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Welcome Where do you want to go? This very special issue of The Red Bulletin is your time-travelling, multi-destination passport into the past, present and future. Arto Saari’s brilliant photo portfolio showcases how skateboarding has grown in the last 20 years. Then, the cream of the planet’s adventure sports athletes choose the best adrenalin playgrounds in the world right now. looking ahead, a field-leading futurologist trend-spots and analyses a route through to the future of football. Is a match-up of humans versus robots really only a few decades away? All the evidence presented by current technology says ‘Yes’. All that, plus an exclusive interview with Neymar, who might be about to have the summer of his life in, and for, Brazil. We hope you enjoy the issue.
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land of linkinWith the music industry in a state of flux, Linkin Park figured out how to make hits. What do they know that others don’t?
skate eyeBoarder-turned-photographer Arto Saari has captured his sport’semergence into the mainstream
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the aviatorPaul Bonhomme pulls more Gs than an F1 driver, but the aerobatic race pilot’s only fear is filling out a tax form
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into the deepWhy would you want to swim under the water when you can fly in a Super-Aviator, a one-of-a-kind submersible
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get the gearRickie Fowler brings colours to the fairways, but his new shoes are more than just a fashion statement
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Bullevard 12 gallery Amazing pics18 give peace a chance
Marking 100 years since the outbreak of World War I
Features 34 great adventures
Top destinations for extreme sports
46 linkin ParkThe secrets behind their staying power
50 neymar’s World cupPlaying without a care in the world while carrying the hopes of a nation
56 tiki taka techRobot players and virtual reality training: this is the future of football
62 Skate and shoot The amazing work of skateboarder- turned photographer Arto Saari
74 Paul BonhommeReigning champion of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship
76 RugmanThe London-based artist on how he turns Disney deities dark
78 the dream catcherThe man behind the new smartphone app that can record your dreams
action 84 Travel Plunging the depths85 geT The gear Kitted out for golf86 my ciTy A filmmaker’s Shanghai87 music Owen Pallett’s top tracks88 parTy Legendary London club, Fabric89 WaTches Breitling’s best90 Training Get fit for pole vault92 gaming The Evil Within94 buyer’s guide Weekend wear96 save The daTe Unmissable events98 magic momenT Running results A
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Brazilian footballer neymar came, saw and wrapped our photographer David Clerihew and writer Simon Kuper around his little finger. “He is one cool guy,” says Clerihew. “He has such a distinctive look, the job is half done before you start.” Kuper is a football columnist for the Financial Times and has written several books about the
beautiful game. “You almost never see a footballer show up on time for a meeting with people from outside football, but he did,” says Kuper. “Then there’s his smile, which is impossible not to love. After his dribble, I’d say that’s Neymar’s main weapon.” After undertaking serious
research ahead of his trip to meet the Barcelona playmaker, Kuper reckons he got Neymar to open up in ways others haven’t. And one other thing: “Isn’t it unfair that Barcelona, one of world’s nicest cities, also has one of the best football clubs?” The interview begins on page 50.
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neymar gets patriotic in a Barcelona studio
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Ever wondered how football will look in 50 years? That was the task we set Austrian illustrator Tom Mackinger this month when we peered into the crystal ball of football’s future. “The mix between illustration and infographic has demanded a lot of discipline,” says Mackinger, whose work has appeared in Forbes, Men’s Health and The New York Times. “I had to incorporate many different elements, such as cameras in the pitch, fan-controlled matches and hologram defenders.” The results appear from page 56.
arto sa ariThe Finnish photographer learned his way around a lens after he became a pro skateboarder at the tender age of 16. Now 32, Saari is a still top skater and has brought the strength, agility, and grace
of his sport to The Red Bulletin this month for a pictorial that catches skaters in unguarded moments away from the
traditional competition circuit. “It helps to have a drained pool in my backyard,” says Los Angeles-based Saari, “it allows me to capture the impromptu action.” His portraits start on page 62.
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H I E N D E L AE N C I NA , S PAI N
leisure pursuits
Alfredo Gomez, one of the world’s best enduro riders, has an unusual hobby: enduro racing. Here he
is, in his free time, ploughing his Husqvarna bike over a flat dirt track. That, too, is uncommon: enduro
is mostly about thrashing a bike down steep slopes until you can thrash no more. The thing is, says the
Spaniard, “I love anything that burns petrol.” alfredogomez.com
Photo: Alberto Lessmann/Red Bull Content Pool
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rushin’ russianAt the first race of the Formula One season in Melbourne, Daniil Kvyat finished ninth. By scoring World Championship points in his debut race, the Scuderia Toro Rosso driver, aged 19 years and 24 days, beat the old record for youngest points- scorer, held by Sebastian Vettel. Kvyat has since turned 20 and, after five races of F1 in 2014, had three top-10 finishes. “There’s no such thing as a prodigy in motorsport,” says the man from Ufa, about 1,200km east of Moscow. “Just hard work.”scuderiatororosso.com Photo: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images/Red Bull Content Pool
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spray timeTeammates vying for the world title is a hot topic in motorsport. Atop the World Rally Championship are Frenchman Sebastien Ogier, reigning champ, and Volkswagen teammate Jari-Matti Latvala. In the fourth special stage of the Rally de Portugal, Latvala first found a water feature, and later flipped over spectacularly, which led him to finish 14th (Ogier won). “That’s rallying,” said the Finn, who bounced back to win the next race, in Argentina. jmlatvala.com Photo: Richard Balint/Volkswagen Motorsport
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a christmas miracle Hundreds of German and British soldiers agree their own truce on the Western Front in Flanders, after months of fighting during World War I. Christmas is more important than war, and for one afternoon, the enemy troops shoot at goal, not each other. The no man’s land between the trenches becomes a football pitch, their caps marking the goals. Legend has it that, of course, the Germans won 3-2, but the winners did at least have the decency to provide a barrel of beer.
TOMMY VERSUS FRITZ
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WomanSocialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg says we should strike, not fight. She campaigns for workers’ rights, is jailed for incitement to civil disobedience and killed by German
soldiers in 1919.
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P r i Z EThe Red Cross receives the Nobel Peace Prize
for its good works during the War. To this day, military hospitals and staff carrying the
red symbol are off-limits in international law.
b l O O d b A n k Oswald Hope Robertson is the first man to carry out a blood transfusion using blood that had been stored. His medical breakthrough goes on to save millions of lives. It’s quite an improvement on the first ‘transfusion’, in 1492, when a dying Pope Innocent VIII drank the blood of three 10-year-old boys. All four of them died.
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World War I began 100 years ago, on July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. In this special section we pay tribute to 101 people and ideas who have defied this kind of madness and championed peace and humanity ever since19 14
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“ I do not b el ieve i n t he law of hate . I may not b e t r ue to my idea ls a lways , but I b el ieve i n t he law of love , a nd I b el ieve you ca n do not h i n g w it h hat re d .”c l a r e n c e da r r o w ( 18 5 7 — 1 9 3 8)
girl power The suffragettes of the 1910s are no longer willing to be second-class citizens. They want to mark a cross on the election ballot. They roll up their sleeves, go on strike and hold demonstrations including chaining themselves to railings and setting postboxes on fire. By the end of the decade, 27 countries have given women the vote; America follows suit in 1920. Slowest on the uptake are the Swiss. In the district of Appenzell Innerrhoden, women have only had the vote since 1990.
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C l a r e N C e d a r r O W is a fierce Ohio lawyer with a mission to defend the innocent. A few months after defending a schoolteacher for teaching evolution (still a hot-potato subject in the US) he joins a headline-grabbing trial in Detroit, of a group of black men accused of murdering a white man who was part of a mob that had stormed a house. Darrow’s closing argument, lasting seven hours, convinces the jurors of the defendants’ innocence and becomes a key text in the civil rights movement.
r a d i O The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) goes on air and lays the cornerstone for press freedom and impartiality. People in trouble spots worldwide tune in to the BBC news, often risking their personal safety to do so. Jolly good show, indeed.
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19 17 r e d C r O S S N O B e l
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The man who brought down apartheid in South Africa, and
embodied peace and reconciliation
worldwide, is born.
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192 0 e l e C T r O N i C M u S i C
Technological advances don’t come more soothing than this: the Theremin, forerunner of the
synthesizer, makes its public debut.
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Lady Liberty looks relaxed. The US mints Art Deco peace dollars.
192 2 ‘ T H i S i S T H e B B C ’
192 3 H i T l e r O u T !
Feminist activists Anita Augspurg and Lida
Gustava Heymann, try, in vain, to have Hitler
expelled from Germany for incitement of
the masses.
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The American Peace Award, endowed by
Edward W Bok to the tune of $100,000, is awarded for the first
time. It wasn’t awarded again until 2008.
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A bear, a piglet, a donkey, an owl and
a rabbit all live in harmony in the wood.
Because the most important thing is
friendship. And honey.
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Sent by US missionary Sidney Gulick to Japan, to foster friendships
among children.
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The German WWI vet secures a publisher
for his book, All Quiet on the Western Front, which becomes the
classic pacifist novel.
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The famous nun moves to India on her mission of service to
the poorest of the poor.
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Declares his country independent. Britain doesn’t recognise it for 17 years; Gandhi practises his non-violent struggle.
193 1 P e a c e O F m i n D
The a hangover loses its first battle to
Alka-Seltzer when the miracle treatment is introduced in the US.
193 2 e i n S t e i n a n D F r e u D
193 3 O L D a n D B O L D
In Berlin, 91-year-old Julie Bonhoeffer
breaks a Nazi cordon to shop at a Jewish-
owned store.
193 4 r i G h t i S W r O n G
A right-wing coup in France is thwarted. Several anti-fascist organisations are
founded in its wake.
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Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron,
Ohio, USA.
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The Phantom, the first fully costumed superhero, begins
fighting crime in US newspapers on Feb 17.
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W h Y Wa r ? Alber t Einstein a smart fellow if ever there was one, has one problem that he just can’t get his head around. “Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?” he asks fellow genius Sigmund Freud. In reply, the Austrian shrink says, “The ill success… of all the efforts made during the last decade to reach this goal leaves us no room to doubt that strong psychological factors are at work which paralyse these efforts.” In English: people, foolishly, like destroying things.
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1 9 37 GUERNICAG e r m a n B O m B e r S destroy the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Pablo Picasso captures the ruins and suffering on canvas in his famous painting, which he says can be given to Spain once Franco’s fascist dictatorship has come to an end. Sadly, the artist did not live to see it: he died in 1972, nine years before his greatest work came home.
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“This train is going to hell.” These words come to Franz Jagerstatter in a dream, and will him to vote against Austria’s Anschluss with Nazi Germany,
the only person in his village to do so. He is executed in 1943 and beatified by the
Pope in 2007.
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When Norway is occupied by Hitler’s troops, naval officer turned pacifist Olaf Kullmann pedals his
bike around the entire country in protest. He died in a concentration
camp in 1942.
19 4 1 M U M ’ S T h e W O r D
Mother Courage, Bertolt Brechts
anti-war play, is first performed, in Zurich.
