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32 arto Saari

The Finnish photog and skateboarder shares his shots.

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It’s hard in this day and age of $700 million revenues, televised contests, and athletes-asbrands, to remember that skateboarding was once a refuge for the outcasts: Jay Adams, Mark “Gator” Rogowski, even Guy Mariano, names that were bywords for rebellion and destruction, of both the physical and personal kind. The beauty of their art, appreciated only as recently as a decade ago, has been captured wonderfully in Arto Saari’s impressive photos, a sampling of which we’ve included in this issue (p. 32). Now firmly in the mainstream, today’s skateboarders are required to be savvy businessmen and self-promoters at a young age. Few have mastered this as well as Ryan Sheckler, whose rise mirrored the increase in his industry’s bottom line (p. 44). the red bulletin

“I’m not under pressure, I’m happy.” neymar, page 56

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Features 32 Arto Saari

How to capture the perfect skate shot? First, take an empty pool ...

44 Ryan Sheckler

Nicole Pacelli

The child prodigy of skateboarding on growing up and going pro

The champion stand-up paddleboarder returns to the circuit as a favorite.

52 Shadow Box

An app for sharing your dreams

56 Neymar

Brazil’s young hope for the World Cup

62 Scraper Bikers 64 Nicole Pacelli

80 linkin park

After more than a decade in the business, the band uses technology to maintain their winning streak.

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Oh, you went scuba diving while you were in Hawaii? That’s so cute. Next time you should go in a submarine.

81 44 Ryan Sheckler

He’s been a professional skateboarder for half his life—and he’s realized ’boarding is a business. 06

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Just because his outfits on the course are colorful doesn’t mean they skimp on functionality.

The stand-up paddleboarding world champion returns to the waves

70 Linkin Park

New album, new tour, new tech

74 Louisahhh!!!

The sounds of unicorns laughing

76 Red Bull Curates

The artist Mar explores shape shifting

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mike blabac The Ohio native has been photographing skateboard culture for the past 20 years. For us, Blabac shot Ryan Sheckler’s frontside blunt slide down a staircase in Huntington Beach, California (page 50). “I’ve been fortunate enough to photograph the best skateboarders in the world,” he says. On that day, the skateboard pro almost killed himself nailing the trick, and Blabac was grateful to get it. “I love capturing images that people look at for years to come, and inspire people to skateboard.”

Saari started his career as a professional skateboarder at age 16—and along the way learned to share the strength, agility, and grace of his sport via his camera. In our cover shot and the pictorial that begins on page 32, Saari catches his competitors—and friends—in unguarded moments away from the traditional competition circuit. (It does help to have a drained pool in his backyard where he can capture the impromptu action.) As for the portrait of Ryan Sheckler on the cover, Saari says it was a no-brainer to focus on his colleague: “He’s one of the best skaters in the world.”

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David Clerihew and Simon Kuper Brazilian soccer star Neymar came, saw, and wrapped our photographer David Clerihew and writer Simon Kuper around his little finger (page 56). “He is one cool guy,” said the British shooter. “He has such a distinctive look, the job is half done before you start.” Kuper, who’s written extensively on the game as a Financial Times columnist and

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delving into research ahead of his trip to meet the FC Barcelona striker, Kuper reckons he got Neymar to open up in ways others haven’t. And one other thing: “Isn’t it unfair that Barcelona, one of the nicest cities in the world, also has one of the best soccer clubs?”

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leisure pursuits Alfredo Gomez, one of the world’s best enduro riders, has a predictable hobby: enduro racing. Here he is, in his free time, plowing his Husqvarna bike over a flat dirt track. That’s a bit uncommon: Enduro is mostly about thrashing a bike down steep slopes until you can thrash no more. The thing is, says the Spaniard, “I love anything that burns gasoline.” alfredogomez.com Photo: Alberto Lessmann/Red Bull Content Pool

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rushin’ russian At the first race of the Formula One season in Melbourne, Daniil Kvyat finished ninth. By scoring World Championship points in his debut race, the Scuderia Toro Rosso driver, at the age of 19 years and 24 days, beat the old record for youngest points scorer, held by current world champ Sebastian Vettel. Kvyat has since turned 20 and, after five races of F1 2014, had three top-10 finishes. “There’s no such thing as a prodigy in motorsports,” says the man from Ufa, about 750 miles east of Moscow. “Just hard work.” scuderiatororosso.com Photo: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images/Red Bull Content Pool

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spray time Teammates vying for the world title is a hot topic in motorsports. Atop the World Rally Championship are Frenchman Sebastien Ogier, reigning champ, and Volkswagen teammate Jari-Matti Latvala. In the fourth special stage of the Rally de Portugal, Latvala first found a water feature, and later flipped over spectacularly, which led him to finish 14th (Ogier won). “That’s rallying,” said the Finn, who bounced back to win the next race, in Argentina. jmlatvala.com Photo: Richard Balint/Volkswagen Motorsport

GIVing PEACE A chANCE

TOMMY VERSUS FRITZ a christmas miracle Hundreds of German and British soldiers agreed to a truce on the Western Front in Flanders, after months of fighting during World War I. Christmas was more important than war, and for one afternoon, the enemy troops shot at goal, not each other. The no-man’sland between the trenches became a soccer field, their caps marking the goals. Legend has it, of course, that the Germans won 3-2, but the winners did at least have the decency to provide a barrel of beer. 16

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Working Woman Socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg said we should strike, not fight. She campaigned for workers’ rights, was jailed for incitement to civil disobedience and killed by German soldiers in 1919.

Robertson was the first man to carry out a blood transfusion using blood that had been stored. His medical breakthrough has gone on to save millions of lives. It’s quite an improvement on the first “transfusion,” in 1492, when a dying Pope Innocent VIII drank the blood of three 10-year-old boys. All four of them died.

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THE NOBEL PRIZE The Red Cross received the Nobel Peace Prize for its good works during the war. To this day, military hospitals and staff carrying the red symbol are off-limits in international law.

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World War I began 100 years ago, on July 28, 1914, when AustriaHungary declared war on Serbia. In this special section we pay tribute to 101 people and ideas that have defied this kind of madness and championed peace and humanity ever since.

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BLOOD BANK

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RED CROSS NOBEL

1922 radio The British

Broadcasting Company (BBC) goes on air and lays the cornerstone for press freedom and impartiality. People in trouble spots worldwide tune in to the BBC news, often risking their personal safety to do so. Jolly good show, indeed.

1918

Nelson Mandela The man who brought down apartheid in South Africa, and embodied peace and reconciliation worldwide, is born.

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GIRL POWER

1920

Technological advances don’t come more soothing than this: The Theremin, forerunner of the synthesizer, makes its public debut.

1921

PEACE DOLLAR The United States mints Art Deco peace dollars.

1925

ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Clarence Darrow is a fierce Ohio lawyer with a mission to defend the innocent. A few months after defending a schoolteacher for teaching evolution (which, somehow, is still being argued here) he joins a headlinegrabbing trial in Detroit, of a group of black men accused of murdering a white man who was part of a mob that had stormed a house. Darrow’s closing argument, lasting seven hours, convinces the jurors of the defendants’ innocence and becomes a key text in the civil rights movement.

1922

“THIS IS THE BBC”

1923

Hitler OUT! Feminist activists Anita Augspurg and Lida Gustava Heymann try, in vain, to have Hitler expelled from Germany for incitement of the masses.

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WOMEN GET THE VOTE

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girl power The suffragettes of the 1910s wanted to make a mark on society—and on the election ballot. They rolled up their sleeves, went on strike, and held demonstrations, including chaining themselves to railings and setting mailboxes on fire. By the end of the decade, 27 countries had given women the vote; America followed suit in 1920. Slowest on the uptake were the Swiss. In the district of Appenzell Innerrhoden, women have only had the vote since 1990.

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The American Peace Award, endowed by Edward W. Bok to the tune of $100,000, is awarded for the first time. It wasn’t awarded again until 2008.

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1926

WINNIE-THE-POOH A bear, a piglet, a donkey, an owl, and a rabbit all live in harmony in the woods. Because the most important thing is friendship. And honey.

“ I do not believe in the law of hate. I may not be true to my ideals always, but I believe in the law of love, and I believe you can do nothing with hatred.” c l a r e n c e da r row ( 18 57 — 193 8)

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Sent by U.S. missionary Sidney Gulick to Japan to foster friendships among children.

1928

erich maria remarque The German WWI vet secures a publisher for his book, All Quiet on the Western Front, which becomes the classic pacifist novel.

1929

mother Teresa The famous nun moves to India on her mission of service to the poor.

1930

Mahatma Gandhi Declares his country independent. Britain doesn’t recognize it for 17 years; Gandhi practices his nonviolent struggle.

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1931

PEACE OF MIND The hangover loses to Alka-Seltzer when the miracle treatment is introduced in the U.S.

1932

EINSTEIN AND FREUD

1933

OLD AND BOLD

“ I am a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace.”

In Berlin, 91-year-old Julie Bonhoeffer breaks a Nazi cordon to shop at a Jewishowned store.

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RIGHT IS WRONG

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Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio.

1936

ALL FOR ONESIE The Phantom, the first fully costumed superhero, begins fighting crime in newspapers.

1937

GUERNICA

German bombers destroy the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Pablo Picasso captures the suffering on canvas (a Wiiings-inspired homage, right), which he says can be given to Spain once Franco’s fascist dictatorship has come to an end. Sadly, the artist did not live to see it: He died in 1972, nine years before his greatest work came home.

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A right-wing coup in France is thwarted. Several anti-fascist organizations are founded in its wake.

Einstein, a smart fellow if ever there was one, has one problem that he just can’t get his head around. “Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?” he asks fellow genius Sigmund Freud. In reply, the Austrian shrink says, “The ill success … of all the efforts made during the last decade to reach this goal leaves us no room to doubt that strong psychological factors are at work which paralyze these efforts.” In English: People, foolishly, like destroying things.

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REVUE GIRL OF THE RESISTANCE

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josephine baker, a girl from Missouri, dances her way into the hearts of Parisian audiences at scandalous revue shows and from there takes continental Europe by storm. When the Nazis occupy France, she doesn’t want to sing anymore. She works for the Resistance instead, sweet-talking officers to get information out of them and smuggling secret documents over the border. When that fight ends, another begins: Baker goes on to support the civil rights movement in the U.S.

The Missouri-born Baker becomes a scandalous star in Paris and a sweettalking spy for the French resistance.

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WO R L D I N M OT I O N: THE UNITED NAT I O N S

“To keep peace throughout the world.” That is one of the pillars of this international community of 193 member states, which was established on Oct. 24, 1945. Even if it doesn’t always succeed, that ambitious mission statement is inarguably noble.

“This train is going to hell.” These words come to Franz Jagerstatter in a dream, and will him to vote against Austria’s Anschluss with Nazi Germany, the only person in his village to do so. He is executed in 1943 and beatified by the Pope in 2007.

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1940

CYCLE OF PROTEST When Norway is occupied by Hitler’s troops, naval officer turned pacifist Olaf Kullmann pedals his bike around the entire country in protest. He died in a concentration camp in 1942.

1941

MUM’S THE WORD Mother Courage, Bertolt Brecht’s antiwar play, is first performed, in Zurich.

1942

anne Frank In the red-and-white notebook she got for her 13th birthday, the Dutch girl begins a diary of her family’s two years in hiding from the occupying Nazis.

1943

KEEPING THE PROMISE In Albania, besa refers to a code of honor that must be upheld. In WWII, the country is 70 percent Muslim, but besa means its people ignored religious differences to save 2,000 Jews from Nazi persecution.

1944

LIST FOR LIFE German industrialist Oskar Schindler catalogs, for the Nazis, indispensable staff required for the smooth running of his munitions factory, thus saving the lives of 1,200 Jews.

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NATIONS UNITED

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GIVE ME A (Peace) SIGN Graphic designer Gerald Holtom is asked to make a logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s first major protest march. And he draws on a silent language. His design incorporates the letters N(uclear) and D(isarmament) as displayed by the flag wavers doing semaphore, inside a circle.

BR IGH T F UTUR E The Fulbright Program sends U.S. scholars and students overseas to learn and educate.

1947

saving lives Raphael Lemkin coins the term “genocide” and lays the foundation for its prevention and punishment.

1948

keep it peaceful The UN dispatches peacekeepers for the first time, to the Middle East.

1949

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1950

HELiGOLAND Occupation of the North Sea island by former residents leads to its return to civilian life after military use.

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“It takes a very long time to become young.”

1952

MAD magazine The mag’s satire and criticism would go on to inspire students worldwide.

