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MAVERICK This issue features a couple of mavericks—not the kind who bounce around sand volleyball courts in jeans, but true trailblazers in the film world. Bruce Brown invented action sports filmmaking with his transcontinental love letter to surfing, Endless Summer, and his Oscar-nominated motorbike documentary On Any Sunday. Almost 50 years later, his son Dana, a filmmaker in his own right, is revisiting the groundbreaking passion project with On Any Sunday, the Next Chapter. A (mostly) serious conversation with the two begins on page 42. And then there’s Robert Rodriguez (page 32), who makes successful films, including this month’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, in his own studio at the old Austin city airport. Hollywood be damned. THE RED BULLETIN
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AT A GLANCE GALLERY 14 GALLERY Photos of the month
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ROBERT RODRIGUEZ
32 Robert Rodriguez
From his Troublemaker Studios in Austin, the director makes blockbusters his own way.
The director of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For subverts Hollywood’s rules
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The raucous rockers on the road
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42 Bruce and Dana Brown
Father-and-son filmmakers update the motorcycle classic On Any Sunday
46 Capoeira vs. Free running
46 BANGON! NYC
A behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to throw an impromptu rager for 1,400 of your closest friends.
CAPOEIRA VS. FREE RUNNING
Two specialists in their fields face off to show the differences—and similarities— in their sports.
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Students in freediving classes in Thailand learn to commune with the creatures of the deep—on one breath.
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MotoGP prodigy Marquez’s innate skill is bolstered by his support team
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Veteran rally driver Carlos Sainz tests Peugeot’s two-wheel-drive car
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CONTRIBUTORS WHO’S ON BOARD THIS ISSUE “ I couldn’t believe that jumping off buildings could be a sport, and a very challenging one.” Karine Basilio, photographer, “Pure Instinct,” page 46
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The veteran entertainment photographer has shot Robert Rodriguez before— in the austere surroundings of a hotel—but meeting up with the director for a shoot at Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas, created a different energy. “Over the years I’ve heard and read about this place where he creates all his films, so I was eager to check it all out,” says Muller. “To be on his own turf is always more exciting.” See the director on the other side of the lens on page 32.
“I shoot mostly fashion and beauty spreads, and to get involved with sports was very inspiring,” says Brazilian photographer Basilio, who this month examined the similarities between capoeira and parkour athletes. “I’m very familiar with capoeira, but parkour was totally new for me. I couldn’t believe that jumping off buildings could be a sport, and a very challenging one.” Basilio has shot for fashion magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar—see her work leaping into sports on page 46.
Frequent contributor Anders was a bit concerned about his interview with father-son filmmakers Bruce and Dana Brown. “I wanted to interview them together in one location, but Dana was in British Columbia finishing up On Any Sunday while Bruce was in California, so we settled on a conference call. Phone interviews can fall flat, but not this one,” says Anders. “There was so much genuine father-and-son banter that it felt like we were just hanging out at the family home.” Listen in on page 42.
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The Red Bulletin is published in 11 countries. This is the cover of the latest Swiss edition.
Ready to roll at Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios.
For our cover shoot with director Robert Rodriguez, whose latest noir movie, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, is out on August 22, photographer Michael Muller flew to Austin, Texas, on a dark and stormy night. “At 11:30 p.m., the lightning outside the plane’s windows felt like a disco,” says Muller. “I just looked straight ahead because I knew if I looked at it, I would freak out.” Everyone arrived safely, and the mood was set for photos that put Rodriguez in the heart of darkness.
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DROP ZONE Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet leapt out of a plane at an altitude of 33,000 feet. It was -67°F up there on a bright Tuesday in mid-May; any higher and the two Frenchmen would have needed pressure suits. During the next seven or so minutes of free fall and flying along a ridge of Mont Blanc just inches from the rock, they reached a peak speed of 240 mph and released flares tied to their ankles. We’d have to take their word for it were it not for Dom Daher—also of France— a man who takes the kind of photos, like this one, that action sports athletes use for their Christmas cards. Photo: Dom Daher/Red Bull Content Pool skycombo.redbull.com
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HANDS-DOWN GREAT Berlin-bred Khaled Chaabi is a member of The Flying Steps, a German B-boy crew that has been spinning, stepping and schlepping to international performances since 1993. Three years ago, Flying Steps took old-school street dance to a whole new era: that of Blackbeard the pirate and the invention of the steam engine. In devising a routine to Bach’s 1722 keyboard survey The Well-Tempered Clavier, the crew created a truly original culture clash that has been seen all over the world, including here, in Sydney’s State Theatre. redbullflyingbach.com Photo: Incite Images/Red Bull Content Pool
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HOME ADVANTAGE Gold-medal favorite Peter Kauser finished sixth in the men’s canoe slalom final at the London Olympics in 2012. And the Slovenian is still at a loss as to why. “I cannot find anything that affected my performance and was responsible for me not achieving my goal,” he said, looking back a year later. “I still haven’t found the answer, but I hope I will someday.” The slalomer is taking some important steps to recovery, though: He’s since won the World Cup, on a stretch of water about an hour’s drive from where he was born. This image was taken during his practice there. canoeicf.com Photo: Samo Vidic/Red Bull Content Pool
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MOON SHOT Some say that director Stanley Kubrick and NASA faked Neil Armstrong’s small step/giant leap on elaborate sets at a secret location. No way! If he had wanted to mock up the moon landings, he’d have gone to the lunar-like volcanic island of Milos. When the light is right, the one-time home of the Venus de Milo has an eerily otherworld look. “I’ve been riding everywhere in the world,” says Julien Dupont, the French trials rider, “but I’ve never been riding on the moon. It’s strange: We’re here in Greece but I felt like I was on the moon.” twitter.com/juliendupont Photo: Samo Vidic/Red Bull Content Pool
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THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX
BULLEVARD REFLECTIONS ON OUR GOLDEN AGE OF TV
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Truly grim: Some of the characters in NBC’s Grimm are wild and dangerous to know—and back on Oct. 24.
TV’S HIT PLOT TWIST IS…
BAZINGA!
MIXED BLOOD
Countering the nerd quotient on The Big Bang Theory, TV’s most popular scripted show, is would-a-geekreally-woo-her neighbor Penny, played by Kaley Cuoco. Or, as co-star Sheldon says, “Penny! Penny! Penny!” Good things usually come in threes, right?
In fantasy TV, will illegitimate sons inherit the throne?
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In fantasy and fairy-tale TV shows— extremely popular now, with Game of Thrones, Once Upon a Time, Grimm and others—one thing seems to be particularly in vogue: cross-class bastard offspring. Those born after a forbidden fling between a royal and a commoner are bolstering plotlines and ratings. Eddard Stark’s son Jon Snow, played by Kit Harington, is slowly turning into Prince Charming in Game of Thrones; in the fantasy horror series Grimm, Sean Renard, captain of the Portland Police Department, is himself the bastard son of a royal. We met Renard, played by Israeli-Canadian actor Sasha Roiz, on the job and asked him to address his views on family values—in character.
THE SKIPPER SPEAKS! Captain Sean Renard, which creature from the Grimm universe are you most afraid of? “As the offspring of a Hexenbiest [a zombie warlock], the Grimm figure I most need to beware of is the Mellifer bee creature. We’re natural enemies. But honestly, I fear my family more than anything. They are horrible and dangerous, and keep sending problems my way. As Grimm royalty— illegitimate or not—I see myself as above most creatures, and I can handle them. It’s my family that really challenges me. They bring a certain emotional component that affects me.”
COMEDY
“I’m afraid of my own family.”
THE BEST SHOWS OF THE…*
Captain Sean Renard
FANTASY/HORROR
GRIMM
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
ALF showed up on Earth four years after E.T. and taught mankind that cats are very tasty.
An eccentric FBI agent investigates a murder in a strange town in Twin Peaks.
Mob boss goes to a shrink and breaks new ground: The Sopranos rewrites TV history.
Chemistry teacher and former pupil team for 16 Emmy noms in 2014. Not bad, Breaking Bad.
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THE BIG BANG THEORY
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FRESH BLOOD
GR APHIC NOVEL ADAPTATIONS
THE WALKING DEAD Blockbusting on the big screen, graphic novels are now big on TV too. With two Emmy nominations, The Walking Dead is a critical and commercial hit. Marvel has Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC and four more series in development for Netflix, while Constantine (based on Hellblazer) will debut Oct. 24 on NBC.
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The new age of quality TV garners big ratings and critical kudos. But the needs it’s meeting are old: Our lust for sex and excitement.
TV IS THE NEW MOVIE
TRUE DETECTIVE Whether it’s the team of Woody Harrelson and current Best Actor Oscar holder Matthew McConaughey in True Detective—both Emmy nominees for the show— fellow nominee Kevin Spacey in House of Cards or Oscar winner Halle Berry in Extant, there are many A-listers treading a path once thought to be beneath them.
HISTORY MEETS FANTASY
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GAME OF THRONES Far-fetched stories based on historical events are in. With 19 Emmy nominations, the biggest show on TV right now is Game of Thrones, which was inspired by the War of the Roses. Vikings depicts the legendary, semi-factual Norse ruler Ragnar Lothbrok, while Reign romanticizes the early life of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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THE SHOWRUNNER FAMILY TREE We pick six genre-defining show creators/screenwriters and show their TV evolution.
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As crime and mystery shows have become the network default, showrunners have responded.
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104 days 8 hours GENERAL HOSPITAL In that time you could: Watch all the programs listed below or fly to Venus.
GENERAL HOSPITAL
12 days 5 hours DOCTOR WHO In that time you could: Walk the distance from New York to Nashville.
11 days 12 hours
DOCTOR WHO
THE SIMPSONS In that time you could: Earn your pilot’s license.
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BAYWATCH In that time you could: Swim the English Channel 18 times.
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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION In that time you could: Learn to play the ukulele with the Learning the Ukulele in 7 Days app.
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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER In that time you could: Make 2,592 packs of microwave popcorn.
3 days 8 hours
BUFFY
TRUE BLOOD In that time you could: Read through the Bible at average speed.
TRUE BLOOD
1 day 16 hours GAME OF THRONES In that time you could: Climb Mt. Rainier.