19 4 2 A N N e F r A N k
In the red-and-white chequered notebook she got for her 13th birthday, the Dutch
girl begins a diary of her family’s two years
in hiding from the occupying Nazis.
19 4 3 k e e p i N G T h e p r O M i S e
In Albania, besa refers to a code of honour
which must be upheld. In WWII, the
country is 70 per cent Muslim, but besa means its people ignore religious
differences to save 2,000 Jews from Nazi persecution.
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German industrialist Oskar Schindler
catalogues, for the Nazis, indispensable staff required for the
smooth running of his munitions factory,
thus saving the lives of 1,200 Jews.
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9josephine baker, a girl from Missouri, dances her way into the hearts of Parisian audiences at scandalous revue shows and from there takes continental Europe by storm. When the Nazis occupy France, she doesn’t want to sing any more. She works for the Resistance instead, sweet-talking officers to get information out of them and smuggling secret documents over the border. When that fight ends, another begins: Baker goes on to support the civil rights movement in the US.
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1 9 4 5 W O R L D I N M O T I O N : T H E U N I T E D N AT I O N S “To keep peace throughout the world.” That is one of the pillars of this international community of 193 member states established on October 24, 1945. Even if it doesn’t always succeed, that ambitious mission statement is inarguably noble.
What’s the bigger scandal here? The naked ladies on stage, or the uniforms of the men watching? Josephine Baker knows the answer
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G I V E M E A S I G N Graphic designer Gerald Holtom is asked to make a logo for the CND’s first major protest march. And he comes up with a new Mercedes star. That’s not quite fair: his design incorporates the letters N(uclear) and D(isarmament) as displayed by the flag-wavers doing semaphore, inside a circle.
S p u t N I k 1 is launched into orbit from what is now Kazakhstan. The era of space travel begins with the Soviet satellite, which gives us a new perspective on our home planet. Many people learn that the Earth is smaller and more worthy of protection than they had previously thought.
pablo picasso doesn’t come up with the dove as a symbol of peace. The white bird with an olive branch in its beak was a peace-loving icon in the Bible. But it is the painter from Malaga who makes the bird the emblem of the modern peace movement. He is asked to design a poster for the International Peace Congress in Paris and makes the white dove its centrepiece. Childhood memories could have come into it, too. His father, an art teacher, enjoyed painting pictures of pigeons and doves above all else.
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R O S A pA R k S , an African-American secretary from Alabama, refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, as instructed by the bus driver. Her brave action is one of the key moments in the Civil Rights Movement in the US.
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The Fulbright Program sends US scholars
and students overseas to learn and educate.
1 9 4 7 S A V I N G L I V E S
Raphael Lemkin coins the term genocide and
lays the foundation for its prevention and punishment.
19 4 8 k E E p I t p E A c E F u L
The UN dispatches peacekeepers for the
first time, to the Middle East.
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Occupation of the North Sea island by
former residents leads to its return to civilian life after military use.
19 5 1 t H E R I G H t t O F L I G H t
The UN regulates humanitarian care
of refugees.
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The US humour mag’s satire and critique
would go on to inspire students worldwide.
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Imre Nagy appointed leader of communist Hungary, but breaks with Soviet ideology.
19 5 4 At O M I c B O M B S H E L L
Franco-German thinker Albert Schweitzer
warns of the dangers of the nuclear arms race.
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Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces Stalin in the four-hour
Secret Speech.
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hundreds of thousands of people gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to hear civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King deliver his speech for equality and against racism. Advisors had actually cut the “I have a dream...” passages, but King improvises them back in during his 17 minutes at the microphone and writes a truly significant page of history.
I HAVE A DREAM
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Hungarian censorship does not quash journalist and
Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertesz’s
drive to write about his experiences. His 1975 novel
Fatelessness, about a teenage boy in
the Holocaust, gets worldwide acclaim.
19 59 I c y c o l D wA R t R u c E
Twelve countries, including the Soviet Union and the US,
agree that the uninhabited Antarctic will only be used for peaceful purposes
and scientific research.
19 6 0 I M R E K E R t E S Z
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British philosopher Bertrand Russell intervenes in the
Cuban Missile Crisis by sending telegrams
to Kennedy and Khrushchev. He
warns them of the consequences of
impending nuclear war, and they listen.
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t w o S t u D E N t S drink a toast to freedom in Lisbon and are arrested. Reading of this injustice is allegedly what makes English lawyer Peter Benenson start Amnesty International. The organisation has fought for political prisoners and against human rights abuses all over the world ever since.
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Dr Strangelove Or How I Learned To
Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, a
potent and hilarious anti-nuclear war film, comes at the height
of the Cold War.
19 6 5 F l o W e R P o W e R
The slogan for the anti-war movement
supposedly comes to US poet Allen Ginsberg
during an LSD trip.
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Peace activist Abie Nathan flies from
Israel to Egypt on his Shalom 1 plane to
urge peace talks. He is arrested on landing.
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Jan Rose Kasmir holds a daisy to the bayonet of a soldier at a demo outside the Pentagon and becomes an icon of the anti-Vietnam
War movement.
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At the Mexico Olympic Games, 200m
medallists Tommie Smith (gold) and
John Carlos (bronze) give the Black Power salute on the podium.
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With his appointment as assistant bishop of San Salvador, Oscar
Romero’s stand against social injustice and the dictatorial government becomes more visible. In 1980, as Archbishop, he’s killed saying Mass.
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The same year a two-year-old environmental
organisation makes its first waves after
US coastguards turn its boat back before it can reach an Alaskan
nuclear-test site, it also settles on a
name: Greenpeace.
T H e l I e o F T H e l A N d This is how John Lennon and Yoko Ono spend their honeymoon. For a week they welcome journalists to the Presidential Suite of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel to promote world peace. The press pack expects something scandalous, but the newly-weds keep things chaste. They just sit there among the pillows and placards, “like angels”, as Lennon puts it.19 6 9
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rumble in the jungle Muhammad Ali and George Foreman punch each other’s lights out and it’s somehow about peace? Not right there in the ring, maybe, but that legendary fight for the world heavyweight championship in Kinshasa, in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) raises the profile and self-esteem of an entire continent. And with the eyes of the world on Africa, what dictators want hidden can be seen. Muhammad Ali, conscientious objector, wins again.
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19 7 5 NAU T S C RO S S OV E RTwo years before Star Wars, the biggest thing in space is no science fiction, but Cold War-defying fact. Alexey Leonov is weightless alongside Deke Slayton after the first joint US-Soviet space mission. An Apollo module docks with a Soyuz craft, after which three astronauts and two cosmonauts spend 44 hours together.
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Nick Ut’s photo of a naked napalm-burned
Kim Phuc turns public and political opinion against the
Vietnam War.
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Over 1bn watch Elvis in Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite, the first
concert broadcast live in this way.
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Peace People is formed of Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.
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In Argentina, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo demand to know what happened to their children ‘disappeared’ during the Dirty War.
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…and feel alright: Bob Marley reconciles rival Jamaican politicians on stage at the One Love Peace Concert.
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The greatest war movie ever made is released.
Peace KO’d: Muhammad Ali v George Foreman
for the heavyweight crown – and
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5b u r n i n g u p At a small event on Baker Beach in San Francisco, the eponymous wooden sculpture defining the Burning Man Festival is set alight for the first time. Today, pyromaniacs and the counter-cultural meet in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, to honour the Burning Man’s 10 principles: radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation, immediacy. In a nutshell: peace.
THE WORLD STAGE Bob Geldof rounds up rock and pop royalty for two simultaneous concerts on July 13 in London and Philadelphia. More than 1.5 billion people watch Live Aid live on TV, and the next day the donations are around £50 million, about £135m in today’s money. Queen, U2, David Bowie and The Beach Boys do turns; Phil Collins flies on Concorde to appear at both venues. Led Zeppelin, The Who and Black Sabbath reform for a day to fight hunger in Ethiopia and, like many of the acts, enjoy a boost in record sales.
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Jadav Payeng plants a tree on the banks of
the Brahmaputra in India. Where there
was once just a single tree, there are now
over five million.
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William Thomas pitches his tent by the White House as
a protest against nuclear weapons. He would stay 27 years.
19 8 2 D E A r M r p r E M i E r
US schoolgirl Samantha Smith, 10,
writes to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov.
He writes back. Samantha realises
they’re “just like us”.
19 8 3 L i T T L E A L O n g WAY
Muhammad Yunus founds the Grameen
Bank, which gives microloans to the
poorest of the poor.
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Designer Katharine Hamnett wears an anti-nuclear slogan
T-shirt while meeting Margaret Thatcher at an official reception.
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In Canada, the Raging Grannies group of elder ladies forms to protest
against nuclear-powered US Navy ships
in Victoria harbour.
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One of the most powerful anti-war films, an animated drama from Japan,
is released.
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David Hasselhoff sings Looking For Freedom
to 100,000 fans from a crumbling Berlin Wall.
T H E B E ST PE AC E S ONG S OF A L L T I M E
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G e t To g e t h e r
“Come on, people now. Smile on your brother.
Everybody get together. Try to love one another.
Right now!”
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O n e V i s i o n
“No hate no fight Just excitation!
All through the night It’s celebration.
Wo-wo-wo-wo-yeah!”
2 0 03 M i C H A E L F r A n T i B o m b T h e W o r l d
“We can chase down all our enemies, bring them to their knees.
We can bomb the world to pieces. But we can’t bomb
it into peace.”
19 7 1 C AT S T E V E n S P e a c e T r a i n
“Everyone jump upon the peace train.
Come on, come on, come on.
Yes, come on the peace train.
Yes, it’s a peace train.”
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RED BLOODED PERFORMANCE
1 9 9 0 I n t e r n e t r o m a n c e
Tim Berners Lee invents the World
Wide Web. It’s thanks to him we can now
tweet and hyperlink messages of love.
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1 9 9 3 V I k t o r P o P k o V
The Russian pacifist delivers food to
Abkhazian towns besieged by Georgians.
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1 9 9 5 P e a c e V I l l a g e s
Areas free of violence founded in crisis-torn parts of Latin America.
1 9 9 6 w r I t e s t u F F
Yoko Ono asks fans to write their wishes on bits of paper and attach them to her
wish trees.
I n t h e r u b b l e o F s a r a J e V o Vedran Smailovic sits in the ruins with his cello and plays Tomaso Albinoni’s Adagio in G-Minor while the war-torn city is shelled by Bosnian Serb troops. Thousands of people lose their lives, with 22 civilians queuing for bread among the first victims. The cellist performs 22 solo concerts on 22 consecutive days, at exactly the time and place a grenade hit, each time wearing his tails, and each time putting his own life at risk.
premiers in league? Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker no doubt spent plenty of time together, as the respective heads of the Soviet Union and East Germany, but exactly how close they got is not recorded in the official minutes. In 1991, the USSR shows solidarity with the GDR in together exiting the stage of world history. Muscovite artist Dmitri Vrubel paints his most famous work – the goodbye kiss – on the Berlin Wall.
