The Red Bulletin February 2015 - US

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Speedriding and the next level of winter sports

Bikes that should’ve made your wish list

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1,000 MPH Andy Green on his way to the world land speed record

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SKIING’S FINAL FRONTIER?

With the help of a wing, snowriders are conquering slopes previously considered unrideable.

Olympic records fall every four years, the three-minute mile will be run at some point, and perhaps a bit after that, mankind will have conquered every winter landscape the planet has to offer. We chip away at more every year, it seems. The Yukon Quest (p. 62) takes manand-dog teams through 1,000 miles of unforgiving terrain not even snowmobiles can get through (the old frozen fuel issue).

Fortunately, our photographer Katie Orlinsky was able to hitch a ride. And then there’s the top part of that 9,000-foot peak in Alaska considered unrideable until Jon DeVore and a few friends tackled it with skis and small parachute canopies. As the sport of speedriding grows (p. 32), expect more of the same. Enjoy, and happy new year.

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“I’m a test pilot developing testpilot skills. In a car.”

ANDY GREEN, PAGE 26

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RIDEABLE

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AT A GLANCE GALLERY

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10 This month’s most amazing images

BULLEVARD 18 YOUTUBE turns 10. Ready to party?

FEATURES

MY OTHER CAR’S A FORMULA ONE

26 Andy Green

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Grand Prix legend David Coulthard takes the Mercedes-AMG GT for a spin.

Can the world’s fastest man top 1,000?

32 The Unrideables

Taming skiing’s toughest slopes

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44 Twin Shadow

On naked pics, hot bikes and bar fights

46 Michael Dupouy

Stuffing a book with the year’s top stuff

48 Lemawork Ketema

Wings for Life’s winner wants more

50 Wayne Gretzky

Break his records. Make his day.

54 David Coulthard YUKON QUEST

To the mushers and mutts of the Iditarod we say “pshaw!” True sledding studs run this 1,000-mile race.

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ON A WINGSUIT AND A PRAYER

Step aside, caped superheros: With the proper equipment and training, average Joes can soar like pros.

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WAYNE GRETZKY

Most sports greats hope their records stand forever. But the Great One knows his will fall—and plans to stand witness.

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SCHOOL OF ROCK

Thirty hand-picked hopefuls hit Tokyo for Red Bull Academy’s crash course in composing and performing.

The F1 star takes a Mercedes joyride

62 Dog Days of Winter

Sledding’s toughest endurance test

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CONTRIBUTORS WHO’S ON BOARD THIS ISSUE “With skiing or snowboarding, you know where they’re going, but this is a lot faster, and they fly off as soon as they come into focus.”

Scott Serfas on the slopes, page 32

BERNHARD SPÖTTEL

DIMITRI COSTE

SCOTT SERFAS

The German photographer was on hand to document what happened when we let 13-time Grand Prix winner David Coulthard loose in the new Mercedes-AMG GT at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. “I first worked with him 10 years ago at a show run in Istanbul,” says Spöttel.

“Since then I’ve known DC as a true pro with a great sense of humor.” But the Bavariabased snapper was less impressed with the coupé than Coulthard: “All of my equipment wouldn’t fit in it.”

See what happens on page 54.

When Dimitri Coste isn’t shooting portraits or fashion photographs, you’ll normally find him riding his Triumph in international vintage motorcycle races. “I was really surprised when I arrived at Michael Dupouy’s place to photograph him [page 46],” says Coste, “because it’s like a small contemporary art gallery with works by artists such as Wes Lang, Phil Frost and KAWS.” The French photographer captured just how “relaxed and confident” the street-culture expert was.

Vancouver-based Serfas has made a name for himself with stunning landscape action shots. But shooting the sport of speedriding (part paragliding, part skiing) in the Alaskan backcountry was a whole new challenge. “With skiing or snowboarding you know where they’re going to,” says Serfas. “Here it’s a lot faster … and they’re coming across the camera, and when they hit it, it’s a split second and then they’re off. To frame and focus it was overwhelming.” Fly along on page 32.

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BACKSTAGE

Behind the lens Shamil Tanna

The photographer was tasked with shooting the fastest man on four wheels for this month’s cover. “Andy Green has been in the military and I wasn’t sure how to handle him,” says London-based Tanna, who is more used to working with Lady Gaga and Pelé. “But he could strike a pose and was able to adapt to each setting with ease.”

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Andy Green and his Bloodhound car.

More on page 26.

This month’s U.S. edition of The Red Bulletin features Bloodhound SSC driver Andy Green. You can watch a behind-the-scenes video at redbulletin.com.

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WET WORK The Volvo Ocean Race is sailing’s toughest challenge.

Justin Slattery is currently taking part in his fifth; this wave washed over him somewhere between Alicante and Cape Town, during the first leg of the 2014–15 race.

In January, Slattery’s Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing team, along with six other crews, will tackle the third of nine legs, from Abu Dhabi to Sanya, in China. All seven yachts are the same design; human endeavor will determine the winning boat, at the finish in Gothenburg, Sweden, in June. volvooceanrace.com Photography: Matt Knighton/Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing

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B OVEC , S LOVEN IA

WELCOME ABOARD This is no takeoff: It’s a once-in-a lifetime landing. The hardest part for hang-glider pilot Matjaz Klemencic was “getting the speed right.” Nejc Faganelj, in the cockpit, felt that “keeping the glider still” was his biggest challenge. Their joint efforts led to a brief but brilliant moment. “I only managed three seconds,” Klemencic said, “but it was worth the risk.” redbull.com/adventure Photography: Samo Vidic/Red Bull Content Pool

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RUTH I N , WALE S

OFF OFF-ROAD When naming the challenges at Wales Rally GB, final stop of the 2014 World Rally Championship, the WRC put “slippery forest tracks” and “isolated patches of ice” on the list. Jari-Matti Latvala found both on the ninth special stage. The Finn skidded on a turn four miles in, lost his rear spoiler and ended up in eighth place; he finished the season second overall behind Sébastien Ogier. The good news for Latvala is that the 2015 WRC starts in Monte Carlo on January 22: no forest for sure, only some ice. wrc.com Photography: Jaanus Ree/Red Bull Content Pool

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S PITZ KO PPE , NAM I B IA

JUST DESERTS Pro freeride mountain biker Kyle Jameson has ridden some pretty tough terrain in his years. So when he and Moment Pictures went to Namibia in search of still tougher, he got exactly what he bargained for: lunar-like terrain of the Namib desert; giant, nearly unrideable virgin sand dunes along the Skeleton Coast; heat-stroke-inducing 104-degree temps; and the occasional bizarro insects, hissing reptiles and majestic leopards and cheetahs in the Okonjima Reserve. That and 1,600 gigs of footage and 7,000 still images like this one. Not a bad deal. redbull.com/bike Photography: Toby Cowley/Red Bull Content Pool

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10 YEARS OF YOUTUBE

N E BEE WE’V NG SINCE .

I 05 H WATCARY 15, 20 Y, A U D R H FEB PY BIRT HAP OUTUBE! Y

LET’S PLAY!

The giant PewDiePie only wants to play, and breaks YouTube records in the process.

It’s a dream come true: Felix Kjellberg makes a living playing computer games.

Or, rather, from everyone watching him playing them.

More than 32 million subscribers—YouTube’s most watched channel—can’t get enough of the Swede’s videos.

Anyone who has witnessed the rush of energy that goes into his videos must be asking themselves how we got him to sit still long enough to take this photo.

“YouTubers are just weird people who’ve found a place to nerd out.”

PewDiePie

YouTube turns 10

She isn’t giving you makeup tips!

BEST OF YOUTUBE

Do you remember?

From sore fingers to sore ears: These eight short-form masterpieces are milestones in Internet video history.

2005

JORGE SOLORZANO/MAKER STUDIOS, GYSLAIN YARHI/CAMERA PRESS/PICTUREDESK.COM, YOUTUBE.COM(4), GETTY IMAGES, CORBIS(2), RED BULL STRATOS/RED BULL CONTENT POOL, UNIVERSAL MUSIC(2)

Me at the zoo The first 18 seconds of YouTube: Jawed Karim, one of the site’s founders, gawking at elephants.

2006 Touch of Gold Advertising goes viral: Ronaldinho cracked the million-views mark with this Nike ad full of tricks.

2007 Charlie bit my finger Ouch! The world’s most famous fraternal feud— sorry, Cain and Abel—has over 800 million views.

2009 Fred Figglehorn His chipmunk voice makes him the first YouTube user to secure more than a million subscribers.

2010 Baby Justin Bieber’s hit remains the most-viewed video for two years and is still the one with the most dislikes.

1:13 / 4:46

2012 SELF-CROWNED QUEEN

Shall we play my video?

Lana Del Rey turned the music industry on its head with the help of YouTube. To this day, no other self-produced video has come anywhere close to Video Games, a solemn piece of magic.

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2013 Harlem Shake Everyone’s gone mad: Even the Norwegian army did it. That’s what happens when something goes viral.

2014

Commentary Lana Might Say “If I’d known so many people were going to watch, I’d have put more effort into it.”

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Gangnam Style Still out front with over 2 billion views. Also this year: 8 million watch Red Bull Stratos live, another record.

Happy Pharrell Williams’ amazingly catchy song is still inspiring virals a year after release.

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YOUTUBE’S SERVER

What the Web looks like A humming, green info hive that powers what we watch.

A peek down a ventilation shaft at the Google Data Center in Mayes, Oklahoma: All the GoPro videos, fail compilations, funny cat clips and everything else resides here. Google snapped up YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion and has since managed vast swaths of data. Users upload hundreds of thousands of hours of video every day, and the picture quality is constantly improving.

What this image can’t convey is the deafening noise the thousands of ventilators make. They ensure the server stays on and the place remains bathed in light from green LEDs.

Commentary Adjustin Bieber I don’t read your annoying comments!

Why? That’s why: Hide YouTube Comments (Chrome), No YouTube Comments (Firefox), A Cleaner YouTube (Safari).

“The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats.”

Albert Schweitzer, 1875–1965, “predicting” YouTube

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CONNIE ZHOU/GOOGLE/ZUMAPRESS.COM/PICTUREDESK.COM, UNIVERSAL MUSIC

YouTube turns 10

VIDEO STAR

Be a YouTube millionaire

Stay true to yourself Focus on your own crowd. Why else would SkyDoesMinecraft have 10 million subscribers?

Befriend the lens Look straight into the camera. If you don’t connect with people, they’ll stop watching.

Popular YouTubers pull in more viewers than big TV channels. How do they do it?

Get real Viewers can tell when your passion is genuine. There’s enough fake emotion on TV as it is.

Get to the point Your video has to resonate with people immediately. Like, “How to Piss Off Every New Yorker in 36 Seconds.”

Show yourself Open up your private world: It’s the most interesting thing about you. Even if you think it’s boring.

Keep it up You only make the first videos for yourself.

If you do have fans, you only make more videos to keep them.

Hit the spot Choose the best tags so that people find you and can recommend you to others as simply as possible.

Anyone with a channel can become a YouTube partner, which means you can monetize content via ads and subscriptions and gain access to special features.

Show them the way Recommend other cool videos to your fans. Those clickthroughs will make them even more loyal.

Know your video types

Stay connected Give regular updates in the same format and from a similar perspective. If it’s well received, repeat.

Push it real good Always ask your viewers to subscribe to your channel and like your videos, even if they don’t.

KAINRATH COMPUTES

Formidable Formats

Walkthrough Stuck on a level?

Another gamer can show you the way. (Retain your credibility and don’t tell anyone you watched the vid.)

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Unboxing Is there anything better than lovingly unpacking a new piece of gear? Yes! Filming the act for others with the same box-fresh fetish.

Machinima Fanatical amateur developers spend hours creating often impressive films by the orchestrated playing of video games.

The future of television

The end of television

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DIETMAR KAINRATH

Three successful YouTube genres

YouTube turns 10

Rebecca Black

HERE TODAY, GONE TODAY

Famed then flamed

“The worst song ever” was one of the nicer things said about “Friday,” a track and video her parents paid producers to make.

She had the last laugh: Her YouTube channel has over a million subscribers.

On YouTube, Andy Warhol’s prediction of 15 minutes of universal notoriety might be too generous.

Antoine Dodson Hide yo kids, hide yo wife! The star of the “Bed Intruder” song now has a wife and kid of his own, having announced in 2013 that, no, he isn’t gay.

YOUTUBE IN NUMBERS

Stats amazing Other media providers can only dream of ratings like these.

1

billion people use YouTube each month

50

percent of all hits come from mobile devices

400 years’ worth of video material is scanned for copyright infringement on a daily basis

> 1

million creators earn money through YouTube’s Partner Program

Look and listen

World Wide Waring Blender

CORBIS, PICTUREDESK.COM, CHARLIE SCHMID, GETTY IMAGES

YouTube has mixed up the way we listen to and make music—in good ways and bad.

Watch and learn. Given the right tutorial, anyone can become a musician.

Filming at a concert just so you can be the first on YouTube.

Bands no longer have to pay an arm and a leg to get their video shown.

Club nights where the DJ plays straight from YouTube; clubgoers spend the whole time watching videos.

Music nerds can find all sorts on a public database.

Thanks to the YouTube Mixer, DJs now have the crossfader for a smooth transition every time.

Encourages parodies.