GAME OF THRONES
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH THE COUCH
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NCIS In that time you could: Listen to the complete works of Mozart.
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IN CHARACTER
STAR TALK
The sheriff in Syfy’s Defiance is played by Grant Bowker. So, Sheriff Nolan, what do you think of when you hear these words?
What the characters of the shows—not the actors—really think about being on TV.
HELLBUG: Sexy Time! ALASKA: Wasteland. AMANDA ROSEWATER: Hot. DATAK TARR: Little thug. VOLGE: They’re good fried. TERRAFORMING: Trouble! FATHERHOOD: Trouble!!!
Fun from the far north in Lilyhammer
There are two reasons why critics believe that this is a golden age for TV: Character development has never been so interesting—and new technologies are helping to create and prolong the life of shows. Lilyhammer, co-produced by Netflix, will start filming its third season in 2014. Sci-fi drama Defiance, on the Syfy Network, functions as both a TV show and online game universe, the two worlds existing in parallel and complementing one another. Meanwhile, outstanding drama series nominee Downton Abbey, on PBS, has transported American viewers to Edwardian England—merely a few months after the show’s debut in the U.K. (Grumble.) To get more embedded, we spoke to characters from each show.
MOBBED UP Frank Tagliano, the gangster boss in Lilyhammer, set in the Norwegian town of Lillehammer, is played by Steven Van Zandt.
“I’m a one-man crime wave.” Frank Tagliano COMEDY/DR AMA
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WHAT THE BUTLER SEES Thomas Barrow, the underbutler in Downton Abbey, is played by Rob James-Collier. Barrow, if you were suddenly free to do anything, what would you do first? “I’d open the first Edwardian gay bar, and it would be called Barrow’s Law, a place where all men are free to kiss whomever they want. Especially the landlord. I’d hire Molesley [the butler
in Downton] as my DJ, to play really melancholy tunes all the time, such as Radiohead, and sit in the corner looking sad. And I’d say to him, ‘Come, Molesley, pick it up a bit, bloody hell. Can we play some ABBA or something?’ And I could literally be the Dancing Queen.”
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Frank, what would you do if you were the most powerful man in Lillehammer? “I think I do have all the power. I turned the place into one big brothel. In Lillehammer there is no crime, no corruption, no bribing, but there is a lot of bureaucracy. You can’t buy anybody, which is shocking to Americans. In the States, if you want to be president, or mayor of New York, you can buy it.”
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THE SITCOM FORMULA What elements do you need to make a comedy show that’s guaranteed to be a global hit?
TV SHOWS THEN AND NOW
WHAT TV TEACHES US ABOUT LIFE We get the shows our times deserve, but what did the previous generation get from their top TV?
WOMANIZER Whether it’s Charlie Harper from Two and a Half Men or Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother, you need a ladies’ man.
NERD Socially a flop but a lovable brainbox, like Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory.
LOVE INTEREST A pretty girl, liked by both men and women: Penny from The Big Bang Theory or Robin from How I Met Your Mother.
RELAXED LOCATION
TOM MACKINGER, DIETMAR KAINRATH
Somewhere where we’d all feel at ease: the pub or someone’s living room.
CHEERS (1982-93)
NEW GIRL (2011-)
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FAMILY TIES (1982-89)
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PREMISE Independent, self-sufficient woman cheated on by a man finds work in a bar.
Non-independent go-getting woman cheated on by a man so moves in with a group of guys.
SEX & NUDITY
ONLY ALLUDED TO VERBALLY.
HEROINE JESS IS NAKED (NETWORK TV NAKED, THOUGH) IN FIRST MINUTE OF SHOW.
ALCOHOL Accepted as a way of avoiding loneliness. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.
Presented as the answer to nearly all of life’s questions and little problems.
THE BIG BANG THEORY (2007-)
PREMISE Junior fights for hippie parents’ approval by becoming a banker.
Group of nerds fight for approval by non-nerdy society, their pushy parents … and the Nobel Prize.
WHO’S CALLING THE SHOTS?
IT’S A PATRIARCHY: DAD SETS THE AGENDA.
IT’S A MATRIARCHY: MOTHERS SET THE AGENDA.
FAMILY LIFE Harmonious and idyllic picture is painted. This is a united family unit.
All main characters come from dysfunctional families and are struggling with first-world problems.
TO SUM UP
TO SUM UP
Men were pigs then and still are now, but they are better groomed. Drinking is even more of a social glue and cure-all.
The family has “developed” from the functional to dysfunctional. The perfect world no longer exists. Friends are better than family.
KOMA* Our artist Kainrath, dedicated to the TV universe
CAN TALK Two and a half cans
GLOBAL PHENOMENON Cool plus brainpower plus a bit of sex appeal and a killer location and you’re raking it in for years on end.
EMERGENCY ROOM
Use the commercial break to fetch yourself a snack and pop to the bathroom. We’ll be back.
* KOMA: KAINRATH’S ŒUVRES OF MODERN ART THE RED BULLETIN
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REBEL WITH A CAUSE With SI N C I TY: A DA M E TO K I L L FO R , Ro ber t Ro dr igu ez m a kes a s u m me r blo ckbuster o n h i s ow n te r ms. WORDS: ANN DONAHUE PHOTOGRAPHY: MICHAEL MULLER
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“YOU CAN’T DRIVE TWO BLOCKS IN SIN CITY WITHOUT COMING ACROSS A SALOON—THE BAD KIND.”
“As long as they can make some money off it, Hollywood doesn’t care where or how you make a movie.”
O All portrait quotes taken from A Dame to Kill For, from Frank Miller’s Sin City series.
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n one side of the room sits an electric chair. It’s bigger than you’d expect—not so much a chair, more a throne—and that gives it the presence of a wooden beast with leather straps ready to lash out and entwine you. Directly across the room from the electric chair is a confessional booth, another giant block of darkstained wood—but this one is delicately carved with ornate designs to emphasize its ethereal purpose. The themes of ruin and redemption run concurrently in director Robert Rodriguez’s films, so it’s no surprise that he’s decorated the conference room at his Troublemaker Studios with two of the eeriest and evocative symbols of frailty and faith. The electric chair is a prop from his 2005 film Sin City; the confessional is from 1995’s Desperado. They are impressive, striking artifacts, but one has the sense that they are merely nostalgic items from movies he long ago put his heart and soul into—because for Rodriguez, there’s always something new in filmmaking to explore. A framed piece of artwork just outside of his office door says it all. It’s a quote attributed to Steve Jobs, and it reads, in part: “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. . . . And
while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.” Rodriguez is crazy enough that he’s changed the world of filmmaking. Instead of working under the watchful eye of corporate overlords on the megabacklot of a studio in Los Angeles, he operates Troublemaker out of Austin, Texas, in hangars on the city’s abandoned airport. He created all of his next movie, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, here: from casting to filming to creating the wardrobe and props to composing the score to the special effects work to designing the posters. Given that the August 22 release is a sequel to Sin City, a movie that made $158 million worldwide, this level of autonomy in bigbusiness, all-eyes-on-the-bottom-line world of Hollywood is astonishing. “Someone else created the Hollywood system and the business, but for a creative person, it really doesn’t make a lot of sense,” Rodriguez says. “You have to have a little incubator of ideas where you can feel free to fail, feel free to take a chance on something. You can’t always go to a studio and say, ‘Hey, let me go borrow your soundstage, and I don’t even know why. I have an idea. Let me go feel it out.’ They’d say, ‘Get out of here.’ ” The credits roll of a Rodriguez film looks like a textbook’s entry for monomania: For Sin City 2, he’s the co-director, producer, composer, cinematographer and editor. “My favorite hobbies growing up were photography, drawing, music, making movies,” Rodriguez says. “I chose filmmaking because I could still keep all my favorite hobbies under the project of a film. So all my early films, I did everything. And then as I got into the Hollywood system, I thought, ‘I don’t know why I should give up these things. They’re still some of my favorite jobs.’ ” It’s a work ethic forged from a history of making movies on a tight budget. Rodriguez’s first film, 1992’s El Mariachi, about a musician who is mistaken for a murderer, was made for $7,000. The distribution rights were acquired by Columbia Pictures, which then spent $1 million to market the film. It went on to earn twice that amount, and the legend of Rodriguez as a runand-gun director—someone who could shoot an entire feature film for cheap, in just a month— was born. “I was the one that made movies very inexpensively, so they would always turn a profit,” he says. “I made El Mariachi out of my apartment. I thought, ‘I don’t have to be in Hollywood—they don’t care. As long as it shows up on their desk and they can distribute it and make some money off it, they don’t care where you make it or how you make it.’ I think the formality went out the window really quick when I sold that movie.” Hollywood’s faith in Rodriguez was
“A LITTLE VOICE REMINDS ME THAT THERE’S A CAR BEHIND THE HEADLIGHTS.”
“YOU DON’T VISIT SIN CITY TO READ THE BIBLE.”
