The Red Bulletin October 2014 - ZA

SOUTH AFRICA

BEYOND THE ORDINARY

GAMING FOR REAL The pro drivers who qualified on Gran Turismo

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GADGETS

YOU MUST OWN NOW

NIGHTLIFE SECRETS R EVEALED

ZEBRA & GIRAFFE

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When big isn’t big enough

DOWNHILL ACTION HOW TO MAK E A MOUNTAIN BIK E FILM

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KRAVITZ ROCK ’N’ ROLL LEGEND TALKS MUSIC, MOVIES AND MORE

P H O T O G R A P H Y BY M A R K S E L I G E R

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Toyota Yaris in association with Red Bull X-Fighters.

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DOWNHILL ACTION

All you need to know about making an epic mountain-bike movie

MARK SELIGER (COVER), STERLING LORENCE, OLIVIER METZGER

WELCOME How to make a life in music, movies and games: it’s a dream that more and more people are turning into reality, and the unofficial theme of this jampacked edition of The Red Bulletin. Exclusive interviews with Zebra & Giraffe and Lenny Kravitz (they’ve just done their fourth album; he’s just done his 10th) reveal what it’s really like to make music in 2014. Meanwhile, up (and down) a slope somewhere, filming the most ambitious full-length mountain-bike movie, is Brandon Semenuk. Can he really turn YouTube views into a career behind the camera? Plus, we’ve got the incredible story of four men who went from game to racetrack: Gran Turismo tournament wins gave them careers as racing drivers. Plus, a ton of other stuff: sport, new tech and more. Enjoy the issue.

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“They don’t call me the pit bull for nothing” KAYANE, PAGE 38

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AT A GLANCE

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LENNY KRAVITZ

He’s conquered rock ’n’ roll, now he’s in blockbuster movies and still incredibly cool after all these years

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GALLERY 14

BEST PICS Jaw-dropping images

BULLEVARD 20 OUTDOORS SPECIAL Get some fresh air. Plus: naked mountaineering

FEATURES 30 On the record

How can you still be cool after all these years? This man knows how

38 Kayane

Meet the world-class video game professional with the xx factor

40 Shoot your action film Mountain-bike movie-making tips

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The biggest rock band in South Africa on reinventing themselves and stepping up their sound

CONSOLE TO COCKPIT

Four video gamers turned play skills into a career. At this year’s Le Mans 24-hour race they lined up against each another

ANIMAL INSTINCT

B-Boy and Red Bull BC One champion Hong 10 gets ripped without weights and makes like a snake to stay strong

52 82 WHEN BIG ISN’T BIG ENOUGH

Zebra & Giraffe exploded onto SA’s rock scene, but when you’re the biggest fish in the Mzansi pond what happens next?

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SHOTS IN THE DARK

One man has devoted his nightlife to documenting the Parisian party scene: this is a rare, exclusive look in his archive

58 Gran Turismo v Le Mans Driving game champions take to the track for real: their incredible story

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TRAVEL Rodeo bull riding in Canada PRO TOOLS American football gear MY CITY A motorcyclist’s Barcelona TRAINING Get fit for break-dancing WATCHES Timepieces for sailors PARTY Fiction, Cape Town MUSIC Slash’s top five tunes GAMING Assassin’s Creed Unity SAVE THE DATE Unmissable events NIGHTLIFE Paris after dark GADGET GUIDE 20 tech must-haves MAGIC MOMENT On the charge

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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 IN OCTOBER RED BULLETIN WORLDWIDE

FABIEN ‘KEFFER’ HEBERT

MICHAEL ELLIS

RALF HAUSER

The French photographer has amassed thousands of photos documenting Parisian nightlife, a selection of which appear in this edition of The Red Bulletin. For Fabien, it’s as much about socialising as it is about making great images. “I go out a lot because I love electronic music,” he says. “Dressed in black, you can go anywhere in Paris at night – you can dance to trap music at the Social Club, enjoy a cocktail at the Silencio and end up at the Baron next to Jean Dujardin.” Enter la nuit Parisienne on page 82.

To self-taught photographer Michael Ellis, every project is a problem with countless solutions. “Photography is amazing in that sense,” he says. “You can never master it – you have this bottomless bag you just keep filling with tricks. The Zebra & Giraffe assignment was a great introduction to Johannesburg.

I’ve never actually been to the city other than passing through. Ending off the day on a rooftop with a beer watching the sun set over the city was a great treat.” Our profile starts on page 52.

For our feature on the epic new mountain bike film RAD Company, directed by the Canadian rider Brandon Semenuk, we couldn’t have assigned a better man than Hauser. Originally from Vienna, He moved to the US in 2001 to launch Flow, the first mountain bike freeride magazine. Later, he settled in the mountain bike paradise (and Semenuk’s hometown) of Whistler.

“Brandon is a true mountain bike hero” Hauser says, “and his film is a love letter to his sport.” See page 40.

The Red Bulletin is published in 11 countries.

On the cover of the latest UK edition is singer Jessie Ware.

BACKSTAGE

Photoshoot of the month

by Mark Seliger When Lenny Kravitz arrived at Mark Seliger’s photography studio in New York, he knew exactly how he wanted the shoot to go. “He kept stepping out to debate the images with Seliger, who he’s known for years,” says Brandon Perkins, who interviewed Kravitz for The Red Bulletin. See page 30.