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l o V e k I l l s The Pentagon comes up with the concept for a new sort of “weapon”: the sex bomb, but – sadly? – they never produce it. Aphrodisiacs would rouse the enemy to the point of sexual ecstasy and put them out of action without force of arms. The bad breath bomb was also shelved.
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South Korean Okhwan Yoon sets off on a
round-the-world bike ride aiming to reconcile North and South Korea. Number of countries
visited: 192. Crashes: 6.
YOGA: FOR INNER PEACE“Sun salutation” and “mountain pose”. Yoga has promoted harmony between body and mind for thousands of years. But Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar is the first person to systematise the various yoga poses. That makes yoga popular in the West, which is why Time magazine lists the guru among the world’s 100 most influential people. It is an honour that will probably never be awarded to yoga starlet Tara Stiles, but she has time on her side.
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hot pillsSearching for a high
blood pressure treatment, scientists discover a drug that
unleashes high pressure somewhere else. Viagra provides
peace of mind between the sheets ever since.
2 0 0 0 bAng!
The British Royal Navy orders its soldiers to stop
using live ammunition. They
are to shout “Bang!” instead. Sadly this
only applies to training exercises and new recruits.
1 9 9 7 L I B R A R Y I N T H E S A D D L E
Luis Soriano rides his donkeys to remote
villages in Colombia and lends out the books they have carried there. His library has grown
from 70 titles when he started out to
more than 4,500 now.
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1 9 9 9 A N N A P O L I T K O v S K AYA
The Russian journalist begins her columns
critical of the Kremlin and on the horrors of the war in Chechnya.
She is murdered seven years later.
2 0 0 0 F I R I N G B L A N K S
2 0 0 1 C Y C L I N G A R O u N D T H E
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2 0 02 N O H O m E F I E L D
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SportsUnited takes Americans abroad and brings young
foreigners to the US to do sport together,
in a scheme to promote international
dialogue and co-operation.
2 0 03 P E A C E R A C E
Tegla Loroupe is the first African woman to win the New York City Marathon. Back home in Kenya she organises an annual Peace Race, where politicians and soldiers from all over
East Africa run together instead of waging war
on each other.
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2 0 0 5 F O O T B A L L I N G T R u C E
When Ivory Coast qualifies for the World Cup in Germany, Didier Drogba goes on TV and asks the parties in his country’s civil war to
“lay down your arms!” It begins peace talks
and a truce is observed from 2007-2010.
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In the Himalayas, the border crossing between India and
Chinese Tibet at Nathu La reopens
after 44 years.
2 0 0 7 S k AT E I S TA N
2 0 0 8 F O O T b A l l d I P l O m A C y
Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan and his Turkish
counterpart Abdullah Gul watch a World
Cup qualifier between their two countries together on TV: no
small measure, due to the Turkish genocide
of the Armenians during World War I.
2 0 0 9 S O u N d S O F wA r
The British Post War Orchestra makes
musical instruments out of old weapons,
thus turning the harmful harmonious.
2 0 1 0 d O u b ly G O O d
India’s Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-
ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan team up in doubles and show
that tennis can bridge the political divide. They go on to reach
the final of the US Open.
2 0 1 1 T O m O k r I Z N A r
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In June, 100 years after the assassination in Sarajevo that
triggered World War I, Bosnia’s capital will host thousands of
young people, activists and peace
researchers from around the world.
There they will share info, hold discussions and party for peace.
Mir svijetu! (Peace to the world!)
2 0 07skateistan With three skateboards in his luggage, Oliver
Percovich heads from his homeland of Australia to war-torn Kabul. It doesn’t take long for the skateboards to attract the attention of
local kids. With every trick and ride, social barriers disappear and a little light is shone on dark lives. Percovich’s bright idea
becomes an NGO, Skateistan. He gives courses and arranges for a skatepark to be built. Soon, his young freestyle pupils are a
common sight in the city – and about half of them are girls.
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anonymous is still the leading hacktivist group, promoting freedom and ‘lulz’ with anti-corporate stunts.
PEACE AT THE PUSH OF A BUTTON
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are 36m high, remote, demanding and dangerous
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American Fred Norquist had to abseil down into
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“The reward was worth the hassle,” he says. “A
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Ten years ago, the municipality wanted to rebuild the dilapidated dam. Thankfully they didn’t. The Ruins create extreme waves, the biggest waves I know of. Which means a huge amount of airtime when you take off and you can perform tricks that you couldn’t do anywhere else. The current is also damned fast, intense and steady. You never have to wait for a wave. Or, to put it another way, you never get your breath back. It’s paradise.
Dane JacksonKayak freestyle world champion
o t t a w a r i v e r , C a n a d aThe Deschenes rapids, west of the capital city, are fascinating and dangerous. The Ruins, the remains of a 19th-century dam, have turned these rapids into a kayaking whirlpool and wave paradise. There is no better place for whitewater freaks, especially in the spring when the river is in flood.
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Sandstone paradise. You can choose from a wonderfully large selection of demanding, unspoiled routes. The best thing of all is the quality of the rock face. All the compact sandstone’s grips are nice. There are no sharp edges or broken fragments: that’s a real luxury. But sometimes the rock gets so hot that freeclimbing isn’t possible here. Oh, and look out for the monkeys! They’re as quick as a flash and notorious thieves. Food, rucksacks, lighters. Always leave your stuff out of sight.
KiliAn FischhuberWorld-class competitive climber and boulderer
B a d a m i , I n d i aAbout 150km south of the well-known Indian bouldering location of Hampi is the small town of Badami, which is gaining favour with competitive climbers. There is wonderful sandstone to climb. That badami has barely been developed for tourism means you can choose your own climbing routes, many of them unspoiled. There’s an old-style sense of adventure here. The downside: rural india public facilities and infrastructure.
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Life in Tahiti takes place in the water, and Teahupo’o is one of the most infamous surfing locations in the world. Its powerful waves and the reef just below the surface of the water are a dangerous combination and even top surfers get scared. My tip for those on their first surfing trip to Teahupo’o is to wait for the gentlest conditions! Ideally, you should paddle out at low tide between five and nine in the morning. The best-case scenario would be waves from the south-west, a northerly wind and clear water.
MIchel BourezASP World Surfing Tour event winner
ta h i t i , F r e n c h P o l y n e s i aPeople have been surfing in Tahiti since the 1960s. conditions are consistently good between May and September when the wind – the so-called ‘roaring forties’ because this is about 40 degrees latitude – creates permanent waves that break off the Tahitian coastline.
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e l o y , U S AA small town in the middle of the Arizona desert is the centre of the biggest skydiving region in the US, and a hotspot for parachutists who flock here from all over the world. Its favourable climate offers good conditions all year round: hardly any rain, wind or clouds. There is a large number of both skydiving clubs and suitable aircraft.
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ThOmas de dOrlOdOTParaglider who once flew 225km in eight hours
v i c t o r i a Fa l l s , Z a m b i a / Z i m b a b w eOn the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, these falls are the largest in Africa. The Zambezi river, almost 1,700m wide at this point, drops 100m into a narrow gully. locals call the resulting mist of spray mosi-oa-Tunya, the smoke that thunders. It can reach 300m into the air. Book an official guided tour by helicopter if you want to see the falls from above.
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L a b r a d o r , C a n a d aThere are only 400 people living in the hamlet of Makkovik, on the north Canadian coast. The average annual temperature is 0°C: ideal conditions for icebergs, which drift not far off land even at the height of summer. And these are very particular icebergs. The significant difference between the temperatures of the core and the surface create such tension that an iceberg could explode at any second and fall to pieces.
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If you want to go ice climbing in Makkovik, it will be hard to convince a local to take you out to an iceberg by boat, because they will think you’re crazy when you say what you’re planning to do. They know icebergs roll over, which is dangerous for anyone nearby. When I was on the iceberg, every strike of the ice pick went right to the tips of my toes. I thought the area I was hanging onto would break off and take me with it. And that happened when I was back in the boat. Exactly where I’d been climbing, a chunk broke off and fell into the water. A great experience, but I wouldn’t do it again.
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the red bulletin: The Hunting Party has a heavy, propulsive sound. It’s a style not often heard these days. Why did you take that route?mike shinoda: I read a piece somewhere online with the headline ‘Rock Music Sucks Now And It’s Depressing’. Its tone was, think back to Nirvana, and then think about where rock is at right now. His gripe was, ‘Really? Rock is like Mumford & Sons?’ The word he used was ‘pussified’ rock. I have felt this way at various points – that there’s this thing that is missing out there that I want to hear. If we wanted to fill that void, where would we go to fill it? What would we listen to? It ended up being albums like The Shape Of Punk To Come by Refused, At the Drive-In’s Relationship Of Command and the first couple of records by Helmet. When I go back to those albums, I feel like that’s the visceral, grimy inspired music. You’re about to go on a massive tour with Thirty Seconds To Mars and AFI. It seems like this kind of heavy rock music is best when it’s played live in front of a lot of people.dave farrell: Totally. It’s good that
When Linkin Park released their first album, Hybrid
Theory, in 2000, people still bought cassettes to listen to
in the tape decks of their car, Napster was just taking off and
the best way to hear new music was on the radio. Times have changed, and no band has adapted better than Linkin Park. With the release of their latest album, The Hunting Party, they can anticipate hitting the top of the album charts for the fifth time in a row, a streak that extends more than 10 years. A thrashy guitar throwback to the days when rock music actually rocked, The Hunting Party has been marketed and distributed in the same innovative style that has earned the six-piece fan allegiance for more than a decade, this time employing everything from smartphone apps to video games. Band founder and rapper Mike Shinoda and bassist Dave Farrell sat down with The Red Bulletin in West Hollywood to talk about the state of rock and the brave new world of geekery.