“I would go to the comic book store, buy a Sin City and go home and realize I already had three copies. I just loved it so much.” confirmed with the success of his Spy Kids series, which started in 2001; the four films have since earned over half a billion dollars globally. This gave Rodriguez the power to pursue whatever passion project he wanted—and what he was obsessed with was a series of brutal film noir graphic novels by Frank Miller. “I would go to the comic book store, buy a Sin City and go home and realize I already had three copies,” Rodriguez says. “I just loved it so much, and I knew nobody could ever make a movie out of it, because they would just ruin it.” What entranced Rodriguez was the work’s visual style—Miller draws in stark black-andwhite lines; just like his characters, there are no shades of gray. He tells tales of disfigured murderers, prostitutes, vengeful cops and corrupt politicians. In the first Sin City, Rodriguez brought the grit and gore to screen using as much of Miller’s visceral style as he was
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“IT’S AS QUIET AS IT GETS IN SIN CITY … POLICE SIRENS RISING, FALLING, CUTTING THROUGH THE TRAFFIC’S WHITE-NOISE ROAR.”
comfortable showing in 2005. “The first film I didn’t push it as far because I thought people wouldn’t understand what they were looking at,” Rodriguez says. “It would be too distracting, it would be too strange. And then people thought it was visually groundbreaking. I was like, ‘Oh my God, I didn’t even go all the way with it.’ ” Since then, there have been some misfires in Rodriguez’s canon: The high-concept, ’70s homage Grindhouse collaboration with Quentin Tarantino fizzled commercially, but it did lead to two spinoffs for Rodriguez—the campy, culty Machete and Machete Kills. But every time he went into his office at Troublemaker, he would see the row of Frank Miller’s graphic novels lined up behind his desk. After almost 10 years, Rodriguez wanted to return to Sin City. he filming of Sin City 2 began with one phone call: Rodriguez dialed the actress Jessica Alba and asked her to show up as soon as she could at Troublemaker. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, Robert, you have to give me more notice than this!’ ” Alba laughs. “But that’s the way it works.” Since Alba appeared in the original Sin City as the exotic dancer Nancy Callahan, she did, on a certain level, expect Rodriguez’s spur-of-themoment summons. Upon receiving the script six months earlier, she started working with a choreographer to master the multiple dances she performs in the sequel. After all that prep, her work in Austin was done in a matter of days. “He just bangs things out,” she says. “He’s really calm and kind.” Besides Alba, Rodriguez had no other actors cast when he started shooting. “Having your own studio, you don’t have to ask permission to get going,” Rodriguez says. “Once the train has left the station, people jump on board.” Sure enough, within days, those who had signed up included Eva Green, playing the titular dame to kill for, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who portrays a gambler on a mysterious mission. Filming the first Sin City, Rodriguez was on the cutting edge of the green-screen technique, which places actors against a blank background and then fills in their surroundings digitally during post-production. Rodriguez’s greenscreen soundstage at Troublemaker is immense, a cavernous set the size of an industrial factory floor, all painted in the Day-Glo green of a tropical insect. It can be a mind-bender for those who haven’t worked in the medium before. “When Josh Brolin showed up he said, ‘Where’s Mickey Rourke?’ and I said, ‘I filmed him already,’ ” Rodriguez recalls. “And he said: ‘All my scenes are with Mickey?! He’s carrying me around and we’re drinking together and he’s driving me in cars!’ and I’m like, ‘I know. I’ll
“When you have a property like this that’s magical, you want to do right by it.” figure it out when I get there, and it will work because I’ve done it before.’ ” Sin City: A Dame to Kill For consists of four of Miller’s stories—two previously unpublished shorts, the title graphic novel and another work, The Long Bad Night. It’s in a vignette structure that mimics the first film, but Rodriguez wants this one to be bigger, bolder and more in line with the shock-and-awe style of Miller’s works. It will retain the black-and-white severity of the original, but this time it will also be in 3D. “I wanted to go further towards what the books originally offered,” Rodriguez says. “When you have a property like this that’s magical, you want to do right by it.” Filming the entire movie took 35 days, one-third the time required by the usual big-budget summer movie. This gave Rodriguez time to pursue other interests. As he worked on post-production on Sin City 2, Rodriguez also launched the El Rey TV Network, aimed at English-speaking Hispanic viewers in the U.S. So far, it’s being carried nationwide on DirecTV, Comcast and Time Warner Cable, and features two original series: A TV version of Rodriguez’s 1996 film From Dusk Till Dawn and the black-ops caper Matador from Fringe creators Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. El Rey has the same ethos as Rodriguez’s film productions; From Dusk Till Dawn is filmed at Troublemaker—the show’s key bar soundstage doubles as an actual bar for employee parties. For Rodriguez, all his creative endeavors are done on his own terms, enlivened by his hardwon freedom to be a little crazy. “I just always felt like I grew up making movies at home, in my backyard,” Rodriguez says. “Why should that change?” sincity-2.com
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BEARTOOTH
Twist and Shout Beartooth gigs are as rowdy as it gets–and Caleb Shomo loves it. The frontman lets loose on broken noses, screaming techniques and his fan group, the Shomosexuals.
Caleb Shomo smiles in anticipation. Only one hour to go until he hits the stage at The Barfly—it’s the intimacy of the legendary London venue that he loves. “No barriers,” he says, pushing aside a long piece of hair from his face. “That’s how I like it.” He knows what he’s talking about: With his former metalcore band Attack Attack! Shomo made Billboard magazine’s top 20 in album sales and played huge festival stages. In 2013—at only 20 years old—Shomo quit the band to start a harder, more aggressive outfit called Beartooth. In June, the five-piece released their highly anticipated debut album, Disgusting. the red bulletin: Are you guys hunters? Hence the band name? caleb shomo: Our old bass player grew up on Bear Tooth Court in Columbus, Ohio, and we just put the words together because we thought it sounded cool. If you look up Beartooth online you either get Beartooth Pass, which is a mountain, or us. It’s easy to Google. You don’t get confused. The name works, though, considering the aggressive style of your music. That’s true. If we had named the band Daisy Power, it wouldn’t exactly fit. [Laughs.] Do you prefer brown bears or polar bears? I always envisioned the band as a grizzly. A while ago someone came to a show in a full polar bear outfit, head to toe. And his friend came in a giant molar costume. Were they members of your notorious fan club, the Shomosexuals? Oh God, I don’t know. [Laughs.] It’s some title that a few of my fans gave themselves, 40
which I do find really funny. It’s a clever way to put it. How do true Shomosexuals show their commitment? Some of them get tattoos of my lyrics and the band logo, which blows my mind. I mean, we just started out, we have only one album out and they’re like, “Beartooth for life.” It’s a tattoo—that thing isn’t ever going away. Hopefully they will still like our second record. [Laughs.] Speaking of your new album, how do you achieve this high level of energy
“Don’t overthink things: Write music in the moment of the mood, then yell into a microphone.” that’s inherent in all your songs? It comes from distortion, feedback and not overthinking things: Writing music in the moment of the mood, yelling into a microphone. I just hit the record button and go. I do as much in one take as I can, because I think it captures a lot of the reality of it. I keep all the mess-ups and the voice cracks on the recordings. With all the shouting, how do you keep your voice in shape? In the early days I would scream completely wrong and blow my voice out every single show after three songs. It was miserable. With my old band Attack
Attack! I did a tour in Australia and I blew my voice out the entire time. So when I got back home I locked myself in my basement and just kept trying. I yelled for hours, like a complete idiot. Because the thing is, if you’re screaming and you’re losing your voice, you’re doing something wrong. You also make electronic music under the moniker of CLASS. Yes, but I prefer to keep both things separate. I love electronic stuff because of my passion for synthesizers. I just love to find new sounds. On the other hand, using two guitars, bass, drums, because it feels really good and pure. Your shows might remind one of a battlefield. Do you feel safe on stage? Do you demand barricades at shows? I hate barricades. I hate that there’s that separation. We want people to stage-dive and come up on stage, take the microphone and sing their favorite parts. For our kind of music that’s what keeps people so involved. They can express themselves in a way that I express myself, which is doing whatever you want to do to get your energy out. As a pro, what are your tips for aspiring stage-divers? If you stage-dive curled up in a ball or go head first, it’s not going to go that well. My general stage-dive philosophy is, I go and try to spread out as much as possible or at least scope out where you’re going to jump first. Make sure it’s a person that knows you’re about to stage-dive. Or else you’re going to land on some 14-year-old girl that’s going to go to the ground and you break her nose. Try to avoid that. Beartooth’s debut album Disgusting is out on Red Bull Records. THE RED BULLETIN
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The lineup Caleb Shomo, vocals Taylor Lumley, lead guitar Brandon Mullins, drums Kamron Bradbury, guitar Oshie Bichar, bass Discography Disgusting (album, 2014) Sick (EP, 2013) Road Runners Touring partners for Beartooth have included Of Mice & Men, August Burns Red and Memphis May Fire.
FA M I LY BUSINESS Bruce Brown, above, and his son Dana have changed the rules of action sports filmmaking.
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
FOR ACTION SPORTS FILMMAKING LEGEND BRUCE BROWN AND HIS DIRECTOR SON, DANA, THE APPLE DOESN ’ T FA L L FA R FROM THE TREE. WORDS: MARK ANDERS
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When Bruce Brown premiered The Endless Summer in 1966, it was an instant classic—and it was exactly the calling card he needed for a meeting with actor Steve McQueen. McQueen, a fellow motorcycle aficionado, signed on to help finance and star in what would become On Any Sunday. The documentary was released in 1971 and garnered Brown an Academy Award nomination. Fast forward 43 years and his son Dana, 54, a filmmaker in his own right with classics like Step Into Liquid, is carrying the baton. On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter comes out this fall.
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“ Thank God they didn’t have GoPros at the time, B E C A U S E
I P R O B A B LY W O U L D H AV E O V E R U S E D T HEM.”
he Red Bulletin: Dana, you were about 11 years old when On Any Sunday came out. What memories do you have of that time and the film? Dana Brown: Dad’s office was just a couple blocks from our house, so we’d go over to the office and sometimes see some of the footage. And he’d take us to the races, and the racers would come by and they were like my brothers and my idols. The fact that he was hobnobbing with racers was even more glamorous than the fact that he knew Steve McQueen. How into motorcycles were you at that point? Dana: Dad and Mom had a pretty big ranch, and we’d ride all the time out there. I never really raced, though. I think I went to one trials with Dad—pretty sure I thought I’d won but I ended up finishing about 65th. That kind of took the starch out of my competition career on motorcycles. But you know, I’ve ridden off and on my whole life and I just really like motorcycle people. They are really so nice and humble, you kind of just want to tell their story. So when this opportunity came up, I jumped at it. How far does the apple fall from the tree? Dana, when did you say, “I want to be a filmmaker like Dad.” Dana: I took film in college, and I always admired what he did specifically, and then in college I came to find out they were saying you have to start as a PA [production assistant] in Hollywood—that didn’t really appeal to me, so I didn’t go into film right away. I was just writing sports stuff. I wrote for Surfer and had a column in the Santa Barbara Independent. I was working a few jobs and had a couple kids. Bruce: He was sort of between jobs, and I knew he was familiar with my stuff, so I just hired him to resurrect these old surf films. We were going to get rich in the video market—which didn’t happen. But when he got into it I could see that we were on the same wavelength. And the stuff he did on his own, I liked it. I like his films. You know, he does a whole different style than mine. Part of it is the time, though. Plus, he’s a lot smarter than I am. 44
MORE THAN 40 YEARS after On Any Sunday, Brown’s son Dana— whose film credits include Dust to Glory—is working on the next chapter.