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We’re going his way: Lenny Kravitz during his shoot for The Red Bulletin (left) and on the cover (above)

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TICKET TO RIDE Sea, spray, dodging kitesurfers: it’s all part of a normal day for Russian windsurf 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 Cape Town. 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.” It needn’t be an imminent decision, Raskina’s in the form of her life. She only narrowly missed out on becoming the 2014 PWA Freestyle World Champion, happy, for now, with a career-best second place. facebook.com/olya.raskina1 Photo: Kirill Umrikhin/Red Bull Content Pool

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SKATE STYLE CJ Rench is most aptly named: a sculptor and designer who specialises in large-scale metalwork which can be seen all over America. His latest project is the Red Bull Skatespace in Seattle’s Jefferson Park.

Top 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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WO RM S LE Y, EN G L AN D

LIGHT ON THEIR FEET While documenting the Red Bull Campus Cricket World Finals, photographer Rutger Pauw set up this remarkable night shoot at Wormsley Cricket Ground on the Getty estate in Buckinghamshire, England. By attaching LED bike lights to the bat and the bowler’s shoes, as well as to the ball – and thanks to a lack of light pollution – Pauw was able to capture an image of elegant athleticism.

Players from England and India posed in the photo, but South Africa and West Indies went on to contest the final, with the South African students eventually winning their first world T20 crown. rutgerpauw.com Photo: Rutger Pauw/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

Aged 16, he won a sport climbing world cup gold, then four years later, in 2011, 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 north-east 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 TURNOVER

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

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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 5,895m ascent. Her next goal: Mount Everest, which is 8,848m.

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MANA 7,272m, India

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LANGTANG LIRUNG 7,227m, Nepal/China

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7,403m, Pakistan

LENIN PEAK 7,134m, Tajikistan

QUNGMOGANGZE 7,048m, Tibet

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

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THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST RACES

Over hill, dale and ice You can keep your 26-mile, 365-yard 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: 254km Terrain: jungle Temperature: 40°C Record: 32h 18m Humidity: 99 per cent Risks: leeches, anacondas, piranhas.

Where: Canada, from Nunavut to the magnetic North Pole How long: 650km Terrain: snow and ice Temperature: -50°C Record: 10d 9h 45m Risks: at 50 below, it’s not just the liquids you take on that freeze.

Where: in the Moroccan Sahara desert, route changing annually How long: about 250km over six days Terrain: desert sand Temperature: at night 0°C, by day 40°C Record: 16h 27m Water required: nine litres daily Risks: disorientation.

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

Where: up and up from Mt Everest base camp in Nepal How long: 42.195km Terrain: Himalayan Temperature: 10°C Record: 3h 28m 27s Highest point: 5,364m 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 per cent commitment

DIETMAR KAINRATH

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

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Some say it’s the ultimate nature experience: heading towards a summit wearing nothing but a rucksack 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 it as a joke, only then to receive a lot of orders from concerned 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 football Shirt-tugging? Pull the other one.

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

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SURVIVAL

Danger for breakfast

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

Three robust adventurers who have turned man-v-nature into a nice little earner BEAR GRYLLS Real men drink elephant wee and eat live cockchafer grubs. At least this former SAS reservist does. Other things he has tucked into include yaks’ eyes, goats’ testicles and scorpions; all organic.

Enjoy your dinner.

Watch him on: Discovery Channel

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

Read him in: one of his dozen books

LES STROUD Is there anything this guy can’t do? He can tick 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: latest album Wonderful Things

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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 USA. His final stop is the Denali National Park in Alaska.

PLANE CARRYING A RUGBY TEAM CRASHES 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 hopes 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.

N A N D O PA R R A D O, P L AY E D BY E T H A N H AW K E , N OW G I V E S M O T I VAT I O N A L S P E EC H E S AT $ 75,000 A T I M E .

BEAR FOOD.

ARON RALSTON, PLAYED BY JAMES FRANCO, STILL CLIMBS MOUNTAINS. WITH HIS – SPOILER ALERT! – PROSTHETIC ARM.

I S T H AT W I L D HERB EDIBLE OR POISONOUS?

FEAR OF FLYING SAVES LIVES.

T RY L I V I N G W I T H H U M A N S F I R S T.

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 TOILET? Navigation wasn’t always via an app: how help 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 pinpointed you, as long as your battery isn’t flat.

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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 boltholes in treetops were for children only. Now tourists holidaying in forests will find tailor-timbered restaurants and designer hotels in the branches of huge trees.

It makes for a very special vacation experience, but as with most other types of holiday, treehousing 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 very open 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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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 roots of soil; roast until they are dark brown; boil for 15 about minutes. 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 colourful 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 scoffed.

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”

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BUG CHEF DAV ID GEORGE GOR DON

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JOOS ORANGE SOLAR CHARGER Makes sense in a fair weather city, too, what with power-hungry mobiles.

CARRYING THE CAN!

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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 mobile to take a selfie by the sea.

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THIS IS HOW IT IS FOR LENNY KRAVITZ: JUST TURNED 50, 10TH ALBUM READY TO GO, WINNING PARTS IN HOLLYWOOD HITS. IT HASN’T BEEN EASY, BUT HE’S FOUND THE SECRET TO BEING COOL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

PHOTOGRAPHY: MARK SELIGER PRODUCER: JOSEF SIEGLE WORDS: BRANDON PERKINS

Kravitz is the only musician to have won the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance Grammy four years running

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L “I GO TO THE BAHAMAS ON A QUIET ISLAND AND MAKE MY MUSIC IN THE BUSHES”

enny Kravitz’s music has been pumped into shopping malls and played on MOR radio 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 almost devalues his success.

Even though some of Kravitz’s songs have become ubiquitous, he is still one of the great rock ’n’ roll artists of the his era.