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TUGGING IRON CURTAIN

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ATOMIC BOMBSHELL

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ROSA PARKS

1956

RUSSIA THAWS

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces Stalin in the four-hour Secret Speech.

1957

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DOVE IS ALL AROUND pablo picasso doesn’t come up with the dove as a symbol of peace. The white bird with an olive branch in its beak was a peace-loving icon in the Bible. But it is the painter from Malaga who made the bird the emblem of the modern peace movement. When he was asked to design a poster for the International Peace Congress in Paris, he made the white dove its centerpiece. Childhood memories could have come into it, too. His father, an art teacher, enjoyed painting pictures of pigeons and doves above all else.

1955

Albert Schweitzer warns of the nuclear arms race.

1949

Imre Nagy appointed leader of communist Hungary, but breaks with Soviet ideology.

into orbit from what is now Kazakhstan. The era of space travel begins with the Soviet satellite, which gives us a new perspective on our home planet. Many people learn that the Earth is smaller and more worthy of protection than they had previously thought.

rosa parks, an African-American secretary from Alabama, refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, as instructed by the bus driver. Her brave action is one of the key moments in the civil rights movement.

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The UN regulates humanitarian care of refugees.

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“And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.” m a rt i n lu t h e r k i n g , j r .

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icy cold war truce Twelve countries, including the Soviet Union and the U.S., agree that the uninhabited Antarctic will only be used for peaceful purposes and scientific research.

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

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PLEASE STOP British philosopher Bertrand Russell intervenes in the Cuban Missile Crisis by sending telegrams to Kennedy and Khrushchev. He warns them of the consequences of impending nuclear war, and they listen.

1963 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

1963 I HAVE A DREAM hundreds of thousands of people gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to hear civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his speech for equality and against racism. Advisors had actually cut the “I have a dream ...” passages, but King improvises them back in during his 17 minutes at the microphone and writes a truly significant page of history.

1960

NO S UC H THING AS FAT E Hungarian censorship does not quash journalist and Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertesz’s drive to write about his experiences. His 1975 novel Fatelessness, about a teenage boy in the Holocaust, gets worldwide acclaim.

TWO STUDENTS drink a toast to freedom in Lisbon and are arrested. Reading of this injustice is allegedly what makes English lawyer Peter Benenson start Amnesty International. The organization has fought for political prisoners and against human rights abuses all over the world ever since.

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WAR IS(N’T) FUNNY Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a potent and hilarious anti-nuclear-war film, comes at the height of the Cold War.

1965

Flower Power The slogan for the anti-war movement supposedly came to poet Allen Ginsberg during an LSD trip.

1966

fly like a dove Peace activist Abie Nathan flies from Israel to Egypt on his Shalom 1 plane to urge peace talks. He is arrested on landing.

1967

DOWN THE BARREL Jan Rose Kasmir holds a daisy to the bayonet of a soldier outside the Pentagon and becomes an icon of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

1968

Black Power At the Mexico City Olympics, AfricanAmerican track medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos give the Black Power salute on the podium.

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SAINT OF el salvador With his appointment as assistant bishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero’s stand against social injustice and the dictatorial government becomes more visible. In 1980, as Archbishop, he’s killed saying Mass.

1971

“GREEN PEACE, NO SPACE” The same year a twoyear-old environmental organization makes its first waves, after the Coast Guard turns its boat back before it can reach an Alaskan nuclear-test site, it also settles on a name: Greenpeace.

1969

THE Lay OF THE LAND This is how John Lennon and Yoko Ono spend their honeymoon. For a week they welcome journalists to the Presidential Suite of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel to promote world peace. The press pack expects something scandalous, but the newlyweds keep things chaste. They just sit there among the pillows and placards, “like angels,” as Lennon puts it.

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1972

SHOT TO END A WAR Nick Ut’s photo of a naked, napalm-burned Kim Phuc, turns public and political opinion against the Vietnam War.

1973

WORLD IN HARMONY Over 1 billion watch Elvis in Aloha from Hawaii, the first concert broadcast live via satellite.

1974

Peace KO’d: Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman for the heavyweight crown—and human rights.

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Rumble in the Jungle

1975

TRUCE IN SPACE

1976

ACROSS THE DIVIDE Peace People is formed of Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

1977

mothers know best In Argentina, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo demand to know what happened to their children “disappeared” during the Dirty War.

1978

LET’S GET TOGETHER … and feel alright: Bob Marley reconciles rival Jamaican politicians on stage at the One Love Peace Concert.

1979

Apocalypse now The greatest war movie ever made is released.

rumble in the jungle Muhammad Ali and George Foreman punch each other’s lights out and it’s somehow about peace? Not right there in the ring, maybe, but that legendary fight for the world heavyweight championship in Kinshasa, in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), raises the profile and self-esteem of an entire continent. And with the eyes of the world on Africa, what dictators want hidden can be seen. Muhammad Ali, conscientious objector, wins again. 24

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NAUTS CROSS OVER

Two years before Star Wars, the biggest thing in space is no science fiction, but Cold Wardefying fact. Alexey Leonov is weightless alongside Deke Slayton after the first joint U.S.Soviet space mission. An Apollo module docks with a Soyuz craft, after which three astronauts and two cosmonauts spend 44 hours together. the red bulletin

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Jadav Payeng planted a tree on the banks of the Brahmaputra in India. Where there was once just a single tree there are now over 5 million.

1981

PROTEST CAMP William Thomas pitches his tent by the White House as a protest against nuclear weapons. He would stay 27 years.

1986

“Give us as much money as we know you have.”

FROM TINY ACORNS

burning up At a small event on Baker Beach in San Francisco, the eponymous wooden sculpture defining the Burning Man Festival is set alight for the first time. Today, pyromaniacs and the countercultural meet in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to honor the Burning Man’s 10 principles: radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation, immediacy. In a nutshell: peace.

1982

DEAR MR. PREMIER U.S. schoolgirl Samantha Smith, 10, writes to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov. He writes back. Samantha realizes they’re “just like us.”

1983

LITTLE A LONG WAY Muhammad Yunus founds the Grameen Bank, which gives microloans to the poorest of the poor.

1984

CHEST READ THIS Designer Katharine Hamnett wears an anti-nuclear slogan T-shirt while meeting Margaret Thatcher at an official reception.

1985

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GIGGING FOR GIVING

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the world stage Bob Geldof rounds up rock and pop royalty for two simultaneous concerts on July 13 in London and Philadelphia. More than 1.5 billion people watch Live Aid live on TV, and the next day the donations are around $84 million, about $226 million in today’s money. Queen, U2, David Bowie, and The Beach Boys do turns; Phil Collins flies on the Concorde to appear at both venues. Led Zeppelin, The Who, and Black Sabbath re-form for a day to fight hunger in Ethiopia and, like many of the acts, enjoy a boost in record sales.

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In Canada, the Raging Grannies group of elder ladies forms to protest nuclearpowered U.S. Navy ships in Victoria Harbor.

1988

grave of the fireflies One of the most powerful anti-war films, an animated drama from Japan, is released.

1989

what goes up David Hasselhoff sings “Looking for Freedom” to 100,000 fans from a crumbling Berlin Wall.

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The Youngbloods Get Together

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“Come on, people now. Smile on your brother. Everybody get together. Try to love one another. Right now!”

“No hate no fight Just excitation! All through the night It’s celebration. Wo-wo-wo-wo-yeah!”

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Michael Franti Bomb the World

“Everyone jump upon the peace train Come on, come on, come on. Yes, come on the peace train. Yes, it’s a peace train.”

“We can chase down all our enemies, bring them to their knees. We can bomb the world to pieces. But we can’t bomb it into peace.”

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IN THE RUBBLE OF SARAJEVO

Vedran Smailovic sits in the rubble with his cello and plays Tomaso Albinoni’s Adagio in G-Minor while the war-torn city is shelled by Bosnian Serb troops. Thousands of people lose their lives, with 22 civilians lining up for bread among the first victims. The cellist performs 22 solo concerts on 22 consecutive days, at exactly the time and place a grenade hit, each time wearing his tails, and each time putting his own life at risk.

Internet Romance Tim Berners Lee invents the World Wide Web. It’s thanks to him we can now tweet and hyperlink messages of love.

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CELLIST OF SARAJEVO

1993

VIKTOR POPKOV The Russian pacifist delivers food to Abkhazian towns besieged by Georgians.

1991

KISS GOODBYE TO COMMUNISM

1994

Sex Bomb

premiers in league? Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker no doubt spent plenty of time together, as the respective heads of the Soviet Union and East Germany, but exactly how close they got is not recorded in the official minutes. In 1991, the USSR shows solidarity with the GDR in together exiting the stage of world history. Muscovite artist Dmitri Vrubel paints his most famous work—the brotherly kiss—on the Berlin Wall.

1995

Peace Villages Areas free of violence founded in crisis-torn parts of Latin America.

1996

write stuff

“ I am part of the town. I do what I can.”

Yoko Ono asks fans to write their wishes on bits of paper and attach them to her wish trees.

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THE SEX BOMB sex hormones

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1994

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Love Kills The Pentagon comes up with the concept for a new sort of “weapon”: the sex bomb. But—sadly?— they never produce it. Aphrodisiacs would rouse the enemy to the point of sexual ecstasy and put them out of action without force of arms. The bad-breath bomb was also shelved.

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1997

“ If you don’t like how something is, change it.” ta r a s t i l e s

LIBRARY IN THE SADDLE Luis Soriano rides his donkeys to remote villages in Colombia and lends out the books they have carried there. His library has grown from 70 titles when he started out to more than 4,500 now.

1998 viagra

1999

ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA The Russian journalist begins her columns critical of the Kremlin and on the horrors of the war in Chechnya. She is murdered seven years later.

2000

firing blanks

2001

cycling around the world

2002

no home field advantage SportsUnited takes Americans abroad and brings young foreigners to the U.S. to do sports together, in a plan to promote international dialogue and cooperation.

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2001

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CARLOS SERRAO

Searching for a highblood-pressure treatment, scientists discover a drug that unleashes high pressure somewhere else. Viagra henceforth provides peace of mind between the sheets.

A crash course in peace

2000 bang!

The British Royal Navy orders its soldiers to stop using live ammunition. They are to shout “Bang!” instead. Sadly this only applies to training exercises and new recruits.

South Korean Okhwan Yoon sets off on a round-the-world bike ride aiming to reconcile North and South Korea. Number of countries visited: 192. Crashes: 6.

YOGA: FOR INNER PEACE “Sun salutation” and “mountain pose.” Yoga has promoted harmony between body and mind for thousands of years. But Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar was the first person to systematize the various yoga poses. That made yoga popular in the West, which is why Time magazine listed the guru among the world’s 100 most influential people. It is an honor that will probably never be awarded to yoga starlet Tara Stiles, but she has time on her side.

2003

Peace Race Tegla Loroupe is the first African woman to win the New York City Marathon. Back home in Kenya she organizes an annual Peace Race, where politicians and soldiers from all over East Africa run together instead of waging war on each other.

2004 Yoga

2005

soccer truce When Ivory Coast qualifies for the World Cup in Germany, Didier Drogba goes on TV and asks the parties in his country’s civil war to “lay down your arms!” Peace talks begin and a truce is observed from 2007-2010.

2006

HIGH POINT OF PEACE In the Himalayas, the border crossing between India and Chinese Tibet at Nathu La reopens after 44 years.

2007

Skateistan

2008

soccer diplomacy Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan and his Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gul, watch a World Cup qualifier between their two countries together on TV: no small measure, due to the Turkish genocide of the Armenians during World War I.

2009

sounds of war The British Post War Orchestra makes musical instruments out of old weapons, thus turning the harmful harmonious.

2010

Doubly good India’s Rohan Bopanna and Aisamul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan team up in doubles and show that tennis can bridge the political divide. They go on to reach the final of the U.S. Open.

2011

Tomo KriZnar

2012

Brown Moses

2013

Kid President

In June, 100 years after the assassination in Sarajevo that triggered World War I, Bosnia’s capital will host thousands of young people, activists and peace researchers from around the world. There they will share info, hold discussions and party for peace. Mir svijetu! (Peace to the world!)

2007

AUSSIE OLLIE OLIES skateistan With three skateboards in his luggage, Oliver Percovich heads from his homeland of Australia to war-torn Kabul. It doesn’t take long for the skateboards to attract the attention of local kids. With every trick and ride, social barriers disappear, and a little light is shone on dark lives. Percovich’s bright idea becomes an NGO, Skateistan. He teaches classes and arranges for a skatepark to be built. Soon, his young freestyle pupils are a common sight in the city—and about half of them are girls.