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one. They never got us one, but once I got a generation one Nintendo, that literally defined me for like years. df: My brother and I, on the game RBI Baseball, we used to keep stats. We set up our whole season, with each team playing each other team maybe three times.ms: You played a whole season?!df: Dude. It took us months and months and months. And we’d always update, from the game, the top pitchers, the top batting averages, stolen bases. It was really crazy. Technology, games and otherwise, has changed radically since then – do you think you’ve adapted well?ms: Over time, the technology part of it is something that’s just built in to the band. It’s as simple as, like, this morning, I just showed Chester [Bennington, the lead singer] this photo app I just found out about, Facetune. It’s a photoshopping, airbrushing thing that’s really good at smoothing out people’s faces and wrinkles. And I know that some people are using that to glamorise their photos, but I want to use it to make people look really crazy. I want to take somebody’s picture, and then I want to zombiefy it, and then I want to take them into Facetune and smooth it out. And this is the dumb stuff that goes on in my head! Technology isn’t exciting because we’re going to change the world, it’s exciting because I get to kill time doing dumb shit that makes my friends laugh. What about social media? ms: I’m not a believer that every band or every person with a fan base needs to be on social media. We have two guys in the band, Brad [Delson, guitarist] and Rob [Bourdon, drummer], that do not have a Facebook account, do not have a Twitter account and don’t have an Instagram account.df: Thankfully.ms: Right? First of all, it would be madness. Second of all, madness in the most boring sense. Brad’s sense of humour does not lend itself to Twitter. df: My Twitter feed is usually more personal. Not in the sense of here’s my family, but in the sense of this is my idea of a funny joke and has nothing to do with the band. It’s more of my personality than information about what’s coming up.ms: That’s your Twitter feed? What about your Tinder feed?df: That gets crazy. And if you follow me on Pinterest, watch out, because it’s about to get wild.linkinpark.com
venues on landline phones. We’d pull over and somebody would get on the pay phone and call the venue. For real. df: And ask for directions.ms: It was crazy.So while some of your music is still released on cassette, your latest album was launched with help from mobile music recognition app Shazam.ms: We did two promotions this time that I was really excited about, and Shazam was one of them, because I use it, and everybody uses it. I remember the first time I used it, we were in Mexico, and I was sitting at the little bar in the hotel. It was outside on the beach, and it was so nice. This cool song came on, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I just got this new app,’ and it worked! So the promotion was that any time anybody Shazamed anything, they got their results and a banner for Linkin Park’s new song, and that was the first place anyone could hear it. The other thing that we did that was really exciting is instead of making a video for Guilty All the Same, we worked with Microsoft’s Project Spark. They have this new community-slash-technology that allows people to make and remix their own games in a social way. You’ve also been involved with video games: as well as recording a song for Call Of Duty, in 2010 you created your own multiplayer smartphone app game called 8-Bit Rebellion. Are you gamers?df: We have a history of video games extending back to like when we were six years old. ms: Were you ever, like, super jealous that you had a friend that had a ColecoVision, or whatever?df: Yeah! Baseball on Intellivision was better than baseball on the Atari 2600.ms: Totally! I had a cousin that had an Intellivision, and I couldn’t have been a bigger pest to my parents about getting
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you heard that, too, because at different points in the process for me, part of the way you think about what you’re hearing is, ‘Would it be fun to play live?’ During the research for this interview, we learned that Hybrid Theory came out on cassette, which speaks volumes about how long you’ve been around.ms: I was surprised to find out that a lot of our albums are still released on cassette. Certain territories, particularly Asia, love the cassette.df: Particularly Nashville.ms: Particularly truck stops and Cracker Barrel restaurants. They love cassette. But yeah, I’ll do you one better than that. Back when we were starting out and playing clubs in LA, we started a mailing list for people to sign up to if they were interested in more info from the band, and more often than not they would sign up with their snail mail home address because people didn’t have email yet.df: Those were the days. When we started touring, I didn’t even have a cell phone. That was crazy. ms: And neither did our crew! When we first started hiring crew, cell phones were new and people would still check in with
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Being the best Brazil player of your generation comes with a large weight of expectation, but Neymar seems to be taking it all in his stride
Neymar is the latest iN a loNg liNe of superstar braziliaN footballers.
the 22-year-old playmaker is uNder No illusioN about what is expected of him
this summer: play well aNd help his team wiN the world cup oN home soil for the first time. No pressure theN
I n t e r v I e w : S I m o n K u p e r , p h o t o g r a p h y : D a v I D C l e r I h e w , p r o D u C t I o n : J o S e f S I e g l e
a painfully thin little chap walks into our meeting place, an old industrial loft converted into a studio in a quiet corner of Barcelona. This is Neymar: the first great Brazilian footballer to emerge in over a decade, hero of teenage girls and middle-aged men, and the forward who, aged just 22, is charged with delivering his country its sixth World Cup this year.
Neymar greets us with that magical smile – which you sense he uses as a weapon to charm and ward off the world. Then he walks into the dressing-room, and we are granted a sight for which some would kill: the shirt comes off. Beneath the tattoos, he still looks slight, not like the typical muscle-pack footballers of today. But then he has only been in playing in Europe, with FC Barcelona, for a year.
The camera loves Neymar. He isn’t beautiful, like David Beckham, but his smile is, and he has ‘ginga’ – that peculiarly Brazilian rhythmic, jaunty way of moving, almost like dancing. Finally he sits down – shoulders hunched defensively, but still with that smile – and talks for an hour in his informal, colloquial Portuguese about what it’s like to be Neymar.
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the red bulletin: How do you deal with the pressure of the whole country asking you to win the World Cup?neymar: It’s been a dream since I was young, and today it’s right before me: I’m Brazil’s number 10, I’m going to play the World Cup, in my own country. I can’t see that as pressure. It has to give me pride and happiness to take onto the pitch. Everyone says winning the World Cup is an indescribable joy, so I’m dying to feel that myself. I can’t wait to shout “We’re champions!” They say, “You’re under pressure, being the big name in the squad.” I’m not under pressure, I’m happy. I’ve always done things my way. I’ve had press with me since I was 13, saying I’d be the new Robinho. I’m someone who doesn’t really worry. If you don’t tell me that I’m Neymar and that I play for Barcelona and Brazil, I’ll forget it. People imagine me as they see me on television, but I’m completely different because I don’t feel pressure about anything.What are your memories of Brazil’s last victory in the World Cup, in 2002?I was 10, so I understood football. I woke up before dawn to watch the final at home. I even had Ronaldo’s haircut. I watched with my parents and sister, everyone together. Then we went to my granny’s house, we had a barbecue, everyone shouting “We’re Champions!” like real fans. The World Cup has always been my goal in life. It’s funny that today it’s nearly come true.How was your childhood? Tough. We didn’t have much money, but I never went hungry, my Dad always provided. I don’t think I was ever unhappy, even if I didn’t have what my friends had, as they had more money. There’s a story I told my mum: that when I became rich, I’d buy a cookie factory so I could eat cookies whenever I wanted. So there were all these funny things I remember. I never complained or asked, “God, why am I poor?” I always fought for everything, all my family was like that. I always went to school; I wasn’t the kid who always paid attention, but I obeyed my parents. My dad was a footballer, and knows the footballer’s path. He always knew what was going to happen, and maybe I don’t go through the same difficulties he did.Did your childhood inspire you to start the Neymar Jr Institute, which uses sport to help needy young people?The institute was founded in Praia Grande, 50m from where I lived. The point was to inform parents, to help
them teach their kids that they can make their dreams come true, if they fight and work for them. I think you can make any dream come true. Your gift is dribbling. Did you copy feints from other players?I followed Robinho closely because when I went to Santos, he was the star there. He’s my idol, and he dribbled a lot. And I’d watch Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo; any skilful player you can think of, I’ve seen videos of them. In kickabouts or training, I’d try and do the same. When it was game time it would come naturally. All dribbles where you’re trying something different, it’s about practising them. I don’t have a trick that I’ve invented yet. I have normal dribbles like using your body to trick the opponent, or the step-over, which I train and use a lot. I’ve used Zidane’s roulette. I’ve copied a lot.Has dancing helped develop your football?I think every Brazilian likes to dance a little. Put on some music that gets you in the mood, and a Brazilian might be sitting down, but he’ll always dance a little. I come from a family that loves samba and pagode. I think I have a little Brazilian ginga, something in the hips. I love to mess around with friends, to dance. It even got into my goal celebrations at Santos: that‘s how we’d have fun, scoring and doing dances in tribute to a singer friend or to the song. Your football looks joyful. Do you still feel joy
playing or is it more a job now?It’s fun that has to be managed. You must be serious with it. But I’m always happy when I play. When you’re happy, things naturally work out; when you’re sad, things never work out. In 2010, you quarrelled on the field with Santos’s coach after he stopped you taking a penalty. Did that change you?It was one of the worst moments of my life because I knew I was wrong. After the match I apologised to the coach. But what shook me most was arriving home and finding my mum crying. She said she’d watched it on TV and that wasn’t the son she had raised. I cried all night, I didn’t sleep. It made me grow into a man. I think that was my worst moment in football because it involved the whole family. My dad was ill then, in bed, and my mum said he’d always fought for me.How do you look back on your first season at Barcelona?It wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t bad. It’s my first time living outside my country.
Full nameNeymar da Silva Santos Júnior
BornFebruary 5, 1992, Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil
Pelé who?Neymar is the only Brazilian athlete to ever grace the cover of Time magazine.
Team talkThere’s a good chance Neymar will come up against some Barça teammates at the World Cup. “We joke, saying, ‘We’re going to win it,’” he reveals. “I’ve joked with Messi and said, “This one is Brazil’s, and I’ve told Iniesta and Pique, ‘You’ve already won one, let us win this one.’”