Many of his biggest hits were released at a time when hip-hop was taking off and when people were lining up to sound the death knell of rock music, but Kravitz has defied the critics, releasing an album roughly every three years and selling in the region of 40 million records in the process. Kravitz has staying power; he’s a larger-than-life iconic presence front of stage riffing on his Gibson Flying V guitar, and his look – first with those dreads, then that ’fro; those tats – has always been the epitome of rock ’n’ roll cool.

The musical landscape has changed significantly since the release of his debut album, Let Love Rule, in 1989. Yet his process has stayed much the same. He recorded Strut, his 10th full-length LP, in just two weeks, mostly by himself.

“I tend to go away. I go to the Bahamas on a quiet island and make my music in the bushes,” he says sitting in a rooftop 33

lounge in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Sliding glass doors keep the stifling summer heat at bay, haze and condensation blocking a stunning view of the Hudson River. “I did fly down string players and there’s three background singers on the album, as well, and my horn players. But otherwise it’s just me playing guitar, bass, drums and keyboard, plus my guitarist Craig Ross, who’s been with me for years. For the most part, it’s just the two of us in the studio.”

The Bahamas is where those catchy power chords from Fly Away came to Kravitz, driving his Jeep one day in the late 1990s. Many of his songs just come to him like that. The classic Are You Gonna Go My Way was written by him and Ross “in five minutes”, while Again was a Kravitz-only quick composition, a song which led him to win the third of a record four consecutive Grammy awards for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1999.

(The other Grammies came in 1998, 1999 and 2000 for Fly Away, American Woman and Dig In, respectively.)

Kravitz got the title of his latest album from something his grandmother was fond of saying: “Strut your stuff, baby, you look great” was shortened to become Strut. Strutting is what Kravitz is doing a lot of during his photoshoot for The Red Bulletin. After each round of shots, 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 and debates the images with acclaimed photographer Mark Seliger. But although it would be easy to dismiss Kravitz’s need to approve every photo as a narcissistic by-product of fame, looks do matter when you’re as big a name in rock as he is.

Kravitz sounds like a true pro during his conversations with Seliger. Words like “composition” and “contrast”, “movement” and “pop” pepper the dialogue. It’s not showy empty rhetoric.

Kravitz really knows his stuff. The two have been friends for years and have worked together on many photoshoots.

They also collaborated on a 2001 photo book showing Kravitz on the road and with his family as well as in posed settings.

More recently, another book has been the focus of Kravitz’s attention.

He has been working on Lenny Kravitz, a career-spanning coffee table book that showcases his work with some of the top names in fashion and art photography, plus an extra feature in which Kravitz is interviewed by Pharrell Williams.

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o a modern celebrity, the cultivation of an appropriate image is an ongoing battle, and 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.”

Kravitz’s renaissance man status has also seen him establish a successful acting career. Apart from playing himself in films like Zoolander, his recent credits include a role in the Oscarwinning movie Precious, a recurring role in the billion-dollar-earning Hunger Games series and The Butler, a movie which made Barack Obama “tear up”. That’s not a bad run of films.

In The Butler, Kravitz appeared alongside a long list of actors, including Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr, Alan Rickman, Mariah Carey, John Cusack and Robin Williams. He admits that working with a large team on a movie set provides a refreshing break from the smaller scale approach he takes when recording an album in a studio.

“When I’m in the recording studio, it’s just me. It’s my thing, my music, my production, whatever I want to do is me,

me, me, me, me,” says Kravitz. “That’s the way it is, but then to be able to get together with a group of different 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 clear that Kravitz has got a good idea about what works and doesn’t work from a visual perspective. In 2003 he established his interior design company, Kravitz Design Inc, which now includes Swarovski Crystal among its list of high-profile clients. He isn’t afraid to take a risk in his core business endeavours, and recently decided to go it alone in the music industry after spending much of his career putting out records under major record labels.

Strut will be released on Kravitz’s own label, named Roxie Records after his late mother, actress Roxie Roker.

The label is an imprint of Kobalt Label Services (KLS), which has set itself apart from the major players by adopting a simple model that allows artists to retain the rights to their music.

Basically, KLS will just distribute the music and then issue the royalties.

Kravitz 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 through Atlantic Records, and heightened his involvement with the nuts and bolts of selling music. His frustration over the situation is still palatable three years later. “That was the biggest mistake of my musical life,” he says. “It was 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.”

That Kravitz was able to take control of his career is as much to do with those 40 million records sold than anything else.

How different his life would have been without that breakthrough hit 23 years ago.

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“WE’RE ALL FREAKS. NOBODY IS NORMAL. EMBRACE WHO YOU ARE AND LIVE IT”

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is career-defining song is It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over. It is also notable for revealing a very specific moment in Kravitz’s personal 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, the couple’s break-up was indeed played out in the tabloids. 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 3am exhausted from their efforts to make their love work.

“It was truly the most definitive song when dealing with my break-up at that time – yet it was up, it was hopeful,” he explains. “It’s one of those songs 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.”

It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over was a hit worldwide and still features highly on radio playlists today. It’s such a monumental track that many people assume it’s a cover from Smokey Robinson’s day. “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, lead single from Strut, is another catchy combination 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 better 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 lustful awe in millions of women.

“I’m always taken aback by that whole thing,” says Kravitz. “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. We’re all freaks. Nobody is normal.

Embrace who you are and live it.”

By that Kravitz is actually embracing his grandmother’s sentiment which inspired the title of his new record.

Strut your stuff, baby.

Go behind the scenes of our photoshoot with Kravitz at redbulletin.com Grooming: Lorraine Abeles. Production: Ruth Levy.

Location: Mark Seliger Studio, New York City

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KAYANE

Born to win

World-class video games professionals are usually men.