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Diminished sound quality.

The unimaginative cover craze that won’t go away.

YouTube’s new music streaming service unsettles indie labels.

Keyboard Kitty

Fatso the musical cat became an Internet star back in 2007. Sadly he wasn’t around to see it. The video was shot in 1984 and Fatso died in 1987.

Commentary

Bars Ulrich Stream my music if you’re not going to buy it. If you want to get to my drum so­lo at 2:40, just add #t=02m40 at the end of the link.

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hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute

90 million

hits a day come from Saudi Arabia.

Nowhere else is YouTube as popular

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YouTube turns 10

CENSORSHIP

This man saves your deleted clips

YouTube is Earth’s third-largest website, but state censorship and national copyright laws mean it’s not available worldwide.

Dominic Gagnon. If a YouTube video falls foul of YouTube, does it make a sound?

Yes, we ban!

Don’t waste your time looking for it on YouTube: The film Pieces and Love All to Hell shows the videos that were too hot for YouTube, even if they featured no pornographic content. Like apocalyptic inflammatory speeches against patriarchy, for example. Or crude tips from women holding a baby in one hand and a gun in the other. Dominic Gagnon has sought out videos that have been uploaded by YouTube users only to be deleted. He has yet to get answers from YouTube to the following questions: What do you delete? Why do you delete it? And who decides what’s OK and what isn’t? Gagnon’s video, which you can watch at arte.tv, shows all too clearly that the Internet can store your data in perpetuity and still have a memory like a sieve.

Nothing to see here: Where YouTube has encountered problems

Blocked now Blocked in the past

TURKEY President Erdogan doesn’t like videos that are critical of him.

So in 2014 he had YouTube blocked. The Constitutional Court got it back online.

GERMANY

IRAN YouTube has been down here since 2012. But trends like Happy have still made it into the country, with harsh punishments for uploaders.

NORTH KOREA

Google and GEMA—the German music performance rights organization—can’t reach a copyright agreement, so Germans get YouTube lite.

BRAZIL

You can only access the state-controlled Uriminzokkiri Web channel, with a lot of videos about cookery, Kim Jong-un and war propaganda.

Ronaldo’s ex-girlfriend had a temporary block placed on the whole of YouTube in 2007 after a paparazzi-shot sex video with her in it ended up on the site.

Sources: Google Transparency Report, Wikipedia – Censorship of YouTube; as of November 2014

CAN TALK

Commentary Kim Dot-un WTF?! Who cares about national borders? You can get around blocks!

Ever heard of proxy servers or a VPN? Google it! Or Hola or DuckDuckGo it.

Couldn’t be easier!

YouTube alternatives

Site Surf Can’t find what you want on YouTube? Hit up these instead.

Wimp Family-friendly content from editors who say they are “anti-sensationalistic.”

Vimeo Streaming platform that’s a favorite with artists and filmmakers and their fans.

“What you need is another cat video.”

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This man is of the opinion that only women can save the world. YouTube deleted him.

Dailymotion YouTube’s French cousin.

Founded around the same time and not lagging too far behind.

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VITHEQUE.COM, GETTY IMAGES, YOUTUBE.COM

CHINA You have as much chance of accessing YouTube here as you do of using Google. Zilch. You’ll have to use the Chinese equivalent, Youku, instead.

YouTube turns 10

WHAT TO WATCH

’Tube journeys

Fred Bull Two tips for the price of none: You can watch all the videos listed here at redbulletin.com. We suggest you download the Red Bulletin app.

What if you had to view YouTube like old-fashioned TV? A guide to the most weird and wonderful entertainment the website has to offer.

Your perfect schedule TRASH

6 AM – NOON

Wear it well A crash course in tie-tying. It’s called the four-in-hand knot, even though a tie only has two ends.

How to tie a tie – Quick and Easy

Waiting … to go shopping iJustine is a YouTube star, not for ranting about standing in lines. No, for reporting from them.

First in line for iPhone 6 – The Story

The cat dogs are afraid of A little boy is playing on his back when a bad dog appears. Luckily, Tara was also on hand …

Hero Cat Saves Boy From Dog Attack

What does Malala say?

Miss Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who was shot for attending school in Pakistan, picks up her award. Inspiring stuff.

Entire Nobel Prize Speech

Look at all the things we can do!

Levels of crazy are always relative. But here the crazy will only leave you in awe of the human race.

People Are Awesome 2014

Hidden camera This hotel elevator, as operated

by Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis, speaks to you. Please, select language!

The Intelevator Episode 1

Be job-happy An animated antidote to those who can’t get no job satisfaction.

Re-Imagining Work

Super Mario lives A real-life Mario? Super. But now he won’t do what I want him to.

Super Mario Bros. Parkour

A wedding dress is no tree And people can fly farther than they thought.

The Ultimate Fails Comp.

Is it OK to betray your country?

Harvard professor meets NSA whistleblower.

Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden

Limits? They’re so yesterday Skateboarding over the Great Wall of China.

Danny Way Jumps the Great Wall

For their viewing pleasure What women really want, according to their Web browser search histories.

Top 10 Porn Searches for Women

Your hand is your instrument Gerry Phillips belts out the hits digitally. It’s a real talent.

Manualist Plays Tijuana Brass-Spanish Flea On His Hand!

MIDNIGHT – 6 AM

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8 PM – MIDNIGHT

6 PM – 8 PM

3 PM – 6 PM

SPORTS / GAMES

NOON – 3 PM

DOCUMENTARY / NEWS

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HIGH-BROW

What’s really real?

The power of powerful images.

They’re enough to give you vertigo even when you’ve got both feet on the ground.

Best of 3D Street Art Illusion

Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates Romeo and Juliet vs. Bonnie and Clyde. Rasputin vs. Stalin.

All in the name of MCing.

Epic Rap Battles of History

TO TIP P

Pop-art blockbuster Man with white hair puts ketchup on a Whopper; consumes it.

Warhol Eating A Hamburger (1981)

It’s OK to be smart Our planet is more than just an onion full of magma.

The Structure of Earth

Be part of a toy universe Follow the world’s best street trials rider back into his childhood.

Danny MacAskill’s Imaginate

Better Call Saul “Let’s just say I know a guy who knows a guy …”

Best lines from Breaking Bad

The beautiful game 1,840 naked people at a football stadium. Keep your eye on the ball.

Spencer Tunick Vienna

FIFA vs. football Wonderful satire about what is perhaps the most powerful organization on Earth.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: FIFA and the World Cup

Nobody plays with men ...

“I’m gonna be one of the dumb men, because they might be strong but they’re as slow as s--t.”

If Gamer Girls Acted Like Gamer Guys

Videos to get you hooked We’d never have tried that reindeer-high-onmushrooms pee. Ever!

10 Dumbest Ways People Have Tried to Get High

Original fright night The world’s first horror film is now 119 years old, with special effects by the pioneering Georges Méliès, he of Hugo.

The Haunted Castle 1896

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THE FASTEST MAN ON EARTH A n dy Gre en dr i ves jet-and- ro c ket c ars.

H e and hi s team have built a new o ne, and he’s g o i ng to dr i ve it at 1 ,000 m iles per ho ur.

Word s: Anth ony Row l i n son Photography: Shamil Tanna

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here’s a blue-and-orange flash as a tall man dressed in an Alpinestars race suit strides into view with purpose. He’s straight-backed, closecropped, with cool blue eyes. Wing Commander Andy Green is the fastest man on Earth and, boy, does he look it.

He is the holder of the world land speed record, a mark he set in 1997 with the Thrust Supersonic Car (SSC), pushing that twin-jet machine through the sound barrier, to 763.035 mph over a measured mile, in the crystalline wasteland of Nevada’s Black Rock desert. Now there’s a new goal: 1,000 mph.

The first speed tests of Bloodhound SSC, the car created to reach that goal, are due to take place in 2015. They’ll take the car to 500 mph, 600 mph, 700 mph, then 800 mph and a new land speed record. The full assault on 1,000 mph is scheduled for 2016. At a predicted top speed of 1,050 mph, the car will literally be traveling faster than a bullet. Its measured mile, the distance over which the record speed is timed, will be covered in 3.6 seconds.

And the man inside? Well, if his demeanor and evidently glacier-cool core are any guide, he’ll be very much in control, engaged at a peak of mental intensity even this first-class Oxford math graduate and Royal Air Force veteran may never before have experienced.

“For all the preparation, there is a bit where we actually just need to go and test it.”

STEFAN MARJORAM

Grand designs: To break the 1,000 mph mark, Bloodhound will move from its England HQ in 2015 to a desert track in South Africa.

“It is,” Green says, “a very demanding and very focused job. You’re taking a car faster than it has ever been before and pushing the technology to a place it hasn’t been before. And however much preparation you do, there is a bit where we actually just need to go and test it.

But I’ll have a very clear mental picture of what I’m doing and how I’m trying to do it. If everything works as expected, that’s just great. We’ll just make a note and tick that off later on. But if I find the hydraulics have gone to zero and I press on anyway ... that’s a pretty stupid idea.”

Green, 52, is the perfect technocrat test pilot for the digital age. As Chuck Yeager broke Mach 1 in his Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, he is said to have told his ground

crew: “Make another note, will ya? There’s something wrong with this ol’ machometer.

It’s gone kinda screwy on me.” Yeager’s drawl will be replaced in Bloodhound by the clipped-English military reports of Green, a man used to delivering only essentials of information while flying combat missions. “This is a technical process, not an emotional one,” he says.

“I’m a member of the engineering and development test team. In that respect, I am not a racing driver but a test pilot— developing test-pilot skills, but in a car.”

He developed the ice in his veins during his military career. This is how he describes coming under attack by enemy missiles while serving as an RAF commander in southern Iraq 20 years 29

“I understand ever y aspect of Bloodhound’s design. Why woul d I be worried about driving it?”

By the end of 2014, Bloodhound’s team of engineers had put in more than 10,000 hours of work at a cost of more than $15 million.

ago: “I’ve been shot at by much better people, with better weapons systems, frankly, so it wasn’t that much of a deal.”

He’ll need every shred of sangfroid when he and his team head for South Africa’s Northern Cape, to Hakskeenpan, where a land-speed-record strip 12 miles long and 1,640 feet wide (surrounded by a nearly 1,000-foot safety zone) has been hand-cleared by local volunteers of hundreds of thousands of tiny stones, to create the smoothest surface possible.

Bloodhound, all 7.8 tons of jet-androcket-powered intent, looks like a military aircraft that’s lost its wings.

Fitting, given that many of the crew are British military personnel who signed on to the project after active service in hotspots such as Afghanistan.

Their training will serve them well, Green reckons, when they head south from the workaday industrial unit in the west of England near Bristol, where Bloodhound is being assembled, to the

STEFAN MARJORAM (2)

Safe and sound: In the high-tech cockpit of Bloodhound SSC, Wing Commander Andy Green (left) is protected by ballistic armor put there to safeguard him from bird strikes or stones flying up. Without it, either could kill him.

wide-open scorched desert that will become their home for several months.

“In the military, we take our people to some pretty harsh places and ask them to do some pretty hard things,” says Green. “They can be ripped out from their family at very short notice for a very long period of time. That’s physically, mentally and emotionally demanding, so they have to be looked after to make sure they are able to look after themselves. It’s no different here.

We’ll go through exactly that next year when we get out to South Africa. A lot of them haven’t been out to the desert environment. So it’s going to be an interesting learning process for them.”

There’s a risk that Green’s tone, his frill-free military manner, might portray him as some kind of automaton. The truth is far from that. While no cuddly toy, he is not overbearing, arrogant or in any way high on his own supply.

Possessed of an almighty inner steel, yes, coupled with the battle-hardened self-confidence of those who thrive in the bullshit-free military. So why, given that he is a manifestly rational human being, would he undertake an adventure many would consider bonkers?

The answer, for Green, lies in the science and his desire to inspire a generation of young minds. He cites the Bloodhound mission statement as the clearest possible insight into his own motivation: “To create a unique, high-technology project, focused around a 1,000 mph world land speed record attempt. To share this engineering adventure with a global audience and inspire the next generation by bringing science, technology, engineering and mathematics to life in the most exciting way possible.”

Computer modeling can predict how Bloodhound will behave at 900 mph and above, and of course it says “all will be well.” But only Green will experience the sensation of the machine taken to its limit. Only he will be in a position to react should anything go wrong.

“I’ve never been nervous flying fast jets,” he says. “It’s the same with Bloodhound. I understand every aspect of its design and the standards to which it’s been built. Why would I be worried?”

Land speed record breakers aren’t like the rest of us. By way of relaxation, Green flies stunt planes competitively and thinks nothing of taking his engineers for “joyrides” to help build team spirit. Those around him speak warmly of Green’s leadership qualities, unforced authority and his softer side.

An example of the latter comes when he hands Bloodhound communications director Richard Knight, in the middle of a conversation with someone else, a gift-wrapped box and card. “Just a little something for you and Lizzie,” he says. Barely a day earlier, Knight’s wife had given birth to a daughter.

This hint of humanity is a reminder that amid the scientific endeavor and talk of triumph of technology, a man will be at the heart of the machine when Bloodhound’s Rolex speedometer trips from 999 to 1,000. A man in touch with normality, with a life unlike the violently noisy, info-loaded, hot, brutal, claustrophobic clamor of his bulletbeating manned-missile mission.