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O N A N Y S U N D A Y, THE NEXT CHAPTER “Right when you think the athletes have reached the point where they can’t do anything more, they do,” Dana Brown says. “But I think there’s still room to tell stories. I think there’s a lot of focus on the action and how gnarly and how double bitchin’ everything is and maybe not as much on, it’s a boring term, but the human interest of it, the commonality that these guys have, because a lot of them are seemingly ordinary people that do extraordinary things.”
Bruce, how is Dana’s style different? Bruce: I think he’s got a little more humaninterest stuff, featuring some unusual characters. And his movies have people talking, and most of my movies didn’t. And he’s got access to all kinds of cool camera equipment and stuff that didn’t really exist in my era. But I do remember in the original On Any Sunday, you did have some pretty cuttingedge POV shots on the racetrack. Bruce: [Laughs.] Well, we had a helmet that we modified that would hold a World War 2 gun camera that juts out on the side. And then we actually had it rigged up where we had one in front and one pointing back, and God, that thing weighed about 20 pounds. So none of the racers were too anxious to try it because if they fell they’d probably be dead. But we finally figured it out—we offered them $100 and then they lined up to use it. A far cry from the GoPro, huh? Bruce: [Laughs.] Yeah, thank God they didn’t have them at the time, because I probably would’ve overused them. Dana, you guys shot this using the most cutting-edge gear. Was it tough to avoid getting mired in the tech of it all? Dana: Oh yeah, I think half of the deal
anytime we’re shooting is for me to make sure we’re getting the stories and not just so worried about all the technical aspect of all of it. You want to make sure you get the heart, and not just the other stuff. Do you feel action sports films are evolving? Bruce: In general, I think the bar for storytelling in action sports filmmaking is pretty low right now. Dana: I would agree. You could trip over it. Bruce: Especially the surf ones—they’re just some kind of weird music and just all surfing and there’s no story at all. It’s just boring. That’s a digression from Endless Summer, because you actually had a story. Dana: When Dad did it, it was just him and a wind-up Bolex. He had to tell a story. When you’re standing there, that kind of undergunned, you can’t say, “Well, it doesn’t matter what we say, we’ll just strap 52 GoPros on everything and do a helicopter shot and we’re golden.” On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter arrives in the fall. Stay tuned at www.onanysundayfilm.com
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INSTINCT POWER, BEAUTY, FREEDOM, SKILL, ART. Shared elements of free running and capoeira: the modern-day urban active discipline and the centuries-old Brazilian martial art. In fact, they have much more in common than you think. Words: Fernando Gueiros 
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FREE RUNNING VS. CAPOEIRA Michael “Aranha” de Oliveira—the nickname means “spider”—and Danilo Alves (opposite page) are experts in capoeira and free running, respectively.
F R E E R U N N I N G
SIDE FLIP
Executed with a onelegged push, lifting the other leg off the ground and rotating the body. Here, Alves adds personal flair by grabbing one foot with his hand.
ARMADA DUPL A CAPOEIRA
Befitting their Brazilian origins, most capoeira moves have Portuguese names. This one translates as “double attack”: The capoeirista jumps and rotates, and when the body is horizontal, both feet can hit the opponent.
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CAPOEIRA
FOLHA SECA Also known as “dry leaf,” a kick executed during a backflip, with the body slightly tilted sideways.
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FRE E RUNNING
CHE AT G A INER A kick into the air that makes the body rotate in a backward flip, with the body slightly sideways. Its variation, the Gainer, doesn’t have the sideways stance.
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n the other side of the world in Angola, more than 400 years ago, courtship was a pretty violent undertaking. Two men, vying for the right to choose a woman, battled to see who could kick the other one in the head. They used feints and dodges and jumps, and the one who could land the kick first won the bride as a prize. The competition was called n’golo, and after it arrived in South America, brought by the slaves dragged to Brazil by its Portuguese colonizers, it was altered by the new land’s music and rhythms and came to be known as the martial art capoeira. Today, it is one of the biggest sports in Latin America’s largest country and is practiced worldwide. Capoeira isn’t necessarily a fighting technique. Its practitioners sing and play musical instruments in the roda, capoeira’s version of a boxing ring. Though it’s still known as a martial art, the sport nowadays is more a display of skill and entertainment than combat. “These days capoeira is practiced in gyms, as if it were karate or swimming,” says 8th-degree capoeirista Michael “Aranha” de Oliveira, from São Paolo. The 29-year-old, whose nickname means “spider,” pulls off moves that are not just beautiful to look at but are also painfully powerful. “It’s almost inevitable that someone will make contact with someone else during a roda,” says Aranha. “Luckily, a large portion of the moves we learn can be used to dodge.” In the same
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way that Asian martial arts are inspired by natural elements, capoeira’s moves are based on animal movements. The skill to dodge a strike is the purest blend of reflex and instinctive self-preservation. There is similar skill at work in a sport founded by David Belle, a Frenchman who reapplied the “natural gymnastics” techniques practiced by the French army. In the late 1990s, together with a group of friends, he navigated the urban landscape of the Parisian suburb of Lisses with gymnastics-inspired movements. Parkour, now one of the world’s fastestgrowing sports, was born. Its main variation is free running, which differs from parkour in that it adds more acrobatics and so-called inefficient moves to parkour’s simpler, efficient A-to-B philosophy. In the way it blends animal-like movements and the quick thinking required to carve a creative path through the urban landscape, free running has a lot in common with capoeira. Geographically and historically distant from the Brazilian martial art, the sport is nevertheless similarly an instinct-based gamelike contest in which there are no winners. Freedom of expression and the joy that comes with that is the true reward. Brazilian free runner Danilo Alves, 26, says his sport has developed different styles as it arrived in new countries such as Brazil, where capoeira already had a huge presence in the local culture. “The ginga of capoeira brought a new element to free running,” says Alves, referring to the rhythmic motion between moves, the catlike hopping from foot to foot. “In Brazil it gained a lot of supporters because the national identity was already established with this type of movement. We have a natural swing—that smoothness of the hips, the ginga, the samba.” Free running is urban. The uniform is sneakers, tracksuit bottoms or sweatpants, large T-shirts, beanies or baseball caps: As long as it doesn’t disturb
SAME GAME
“ Y OU G OTTA HAV E RHYTHM TO KE E P THE FLOW BE TWE E N E AC H MOV E . ”
FREE RUNNING Danilo Alves, 26, has been practicing his art since he was 9 years old.
FRE E RUNNING
HANDS TAND Used to cross over obstacles, such as walls, or to smooth out the finish of certain moves.
CAPOEIRA
BANANEIR A Also known as “banana tree.� One of the basics of capoeira is balancing on one or both hands. This move is used to dodge an opponent or as a setup for a follow-up movement.
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CAPOEIRA De Oliveira, 29, has been practicing capoeira since he was 16 with the Geração Capoeira crew.
the precision and fluidity of the moves. Capoeira demands packed earth or low grass, and its players go barefoot, wearing only comfortable slacks. Capoeira players are at the center of the roda, a circle where everyone around them sings and plays, not unlike another Brazilian tradition, the roda of samba, in which those around the circle play and sing while those inside dance. Free running, like the name suggests, is free, nomadic and adventurous. The opponent in capoeira influences a lot of one’s moves, whereas in free running the athlete relates with the environment only, be it natural or man-made like stairs, rails or walls. The union of capoeira and free running isn’t official, but there is no doubt the Brazilian art has helped the creation of new styles within the free running community. Today’s top free runners all know some capoeira moves, but there remains a big difference. “In capoeira you must always finish your move facing your opponent, otherwise the counterattack will be immediate,” says de Oliveira. “That makes some of free running’s moves unlike capoeira’s, especially during the finishing part.” The finishes are different, then, but this partnership of ancient and modern has only just begun. geracaocapoeira.com.br leparkourbrasil.wordpress.com
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B TWIST FRE E RUNNING
The B Twist is a push up to horizontal, followed by rotation on the practitioner’s spinal axis.
MARC OF A CHAMPION
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A 21-year-old Spaniard won the first nine races of the 2014 MotoGP season; there’s only one better streak in 66 years of Grand Prix motorcycle racing. He’s reigning champion, the youngest-ever title winner, and his rivals have a sinking feeling that the only man who can beat him is himself. So what is it that makes MARC MARQUEZ so good? Words: Werner Jessner Photography: David Clerihew
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Rapid success: MotoGP title holder Marc Marquez is continuing his winning ways in 2014.
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t the Dutch TT, at the Assen Circuit in Holland, a wiry man is standing at the back of the Repsol Honda MotoGP team garage against a partition wall. He is tanned, with short hair and laugh lines, and is bouncy on his feet. Watching him chat with team boss Livio Suppo during practice, you might mistake him for a former racer, but then you notice his striking similarity to the young man nearby, who then puts a custom Shoei NXR helmet over his head. Julià Marquez attends all of his eldest son’s races. He’s not obtrusive. His voice can’t be heard over everyone else’s. He doesn’t dress in team colors. He’s just there if Marc needs him. The same goes for Alex, Marc’s brother, who is three years younger and achieving great success in the Moto3 junior category. Both brothers still live at home with their parents in Cervera, Spain, an hour’s drive north of Barcelona. In private, Marc drives a BMW M5, which he won for being the best MotoGP qualifier last season, or a white van with no windows and a built-in workshop, which he prefers because it’s more practical. The Marquez household now has a separate room to store all the trophies, but otherwise everything is just as it’s always been. The brothers live, eat and train together. The wild world of MotoGP, with its huge motor homes, leggy models, and the wheeling and dealing of competitive 60
top-class motorsports, intrudes into their lives as little as possible. Some things have changed, though, Alex admits. “In the past I used to get Marc’s helmets, gloves and bikes handed down to me. Dad would take Marc to one race while Mom drove me to another, then the following weekend it would be the other way around. But that’s not necessary anymore, now that we’re both in the MotoGP paddock.” Since the age of 11, Marc Marquez has been managed by 1999 125cc world champion Emilio Alzamora. The 41-yearold Spaniard is advisor, mentor and something of a taskmaster, but if you’re good enough to satisfy his demands, you can climb a long way toward the top. When he started working with Marquez in 2004, Alzamora would have seen potential but had no idea of the size of the diamond in the rough he had found. Sure, the kid was junior Catalan enduro champion at age 8, then made his world championship debut at 15 and was first crowned world champion in the 125cc category at 17, but others have done that too. After moving up from 125cc to Moto2, he at first stood out for his crashes and injuries. It took him two seasons to win the title, in 2012. But the Honda factory team was still adamant that they wanted him to replace the retired Australian genius Casey Stoner in the top flight of the sport, even if that would mean having to ignore protocol.