Meet the champion with the xx factor Words: Alex Nassar Photography: Olivier Metzger

The thing that strikes you most when you meet Kayane for the first time is how gentle and kind she is. Who would have thought that this pretty 23-yearold would be a merciless killer with thousands of victims to her name?

Kayane is an international video game star. Her real name is Marie-Laure Norindr, and she commands fame and has a reputation that goes well beyond the borders of her home nation of France.

“It’s still weird arriving in Las Vegas to compete in a tournament and having to sign autographs,” she says. “The internet means I have a very large audience.”

It’s now a long time since a young girl from Argenteuil, a western suburb of Paris, first took an interest in fighting games such as Street Fighter, Soulcalibur and Dead Or Alive. She was eight years old when her two brothers, seven and 11 years older than her, noticed that she had a gift for the joystick and virtual combat.

They soon signed her up for a tournament.

“The organisers didn’t want me to take part,” says Kayane. “They thought I was the little sister of a friend who was with me that day, and when my name was called for my first fight, everyone in the room went quiet and looked at me as if I was some kind of weird animal.

‘Who’s this little girl daring to challenge us?’ The first guy I was up against was three times my age. He was killing himself laughing when he saw me.

I knocked him out without the loss of a single round.” A year later Kayane made it to the final, meaning she was the French No 2 in Dead Or Alive 2.

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In 2010, she became women’s world Champion of Super Street Fighter IV. In 2012, she got her name in the Guinness Book Of World Records as the woman with the most podium finishes in fighting game competitions, with a total of 42.

“When I play, I’m overcome by this hatred of losing, which gets the most out of me and helps me get the better of my opponents,” she says. “Your technique is important, but so is the

“The video game world is very macho, but I know that people fear and respect me now” mental side of things. They don’t call me The Pit Bull for nothing.”

An exceptionally nice pit bull, be it said, and one who is always working to progress onward and upward. “I spent a month in Japan recently,” she says.

“They have the world’s best players, and the Japanese mindset really inspires me to do better. They have this ability to keep pushing their limits. It’s part of their culture, part of their education, and it’s probably why they’re so good.”

As in all sports, there’s no mystery when

it comes to winning video game competitions. Talent alone isn’t enough.

Future victories are forged in practice.

“I practise for at least one to two hours a day,” she says. “And if there’s a tournament coming up, I study my potential opponents’ fighting techniques.

I try to get into their heads to anticipate their next move. It’s a bit like poker sometimes. There’s a lot of bluffing in video game tournaments.”

Kayane has also been increasing her areas of expertise. As well as taking part in gaming competitions, she boxes, and hosts a weekly TV programme on MTV-owned French channel Game One. But her ambition is now pushing her toward other goals. “It’d be a dream to create my own fighting game,” she says. “I’ve got plenty of ideas, and I think that one day I’ll go through the looking glass.”

But the tenacious champion still has a few more fights to win and a few more mouths to silence in a world that still isn’t entirely at ease with women, especially if they’re young and talented. “The video game world is a very macho place, but I know that people fear and respect me now,” she says. “In my 13-year career, I’ve achieved that at least, and that’s saying something.”

Whatever did happen to that poor gamer Kayane beat up on in her first tournament way back in 2001? “I think he changed his name and moved abroad,” she says. “Best decision he ever made.” battlegrounds.redbull.com THE RED BULLETIN

Name Marie-Laure ‘Kayane’ Norindr Born Paris, June 17, 1991 Game on Kayane hosts Game One e-Sports, a weekly show on French TV. Playing piano is her other passion.

Going down in history Kayane is in the 2012 edition of the Guinness Book Of World Records as the woman with the most top three finishes in fighting game competitions anywhere in the world.

O N E M O U N TA I N B I K E V I S I O N A RY; A BUNCH OF H I S S I M I L A R LY TA L E N T E D M AT E S ; A L L T H E S TAT E -足足 O F-T H E -A R T FILMMAKING TECH THEY COULD H AU L T O A M A Z I N G TRAILS AND C O U R S E S A L L OV E R T H E WO R L D. H OW D O YO U M A K E A M A J O R M O U N TA I N B I K E M OV I E ?

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“AS WE WERE CREATING THE TRAILS AND COURSES, WE FOUND OURSELVES COMING UP WITH MORE AND MORE CRAZY IDEAS. EVERYONE CONTRIBUTED”

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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 six 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 victory at Red Bull Rampage, a prestigious event on the international big mountain freeriding calendar that unfolds in the unforgiving terrain of Virgin, Utah, USA. 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 , U S A 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 manoeuvres they pull off. One of Zink’s records is for the biggest backflip, which included a 26m 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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“IDEAS ALONE AREN’T ENOUGH. SITTING ON YOUR BACKSIDE AND TALKING ABOUT DOING THINGS WON’T GET YOU ANYWHERE. YOU’VE GOT TO DO IT”

“I WAS VERY LUCKY, BECAUSE I WAS ABLE TO DO EVERYTHING I IMAGINED I WOULD”

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Semenuk’s ability on the bike is matched by his way with a mountain bike course.

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

After the Rad Company crew roll 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 – and the resulting footage shot there. Riders were given a week to practise 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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Episodes in the second season of Life Behind Bars, Semenuk’s successful YouTube series, are devoted to the making of Rad Company.

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”

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Zebra & Giraffe (from left): bassist Stef Henrico, vocalist Greg Carlin, guitarist Alan Shenton and drummer Mike Wright

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Z E B R A & GI R A FFE ex pl o ded o nto So uth Afr i ca’s ro c k sce n e, ti c ki n g a l l th e b oxes : l egi o ns of fa ns, hea dl i ni ng festi vals, w i n n i n g awa r ds a nd to ppi ng the c ha r ts. B ut w hen you ’re th e b i g g est f i s h i n the M za ns i po nd, w hat ha ppens n ext?