“Are we all going to need a break at the end of it? Hell yes,” he says.

“I’m very lucky, therefore, to have a fantastic wife who loves sailing nearly as much as I do. There’s nothing like cruising along at about five knots, slowing your brain down, while you go to some little harbor somewhere for a late lunch, with the boat parked up in front of the pub. And that’s just where I see myself in three years’ time.” bloodhoundssc.com

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THERE ARE FACES AND BLUFFS IN REMOTE ALASKA CONSIDERED UNFIT FOR SKIING. BUT WHAT IF YOU BROUGHT A WING AS WELL? MEET THE THRILLSEEKERS OF THE NASCENT SPORT OF SPEEDRIDING, WHERE DROP-OFFS TURN INTO TAKE-OFFS, AND POWDER PLAYGROUNDS ARE EVERYWHERE.

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s the morning light bathed the top of the 9,000-foot mountain, Jon DeVore stood near the peak and waited for the breeze. The more wind, the easier it would be to pop the 8 square feet of parachute trailing behind him.

Below him stretched a line so absurd it had never been attempted before on skis. It included clearing two 100-foot gaps, catching massive air to land on a small knoll and then

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“WE WANTED TO FIND SOMETHING THAT NO ONE’S BEEN DOWN.”

The lines they took down the mountains were carefully scouted and dissected by plane and map.

THE VERY BEST SPEEDRIDERS ARE ACCOMPLISHED WINGSUIT FLIERS.

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Alaska native Jon DeVore (opposite page, bottom) had always dreamed of skiing the area. On this page his tracks are just out of frame on the right.

clearing another huge gap after that, before finishing through a narrow ravine with four-story ice blocks on each side. The peak was called the Rowel, and DeVore and his fellow speedriders, American Andy Farrington and Italian Filippo Fabbi, had spent several days scouting it.

As a small gust came through, DeVore waited like a surfer scanning for a perfect set. When the next gust arrived, DeVore yanked his “wing” into the air and headed downhill.

The Rowel was the crown jewel of a two-week trip to the southern edge of the Alaska Range, an area known for feats of backcountry skiing and snowboarding. The trip’s purpose was twofold: to ski areas that had never been touched before, and to raise awareness and set new standards in the nascent sport of speedriding.

“First and foremost we wanted to

“You felt like you were in an alleyway in New York,” says DeVore of the 40-foot ice blocks they had to navigate down the Rowel.

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“WHEN THE PARACHUTE IS OVER YOUR HEAD, YOU FEEL LIKE A SUPERHERO SKIER.”

Clockwise from top: DeVore executes a major barrel roll; Fabbi feels the rush; DeVore takes flight.

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“HERE, IF YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH SPEED, YOU’RE GOING TO FALL INTO AN ICE CAVE. THERE’S A LITTLE MORE AT STAKE.”

find something that no one’s ever been down before,” says DeVore.

“And nobody has ridden mountains that gave you 3.5- to 4-minute runs.”

Part paragliding, part downhill skiing, speedriding originated in France’s Chamonix area more than a decade ago, through pioneers like Francois Bon and Antoine Montant.

Though there are mountains in Europe that offer instruction, the sport has a high barrier of entry, and the top riders are accomplished skydivers and wingsuit fliers.

They spent the week and a half leading up to the Rowel attempting “smaller stuff” on nearby mountains at lower elevations. “And by smaller stuff I mean nobody else would’ve gotten on there,” says Scott Serfas, the photographer along for the mission. (A documentary on the trip, The Unrideables, is available on iTunes in February.) “Jon is pointing out faces that aren’t skiable.”

The lines they picked were carefully dissected with each pass of the plane and study of the map. The best runs are the ones that go to plan, where the riders have enough speed to clear big gaps and skirt crevasses, and where the wing stays inflated the entire way.

“Most of [the speedriding] I’ve done is in a controlled environment.

If you don’t have enough speed by that tree, you stop,” says DeVore.

“Here, if you don’t have the speed, you’re going to fall into a big ice cave.

There was a little more at stake.”

The native Alaskan had a close call when his canopy collapsed trying to clear a large gap on an earlier run, and Farrington crash-landed a few times. But the Rowel went smoothly.

“When the parachute is over your head, you feel like a superhero skier, and you’re doing stuff that’s just not normally possible,” says DeVore.

“The feeling—I wish I had the words to tell you. It’s complete freedom on a mountain.” theunrideables.com

Fabbi fell in love with speedriding in Europe.

Packing the parachute is as important in this sport as it is in skydiving.

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THE BEST RUNS ARE THE ONES THAT GO ACCORDING TO PLAN.

TWIN SHADOW

“The Internet has made us conservative” Twin Shadow is known for infinitely danceable music and a top-shelf party aesthetic. But that last part might be changing.

Known for his brutally honest lyrics, fondness for partying and synth-powered drama, Twin Shadow is a quintessentially Millennial patchwork quilt of influences.

Born George Lewis Jr. to artsy parents in the Dominican Republic, he eventually moved to Brooklyn, where he came up in the punk scene. But he became associated with indie lo-fi acts like Ratatat, Toro y Moi and Dirty Projectors, recording his critically lauded first album, Forget, with producer/ collaborator Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear) in 2010. Then came the alcohol-soaked tours, the 24-hour parties and the occasional wild motorcycle ride (though no more accidents after a big one in the mid-2000s). Now on the cusp of releasing his third album, Eclipse, Twin Shadow has established himself as a multihyphenate rock star: an impassioned live performer, a studio craftsman able to easily skip the line between digital and analog, and a writer with a novella, The Night of the Silver Sun, to his name. We met him on the rooftop of the Ace Hotel in downtown L.A. and talked aging, motorbike riding and gin. the red bulletin: What are you riding at the moment? twin shadow: A 1972 Triumph Bonneville. It was owned by an old guy in New Jersey who rode it 2,000 miles and then left it in a garage for years. I was living in New York at the time, so I bought it and had it shipped to L.A. The bike moved before I did. Riding’s always been a part of my 20s lifestyle.

Are you still in your 20s?

I just turned 30. I’m not big on birthday parties. I’m big on other parties.

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What’s your favorite drink at parties?

I like gin. I like gimlets, and I like it straight up.

Gin makes me cry.

Yeah, I think there’s something in it that is psychoactive. I’ve never cried drinking gin, but I have definitely caused quite a scene and been kicked out of a few bars.

Oh really?

I think I racked up five physical throwouts over a period of 10 years.

Why’d they kick you out?

First one was because I decided it would

“If nude photos of me came out on the Web, that would suck.

When you’re being a freak, you gotta be private about it. ” be a good idea to jump on top of the bar and walk across it like a Coyote Ugly girl, knocking over peoples’ drinks. Then recently I got into a fight with a DJ in L.A. I asked him what song he was playing and he said, “Just because you’re Twin Shadow doesn’t mean you can tell me what to play.” I was just asking him about the song, but he kept lashing out, so I had to get into it, and I was kicked out. He was probably drinking gin.

What’s life like on the road with you?

For some reason, I have somewhat of a bad-boy image. So I’m trying not to answer questions like this. But let’s just say that everything you’ve ever heard in

any rock ’n’ roll documentary still happens. That’s not to say that I have participated. But the stereotypes exist.

Boys are still boys. Girls are still girls.

Actually, boys are girls and girls are boys. Either way, life’s exciting. Enjoy it.

Do you think things were crazier for musicians in the ’60s and ’70s?

Back then it was so easy to let your freak flag fly. I think now with the Internet it’s so easy to be humiliated. Like if some nude photos of me came out on the Web, that would suck. When you’re being a freak you gotta be extra private about it.

So the Internet has inhibited your freakiness a little?

The Internet has made us strangely more conservative and PC because everyone’s watching their step. Someone says the wrong thing on Twitter and their career disappears overnight. Everyone is tiptoeing, but people still want to have fun and live at the limits of their craziness.

If you could test the limits of your craziness with anyone, who would it be?

I have heard that Elton John parties hard. I would have liked to have partied with him during his Yellow Brick Road period. But now? Dave Chappelle. I did get wasted next to him once. I was sitting at the bar at the Bowery Hotel, and I saw Chappelle and Mos Def walk in and I was so starstruck. Then someone tapped me on the shoulder: “Twin Shadow! ‘Golden Light’—that’s my song, that’s my jam.” It was Mos Def. Then he introduced me to David, and it was the coolest thing. Then they got drunk with their friends and I ate sushi and watched. I really wanted to go party with them because they were having a good time. Maybe next time. twinshadow.net THE RED BULLETIN

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Words: Caroline Ryder

Name: George Lewis Jr. Albums: Forget (2010) Confess (2012) Eclipse (2015) Times Five: His violent biker-gang music video for “Five Seconds,” off of his second album, premiered on giant LED screens in Times Square.

MICHAEL DUPOUY

“If it hits a nerve it’s worth its place” This creative Parisian is the man who sets the standard for global street culture.

Words: Pierre-Henri Camy Photography: Dimitri Coste

Michael Dupouy earns his living as both the man who runs La MJC, a Paris-based communications agency that specializes in urban culture and fashion trends, and from the clothing label Club 75, which he founded alongside graphic designer/video director So Me and Pedro Winter, the face of French electronic music. Dupouy is one of the best-connected people in the world when it comes to street culture.

Since 2006, he has published All Gone, a yearbook of global street culture, the 2014 edition of which was published in January (and based on past history, it normally sells out pretty quickly).

We have a pretty journalistic approach when it comes to that, too. For the 2014 edition, we spoke to James Jebbia [who established streetwear brand Supreme], KAWS [originally part of the graffiti scene and now one of the most reputable contemporary artists], Nike, Adidas and other big players. We take pains to do proper journalism and give the appropriate background knowledge to each piece.

The first edition of the book was for 2006. What classics have gone down in All Gone history?

the red bulletin: What do you aim to achieve with All Gone? michael dupouy: We think of it as something like an encyclopedia of collectors’ items, a coffee-table gallery highlighting global street culture for the outgoing year.

With sneakers as the centerpiece, of course. But there are also skateboards, T-shirts, sculptures—all sorts of pieces.

How do you choose?

Something that’s going to make a mark long term makes a mark in the short term, too. Our best indicator for deciding something is worth its place is whether it’s having an unexpected impact on the market it’s appeared in. If it hits a nerve or people instantly go crazy about it. And, of course, what is ultimately decisive is how major artists and opinion formers react to it.

And what about the final cut?

“Digital has its limits. Namely ownership and memory.”

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Most of the pieces by KAWS [such as those pictured at right with Dupouy], skateboards by the American brand Supreme, clothes from Japanese brand Bape and the Nike sneakers made by Japanese streetwear pioneer Hiroshi Fujiwara. Those are the ones that spring to mind.

On the subject of Fujiwara working with Nike, why do those items born out of partnerships hold such appeal?

Because of synergies, part A and part B, both of which need the other. Think of the thing on everyone’s mind at the end

of the year: how Kanye West and Adidas working together will turn out. Obviously Kanye doesn’t need anyone because he is the most influential person out there, and yet he needs Adidas because he wants people all over the world to wear his sneakers in South Africa, France, the U.S., Japan. ... They’ll work well together and the product they produce jointly will create an enormous amount of hype, whatever people say about it. Especially amongst the younger generation who get all their information from the Internet and have never bought a magazine in their lives. This isn’t a street-culture generation now. It’s a screen-culture generation. The more they see an item on Instagram, the cooler they find it.

In 11 years’ time we should be seeing the 20th edition of All Gone. Will it still be a book?

I hope so. That’s been one of the main challenges behind this project. When I first published the book, everyone said paper would soon fall prey to the Internet. But digital has its limits. Namely ownership and memory. What’s on offer has grown so dramatically since the first edition that it’s become much more difficult to remember than it is to consume. It’s harder now to know what was cool in 2006, what people were producing in 2007 and what the big thing was in 2010 than it is to know what the fanciest sneaker will be in March 2015.

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The man Michael Dupouy is 37 and lives in Paris. He runs the agency La MJC and is the person behind All Gone.

The book The bible of street culture proselytizes the sneakers, clothes and works of art that have left their mark on the year’s street culture. It is compiled by Dupouy with knowledgeable commentary from the works’ creators or other respected players on the scene.

The tour Dupouy will be on a 20-city book tour from January to March in Paris, L.A., Mexico City, Shanghai, Seoul and Moscow among other stops.

LEMAWORK KETEMA

“Running is easy when you do it right” The reigning Wings for Life World Run champion talks training runs, language lessons and how to push yourself farther than anyone.

Last year, Lemawork Ketema ran against the world and won. The 29-year-old Ethiopian became the inaugural Wings for Life World Run champion, running 48.82 miles in just over five hours in the race that began in Donataul, Austria.

There were another 33 races across 32 countries, and almost 36,000 runners.

Ketema was the last one to be caught by a “catcher car,” which runners strive to stay ahead of; when one reaches them, they’re eliminated. He lives in Austria in conditions that are far from ideal. But he intends to defend his title in May—and thinks he’ll go even farther. the red bulletin: So, is running 60 miles a realistic target? lemawork ketema: It is realistic, but whether it’ll actually be possible depends on a lot of things you can’t control, such as the weather. But I’ll do everything I can to be in better shape in 2015 than last time.

