DRIVE The Chicagobased hip-hop blog is one of the best in the country and the place for Windy City artists you can’t sleep on.

Out of Chicago’s electrifying hiphop scene comes 20-year-old rapper and producer Saba. He first caught my eye in 2013, when a rising Chance The Rapper recruited him for Acid Rap. Saba’s scenestealing appearance on “Everybody’s Something” Andrew Barber, led many to creator, Fake dig deeper Shore Drive. into his catalog. Turns out he wasn’t just a great MC but a talented producer.

Saba’s breakthrough work ComfortZone evokes the feeling of classic jazz, soul and R&B—not the traditional drill music currently coming out of the city. Saba oozes charisma, and his live shows are consistently packed—making him one of the most captivating young minds in the Windy City’s crowded scene. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

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“THERE IS MUSIC IN ALL SOUND” S ABA THE MC AND PRODUCER PLAYS WORD ASSOCIATION. the red bulletin: Sound. saba: Sound to me is music. I’m one of those music nerds who thinks that there is something beautiful in all music, and I feel like there is music in all sound.

Sound is really vibration, and to me good vibration is the most important thing in the universe.

Chicago.

Chicago is amazing. There are so many positive things going on here, which is what I like to focus on. The gang stuff and the violence is all real, but I feel as though it’s so overdone that it adds to the problem rather than helps it. Now when I hear the word Chicago, I think of music.

It’s crazy—it’s just that much of

Saba’s transition from producer to performer works.

a musical place. There are so many cultures and scenes within scenes here. I feel like all of the voices in this city are important and like they’re all starting to be heard.

Influence.

Influence, for me, is how new you can be, not just reinventing things that have already been done in the past. I would say that hands down my biggest influence was Bone Thugs-nHarmony. They’re the ones who actually made me like rap and want to do it. Another huge influence on my music was my father, Chandlar. He was on ComfortZone too. But he’s a singer—he does soul, R&B and a lot of neo-soul stuff, which is what got me into having more neo-soul-sounding tracks. I love lots of chord progressions, but that came from my father.

REGGIE’S ROCK CLUB From The Cool Kids to Chance The Rapper, Reggie’s is where many of the top artists of the now have gotten their start. The 400-cap room is intimate and insider-y.

JUGRNAUT Hip-hop and fashion go hand in hand. And with the extinction of record stores, boutiques are the new hub. Jugrnaut, which has a clothing collab with Fake Shore Drive, is a good place to start.

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London’s Village Underground: New beats, old warehouse.

NAME GAME HOW FAMOUS COCKTAILS GOT THEIR NAMES

DAIQUIRI American mining engineer Jennings Cox ran out of gin while entertaining guests at home in Cuba, so he improvised. His cocktail of rum, fruit and sugar was a hit, and in 1905 he named it after a nearby village.

God is a DJ V ILLAGE UNDERGROUND, LONDON IT MAY NOT BE A CHURCH, BUT THIS IS STILL A PLACE OF WORSHIP.

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IMBIBE Before heading to the club, check out RedRum on Shoreditch High Street.

This intimate little bar has a cocktail genius who makes an amazing pineapple and sage margarita.

REVIVE After rolling out of Village Underground, you should definitely go to the bagel shops on Brick Lane. There’s cheesecake for $1.20 a slice or bagels for $2.50.

TUNE IN Local radio station Hoxton FM is the perfect way to warm up for a night out. I do a house and techno show, but there’s a broad range of stuff from ’50s to folk in the week.

BLOODY MARY Its most likely origin relates to Parisian barman Fernand Petiot, who is said to have made the drink in 1920 for vodka heir Vladimir Smirnov, whose name was mispronounced by a drunken patron.

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“We’re pretty busy here every day,” says Village Underground’s electronic music programmer, Jorge Nieto. “One night we’ll have reggae and the next a 12-hour rave.”

Nieto’s seated in one of four Jubilee Line tube carriages that have been transformed into offices overlooking London, on top of the club itself. He’s perusing the ecclesiastical section of an insurance website ahead of a techno night called Superstition, which will be lit solely by candles. The venue is a huge Victorian warehouse rather than a church, but its imposing brick walls have the same feel —and insurance requirements. “There’s a history of good nights here,” says Nieto.