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lash back to 2008 when Zebra & Giraffe released Collected Memories, a debut album that went on to produce seven Top 10 singles and win the SA Music Award for Best Rock Album.

The album was a studio creation and some doubted whether the band could deliver what live rock ’n roll demands. So Zebra & Giraffe played the main stage at Oppikoppi and blew the crowd away – and then went on to win the MTV All Africa Award for Best Alternative Band.

Two years later, the band cemented their edgy rock sound with The Knife, played Oppikoppi main stage again, and killed it again. Now, with their new EP Knuckles, they’ve headlined Oppikoppi once more, as well as the Rise ’n’ Shine and I Heart Joburg festivals, with a date at the first-ever Tribe One fest to come.

The new single I’ve Been Bad is out, with the building energy of their signature layered sound this time set against lyrics of tempered optimism. “I’ve been bad / The worst man / But I can satisfy you / Like no one can.” It’s accompanied by a video by Ross Garrett, whose credits include Die Antwoord’s Fok Julle Naaiers. And so the cycle starts again. And still Zebra & Giraffe find ways to make it all bigger and better.

“After three full albums, and doing all the things you can in South Africa, like playing with The Killers and Snow Patrol and The Prodigy and Oasis, and playing in Kenya and Los Angeles, we got to a point where we needed to know what our next step was,” says Greg Carlin, songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of the band, but also a musician whose vision extends far beyond just leather jackets and rock ’n’ roll style.

“It’s too easy to get stuck in the day-to-day running of things, being in a band and trying

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Behind the scenes: Zebra & Giraffe’s stage-show is as demanding physically as it is musically.

On stage, the band harnesses vintage and new technology to create their live soundscapes

“Af ter pl ay i ng with T he K i l l ers an d Snow Pat rol an d T he Pro di gy an d Oa s i s, we ne e d e d to know w hat ou r next step was”

to survive – so much so that you forget the reason you’re doing it. We spent a year breaking it down, asking tough, honest questions like, ‘What are we doing and why are we doing it? How much do we believe in the music and how far do we want to go?’”

It was a process that involved countless hours that no fan will ever care about, those things that separate a great band from one that is merely good. Rewriting a line not 10 times, but hundreds. Working on a guitar part for a song not for hours, but for days. The bassist and drummer trapped in an exercise where they can play only one note each – and need to create a groove from there. Vocals in a sealed-off booth THE RED BULLETIN

recorded over and over and over until there’s a different emotion oozing from every single word, instead of just a line some guy happens to be singing. And beyond all the practising together, the hours and hours of practising alone.

“It’s probably the hardest thing I’ve had to do in my life,” admits lead guitarist Alan Shenton. Intense and efficient off-stage as he handles much of the band’s management and administration needs, on stage he transforms into a blur of movement, one moment crafting a melody, the next shredding a complex solo.

“You become busier as the band gets bigger and your career evolves, and what suffers most is

The roar of a festival crowd drowns out any early reservations the critics had about Zebra & Giraffe’s live credentials

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“ Those 45 minutes on stage, with the band feeding off the energy of 20,000 people who are loving what you do”

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Sound checking and trying to relax backstage (left) is what makes up the calm before the storm for Zebra & Giraffe before delivering a headline show on the main stage at this year’s Oppikoppi (below)

individual practice,” he says. “Until the age of 18, I was clocking as many hours as I could manage, me and the guitar. Now, you’re rehearsing with the band at great length, and that has great benefits, but to make the time for individual practice, just you and your instrument, multiple times a day – that’s hard.

“Time withers away. We’re focused on getting the show right, the sound right, the lights right… down to getting the right shows and all the logistics. Doing albums and artwork and press. Where’s the time to keep the level of commitment to your instrument?

To your craft of being a musician, as well as the craft of being in a band? It’s the hardest time to find, but when you make the time, and sit with your instrument… it’s the most rewarding time. The more you find the time, the more you can find the time.”

Each band member is a multi-instrumentalist, helping weave the sonic layering that gives Zebra & Giraffe their alternative rock sound. But, as Knuckles proves, it is songwriting that creates the emotional connection with a listener. However, once a rock song has been perfected for an album, it must then be translated into a form that works for live performance – whether that’s a big-stage stadium, festival audience or an intimate acoustic setting.

“We take the song apart with all of its layers from the album version and then figure out the sounds for the live set,” says Stef Henrico, bassist and live sample keyboardist.

Henrico rides a Triumph Bonneville – the 2012 limited edition of the 1960 classic – and serious ink peeks out from under his shirt, but he also exudes the calm that good bassists seem to possess. “We’ll record four or five versions with different guitar tones for each part of a song; then we listen back to find the one that works,” he says.

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decisions for each part of a song. Then we start working on how all those songs fit together for a set.

“Preparing for an acoustic tour is the same thing: it can be a stressful process rearranging the song for a completely different setting. But I see it all as part of what we do, just like part of a gig means sometimes getting there and lugging speakers or rearranging the chairs in a small venue – or, for the big shows, taking the time to see how all of the visuals fit with each song. This is what we do.”

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ll serious bands practise and rehearse and strive for a pinnacle of creative achievement. What sets Zebra & Giraffe apart is not only taking the long view on their musical career, but also, almost as if borrowing from a top athlete’s training programme, how they’ve approached their music from a “high performance” perspective. There are lessons here for any ambitious creative, and it’s standing the band in good stead as they face down the harsh glare of the next step: growing their international presence.