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SARAJEVO PEACE EVENT

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PEACE AT THE PUSH OF A BUTTON The Internet has allowed peace activism to flourish. But how to choose between causes? Take our test and find out who you favor. YES

START: Do you hang out on social media?

2012

KONY 2012 wanted to save all Africa in one fell swoop, but felt the wind of criticism and fizzled out.

Do you share content without thinking?

Do you know how to handle a weapon?

Do you like watching YouTube videos?

Do you like partying?

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Do you purr when you like something?

brown moses uses YouTube videos to analyze the weapons being used in the Syrian Civil War.

Tomo KriZnar gives cameras to the Nuba peoples of Sudan, so that they can document war crimes.

Do you like to pick fights with politicians and corporations?

Peace Parties will be held all over the world, not just in Sarajevo, to mark 100 years since the outbreak of WWI.

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2013

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#royalbaby was a common hashtag this year. Will cuddly little George bring us peace on Earth?

2011

CAT VIDEOs, because anyone who can sit and watch Nyan Cat for hours hasn’t got time to think of evil.

2012

Are you happy to write in zeros and ones?

kid president gives motivational speeches on YouTube. Watch this and you’ll believe all is good in the world.

2013

Do you motivate yourself in front of the mirror?

Do you love sitting at your computer?

anonymous is still the leading hacktivist group, promoting freedom and “lulz” with anticorporate stunts.

H OLLYWOOD

BuLLEVARD

Q & A

They come in peace. Maybe.

BOYHOOD

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goran visnjic gets starstruck by the alien beings in his new TV show, Extant.

Acclaimed director Richard Linklater’s latest film takes on everything from the Iraq War to Facebook.

Words: Geoff Berkshire

Goran Visnjic has a TV legacy dating back to megahit ER. Now he’s back in the sci-fi series Extant, starring opposite Halle Berry for executive producer Steven Spielberg. the red bulletin: What do you tell people when they ask what Extant is about? goran visnjic: [Berry] plays an astronaut who has come back to Earth 30 years in the future. I believe CBS said: “Molly’s coming back from space pregnant with an alien baby, and that baby is a threat to her android son.” And we’ll see cool tech? We were filming using a new Tesla that’s a prototype. It’s a scene with my son, with each of us leaving the car—we each have our own tablet that we’re doing things on—and it looked like it could be happening very soon. There’s this kind of Spielberg realism happening in the show. Extant premieres July 9.

“There’s a kind of ‘Steven Spielberg realism’ with the technology in Extant.”

Think about everything that’s happened in the last 12 years: War rages in Iraq. Barack Obama elected president, twice. Facebook. FaceTime. Harry Potter. Lady Gaga. They’re all included in Boyhood, but this unique indie drama is more than just a nostalgia trip. The movie was filmed off and on between 2002 and 2013, following 12 years in the life of Texas native Mason [played by newcomer Ellar Coltrane]. Consider it the ultimate coming of age story. Boyhood opens July 11.

IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (AT THE MOVIES) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire How the world ends: Climate change. Box office: $865 million

I Am Legend How the world ends: Man-made virus created to cure cancer. Oops. Box office: $585 million

World War Z How the world ends: Virus turns victims into ravenous zombies. Box office: $540 million

Terminator Salvation How the world ends: Murderous robots take over the planet. Box office: $371 million

Oblivion How the world ends: Nuclear fallout from a war between worlds. Box office: $286 million

Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, starring Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, and Andy Serkis, opens July 11.

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Will there ever be true peace in the world? Hollywood’s most popular visions of the future have a pretty bleak answer to that question. Post-apocalyptic movies are big business, with this summer’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes just the latest expected blockbuster. (Worldbuster?)

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skate EYE For years, finnish professional skateboarder-turned-PHOTOGRAPHER ARTo saari was on the front lines as the sport burst into the mainstream. here, saari takes us behind the lens and tells us the backstories of some of the iconic shots that helped define the sport. interview: Ann Donahue

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Saari’s own backyard is fertile photo ground: “Here, Louie Lopez blasts a stylish frontside ollie over the hip in my pool.”

Left: “This is a rad DIY spot constructed by Pontus Alv in Malmö, Sweden. Here, Pontus and Oski Rosenberg are double trouble.”

Above: “This invert nose grab by Willis Kimbel at Washington Street skatepark in San Diego is one of the best things I’ve seen in a while.”

Above: “Scott Oster is an epic shredder all around. I have been lucky to be able to witness some of the maneuvers he has executed with style and grace in my pit of ’crete. Here is a photo of a perfect slash.”

Right: Portraits of professional skaters, clockwise from top left: Jay Adams, Heath Kirchart, Steve Olson, Willis Kimbel.

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Above: “I had an eerie feeling when I was shooting this, but after seeing Curren Caples perform this maneuver like it was child’s play, I figured my worries were pointless. This is Curren doing a boneless under one of the freeways in Melbourne, Australia.” Below: “Andrew Reynolds doing a stylish frontside flip.”

Above: “An airborne Curren Caples executing a kickflip in Malmö, Sweden.” Below: “My dog, Banger, and freshly blasted ’crete in my backyard.”

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ryan Sheckler, here in Sydney, Australia, has an incredible amount of talent and skill on a skateboard, with strength and style and absolute passion.â&#x20AC;?

Left: “I call these ‘Pooltown 1 and 2.’ These two collages are the result of four years of skating and shooting different pools with my friends. This, to me, represents the very essence of skateboarding: Fun!”

Above: “This is a photo of my friend Kynan Tait on an excursion to the Arctic Circle, through North America, on his bike. One of the raddest trips I’ve ever been on and one of the best photos I’ve ever shot.”

ARTO SAARI One key to grabbing great skate shots? Make sure you have a house with a drained pool in the backyard. Saari captures his friends from the skating world in their most unguarded—yet still triumphant—moments. One of his favorites in this collection is the opening spread with Louie Lopez. “Louie is one of the best up-and-coming skateboarders, if you ask me. He is where style and gnar come together in extraordinary fashion.” the red bulletin

At 24, Sheckler has been a pro skateboarder for half his life, a prodigy who has grown to be one of the sportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faces.

The State of Skate To thrive in the billion-dollar action sports business, a champion must be a CEO, and a â&#x20AC;&#x2122;boarder must be a brand. Just ask Ryan Sheckler. Words: Ann Donahue Photography: Andrew Peters

skateboarding can be a ruthless business, weeding out potential professionals from the masses while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still teenagers.

Not only is Sheckler a serious athlete, but he can market himself with the same dexterity he shows in the skatepark.

On a crisp spring morning near Seattle— too hot with a jacket on, too cold without one—Matias and Ron Miguel are planning their next trick amid the towering pines on the banks of Puget Sound. The brothers—17 and 18 years old, respectively—are eyeing the brand-new skatepark built on the land they call home, the Port Gamble S’Klallam Reservation. Technically, it opens tomorrow, but the duo have appointed themselves the unofficial protectors—and test riders—of the skatepark behind the chain-link fence. It’s a thing of beauty, with fresh, still-slick concrete spray-painted with the art and slogans of the S’Klallam tribe. It hits the sweet spot between being adventurous enough for experienced skaters and not too intimidating for firsttimers. But most importantly, it’s new.

“There’s a skatepark not too far from here, and the ledges there don’t even have coping,” Matias says, describing the black protective pieces on the rims of all the skate park features to ease grinding. “It’s all chunked up. And the thing I skate the most is the curb ledge—it’s just fun. I can’t skate hubbas [a stair feature] or handrails yet—that’s scary.” Matias and Ron’s plans are interrupted by the appearance of a big black van with tinted windows that bumps down the adjacent street. Riding along outside on a skateboard, hanging on to the open passenger-side window and laughing, is a lanky, tatted-up skater who couldn’t care less about rolling alongside a two-ton vehicle that could squash him with one rash move of the steering wheel. The van makes a turn into the parking lot and the skater breaks away. He rides up to the side of the skatepark, excited and beaming. He doesn’t hesitate before he drops in, and between the tattoos, the devil-may-care attitude, and his brash agility, it’s obvious that the skater is Ryan Sheckler. “Uh oh,” Matias says. “Now I’m going to fangirl.” At 24, Sheckler has been a professional skater for almost half his life, a prodigy who has grown with the sport to become the world-famous face of street skateboarding. At 18 months, Sheckler took his first ride on a skateboard; by the time he was 4 years old he was sleeping every night in his helmet. He turned pro when he was 13, and even before then, sponsors were clamoring to sign him. Besides Red Bull, he includes Plan B Skateboards and Etnies—which has sponsored him for more than 15 years— as long-term business partners. Sheckler epitomizes the current state of affairs in skateboarding: Not only does a professional skateboarder have to be a hell of an athlete, but now, thanks to the omnipresence of social media, he has to know how to market himself with the same kind of force and dexterity that he shows in the skatepark. This means traveling the world to shoot video parts and distributing them online, keeping up with sponsor obligations and participating in charitable events that are documented in real time on the Internet. This is on top of the actual work of competing in events ranging from the X Games to the Dew Tour to Street League. “As an amateur skater, when you’re just skating for fun, you don’t have to go on trips, you don’t have to go to autograph signings or photo shoots or go promote a company,” Sheckler says. “But 47

the second you sign that contract, you have to agree that the whole time you’re going to give everything you have to these companies. People don’t want to put in the extra work, but you have to.” This is a far cry from the days when skateboarding had two essential rules: (1) Don’t be afraid to climb fences to access a prime skate spot, and (2) Ignore all the signs that instruct people not to climb fences to access those prime skate spots. Now, communities routinely include skateparks as a point of civic pride. The Port Gamble S’Klallam tribe’s skatepark took two years to build and was funded in conjunction with Sheckler’s charitable foundation. It’s one of many: The online registry ConcreteDisciples.com lists more than 3,000 skateparks in the U.S. And with those skateparks, predictably, come more skaters—around 6.2 million of them in the U.S. alone, according to the 2013 Skateboarding Participation Report from the Sports & Fitness Industry Association. But the statistic that really tells the tale behind the state of skateboarding is not the number of participants; it’s the household income level of those skaters. For those who consider themselves “casual” skaters—those who get on the deck less than 25 times a year—more than 26 percent of them report having a household income of more than $100,000 a year. What this means is that there are many families with a substantial income that can be dedicated to skateboarding as a once-in-a-while hobby. What this has spawned is a big-money industry dedicated to capturing these dollars; according to the Retail Distribution Study commissioned by the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association—which also tracks skate spending—in 2012, skatespecific retailers generated $713 million in revenue. All of this equates to tons of opportunities for pro skateboarders, with many companies looking for fresh faces to sport their gear—and they know that covering the day-to-day of athletes’ lives via social media is an easy way to reach casual fans. The immediacy of sponsors adds pressures that the previous generation of professional skaters didn’t have. For Sheckler, there were times when one slipup during competition would send him 48

“i used to freak out if i had a bad contest: ‘my sponsors are going to drop me. i’m not relevant to them anymore.’ ”

into a spiral of doubt. It wasn’t just a bad day—it was his livelihood at stake. “I used to really freak out if I had a bad contest, like, ‘Ugh, my sponsors are going to drop me, I’m not the same, I’m not relevant to them anymore,’ ” he recalls. “My dad really calmed me down on that one. He’s like, ‘They still love you. With everything else you do? You can have one bad contest or two bad contests, that’s not life changing. That’s not the decider.’ ” The market dynamics are the same for up-and-coming skaters. David Reyes, 24, feels like he’s on the brink of something big in his skateboarding career. He’s sponsored by Etnies and Mystery Skateboards, and he’s been filming video spots for online distribution nonstop since December to get his name out there, attract more sponsors, and build up his fan base. “This year, I’m hustling,” he says. “I’m pushing for bigger and better things.” He’s seen good skaters fall by the wayside because they didn’t have business acumen. “They get played,” the red bulletin

Being the face of street skating is big business. The industry generated $713 million in revenue in 2012 alone.

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A pro since he was a teenager, Sheckler has come to accept that fulfilling sponsorship obligations are as much a part of his job as competition.

sheckler knows the life of a serious skateboarder involves hitting the road for filming, for sponsors. and now these kids know it too.