“It was a massage parlor, a music hall, then an 18th-century theater.” With sound baffles and a massive new sound system, it’s now a club for the modern age. “When it’s rammed inside,” Nieto says, “an amazing track drops in and the crowd roars, everything clicks. In that moment, it really can feel religious.”

BELLINI When Venetian barman Giuseppe Cipriani mixed Prosecco with fresh peach and raspberry juice, the resulting pink drink reminded him of a toga in a Giovanni Bellini painting.

Hence the name.

(Now it’s not pink.)

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SUMMER SOUNDS Top hat, mane of curly hair, sunglasses. Slash has remained true to his trademark look, even though it’s 18 years since he left Guns N’ Roses. He and Axl Rose and the boys sold more than 100 million albums together back in the day, and Slash lived strictly according to three commandments: sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. He’s put all those vices behind him now. Eight years ago, he even gave up drinking and smoking. “But the guitar is the love of my life,” says the 49-yearold, born Saul Hudson. His third solo album, World on Fire, is proof of that: 17 throbbing rock songs, featuring incredible solos by a guitar god. The snake lover tells us the tracks that hold deep meaning in his life and career.

He’ll save every one of us: Slash! Aa-ah!

“ Like sex only much better”

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PLAYLIST LEGENDARY AXESLINGER SLASH HAS THESE FIVE SONGS TO THANK FOR HIS APPETITE FOR SEDUCTION AND HOW HE’LL KNOCK ON HEAVEN’S DOOR.

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3 Black Sabbath

“When this song came out, in 1980, I’d only just started playing the guitar. I first heard it at the actor Seymour Cassel’s house. He’s also the person who gave me my nickname, Slash [because he was full of energy].

‘Back in Black’ has this killer rhythm.

It’s sexy and sleazy. For me it’s like sex, only much better.”

“I heard the song when I was a teenager from a girl I wanted to get into bed.

She put this single on and we eventually sat on her bed. I got so wrapped up in the song that I completely lost interest in making out. I played the record over and over again and ignored the girl until she ended up throwing me out.”

“In the early 1980s I was up in the Hollywood Hills on the estate that used to be Errol Flynn’s property. It was frequented by teenagers who did acid. I remember being there, in the middle of the night, looking at the stars.

One night someone played ‘Iron Man’ and it blew my mind. It was a life-changing experience that stuck with me to this day.”

4 Stevie Wonder

5 Erik Satie

Back in Black

Living for the City

“This was my mother’s favorite song.

It’s about this kid from the country, getting his big opportunity to move to the city and falling into a drug situation.

My new song, ‘30 Years to Life,’ deals with a similar fate. It shows what happens when you live too recklessly.

Of course, I set out to be a complete drug addict myself ...”

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Gymnopédies

“Satie is a French composer who’s not rock ’n’ roll at all, but he had a big influence on me. My father always used to put on his music when he’d had a bottle of wine or two too many. Then he’d paint to it. That’s why I’m still very drawn to it to this day. I could even imagine having this played at my funeral.”

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DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE! At Sonar in Barcelona, the duo mixed traditional Peruvian sounds with hard electronic beats.

Quirky, but it grows on you.

Iron Man

MANNIE FRESH The star producer served up the ultimate party mix during Bonnaroo: a hard, sweaty set of rap classics, trap hits and hiphouse grenades.

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These wireless, waterproof in-ear buds play music either via Bluetooth from your phone or music player or directly from the 4GB of internal storage. They also work as a fitness computer and have passive noise isolation, so they won’t screw up your run. bragi.com

LAURENT GARNIER & MCDE Giants of house collide across generations: Pioneer Laurent Garnier shared the decks at Nuits Sonores in Paris with newcomer MCDE.

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SAMURAI WARRIORS 4 For PlayStations 3, 4 and Vita, a slice of hack-and-slash action with a history-rich story mode and a lot of character customization. koeitecmo america.com

Vive la révolution: The game is set in 18th-century France.

Improving with age

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The first rule of Driveclub is that you don’t call it a Gran Turismo wannabe.