“You are your own worst enemy and your own biggest critic,” says Mike Wright, drummer and drum-sample jockey as well as the ever-joking comic on the band’s long tours. “I really think our new material is a great collection of songs, and I know people will respond strongly to it. Whether they think it’s good or bad is up to their own personal taste, but we’ve created something that is superaccessible without sacrificing our artistic integrity.

“There’s a level of intricacy in each song – even if we’re the only ones who hear it,” says Wright. “Now we need to widen the demographic of our listeners, and widen our geographic demographic. Being a rock band is a struggle – there are all the things behind the scenes that the fans don’t see, all the work. But then there’s those 45 minutes on stage, with the band working perfectly together; feeding off each other and feeding off the energy of 20,000 people who are loving what you do – each for his or her own reason, but they’re loving it because of all the work you’ve done. There’s nothing in this world that comes close to that. It’s all about those 45 minutes.” zebraandgiraffe.co.za

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FROM CONSOLE Jann Mardenborough: from video-game whizz to pro racing driver

TO COCKPIT FOUR RACING DRIVERS WHO GOT THEIR BREAK WINNING A GRAN TURISMO CONTEST FOUND THEMSELVES ON OPPOSING TEAMS AT THIS YEAR’S LE MANS 24-HOUR RACE: FROM UP ALL NIGHT GAMING TO UP ALL NIGHT AT ONE OF THE TOUGHEST CHALLENGES IN MOTORSPORT Words: PIERRE-HENRI CAMY Photogrpahy: GREG FUNNELL

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he circuit at Le Mans, that holy temple of motorsport, is red-hot whenever the famous 24 Hours race is held there. Elite drivers, from all formats of top-class racing, have forged legends here. Teams have three drivers who rotate stints behind the wheel. Four young men, in two teams, at this year’s 24 Hours Of Le Mans got here by the most unorthodox route; a couple had never taken part in a motor race as recently as two years ago. They got here by being good at video games. Jann Mardenborough, English winner of the 2011 GT Academy Europe, a contest on the racing game Gran Turismo, and Mark Shulzhitskiy, home winner of GT Academy Russia in 2012, will drive alongside Alex Brundle in the Le Mans Prototype 2 category, for Oak Racing, in a Ligier JS P2 with a Nissan engine. The Nissan ZEOD RC, a hybrid electric in the Garage 56 category, for cars testing new technologies, will be driven by Japan’s Satoshi Motoyama, the Spaniard Lucas Ordoñez, GT Academy Europe winner in 2008, and Wolfgang Reip of Belgium, who was chosen from 830,000 European gamers in 2012.

NOTHING BETTER TO DO In 2008, Nissan and Sony decided that they would try and make the gamers who were best at Gran Turismo, a beloved motor-racing simulation video game on PlayStation and PlayStation 2, into real-life racing drivers. An online selection system produced national champions across Europe who then went to England for a week-long final, an intense race camp of physical training and driving sessions in the simulator and on the track at Silverstone. The chosen one would then follow 60

an intensive driving programme under the watchful eye of Nismo, Nissan’s performance motorsport division.

After that it would be competitive motorsport, in the GP3 category, for example, where Mardenborough is currently competing; Shulzhitskiy, Ordoñez and Reip also race professionally. A dazzling transition from the virtual to the real world. As the Englishman prepares to take part in the drivers’ parade through the streets of the city of Le Mans on the eve of the 24 Hours, he recalls his former life. “I got into GT Academy in February 2011.

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THESE FORMER GAMERS ARE PART OF THE MOTORSPORT ELITE Fast Belgian: Wolfgang Reip

Oak Racing’s car hits the circuit. The driver is only the final piece of the jigsaw: 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 motorsport

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

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For 24 hours, fans trackside and worldwide online follow this great race

SA’S STAR RACER A professional racing career beckons for sports journalist Ashley Oldfield South Africa has its own GT Academy champion in the form of Cape Town motoring journalist Ashley Oldfield.

Oldfield was crowned in March 2013 after getting the better of 15 other racers at the Silverstone circuit in the UK. After that he went into the GT Academy training programme, also at Silverstone, where trainees spend six days a week honing skills in the gym, on the track or in the Nismo simulator.

Oldfield’s training paid off.

He won last year's Silverstone 1,000km and came third in this year's Dubai 24Hr, the location and date of which makes for the longest night stint of any 24hour race in the world, in which Oldfield clocked his fastest lap.

“Going from PlayStation to racing seat is a big step, not just physically, but mentally," explains Oldfield. "If you make a mistake in the game, nobody really cares; you just restart.

In real-life races, there are consequences; your team has to fix your car if you bin it!”

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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: quite an achievement for an experimental car

I was an average student at the time. My mates were travelling 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 At 3pm, Ordoñez’s teammate, Wolfie Reip, is starting his first Le Mans at the wheel of the ZEOD RC. This vehicle, which would be at home in a 1970s book about the future, 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 300kph in qualifying. During the warm-up, Reip drove one complete lap with the car in full, silent 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... Ooh! Did you see that?! That guy almost killed himself!” The Spaniard is talking without taking his eyes off the broadcast screens; the circuit is suddenly struck by heavy rainfall and one car almost leaves the track while attempting to overtake another. Crashes and retirements are common when the rain hits Le Mans.

In the Oak Racing garage, there is no such disappointment, but as 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. Despite this, or because of it, the men who work in the shadows are doing a fine job. They act with precision every time there is a change of driver or tyre or every time they refuel.

Russia’s Mark The car impresses with its consistency lap after lap.

Shulzhitskiy conquered this year's Le Mans.