“ MARC GOT ON THE BIKE AND BROKE A RECORD DURING HIS FIRST MOTOGP TEST. IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE.”
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Most wanted: Honda was adamant that Marquez would replace legendary retiring champ Casey Stoner, despite his never having raced in MotoGP.
Rookies normally have to gain experience with smaller teams before they get a ride with a big factory outfit. The Honda team boss will never forget Marquez’s first test on a MotoGP bike. “It was in Valencia,” says Suppo. “The first day it rained and we couldn’t get out to test. Some of the others were getting nervous, but when we finally got going on the second day, Marc got on the bike and broke the record for one section on his first stint. He was quicker than Stoner, [Valentino] Rossi and [Dani] Pedrosa. I took a picture of his data on screen with my phone. It was unbelievable.” Suppo is a cunning old bird who ran the Ducati team before the Japanese led him to the Honda Racing Corporation so that he could finally put Rossi and his Yamaha in their place. Suppo is not the type to be impressed easily. “You can judge young riders after their first season. You’ve either got it or you haven’t.” For someone to be quicker than the benchmark on their first outing, that was unheard of, even in the Darwinian world of 1,000cc motorcycle racing. When riders like Marquez hurtle around the track on their electronically enhanced 250hp missiles, they can tilt at an angle of up to 69 degrees to the track. (When they lean that far, the rider’s head disappears from the picture on the gyroscopic onboard cameras, and it’s not just their knee and elbow touching the tarmac; sometimes even a shoulder does.) The force generated is borne by two spots the size of credit cards on the standardized Bridgestone tires, whose surface temperature can pass 390°F. Wheel rims get so hot that you can’t touch them without wearing gloves. Repsol Honda’s chief engineer, Klaus Nöhles, a former world championship motorcycle rider, knows everything there is to know 62
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about his riders’ preferences, and what they really signify. “Marc needs the front wheel to be extremely stable. To put it bluntly, he doesn’t care about what the back wheel is doing. He is the only person whose rear wheel comes off the tarmac when he leans over fully because he brakes so hard coming into the corners.” And yet, he sometimes hits the floor, skids into the gravel or has to brake to an emergency stop. “Finding the limit is all part of it,” Marquez says with a grin and a shrug. “Otherwise you won’t be quick enough.” He used to crash a lot; now he knows the limit without necessarily having to go beyond it. But could his speed be due to his being used to electronic driving aids, as rumored by some? Suppo denies it. “He is so quick because he’s so quick. On the contrary, electronics help weaker riders look disproportionately good.” Nöhles says that the Repsol Honda work methods are the most structured he has ever witnessed in his career. “They come to the track with a specific idea and then only ever change one thing. They never do anything in a panic.” That is largely down to the calm and wise ways of Santi Hernandez, the head of Marquez’s engineering team. The Spaniard, who lives in London and has a great gift for smoking, is the young guy with the beard who appears thrilled in the background whenever Marquez wins. “It’s so easy working with Marc,” he says. “He says exactly what he wants and then goes faster than expected. He is also amazingly honest. If he makes a mistake and crashes, he comes into the pits and apologizes. So we don’t even have to start looking for mistakes in the setup.” Marquez works through disappointments very quickly, in no time beaming his big smile, which, says brother Alex, “the whole family has.” Says Suppo: “Casey Stoner was a prodigy on the bike, but he and Marc have completely different personalities. Marc arrives laughing every time and is happy to be here. That affects the whole team, which I’m grateful to him for on a daily basis. There’s no one who doesn’t like working for him. Marc makes us all younger.” The young man’s self-confidence is incredible. Last year, in front of 100,000 fanatic home fans in Valencia, he had to finish the final race of the season no lower than third to become the youngest world champion in history. Marquez tapped his team boss on the shoulder before the start and said reassuringly, “Don’t worry. Even if you tied one hand behind my back, I’d finish third.” It ended THE RED BULLETIN
up Jorge Lorenzo first, Dani Pedrosa second, Marc Marquez third. No risk taken, but he got the job done. He works well with his teammate Pedrosa, who, traditionally, ought to be his greatest rival. “They get on, they have a laugh, they even go and eat together,” says Suppo. Such camaraderie between competing teammates is unthinkable in other sports. The key to it here is probably mutual respect, helped by the fact that they’re in an extremely dangerous sport and so reliant on one another when they’re going wheel-to-wheel at 210 mph and there’s no carbon chassis to protect the body if something goes wrong. It wasn’t always like this, though. The two had a few nasty scrapes as they fought for the lead in the championship last season, and for a while there seemed to be trouble in the air. There’s no evidence of it now. They talked it through, man to man, says Suppo, who expresses his “respect for the way the two of them dealt with the situation.”
“ IT’S AS IF MARC HAS GREATER FAITH IN HIS BIKE’S ABILITIES THAN THE OTHER RIDERS DO.”
Pedrosa has been at the top of MotoGP for a decade and is the wiliest rider in the field after Valentino Rossi. Marquez’s current advantage, says Pedrosa, comes because he “isn’t just quick; he’s hard to overtake too. He brakes when he’s already leaning way over to come into the corner, which makes him very wide. There’s no way of getting around him on the outside. The only chance you have is to come in on his inside as you brake—but then you’ve still got to make the corner.” Former world champion Stefan Bradl agrees: “We’re all trying to crack him, but no one’s worked out how yet.” Maybe it’s down to training on dirt tracks, where Marquez got used to riding sliding motorbikes. “Marc has perfected braking with his leg splayed out wide,” says Nöhles. “He props himself up with a leg on the tarmac, while the bike seems to be dancing and careering out of control. Look closely and you can see that he is only guiding the bike very loosely, letting it find its own way, rather than clinging onto it for dear life like the other riders seem to. It’s as if Marc has greater faith in his bike’s abilities than the others do.” In addition to his consistent brilliance, there are magic Marquez moments where, out of nowhere, he manages to get one over on the rest of the field, almost as if for fun, sapping spirits even more. Such as securing pole position by a large margin on a circuit that favors Yamaha bikes—the kind with quick, open corners—ahead of three Yamahas and a Ducati, and then the other Hondas. And what does he have to say about that? A grin all over his face. Whoever gets a MotoGP pole position receives a watch from a sponsor. Marquez keeps the first one each year for himself. He gives the second to his father, then he works his way through the team. Engineer Hernandez now has four and always wears the most recent one. The others are in his apartment in London, where he also has a signed helmet from last year’s world title. “One day,” says Hernandez, “I’ll look back and won’t be able to believe that I was part of all this and got to work with someone like Marc.” Who can stop him going to greater success if even his rivals barely think they have a chance? Team boss Suppo knows. “Having a short, successful career is one thing. Having a long successful one is something else completely. Marc has what it takes to be even more successful than Valentino Rossi. The only thing that could possibly get in his way is if he falls in love with some stunning Brazilian and she whisks him off to a desert island.” www.redbull.com/faster
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TWO FOR THE Imagine that you’re building a car to win the toughest rally on Earth. It’s a trade-off between durability and performance: You need to be fast to take the Dakar Rally, but also survive the harsh conditions. So you need four-wheel drive, right? Wrong. One of motorsport’s greatest names is making a radical bid for victory.
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WO RL D’S F I RST Above: The Peugeot 2008 DKR cockpit shortly before its maiden voyage. The project has a lofty goal: Its makers want it to be the first two-wheel-drive, dieselengine car to win the Dakar. For Jean-Christophe Pallier, technical director of the project, it would be “a sensational first after 35 Dakar rallies.”
T H E LU M I N A RI ES Carlos Sainz (below), the 1990 and 1992 World Rally Champion, is part of a 2015 Dakar team alongside Cyril Despres, five-time Dakar winner on a motorbike, and Stéphane Peterhansel, who has won the Dakar 11 times, on both two and four wheels.