Despite the amazingly detailed supercars handling realistically, Driveclub is a road-race driving game with a difference. As the name suggests, you can team up with friends to race other teams, and by doing so you unlock more of the game. Out October 7.

Rip up roads and fields in southern France and Italy in the second spin-off of the Forza Motorsport series. Horizon differs with a more arcade-y experience—racing planes and trains, for example.

There’s also a big social element in which you can team up to race, or just talk torque with other gearheads. Out September 30.

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You know you’ve got a hot video game series on your hands when the movie adaptation is due to be produced by and star Michael Fassbender. (Production is yet to begin.)

But though it’s nice for Hollywood to come calling, a game franchise is only ever really as good as its latest title.

Thankfully, Assassin’s Creed: Unity is looking very, very, very good indeed.

This seventh game in the sneak-’em-up series takes place in Paris just as guillotine blades are about to drop and help set off the French Revolution. As is usual in the series, there is also a modern-day setup (and, it might be safely guessed, denouement) that drives the lead character, Arno Dorian, back 230 years into the mind and body of a French assassin, pickpocket, puzzle solver, urban explorer and street fighter.

With each game, the Assassin’s Creed game world becomes even more expansive and visually impressive, but this has always been matched by a ramp-up of the gameplay design. Making Unity more involving is a co-operative mode: Take Arno into an inn and you can join with up to three other players to solve missions together. Side missions and main objectives are now more seamlessly integrated, making your overall quest less disjointed.

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THE EVIL WITHIN Survival horror led by a cop marooned in a gruesome, limbo-like world.

Dexter of the Dead, if you will. On PC, PS and Xbox. theevilwithin.com

SUPER SMASH BROS. Pit Pikachu against Pac-Man and make Mario maul MegaMan in the WiiU and 3DS update of Nintendo’s cute but not too cute beat-’em-up.

Arcade style: Forza Horizon 2 ramps down the realism.

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As one of the breakout stars of HBO’s political comedy Veep, Timothy Simons has made his name playing a total d-bag, a presidential aide equally creepy and craven. Now Simons is ready to take on the big screen, opposite Seth Rogen and James Franco in the tabloid TV satire The Interview.

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the red bulletin: What’s the secret to playing an asshole? timothy simons: I’m certainly not method with it. I try to be nice to people on set—I think I err on the side of trying to be too nice. The thing I do that gets me close enough to him is that when we’re rehearsing or shooting, I think about the worst thing you could say to someone or the worst way you could say one of the lines. If it’s improv or scripted, what’s the attitude or delivery that’s the most selfish and horrible?

And then I go from there.

Between seasons of Veep you filmed The Interview with James Franco and Seth Rogen. What can you tell us about the role?

I play the associate producer of the show, with James as the on-air personality and Seth as the producer. The guy I play cares immensely about the show—he thinks that this show that is basically celebrity interviews is the most important thing in the United States.

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“This character thinks celebrity interviews are the most important thing in the U.S.” greatest movies of all time ... and your top pick was Rad. I’d never heard of it, but it sounds awesome.

One of the things that makes Rad so amazing is it’s a uniquely American movie. It’s about a small-town kid who rides BMX and takes a big risk skipping the SATs to try to qualify for Helltrack, a national BMX race that’s going to be

held in this small town. He has a big conversation with his mom—she wants him to get out there and make something of himself, but he just wants to ride bikes. He says, “I can take those SATs anytime but this is the only chance I’ll have at this!” And you know what? He f*cking wins.

Twitter: @timothycsimons The Interview opens in December.

If you’re looking for someone to play a man turning into a demon, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe may not be the first name that comes to mind. But director Alexandre Aja was seeking the right star to carry his adaptation of Horns, a fantasy horror novel by Joe Hill— the son of Stephen King—and landed on Radcliffe. Why? “Daniel has that amazing power to carry the audience by the hand into a twisted world but never lose them.

He represents something kind, accessible and familiar for so many people around the world. He will bring that relatability: If Daniel Radcliffe/ Harry Potter can turn into the devil, I can see myself going through the same journey.”

Horns opens on Halloween.