the world cup has always been my goal in life. it’s funny that today it’s nearly come true”
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who watch me know how I am. I’m chilled”
‘We’re all monkeys’ means we’re all the same, whether you’re white, yellow, rich or poor”
I miss my friends and family. It was hard at first. I’ve learned a lot, professionally, but also in my personal life. I study my teammates, what they talk about, how they act with other people. I take a little from many players and adapt it to my style. Some people are good on the pitch, others off it, some show good behaviour in training. I pick attributes from each one.What’s surprised you about Lionel Messi, seeing him every day here?He surprised me in every way. Before coming here, I heard all the horrible things people say: that he’s very reserved and doesn’t talk to anyone. Now I see it completely differently. Aside from being the genius, off the pitch he’s always great with me – not just me, but when I see him with other people too. There’s nothing bad I can say about him. What prompted your banana campaign, #somostodomacacos (“we’re all monkeys”), on social media against racism? The picture of you and your son with bananas went viral.The motivation is that I suffered racism in other matches. I think racism is practised by people without brains. I talked to my dad and people working for us, and the campaign was all practically ready. Then when this incident happened with Daniel [Alves, his Barcelona teammate who ate a banana thrown at him on the pitch], I thought it was the moment to launch this campaign. It was a joke: “we’re all monkeys” means we’re all the same, whether you’re white, yellow, rich or poor.You’re close to fans via social media, but they ask a lot of you. Does that bother you?It doesn’t as such. What bothers me is when they get into my personal life. I understand that fans love knowing everything, but my personal life is when I’m the same as anyone else’s. It was a little difficult to get used to at first when I was quite shy, but nowadays I’m used to it. I’ve always been the way I am, speaking to everyone, playing around. I’ve never changed and never improved.Diego Maradona used to long for the days before fame. Do you ever feel that?No… I get what he means. It’s difficult for me to do what a normal person does. For example, I can’t take my son to the beach in Santos. It’ll get crowded, people will take photos. In the street, a Brazilian will spot you a mile away. He’ll run over shouting, “Neymar!” Here in Barcelona, they’re more like, “Neymar, could I have a photo with you?” They’re more relaxed. You do miss taking your child to the fair or beach. I think that’s what he meant. But I don’t complain about it because this is something I asked of God. I always told Him I wanted to be
a footballer, to be famous, to give my family everything they want. I have to enjoy even the annoying parts. I always find a way to have fun, whether it’s going clubbing, to the beach, the cinema. There’s always someone who recognises you, and I will face them. If I have to talk to 50 people, I will. The moment I step onto the street, I have to remember I’m the Neymar everyone knows. But at home, I’m the Neymar the family knows. I’m not even Neymar, I’m ‘Juninho’ – I’m someone else. At home, you do things that people aren’t allowed to see! Let’s talk about Brazil’s team, the Seleçâo. Firstly, who chooses the dressing-room music? Anyone can choose a song. People like pagode, funk, sertanejo. I always go to the stadium wearing headphones, listening to gospel music. Then, to get in the mood, we put a pagode on the hi-fi so everyone can listen. We’re all close, we joke around, egos are left at the door. We only have one goal. Since we all help each other, we’ll very likely achieve it.Brazil’s coach, Felipe Scolari, won the 2002 World Cup. What does he tell you about that? He talks a lot about it. He says the World Cup is the toughest tournament. There’s no room for error, you must be at full speed from the get-go. It’s a short tournament where your margin of error is much smaller than in other matches. And he talks about the pleasure of winning, how good it feels. He’s certainly going to help us win another one.During last year’s Confederations Cup, Brazilians protested against corruption, poor public services and the cost of stadia. A banner at one of the protests said, ‘A teacher is worth more than Neymar’. What’s your response?I think the teacher‘s salaries have to be valued like all the professions. Even us football players because only five per cent receive more than the others. I agree that all us need to fight for better salary, better days and a great world with education, health and security. The value must exist in all areas.Should Brazilians protest again at the World Cup?I think we’ve already had the protests we needed, but I’m always for the protests. If it’s without violence, I don’t see any problem in people wanting to fight for a better country. I’m with the people. Now that the World Cup is happening, I think we have to enjoy it. We have this opportunity to show the world that we’re a country that can host any event, that can welcome any kind of person, everything that’s good about Brazil, not only the bad things. Will Brazil win the World Cup?It’s what I want more than anything. neymaroficial.com
We’re all close, We joke around,
egos are left at the door. We only have one goal. since We all help each
other, We’ll very likely achieve it”
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2060: Metal-Man City 1 Artificial Madrid 1“It won’t be too long before androids play against each other,” says futurologist Dr Ian Pearson, “in what will be pretty poor football games, but give it 40 years and these things will develop a lot. Androids will get better very quickly, to the point where they could play alongside humans, then better than humans, so if we wanted them to play alongside us we’d have to handicap them to stop them running around at 50mph and kicking the ball far harder and more accurately than any human could. At some point you have to limit it to human capabilities, or have a different game for robots that isn’t football. Robots also offer an even greater connection to fans. Could a crowd, or all the fans watching on TV, control a robot player by feeding him instructions? You would have to have a very sophisticated computer to process all the data, but it will be possible.”
The future of football: Robotinho dribbles around Iron Rush
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Robot players, cameras in the pitch and virtual reality training: they’ll be in football within 50 years. You don’t think? It’s scientific inevitabilityWo r d s : P a u l W i l s o n I l l u s t r a t i o n s : T o m M a c k i n g e r
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Dr Ian Pearson is a futurologist. In 1991, he invented text messaging. “I was working at British Telecom at the time
and BT decided that nobody would want to bother sending texts because people had phones and answer phones. So we didn’t develop it and it happened independently as other people had the same idea. We didn’t patent it. It could have been a good one, but that’s with the benefit of hindsight.”
It is with foresight that Dr Pearson, now head of futures consultancy Futurizon, has forged a career. He
says that a futurologist is an engineer who applies common sense to uncommon knowledge. “Most engineers come up with the same ideas; it’s more or less the same
science. Robotics, AI, LED lighting – we all know how fast these fields are moving. Predicting is common sense from an engineering point of view, really.”
Dr Pearson was commissioned by Taiwanese smartphone and tablet firm HTC to write a report, The Future Of Football, to see how technology and the beautiful game will intertwine over the next 50 years. Here he explains why the androids are coming, and how refs may one day never be blind – plus Rio Ferdinand gives a player’s eye view of the future.
officials using augmented reality
2025: “The ref-eree’s on wi-fi! The ref-eree’s on wi-fi!”“Wearing smart eyewear, or active contact lenses, a referee could have images superimposed in his field of view so he can look at a moment of play from whatever angle he wants, look at all the data that has been collected and make a decision based on that. If he’s a long way from the action, then he can blow his whistle, replay the incident for a few seconds and make his decision. It would liberate him to concentrate on his decisions, with equipment to monitor technical detail – there is indisputable data, already available to others, which he could be provided with to inform his decisions. If refereeing was just about where a player is when something happens, a robot could do that. But the intent has to be decided with a human judgement, and that goes far beyond the data available.”
No crystal ball needed: Dr Ian Pearson
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Televised football as we know it will be revolutionised by a new set of camera positions and angles
In football’s future the referee will only be blind if the batteries in his eyewear go flat
TV cameras in the turf and on players
2020: Ball’s-eye view“Putting cameras in the pitch is not a trivial thing to do, but the technology does exist now and you could do it next year if you were determined. The cameras would have to be powered, so you’d need to rip up the turf and lay in wiring, and put sensors in them so that they retract when a player comes close. With a lot of technologies, and I suspect it would be the case with this one, health and safety regulations slow it down, rather than the tech itself. You can get cameras the same size as a piece of jewellery now, so to have something even smaller, the size of a button weighing a fraction of an ounce, wouldn’t be difficult. Or a patch, with a camera sewn in, which forms part of the logo or sponsor name on a shirt. A lot of companies are working on systems in footwear that will power devices, so very soon you could have football boots powering a camera inside them.”
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real-time data given to fans
2040: #jonseysgothighbloodsugar #subjonsey
A pint, a song and data analysis: fans’ matchday in 25 years?
“you can imagine a lot of computing equipment doing analysis and creating data about a player – heart rate is too high, too much stress in his leg – to be used by a manager during the game, and also in training. Will the rules of football allow earpieces for players, so that a manager doesn’t have to stand and yell over the noise of the crowd? those are debates that the game will have at higher levels. and what would fans do
with that real-time data? they could use twitter hashtags to feed analysis to the clubs, who could decide whether that was useful or not. I’m sure that some of the data could be misused for chants: if you make a tool, then someone is going to bang someone on the head with it. But some people would say it would make the game more fun, and create a closer relationship between fans and players.”
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2045: Man-to-hologram marking“In training, a manager discusses a certain type of attack or defence, then the players try to recreate it. But it would be so much better to have a computer simulation of the opposition, or of just one player, if it’s about trying to handle a certain player in a certain situation. If you can have a computer recreate a match situation on a full pitch, that is so much better. It’s kind of like the holodeck in Star Trek, and it’s very sophisticated, so it’s 30 years away. thirty years is a long time in technology development: 30 years ago we were just starting to see CDs come out. this technology could also be made available to fans, in a football game of some kind, so that they can play against real players. technology really is good for getting people involved in something in ways that they otherwise couldn’t manage. In this case, that would lead more kids to play football for real.”
the view from Rio
Ferdinand’s Future Of Football “I think the game is going to be taken over by technology,” says the 35-year-old defender, who has won six Premier League titles with manchester United, and 81 caps for england. “the way the world is going, everything seems to be about tech and to me it seems that football wants to be a part of that.
“But my personal feeling is that they should leave it the way it is. all the Prozone stats stuff is great, but when tech messes with decisions in the game, I don’t like it. I don’t like goal-line technology, or video analysis to see if something is a free kick or a foul. It should be left to human error, because that creates the debate. Radio shows, tV shows, print media, social media, all of that. Waiting a minute to see if something is right or wrong takes out an element of excitement, the not-knowing, and that is a great part of the game.
“man United lost the league when Didier Drogba scored a goal at Old trafford [in april 2010], he was offside by about two yards, Chelsea won the game and went on to win the league that year. that killed me. But at the same time, I know I’ve played in games that we’ve won because the referee made a mistake, or didn’t see something. It all adds to the up-and-down, the fire in the game. I like that.
“I also like technology in boots and kit. I’ve got an area in my house, in the floor of a corridor, which has got boots from every season I’ve played. It lights up. Quite a cool thing. It shows how much the boots have changed. Huge difference in colours, of course – from mainly black to ridiculous – but also in the weight of the boots and the materials. totally different. But it can’t go too far in terms of lightness of material because a player still needs protection in the tackle. your feet are your tools, and they need to be taken care of.”5mag.co
Instead of studying match footage, players learn about opposition tactics in simulations
Rio Ferdinand: “ Leave it the
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skateboarder-turned-PHotoGraPHer arto saari was on tHe front line as His sPort burst into tHe mainstream. Here, He tells stories of tHe sHots tHat HelPed define skatinG words: ann donaHue
Says Arto Saari: “Louie Lopez blasting
a very stylish frontside ollie over the hip in my pool”
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in Malmo, Sweden. Here, Pontus and Oski Rosenberg
are double trouble”
“This invert nose grab by Willis Kimbel at Washington
Street skatepark in San Diego, USA, was one of the best
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“Scott Oster is epic. I have been lucky to be able to witness some of the manoeuvres he has executed with style and grace in my pit of concrete. Here is a photo of a perfect slash”
Facing page: (clockwise from top left) skaters Jay Adams, Heath Kirchart, Steve Olson, and Willis Kimbel
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Above: “I had an eerie feeling when I was shooting this, but after seeing Curren Caples perform this manoeuvre like it was child’s play I figured my worries were pointless. This is Curren doing a boneless under one of the freeways in Melbourne, Australia.” Below: “Andrew Reynolds doing a stylish frontside flip”
Above: “Curren Caples executing a very stylish kickflip in Malmo, Sweden.” Below: “My dog, Banger, and freshly blasted concrete in my garden”
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“Ryan Sheckler, here in Sydney, Australia, has an incredible amount of talent and skill on a skateboard, with strength and style and absolute passion”
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Key to taking great skate shots, says the Finnish photographer, a house with a drained pool in the garden. Saari captures his friends from the skating world in their most unguarded, yet still triumphant, moments. One of his favourites in this collection is the opening image of 19-year-old Louie Lopez. “Louie is one of the best up-and-coming skateboarders. He is where style and skill come together in extraordinary fashion.”
Facing page: “I call these ‘Pooltown 1 and 2’. These two collages are the result of four years of skating and
shooting different pools with my friends. This, to me, represents the
very essence of skateboarding: fun”
Above: “This is a photo of my friend Kynan Tait on an excursion to the
Arctic Circle, through North America, on his bike. One of the raddest trips
I’ve ever been on and one of the best photos I’ve ever shot”
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He regularly pulls more Gs than a Formula One driver, but this aerobatic race pilot’s only fear is filling out a tax return
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paul bonhomme
The aviator
Both. it’s annoying, as i could have made up that time very easily. But it’s good, as Hannes looked like he was flying a lot closer to his absolute limit than i was. Is flying skill alone enough to step into the cockpit? there’s no point turning up unless you have a good level of cardiovascular fitness. You don’t need to be doing triathlons, but an aerobatic flight will make you feel very tired if you’re unfit. You need good general fitness just to keep mentally aware. So are you under as much strain as, say, a Formula One driver?Being in a small racing plane going full pelt is like being sat on by an elephant.