Two years earlier he was a student Eight hours into the race, night falls and everything and had never changes. Drivers have to be twice as cautious, but raced a car excitement increases in the campsites around the circuit.

STAYING STRONG

" I N A SIMULATION, YOU CAN CRASH AND COME AWAY UNSCATHED. YOU HAVE TO THINK DIFFERENTLY WHEN IT COMES TO REALITY" LUCAS ORDOÑEZ Some tents are pitched next to Ferraris and muscle cars.

At the Alain Prost turn, what looks like a customised removals truck is open at the sides, allowing its occupants to follow the race from bunk beds, 30m from the track wall. At night, cars tend to scrape against the wall more than they do in the daylight.

Another peculiarity of the race is that it welcomes ‘gentlemen drivers’ or amateurs. The actor Patrick Dempsey and singer-songwriter David Hallyday are some of the better-known gentlemen. Mark Shulzhitskiy has 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 and you have to stay consistent.” 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.

The race is into its 23rd hour and the black-andorange Oak car is now further down the field. There’s a council of war 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 Alex Brundle have given it their all but are fifth in their category and ninth overall when the chequered flag flaps in the humid air of Le Mans.

REALLY COOL 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 favourite memory of the race is “when you can do 300kph 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 behind the wheel?

“I have to keep on working hard in GP3 and remain focused on that,” says the talented 23-year-old. His dream, not unrealistic now, is of a career in Formula One. A far cry from pressing Start on a video game. gran-turismo.com

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FALL If watching natural strength from afar appeals after a close encounter with a bull, witnessing the Niagara Falls is one to tick off the bucket list. niagarafalls tourism.com

BULL RIDING UNPREDICTABLE, THRILLING, ONE TONNE 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 training school in Ontario, 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, Moore can teach you the skills and get you 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 this year. “After learning the ground rules, we went on a mechanical bull to get a feel,” he says. “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 adrenalin pumping, and I saw the bull running towards me. He started attacking my legs until someone grabbed me and A two-day course threw me back into the chutes. Then costs Can$300 / I was just grinning. I’d had the most US$270 (R2,920) bramersrodeo.com killer thrill. I knew I was hooked.”

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CRAWL Crawl and climb through a world of caves 25m below the surface of Collingwood. Follow the sound 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 it’s 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.”

ENTHRAL 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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BARCELONA MOTORBIKE ACE DANI PEDROSA GETS REVVED UP BY HIS FAVOURITE 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 10pm. 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 favourite 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 2am 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 trousers, sturdy shoes and a valid driving licence? You can hire a 250cc quad bike and thrash it through the Catalan countryside. lifestylebarcelona.com

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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 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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“The only weights I use are 0.5kg and 1kg 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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“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; look for it on YouTube.

The 29-year-old starts his daily one-hour workout with press-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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of countdown can be set simply and flexibly and, equally importantly, it can also show the time left until the final fiveminute countdown at various regattas. A touch of the orange push-start at four 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 eight 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 push-start at four o’clock and the crown 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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Follow the dance music story at Fiction

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.

Enduring appeal CAPE TOWN AFTER NEARLY EIGHT YEARS, FICTION IS STILL MINTING EDM GREATS

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MY FAVOURITE CLUB IN TOWN IS...

Mercury Live makes me happy, long time.

A LOCAL BAND EVERY CAPETONIAN SHOULD KNOW IS… Taxi Violence.

MY FAVOURITE COCKTAIL IS… I don’t discriminate, though as a rule I move from lightest to darkest coloured drinks. Never the other way.

I NEVER LEAVE THE HOUSE AT NIGHT WITHOUT… My wife, who holds my keys and wallet when I breakdance.

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.)

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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Butterfly-like life spans would appear to be the norm for Mother City clubs, but very occasionally a venue digs in, retaining support come recession or ridicule. Fiction on Long Street is such a place. This sanctuary of alternative electro genres is located in an 1856 Victorian with a New Orleans-y wrap-around balcony. It was founded in 2006 by Jonathan Cline and Adam Klein and their genius, according to Bruno Morphet of Killer Robot fame, was to base a club around a music policy. In the coming years the venue launched local legends like Mix and Blend, Gazelle and Niskerone, while hosting international frontiersmen like Seth Troxler, Pendulum and Danny Wheeler. The club closed in 2010, but was re-launched six months later

by Robbie Mulholland, Tom Kennedy and Don Blignaut. “Some institutions deserve to endure and it has been our mission to ensure Fiction does,” says Kennedy. Cue recent visitations by the likes of Skrillex and Zombie Nation, and local club scene proof that there can be life in death.

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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 other ones sold more than 100 million albums together 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-year-old, 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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“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.”

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Living For The City

“This was my mother’s favourite 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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“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.

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

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These wireless waterproof in-ear earbuds play music either via Bluetooth from your phone/player or from the 4GB of internal storage. They also work as a fitness computer and have passive noise isolation, so you don’t shut off on your run. Highly impressive. 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 customisation. koeitecmo america.com

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

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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 only 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 in that it has 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 petrolheads.

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 stars Michael Fassbender. “Assassin’s, I’m so happy with,” said the Irish actor in April. (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 set to drop and help set off the French Revolution. As is usual in the series, there is also a modern-day set-up (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, Assassin’s Creed game world becomes even more expansive and visually impressive, but this has always been matched by a ramp-up of the play mechanic. 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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DRIVECLUB ON PS4

FORZA HORIZON 2 FOR XBOXES

THE EVIL WITHIN Survival horror led by a murder cop marooned in a gruesome, limbolike 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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SAVE THE DATE Wade Young on his way to third place at this year’s Red Bull Romaniacs

September 26-28

Wade on the rampage They call the Red Bull Sea To Sky the most enjoyable hard enduro, but hard enduros aren’t supposed to be enjoyable. No one will be racing harder than South African enduro king Wade Young, fresh from a Red Bull Romaniacs podium and outright victory in the King of the Hill in Romania and Red Bull Braveman in Namibia. redbullseatosky.com

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The drawing’s on the wall This year’s Red Bull Doodle Art Global Gallery brings the world’s best doodle artists to Cape Town’s Company Gardens.