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Formula One U.S. Grand Prix No, it’s not NASCAR—it’s better. There are turns! Both ways! Rev your engines for the 2014 Formula One U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, and make your way to the heart of America to see death-defying drivers moving at up to 200 mph. Four-time champion Sebastian Vettel was the first to drive the Infiniti Red Bull Racing car past the finish line last year, and this time around our eyes are on him, as well as new teammate Daniel Ricciardo, to see how the reigning champion continues to deal with the pressure of the 2014 season. The party doesn’t just stop when the race is over, so make sure you check out the wild nightlife in Austin. Just like on the track, don’t blink—or you’ll miss all the action. circuitoftheamericas.com/f1

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That first turn is straight outta Space Mountain.

November 23, 2014

American Music Awards The American Music Awards, live on ABC, will feature over 16 performances and dozens of awards for your favorite artists. Winners from last year include Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna (left) and One Direction. Tune in for red-carpet coverage that tends to be a lot more fun than you’ll find at the staid and proper Grammy Awards. www.dickclark.com/shows/ american-music-awards

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Batter up for the MLB World Series 2014.

After last year’s win by the Boston Red Sox, all eyes are on the top teams ready to knock the Sox from their position as reigning champions. (Regardless of who takes the title this year, we know that Boston truly won for biggest celebration last season with parties and parades galore. Sorry, St. Louis.)

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Treasure Island Festival The Treasure Island Music Festival, off the coast of San Francisco, may not yet have the status of Coachella or Lollapalooza, but with the lineup they’ve secured for their 2014 festival, they’ve made heads turn in their direction. Last year’s lineup was impressive, with Major Lazer, James Blake and Disclosure in the mix, but this year takes the cake with artists such as ZEDD, Alt-j and OutKast. treasureislandfestival.com/2014

Canadian electronic artist Caribou—also known as Dan Snaith, is releasing a new album, Our Love, the follow-up to his award-winning record Swim. He’ll also start a world tour this fall. caribou.fm

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Channing Tatum plays an Olympic wrestler in Foxcatcher, alongside Steve Carrell and Mark Ruffalo—and all three have received acclaim for the film. What more could you want from an Oscar-bait movie?

A Halloween music festival? Count us in. New Orleans is hosting Voodoo Music Experience this year, and with artists like Flux Pavilion and Pretty Lights, this is a three-day Halloween party you won’t want to miss. People are flocking by the thousands to NOLA for the scariest night of the year—and the most fun. (If you want to glamp it up with ghosts, the camp package with safari tent is $3,500.)

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Wake up in the city that never sleeps and lace up your running shoes for the New York City Marathon. The 26.2mile course goes through the five boroughs, beginning on Staten Island and ending in Central Park in Manhattan.

Last year’s event had 50,000 runners finish the race, more than any marathon in history. www.tcsnycmarathon.org

Combining art, spoken word presentations, food and music, the Life Is Beautiful Festival is sure to be, well, beautiful. This interactive social platform is taking it offline in downtown Las Vegas. Headliners for the event include Kanye West, Arctic Monkeys, Skrillex and the Weeknd. lifeisbeautiful.com

New York City is being taken over by the CMJ Music Marathon: four days of musicbiz seminars, hundreds of live performances at 80 venues and more than 100,000 fans.

The underground music scene comes above ground for this extravaganza—so if you want to network for a job in the music industry, head on over. www.cmj.com/marathon

Men’s tennis will crown its king at the O2 in London in the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. All eyes are on Novak Djokovic, who’s currently ranked No.1. Will competition come from a resurgent Roger Federer—a six-time champion who certainly knows what success at this tournament feels like? barclaysatpworldtourfinals.com

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TV Katherine Heigl stars in NBC’s new drama State of Affairs, playing a top CIA analyst— and terrorist attack survivor— who organizes the president’s daily intelligence briefing. nbc.com/ state-of-affairs

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THE DARK French photographer Keffer has a permanent VIP pass—free entry, free drinks, free rein—and he’s opened his archive of images from one of the world’s great nocturnal cities.

Welcome to Paris at night.