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n June 27, 2014, at Domaine de Galicet, a test track 40 miles west of Paris, a Peugeot Sport truck rolls into the parking lot and the mechanics get ready to busy themselves at the loading dock. They carefully unload their precious freight, an off-road buggy that looks like a Mars rover as it perches high above four huge lugged tires. It is all too clear that Philippe Wambergue, the man who owns the track, is moved by what he sees. The 66-year-old was once a racing driver and took part in 11 Paris-Dakar rallies himself. In 1989 and 1990 he drove a Peugeot 205 T16 Grand Raid factory car through the desert in Africa. The Domaine de Galicet is one of Peugeot’s favorite testing grounds, so Wambergue is used to being present at the birth of vehicles that go on to become motorsport legends. But today is exceptional, even for him: “It’s reawakened memories of what were very special times.” The Frenchman’s eyes light up as he talks of how Peugeot won the world’s toughest off-road rally four years in a row, from 1987 to 1990, before deciding to step back from racing. Carlos Sainz, the two-time World Rally Champion and winner of the 2010 Dakar, shares in the excitement. “The start of a new adventure is a huge moment— those first feet you drive in a new car. We’re full of hopes and expectations that will either now be fulfilled or dashed.” Sainz is already in his overalls and empties his pockets before clambering
into the car for its first test run. He hands his cell phone to one very well-known spectator: Stéphane Peterhansel, the most successful Dakar driver of all time, having won it on 11 occasions. He and Sainz will be driving for Peugeot in the Dakar Rally in January along with five-time winner Cyril Despres, who is swapping the handlebars of his Yamaha motorcycle for a steering wheel. Does he mind that he wasn’t chosen to drive those first feet in the new 2008 DKR? Peterhansel is dismissive. “Not at all. I understand that Carlos should be the one to take the first drive. He’s got more experience with two-wheel drive, and he’s raced the last two Dakars in Red Bull buggies, after all. But it’s still important for me to be here. You get a really strong sense of the spirit of the project here. That’s hugely inspiring for everyone who is present.” The project’s technical director, JeanChristophe Pallier, meanwhile, is keeping
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Carlos Sainz presses the start button of his Peugeot 2008 DKR and the 340 hp of the diesel engine comes to life. a low profile. “I’m always excited before a maiden drive,” he admits, “but this time maybe I’m a little bit more excited than I am normally.” The reason is simple. Pallier is responsible for the technical execution of what is an ambitious challenge: to end the supremacy of the 4x4, with two-wheel drive and a diesel engine. No such vehicle has yet won the Dakar, which was first held in 1978. “We ended up prioritizing the two-wheel drive’s climbing ability and its good handling on sand,” Pallier explains. “The regulations give us greater freedom when compared to the 4x4s: less weight, bigger wheels, longer suspension travel.” It is almost a year to the day since the ambitious project was launched, straight after winning at Pikes Peak, where Sébastien Loeb broke the track record he had long had his eye on using a Peugeot prototype. So how much Pikes Peak is there in the Dakar Peugeot? Almost none, says Bruno Famin, the director of Peugeot Sport, with a shake 70
of the head. “Tarmac and the desert are two completely different things. There’s no overlap. The 2008 DKR is almost the mirror image of the Pikes Peak car.” The reason that Peugeot was able to make such rapid progress in developing the 2008 DKR after a quarter of a century away from the Dakar is simple: Peugeot Sport never lost its love for the rally. Sainz presses the start button and unleashes the 340 hp of the V6 twinturbo diesel engine for the first time. It doesn’t produce the furious bark of the 208 T16 Pikes Peak. This sound is more reminiscent of the 908 HDi, which won the day at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2009. At one point, Sainz stalls the engine while toying with the clutch, but after a second start he can begin to flex his muscles. The car comes rolling out onto the track on its high wheels. For the first few feet, it looks rather hesitant, almost clumsy, even at this low speed. Four minutes later, driver and car are back safe and sound. Sainz appears to be somewhat embarrassed, but Pallier reassures him with a smile. “It’s completely normal that you stalled the car,” he says. “The pedal arrangements are still being tested.”
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On June 27, 2014, Peugeot engineers and drivers bore witness to a moment of history at the Domaine de Galicet test track: the letting loose of the 2008 DKR “beast of the desert.” The goal: To win the Dakar, and thus become the first two-wheel-drive vehicle with a diesel engine to do so.
ainz adjusts his seat position while the electronics engineers load the data recorded by more than 100 sensors. Once the seat position is right and all the data has been stored, he prepares for his second outing, which will be longer and much quicker. A good sign. Sainz isn’t thoroughly satisfied when he gets back. “No traction,” he says matter-of-factly. A young engineer standing next to project leader Pallier assiduously notes down every comment on the engine, chassis and gear ratio. Then Sainz sets off again, this time on a longer test track, which has terrain that’s very similar to the Dakar. This is first real test for the vehicle. Sainz clearly thinks so too. He goes hard on the car and makes all four wheels leave the ground to sound out the suspension travel when it lands again. Stones, sand and dirt all come flying up on the turns. The more difficult the terrain, the more commanding driver and vehicle appear to be. You can see how the huge 37-inch wheels and the massive 18.1-inch suspension travel (as opposed to 9.8 inches for traditional 4x4s) affect its handling. Peterhansel, who had until that point been a silent and attentive spectator on the sidelines, nods in approval. “The car seems a bit too high, but that’s normal.
We haven’t even got started on further development yet, after all. Today’s test was just about making sure that all the features work.” Once the 2008 DKR is back at base, Peterhansel checks the suspension travel. “Look at this,” he says, beckoning the engineers over to him and pointing out three screws that have come loose on the gearbox. Sainz had already noticed that there was something wrong with the handling and cut the test drive short so as not to risk any damage. And his prudence pays off: Just a few minutes after the necessary repairs are made, he can get going again, and this time he stays out on the track for hours. It is dark. Night has fallen over Domaine de Galicet by the time Sainz gives his first summation. “We didn’t drive that much, and plus, this was on a track that was more like a WRC course than the Dakar course, so it’s difficult to make comparisons with other cars that I’ve driven in the past.” He looks serious, but then breaks out into a smile. “Of course there’s still a lot to do when it comes to reliability and performance. However, the most important thing is that we know that the 2008 DKR has the potential that we’ve been working towards.” redbull.com/peugeot-returns
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Most people can hold their breath for about a minute, not nearly long enough to explore the sea’s mysterious depths. Most divers opt to stay strapped to an oxygen tank, but the adventurous go in search of bigger thrills. With the right training, it’s possible to hold your breath for several minutes and extend your body’s limits with the sport of freediving. After two days of training at the Blue Immersion freediving school on the Thai island of Koh Tao, rookie freedivers can plunge to 65 feet in three breathless minutes. The school teaches people to waken the mammalian diving reflex—our bodies’ natural instinct to adapt to a reduction in oxygen—enabling divers to go deeper. Stay for a month and you’ll be able to go past the 131-foot mark in five minutes. “Nothing prepares you for the thrill of descending in that deep blue silence,” says Carrie Miller, an SSI-certified freediver from Perth, Australia. “It’s incredible—another world opens up, another state of being. It’s pure clarity, like you’re part of the ocean.” Anyone can learn, but there are dangers. “The pressure increase puts the freediver under risk of lung squeeze, and the lack of oxygen can lead to a blackout,” says Linda Paganelli, a co-owner of Blue Immersion and a 15-time Italian freediving record holder. “Freediving regularly and gradually increasing the depth A two-day course helps. Being a relaxed and aquatic runs 5,500 baht or person counts more than being fit; $175. More details: blue-immersion.com that’s the real key to freediving.”
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DANCE TV Sam McTrusty was watching live on YouTube in 2012 when Felix Baumgartner jumped from the edge of space to Earth. When Baumgartner got back to the control room, McTrusty and 8 million other viewers heard a song playing in the background: “Free,” by Twin Atlantic, on which McTrusty sings and plays rhythm guitar. The Scottish rock quartet came to attention in the U.K. in 2011 with their second album, also called Free, and tours with top-flight bands like Blink-182. With their latest record, Great Divide, featuring 12 storming anthems ranging from heavy rock to heavyhearted, the band hopes to make its international breakthrough. Here, McTrusty reveals the songs that served as inspiration.
Glaswegian rhapsody P LAYLIST INSPIRED BY SPRINGSTEEN’S LYRICS AND FREDDIE MERCURY’S PIANO: THE TWIN ATLANTIC SINGER PICKS THE TRACKS THAT LEFT THEIR MARK ON HIS BAND’S LATEST ALBUM.
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1 Kanye West
2 Coldplay
3 Bruce Springsteen
“This came out when we were right in the middle of recording in Los Angeles. The track is so abrasive and pushing the boundaries in terms of what people expected from Kanye. We were inspired to experiment with our producer, Jacknife Lee, who helped turn our recording process upside down. He made us tune our guitars differently. It was refreshing.”
“Jonny Buckland from Coldplay is one of our favorite guitarists. He isn’t a virtuoso; he uses space really well and he never overplays. In ‘Fix You,’ he plays only four notes, but when that guitar line comes in in the song, it’s an emotional punch. He knows when to play and when not to. That’s something we aimed for on our new album.”
“This is a masterpiece in using imagery and music and lyrics, then connecting all together to create this cinematic thing. You don’t just hear the song, you feel it. Springsteen sings about escapism, wanting to look into the future and being excited about it. When I’m stuck on a lyric, I listen to this song for inspiration. It always helps.”
4 Pearl Jam
5 Queen
“When I began listening to guitar music I couldn’t get my head around Eddie Vedder’s vocals. I thought they were too muscular. Now I’m a Pearl Jam fan. This song has so much emotion in it, but it’s not cheesy. That’s a difficult thing to do; especially as a lyricist it’s easy to use clichés. Vedder finds new metaphors, uses his own language.”
“We used to listen to this song to learn mixing tips for recording in the studio, and we played it at concerts before we went on stage, to get the audience in the right mood. It’s quite something to live up to, but that’s why we did it. On the new album we used Freddie Mercury’s actual piano, the one he used to record this classic.”
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MAESTRO There’s no house without DJ and club culture, pioneered in New York in the late 1970s by the likes of Larry Levan. He and peers are recalled in this loving celebration.
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PUMP UP THE VOLUME Two-hour trip back to the birth of acid house in Chicago in 1984, with the essential tracks, first clubs and interviews with founding fathers like Marshall Jefferson.
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This speaker takes song requests by voice command and uses them to create an individual music program by making playlists from online sources. But what really makes it great is its ability to learn. Which songs do you repeat, and which do you skip? It saves all that info to learn your tastes and make better song choices. aether.com
THIS AIN’T CHICAGO In 1987, house music made it to Europe. In England, a new style developed with raves in fields and pills that helped all-night dancing, as eyewitnesses can attest.
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Faithful fellow: McTrusty sings ’n’ strings for Twin Atlantic.
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For over 125 years, Webster Hall has rocked New York.
BACK TO MY SPOT! AFTER THE PARTY IS THE AFTER-PARTY, AND AFTER THAT IT’S THE HOTEL LOBBY. AND AFTER THAT YOU’LL NEED A FEW APPS TO KEEP IT GOING.
TRAKTOR DJ Keep your Shakiraloving friend from taking control of the late-night playlist. This app lets you mix and scratch your way through your iTunes library on the touchscreen.
Hall of fame NEW YORK THANKS TO ITS 128 YEARS OF HISTORY, WEBSTER HALL IS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC MUSIC VENUES IN THE HEART OF MANHATTAN.