Winning artworks from around the world, including South Africa’s best doodle, will be on show – drop by to meet artists from more than 40 countries at this unique outdoor exhibition. redbulldoodleart.com

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The South African HorrorFest celebrates its 10th anniversary this Halloween with a chilling list of cult horror films and short films. Horror literature, a short story competition, live music, a Halloween dress-up contest and a Zombie Walk will further curdle the blood. horrorfest.info

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Ultra-trail Cape Town A unique ultra-trail event debuts in Cape Town with three separate races: the main 100km Ultra-trail (with 4,200m of climbing) the 62km Mountain-trail (with 2,900m of altitude gain) and the 17km Urban-trail. Iconic locations like Lions Head, Table Mountain, Hout Bay, Llandudno, Newlands Forest, Devils Peak, the Bo-Kaap and Greenmarket Square all feature in this classic mountain and semi-urban trail layout.

HorrorFest organisers Paul Blom and Sonja Ruppersberg

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The destiny of the Rugby Championship might just ride on the result of this South Africa-New Zealand clash. On the other hand, the Boks have won only one of their last nine matches against the All Blacks.

GOING SOLO You like riding your mountain bike? You like it a lot? Head to Fort William in the UK for the 24-hour solo mountain bike world championships.

That’s where the hardest riders on the planet will be.

CrossFit hits Durban with the 120team United We Stand competition held over three days to crown the fittest athletes in the land. Friday involves a beach workout, with Saturday and Sunday’s knockoutstyle sessions taking place at the Gateway Theatre of Shopping.

Consistency is key: last year’s winners didn’t win a single workout, but they placed high enough in each round to bag plenty of points.

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King of the groms

Something to pitch for

Ready to rock

A cable-ski wakeboard contest is the highlight of the two-day Spring Fest at Blue Rock quarry near Somerset West. Riders’ abilities over obstacles and through flat water will be tested while spectators enjoy the live bands, the Ajax Cape Town fives futbol team and the craft beer festival. bluerock.co.za

The Hurley SA Junior Championships return to Lower Point in J-Bay with SA’s best young surfers eager to show that they can charge as hard as the pros did at the J-Bay Open. If conditions are anything like what Mick Fanning and co dropped into, the groms will be all over it. sajuniorchamps.co.za

Cape Town football fans rejoice: MWEB GameZone are again playing host to their annual FIFA launch party.

Expect great giveaways, a chance to play FIFA 15 on the newly released Xbox One, fabulous snacks and maybe a celebrity or two to rub shoulders with. gamezone.co.za

Blow the winter blues away with the kind of party that only Rocking the Daisies can deliver. Rudimental will be joined by MGMT and Crystal Fighters, with Arno Carstens, Shortstraw and Taxi Violence providing local back-up. Also check out Lebanese blues duo, The Wanton Bishops. rockingthedaisies.com

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RUSSIAN REBOUND One hundred years after the last F1 Grand Prix in Russia, a new street circuit at Sochi (host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics) will welcome back the world’s most popular motorsport. formula1.com

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THE DARK Photographer Fabien ‘Keffer’ Hebert has a permanent VIP pass – free entry, free drinks, free reign – and an archive of images from parties and clubs in one of the world’s great nocturnal cities. This is Paris at night

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“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 date in France. A crazy crowd goes wild for his newschool rap. The Harlem MC signed a US$3 million contract with Sony just days after his Paris show.

TRANSFORMATION The Dèmonia party is the place to go for SM and fetish fans. It’s probably a bank manager under there.

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LADIES OF PARIS French popstrel 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 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 musicians 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 afterhour 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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Its well-designed and user-friendly webOS interface came in for particular praise at the 2014 CES international consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. lg.com

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

They work out the rest automatically through a calibration

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

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The soft ear-pads fit snug to your ears and cut out external noise. beatsbydre.com

ARMOURED SPEAKER The Big Turtle Shell This wireless Bluetooth speaker is waterproof and shock-resistant so you can use it at the beach, round 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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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 colours. garmin.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

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Tshwane’s strength lies in the rich variety of its

natural, historical and cultural heritage. Its warm and pleasant climate – hot summers and cool, dry winters – makes it an ideal tourist destination all year round.

It is the home of jazz and is also renowned as the country’s capital of performing and visual arts, boasting several art galleries.

The State Theatre and smaller theatres regularly stage a wide variety exceptional productions in all genres and feature local and international artists.

For those who love to shop, Menlyn Park Shopping Centre – one of the biggest retail destinations in the southern hemisphere – is the place to be.

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Representing South Africa in the Red Bull Campus Cricket World Finals, the University of Pretoria were unbeaten in the eight-nation, T20 varsity tournament. Fast bowler Corbin Bosch (above, fourth from right) was in fearsome form – with the ball rather than the bat – finishing as top wicket-taker in the competition. “No, I haven’t heard any chirps thus far,” he said, when asked about Tuks’ success compared to the Proteas’ repeated failures in knock-out tournaments. redbullcampuscricket.com

“ My motivation was to win two World Cups in one year and be known as one of the world’s best university players” Corbin Bosch, after helping Tuks and the South African U19 team to glory in 2014

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