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Reyes says. “People are like, ‘Oh, we don’t have to pay this dude shit …’ He just wants to skate and is hoping that whoever is watching will appreciate it and give him what he deserves. It’s not like that.” It can be a ruthless business, he says, given that skateboarding starts weeding out potential professionals from the masses while they’re still teenagers. Reyes started skating when he was 9, and at 15 he moved to Oceanside, California, with $50 in his pocket. He couch-surfed with accommodating families—including the Shecklers—as he skated 12-hour days trying to make an impression on the managers of skate companies. He was smart—he realized immediately that grinding it out on a skatepark wasn’t enough. “One of the reasons a particular skate company was making changes [in their sponsored-athlete roster] and kicking people off was that they weren’t getting 12 photos of themselves [published] in a year,” he says. “So I’ve always had to get at least 12 photos a year—I would make sure I got an interview, or put out a video part. You have to be vocal and you have to let them know what you’re doing and when it’s coming out and what you feel like you deserve. You have to know the business side, and you have to know the skating side.” Brian Atlas, president of Street League Skateboarding, a competitive series that launched in 2010, believes

there is still a place for the low-key skaters who don’t think the pressure to fill the social-media maw suits their vibe—but if they want to maximize their career, it’s the only way to go. “Social media is a game changer for skaters that want to take advantage of it,” he says. “You can become well known without being pro yet or maintain a strong following by just putting out content that fans relate to and are inspired by.” For female professional skateboarders, it’s an even tougher road to break into the scene. Before she suffered a careerending ACL tear, Lauren Perkins was one of the stars of the women’s professional scene: podiums at the X Games and Gravity Games, champion at the All Girls Street Jam. “When I started, women’s skateboarding was at a high point—we had contests every other weekend, all over the world,” she says. “And then about five years into it, the economy went to crap. A lot of contests fell off the map, and then sponsors didn’t have the budget to pay a lot of girls.” But, as more girls start to skate, the dynamic may be changing. Where the consumer market goes—with its alluring dollars—the industry will follow. “I used to go to the skatepark and I was the only girl, always,” Perkins says. “I go now, and there’s at least one girl. And the girls are doing a lot harder tricks. It’s growing.”

“my passion for skateboarding, if anything, has grown. just from being able to travel the way i travel, and meet the people i get to meet, and help the people i really want to help.” the red bulletin

Sheckler and Reyes give the crowd a show at the official opening of the S’Klallam skatepark, soaring over the edge of a bowl and landing flawlessly, physics be damned. There’s no indication of weariness from Sheckler—amazing, really, given that he’s been in the spotlight the entire time he’s been on the reservation, with constant requests for autographs, hugs, and pictures. “Even today, waking up, all I wanted to do was skate that park,” he says. “Especially a fresh, new park like that. It’s something we all look forward to.” On top of the dogged attention, this Seattle trip is the latest leg of a relentless two months of travel filming his YouTube show, Sheckler Sessions, as well as other video parts to distribute online: He’s gone from Estonia to Australia to Mexico to Barcelona to Seattle. “My passion for skating has, if anything, grown just from being able to travel the way I travel and meeting the people I get to meet and helping the people I really want to help,” Sheckler says. He knows that this is the life of a serious skateboarder: hitting the road for filming, for sponsors, for competition. And thanks to his example, all the young skaters now know it too. Skating isn’t just skating anymore—it’s part of a package that includes marketing and mentorship. This summer, Matias Miguel will be a youth skate-camp instructor at the S’Klallam’s new skatepark, helping elementary-school-age children master the basics of the sport during a three-week program. His brother Ron has duties, too, capturing Matias’s burgeoning variety of tricks on his Sony NEX 5N camera. “Matias came to me and said he was tired of iPhone clips and still shots,” Ron says. “So I saved up for a camera, did my homework, bought the Sony—and became one of his dedicated filmers.” For more, check out Sheckler Sessions on YouTube.com/RedBull

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Mobile dreams: App developer Hunter Lee Soik is counting on a million users by the end of the year.

Collect dreams, put words and pictures to them, connect every one in a global database. O n e m a n’s b r i g ht idea could lead to entirely new human connections and understanding. Words: Andreas Rottenschlager Photography: Norman Konrad

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t is past midnight by the time Hunter Lee Soik can close the door of his Berlin hotel room behind him and open his small, wheeled suitcase. “This is all I need,” says Soik, as he unpacks one black T-shirt after another. The 32-year-old New Yorker only owns black clothes. “Everything I own,” he says, “fits in this case.” Soik is wearing black tracksuit bottoms and has a charger lead dangling between his left- and right-side pockets. The lead connects Soik’s iPhone 5, which is black, to a charger the size of a cigarette packet. “I hate being dependent on sockets,” he says. Soik is a media developer and self-taught man. He has set up two production companies, written an iPad program for Stella McCartney, and in 2011 created the backstage video concept for Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Watch the Throne tour, which grossed $75 million. Now he’s on a monthslong world tour of his own, to present Shadow, software that saves dreams.

Technologically speaking, Shadow is an intelligent alarm clock with integrated speech software. The alarm increases in volume and gently guides the user through the hypnopompic phase, the borderline area between sleep and wakefulness. As soon as the user turns off the alarm, he can dictate his dream into a smartphone. The speech-recognition software identifies key words in the transcribed text—say, “red car,” “cliffs,” “big dog”—and allocates photographs to them from a databank of pictures to visualize the dream. Shadow allows users to keep private diaries, or they can share their dreams anonymously with the worldwide community. Soik explains that global dream trends need to be investigated at

a S H O R T h i stor y of dreaming The idea of chronicling dreams has been around for 4,700 years and is mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Emperor Augustus of Rome, who died in 14 AD, is even said to have ordered citizens to record dreams that concerned the state. At the turn of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud began to wonder why we forget our dreams. Now an app (pictured above) is set to solve the problem.

“People forget 95 percent of their d r e a m s . T h at ’s a l o t o f data to lose every morning.”

Connected: Soik in Berlin, a techie monk on a world tour.

length. “Do top sports stars dream differently from artists? How many Swedes dream about red cars? Do natural catastrophes increase the prevalence of nightmares in the affected country?” Soik says Shadow can change the world, too. “Parts of the theory of relativity first came to Einstein in a dream, and Salvador Dalí used to paint as soon as he woke up. The idea of nonviolent resistance came to Gandhi in a dream, and Frankenstein’s monster first appeared to Mary Shelley in a nightmare. The problem is that people forget 95 percent of their dreams. That’s a lot of data and ideas that disappear every morning. This is exactly the data Shadow can save.” Soik’s idea has already made a big noise. Since he first put his project up on Kickstarter last October, more than 150 articles have been written about an app that doesn’t even exist yet. Soik now spends his life at conferences, on airplanes, and in hotel rooms. “I live like a monk,” says Soik. He has rented out his New York apartment. He travels with four T-shirts and two pairs of trousers, while wearing another of each, which he washes in his hotel room’s bathroom sink. He mixes up vegan health shakes for breakfast and lunch. “It’s quicker,” he says. Soik has hired sleep researchers from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of his team—their task is to make updates and improvements to the program. Shadow will be available for free at the iTunes store on August 10. “We expect a million downloads by the end of the year,” he says. It’s now 3 a.m. in Berlin. Soik talks about the strangest dream he’s ever had: “Michael Jordan and I went to a party at the Reichstag in Berlin. We climbed the stairs up to the glass dome. A hologram hovered above us and showed Michael’s most spectacular slam dunks. I woke up when we made it into the dome.” Soik had that dream on the night of November 11, 2012, in a stifling hotel room in Mexico. “The dream preoccupied me in a peculiar way, and ultimately it was this dream that gave me the idea for the app,” he explains. “I wanted to find out if anyone else in the world had the same dream.” Last year he saved the dream as the first data set on the app. Now, if someone else subconsciously parties with Michael Jordan at the Reichstag in Berlin, Soik and Shadow are ready and able to make a connection. Get your pre-release version of Shadow now: discovershadow.com the red bulletin

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Being the best Brazilian player of your generation comes with a large weight of expectation, but Neymar seems to be taking it all in stride.

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finest Neymar is the latest in a long line of superstar brazilian soccer players. The 22-year-old is under no illusion about what is expected of him this summer: play well and help his team win the world cup on home soil for the first time. No pressure. I n t e r v i e w: S i m o n K u p e r , P h o t og r a p h y: Dav id C l e r i h e w, P r o d u c t i o n: J o s e f S i eg l e

painfully thin little guy walks into our meeting place, an old industrial loft converted into a studio in a quiet corner of Barcelona. This is Neymar: the first great Brazilian soccer player to emerge in over a decade, hero of teenage girls and middle-aged men, and the forward who, at just 22, is charged with delivering his country its sixth World Cup this year. Neymar greets us with that magical smile—which you sense he uses as a weapon to charm and ward off the world. Then he walks into the dressing room, and we are granted a sight for which some would kill: The shirt comes off. Beneath the tattoos, he still looks slight, not like the typical muscle-pack soccer players of today. But then he has only been playing in Europe, with FC Barcelona, for a year. The camera loves Neymar. He isn’t beautiful, like David Beckham, but his smile is, and he has “ginga”—that peculiarly Brazilian rhythmic, jaunty way of moving, almost like dancing. Finally he sits down—shoulders hunched defensively, but still with that smile—and talks for an hour in his informal, colloquial Portuguese about what it’s like to be Neymar.

the world cup has always been my goal in life. It’s funny that today it’s nearly come true.”

the red bulletin: How do you deal with the point was to inform parents, to help them teach their pressure of all of Brazil asking you to win the kids that they can make their dreams come true, if World Cup? they fight and work for them. I think you can make neymar: It’s been a dream since I was young, and any dream come true. today it’s right before me: I’m Brazil’s No. 10, Your gift is dribbling. Did you copy feints from I’m going to play the World Cup, in my own country. other players? I can’t see that as pressure. It has to give me pride I followed Robinho closely because when I went to and happiness to take onto the field. Everyone says [Brazilian soccer team] Santos, he was the star there. winning the World Cup is an indescribable joy, so I’m He’s my idol, and he dribbled a lot. And I’d watch dying to feel that myself. I can’t wait to shout, “We’re Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, [Lionel] Messi, Cristiano champions!” They say, “You’re under pressure, being Ronaldo; any skillful player you can think of, I’ve the big name in the squad.” I’m not under pressure, seen videos of them. In kickabouts or training, I’d I’m happy. I’ve always done things my way. I’ve had try to do the same. When it was game time it would press with me since I was 13, saying I’d be the new come naturally. All dribbles where you’re trying Robinho. I’m someone who doesn’t really worry. If something different, it’s about practicing them. I you don’t tell me that I’m Neymar and that I play for don’t have a trick that I’ve invented yet. I have Barcelona and Brazil, I’ll forget it. People imagine me normal dribbles like using your body to trick the as they see me on television, but I’m completely opponent, or the step-over, which I train and use a different because I don’t feel pressure about anything. lot. I’ve used [Zinedine] Zidane’s roulette [spin What are your memories of Brazil’s last victory in move]. I’ve copied a lot. the World Cup, in 2002? Has dancing helped develop your soccer? I was 10, so I understood soccer. I woke up before I think every Brazilian likes to dance a little. Put on dawn to watch the final at home. I even had Ronaldo’s some music that gets you in the mood, and a Brazilian haircut. I watched with my parents and sister, everyone might be sitting down, but he’ll always dance a little. together. Then we went to my granny’s house, we had I come from a family that loves samba and pagode [a a barbecue, everyone shouting, “We’re champions!” style of folk music]. I think I have a little Brazilian like real fans. The World Cup has always been my ginga, something in the hips. I love to mess around goal in life. It’s funny that today it’s nearly come true. with friends, to dance. It even got into my goal How was your childhood? celebrations at Santos: That’s how we’d Tough. We didn’t have much money, but have fun, scoring and doing dances in I never went hungry; my dad always tribute to a singer friend or to the song. Full name provided. I don’t think I was ever unhappy, Your soccer looks joyful. Do you still Neymar da Silva even if I didn’t have what my friends had, feel joy playing or is it a job now? Santos Júnior as they had more money. There’s a story It’s fun that has to be managed. You Born I told my mom: that when I became rich, must be serious with it. But I’m always February 5, 1992, I’d buy a cookie factory so I could eat happy when I play. When you’re happy, Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil cookies whenever I wanted. So there things naturally work out; when you’re Pelé who? were all these funny things I remember. sad, things never work out. Neymar is the only I never complained or asked, “God, why In 2010, you quarreled on the field with Brazilian athlete to ever grace the cover am I poor?” I always fought for everything, Santos’s coach after he stopped you of Time magazine. all my family was like that. I always went taking a penalty. Did that change you? Team talk to school; I wasn’t the kid who always It was one of the worst moments of my There’s a good chance paid attention, but I obeyed my parents. life because I knew I was wrong. After the Neymar will come up My dad was a soccer player and knows match I apologized to the coach. But what against some Barça the soccer player’s path. He always knew shook me most was arriving home and teammates at the World what was going to happen, and maybe I finding my mom crying. She said she’d Cup. “We joke, saying, ‘We’re going won’t go through the same difficulties watched it on TV and that wasn’t the son to win it,’ ” he reveals. he did. she had raised. I cried all night, I didn’t “I’ve joked with Messi Did your childhood inspire you to start sleep. It made me grow into a man. and said, ‘This one the Neymar Jr. Institute, which uses I think that was my worst moment in is Brazil’s,’ and I’ve sports to help needy young people? soccer because it involved the whole told Iniesta and Piqué, The institute was founded in Praia family. My dad was ill then, in bed, and ‘You’ve already won one, let us win this one.’ ” Grande, 150 feet from where I lived. The my mom said he’d always fought for me. 58

“My style? I can’t explain it, but you guys who watch me know how I am. I’m chilled.”