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MIXOLOGY
“There is no average night at Webster Hall,” says COO Rich Pawelczyk—and, indeed, it’s hard to imagine an average night when there are six rooms extending over four stories that feature both concerts from cutting-edge artists and club nights that last until dawn. It’s an inclusive place—the team at Webster Hall don’t cultivate and curate their crowd from behind a velvet rope. “People from all walks of life, every demographic, every zip code and passport come to Webster Hall,” Pawelczyk says. This attitude means the venue isn’t the flavor of the month—it’s been popular since 1886. Its impressive history draws in artists and crowds, and over the years Webster Hall has displayed diverse talent from Ray Charles to The Cure to Skrillex. “A perfect night at Webster Hall is when the artist responds to the crowd, and the crowd in turn feeds off the artist’s energy,” he says. This positive feedback loop creates an unending cycle, and the party never really stops. WEBSTER HALL 125 E. 11th Street, New York, NY 10003 websterhall.com
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INSIDER INFO TRAVIS BASS CREATES AND RUNS POP-UP CLUBS IN NEW YORK.
THE KIND OF PARTIES I THROW … ... stay fresh by moving location. People say New York needs it. They get very bored—but when they see something off the beaten path, they love it. A PARTY IS MADE BY … ... the energy and flow. I like my clubs to be dark. I like people to let go of their inhibitions. ON AN AVERAGE SATURDAY ... … I make sure the door is extra tight because I try to keep the reputation. I make sure my people are having a good time and have a good drink and meet good people. travisbassagency.com
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Sinn U 1000 B (EZM 6): Case is made of the same steel used for German submarines and waterproof up to 3,280 ft.
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Sinn wearers (l-r): Mountaineer Chris Jensen Burke on Lhotse, Nepal; a Eurocopter test pilot in flight.
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When your core customers are fighter pilots and wreck divers, making a watch that’s robust is priority number one. Oils lubricate the mechanisms on the inside of Sinn timepieces, allowing them to perform in a range of conditions, whether it’s 49 degrees below zero or 176 above. Even more sci-fi is the dehumidifying technology within each watch that keeps moisture from disrupting the mechanism’s smooth operation. Also on the inside, a soft-iron mesh protects the mechanism from potentially damaging magnetic fields. On the outer casing, a patented method of strengthening the hardness of stainless steel, developed in 2003, means that Sinn watches are super-scratchproofed. The firm has devised a watch, the HYDRO, for German special ops unit GSG 9, the dial and hands of which are held in a clear bath of fluid inside the watch case. (This aids in reading underwater, as there is no reflection and the glass doesn’t fog up.) Since liquids are extremely pressure resistant, to the point where they are almost incompressible, the HYDRO can resist pressure at any attainable depth. Deep-sea evildoers beware.
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P L AY TO WIN SPORTS GAMES OUT ON ALL FORMATS IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER
FIFA 15 Right your World Cup wrongs with the soccer game that outshines all others. Pre-order it and your in-game team can get Messi on loan. easports.com
Like it’s 1979: Alien: Isolation
Evil unleashed
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ALIEN: ISOLATION IN YOUR GAME ROOM, EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM: THE KING OF SPACE BEASTS IS BACK. With 2012’s Prometheus rebooting the Alien movie franchise for a new generation, a video game recalling the roots of the film seems like a no-brainer. But Sega released Aliens: Colonial Marines in 2013 to poor reviews, and fans feared a second round of disappointment with Alien: Isolation, Sega’s survival horror game based on the original Alien film of 1979. But a spectacular set of trailers and play tests at this summer’s E3 video-game show in Los Angeles have put all doubts aside. Playing as Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Sigourney Weaver’s four-film leading-lady Ellen Ripley, you find yourself on a giant spaceship, searching for the reasons behind your mother’s disappearance. Very quickly, those reasons become apparent, and they’ve got acid for blood and teeth within teeth. What the game’s British developer, The Creative Assembly, has done brilliantly is create a “low-fi sci-fi” feel— like you’re in a space movie 35 years ago. To create visuals that look like they were made on VHS video, VHS video was used. Musicians who soundtracked Alien the film worked on the score of the game. But this is no exercise in retro gaming; it’s a work of atmospheric adventure with a permanent pulse of heart-pumping dread. Out on Oct. 7 for both PlayStations, PC and both Xboxes. alienisolation.com
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It may come as a surprise to learn that the new Sherlock Holmes game, subtitled Crimes & Punishments, is the 10th in a series that began in 2002. This offers more of the same—brain-puzzling detection in 19th-century London—and something new: It’s inspired by the new BBC TV show Sherlock. Out Sept. 4 for consoles and PC.
NBA 2K15 It captures the soul of its sport like no other sports sim —it has more attitude than the Live series—and the gameplay’s great too. This year’s b-ball blast will be fronted by MVP Kevin Durant. 2k.com
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LINK AND ZELDA MAKE A SWORD POINT IN HYRULE WARRIORS The Legend of Zelda series is deep. Dynasty Warriors games are the opposite: flashy gameplay that pits your guy against multiple enemies, and the one-man attack usually wins. Combine them and you get the best-of-both-worlds Hyrule Warriors (out Sept. 26), a blast of a battle game and the best new title on Wii U.
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NHL 15 There’s something about hockey video games that makes them enormous fun even if you hate hockey. All of the U.S., Canada and big Euro teams and players are represented here. easports.com
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Brooklyn, Secret locations, naked poets, fire shows by Event producers BangOn! plan New York’s sometimes with only a few hours’ notice.
, 4:30 a.m.
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BangOn! parties in Brooklyn and advises attendees to “Let your inhibitions go!”
dawn’s early light and an undead bouncer. craziest underground parties — Words: Andreas Rottenschlager Photography: Julie Glassberg
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5 p.m.
Brooklyn’s Sugar Hill Restaurant & Supper Club is not exactly a temple of New York’s avant-garde party scene. It’s a single-story brick building dating to 1979, with plaster crumbling from the walls. The canopy above the door reads “Supper Club – Restaurant – Disco.” It’s early Saturday evening, and at the bar inside, a man hypnotizes a beer as Barry Manilow murmurs on the radio. In exactly seven hours from now, New York’s wildest underground party is due to kick off here: BangOn! NYC, with over 1,000 guests, DJs from Europe, and performances from Brooklyn’s artists’ scene. The theme of the night is “Danger Zone.” An email advises ticket holders: “Let your inhibitions go!”
6 p.m.
The underground party king of New York races across the backyard of the Sugar Hill, swearing. Brett Herman, 30, miraculously beard-free, has already been working 28 hours straight, and he still has to organize transportation for six tons of equipment here from a factory a couple of miles away. The factory, explains Herman, was, right up until midnight last night, the location for the “Danger Zone” party. But then the alcohol license wasn’t issued. “Somehow we had to spontaneously come up with a replacement location,” he says, rubbing his eyes. “We booked the Sugar Hill today at 2 o’clock this morning. Since then we’ve been here building a party setup from scratch.” 88
Brett Herman (the captain) founded BangOn! in 2008 with two friends.
These parties are organized like commando exercises.
Sugar Hill at 1 a.m.: Cool kids, models, fire-eaters.
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7:30 p.m.
A six-wheeler stops in front of the Sugar Hill: It’s the BangOn! task force. Men in shorts and vests jump down from the loading platform and schlep spotlights into the disco room. Shortly afterward, a 1996 Dodge Ram Van with a stage on its roof pulls up in the building’s back lot. This is the “boom box car,” and it looks
exactly like one, but on wheels. Despite the urgency, everything unfolds with practiced composure. The people at BangOn! have learned to think of events as commando exercises. Their mission: crazy parties in unusual locations. Ninja warriors duel in warehouses, brass bands play in abandoned grain silos. There are bouncy castles for grown-ups and readings by naked poets (Google, should 89
you wish to, “Tommy D Naked Man.”) Fifteen feet above the floor, they’re screwing a canoe to two steel girders: a stage for the night’s go-go dancers.
10 p.m.
The first highlight of the evening: a bouncer with the neck of a linebacker flashes his vampire teeth. The man looks like Wesley Snipes in Blade, only twice as big. He has reptile-eye contact lenses and a leather coat that reaches his boots. Super Snipes is not giving interviews.
10:30 p.m.
12:30 a.m.
There’s still a line in front of the Sugar Hill. As a leftover from the old game of hide-and-seek with the police, no fliers or posters are printed, and locations are kept secret until the last moment— it’s up to the guests to find the party. BangOn! simply scatters a few clues on Facebook. About 1,400 guests have already made it past the door and are pressed into the courtyard and on three indoor dance floors. Beats from the sound system shake the gutters. Two go-go 90
dancers climb onto the canoe stage. They’re wearing fighter-pilot helmets in honor of the “Danger Zone” theme, a reference to the Kenny Loggins song from the Top Gun soundtrack. The dancers salute. Fluorescent light tubes flash from their bras.
1:30 a.m.
The three BangOn! bosses—Herman, Monkiewicz and Gene Bradley, a bearded Australian—gather at the taco stand in the courtyard. How do they put together their performance program?
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Tim Monkiewicz is 30, with brown curly hair—the kind of guy you’d book for a beachwear shoot. In the disco room, he kneels down in front of the decks and tightens screws. He is one of the founders of BangOn!, and the crew’s sound tech. Before midnight, he says, there’s never a soul at the party. This gives him time to talk about the biggest police bust in BangOn!’s history. “Of course, early on everything was illegal. We put on parties in the craziest locations. We gave out phony addresses to throw the cops off the trail. No one was thinking about things like fire exits. One time, rotten wooden beams fell from the ceiling when we turned up the bass.” The first roofterrace party was held in July 2008. Initially there were 300 guests, then 700, and soon there were so many that they had to shift to empty industrial buildings. In 2010, 20 police officers stormed a hall where 2,000 partygoers were celebrating Halloween. “It was like a raid during Prohibition,” says Monkiewicz, “cops bellowing, tables kicked over.” That’s when he and the other BangOn! founders decided to stick to legal events. Relations with the NYPD have improved since: “The cops come by for almost every event. Maybe they just want to party for free.”
Left: Every BangOn! event needs a theme. Guests dance to a topic of “Secret Underwear” or “Short Shorts.”
Hipsters in vests do their best to dance casually. They each pull out their iPhones and scroll through contacts. They read out what they have for “Company” under each artist’s name: Herman: “Dwarf.” Monkiewicz: “Naked hula.” Bradley: “Specialist in body painting that glows in the dark.”
2 a.m.