Did you consider running in another country instead of Austria?

I’m an asylum seeker and can’t leave the country. I’ve had offers to run in large marathons, but I can’t do it right now.

I’ve already had my asylum hearing, but we’re still waiting for the verdict.

[Since we interviewed Ketema he’s had some news: The verdict was positive.]

Where do you live?

In an asylum seekers’ hostel about 12 miles from Vienna, in Greifenstein. There are four of us to a room, which isn’t always easy, especially when it comes to getting a night’s sleep. But I don’t see it as a problem. Running is all that counts.

Are you the star of the hostel?

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mainly the locals who say hello and cheer me on when I’m on training runs. There’s a fisherman on the Danube that I always have to stop for. He says a fish always bites when I stop to say hello. Sometimes he gives me one to take home.

Do you give tips to fun runners?

Of course, and I enjoy working with young people. Running is easy when done right.

What’s your daily routine?

I get up at 6 a.m. and do my first run: 13 miles or sometimes 18. Then I go to my German classes and do my second training

“My marathon time is nothing special: 2:14. But that was at altitude.” session in the evening. And then a massage or even physical therapy, if that’s possible.

What do you do in your free time?

I don’t have much. I like being busy.

What does your first name mean?

Lema means green, but it also means beautiful. And work is work, as in English.

Beautiful work in the green. Appropriate.

True, it’s very fitting for Greifenstein.

I think that every day when I step out of the door and set off on my training run.

What was your life in Ethiopia like?

It was a 4.3-mile journey to and from school every day. I always used to run it.

My mother worked in a hospital as a masseuse. We speak on the phone once or twice a week. My mother is very important to me. I also learned how to massage and worked with marathon

runners whose best times were around the 2:04 mark. I understood their bodies and the problems they had, and I knew how they approached races. I’m still benefiting from that knowledge now.

What’s your best marathon time?

It’s nothing special: 2:14. But that was years ago and set at altitude.

What do marathon runners think of the Wings for Life World Run? It depends. Some of them just look at the kilometer split times and think we’re dawdlers. Others think 48 miles and more is too far. But the most difficult thing for specialist marathon runners is the lack of structure because there’s no finish line.

The man you beat in second last year, Peru’s Remigio Quispe, is racing in Austria this time around. Is that an advantage or disadvantage?

A huge advantage! You can push yourself much harder in company. The greatest disadvantage of being in Austria is the lack of training groups. I either train alone or someone bikes alongside me.

How were you the day after you won?

I woke up with a smile on my face. It was wonderful. I’d achieved what I’d set out to.

What tips do you have for amateurs who want to take part in this year’s Wings for Life World Run? Train daily. Running once a week won’t make you better. It’s the same for me with my German. Getting better is hard work.

The starting pistol for the 2015 Wings for Life World Run will be fired simultaneously in 35 locations in 33 countries around the world on May 3, 2015. Who will hold the catcher car at bay the longest? All the info you need to take part is at wingsforlifeworldrun.com THE RED BULLETIN

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Born October 22, 1985 Nationality Ethiopian It was a very good year As well as winning the Wings for Life World Run, Ketema also won Austria’s 2014 Graz Marathon.

Wayne Gretzky—still a bright-eyed and bushytailed legend at 53.

COULD THERE BE A GREATER ONE? JORDAN, ALI, PELÉ, SENNA: FEW STARS HAVE SHAPED THEIR SPORTS LIKE THESE LEGENDS, AND THEIR RECORDS MAY NEVER FALL. But one—Wayne Gretzky—would not mind if someone else inherited his crown.

Interview: Werner Jessner Photography: Marco Rossi

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goals and 1,963 assists in 1,487 National Hockey League games to his name, as well as four Stanley Cups, 18 All-Star Game appearances, more than 60 unbroken records and an Olympic gold medal as the Team Canada executive director. Streets have been named after Wayne Douglas Gretzky, and larger-than-life-size bronze statues of the man known as the Great One placed outside arenas where he used to work his magic. The number he wore, 99, was retired league-wide by the NHL after he left the game for good in 1999.

The father of five now lives in California.

He still weighs pretty much the same as he did at the height of his prowess. And, as a passionate fan of the modern game, he still follows ice hockey with the same enthusiasm.

The Red Bulletin: As of today, you have been on this planet for 19,506 days. On how many of those days have you not thought about ice hockey? wayne gretzky: Maybe the first 506 of them. But since I turned 2, there’s been nothing else that’s brought me anywhere near as much pleasure.

So did you start playing when you were 2?

That’s when I got my first hockey stick.

We used to play in the living room. I’d be the forward and my grandmother the goalie.

Did you like training?

Practicing, playing, skating, getting better, shooting goals, setting up goals: It was all I could ever possibly want to do.

Even when I was an adolescent, there were only two things I ever really loved: my family and ice hockey.

No parties, no mischief, no romances with girls? Where did that focus come from?

My father always said, “Some higher being gave you your talent. Don’t squander it.” So I tried not to.

Wasn’t it incredibly boring always being on the ice?

From April to September, I’d do track and field and play lacrosse, football or baseball to work on my endurance, body and hand-eye coordination.

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now and see that you’re always in position, knowing where the puck is going to be, rather than having to chase after it. Where did that ability come from?

I was playing against 10-year-olds when I was 6. I was too small, so I had to be somewhere no one else was. Otherwise they would have killed me. When I was 14, I was playing against 20-year-olds, and by the time I was 17, I was up against professionals.

And scored for the first time in just your fourth game.

I had to be creative to be successful and rely on the skills my father had passed on to me: brains, speed, hockey sense.

Your playing didn’t become physical later either. You never gave up on the style you’d learned in your youth.

I just constantly honed it, that’s right.

When you watch sports on TV now, can you tell what’s about to happen?

Not in other sports! Only when I’m watching an NHL match. Sometimes I wonder why a player tried such and such a move when, as far as I can see, there would have been far more elegant or efficient ways of dealing with a situation.

Racing drivers often say that they see things play out slower than in reality, that their sense of time is suspended. Is that the same with you?

Maybe I have more insight into how play is going to develop and what’s going to happen. What is perhaps more important is that I have a photographic memory when it comes to ice hockey; I can recall the position every player was in for every goal I scored. That’s how it’s always been.

And what about in everyday life?

Not at all, sadly. Like if my wife asks me to bring tomatoes from the supermarket.

You go shopping for tomatoes at the supermarket yourself?

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Of course.

What is the greatest difference between the style of play then and now?

Now players attack and defend in blocks of five. In the past, the quickest players attacked, the slow guys played in defense and the big guys played in goal. So we forwards would have to wait for the defenders in the attacking zone, slow down play, circle around. And that gave rise to other moves.

Do you miss that style of play?

No! Hockey is so much better now.

Because?

It’s more exciting. It’s quicker. More athletic. The players are coached better.

We never used to stretch back then, and even football coaches wouldn’t let their players lift weights because they thought muscles would impair movement.

Unbelievable. Did a genius like you pay the slightest attention to the coaches?

Of course! The higher you go, the better the coaches and the other players become. You have clearer goals. There’s less bullshit. I played on teams with seven members of the Hall of Fame. Paul Coffey, Mark Messier, Jari Kurri. They were the most rewarding players a coach could ever ask for. They wanted to win and they played selflessly.

Let’s turn the tables for a moment.

What could coaches learn from you?

That you’ve got to give it your absolute all every single second, even if you’re considered the best player there.

But your fellow forwards were also high-caliber right across the board.

How do you get it together? How does the chemistry in a team come about?

It’s magic! Take Jari Kurri and me when we were at the Edmonton Oilers. I’m Canadian and he’s a Finn who could barely speak a word of English. He was 20 and I was 19 when they paired us up, and they didn’t separate us again for 858 games. We were like blood brothers on the ice. We knew instinctively what the other one was going to do. I have no idea why that was the case. Jari hadn’t even been brought in as a number-one-line player! What Jari and I had was special.

Usually it’s just a question of time until

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you get used to each other.

Was Kurri the ideal partner for you?

I would have loved to play in the same line as my childhood heroes—Gordie Howe and Maurice “Rocket” Richard— too! But seriously, Jari was perfect for me, first because he played selflessly, second because his defense skills weren’t given nearly the respect they deserved, and that gave me lots of free space, and third because he was a lethal scorer who sank passes instinctively.

In a Red Bulletin interview, New York Red Bulls striker Thierry Henry said that you start out as a soccer player and become a soccer worker, and only in rare moments do you find your way back to playing. How did that work in your case?

I want to be remembered as an ice hockey worker, as someone who gave it his all in every game.

How unromantic! And yet everything you did on the ice seemed so easy.

It wasn’t. Quite the contrary. It hurt. It was exhausting. It was bloody. Nothing but real hard work. Which is why I loved it so much.

Just how do you make what is hard look so easy?

I can only quote my teammate Mark Messier. “There’s nothing about ice hockey that I don’t love.”

Did you get nervous before games?

The more important the match, the more relaxed I’d be. It’s the big matches you live for. Pressure is losing your job when you have three kids to feed, not game seven of the Stanley Cup finals. But the night before the game when I was executive director of the Canadian Olympic team in Salt Lake City was pure, unadulterated torture. You know that there’s nothing more you can do.

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Will there be another player like you?

I’m sure there will be.

Someone who’ll break your records?

Convinced of it! And it’ll be worth more than my records, because the gear the goalies have now has gotten so much better. And the goalies are bigger. But give them rounded rather than square leg braces again like back then and smaller gloves and anything will be possible once again. When I was young, Bobby Orr and Gordie Howe were role models. Now Sid Crosby and Alex Ovechkin are regularly scoring more than 50 goals a season under tough circumstances.

Sorry, but that’s a long way from the 92

goals you scored in the ’81-’82 season.

These kids respect the game and their national teams. I like it because it shows they have their heart in the right place.

But the time will come when they, too, witness a changing of the guard. Hockey is getting more professional at every level astonishingly quickly. My records will fall, and I’ll still be alive to see it. I’m sure of it.

What will the guy who does it be like?

He’ll have the same skills as me, but he’ll be two inches taller and have 20 pounds more muscle.

You’ve been in the spotlight for four decades. There were full-page newspaper reports about the child

“I HAVE A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY ON THE ICE. I can recall every player’s position, every goal I scored.”

prodigy Gretzky when you were just 12. Thousands of fans stampeded to get your autograph in a shopping mall when you were 20. You were a regular on the cover of Sports Illustrated. How do you deal with such madness?

I come from a very humble background.

My grandparents had emigrated from what was then the Russian Empire and Poland. My parents were simple, hardworking people who managed to get us around the kitchen table together at 5 every evening to have dinner. They taught me that, as a rule, people are nice and worth talking to.

Was your father Walt also a role model when it came to bringing up your children? Your daughter Paulina, for example, does sometimes have a rather pronounced penchant for publicity.

Definitely, even if my daily routine as a father is completely different from his.

People know my face. My wife, Janet, is an actress. We travel. Life has become more fast-paced. Our children are good people. Paulina is going out with a professional golfer and our oldest son, Trevor, is a baseball pro. Not exactly the ideal setup for a normal family life. But at least they can all say “please,” “thank you” and “excuse me.” And this is where my father is a role model for me—the way he gave me and my siblings guidance and unlimited love and support. Sadly, my mother has already died.

Your father is very important to Canadian hockey. Do your children have an understanding of their grandfather’s world?

Both my stepmother, who’s 93, and my father are integral parts of our lives. You could be having dinner at a restaurant with the prime minister of Canada and you’d be interrupted less than with my father! Walt Gretzky is “Canada’s dad.”

Everyone loves him. As do my kids.

As a fan of the sport, didn’t you ever hope that one of your children would also become a hockey pro?

It would have made me happy, of course, but at least this way we’ve probably all saved ourselves a lot of stress.

Last year’s Stanley Cup final was between two teams you played for: the Kings and the Rangers. Your preference?

I wasn’t rooting for either team, because as it was I couldn’t lose! I loved living in both cities and enjoyed playing in both formations. In the end, spectators had to specifically ask if they wanted to watch basketball in L.A. sports bars because everywhere was showing ice hockey, just like when I played for the Kings. championshockeyleague.net

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Track stars: The Mercedes-AMG GT and David Coulthard.

A 13-time Grand Prix winner at the wheel of a 510 hp sports car on 2.6 miles of the finest racetrack.

David Coulthard plus Mercedes-AMG GT: You do the math.

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“IT’S NOT AS QUICK AS IN FORMULA ONE, BUT IT’S MILES QUICKER THAN ANY MANUAL TRANSMISSION.”

Race ready: Coulthard in fireproof suit and helmet prepares to put the Mercedes-AMG GT through its paces.

Ergonomic design: The bottom of the steering wheel has been leveled off. Behind it is the paddle-shift gearbox. The center console allows you to change driving mode.

avid Coulthard, what car are you driving at the moment?

“The last car I bought myself was a Smart Fortwo BRABUS. It’s practical, easy to park and perfect for taking my 6-year-old son to school in. I still have the light-blue Mercedes SL280 that was all I could afford back when I was a young racing driver, and there’s a Mercedes M-Class at my holiday home in Switzerland. It’s eight years old now and I don’t see any reason to upgrade. Everything still works.”