‘We’re all monkeys’ means we’re all the same, whether you’re white, yellow, rich or poor.”

We’re all close, we joke around,

egos are left at the door. We only have one goal. Since we all help each other, we’ll very likely achieve it.” How do you look back on your first season at Barcelona? It wasn’t perfect but it wasn’t bad. It’s my first time living outside my country. I miss my friends and family. It was hard at first. I’ve learned a lot professionally, but also in my personal life. I study my teammates, what they talk about, how they act with other people. I take a little from many players and adapt it to my style. Some people are good on the field, others off it, some show good behavior in training. I pick attributes from each one. What’s surprised you about Lionel Messi, seeing him every day here? He surprised me in every way. Before coming here, I heard all the horrible things people say: that he’s very reserved and doesn’t talk to anyone. Now I see it completely differently. Aside from being the genius, off the pitch he’s always great with me—not just me, but when I see him with other people, too. There’s nothing bad I can say about him. What prompted your banana campaign, #somostodomacacos (“we’re all monkeys”), on social media against racism? The picture of you and your son with bananas went viral. The motivation is that I suffered racism in other matches. I think racism is practiced by people without brains. When this incident happened with Daniel [Alves, his Barcelona teammate who ate a banana thrown at him on the field], I thought it was the moment to launch this campaign. It was a joke: “We’re all monkeys” means we’re all the same, whether you’re white, yellow, rich or poor. You’re close to fans via social media but they ask a lot of you. Does that bother you? It doesn’t as such. What bothers me is when they get into my personal life. I understand that fans love knowing everything, but my personal life is the same as anyone else’s. It was a little difficult to get used to at first when I was quite shy, but nowadays I’m used to it. I’ve always been the way I am, speaking to everyone, playing around. I’ve never changed and never improved. Diego Maradona used to long for the days before fame. Do you ever feel that? No … I get what he means. It’s difficult for me to do what a normal person does. For example, I can’t take my son to the beach in Santos. It’ll get crowded, people will take photos. In the street, a Brazilian will spot you a mile away. He’ll run over shouting, “Neymar!” Here in Barcelona, they’re more like, “Neymar, could I have a photo with you?” They’re more relaxed. You do miss taking your child to the fair or beach. I think that’s what he meant. But I

don’t complain about it because this is something I asked of God. I always told him I wanted to be a soccer player, to be famous, to give my family everything they want. I have to enjoy even the annoying parts. I always find a way to have fun, whether it’s going clubbing, to the beach, the cinema. There’s always someone who recognizes you, and I will face them. If I have to talk to 50 people, I will. The moment I step onto the street, I have to remember I’m the Neymar everyone knows. But at home, I’m the Neymar the family knows. I’m not even Neymar, I’m “Juninho”—I’m someone else. Let’s talk about Brazil’s national team, known as the Seleçâo. First, who chooses the dressing-room music? Anyone can choose a song. People like pagode, funk, sertanejo. I always go to the stadium wearing headphones, listening to gospel music. Then, to get in the mood, we put a pagode on the hi-fi so everyone can listen. We’re all close, we joke around, egos are left at the door. We only have one goal. Since we all help each other, we’ll very likely achieve it. Brazil’s coach, Felipe Scolari, won the 2002 World Cup. What does he tell you about that? He talks a lot about it. He says the World Cup is the toughest tournament. There’s no room for error, you must be at full speed from the get-go. It’s a short tournament where your margin of error is much smaller than in other matches. And he talks about the pleasure of winning, how good it feels. He’s certainly going to help us win another one. During last year’s Confederations Cup, Brazilians protested against corruption, poor public services and the cost. A banner at one of the protests said, “A teacher is worth more than Neymar.” What’s your response? I think the teachers’ salaries have to be valued like all the professions. I agree that all of us need to fight for better salary, better days, and a great world with education, health, and security. Should Brazilians protest again at the World Cup? I think we’ve already had the protests we needed, but I’m always for the protests. If it’s without violence, I don’t see any problem in people wanting to fight for a better country. I’m with the people. Now that the World Cup is happening, I think we have to enjoy it. We have this opportunity to show the world that we’re a country that can host any event, that can welcome any kind of person—everything that’s good about Brazil, not only the bad things. Will Brazil win the World Cup? It’s what I want more than anything. neymaroficial.com

Tyrone Stevenson Jr.

Bike to the Future In Oakland, a community leader shows how building tricked-out bikes can revitalize a troubled neighborhood.

On a recent Saturday afternoon in East Oakland, tucked inside a community DIY bike shop at the end of a narrow alley near 50th Street and bustling International Boulevard, a visitor’s eye is drawn to a small, BMX-style bike. The front wheel is decorated in shiny, metallic foil tape, and the seat post is much higher than it needs to be. The frame’s original bright green color is almost entirely covered in gray primer paint. A young rider grabs some vise-grip pliers in one hand and an adjustable wrench in the other, and goes to work realigning his bike fork and handlebars, turning them backwards, to see if he likes the way it looks. Bikes like this—coined scraper bikes by Tyrone “Baybe Champ” Stevenson Jr. because of their resemblance to modified “scraper” cars with large chrome rims— began appearing on East Oakland’s streets in the early 2000s, when the Bay Area’s Hyphy movement had become a national phenomenon. In the 2007 Trunk Boiz music video for “Scraper Bike,” which saw roughly 4 million views worldwide on YouTube, Stevenson made a guest appearance, wearing a football jersey and scraper bike baseball hat and rapping about his three-wheeled bike being “retarded”; he is seen running alongside the bike as it rolls down a street. He’s got the standard hip-hop MC posturing down, but there’s also a big smile on his face the whole time: He’s enjoying every minute of it. Scraper bikes are hard to miss: large wheels on small frames, decorated with spray paint, colored tape, cut aluminum cans, cardboard, and candy wrappers. Not surprisingly, music plays a big role 62

with the Scraper Bike Team: Stevenson’s got speakers mounted on his bike—with the word “Champ” displayed—and he blasts music from hip-hop artists like Too Short, Sage the Gemini, Mac Dre, and Tupac when the team goes on long rides together through Oakland, snaking down streets in a long line. “In the beginning, I was just making bikes in my backyard, and my cousins would ride with me. Five became 10, then 10 became 25,” Stevenson, 25, says. “After watching the custom cars in East Oakland, we wanted to put our own style on the bikes, to represent our identity.”

“After seeing custom cars, we wanted to put our own style on bikes.” The 30 or so community members who work on bikes in Stevenson’s East Oakland shop represent Scraper Bike 2.0: As the 2010s push forward, the shop provides a safe, organized place for locals to learn bicycle maintenance and help fix residents’ bikes, in addition to creating their own scraper bikes. Stevenson spends a big chunk of his time fundraising, pursuing sponsorships, and gathering up donations: cases of spray paint, gift cards. The oldest riders are around 25 and have access to tools and bike parts—and they are expected to keep the place tidy. “It’s a chance to be artistic, but also be part of something,” bike shop volunteer Morgan Kanninen says. “We’re not trying to make this like school, but it is safe

here, and they are held accountable.” The scraper bike movement is expanding in other ways: The Scraper Bike Team is now a 501(c)3 nonprofit, with active feeds on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Scraper bikes have been on display in the Addison Street Windows Gallery in Berkeley and the Oakland Museum of California, and are on exhibit at the Los Altos History Museum through October. Stevenson is developing business plans to extend the scraper bike program to high-crime communities in cities like Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, and Chicago. But it’s business as usual back at the shop. Riders continue to come and work on bikes, and it’s all about the little details. One’s high seat post is not just an aesthetic choice; it has a purpose: They want to be easily visible when they ride on streets like International Boulevard, a busy thoroughfare that is not bike friendly or safe—it’s rife with the worst kind of crime. Stevenson’s goal is to help reclaim areas like this. It’s not been an easy task. Damage from a fire behind Stevenson’s house last summer forced him to move in with a friend—but things are looking up: He’s now a recreational leader with East Bay Regional Parks and works with Oakland Parks and Recreation to put scraper bikes into community events. “I love seeing the reaction on people’s faces when we show up. It’s like a party,” he says. “We’re established now. People know who we are. We just roll through neighborhoods and public parks and talk to people.” For more on scraper bikes, check on The Red Bulletin Presents on YouTube.com⁄Redbull

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matthew reamer

Words: Gary Moskowitz

Tyrone “Baybe Champ” Stevenson Jr. is the Scraper Bike King of Oakland.

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the Beach br az i l . Ju st a s h o c k in g ly h ig h n u m b e r . So Me e t Nicol e Pace lli, t he ch a m p s h ow in g u p t h e m e n in t he big wav es.

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ying on her surfboard on the sands of Arpoador Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Nicole Pacelli poses for a photographer in her bikini when a kid on a bicycle stops nearby. From over the concrete divider separating the beach from the sidewalk, he whistles. “Now that’s a mermaid,” he says, loud enough for anyone to hear. Pacelli, still lying down, flips him off. The bicycle quickly turns around and disappears. Last year, at just 22, Pacelli became the inaugural champion of the Women’s Stand-up World Tour, winning the “wave” category—in which paddleboard surfers drop down the waves and actually ride them instead of just crossing distances. After its maiden voyage last year, the tour began season two with another Pacelli win, at the Turtle Bay Women’s Pro in Hawaii in February. She followed that with a runner-up finish on the following stop in Rio, and a third-place performance in round three in Abu Dhabi. A repeat championship is looking likely. Born in the Brazilian coastal city of Guarujá, Pacelli moved to São Paulo and grew up in the waves of Maresias Beach. Her father, Jorge Pacelli, is a former professional surfer and her mother, Flávia Boturão, a former bodyboarder. “I grew up inside this world, with boards everywhere, hearing my father’s friends telling stories of their adventures,” she says. Before heading off to a tour stop, Pacelli spoke with The Red Bulletin on how she’s embarked on her own. the red bulletin: Your parents are surfers. Have they always wanted you to also be one? Nicole Pacelli: My mom always supported me in everything, but she wanted me to also study. Surfing came naturally; she could see I also loved it. But life’s hard for a surfer, especially a girl surfer, so I can understand her concerns back then. Parents never want to see their children go through hard times. My dad also said I ought to study, but he pushed 66

me on to the surfing side a bit more. When a big swell came in he’d say: “Stay here, keep surfing, you don’t have to go to school today!” [Laughs.] So your dad gave the advice any surfer would give … Exactly. And my mom would get desperate, “No, you’re crazy!” So when I came back from being an exchange student in New Zealand, at 17, I started surfing more and more. I knew I liked surfing big waves but

I had no frame of reference—I’d never taken a proper surf trip, I had no idea what the level of the other girls abroad was. I always had my sister [Alana, the second of five siblings; Nicole is the eldest] with me; we’d surf with some dudes and had no idea if we were any good. I only knew I loved it and my parents supported me. You started out with regular surfing, not stand-up paddleboarding. How did the red bulletin

Pacelli’s boards are made by her father, veteran surfer Jorge Pacelli.

“M y f irst t i m e in H awaii, I headed str aig ht to Jaws in a 30 – Foot swell. I t was scary.” the red bulletin

you make the transition? It happened because of my dad. He brought a stand-up board from California about five years ago and I started paddling. It was a lifeguard’s board, a bit different from a stand-up, and it had a giant “RESCUE” written on it. But it was big, a gift given to my dad, and I started using it as a stand-up board, using my dad’s paddle. I rode some small waves and loved it. Then my dad partnered with

a local factory and began to manufacture stand-up boards. I use the boards he makes. At the beginning I used some giant boards, 9-foot-something. Then he made a “small” one, 8’10”, and I began to develop my surfing more. What does SUP offer that regular surfing doesn’t? With the small boards I often felt frustrated. I’d go to the breaks because I loved to have fun, just being in the water. 67

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Pacelli in action in Hawaii and at her favorite spot, Maresias, near São Paulo. She stands out on big-swell days.