Paul Bonhomme is a modest man with cool credentials. With a pilot father and an air stewardess mother, his path to skyborne success was set from birth. He’s the reigning champion of the red Bull Air race World Championship, which is back in 2014 after a three-year break. Bonhomme, also champ in 2009, opened the defence of his title in fine style, winning the season’s first race and coming second in the second race. in June, europe’s largest public sculpture, a 78m-long aluminium piece called Slipstream, is unveiled at terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport: it mirrors the path of a Bonhomme stunt flight. the 49-year-old also tops the list of excuses for being late for a Red Bulletin interview: he lost track of time while flying his helicopter over Cambridge.
the red bulletin: When you heard that the Red Bull Air Race World Championship was returning, did you hesitate to enter?paul bonhomme: it crossed my mind to bow out of racing while i was the champion, as it might look silly if i came back and flailed about at the tail of the field. But then i realised that it would only dent my ego, so sod it.And then you won the first round in Abu Dhabi…i wasn’t expecting to. With all the changes of rules, nobody had any idea what would happen. during training i felt a bit rusty, but i gave myself a talking to and remembered what made it work last time. And it worked again. At the second round in Croatia you came second to Hannes Arch by eight one-hundredths of a second. Does missing out by such a tiny margin make it easier or harder to swallow?
You’re owner of a helicopter. Do you frequent exclusive high-rise helipads? let’s get one thing straight: the helicopter i own is the most basic one on the planet. it’s as fast as your average family car and you can fit me and a toothbrush in it. So we’re not talking about jet helicopters landing in london. But i love it. the only thing is i don’t like arriving anywhere in a helicopter. i don’t like the ‘look at me’ bit. it’s too ostentatious, a bit like arriving in a bright red Bentley. If you don’t like the limelight, how do you feel about being associated with the sculpture at Heathrow? It’s set to become the most viewed piece of public art in the UK.i love the Slipstream sculpture so much: it is unbelievably awesome. it immortalises aerobatic flight, which up to now has always been a short-lived experience for both participants and spectators. it was a very brave commission. the whole project is utterly superb. Top Gun or Airplane? i’m not a massive fan of flight-themed films, as there’s always some utter garbage in there and you can’t stop yourself saying ‘that would never happen!’ But if i had to choose, it would be Airplane every time. it’s unbelievably childish, but such good value. Will you ever stop flying? i’ll stop flying when they put me in a box. right now i want to win the 2014 red Bull Air race World Championship. it’s riveting. When you’re flying at 200mph, 30ft from the ground, there’s not much time to rectify mistakes. Mixing flying with such close-fought competition is gripping.
You feel very heavy. You have to squeeze your abdominal muscles, tense your leg muscles and breathe at the same time, which isn’t as easy as it sounds. that way you can stay conscious. if you relax, you lose blood pressure in the brain, which can cause peripheral vision problems, and a greyout [precursor to a blackout]. Does that worry you?it’s almost second nature. there are times when you look down and see nine or 10 on the g meter [F1 drivers experience up to 5g] and think, ‘oh, it doesn’t feel like i’m doing that.’ it’s just what i’m used to. if you put me in an accountant’s office doing tax returns it would be carnage.
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See Bonhomme at the UK stop of the Red Bull AirRace World Championship, over Ascot Racecourseon August 16-17. Buy tickets at: redbullairrace.com
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Winning waysBonhomme is the most successful pilot in the Red Bull Air Race, having won two world championships, finished second in two more and won 13 races before the start of the 2014 season.
Young lovePB’s five-year-old daughter already loves accompanying her father on helicopter flights. Get your money on the Red Bull Air Race champion of 2034...
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i like the idea of the viewer looking and thinking, ‘Oh my god, that’s not right.’ it’s weird, but really cool to look at. Juxtaposing something very sweet and innocent with something quite harsh.What do your daughters think about these pictures?good question! My oldest daughter, she’s nine. When she was two i used to take her to my studio, so she’s been used to these images through her life and she finds it quite funny. She probably saw my Mickey Mouse before she saw the real one.What’s the goal with your new project, Rum Knuckles?it’s a streetwear label that covers all bases. Subcultures blended into one, whereas back in the 1980s, a skate brand would stay in its own little niche. i never wanted to have a crazy overpriced product. for me, streetwear needs to be
accessible to the teenagers, whether you are a skater, BMXer or a footballer. Where does your Rum Knuckles name come from?My great-uncle, who was a prizefighter, in the navy. he liked a little drink, a little tipple, so his name was Rum Knuckles. he was a real gentleman. he never went out looking for a fight. he wasn’t a nasty guy, but if someone picked on him: god help them. My dad tells brilliant stories of that guy. he really was a legend in his hometown. i always thought he had a cool name. When i came to set up my own label, i thought it would fit and people really love the name.
the red bulletin: How did you get into art?rugman: i was lucky to have an older brother who introduced me to skateboarding in the mid-’80s. i was never a good skater myself, but i loved the social element and the graphics of the culture.What did you like about the graphics?When i read magazines back then, Thrasher or RAD, the colours were strong. graphics at that time seemed quite strong. i would spend a lot time fantasising about designing skateboards for big brands like Santa cruz. for the first one i was really happy with i copied this piece from a 2000 AD comic: it was an elf with a big nose, very weird. But my mom framed it for me. Most of my artwork, even present day, i can imagine on a skateboard. Your art still contains elements from comic culture and pop art. Where does that fascination come from?disney has always been a big influence on me. i like the actual simplicity of the shapes. Like Mickey Mouse, you recognise that shape anywhere in the world. My artwork is recognisable, but with a quirky slam to it. for example, my Mickey Mouse has a skull face. And your Snow White has a lot of tattoos.for the last few years, i’ve done a lot of naked ladies. Show White was one of them. in my pictures she’s tattooed and bending over. it’s something that shouldn’t be done. But
Are you still active as a street artist?My mate, who has a gallery in greenwich in south London, says, it’s a young man’s sport. and that’s true. you need to have a lot of time to be doing it, because the initial goal is to make people recognise your paste-ups and stencils. When i lived in Shoreditch, 10 years ago, i did have time. you need to get up in the early morning, at 4am or 5am, when no one else is around. now i’ve got two kids and i’m running a business. i see myself more as an artist in general. as an artist, illustrator and designer, rather than a street artist.Tell us about the cooler you designed for the Red Bull Canvas project.i was thinking i need five images, one for each visible side. i wanted to carry on with the naked ladies with skull faces and tattoos, i want that to be recognised as the Rugman style. the artwork is black and white. i also used gold leaf. Who are the five women?i’m a big fan of breasts. i love them. i find a lot of inspiration from 1970s porn. Mel Ramos is one of my favourite artists. he gave me a lot of my early images of women: sitting naked in cocktail glasses or on rhinos. in the last few years i’ve started collaging elements of different women. you could find the perfect bottom half of a woman, beautiful legs, nice bum, and then combine them with a great set of breasts. i’d describe it as making a nice collage of a frankenstein woman: i create frankenstein beauties. Rugman’s work is at the Ben Oakley Gallery, London, June 20-July 20
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Rugman combined his many muses into decorating a cooler fridge as part of Red Bull Canvas (left)
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c a t c h e rMobile dreams: Hunter Lee Soik hopes a million people will be using his app by the end of the year
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C o l l e c t d r e a m s , p u t w o r d s a n d
p i c t u r e s t o t h e m , c o n n e c t e v e r y
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Words: Andreas RottenschlagerPhotography: Norman Konrad
c a t c h e r It is past midnight by the time Hunter Lee Soik can close the door of his Berlin hotel room behind him and open his small wheeled suitcase. “This is all I need,” says Soik, as he unpacks one black T-shirt after another. The 32-year-old American only owns black clothes. “Everything
I own,” he says, “fits in this case.”Soik is wearing black tracksuit bottoms
and has a charger lead dangling between his left and right side pockets. The lead connects Soik’s iPhone 5, which is black, to a charger the size of a cigarette packet. “I hate being dependent on sockets.” Soik is a media-developer and self-taught man. He has set up two production companies, written an iPad program for Stella McCartney and in 2011 created the backstage video concept for Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Watch The Throne tour, which grossed US$75m. Now he’s on a months-long world tour of his own, to present Shadow, software that saves dreams.
Technologically speaking, Shadow is an intelligent alarm clock with integrated speech software. The alarm escalates in volume and pulls the user through the hypnopompic sleep state, the borderline area between sleep and wakefulness. As soon as the user turns off the alarm, they can dictate a dream into a smartphone. The speech recognition software identifies key words in the transcribed text – say “red car”, “cliffs”, “big dog” – and allocates photographs to them from a databank of pictures to visualise the dream.
Shadow allows users to keep private diaries or they can share their dreams anonymously with the worldwide community. Soik explains that global dream trends need to be investigated at length. “Do top athletes dream
differently from artists? How many Swedes dream about red cars? Do natural catastrophes increase the prevalence of nightmares in the affected country?”
Soik says Shadow can change the world too. “Parts of the theory of relativity first came to Einstein in a dream and Salva dor Dali used to paint as soon as he woke up. The idea of non-violent resistance came to Gandhi in a dream and Frankenstein’s mons ter first appeared to Mary Shelley in a nightmare. The problem is that people forget 95 per cent of their dreams. That’s a lot of data and ideas that disappear every morning. This is exactly the data Shadow can save.”
Soik’s idea has made a big noise. Since he first put his project on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter last October, over 150 articles have been written about an app that doesn’t even exist yet. Soik now spends his life at conferences, on aeroplanes and in hotel rooms.
“I live like a monk,” says Soik. He has rented out his New York apartment. He travels with four T-shirts and two pairs of trousers, while wearing another of each, which he washes in his hotel room’s bathroom sink. He mixes up vegan health shakes for breakfast and lunch. “It’s quicker,” he says.
Soik has hired sleep researchers from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of his team. Their task is to make updates to the program, such as questionnaires that will help users to remember their dreams in greater detail. Shadow will be available for free at the iTunes store from August 10. “We expect a million downloads by the end of the year.”
It’s now 3am in Berlin. Soik describes the strangest dream he’s ever had. “Michael Jordan and I went to a party at the Reichstag in Berlin. We climbed the stairs up to the glass dome. A holo gram hovered above us and showed Michael’s most spectacular slam dunks. I woke up when we made it into the dome.”
Soik had that dream on the night of November 11, 2012, in a stifling hotel room in Mexico. “The dream preoccupied me in a peculiar way and ultimately it was this dream that gave me the idea for the app,” he explains. “I wanted to find out if anyone else in the world had the same dream.” Last year he saved the dream as the first data set on the app.