So, there’s no place for fun cars for the winner of 13 Formula One grands prix? “I am one of the few people who has had the privilege of driving in F1. It’s the premier league, which is why driving fast on public roads is no fun for me. I’d need to have

a private racetrack in my backyard to drive like that.

But I live in Monaco, so that’s why I drive a Smart.”

The morning after he says this, Coulthard is standing next to something entirely different: a 192 mph, pearl-white Mercedes-AMG GT, a car that technically doesn’t exist. Overnight rain means he has to wait for the tarmac of the Red Bull Ring racing circuit in Spielberg to dry off under the Austrian winter sun before getting behind the wheel. “This car,” says Coulthard, “will make a lot of people who’ve driven a Porsche 911 up till now think again. What marks out BMW, Audi, Porsche and Mercedes-AMG is that they make cars that work on a racetrack but are still suitable for everyday use. That’s actually a really tough job.”

Once the track is dry enough, Coulthard, in full driver garb, takes a minute to get his bearings in the cockpit, where he is joined by The Red Bulletin.

He adjusts the driver’s seat and pulls the steering wheel (covered in fine-grain leather and leveled off at the bottom) as far out as it will go. He does this to get the greatest degree of control. You can spot a bad driver a mile off with his arms outstretched at the wheel, a habit almost as bad as having a smartphone held to your ear.

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stifled power. The engine in each AMG GT is assembled start to finish by just one person, whose signature appears on the engine plate. If anything should go wrong with it, the customer is to get in touch directly. In this case, that man is Jens Müller, and he must be a genius. The spec: an S-Class with 510 hp, rather than the standard 462 hp.

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ou select from four different driving modes— comfort, standard, sport or sport plus—on a dial positioned by the driver’s knee. In view of the wet conditions, Coulthard opts for sport, as the engine and gearbox characteristics aren’t as aggressive as in sport plus and the chassis less stiff.

The Red Bull Ring, the host of a regular stop on the Formula One Grand Prix tour, is notorious for making victims of even the best drivers. Then there’s the added detail of the AMG GT being a pre-release version of a six-figure sports car. “If you write off a car when you’re 16, you can get away with it for not knowing any better,” he says. “At 43, you have no excuse.” Coulthard comes out of the pit lane and the car is nowhere near straight, and lightning-quick steering is required to reel in the live weight of 3,461 60

pounds. “Let me tell you, it’s damned slippery.” The long hood is a formidable presence in front of the cockpit, which some might say is where the car most differs from the Porsche 911. Coulthard hurtles uphill toward the second bend, Remus, a tight right-hander. A tug on the right-hand paddle shift behind the steering wheel and we’re going up through the gears. “It’s not as quick as in Formula One, but it’s miles better and quicker than any manual transmission. You can fully concentrate on the line you’re going to take.”

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“Rubber particles make it almost impossible to drive the racing line under tough conditions.”

Out of Remus, on the Schönberg straight, he positions the Mercedes-AMG GT where the layman would. A glance at the speedometer shows 149 mph. It’s then downhill toward Schlossgold, another, less tight, right-hander, where Coulthard says perfectly coolly, “If you lose grip on the front axle when you brake here, you’ll be getting the

Professional viewpoint: “It’s easy to make an out-andout racing car. It’s all about performance.

Giving them creature comforts is much harder to do.”

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car back out of the gravel before you know it.”

This is exactly what happens, but it was intentional, and he brakes, seemingly out of control, to move away from the slippery racing line. The coupe recovers on the pristine tarmac, which is enough for a pro to adjust the car’s direction slightly. He then crosses the racing line again, finds grip on the outside of the track just before the turn, and the car finally makes the corner. Wow. “That would have been better the other way round,” says Coulthard. “Lose speed when you’re

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coming into the turn and you can put your foot back down sooner and get out of the turn more quickly. That definitely cost us 3 to 6 mph, but it’s great how well balanced the car is.”

The Mercedes-AMG GT comes with ESP, a traction and stability control system. It can’t be turned off completely, but you can still lose control if you’re stupid enough, and it’s very easy to be like that when you’re dealing with 510 hp. Racing drivers communicate with the car sensibly. “I use the engine brake to take pressure off the rear of the car and stabilize the rear axle with the means I have available to me—brake pressure, the steering wheel—in the same way you balance a pencil on your fingertip.

The only use I have for the ESP is as an orientation tool, so I know where the back of the car is.”

This translates as: Whereas the rough and ready driver barely notices if he’s made a mistake, the professional is ashamed to have blown his nose on the tablecloth.

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lthough the wet spots on the track mean that playing to the limit is a non-starter, Coulthard still whips the car around the next few laps, and you’d be hard put to say where he could have made up much more time. The church clock up in Spielberg shows it’s approaching midday. It’s getting warm in the car, and as Coulthard pulls into the pits, the 4-liter engine is being maternally fanned. “The most amazing thing is that the brakes were steady from start to finish. That’s not always the case,” he says.

At noon, David’s wife, Karen, turns up to collect her husband. “Looking good,” she says, but she’s talking about the Mercedes-AMG GT. “Can I get in it?” She takes a long time to electronically adjust her position in the cockpit, and also opens the trunk.

This is more than just polite-but-faked interest.

“Would you really want to take the kids to school in it, baby?” her husband asks, and she fleetingly lets on that, when it comes to many things, she might not think as pragmatically as he would.

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Cold enough for your eyelashes to freeze but ideal conditions for the dogs, specially bred for the harsh winters up north.

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FORGET THE IDITAROD. THE YUKON QUEST—A 1,000-MILELONG SLED-DOG RACE ALONG AN OLD GOLD RUSH TRAIL—IS THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST RACE. BEHIND THE SCENES IN SUBZERO TEMPERATURES ON THE JOURNEY FROM ALASKA TO CANADA. Words and Photography: Katie Orlinsky

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awson City was once the thriving mecca of the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the last century. Today it’s a funky little tourist town known mostly for having a bar that serves the “sour toe cocktail,” a glass of whiskey with an actual frostbitten human toe in it instead of an ice cube.

Only a fraction of the Dawson population sticks around through the subzero winter, when it is so cold outside that your eyelashes freeze together. But once a year a cold-weather circus arrives, when Dawson City becomes the halfway point for the world’s toughest dogsledding race.

For the past 31 years the month of February has marked the beginning of the Yukon Quest, or “the Quest” as locals like to call it, a 1,000-mile race between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Canada. The race can attract up to 50 professional sled-dog teams, who journey through the subarctic North American wilderness along a historic route once used by prospectors and supply carriers known as the “Klondike Highway.”

The Yukon Quest is like the scrappy cousin to the Iditarod, Alaska’s other 1,000-mile race, which they call “Alaska’s Super Bowl.” The start of the Iditarod is a big spectator event held in Alaska’s state capital, Anchorage, flanked by banners

Dawson: Once a thriving hub during the gold rush.

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emblazoned with the logos of sponsors like Chrysler, ExxonMobil and Wells Fargo. The start of the Quest, which is held in either Fairbanks or Whitehorse in alternating years, is a quainter affair, with volunteers and fans lining the streets alongside banners for local sponsors like Alaskan Brewing Company and the Whitehorse Daily Star. First prize in 2014 was upwards of $20,000, half that of the Iditarod winner’s take and barely enough to cover the high costs of running the race itself.

But the Quest’s is considered the tougher route. And while the Iditarod is held every spring, the Quest takes place during the coldest time of year, with fewer checkpoints and less rest for mushers.

“It’s more of an old-school dogmushing style,” says Hugh Neff, a 47-year-old regular Quest musher who won the race in 2012. “You have to be on your own, you have to be self-sufficient … it’s the real deal.” Before moving to Alaska from Chicago 20 years ago, Neff was like most folks from “the lower 48” and had only ever heard of the Iditarod.

Now he competes in the Yukon Quest, the Iditarod and sled-dog races all over the world. But his favorite is the Quest. He calls it his “sacred journey.”

Temperatures around -22째F are ideal for the dogs.

Curt Perano, a Quest rookie from New Zealand, loads his dogs into his truck.

Dawson City marks the halfway point of the race.

HANDLERS ARE ON CALL IN DAWSON TO MASSAGE THE DOGS’ PAWS WITH A PINK BALM.

YUKON, HO! Following along the “Klondike Highway” on which dogs used to deliver the mail in the 1900s, the Quest’s route is considered tougher than the more famous Iditarod.

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Few mushers race the Yukon Quest just to win. For most, it’s the ultimate test of survival in some of the harshest wilderness known to man. Temperatures during the race reach as low as -58°F and winds can be up to 50 miles an hour.

The brutality of the trail is matched only by its beauty, as the route passes across frozen rivers and beneath shimmering icicle-laden tree branches of the Yukon’s boreal forest, with snowy mountains looming in the distance. It’s a remote landscape that few people other than dog mushers ever get to see. It is often too cold to travel even by snowmobile. The fuel will freeze.

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y the time Brent Sass arrives first into Dawson around 11 p.m., a crowd has been waiting inside a nearby cabin for a few hours already. With the temperature outside at -22°F, they huddle around a computer screen, following the 2014 contestants using GPS trackers. Once Sass looks close to the checkpoint, everyone rushes outdoors to wait in the blistering cold.

Suddenly, a team of 14 big, beautiful black and brown sled dogs comes barreling down the trail, a virtual avalanche of legs and paws covered in bright neon booties. “Woooah,” Sass calls out in a calm, understated tone, commanding his team to stop. Once the dogs’ legs finally stop moving you can see steam rising into the freezing-cold air from their hot torsos. Sass turns off his headlamp and his face, now illuminated by television cameras and flashes, is noticeably covered in frost, with icicles hanging off his mustache.

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Each team carries up to 250 pounds of survival gear and provisions.

been a Yukon Quest front-runner for years but has yet to win the race. He is still a fan favorite, known for his sportsmanship in other years’ races, when he rescued competitors’ dog teams multiple times.

(Any outside assistance will disqualify you from the Quest, but mushers can help other mushers.) This year Sass’s strategy was to avoid such heroic time delays the easy way: by staying ahead of the pack.

“Am I still the first one in?” he asks the local press. After receiving the all-clear from vets and race officials, Sass sets off to a campsite about a mile away across the frozen Yukon River, where all teams are required to rest for 36 hours.

The campsite runs about a half a mile along the river, with a small area for each dog team up a path nestled in the snowcovered trees where RVs would normally set up to camp in the summer. The dogs rest inside a large open tent lined with straw; in between snoozing the handlers are on call to massage their paws with a pink balm, and veterinarians look the

and ’50s and snow machines became widespread in the 1960s, sled dogs were not necessary for survival. Mushing became recreational, and the world of competitive sled-dog racing began.

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dogs over. A few human-friendly Arctic Oven tents, each with a wood-burning stove, are pitched nearby.

Sass’s dog team is down for the night by the time Allen Moore’s team arrives in Dawson a few hours later. A 57-year-old veteran musher, Moore runs SP Kennels with his wife, Aliy Zirkle, also a top musher and this year’s Iditarod runner-up.

Moore is originally from Arkansas, where he was a taxidermist and carpenter before moving to Alaska to race years ago. At the checkpoint his dogs are still bouncing with residual energy, barking and howling into the night. Moore’s dogs are smaller than Sass’s, with shorter legs that make them somewhat slower but less susceptible to the injuries larger dogs often suffer.

It is common to hear dog mushers refer to themselves as “the weakest link” in their team. Unlike humans, sled dogs are in their natural element in races like the Quest. The term “sled dog” can refer to any of a half-dozen breeds that once pulled a sled in cold weather as part of a team, such

as Siberian huskies or Alaskan malamutes.

Alaskan huskies are today’s racing dogs of choice and are actually mutts, bred over time for speed and endurance, as opposed to the larger, slower, stronger utilitarian sled dogs of the past.

Dog mushing has a long history and is a very important part of northern culture.

North American native communities used sled dogs before Europeans occupied the region. More than 3,000 years ago, huntergatherer communities were using dogs to pull sleds in the Arctic Circle. But it was during the gold-rush era that dogs were bred for size and strength in order to haul supplies and pull sleds for transportation.

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or the Yukon Quest dog mushers, their dogs are the ultimate companions, keeping them alive out in the wilderness and leading them along the isolated, dangerous terrain of the trail. They dedicate their lives to caring for their dogs, day in and day out. It’s this intense bond that’s at the root of it all, and is also the most interesting part of the sport.

Still, high drama is no stranger to the Quest. At the end of the 2014 race, only 11 out of the 18 teams competing actually make it to the finish line. One dog dies at Eagle Summit, the toughest part of the trail, which has been the stage for a lot of the race’s drama over the years. In 2006, six mushers and their dog teams were lost and eventually rescued by a helicopter on the summit. In 2011, a four-time champion almost died of hypothermia after falling into a frozen ice pool before being rescued by another musher.

For hundreds of miles after Dawson City, Moore and Sass remain head to head. Then outside of Braeburn, a truckstop checkpoint deep in the heart of the Yukon, about a hundred miles from the finish line in Whitehorse, Sass suffers a concussion after falling off his sled and has to be airlifted out. It’s a dramatic and disappointing end to what had been, up to that point, “the race of my life” for Sass. Moore goes on to win with a time of 8 days, 14 hours and 21 minutes. Neff comes in second at 8 days, 23 hours and 7 minutes.