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WICKED DAWNS

“I STARTED SETTING OFF MY FLASH INSTINCTIVELY, WITHOUT EVER LOOKING INTO MY VIEWFINDER.“

BACKSTAGE PASS DJ Panteros666 behind fellow DJ Sam Tiba. This is the Silencio, a super-selective club conceived by filmmaker and creative genius David Lynch. Naturally, it has a cinema.

Paris after dark isn’t just about clubs. There’s also a buzzing scene of afterparties in private homes. Here’s Celine hosting one.

TEMPERATURE’S RISING A$AP Rocky at the Social Club, his first show in France. A crazy crowd goes wild for his newschool rap. The Harlem MC signed a $3 million contract with Sony just days after his Paris show.

TRANSFORMATION The Dèmonia party is the place to go for S&M and fetish fans. That’s probably a bank manager under there.

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LADIES OF PARIS French pop star Margaux Avril (left).

Myd and Sam Tiba (above), DJs and producers with the Bromance label, can hardly believe their eyes.

FAR OUT—AND BEYOND Parisians on tour: Hip photographer Julot Bandit (right) woos a strange dwarf on a quick night out at the Cannes Film Festival.

SHOOTING A SCENE French photographer Keffer explains how he went from enjoying nights out in Paris to taking pictures of them.

SUPERSTAR DJS Paris is big on electronic music. Whether it’s international (Boys Noize from Berlin, above) or local names (Brodinski, right), the best artists perform here all the time.

Keffer, 30, has been documenting Parisian nightlife for years, between shooting for magazines (Complex, GQ, Grazia) and global brands (Sony, Ubisoft, Apple). His party images are collected in the project The Night Day.

PARIS BY NIGHT Nocturnal Paris has a great many faces: Chic, wild, arty or trashy, Keffer, with full VIP privileges at all the clubs, finds the beating hearts of the scene.

WARM-UP MODE With Andrew Claristidge from electronic duo Acid Washed. This night began with a mixing session at the Red Bull Studio.

“BLACK-AND-WHITE PICTURES REFLECT HOW I SEE NIGHTS OUT: WASHED OUT, ROUGH, RAW.”

the red bulletin: When did you start shooting your nights out and decide to launch The Night Day? keffer: I was already a photographer and one night I took my camera out with me. It was about the time that house music was on the wane and we were moving on to the era of Ed Banger Records, and it was before people were being tagged on Facebook. I started setting off my flash instinctively, without ever looking into my viewfinder. I never go out with the intention of taking photos. I go out to have fun myself because I love electronic music.

I always have my camera with me, but I only use it when I get a sense of something, a good feeling.

How do you get people to open up for you on camera?

When I started making photos backstage in clubs, the girls would really let themselves go. I wouldn’t often take photos of this sort at afterhours parties in private homes, while people were still finishing their night out. So I got to document this kind of public erotic downfall, which they were completely cool with.

Why are the pics black-and-white?

It reflects the way I see my nights out: washed out, rough, raw. thenightday.com

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Another good thing: For greater range, you can join a number of them together. gopro.com

V I S UA L LY STUNNING LG 65LB730V A 3D OLED smart TV with a huge screen with a 800Hz refresh rate and Wi-Fi connectivity.

Its well-designed and user-friendly webOS interface came in for particular praise at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. lg.com

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AUDIO M OV I E Q UA L I T Y Bose CineMate 1 SR Surround sound with only two speakers?

Yes, you can. Just put the Bose CineMate speakers anywhere you want in a room.

They work out the rest automatically through a calibration

system that analyzes the size of the room and sets the system accordingly. The small soundbar has five speakers that create frequency variation. The 150W, wireless Acoustimass subwoofer module provides the bass. bose.com

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HOME USE Sonos Wireless HiFi Play your music library anywhere in the home through these wireless speakers. Tunes are displayed on an app that can be run through your device of choice, be that a smartphone or tablet. sonos.com

THERE’S NO PERFECT MUSIC WITHOUT PERFECT SOUND. WITH THE LATEST GEAR, YO U C A N E A S I LY H AV E PORTABLE AND S T Y L I S H LY O P T I M A L SURROUND SOUND.

TRENDSETTER Beats by Dre Solo² This has long been the favorite accessory of sports stars and actors, regardless of whether they’re listening to classical, rock or heavy metal.