The red-carpeted disco room is normally a venue for wedding parties. When Dan Ghenacia steps up to the decks, however, this place is a hothouse, at least 95°F. The
mirrors on the walls are fogged up. Ghenacia, the top act of the evening, arrived from France five hours ago. Resident Advisor, the leading online dance-music magazine, calls him the “king of the Parisian underground.” Right now, he is a king crowned and robed in sweat. In the crowd, girls twirl fluorescent hula hoops. Cool kids in vests do their best to dance casually. The room sways, hypnotized by a swirl of house beats and heat. In a corner, three superskinny girls stoically slurp their drinks. “Alexander Wang models!” an excited Monkiewicz later reports. 91
BangOn! dancers or Top Gun pilots? Above: Colin (left) and Mark spit fire for their lives.
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In the disco room, a petite woman is riding on a bass amp.
mohawked of hair, wears a sleeveless black plastic vest of a medieval design. He says he stitched the vest together from car mats. Mark and Colin are proud sons of Brooklyn. They both crack open their first cans of beer.
3:47 a.m.
Colin says that the atmosphere of the BangOn! parties reminds him of the raw charm of Brooklyn before the invasion of moneyed hipsters and the appearance of regular police checks.
3:48 a.m.
Mark explains that in the Brooklyn of the pre-hipster era, grown men used to spend their leisure time “smashing the windows of strangers’ cars and sleeping with their girlfriends on the backseat.” In telling this, his voice becomes melancholic.
2:30 a.m.
The fashion moment of the evening comes when Herman presents his “Danger Zone” outfit: a Navy dress uniform of white trousers, starched white shirt and outsized cap at a rakish angle. A captain’s insignia glitters on his shoulders. Still, he isn’t completely satisfied with the evening: “We’re still waiting on two performers.” He takes a big swig of beer before explaining his party philosophy. “At BangOn! we believe in the communicative power of craziness. We believe that strangers are more likely to laugh and start talking to each other when they’re painting their faces or admiring Tommy Naked Man. We want to shoot our guests way out of their comfort zone. Everyone should have a story to tell the day after a BangOn! party.”
The 2014 BangOn! New Year’s party in Brooklyn: Cirque du Soleil meets giant rave.
3:15 a.m.
In the disco room, a petite woman is riding one of the bass amps.
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3:45 a.m.
The two performers Herman has been waiting for slip unnoticed behind the boom box car. They look like extras from a Mad Max film. Colin has Wolverine sideburns, a greasy leather jacket and black boots. If you ask him where he comes from, he will show you the tattoo on the inside of his lower lip: Shaky numbers spell out “718,” the Brooklyn area code. Mark, brawny of body and
4:25 a.m.
Showtime. Mark and Colin climb on to the boom box car. Each man has two Poland Spring mineral water bottles dangling from his belt. Once on the roof of the car, Colin fishes torches from his backpack. Mark sparks up a Zippo. People crowd around beneath them. Colin and Mark each take a great swig from their bottles, which contain lamp oil, then blow fountains of flame into the sky. The heatwave is brief and intense, flaring in the faces of partygoers below. Hipsters take a step back; faces are ablaze with astonishment. Colin blows a second flame, arches his back, spits fire, coughs. Dawn is already stealing across the rooftops. Colin and Mark spit fire as if their lives depend on it. At exactly 4:30 a.m. the whole courtyard is staring at the boom box car as twin pillars of flame become one fiery column shooting 15 feet into the sky. This is the story everyone will tell about tonight: how two leather freaks on a Dodge Ram Van torched the air above the Sugar Hill. Anyone who was flagging before is now wide awake. Colin and Mark take a bow. Lamp oil trickles from Colin’s mouth.
8:15 a.m.
After a 42-hour working day, Brett Herman closes the club door. His eyes are blinded by the sun. In his white captain’s uniform, he strolls through the Brooklyn morning to the subway. bangon-nyc.com
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Sept. 26-28, 2014
TomorrowWorld Music Festival One of the world’s most famous electronic dance music festivals is making its way to North America. TomorrowLand, now TomorrowWorld, is moving from Belgium to Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, this year. This festival is a dream come true for EDMheads; it’s a fairy tale come to life with a mind-blowing lineup, dreamlike décor and a five-day camping experience. If you’re a true EDM junkie, don’t miss this year’s headliners: Avicii, Zedd, David Guetta, Skrillex and Tiësto. www.tomorrowworld.com
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Sept. 4, 2014
NFL Season Opener The NFL season kicks off with the Green Bay Packers vs. the Super Bowl champ Seattle Seahawks. Last time this happened, we witnessed one of the most infamous games of the century. Referred to as the “Fail Mary” game, in 2012, on the final play, with almost no time left on the clock, the referees gave separate signals—a touchdown and a timeout. Controversy ensued, as the teams had simultaneous possession, but the Seahawks were declared the winners. Tensions will be high, so gear up. www.nfl.com
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Emmy Awards When the contenders include Mad Men and Game of Thrones, you’re not going to want to miss this year’s Emmy Awards. Continuing cable TV’s win streak at the event, some of the winners from last year include Homeland’s Claire Danes, Boardwalk Empire’s Bobby Cannavale, and The Newsroom’s Jeff Daniels. This year’s host is going to be Late Night host Seth Meyers. www.emmys.com
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DUMBO Arts Festival Brooklyn is calling all art lovers to their neck of New York in late September with the DUMBO Arts Festival. You’ll find indoor and outdoor art installations, exhibits, performers and painters creating their works for 200,000 people. Artists who have previously exhibited at the show include Karhaus, Alan Ruiz and Amanda Craft.
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MUSIC Every single she puts out is like a hidden gem, from her EP London to her debut album Goddess, which drops in early September. Her name is Banks, and her U.S. tour will follow her 18-song release.
The Red Bull Air Race World Championship is heading to Sin City. The Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be hosting 12 pilots as they compete in the fastest and most exhilarating motorsport known to man. Keep an eye out for Hannes Arch, leading pilot in the Master Class, who knocked Paul Bonhomme from his position as No. 1 in the series.
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The Jackson Hole Marathon may be small, as the course was only certified in 2012, but it’s mighty … in reducing waste and going green. It’s an eco-friendly “cup-free” race in which runners are required to carry their own hydration systems to reduce litter on the trails. jacksonholemarathon.com
Is Florida State going to repeat as champions? Wanna bet on it? This is the first NCAA football season where the Bowl Championship Series is going to be replaced by the College Football Playoff, a four-team playoff, so, really, we mean it: Get your bets in early. www.ncaa.com
Jay-Z is doing it again, with round three of his Made in America music festival spread over the two coasts. The headliners in L.A. are Imagine Dragons, Steve Aoki, John Mayer and Kendrick Lamar, while Philadelphia is taking Kanye West, Tiësto and Pharrell. www.madeinamericafest.com
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Golf enthusiasts, listen up. The Ryder Cup is about to start, and for the first time, you can watch it live in America while it’s happening in Scotland, since NBC Sports, the PGA and the Golf Channel struck a massive liveTV deal. Get ready to cheer ... quietly and respectfully, as to not disturb the golfers. www.rydercup.com
FILM The movie adaptation of The Maze Runner is being called the next Hunger Games. It stars Dylan O’Brien, from MTV’s Teen Wolf, and English eye candy Kaya Scodelario. themazerunnermovie. com
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LEAVING TV FOR MOVIES
When AMC’s zombie show The Walking Dead staggers back to life for its fifth season this fall, 23-year-old Christian Serratos will portray Rosita Espinosa, a fan favorite from the Robert Kirkman graphic novel that inspired the series.
Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens (soon to be seen opposite Liam Neeson in A Walk Among the Tombstones) isn’t the first actor to bail on a hit TV show for the movies.
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1. George Clooney
(left ER in 1999) After Batman & Robin he was in demand as a movie star, so after five seasons Clooney hung up his scrubs.
2. Steve Carell
(left The Office in 2011) He stuck around for seven seasons, but the movie offers were too tempting. Now he has awards buzz for Foxcatcher.
3. Katherine Heigl
“She’s partial to very short shorts. I thought they could’ve been shorter.” I love the idea that there’s no aiming mechanism—it’s all feel and gut and intuition. It forces you to relax. It’s almost like meditating. Rosita also has an interesting wardrobe. She’s partial to very short shorts. I thought the shorts could’ve been shorter! Because of the comic book I knew I was going to be in that outfit; it wasn’t
a shock to me. People started asking, “Why is she wearing that?” but it’s who she is. I don’t think people realize that is probably the most realistic outfit to be wearing when it’s hot. They’re traveling, they don’t have air conditioning. I thought she had the best outfit for the apocalypse. The Walking Dead returns Oct. 12.
(left Grey’s Anatomy in 2010) Hot off a few hits, Heigl’s move seemed safe. Her next few movies bombed and now she’s headed back to TV to State of Affairs.
4. Shelley Long (left Cheers in 1987) She’s said the exit wasn’t all about movies, but a promising film career screeched to a halt after she made the leap.
5. David Caruso (left NYPD Blue in 1994) He jumped after one season, but Caruso’s movie dreams never materialized. He rebounded with CSI: Miami.
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Were you a Walking Dead fan before joining the cast? After I found out I got the role, I marathon-watched them all. I became completely obsessed ... whenever I’d see someone walking late at night on the street, the first thing I’d think was, “It’s a walker!” My everyday lingo became Walking Dead terms. Rosita is handy with a gun. I’d never shot or even held a gun before! The very first time I shot a gun on the show they slapped it in my hand, gave me a breakdown and said, “Go ahead!” Now I try to go to the gun range as much as I can and try to learn as much about as many weapons as possible, because you never know what they’re going to throw at you on set. Have you picked up any other special skills because of the show? I’m really obsessed with shooting traditional bows. I’ve never shot a traditional bow on the show, but going to the gun range and working with the weapons, it’s one of the ones I was drawn to. I’m completely enthralled with it. It’s really relaxing and I’m going to start doing that in my free time.
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Red Bull Ring Spielberg, Austria, June 22, 2014 You’re flying over the Formula One circuit in a Zivko Edge plane, which has a top speed of 250 mph, about 30 percent higher than the cars below. You do your stuff and everyone is captivated. What happens next is a spinning maneuver—and before you do it, what do you say to the tower?
“ Now I’m going to
turn off the engine.” MARKUS KUCERA
Red Bull Air Race pilot Hannes Arch lets off steam above the Red Bull Ring.
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