“I think it’s always for the adventure,” says Moore. “While we’re doing it, we sometimes wonder why. But man, as soon as we get off of it, we forget and can’t wait to do it again.”

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Where to go and what to do

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Beating the breaks HOW THREE-TIME WORLD SURFING CHAMPION MICK FANNING TURNED HIS LOWEST EBB INTO HIGH PERFORMANCE. TRAINING, page 72

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Swell guy: Fanning takes on the waves at Haleiwa in Hawaii.

Tough as a board SURFING MICK FANNING HAS A SEVERE ACCIDENT TO THANK FOR HIS FITNESS REGIME.

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FANNING SWEARS BY YOGA AND PROPER BREATHING TECHNIQUE

“Stret­ching and yoga are part of my daily workout. Yoga classics, such as the tree and the boat, are good exercises for improving your balance. Breathingtechnique exercises have helped me with my surfing enormously.

If you breathe correctly while training or competing, it can have a tremendously positive impact on how you control your body and mind.”

Ideal for all surfers: a dynamic exercise that simulates intense turns and strengthens your torso and legs. Ideally do three sets of 25 repetitions.

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“There was a loud snap and then hellish pain. My surfing career was basically over in 2004,” says Mick Fanning. The 33-year-old Australian was surfing in Indonesia when he tore his left hamstring right away from the bone. “I couldn’t even sit down for the first five to six weeks after the operation. But the rehab, which lasted for almost six months, was in hindsight vital to my career.

“In that time I learned a great deal about my body, including which muscles to work on and how in order to improve my performance as a surfer. Ever since, I’ve ensured that I have core muscle strength and that my legs have enough strength, flexibility and stamina. I have to have a flexible workout plan, because it changes with the quality of the waves. There’s no better workout than surfing. If the waves are too small, I keep fit by going to the gym three or four times a week.”

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BRISBANE THIS LAID-BACK ALTERNATIVE TO BUSTLING SYDNEY HAS MORE THAN 40 WEEKS OF SUN A YEAR AND NO WORRIES. “Brisbane is a city of over 2 million people, but we call it ‘the biggest country town in Australia,’ ” says local boy Pete Kilroy, vocalist of Hey Geronimo, a rapidly rising indie band, “and we mean that positively.

It’s less densely populated, greener and quieter than either Sydney or Melbourne, which is why an increasing number of Australians are drawn here, not just on holidays but permanently. With a subtropical climate and 300 days of sunshine a year, the outdoors rules supreme in Brisbane. Everyone makes the most of it with big backyards, verandas, pools and the ‘must-have,’ a BBQ. If this city had a slogan it would be ‘No Worries,’ and that’s exactly how life is lived here.” But that doesn’t mean that there’s nowhere to go out. Here are Pete’s top five spots. heygeronimo.com

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especially on Deckchair Sunday, when the playing field becomes a stage for local musicians and the fans listen from the comfort of deckchairs after the game.”

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322 Brunswick St. “Brisbane’s music scene is like no other in Australia. This place is my secret tip. You can discover the next big thing here.”

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Crucially, the burgers are great.”

Scale weatherbeaten, 65-foot faces not far from the city. There are classes available for all levels, including nighttime instruction. riverlife.com.au

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119 Lamington St. “This old powerhouse is now a hive of cultural activity. There are photographic shows, art exhibitions and jazz sessions.

Most are free of charge.”

3 WESTERN MAGPIES CLUB 41 Chelmer St. “You can’t come here and not see a sporting event. My choice: Sherwood, a long-established Australian Rules Football Club,

5 MERTHYR BOWLS CLUB 60 Oxlade Dr. “I recommend this outdoor bowling club where you don’t have to be a member. So order yourself a cool XXXX Gold and throw a few barefoot bowls on the perfectly manicured lawn.

Fantastic.”

From 0 to 60 mph in two seconds: Once you’ve been in an 850 hp car, you’ll never forget what it feels like, just for a moment, to be a racing driver. adrenalin.com.au

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FLORI DA PLUS AFTER THE WINGSUIT COMES MORE ADVENTURE

RACE Feel the torque on a shotgun ride in a two-seater stock car driven by a pro, who’ll reach speeds of 145 mph around the Walt Disney World Speedway in Orlando. drivepetty.com

W INGSUIT LOVERS OF AERIAL ADRENALINE CAN’T GET HIGHER THAN A SOAR-LIKE-SUPERMAN ADVENTURE. Navigating through the skies at speed was once the preserve of superheroes. But thanks to the wingsuit, anyone with enough skydiving experience can swoop and dive like a bird at nearly 225 miles per hour.

A wingsuit is a high-tech jumpsuit with fabric slung between the legs and under the arms to increase lift, and anyone with 200 jumps under his belt can free fall in a whole new way after half a day’s instruction at Skydive City in Zephyrhills, Florida. The basics of controlling the suit are taught on the ground in training drills. After three hours, you’re led onto a Twin Otter plane for a drop from 12,000 feet with an instructor communicating tips with sign language.

“Before the flight, there’s a lot of muscle-memory training to help get the body position right, and practice exits and deployments,” says instructor Travis Mickle. “When that starts to feel natural, you can focus on all the amazing aerobatic possibilities.”

After two assisted drops, the next one’s solo. “You need to process, react and adjust a lot faster than when skydiving,” says Jonathan Francis, a 25-yearold advertising strategist from London, who took his first wingsuit flight in 2010. “In a split second you can put hundreds of yards between yourself and another flier. I can make a sharp, banking 90-degree turn with just a tweak of the head, swooping to build up speed. The feeling is just incredible.”

Instruction starts at $100: skydivecity.com

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a wingsuit flier.

ADVICE FROM THE INSIDE HEAD FOR HEIGHTS “If you maintain the right body position, it’s not physically strenuous,” says Tony Uragallo, the godfather of wingsuit flying, who tests his designs at Skydive City’s drop zone. “Mental stress, fighting the concern that ‘this is dangerous’ is the biggest problem for the first-timer. Learning to relax is key.”

RISE Leave gravity behind on Zero-G’s specially modified Boeing 727. Your 15 parabolic maneuvers each create 20 to 30 seconds of weightlessness. gozerog.com

SURVIVE High times: Preparing to fly.

Cloud control

“The best fun is flying a wingsuit around clouds,” says Tony Uragallo. “When you’ve learned control, you can sometimes get two or more minutes of flying in and out of all the different shapes of the cloud, trying never to touch them. Now that’s a buzz.”

Take the plunge to get up close and personal with sharks at the Florida Aquarium.

Exit the cage and swim with a trained instructor among the ocean’s most fearsome predators. flaquarium.org

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Montblanc Heritage Spirit Orbis Terrarum This watch can display standard times in all 24 time zones. A disc obscures part of the Earth as seen from atop the North Pole at night.

A TIME ZONE IS NOT THE SAME THING AS STANDARD TIME, BUT YOU KNEW THAT, RIGHT?

THIS ONE CAME FIRST The first Heure Universelle, the 1937 Patek Philippe Ref 542 HU, was a game changer. It was both beautiful and technologically advanced. A notdissimilar 1937 Ref 96 HU sold at Sotheby’s New York in 2011 for $482,500.

The world on your wrist TIME-ZONE TECH WHEN THE GLOBE WAS DIVIDED INTO 24 HOURLY PARTS, WATCHMAKERS FOLLOWED SUIT.

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presented the Heure Universelle (HU) watch. Harking back to the work of Geneva watchmaker Louis Cottier, it was the first wristwatch that could display standard time in multiple time zones. The names of various cities were engraved on its rotating bezel; turn it and you can work out the times, based on the difference from GMT. Local time was displayed with both the hour and minute hands—an amazing advance in horology technology at the time. From 1939, an increasing number of manufacturers adopted the Heure Universelle system.

Watches don’t display time zones, they show the standard time in time zones.

HEURE UNIVERSELLE VS GMT/UTC A Heure Universelle watch displays the time in 23 time zones as well as the local time, while a GMT/UTC watch can “only” show one extra standard time of your choosing (see the three watches on the facing page).

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he first person to split between adjacent zones. (The the world into 24 time system takes into account both zones was natural and geographic a Canadian boundaries, to avoid railway engineer arbitrary borders named Sandford between time zones Fleming. In 1879, arising.) Fleming’s he divided the system was first 360 degrees of adopted by Canada longitude into two in 1883 and then dozen time zones, later that same year using the Greenwich by the U.S. Germany Meridian as his was the first European NOMOS starting point. Each country to get on ZURICH WELTZEIT zone is 15 degrees of board in 1893. On On the road with this, longitude (360/24), October 16, 1937, you can change to the and time shifts by an Swiss watchmaker local time zone with a hour at the boundaries simple push of a button. Patek Philippe

JUST TO BE SPECIFIC

BACK IN TIME

All hail King Hayek HOW THE FOUNDER OF SWATCH REINVENTED WRISTWEAR AND SAVED THE WATCH INDUSTRY.

By Joe Thompson, editor-in-chief of WatchTime magazine

Swiss watches are much sought after. Brands such as Rolex, Omega and Patek Philippe are seen as status symbols the world over.

In 2014, the Swiss watchmaking industry made record sales for the third year in a row.

Yet not all too long ago, that same industry was seen to be losing out globally and deemed a national disgrace. By the early 1980s, ultra-thin, precise quartz watches made by Seiko, Citizen and other manufacturers based in the Far East had become the big hit in the world of watches. Swiss manufacturers, lagging behind

Nicolas G Hayek Sr. was born in Lebanon in 1928, raised in France and became a Swiss citizen through marriage. His life and the Swiss watchmaking industry changed irrevocably when the banks approached him. Hayek heralded change by merging two ailing corporations to found what is now Swatch Group. He maintained production in Switzerland, overseeing the rollout of Swatch watches while breathing new life into ailing brands such as Omega, Longines and Breguet. Hayek was chairman of the board from the time of its founding in 1985 until his death in 2010, aged 82. Today, Swatch Group is run by his daughter, Nayla, and son, Nick. In 2013 it recorded sales of $11.48 billion.

For more than 25 years, Hayek dominated Swiss watchmaking.

He was powerful, controversial, extravagant (he wore two or three watches on each wrist), direct. He joked that the initials in SMH Ltd.— the original name for Swatch Group—simply stood for “Seine Majestät Hayek” (His Majesty, Hayek). No one would begrudge him his crown.

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Sports watches ONLY TAKE TWO TIME ZONES INTO THE SHOWER? THEN THESE ARE THE GMT/UMC TIMEPIECES YOU’RE LOOKING FOR. Rolex GMT-Master II In 1955, this was the first timepiece to display an extra time with no fuss, made possible by a second, freely adjustable 24-hour hand and a 24-hour scale on the bezel.

Small wonder, then, that the Rolex GMTMaster and now the GMT-Master II are the most successful and popular watches of their type. rolex.com

Panerai Luminor 1950 3 Days GMT 24H A Luminor with a real added benefit for frequent fliers. The 24-hour hand, freely adjustable regardless of the local time, means you can display a second standard time using a 24-hour scale on the inner ring next to the bezel, known as the rehaut. It comes with black leather and black rubber straps and the tools to switch them. panerai.com

Alpina Alpiner 4 GMT

with their old-fashioned, clockwork timepieces, were close to bankruptcy and dependent on rescue packages from Swiss banks.

In one of the darkest hours in the industry’s 450-year history, the banks, in their desperation, turned to a management consultant to turn everything around.

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Above, from left: Nicolas G. Hayek showing off the 333 millionth Swatch watch in 2006; Hayek always wore several watches— sometimes as many as six.

With this descendant of the original Swiss sports watch of 1938, you can, as with the Panerai (above) set a freely adjustable standard time using its red-tipped 24-hour hand and then read the time off the 24-hour scale on the rehaut. This stainless-steel beauty also has anti-shock and anti-magnetic properties. alpina-watches.com

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THIRTY YOUNG MUSICIANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD MEET LIFESIZE VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS WHILE DAFT PUNK’S COUSINS LASH OUT AT A PANDA. IT’S THE RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY IN TOKYO. WORDS: FLORIAN OBKIRCHER

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Music Academy. Nowhere else do rookie musicians get as close to their heroes. Every year since 1998, the music camp has invited two groups of 30 young hopefuls from all over the world to come together for two weeks at a time in a big city. And whether it’s New York, London or São Paulo, the plan is always the same: An old building in the center of the host city is rented and rebooted, outfitted with recording studios and a lecture hall. During the daytime, music legends give talks; at night they make music in the recording studios with the Academy participants and perform with them at the best clubs in the city.

Last autumn, the Red Bull Music

Academy set up shop in Tokyo, for 28 days and 28 nights, which meant 28 lectures, plus 25 gigs and nights out.

Out of the Comfort Zone

Chelsea Jade is 25. She has a dainty face and long blond hair. Three years ago, she uploaded a demo of a song on her website without thinking too much about it. A year later, she won the most important music prize in

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hree years ago, then-18year-old King Bruce made a decision to pursue a music career and not a career in soccer. He wanted to produce tracks like his idol Carl Craig, the Detroit legend who gave the world techno and laid the foundation for drum ’n’ bass in 1993 with his track “Bug in the Bassbin.”

Now King Bruce is sitting next to Carl Craig in a lavish recording studio in Shibuya, Tokyo. It’s 2 a.m. and they have spent the last six hours recording a track together.