The soft earpads fit snug to your ears and cut out external noise. beatsbydre.com

ARMORED SPEAKER The Big Turtle Shell This wireless Bluetooth speaker is waterproof and shock resistant so you can use it at the beach, around a campfire or by the pool. Fully charged, it will run for more than 16 hours. You can also use the Big Turtle Shell to charge other devices. outdoortechnology.com

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OUTDOOR WHAT’S THE USE OF DOING SOMETHING AMAZING WITHOUT P R OV I N G E X AC T LY W H AT WENT DOWN? SHOW OFF TO YOUR FRIENDS WITH THIS TECH.

D E E P WAT E R SEACAM silver An underwater camera case made out of a saltwater-resistant light metal alloy that is double hardened and anodized. The curves and buttons are double-

D A I LY FITNESS M O T I VAT O R

BEAR-LIKE STRENGTH Grizzly GP5600 If there’s no power supply nearby, this shock-resistant, humidity- and dustproof outdoor power bank with hard rubber housing will charge smartphones, MP3 players and most tablets. It can hold

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sealed with seamless O-rings. The attachable extension light is superbright (1,700 lumens) and can be dimmed.

Compatible with both Canon and Nikon cameras; operation depth of 262 ft. seacam.com

enough juice to fully charge your iPhone 5 at least three times.

Other handy features include an LED flashlight and a laser pen. wow-products.de

I N G R E AT S H A P E Garmin Vivofit This fitness tracker shows you the distance you’ve covered, the number of calories you’ve burned and tells the time. The Garmin online community will motivate you/shame you into doing more activities. Available in six colors. garmin.com

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INDESTRUCTIBLE XPlore XC6 M2 This has got to be the most rugged tablet on the market. You can use it in temperatures as cold as -34ºF up to as hot as 140°F. It uses an Intel Core i5 processor and has a multilayer magnesium frame. You can read the screen even when it’s in direct sunlight. xploretech.com

FINGER ON THE PULSE Samsung Galaxy S5 This smartphone has got it all: a 5.1-in. super AMOLED display, a 2.5GHz quad-core processor and a 16megapixel camera. It also has a fingerprint scanner that can take your pulse to sync to health apps. samsung.com

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Pebble Steel This smartwatch looks better than other models on the market, and it works with iOS and Android phones, with convenient email, SMS and social media notifications. The battery will last up to seven days, thanks to its efficient e-paper display. getpebble.com

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O N T H E M OV E Xbox 360 Kinect The ultimate in gaming without a controller. There are now more than 200 games available for Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect, and some of them, like Nike+

Kinect Training, Kinect Sports 2, UFC Personal Trainer and My Body Coach 3, offer a serious workout as well as providing gaming fun for all the family, so you can jump, hit or step your way to a decent level of fitness. xbox.com

KEEP FOCUS Nvidia 3D Vision 2 The latest Nvidia 3D glasses have a 20 percent larger field of vision than many other models and come with an innovative ambient light adjustment feature, both of which

make the PC gaming experience more immersive on a 1080p full-HD display. They’re also very comfortable, which is a must for longer sessions, and the battery only needs to be recharged every 60 hours. nvidia.com

G E T O N T R AC K Carrera Digital 132 Ever wondered what it’s like to race around a Formula One circuit in a world championship– winning car? You can with this. Thrilling overtaking maneuvers have been programmed into the 37-ft. track. carrera-toys.com

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GOO D V I B E S KOR-FX-Gaming Vest This virtual-reality gaming vest is set to hit stores later this year, after its inventors completed a successful crowdfunding campaign.

Slip it on and hook it up to a sound source and you’ll soon be enjoying the rough and tumble of gaming with a series of realistic sounds and vibrations. korfx.com

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Rijeka, Croatia July 18, 2014

“ It is an incredible feeling to control my own clone.”

Mislav Mironovic, mountain bike magician

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When it’s said that professional mountain bike freerider Mislav Mironovic does amazing bike tricks, you think of big air and ramps and high fives. But the Croatian ups the stakes with optical illusions (and, yeah, he also does the air-ramp-fives thing really well). How does he combine skill and special effects?

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