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But you know when things get too crowded, and everybody begins to battle for each wave? Sure, I’m a competitor now, but back then if anyone paddled next to me to try and cut into my wave, I’d just stop and let it go. The fact is, I saw stand-up as a challenge. I wanted to evolve because I saw guys surfing quite well with SUP boards, so I wanted to do the same. With each fall I evolved a little. With regular surfing this challenge didn’t exist—this search to develop more and more, you know? Stand-up gave me this challenge. When I went into the water most people did not know what it was; very few people were doing SUP back then. Guys would say, “What are you doing with that paddle?” And I’d go into the water any day, big waves, small waves, didn’t matter. It was all about the challenge for me. Then I went to Hawaii, back in 2010. How was it your first time there? I was already doing SUP and had entered college. There were [sponsorship] offers popping up, I was doing well, and standup was gaining momentum. So I told my mom, “C’mon, I’ve done my part in college, can I be a surfer now?” That’s when she understood that there’d be no other way for me. So I spent two months in Hawaii, in 2010-11. That’s when it all changed for you … Yes, because that’s when I started having references. I’d go into Sunset on a big day and there’d be no other girl but me. I arrived and went straight to Jaws instead of Oahu. It was me and my sister, and before we got to know the more famous waves, like Waimea, Pipeline, and Sunset, we went headfirst into Jaws. I only dropped the smaller stuff, but still, we’re talking about 30-foot waves here! Massive! That’s when I knew I could do it. What did it feel like dropping in to those monsters? Just rad, incredible. I don’t feel fear in advance on those days, only when I’m actually there. Some people can’t sleep the night before a day like that, but I’m calm. I sleep like a baby. Once I get there, though, that’s when it dawns on me, the sheer size of the stuff. I was scared. SUP has evolved a lot recently. How do you see this evolution? It’s changed a lot, from the boards to the number of people doing it. I think it’s great. And in my opinion, it’s growing a lot because it’s not restricted to the sea. Some people paddle in dams, lakes … and it’s easy to do it. If you start with a big board, you can stand up and paddle right away. There are inflatable versions; everyone can do it. This popularity will the red bulletin

“I’m Very Calm. I lay low and do what I have to do.” help the sport grow, will bring more media attention and investment, more events, more people showing what they can do. What good is being a great SUP athlete if there are no good championships to compete in? And how’s the relationship between stand-up paddlers and regular surfers on the outside? Well, some people don’t really like us … [Laughs.] I’ve been kicked out of the water in Hawaii. In Brazil I’ve never had problems, but in Waimea a local came and told me to get out and not come back, that me being there was dangerous. That’s a downside to the increase of SUP’s popularity, with people who never surfed in their lives all of a sudden doing SUP surfing. Because it’s a lot easier to stand up on a SUP board in the beginning, so some newbies just start riding all over the place, and it can become dangerous. You became the world champ last year, but when did you start competing? During my second season in Hawaii I took part in a championship with men in Sunset Beach, in 2011-12. I found out that there was going to be a world championship for men and just a demo for women. They put the girls on Turtle Bay, a beach with small waves, and I won. There were some 15 girls there, all Hawaiian. After I won, I asked the organizer if I could compete in Sunset with the guys. He said I could, but in a “well-this-girl’s-crazyand-I-better-not-argue-with-her” way. He let me take part in the trials. And I wanted

that because I knew that meant a chance to surf Sunset with only three people in the water. But the waves that day were big, over 12 feet. I thought, “What have I gotten myself into?” I went in and was hit on the head by a huge series of waves; I couldn’t get back. When I finally managed it, I surfed a really good wave one second after the heat was over, so it didn’t count. I finished third out of three but they told me that if that last wave had counted, I would’ve qualified for the next round. Everybody came and spoke to me, complimented my attitude of facing that heat—guys I admired said those things to me. So I thought: “Well, I must be doing things right.” Have you ever been underestimated by men? Some people see my size and don’t believe the size of the swells I manage to face. Back in Hawaii sometimes guys would stop me on the way in and say, “Are you sure you can do this?” and I’d be like, “Yeah, get out of my way, let me go in.” [Laughs.] Do your parents ever come along on your trips? Not anymore. In the beginning my dad would travel with me to the Brazilian championship, but not anymore. When he sees me surfing he always gives me some tips, and he pulls no punches—he’s super demanding. Sometimes I get out of the water thinking I’ve killed it and he comes and says I did this and that wrong, you know? You are the woman to beat right now. Is that tough to deal with? I’m cool with it. I thought it was going to be worse. Everybody’s advancing so fast, and the girls are surfing so well now. There was no world championship before, so that’s become a goal to everybody else—“Oh, Nicole’s a world champion now, so that means I can also be one.” Imagine, every stop of the tour now, the announcer goes: “And now, the world champion, Nicole Pacelli!” so everybody wants to see whether this worldchampion girl really is the real deal. At the first stop of this season in Hawaii, my photo was on the championship’s poster, so I said to myself, “OK, it’s time to bring it.” But then I go into the water and I feel calm. That’s one of my qualities, I feel calm, lay low and do what I have to do. I thought the pressure was going to be an issue this year, but so far it hasn’t affected me. If I started to overthink what I have to do in the water, thinking about how many seconds are left in a heat and such, I probably couldn’t do it anymore. watermanleague.com

Since 2000, Linkin Park has released five studio albums. The first sold more than 27 million copies worldwide. The next four pe ak ed at No. 1 on the sales chart.

land This is Linkin Park: Chester Bennington, Dave Farrell, Brad Delson, Joe Hahn, Rob Bourdon, Mike Shinoda

linkin Even as the music industry has undergone seismic uphe ava l, the ba nd h as f igur ed out how to m a k e hits. What do they know that others donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t?

Bill Boyd

Words: Ann Donahue

hen Linkin Park released their first album, Hybrid Theory, in 2000, people still bought cassettes to listen to in the tape decks of their cars, Napster was being tinkered with in some guy’s garage, and the best way to hear new music was on the radio. Needless to say, times have changed. But no band has adapted better than Linkin Park. With the release of their latest album, The Hunting Party, on June 17, they can anticipate tallying their fifth No. 1 album in a row, a streak that extends back more than 10 years. A thrashy guitar throwback to the days when rock actually, you know, rocked, The Hunting Party is being marketed and distributed in the style that has earned the band fan allegiance for more than a decade—using technology ranging from apps to video games. Band founder and rapper Mike Shinoda and bassist Dave Farrell sat down with The Red Bulletin in West Hollywood to talk about the state of rock and the brave new world of geekery.

the red bulletin: The Hunting Party has a heavy, propulsive sound. It’s a style not often heard now—why did you guys go that route? mike shinoda: I read a piece online called “Rock Music Sucks Now and It’s Depressing.” Its tone was, think back about Nirvana, and then think where rock is at right now. His gripe was, “Really? Rock is like Mumford & Sons?” The word he used was “pussified” rock. [Laughs.] I have felt this way at various points—that there’s this thing that is missing out there that I want to hear. If we wanted to fill that void, where would we go to fill it? What would we listen to? It ended up being albums like The Shape of Punk to Come by Refused, Helmet’s first couple of records, At the Drive-In’s Relationship of Command. When I go to those albums, I feel like that’s the visceral, grimy, inspired music. You’re going on the road with Thirty Seconds to Mars and AFI this summer, and it seems like that kind of music is meant to be played in front of audiences. dave farrell: Totally! And it’s good that you heard that, too, because at different the red bulletin

The North American leg of Linkin Park’s Carnivores Tour, with supporting acts Thirty Seconds to Mars and AFI, kicks off August 8 in West Palm Beach, Fla.

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“Ov er tim e, t ec h n olo gy is s o m e t hing t h at ’s b uilt i n to t he band. We did t wo pr o m ot ions t h is tim e t hat I was real ly exc i ted ab out: S h a za m and P r oj ect Spar k.” points in the process for me, part of the way you think about what you’re hearing is “Would it be fun to play live?” I looked it up today, and Hybrid Theory actually came out in cassette form, which kind of speaks to the breadth of your career. ms: I was surprised to find out that a lot of our albums are still made on cassette. Certain territories, particularly Asia—love the cassette. df: Particularly Nashville. ms: Particularly truck stops and Cracker Barrel. They love cassette. But yeah, I’ll do you one better with that. Back when we were starting out and playing clubs in L.A., we put out a mailing list for people to sign up if they were interested in more info from the band, and more often than not they would sign up with their snail mail home address because people didn’t have e-mail yet. df: Those were the days. When we started touring, I didn’t have a cell phone. That was crazy. ms: And neither did our crew! When we first started getting crew, cell phones were new and people would advance shows on hardline phones. We’d stop the the red bulletin

RV and pull over and somebody would get on the pay phone and call the venue. For real. df: And ask for directions. ms: It was f*cking crazy. I like that coming from cassettes, you distributed with Shazam this time. ms: We did two promotions this time that I was really excited about, and Shazam was one of them, because I use it, and everybody uses it. I remember the first time I used it, we were actually in Mexico, and I was sitting at the little bar in the hotel. It was outside on the beach, and it was so nice. And this cool song came on, and I was like, “Oh my God, I just got this new app!” and it worked! So the promotion was that any time anybody Shazamed anything, they got their results and a banner for Linkin Park’s new song, and that was the first place anyone could hear it. The other thing that we did that was really exciting is that instead of a video for “Guilty All the Same,” we got the opportunity to work with Microsoft’s Project Spark. They have this new community-slash-technology that allows people to make and remix their own games in a social way. And you have a history with video games—besides doing a song for Call of Duty you also did the game app 8-Bit Rebellion! Are you gamers? df: We have a history of video games extending back to like when we were 6 years old. [Laughs.] ms: Were you ever, like, super jealous that you had a friend that had a Coleco, or whatever? df: Yeah! Baseball on Intellivision was so much better than baseball on the Atari 2600. ms: Totally! I had a cousin that had an Intellivision, and I couldn’t have been a bigger pest to my parents about getting one. They never got us one, but once I got

a generation-one Nintendo, and that literally defined me for like years. df: My brother and I, on the game RBI Baseball, we used to keep stats. We set up our whole entire season, with each team playing each other team maybe three times. ms: You played a whole season?! df: Dude. It took us months and months and months. And we’d always update, from the game, the top pitchers, the top batting averages, stolen bases. It was really crazy. So beyond Coleco, things have changed radically since then—do you think you’ve adapted well? ms: Over time, the technology part of it is something that’s just built into the band. It’s as simple as, like, this morning, I just showed Chester [Bennington, the lead singer] this photo app I just found out about, Facetune. It’s a photo-editing, airbrushing thing that’s really good at smoothing out people’s faces and wrinkles. And I know that some people are using that to glamorize their photos, but I want to use it to make people look really crazy. I want to take somebody’s picture, and then I want to zombify it, and then I want to take them into Facetune and smooth it out. And this is the dumb shit that goes on in my head! Technology isn’t exciting because we’re going to change the world, it’s exciting because I get to kill time doing dumb shit that makes my friends laugh. So take that to the side of social media. Do you like that? ms: I’m not a believer that every band or every person with a fan base needs to be on social media. We have two guys in the band, Brad [Delson, the guitarist] and Rob [Bourdon, the drummer], who do not have a Facebook account, who do not have a Twitter account, who don’t have an Instagram account. df: Thankfully. ms: Right? First of all, it would be madness. Second of all, madness in the boringest sense. Brad’s sense of humor does not lend itself to Twitter. df: My Twitter feed is usually more personal. Not in the sense of here’s my family, but in the sense of this is my idea of a funny joke and has nothing to do with band. It’s more of my personality than information about what’s coming up. ms: That’s your Twitter feed? What about your Tinder feed? df: That gets crazy. And if you follow me on Pinterest, watch out, because it’s about to get wild. www.linkinpark.com

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Queen of Clubs

The DJ and producer found enlightenment and big laughs on the dance floor after deciding to stop training horses and start searching for unicorns.