“What do you think?” says Craig, who’s wearing a black T-shirt, black leather trousers, black trainers and black sunglasses. “Let’s listen to it.”

King Bruce clicks a mouse and bass drum comes booming out of the speakers. Then come the hi-hats and some heavy synthesizer, which makes the speaker cover vibrate.

Craig nods along.

A couple of minutes later, King Bruce takes a break and gets a bottle of water from the fridge in the studio corridor. “If someone had told me a year ago that I’d be working through the night in the studio with Carl Craig, I’d have said they were mad,” the 21-year-old South African explains. “It was completely chill, like hanging out with a friend. But at the same time, I’ve probably never learned as much about music as I did tonight.”

This is the sort of thing that happens all the time at Red Bull

Japanese noise maestro Yamantaka Eye conducts a laptop orchestra (left), including Chelsea Jade (middle left, gray coat).

Video game composer Hirokazu Tanaka (middle right) plays a rare live gig at club Womb, in which he mingles hyperactive house beats with his music from games such as Tetris and Super Mario Land. Bottom: Dancing metal giants at the Robot Restaurant.

Facing page, center: Chilean participant Alejandro Paz performs.

her country, New Zealand. She’s been seen as the next big thing on the New Zealand music scene ever since—a successor to Lorde, with whom she’s already worked. Now she’s sitting on a gray futon in the Academy lounge and studying a piece of paper covered with hand gestures that look like sign language. “It’s the instructions for tonight’s show,” she says.

Tonight’s show features Yamantaka Eye. He is the vocalist of Japanoise band Boredoms and quite the star in his home country. The 50-year-old has been making music—that sounds like an exorcism set to the accompaniment of electric guitars—for 30 years now.

Seven years ago he performed in a show alongside 77 drummers. For the Red Bull Music Academy he is conducting a concert for laptops. The players are all Academy participants.

Eye has developed a 30-sign system of gestures as instructions. “If Eye makes the peace sign, we turn the oscillator up,” Jade explains.

She is used to working with synthesizers, but an improvised gig with laptops is new territory. “But that’s exactly what I find exciting about the Academy,” she says.

“The fact that you’re ripped out of your comfort zone.”

The gig begins four hours later in a 50-year-old ballroom with wooden floors and dark red walls. Waitresses in blue dresses and butterfly masks serve drinks. The stage is in the middle, around which an eclectic, colorful crowd clusters. There are

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about 500 people in all: hipsters, men in suits, elegant older ladies. Eye’s music isn’t thought of as noise in Japan. As one concertgoer explains: “Noise is ever-present in Tokyo.

Boredoms’ music is our blues.”

Eye hits the stage, followed by the Academy participants. The conductor takes his place on a swivel chair in the middle, while the young musicians sit around him in a circle with their laptops on their laps.

All eyes are on Eye. He raises his left hand like a puppeteer.

Rooooaaaar!

A hum of bass fills the room.

Eye shoots an arm into the air and high-pitched sine waves come screeching out of the speakers. It’s an extreme, physical experience. The high squeak drills its way into your brain, while the low frequencies churn your stomach.

Thirty minutes later, Eye bows theatrically. The noise fades out.

Frantic applause.

South African participant King Bruce (above right) at club Womb with his Japanese colleague Albino Sound; and below working with techno legend Carl Craig (left) and Pakistani participant Tollcrane (right) on a track in one of the Academy studios.

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of a horse, some 6 feet tall, is led out onto the stage. A young woman in the saddle sings a Lady Gaga song. Two mitten-wearing Power Rangers have a boxing match. Robots who could be Daft Punk’s cousins start attacking a man in a panda suit riding a huge cow across the floor. All set to the theme from Jurassic Park. A tank, flashing multicolored lights, comes onto the stage. Ten women in bikinis are dancing samba on top of it. The show lasts for 30 minutes.

“Holy shit!” says Wills, with a dumbfounded look on his face.

“What was that all about?”

The three Academy participants are still dazed and confused on the journey

home. “It was like a computer game had come to life,” says Valesuchi.

Gotham City, No Batman

The eight recording studios on the fourth floor of the Red Bull Music Academy headquarters are not large, but they each have state-of-the-art equipment. They spring into life every evening after the daytime lectures have finished. The entire floor becomes a hive of creativity.

Producers dash from one studio to another carrying drum machines and headphones; DJs show each other rare records they’ve bought at a flea market. In the studios’ kitchen, two singers are bent over

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Over dinner on the third-to-last night of the Academy, Briton Joe Wills and Valesuchi, from Chile, discuss what they’ve seen of Tokyo so far and are quick to agree: not enough.

The only trips they’ve made other than to the clubs hosting events have been between the hotel and the Academy itself.

“High time we changed that,” says Wills. He asks fellow Academy participant Albino Sound, who comes from Japan, for a recommendation.

He answers, “If you want to see something really weird, let’s go to the Robot Restaurant.”

Half an hour later, Wills, Valesuchi and Estii/Yale, a participant from Australia, are at a bar that looks like a Kubrick movie set full of Swarovski crystal. Everything sparkles, from the rounded, snail-shell armchairs to the short dress worn by the bar hostess delivering a quiet Japanese version of “My Heart Will Go On.” She finishes and an announcement in English comes over the P.A. “The show is about to begin. Everyone please take your seats.” The lights go out. A battle cry.

“Raaaahhh!”

Robot warriors dance with Japanese dragons amid a hail of flashing lasers. A glittering model

THERE ARE NO LIMITS TO THE TIME THE PARTICIPANTS CAN SPEND MAKING MUSIC. THE STUDIOS NEVER CLOSE.

The Red Bull Music Academy encourages the Tokyo public to make music (left).

On a synthesizer 8 feet high, placed on the boardwalk in a busy hotspot of Shibuya, curious people tweak oversized knobs and listen to the spacey sounds coming from the black box.

a sheet of paper and humming the lines of a song, crossing out lyrics and scribbling in new ones.

Over in studio four, Tollcrane, an Academy participant from Pakistan, is working on a noisy techno track.

For the gangly, mustachioed 28year-old, the Academy is an exciting collection of firsts. It’s his first time abroad. Four days ago was his first time in a nightclub and he shared the decks with one of his musical heroes: BBC radio DJ Benji B. Most importantly for him, it’s the first time he has been able to make music with like-minded souls. “Karachi, my hometown, is like Gotham City,” he says, “but there’s no Batman.” He lives in a country where the government blocks YouTube. Where you have to make sure you don’t get caught up in a riot on the way home from work.

“I can think of no greater luxury than being able to dedicate myself solely to music for two weeks,” he says.

Tollcrane has produced three tracks over five nights in Tokyo, and helped out on a whole lot more. He has recorded vocals for Austrian Academy participant Mimu Merz and a bass line for King Bruce. “When I’m not getting anywhere with a track of my own, I wander around and look in on the others in the studio and start working with them, just like that.”

There are no limits on the time that participants can spend making music. The studios never close. Last night, Tollcrane was in the studio until 7 a.m. and could then only snatch four hours sleep to be back in time for the lecture by techno veteran Robert Hood.

But that’s something the head of the Academy, Torsten Schmidt, hinted at in his welcome speech. “He said, ‘Don’t try to understand the Academy.

Just take advantage of everything.

And don’t sleep too much,’ ” Tollcrane says. “ ‘Sleep is for losers.’ ” redbullmusicacademy.com

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ACTION!

CLUB

COME BACK DOWN STILL BUZZING FROM ALL THAT DANCING? THESE SONGS WILL HELP YOU GET TO SLEEP

BRIAN ENO

In the house: Líl Jon, model Jaslene Gonzalez, Underground’s Dec.

Underground activity C HICAGO FAMOUS FOLKS AND AVERAGE BLOKES KEEP THE SECOND CITY’S COOLEST CLUB HOTTER THAN EVER.

THE UNDERGROUND 56 W. Illinois St. Chicago, IL theundergroundchicago.com

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MARCONI UNION

NIGHT OWL COLIN REBEY, AKA DJ PHENOM, OFFERS V-DAY TIPS FOR CHI-TOWN LOVERS AND LOVELORN.

GET COZY Rodan in Wicker Park is the move, with DJs or a mix running from The Knife to A Tribe Called Quest. Craft cocktails are outta this world.

GET LUCKY Headquarters for arcade games, indie rock and a great-looking crowd. Or Ay Chiwowa for tequila, good for dropping inhibitions.

GET GOOFY Millennium Park for ice skating. Nothing beats watching friends wipe out.

GET FREAKY Smart Bar or Spy Bar. With lights low and house music pumping, you’ll find someone to cut loose with.

Weightless The band sought the advice of sleep researchers and in 2011 produced the ultimate track to relax to. Warning: Do not play while operating heavy machinery.

ADELE

Skyfall Every two years, the hotel chain Travelodge asks 2,000 of its guests their favorite song to fall asleep to.

The current queen of the snorers is Adele with her hit, “Skyfall.”

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JENNIFER CATHERINE, OH SNAP BRITOGRAPHY

Imagine a party where Kanye West, R. Kelly and the cast of Glee are all passing a mic, singing their lungs out. At Chicago’s Underground, that stuff happens all the time. Opened in 2007, The Underground— located in the basement of a once derelict building—helped turn a moribund ’hood into a vibrant entertainment hub.

The postapocalyptic/military–themed club was a hit from the start, attracting A-listers like Common, Katy Perry, Skrillex and Mark Ronson. So when owner Billy Dec decided to expand and refresh, he closed shop to do the job, a risky move for sure. A sleeker, higher-tech Underground re-emerged, and again, it’s a success. Dec prides himself on the “ropeless” vibe—no cordoned-off areas for VIPs, and they’re fine with that. Eventually. Sure, Miley Cyrus and crew were taken aback at first.

“But she keeps returning,” says Dec. They must be doing something right.

1/1 Eno composed the piece in 1978 in reaction to the dull background noise at Cologne Bonn Airport.

Sophisticated ambient music to cure your stress.

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MUSIC

H EY RUDE TV on the Radio pulled one out of the top drawer with their 2004 debut album, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. The band elegantly combined what until then had been seen as incompatible: soulful gospel singing, noisy punk guitars, funk bass runs and electro-flavored drums. David Bowie was so captivated that he wanted to sing on the band’s second album. Other fans, such as Liam Gallagher and Scarlett Johansson, had their records produced by band member David Sitek. He also took charge of recording TV on the Radio’s latest, fifth and poppiest album, Seeds. The band’s drummer, Jaleel Bunton, tells us which songs inspired them while they were making it.

Show man: Jaleel Bunton of TV on the Radio

“ Nina Simone is a shaman” PLAYLIST THE BEST GUITAR SOLO, THE GUILTIEST PLEASURE, THE GREATEST COVER—JALEEL BUNTON ON THE FIVE SONGS HE COULDN’T LIVE WITHOUT.

1 Nina Simone

2 Jimi Hendrix

3 Lianne La Havas

“The mix of Simone’s voice and Leonard Cohen’s lyrics is so moving and beautiful, like a master shaman read a master spell.

There’s a live version; she makes the band start again. She’s like, ‘No, no, stop.

Don’t put anything in the music that’s not asking for it.’ She’s saying: Don’t try to put too much of you in the song. Let it go through you rather than be you.”

“It’s hard to choose one Hendrix song.

I’ve gone for ‘One Rainy Wish’ because it is often overlooked.

It’s amazing what Hendrix packs into three minutes.

It starts off in a serious, beautiful place and then it goes to this place that’s really passionate, almost violent and then to a psychedelic end. And the song does it really effortlessly in this one statement.”

“Prince is this young British woman’s number one fan. I’m not far behind.

This song is a masterpiece.

It’s a pop song, but it also takes this darker turn in the chorus. You can see it started as a classical music–inspired song, but at the same time it feels contemporary. If there was a club that played this kind of pop, I’d be there all the time.”

4 Tears for Fears

5 The Deftones

“I think I’m going to embarrass the whole band by picking this, but I love it.

This song will endure.

Everything about it is perfect. To me, honestly, it has one of the best guitar solos I’ve ever heard in my life.

It doesn’t just burst in and dominate the song like most guitar solos do—it’s just perfect for it.”

“This song probably falls into the guilty pleasures category. I’m generally not a nu-metal fan, but this is kind of the best version of Korn and Linkin Park in one song. I hear the singer, and I feel I get him: Yes, you are a purple dark evil overlord with feelings. I listen to this song when I ride my bike and think, ‘Man, everything you say I feel in my bones.’ ”

Suzanne

Everybody Wants to Rule the World

VICTORIA WILL

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One Rainy Wish

My Own Summer (Shove It)

THE STORIES BEHIND SOME BEATLES SONGS ARE FOR ADULTS ONLY

TICKET TO RIDE The title refers to cards indicating a clean bill of health that Hamburg prostitutes had to carry with them in the 1960s. The Beatles learned to play live there.

Forget

TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS Lennon was high on LSD when he wrote it, with lyrics inspired by The Psychedelic Experience, Timothy Leary’s drug-taking manual adapted from Tibetan Book of the Dead.

LET ’ S PLAYLI ST SOCIALLY AWARE SPEAKER

PRIZM This pyramid-shaped speaker selects the perfect music for every situation.

It connects via Bluetooth to the smartphones of everyone in the room.