Now, if someone else subconsciously parties with Michael Jordan at the Reichstag in Berlin, Soik and Shadow are ready and able to make a connection.
a s h o r t h i s t o r y o f d r e a m i n gThe idea of chronicling dreams has been around for 4,700 years and is mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Emperor Augustus of Rome, who died in 14AD, is even said to have ordered citizens to record dreams that concerned the state. At the turn of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud began to wonder why we forget our dreams. Now an app (pictured above) is set to solve the problem.
App developer Hunter Lee Soik in
Berlin, a techie monk on a world tour
“ P e o p l e f o r g e t 9 5 p e r c e n t o f t h e i r d r e a m s . T h a t ’ s a l o t o f d a t a t o
l o s e e v e r y m o r n i n g ”
Get your pre-release version of Shadow now:discovershadow.com/redbulletin
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“it’s not a passive experience,” says John Lewis. “Both cockpits have full flight controls, and we don’t carry passengers. to be in the sub, you need to learn to operate the sub. the actual flying is easy. Anyone
who’s played video games figures out the joystick and rudder pedals pretty quickly.”
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The Super Aviator is less a submarine more an underwater plane. Where other mini-subs can be slow and cumbersome, the Super Aviator is sleek and manoeuvrable, able to stop and hover, do banking turns and keep up with marine mammals that swim alongside. It’s seat-of-the-pants stuff. It was developed by Sub Aviator Systems as a prototype for their Orca sub, which is now available to anyone with a couple of million to spare. For lesser mortals, the company’s co-founder and managing director, John Lewis, will be your co-pilot on the Super Aviator during free time on the film and scientific projects for which it’s used. “The max speed for the Super Aviator is six knots,” says Lewis. “All conventional bubble subs max out at three knots. That’s fine if you’re near a reef, but if there’s any current you can’t deploy them. The Super Aviator can operate perfectly in a current, so there’s a wealth of new places you can go.” John Englander from Florida went down in the sub off Hawaii. “As an oceanographer, I’ve spent thousands of hours in Scuba gear,” he says. “I’ve also been in a sub before, but being in the Super Aviator was a new, exhilarating experience. It moves at far higher speeds than other subs or divers. It’s a great feeling and you’re not encumbered by
equipment. It feels weird to be in a dry, comfortable environment and have an amazing view of the underwater world. It’s right there. It feels like there’s nothing between you and the water.”
deep impact: speed past sharks and turtles in the world’s fastest bubble sub
think outside the cockpit“Everybody’s seen Das Boot and thinks being in a sub is going to be a claustrophobic experience,” says John englander. “But once the water comes down over the top of the super Aviator, the dome disappears, it’s optically perfect, so you don’t get any sort of distortion. it’s like flying in an open biplane.”
super Aviator experiences in hawaii start from us$3,350 for a day. incredible-adventures.com
row outfor hawaiian
adventure on top of the water, try a hardcore 16-mile kayak trip along the remote and
stunning na Pali coast, battling
strong seas and aching biceps.hawaiiactive.com
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Kilauea volcano, which has been
continuously erupting since 1983, and get within feet of Pahoehoe, as
the molten lava flows are known.
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tAKe inwe don’t expect you to take on Jaws, hawaii’s
colossal surf break, but a beer on the beach watching
world-class surfers do it is the next
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When Rickie Fowler turned pro, aged 20, it wasn’t just his golfing prowess that made him stand out. His colourful attire has, along with his ability to hit the greens, become something of a trademark. The Californian, who won the 2010 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Award and tied fifth at this year’s Masters,
worked with Puma on a new range of golf shoes, which of course is available in fabulous Fowler shades. “The levels of flexibility, lateral support and comfort are perfect,’ says the 25-year-old. “The Bio fusion is the best shoe I’ve ever worn and it provides ideal support on my swing.”rickiefowler.com
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Major factor: Rickie Fowler is a good outside bet for the US Open at Pinehurst on
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Sticking pointPuma’s Swing Speed Quill spikes system is a hit with those who favour stability
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aid flexibility, ensuring that the shoe moves only
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BIO CELL IRONThere’s tungsten in the club heads:
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BIO CELL PRO DRIVER
Eight different loft settings, which adjust the club
head angle, mean you can fine-tune
the trajectory of the ball.
BIO STAFF BAG In which Rickie Fowler’s caddy, Joe Skovron,
lugs about 20kg of equipment
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Fuxing Park2 gaolan road
“this French-style park reminds me of my youth. the greatest charm about it is its diversity: you meet all kinds of people there, from lovestruck youngsters to grandmothers doing tai-Chi.”
40 Bars on one streetYongkang road
“a typical shanghai street, with boozing expats and calm locals. i used to live here, and i chose my neighbour, a chic old lady, for the leading role in one of my films.”
shanshan steamed dumPlings
774 xianxia road“a simple, hole-in-the-wall street restaurant. i always have breakfast here. the steamed dumplings are so much better than everywhere else. and the prices are hard to beat.”
riverside mansion400 north suzhou road
“this is my favourite old Colonial building in town. it lies next to the
suzhou river and is composed of British art deco style with a marvellous labyrinthine interior. there is a boutique hotel called Chai apartments inside, the rooms have a fantastic view.”
Action !City Guide
“What’s special about Shanghai? It’s a metropolis showing how modern and ancient Chinese society is,” says Cheng Liang, an up-and-coming director with a passion for bringing Shanghainese culture to the screen. His silent short movie City Of Black And White has been viewed more than two million times on Chinese websites and he’s touting his next project, an adaptation of Lu Wenfu’s novel Gourmet, at the Cannes Film Festival. “As a former colonial city, Shanghai has always had a diverse atmosphere,” he says, “and Western and Chinese culture have merged into a unique Shanghainese trait: pragmatic yet hedonistic.” Join Cheng on a tour of his top hometown haunts, then watch City Of Black And White online: bit.ly/1rYhkjZ
director and filmmaker Cheng liang
T O p F i v eCheng’s shanghai sights
Wanshang FloWer & Bird market
417 south xizang road“this is an eye-opener. i have visited a lot of flower and bird markets in China, but this one is the biggest and best. You can also watch crickets fight and fish for goldfish with scoops.”
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Big e entertainment
a one-stop fun palace of bars,
laser tag and one of the city’s few
mini-golf courses – all done in a
glow-in-the-dark theme park.
bigecn.com
disC kartinga sizeable indoor
racing track with a fully equipped bar. Probably the only
place where a blind eye is turned
to driving under the influence.
kartingchina.com
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g i z m o sthree music
festival must-haves
Opteka Bp-sc4000slimline solar-
powered charger. eight hours in the
sun will give it enough juice to
fully charge your phone or camera.
opteka.com
Yelpiethe mobile safe for those small
items of value. a 90-decibel alarm is activated if you
move it without entering a code.
yelpie.co.za
1“When i was five, i used to listen almost exclusively to classical music, but somehow eurythmics fitted into
that listening environment really well. it’s thought out like a game of chess. this song is the perfect fusion of a very sterile synthetic environment and a very mannered vocal performance with a deeper range of emotions.”
4 5“this scottish band released two critically acclaimed albums in the 1980s. the first bears the title of this song
and it is a masterpiece. that song’s iciness had a large influence on my song the secret seven. there’s this beautiful silence in it, where you hear warbling synths in the background. i got that from the Blue Nile.”
2“the feel of silver apples’ drum sound was what me and my drummer rob [Gordon] wanted on my new album. it
has to do with recording with no click track, so tempos are fluctuating. listen to my song, the sky Behind the flag: rob is getting tired towards the end and suddenly gets this burst of energy and rushes ahead. that feels very human.”
“i didn’t have much time for dance music until recently. But i’m really into the brutal approach to rhythm on this chicago
house track. Green velvet takes a simple rhythm and crosses it with another one to create a unique groove. that was the goal with the sky Behind the flag, to create simple brutal rhythmic interaction. it’s easy to understand.”
3“this song features an instrument called a moodswinger, a really bizarre and rare kind of guitar thing that looks like
it was made by a child. it creates this amazing eerie atmosphere, where the sound drifts and warps in and out of focus. i’m not an electric guitarist, but hearing the sound of that song informed a lot of string writing on my record.”
Action !Music
EurythmicsLove Is A Stranger
the Blue nileA Walk Across The Rooftops
Silver ApplesProgram
Green VelvetThe Stalker
the LuyasMoodslayer
the thing’s the strings: Owen pallett
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mONster GO-dJthe first professional dJ mixing unit that fits in your jacket pocket. select the tracks saved on the device and arrange them in real time via the two touchscreens. it’s easy to mix and effect tracks on the mini console in the middle. hook it up to a sound system and let rip. monsterproducts.com
speakaBOOBamboo bass-boosters for an
iphone, no power source needed.
perfect for parties around the campfire.
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Under the influences P l ay l i s t t H E M a N W H O P l ay s V i O l i N W i t H a R C a D E F i R E t E l l s U s a B O U t t H E F i V E R E C O R D s H i D i N G i N H i s N E W s O l O a l B U M
Over the last 10 years, Owen Pallett has earned a reputation as the Paganini of pop. In 2004, he signed up to play violin for Arcade Fire and has written all the string arrangements for their music. Now, other musicians, including Robbie Williams and The National, let him give their songs the symphonic once-over. But Pallett’s solo work is closest to his
own heart. His emotional and melodically complex indie pop songs sound like Brian Eno accompanying the young David Bowie on a Stradivarius. In January, the 34-year-old Canadian’s score for the Spike Jonze movie Her (feat. Arcade Fire) was nominated for an Oscar and out now is his fourth album, In Conflict. These songs inspired him while he was working on it.owenpalletteternal.com
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Bass place l o n d o n F R o M C o l d S T o R A G E M E AT WA R E H o U S E T o T H E C o o l E S T C l U B I n T H E W o R l d, FA B R I C H A S G o T U n d E R G R o U n d M U S I C A l l W R A P P E d U P
a full Fabric means 2,500 revellers, three nights a week
A f t e r P A r t yiT’S 8aM ON SUNDaY.
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There used to be meat hanging on the walls at Fabric. Before the club opened on the premises in 1999, the east London venue was a cold storage warehouse for the market next door. “There wasn’t a lot going on in the area, culturally. There was no scene here,” recalls club manager Cameron Leslie. “That was one of the reasons why we started our own mini-cab service, because people couldn’t get away at that time of night because taxis didn’t come to this part of town.” Clubbers loved the place: 25,000 square feet of dance space with thumping under ground sounds, from techno to dubstep, over three dancefloors. One of them is ‘bodysonic’, because 400 built-in bass transducers turn sound waves into body-shaking vibrations. DJ Magazine has twice voted Fabric the best club in the world. What does Leslie love about the venue? “A lot of people find the club’s maze-like layout confusing,” he says, “but that’s exactly what’s great about it. You often end up in a new room by chance, which means you get to discover new DJs.”
british rapper JME is a regular at Fabric
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Ultimate party mix from the one-time Madon na producer.
His smooth transition from
al so Sprach Zarathu stra to Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics still remains unsurpassed.
FOUr TETwith this mix, the master of delicate electronica helped
bring about a revival of garage.