Three “h”s and three exclamation marks. The name says it loudly, but it fits: Louisahhh!!! is always welcomed on stage with a good amount of noise from the crowd. The 28-year-old Paris-based New Yorker, born Louisa Pillot, is an electronic musician and highly sought-after DJ. Her 2011 debut track, “Palmaditas de Muerte,” fuses flamenco guitars with cutting synthesizers and was a worldwide club hit. Through it, she came to the attention of Kanye West’s producer, Gesaffelstein, and has been promoted by him ever since. Today she performs in the best clubs in the world and produces records that sound like unicorns laughing. the red bulletin: What’s the correct pronunciation of your name? louisahhh!!!: Just like you’d normally pronounce it: Louisa. So why the three “h”s and the exclamation marks? I was 18 and pretty wasted when I came up with the name. It seemed like a good decision at the time. Now I’m not too sure about that anymore. But it’s probably too late to rebrand. One of the tracks on your new EP, Traces, is called “Night Clubbing.” What’s the best part of a night out on the town? The physical act of participating in a communal music experience is something magical. I love it when I’m on the dance floor and the kick drum pounds my ego out of me as I get caught up in the crowd. Dancing is also like meditating—it’s an introspective process. There are many people who would say the opposite of that. I see clubbing as a sort of modern tribal ritual. It is essentially a dressed-up 74

mating ritual for the human race. We go into a cave and listen to big sounds, and perhaps go home with somebody we shared a spiritual experience with. So what role does the DJ play? The DJ is the shaman. To be in this role is a great honor. Did you always want to be a techno shaman? My options are very limited in terms of what jobs I can do because I’m not that good at working for other people. But a DJ is beholden to the audience. Of course. DJs are part of a service industry, at the end of the day. If the crowd is not feeling what you are doing,

“Clubbing is a sort of modern tribal ritual and the DJ is the shaman.” then you better do something different. But it’s a fine line between artist and entertainer, and the question is always how can I serve the music and how can I serve the crowd? Can you do both? I think so. I see myself as a go-between. It is a delight to let the music flow through you. I try to create a connection between people and my music. Sounds like you’ve found your vocation. Yes, I think so. My original career path until I was 17 was to train horses. Then I started to find myself in nightlife and quickly took a shine to its darker sides. I got sober and came into recovery when I was 20. So I’ve never had a legal drink

in the States, but I still wanted to be a DJ. Everyone around me said, “You are newly sober and a recovering cocaine addict. Can you please do anything but club music?” But I wanted to go through with it and I wanted to do it sober. Yes, so I work in the lion’s den. The former slutty cokehead playing music for other slutty cokeheads. But I’ve got to the stage that my experiences mean I pass that message on to somebody who might be struggling. That’s why I’m here. It’s not for money, success, and glamour. That would be a small life. Why, on Traces, are you singing more than on your previous records? Growing up, all my heroes were frontwomen of bands. So that has been a secret desire, but I was also highly judgmental of women in the dancemusic scene, because I thought it was lame. They were mostly presented as disposable accessories for some star producer. It’s why I learned to program tracks and operate the equipment myself. Now I do both, and I love it. You once described your music as sounding like unicorn laughter. What does an amused unicorn actually sound like? I have no idea. But I’d like to think that my spiritual animal, my shaman creature, would be a unicorn. It’s a horse, but it is magical. And why is it laughing? I really like the physics of music. In a club, when you get pummelled with the sub-bass, it feels like the low rumble of a laugh, like the space is filling you with laughter. It is kind of silly, but I like that, I want that, I crave that. That is the spot I want to be in. soundcloud.com/louisahhh the red bulletin

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The Lineup Louisa Pillot–vocals, production Discography Traces–EP, 2014 Bromance #9: Transcend–EP, 2013 Translations–EP, 2013 Palmaditas de Muerte– EP, 2011 Bro fo’ sho Louisahhh!!! is on Bromance, record label of star French producer Gesaffelstein, who has worked with Daft Punk, Lana Del Rey, and ASAP Rocky. Everything is great Danny Daze’s house track “Your Everything” (ft. Louisahhh!!!) was the hit of summer 2011 on Ibiza. Electronic music mag Resident Advisor voted it a year’s best.

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The Los Angeles native gained local fame by hiding supermodels in shades of gray. His new thing is drawing mysterious shapes so passionately that his hands occasionally turn into claws.

the red bulletin: How did street art catch your attention in the first place? mar: When I was growing up we would go down to Venice with our skateboards. Everything there is painted—the walls, the ground, the tables, even palm trees. You just saw this huge mess of cool colors, but you didn’t know what it meant. What do you mean? Back then I wondered, why would you write anything on a wall? The first time I ever got it was when I saw a mural that simply said ‘‘RISK.” [The artist] RISK painted this thing and it just said his name. Because that’s why you do it, it’s the sense of risk. That alone makes it fun. You’re not supposed to do it and it’s risky. But if you get away with it you have this great high from it. Was that when you found your calling as a street artist? I don’t like to confuse street art with graffiti because I think graffiti guys put a lot more on the line. I like to keep the two worlds separate. Graffiti still keeps my attention. Because that shit is still really illegal. I can’t have respect for all these kids running around sticking up paper because the crime is so low and they act like it’s something so big. How do you see your role? Right now I’m doing a lot of murals that people commission me to paint. I don’t call that street art. It’s art that’s in the street, because street art is stuff that’s done in the moment, real quick. It’s different when you can sit there and make anything happen you want. Your dad’s a photographer. Did that have an impact on you as an artist? Absolutely. I probably heard the words “fill the frame” 5,000 times in my life. I 76

loved to assist him when I was young. My dad would ask me, ‘‘Do you want to come to work today with me and meet Michael Jordan?” Or ‘‘Do you want to skateboard with Tony Hawk?” As a kid it was really cool because it opened up my eyes to the idea that you can do what you want to do if you’re good at it. Do you remember your first steps? There’s a lot of “buff men” in the city. When they buff something, that means they paint over graffiti. If you look in back of the buff man’s truck he’s got 40 different tubs of paint, because they can’t decide on the colors to paint stuff. So there’d be like 14 different shades of gray

“Pop art is so easy to look at. It doesn’t feel challenging enough.” on a wall to take out the graffiti. The graffiti probably looked 20 times better than 14 different blobs of gray. That started to piss me off and I was like, OK, I’ll take different grays and draw women out of them. I’d draw supermodels like Gisele Bündchen on walls, and they were just in shades of gray. They were not meant to stand out. But that was kind of nice, because it was supposed to blend in. It was supposed to make you go like, oh, there are beautiful things in this ugly city, especially in this gray paint we all hate. Your current art is more abstract, informed by your signature patterns

that look a bit like hearts or leaves. It’s nothing really. It’s not supposed to be something. One of my buddies called it “fire flowers,” which I like. Are you bored with iconic images? Pop art is so easy to look at. It just doesn’t feel challenging enough. If you put Wile E. Coyote on something, we all feel some way. But either if you like or dislike him, you have some recognition of what that character is. I want to pick something you have no idea what it is and then make you have feelings for that. Do you have a clear vision in mind when you start drawing? I just have an idea of the color scheme. The bigger the shapes are, the calmer it is. If there’s 500 of them in one painting it feels a lot more aggressive and chaotic. I use that tension. You can’t see what it is, but you get this feeling from it. Must be quite a physical thing to paint a huge mural with hundreds of shapes. Yeah, my hand turns into a claw sometimes. For the bigger murals I have my buddy come in and help me. I do all the outlines, write numbers in the shapes, and then hand them all the cans. It’s like painting by numbers. If I do it all by myself I have to go slow. Some days I have to stop because I can barely move my fingers anymore. I’m not a huge fan of spray paint either. It’s terrible for you and it smells so bad. But it works so well covering things largely and quickly. Tell me about the cooler you designed for the Red Bull Curates project? It’s monochromatic gray shapes. On each side there is one floating red cloud of shapes, which symbolizes the stuff that really matters in life. Red Bull Curates Proteges x Hypebeast: www.redbull.com/curatesproteges the red bulletin

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The Super Aviator is less a submarine, more an underwater plane. Where other mini-subs can be slow and cumbersome, the Super Aviator is sleek and maneuverable, able to stop and hover, complete banking turns, and keep up with marine mammals that swim alongside. It’s seat-of-the-pants stuff. The craft was developed by Sub Aviator Systems as a prototype for their Orca sub, which is now available to anyone with a couple of million to spare. For lesser mortals, the company’s co-founder and managing director, John Lewis, will be your co-pilot on the Super Aviator during free time from its film and scientific projects. “The max speed is six knots [7 mph],” Lewis says. “All conventional bubble subs max out at three knots [3.5 mph]. That’s fine if you’re near a reef, but if there’s any current, you can’t deploy them. The Super Aviator can operate perfectly in a current, so there’s a wealth of new places you can go.” John Englander from Florida went down in the sub off Hawaii. “As an oceanographer, I’ve spent thousands of hours in scuba gear,” he says. “I’ve also been in a sub before, but being in the Super Aviator was a new, exhilarating experience. It moves at far higher speeds than other subs or divers. It’s a great feeling and you’re not encumbered by equipment. It feels Super Aviator weird to be in a dry, comfortable experiences in environment and have an amazing Hawaii start from view of the underwater world. It $3,350 for a day. feels like there’s nothing between incredibleadventures.com you and the water.”

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400 North Suzhou Road “This is my favorite old colonial building in town. It lies next to the

A one-stop fun palace of bars, laser tag, and one of the city’s few mini-golf courses —all together in a glow-in-thedark theme park. bigecn.com

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There used to be meat hanging on the walls at Fabric. Before the club opened on the premises in 1999, the east London venue was a cold-storage warehouse for the market next door. “There wasn’t a lot going on in the area culturally. There was no scene here,” recalls club manager Cameron Leslie. “That was one of the reasons why we started our own mini-cab service, because people couldn’t get away at that time of night because taxis didn’t come to this part of town.” Clubbers loved the place: 25,000 square feet of dance space with thumping underground sounds, from techno to dubstep, over three dance floors. One of them is “bodysonic,” because 400 built-in bass transducers turn sound waves into body-shaking vibrations. DJ Magazine has voted Fabric the best club in the world two times. What does Leslie love about the venue? “A lot of people find the club’s mazelike layout confusing,” he says, “but that’s exactly what’s great about it. You often end up in a new room by chance, which means you get to discover new DJs.” Fabric 77A Charterhouse Street London EC1M 6HJ, England fabriclondon.com

A full Fabric means 2,500 revelers, three nights a week.

After Party It’s 8 a.m. on Sunday. Fabric is closing, your eyes are wide open. What should you do?

Get breakfast Market traders and revelers come together at beautifully restored Victorian pub The Fox and Anchor, to see the sunrise and eat fortifying bacon and eggs. foxandanchor.com Go for a rummage Only four Tube stops to the shops and market stalls of Brick Lane: vintage clothes and furniture, great coffee and music to go from Rough Trade East. visitbricklane.org Keep on going! London’s leading afterhours party is Jaded, which starts at 5 a.m. on Sundays. Endurance dancers and early risers party there with tea and techno beats. jadedlondon.com

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Medal man: Raphael Holzdeppe won Olympic bronze in 2012 and world championship gold in 2013.

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“My daily training program is a brutal, full-body workout,” says Raphael Holzdeppe, of the routine that has kept him among the world’s elite pole vaulters for the last four years. “Because in our sport, you use every muscle,” he explains. “You need strong legs to be fast on the run-up, a buff upper body to get yourself up on the pole, pronounced abs so you can bend your hips quickly once you’re in the air, and a strong torso for stability. If you can keep your body stable and still in the air, you’ll gain more height.” To achieve all this, the 24-year-old German trains six and a half hours a day, Monday to Friday. “Lifting weights in the gym, sprints on the track, balance exercises on a medicine ball, and vaulting, which I do about 100 times a week.”

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coil spring. Then they only matched the parts in perfect harmony with each watch. The process is so exhaustive that Breitling decided to make the mechanisms themselves, thus freeing themselves up and making them independent of other suppliers.