Based on the time of the day, number of people present and their musical tastes, Prizm will generate and play a Spotify playlist. Perfect for every party. meetprizm.com

I AM THE WALRUS They sing of “the egg man.”

Fellow musician Eric Burdon of The Animals had a girlfriend who broke an egg over him and then devoured it.

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ACTION!

GAMES

Zombie nation: Your chance to shine in Dying Light.

EYE ON i PA D HIDDEN-GEM GAMES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

THE SILENT AGE: EPISODE 2 Adventure game with riddles to be unraveled, in the 1970s and today, by its timetraveling hero.

Go back yourself and play Episode One first. thesilentage.com

Undead good

TH EY ’ R E A LIVE! FOUR MORE ZOMBIE GAMES FOR 2015

D YING LIGHT FINISHED THE GAMES YOU GOT OVER THE HOLIDAYS? THIS ZOMBIE EPIC WILL SATISFY YOUR NEEDS. There’s a theory as to why zombies are so massive in pop culture right now. The Resident Evil games made a significant impression on a generation that then went on to make books, comics, films and TV about something that seared into their young minds. And now new zombie games reflect that culture back. The circle of (undead) life.

Dying Light has the scent of The Walking Dead about it, but only the merest whiff. The game’s title points to one of its excellent original ideas: that gameplay alters radically when night falls. As long as the sun’s out, you, playing as a plague survivor, scavenge a city for weapons and supplies under the noses of fellow desperates, to use after dark to stay alive while fighting off plague-infected creatures.

You can go all out and attack, or lay traps and defend your ground. Upgrading weapons “realistically,” with lighters and barbed wire, is a neat touch.

The other innovative element here is “Be the Zombie” mode. Playing online, you can flip the game on its head, become prey-turned-hunter and rid the city of pesky humans.

There’s also a four-player co-op online mode. Plenty to sink your teeth into, then; just be careful what—or who —you bite. Dying Light is unleashed worldwide January 27.

Available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC

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QUETZALCOATL

Resident Evil Resident Evil: Revelations 2 The Granddaddy of them all returns, first as four weekly game episodes, set between RE5 and RE6.

Another in the stream of addictive and fiendish puzzle games, with 180 brain-boggling tasks. Simple graphics but you’ll think deep.

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Dead Island 2 Action-heavy adventure with eight-player co-op set in a future quarantined California.

SPACE AGE

State of Decay State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition Xbox One revamp for the tactical apocalypse adventure that’s more survival than action.

Human Element Two-tier zombie gaming: main game on PC and consoles, side missions on mobile platforms.

Old-school sci-fi in which you lead a team of planetary explorers in the sort of game —text-heavy, sense of humor— they don’t make anymore. spaceageapp.com

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IGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!

Q & A

CLARK DUKE

BREAKING OUT THE WHIPS & CHAINS

Even Clark Duke was surprised when he heard Hot Tub Time Machine 2 was in the works. But the raunchy original blossomed into a cult hit in 2010. So Duke, known for his roles in the Kick-Ass movies and TV’s The Office, and co-stars Rob Corddry and Craig Robinson return for a follow-up, with new pal Adam Scott along for the trip.

Fifty Shades of Grey aims to go from best seller to blockbuster (with the help of hotties like Rita Ora) when it opens on Valentine’s Day. How will the S&M romance rate among erotic outings?

LUKE WOODEN, UNIVERSAL

Words: Geoff Berkshire

the red bulletin: What was your reaction when you heard there was going to be a Hot Tub sequel?

CLARK DUKE: I was shocked, honestly. Just saying it out loud is pretty silly. It wasn’t a massive hit, but I think the deal is it just did so well on video and TV, it ended up justifying a sequel.

Did you have random people approaching you to talk about the movie?

Definitely, I get a lot of dudeson-the-sidewalk kind of action from it. It all checks out.

Do they like to quote a particular line, or do they just yell “Hot Tub Time Machine!”?

People will generally yell the title from 20 yards away, that kind of thing. Or like from a passing car. I’ve seen that happen with other people, too. I think it’s common to just yell out the title of the movie or TV show of whoever you recognize.

Does that happen with KickAss, too?

Yeah, it depends on the age and gender and location—you get different stuff. I’m sure Christopher Walken still has people yelling, “Deer Hunter!”

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Fatal Attraction (1987) Married man’s fling comes home to roost.

Stars: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close $156.6 million

Basic Instinct (1992) Hot dick Douglas hunts cold-blooded killer … is it smokin’ Stone?

Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone $117.7 million

Showgirls

“ Sitting in a tepid pool of water with three guys for 12 hours at a time for three days is not that glamorous.”

Are you utterly sick of hot tubs yet?

On the press tour for the first movie, everybody thought they were being so clever to have the interview take place in a hot tub. There were multiple dudes who said, “Guess what? We’re doing it in a hot tub!”

Did you ever say no?

I’m contractually obligated to say yes. That’s my deal with MGM. [laughs] How are the hot tubs on set?

They’re a complete nightmare.

Those are the worst days, by far. They’re not real hot tubs first of all. It’s a big contraption they build so they can have cameras underneath. They have these big turbines to make them swirl. It’s lukewarm water because you can’t work for 12 hours a day in hot water, you’d get sick. And they’re on a stage that’s freezing all the time, so as soon as you get out you’re miserably cold. Within an hour the water is super gross.

Just think of sitting in a tepid pool of water with three other guys for 12 hours at a time for like three days. It’s not that glamorous. hottubtimemachine.com Hot Tub Time Machine 2 opens Feb. 20

(1995) Ambitious Vegas dancer claws—and sleeps—her way to the top.

Stars: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan $20.4 million

Wild Things (1998) School girls and counselor cap conspiracy with a threesome.

Stars: Neve Campbell, Denise Richards $30 million

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Nicole nearly cheats, Tom sets sail on kinky sexual cruise.

Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman $55.7 million

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With 310 hp, it’s the most powerful mass-produced bike ever.

As at home on the open road as it is in a high-flyer’s mansion.

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Lap-time optimizers, the quickest people under the sun.

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S U Z U K I G SX-S 1000/ 750 W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

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Those who want to be first to the top of the pass.

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H O N DA F O R Z A 125

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W HWE OR E EIST HB IENLGOENHGÖSR T

WHO RIDES IT

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

WHERE IT BELONGS

WHO RIDES IT

The hottest, and most radical weapon in the concrete jungle.

It has an electric engine, so somewhere near a power outlet.

Early adopters, line jumpers, friends of the Earth.

Zippy as a moped but big enough for two people plus luggage.

Every home should have one.

Solves parking and traffic problems.

Those who don’t like refueling much, as it runs for up to 125 mpg.

Electric permanent magnet synchronous motor, 22 hp, 238 lbs

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Single-cylinder engine, 125cc, 14 hp, 357 lbs

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BIKESTYLE

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

WHERE IT BELONGS

WHO RIDES IT

Italian design and flair, plus it’s great on bad roads.

On frosty mountain passes with hairpin turns.

Seasoned bikers in need of some extra comfort and efficiency.

DU CAT I M U LT I S T R A DA 1200

Two-cylinder engine, 1198cc, 160 hp, 511 lbs

OFF-ROAD

LIMITS ARE IN YOUR MIND: AIM FOR THE NEAREST BEACH, HIGHWAY, FIRE ROAD OR, IN AN EMERGENCY, THE LOCAL PUB.

L O V ES THI

CONTINENTAL TKC 70 P O L A R IS R Z R -X P 1000 W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

WHERE IT BELONGS

WHO RIDES IT

Because freedom sometimes comes on four wheels, too.

On sand dunes, mud tracks or wherever there’s lots of space.

Nature lovers, adrenaline junkies, outdoor types, long-term drifters.

Two-cylinder engine, 1000cc, 110 hp, 1378 lbs

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You mostly drive your dual-sport motorcycle on the street and make the odd side trip to unpaved roads. With the TKC 70, Continental has combined the benefits of a smoothrunning road tire with the off-road grip of open tread. Excellent in wet conditions.

B M W S 1000 X R W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

WHERE IT BELONGS

WHO RIDES IT

An all-arounder with the talents of a trail bike and a touring bike.

On a long holiday trip, and perfect for two with the right gear.

Technically savvy frequent riders for whom enjoyment comes first.

Four-cylinder engine, 999cc, 160 hp, 525 lbs

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ACTION!

SAVE THE DATE

Lap dance: Drivers jockey for position at Daytona.

February 22

Daytona 500 This year is about more than just the race itself, though that’s certainly reason enough to watch. But as the famed speedway undergoes a major face-lift, it’ll also be about history in the making: The last chance to witness the race from the classic original grandstands and the first to spectate from one of the 40,000 newly constructed seats in turn 1 of the front stretch. Or maybe you’ll just be watching from the comfort of your La-Z-Boy, an ice-cold PBR at the ready.

No matter what, you’re in for a thrill ride. daytonainternationalspeedway.com

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February 1

Super Bowl XLIX

Chalk talk one up for Super Bowler Perry.

Clash of the titans XLIX (would that make it the Exlix Bowl?) takes place in sunny Phoenix at the home of the Arizona Cardinals. And while as of press time it was not yet known who will actually be clashing, it is known that Katy Perry will be half-timing. And there are always the commercials, worth the price of admission alone (assuming you’re not footing the $4.5 million for a 30-second spot). In any event, enjoy your final fix of pigskin until next season. nfl.com

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February 16-17

DON’T MISS

Westminster Dog Show Maybe it was Christopher Guest’s brilliant mockumentary Best in Show. Or perhaps it’s the irrefutable fact that dogs rule. (Save your letters, feline fetishists—you know we’re right.)

But everybody loves the weird world of competitive canine shows, and this one’s the Big Dog of them all. Last year a fox terrier took home the bacon kibble.

This year, our money’s on a hound. Because who doesn’t love a good hound?

(Zip it, cat people.) westminster kennelclub.org

Sky, 2014’s winning bitch

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MUSIC February 14-15

Undie Fun Runs Your dream: Watching that hot office mate strip down to her lacy linen just for you. Your reality: Watching her do that for all the world to see at the annual Undie Fun Run benefiting the Children’s Tumor Foundation in cities across the country on Valentine’s Day Weekend.

Not a bad second place. So gather your crew and that office babe, break out your best BVDs and raise a few bucks for a good cause.

Twangy guitars, spooky loops and haunting beats evoke tales of stray dogs, human smugglers and yearning love on Leave No Bridge Unburned, the sophomore LP from Canada’s Whitehorse. sixshooter records.com

cupidsundierun.com

February 2-15

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships MARCELO MARAGNI, CASS BIRD, LISA CROFT ELLIOTT, QUICKENLOANS, ERICH SPIESS/ASP/RED BULL

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Will Vonn strike gold at Vail?

FEBRUARY

MOVIE No new plot twist in The Gunman— a spy must clear his name to save his hide from his own organization—but with Sean Penn as the bad-ass spook, definitely worth a look. openroadfilms.com

It’s nearly as rare as Halley’s comet: a skiing world championship on U.S. snow. This largest gathering of talent on two sticks, second only to the Olympics, is just the fourth time ever for us Yanks, so it’s a big deal. Will it be Bode Miller’s swan song? Lindsey Vonn’s chance to reclaim lost Socchi gold? Be there, or be in the dark. Just like Halley’s spacey snowball.

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January 25

February 17

January 24

February 21-22

NHL All-Star Game

Mardi Gras

Red Bull Crashed Ice

Air + Style: L. A.

After a two-year hiatus, hockey’s all-star game returns, this time to Columbus, Ohio. Current rivals temporarily pull their punches to bond as a team, if only for a day. With the sole aim of beating the crap out of the opposing band of rivals. Good clean fun. nhl.com

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America’s Biggest Party gets a bad rap as a bacchanal of boobs, beads and Bourbon Street. Sounds good to us.

But it’s really a multi-week run-up to Fat Tuesday full of Zulu parades, Indian costumes, King cakes, music and more.

So skip the Quarter and laissez les bon temps rouler!

Which is French for party on. mardigrasneworleans.com

It’s a contact sport! It’s a high-speed race! It’s rollerderby on blades! It’s all of those things wrapped into one insane sport of ice cross downhill, and the 2015 season kicks off in the appropriately frosty Minnesota capital of St. Paul, with 100,000 crazed spectators cheering on. redbullcrashedice.com

Known more for big hair than big air, Pasadena hosts Shaun White’s board/ski/ skate rave-up at the Rose Bowl. Faux snow will blanket the ramp for this stop on the World Snowboard Tour, and while White isn’t competing, he will be playing with his band, Bad Things, alongside Diplo and Kendrick Lamar. air-style.com

TV The Oscars are the queso grande of award shows, and try as you might to affect nonchalance, you care. You really, really care. So give in, tune in and be that much more watercooler wise on Monday morning. oscar.go.com

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What goes around comes around When Marc Márquez won the final race of the 2014 MotoGP season he didn’t win the world championship.

He’d won that after race 15 of 18, in Japan. His 13 wins in the season, including the first 10 races in a row, is a record; aged 21, his list of “youngest” records is astonishingly long. But it was always in the cards: Twelve years ago he won the Open RACC 50, a sixrace series Catalan championship. marcmarquez93.com/en

“ During the race, at times I was thinking of my brother.”

Marc Márquez on Valencia; younger bro Alex, 18, won the Moto3 title earlier that day, on the same circuit.

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