Secret workshop In 2004, Breitling opened an office near the airport in Geneva to develop its B01 caliber. This was strictly hush-hush. By 2005, the mechanisms had taken shape. And in 2006, the first dozen prototypes were put together. Did it their way That same year, the caliber For a long time, and as was passed the COSC chronometer the case with many other luxury tests. Breitling then set up a brands of watches, Breitling “Chronométrie 2” department. LOVE THE LOGOS timepieces didn’t use their own The aim was to automate The AOPA logo on watch mechanisms. Instead they the early Navitimers B01 production. The experts (top) and the 1960s adapted a high-tech assemblyused those made by specialist Breitling logo Swiss watch manufacturer line concept from the ETA, who churned out caliber pharmaceuticals industry, clockwork. But that all changed when whereby software intertwined the Breitling decided that henceforth all its analysis and manufacture of separate mechanisms would be designated as components. The first equipment “chronometers,” meaning they would appeared at Chronométrie 2 in 2008. have to go through the rigorous test cycle In 2009, a full five years after the set by the Contrôle Officiel Suisse des project began, the first 1,500 B01 Chronomètres (COSC). For the caliber caliber models were produced. The to achieve this level of excellence, the mechanisms were first used in the watchmakers had to take measurements Chronomat model. The second Breitling including the moment of inertia of every to enjoy the privilege was the Navitimer. breitling.com balance wheel and the torque of every

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Breitling Navitimer: Designed to meet pilots’ needs during flight

Alexander Linz

Breitling produced a technological stroke of genius for people on the go long before the calculator had been invented. The watchmakers from Grenchen in Switzerland unveiled a wristwatch in 1941 in which they had integrated a round slide rule. On the Breitling Chronomat, you could turn the bezel, the ring around the edge of the dial, in both directions so that you could align different scales and work out values such as currency exchange rates or fuel consumption. The watch was a hit with technicians, traders, and the military. Breitling launched a prototype for pilots 11 years later, on May 2, 1952. The Navitimer meant pilots could work out how long they had left to fly, when they should start their descent for landing, and any number of other factors relevant to navigation. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association liked the chronograph so much they made it the official AOPA watch.

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Under the influences Playlist THE MAN WHO PLAYS VIOLIN WITH ARCADE FIRE TELLS US ABOUT THE FIVE RECORDS HIDING IN HIS NEW SOLO ALBUM.

Over the last 10 years, Owen Pallett has earned a reputation as the Stradivarius of pop. In 2004, he signed up to play violin for Arcade Fire and has written all the string arrangements for their music. Now, other musicians, including Robbie Williams and The National, let him give their songs the symphonic once-over. But Pallett’s solo work is closest to his own heart. His emotional and melodically complex indie pop songs sound like Brian Eno accompanying the young David Bowie on a violin. In January, the 34-year-old Canadian’s score for the Spike Jonze movie Her (feat. Arcade Fire) was nominated for an Oscar and out now is his fourth album, In Conflict. These songs inspired him while he was working on it.

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“When I was 5, I used to listen almost exclusively to classical music, but somehow Eurythmics fit into that listening environment really well. It’s thought out like a game of chess. This song is the perfect fusion of a very sterile synthetic environment and a very mannered vocal performance with a deeper range of emotions.”

“The feel of Silver Apples’ drum sound was what me and my drummer Rob [Gordon] wanted on my new album. It has to do with recording with no click track, so tempos are fluctuating. Listen to my song ‘The Sky Behind the Flag’: Rob is getting tired toward the end and suddenly gets this burst of energy and rushes ahead. That feels very human.”

“This song features an instrument called a Moodswinger, a really bizarre and rare kind of guitar thing that looks like it was created by a child. It creates this amazing eerie atmosphere, where the sound drifts and warps in and out of focus. I’m not an electric guitarist, but hearing the sound of that song informed a lot of string writing on my record.”

4 The Blue Nile

5 Green Velvet

“This Scottish band released two critically acclaimed albums in the 1980s. The first bears the title of this song and it is a masterpiece. That song’s iciness had a large influence on my song ‘The Secret Seven.’ There’s this beautiful silence in it, where you hear warbling synths in the background. I got that from The Blue Nile.”

“I didn’t have much time for dance music until recently. But I’m really into the brutal approach to rhythm on this Chicago house track. Green Velvet takes a simple rhythm and crosses it with another one to create a unique groove. That was the goal with ‘The Sky Behind the Flag,’ to create simple brutal rhythmic interaction. It’s easy to understand.”

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Overkill Mafia Shoot-’em-up from the makers of the huge Overkill games. In a retro world of gangsters and guns, this has a comic-book, Sin City feel. On Android and iOS. craneballs.com

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THE EVIL WITHIN The father of Resident Evil is back with more of the fright stuff. The bodies are ravaged and burned out, as are the buildings and the upturned ambulances. A psychiatric hospital has been ransacked by someone, or something. This could be the backdrop of a dozen survival horror video games, but only The Evil Within comes from the mind of Shinji Mikami, the man who devised Resident Evil. The first Resident Evil game, on the original PlayStation in 1996, made survival horror—exploration, puzzles, action, unsettling atmosphere, and genuine shocks—a pillar of gaming and gave new life to zombies in popular culture. Without its impact and popularity, there’d be no Shaun of the Dead, The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, and none of the reboots and remakes of the … Of the Dead film series, the original three of which, Night, Dawn, and Day, were huge influences on Mikami when he made that first game. His latest will emphasize survival over action. “Not much has changed when it comes to instilling terror in the player,” Mikami said at the most recent Tokyo Game Show, “but … in that sense it is harder to make them afraid.” No one has worked harder than Mikami to make playing games so thrillingly scary. The Evil Within is out worldwide in the last week of August for Windows, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. theevilwithin.com

Don’t play Xbox, watch it The discovery of old ET game cartridges in the New Mexico desert was notable for two reasons: unearthing the nerd treasure chest of the games themselves, and that the TV show of the dig will only be available on Xbox. Like Netflix and Amazon, Xbox wants to disrupt traditional TV with platform-specific content. Its first show, on music festival Bonnaroo, is out this month; Halo and street soccer series will follow.

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Warbits Be a pocket general with this battle-simulation game, which has a tough, strategyheavy heart beating beneath its colorful, cartoony armor. On iOS. riskylab.com

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You can be Bruce in EA Sports UFC

On June 17, the Ultimate Fighting Championship makes its debut as one of the EA Sports stable of games. There is the full-on, incredibly comprehensive redo of a sport, which EA did so well with FIFA for soccer and Tiger Woods for golf, only this time it’s for the top level of mixed martial arts. For fighting fans of a certain vintage, that Bruce Lee is an unlockable character in EA Sports UFC is reason enough to buy the game.

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Botanicula Adventure-puzzle mix in which you control a team of bugs trying to save the last seed on the tree on which they live. Tricky and beautiful. iPad only. botanicula.net

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GEAR that steps up when you go under. X2 underwater jet pack Rocketeer-style jet packs may still be a way off, but the underwater equivalent is nearly here. It might be the most fun you can have with your swimming trunks on. With a high-performance marine thruster strapped to each forearm, you’re propelled through the water while retaining complete control. Designed by two brothers in England, it’s the first of its kind, still at the prototype stage, but due out before year’s end. $6,050 scpmi.com

panasonic Hx-wa30 This rugged video camera makes sure you never miss a moment. It’s shockproof, freezeproof, dustproof, and waterproof down to 30 feet. The grip and foldout screen make for easy use even underwater, and on dry land it’s Wi-Fi ready, so footage can be shared or viewed on a big screen at the tap of a button. $500 panasonic.co.uk

liquid image explorer series 8.0mp If entrusting your beloved smartphone or tablet to a waterproof case fills you with fear, record your underwater wanderings with a piece of gear designed for the depths. The built-in video camera on this mask will also keep your hands free for swimming. $80 liquidimage.com

lifedge case in juniper for iphone 5/5s The patented “silicon pistonseal system” of this sleek, U.K.-designed case makes it possible for your phone to get wet with you. $125 lifedge.co.uk aXtion pro for ipad Dive in and leave your tablet floating on the surface with this buoyant tough case, or the red bulletin

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the world, safe in the knowledge it can get as wet as you can down to 1,640 feet. And, no matter how murky the depths, its luminescent hands ensure that it won’t just keep the time; you’ll be able to read it. $4,150 tagheuer.co.uk finis neptune For the ultimate subsurface sound, strap one of these to

your goggles and make like a marine mammal. This underwater MP3 player mimics the way dolphins and whales communicate using bone-conduction technology, to give perfect playback with no need for unreliable earbuds. Just place one on each cheek in front of the ear and splash around to the beat. $184 swimmer.co.uk

Nikon 1 AW1 Happy at depths up to 49 feet, this is the only waterproof camera to come with interchangeable lenses. It’s also shockproof up to 6 feet and freezeproof, if Arctic diving’s your thing. It has an electric compass, GPS for location tagging, and a depth gauge to make sure you don’t drown it. $1,260 nikon.co.uk

garmin forerunner Whether training in the pool or open water, the 910xt is the watch to take along. Water resistant down to 164 feet, it identifies and counts strokes, measures distance, pool length, and calculates overall swim efficiency. The GPS function maps your chosen route, and it works for running and cycling, too. $550 garmin.com

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U.S. Open of Surfing If you love the sport of surfing—or the lifestyle of surfing, or the idea of surfing, or just want to ogle the people who like any of the above—the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach remains the largest surf competition in the world. Besides top surfing talent like Julian Wilson and Carissa Moore, the event brings hundreds of thousands of people to Huntington Beach, California. www.usopenofsurfing.com

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Marfa Film Festival Explore the weird and wonderful activities in Marfa, Texas—where Giant and There Will Be Blood were filmed. www.marfafilmfestival.com

The American League takes on the National League at the home of the Minnesota Twins with home-field advantage for the World Series on the line. July 14 will showcase the Home Run Derby— and look for 32 to be the magic number: In recent years, Oakland’s Yoenis Cespedes, the Yankees’ Robinson Cano, and Boston’s David Ortiz have all won with that number of homers. www.mlb.com

Red Bull Global Rallycross series The Red Bull Global Rallycross series takes its mayhem to two big East Coast stops in July: New York and Charlotte, North Carolina. What is Rallycross? Well … you know that slippy-slidey-oh [bad word] way your car feels when you push it a little too hard in the rain? Imagine professional drivers like Rhys Millen and Travis Pastrana purposefully wrangling a loaded race car like that for countless laps—and not crashing. www.redbullglobalrallycross.com

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The celebration of the city’s best food—think chocolate chip cheesecake on a stick—also includes a stellar musical lineup, with performances from Aloe Blacc, Janelle Monae, Jeff Tweedy, and AWOLNATION. Grant Park and the lakefront fill up fast—so get there early, and be prepared for an El of a wait for the ride home. www.tasteofchicago.us

Yes, we are voluntarily encouraging you to travel to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Why? Because AirVenture Oshkosh, put on by the Experimental Aircraft Association at Wittman Regional Airport, is easily the country’s most bad-ass air show—it features more than 10,000 historic, homebuilt, military and modern aircraft, daily air shows, and 500,000 geeking out on the coolest that aviation has to offer. www.airventure.org

The eternally hip topic of vampires gets enlivened by a big-ticket director in The Strain, with Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) adapting a trilogy he co-wrote with Chuck Hogan.

Sure, there are probably more patriotic ways to spend your 4th of July—but sometimes you just want to hang out at a swank pool with David Guetta and have a cocktail. In previous years, the major Las Vegas hotels have created a pool pass that allows loungers access to their splashiest pool parties, complete with DJs. www.vegaspoolseason.com

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Paddleboard World Championships The course map is simple and terrifying: Start on the western tip of Molokai at Kalua Koi beach, and then paddle the 32 miles across the Ka’iwi Channel to Maunalua Bay on the eastern coast of Oahu. Navigate a little wrong, and you wind up in the Pacific. Stay on course, and you still have to face an incredibly rough stretch of oceans and sharks that are thinking about how tasty you and your paddleboard look. www.molokai2oahu.com

The hip minds of the cooler-than-thou music site get out from behind their computers and head to Chicago’s Union Park, where the tastemakers will sponsor a lineup that includes Beck, Grimes, Kendrick Lamar, and Neutral Milk Hotel. Of course, if you’re a true Pitchfork kind of person, you wouldn’t dream of seeing the headliners with the unwashed masses: For you, the fest also features Ka, Speedy Ortiz, and Twin Peaks. www.pitchforkmusicfestival.com

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Music Album release dates change all the time, but Lil Boosie is confident that his will drop in mid-July. While in prison, the so-called “Tupac of the South” wrote more than 1,000 songs. www.trillent.com

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Film While the Wachowskis can be erratic in their directorial efforts, their latest, Jupiter Ascending, at least features eye candy Mila Kunis. www.jupiter ascending.com

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On May 4, in 34 locations worldwide, 35,397 runners together ran a total of 329,903 miles before they were overtaken by catcher cars, which had been following them with increasing speed. This was the first annual Wings for Life World Run, in support of spinal-cord research. The last man running was Lemawork Ketema of Ethiopia. After 48.83 miles, the 28-year-old prevailed over Peruvian Remigio Huaman Quispe, running in Lima, 7,000 miles away—totaling only 295 fewer feet than Ketema. wingsforlifeworldrun.com

“ I knew I would have to sprint at the end. So I saved up my energy.” Lemawork Ketema, Wings for Life World Run winner

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