Forgotten classics like crazy bald
Heads meet hits by young
talents such as Floating Points.
DaViD rODiGaNThe 62-year-old DJ
is a musical folk hero for bringing
reggae to the masses in England in the 1970s. This is his celebration of four decades of Jamaican music.
GET brEakFaSTMarket-traders and revellers come together at beautifully restored Victorian pub The Fox And Anchor, to see the sunrise and eat fortifying
bacon and eggs.foxandanchor.com
GO FOr a rUMMaGEOnly four Tube stops to the
shops and market stalls of Brick Lane: vintage
clothes and furniture, great coffee and music to go from Rough Trade East.
visitbricklane.org
kEEP ON GOiNG!London’s leading after-
hours party is Jaded, which starts at 5am on Sundays.
Endurance dancers and early-risers party there with
tea and techno beats. jadedlondon.com
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Breitling produced a technological stroke of genius for people on the go long before the calculator had been invented. The watchmakers from Grenchen in Switzerland unveiled a wristwatch in 1941 in which they had integrated a round slide rule. On the Breitling Chronomat, you could turn the bezel, the ring around the edge of the dial, in both directions so that you could align different scales and work out values such as currency exchange rates or fuel consumption. The watch was a hit with technicians, traders and the military.
Breitling launched a prototype for pilots 11 years later, on May 2 1952. The navitimer meant pilots could work out how long they had left to fly, when they should start their descent for landing and any number of other factors relevant to navigation. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association liked the chronograph so much they made it the official AOPA watch.
Did it their wayFor a long time, and as was the case with many other luxury brands of watches, Breitling timepieces didn’t use their own watch mechanisms. instead they used those made by specialist Swiss watch manufacturer eTA, who churned out calibre clockwork. But that all changed when Breit ling decided that henceforth all its mechanisms would be designated as ‘chronometers’, meaning they would have to go through the rigorous test cycle set by the Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres (COSC). For the calibre to achieve this level of excellence, the watchmakers had to take measurements including the moment of inertia of every balance wheel and the torque of every
come fly with me B r e i t l i n g n av i t i m e r t h e p i l o t s ’ wat c h o f c h o i c e i s a s p r e c i s i o n e n g i n e e r e d a s a n y a e r o p l a n e
1952Breitling
Navitimer: designed to
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coil spring. Then they only matched the parts in perfect harmony with each watch. The process is so exhaustive that Breitling decided to make the mechanisms themselves, thus freeing
themselves up and making them non-dependent on other suppliers.
Secret workshopin 2004, Breitling opened an office near the airport in Geneva
to develop its B01 calibre. This was strictly hush-hush. By 2005, the mechanisms had taken shape.
And in 2006, the first dozen prototypes were put together. That same year, the calibre passed the COSC chronometer
tests. Breitling then set up a ‘Chronométrie 2’ department. The aim was to automate B01 production. The experts adapted a high-tech assembly line concept from the pharmaceuticals industry,
whereby software intertwined the analysis and manufacture of separate components. The first equipment appeared at Chronométrie 2 in 2008. in 2009, a full five years after the project began, the first 1500 B01 calibre models were produced. The mechanisms were first used in the Chronomat model. The second Breitling to enjoy the privilege was the navitimer.breitling.com
LOVE THE LOGOSThe AOPA logo on
the early Navitimers (top) and the 1960s
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Latest model Navitimer: automatic with a full 70 hours of
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“My daily training programme is a brutal, full-body workout,” says Raphael Holzdeppe, of the routine that has kept him among the world’s elite pole-vaulters for the last four years. “Because, in our sport, you use every muscle,” he explains, “you need strong legs to be fast on the run-up, a buff upper body to get yourself up on the pole, pronounced abs so you can bend your hips quickly once you’re in the air and a strong torso for stability. If you can keep your body stable and still in the air, you’ll gain more height.” To achieve all this, the 24-year-old German trains six-and-a-half hours a day, Monday to Friday. “Lifting weights in the gym, sprints on the track, balan ce exercises on a medicine ball and vaulting, which I do about 100 times a week.”raphael-holzdeppe.net
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High achiever P O L E VA U LT W h AT PA r T O f h i s b O dy i s m O s T i m P O r TA n T T O A P O L E VA U LT E r ’ s s U c c E s s ? E V E r y s i n g L E O n E O f T h E m
Faster, higher, harder: “There is no muscle a pole-vaulter can neglect,” says Holzdeppe
A L L - R O U N D E X C E L L E N C EStrengthening your torso, abs and your sense of balance, all in one move
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Place arms on thighs and maintain balance for 10 seconds (this is the abs bit).
Repeat the whole exercise five times.
Get over it: a lot of work goes
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Medal man: Raphael Holzdeppe won Olympic bronze in 2012 and world championship gold in 2013
L E A D I N G R O L LTHE TOOL THE WORLD CHAMPION SWEARS BY
BLACkROLL“This is fitness kit, physio and masseur in one. For me, it’s indispensable. You place the Blackroll under a part of your body – could be any muscle group; let’s say your lower legs – and then use your bodyweight to actively roll back and forth. It releases tension and assists recovery in record quick time. And it’ll fit in any gym bag.”
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Hold on to your handlebars this summer and get ready to experience cycling at this world class venue in London.
• Race around the velodrome track
• Ride the berms of the BMX course
• Tackle mountain bike trails
• Race the one mile road circuit
One hour taster sessions Whether you choose track, BMX, road or mountain biking you’ll enjoy an exhilarating hour learning a cycling sport you haven’t tried before.
Fear factor: The Evil Within
The bodies are ravaged and burnt out, as are the buildings and the upturned ambulances. A psychiatric hospital has been ransacked by someone, or something. This could be the backdrop of a dozen survival horror video games, but only The Evil Within comes from the mind by Shinji Mikami, the man who devised Resident Evil.
The first Resident Evil game, on the original PlayStation in 1996, made survival horror – exploration, puzzles, action, unsettling atmosphere and genuine shocks – a pillar of gaming and gave new life to zombies in popular culture. Without its impact and popularity, there’d be no Shaun Of The Dead, The Walking Dead, The Last Of Us and none of the reboots and remakes of the …Of The Dead film series, the original three of which, Night, Dawn and Day, were huge influences on Mikami when he made that first game. His latest will emphasise survival over action.
“Not much has changed when it comes to instilling terror in the player,” Mikami said, at the most recent Tokyo Game Show, “but… in that sense it is harder to make them afraid.” No one has worked harder than Mikami to make playing games so thrillingly scary. The Evil Within is out worldwide in the last week of August for Windows, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. theevilwithin.com
Survival is thriving T H E E V I L W I T H I N T H E faT H E r o f R es i d ent evi l I s b a c k W I T H m o r E o f T H E f r I g H T s T u f f
Now see thisDon’T play XboX, WaTch iTThe discovery of old ET game cartridges in the new Mexico desert was notable for two reasons:
unearthing the nerd treasure chest of the games themselves, and that the TV show of the dig will only be available on Xbox. like netflix and amazon, Xbox wants to disrupt traditional TV with platform-specific content. its first show, on US music festival bonnaroo, is out this month; halo and street soccer series will follow.xbox.com
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Shoot-em-up from the makers the huge overkill games. in a retro
world of gangsters and guns, this has
a comic-book, Sin city feel. on android and ioS.
craneballs.com
WarbiTSbe a pocket
general with this battle simulation game, which has a tough strategy-
heavy heart beating beneath
its colourful, cartoony armour.
on ioS. riskylab.com
boTanicUlaadventure-puzzle cross in which you control a team of
bugs trying to save the last seed on
the tree on which they live. Tricky and beautiful.
ipad only. botanicula.net
Definite LeeyoU can bE brUcE in Ea SporTS UFcon June 17, the Ultimate Fighting championship makes its debut
as one of the Ea Sports stable of games. There is the full-on, incredibly comprehensive redo of a sport, that Ea does so well with FiFa for soccer and Tiger Woods for golf, only this time for the top level of mixed martial arts. For fighting fans of a certain vintage, that bruce lee is an unlockable character in Ea Sports UFc is reason enough itself to buy the game.easports.com
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the bag Like two bags in one, the eagle Creek Morphus 22 zips apart to morph into a pair of carry-on size bags, doubling your packing capacity. The base is a spartan roller bag with an ultra-light polycarbonate back shell, while the full-featured front gear bag can be zipped on or off to be carried as backpack or messenger bag. £235 / €290, eaglecreek.com
the bottle Some plastic water bottles can leach BPA, phthalates and other toxins into your drink. It’s not pretty or tasty, so carry one of these. Klean Kanteen makes a 100 per cent stainless-steel bottle that holds 800ml of your favourite beverage, doesn’t leach harmful toxins, and won’t hold flavours, so today’s water doesn’t taste like yesterday’s sports drink.£12 / €15, kleankanteen.com
the headphones beats studio Wireless head phones connect via Bluetooth to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, providing a range of about 10m to roam. £330 / €380, beatsbydre.com
Fly awayW h e t h e r i t ’ s a b i g - c i t y m e e t i n g o r g e t t i n g aWay f o r a q u i c k W e e k e n d, h e r e ’ s t h e r i g h t g e a r f o r W h at e v e r yo u r d e s t i n at i o n
the WatCh With a second watch dial, the tag heuer Carrera Calibre 8 gMt makes it easy to keep track of the time where you are going and back home at the same time. Like all other Tags, this one features a sapphire crystal face that is so durable and hard that only a diamond can scratch it. £2,900 / €3,500, tagheuer.com
the CaMera Leave the DSLR camera at home and opt for a pocket digital snapper. Camera nerds will like the 10-megapixel leica d-lux 6 – it has a f1.4 lens and can shoot in manual mode with RAW files. £550 / €675, uk.leica-camera.com
the shoes It’s hard to believe Chucks have been pounding pavements around the world for knocking on 100 years. First manufactured in the 1920s in Massachusetts and worn by everyone from professional basketball players to World War II soldiers, the timeless canvas and rubber shoes are still comfy, and they’re still cool. Our favourite new Chucks are the Converse Chuck taylor all star tie dye. £50 / €60, converse.com
the Case The Mophie space pack snaps onto your iPhone 5/5s like an external case, adding just 80 grams in weight while providing enough extra juice to double your phone’s battery life. Best of all, it also provides 16GB of extra storage space (32GB for $180), which equates to about seven hours of video or 4,500 songs.£90 / €110, mophie.com
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the headphones Wired headphones are annoying; that’s why we’re impressed with the Blueant pump Bluetooth hd sportbuds. The earpieces fit comfortably over your ear and connect via a thin cord behind your head, while Bluetooth zaps music from a range of compatible devices to your ears. £80 / €90, blueantpump.com
the watch Keeping a close eye on the tides is key to maximising your fun and staying safe in the surf. With tide data pre-programmed for 150 beaches worldwide, the Freestyle Mariner tide makes it easy. A comfortable yet durable silicone band keeps the watch in place, while the polycarbonate case makes it water resistant to 100m. £60 / €72, freestyleusa.com
the caMeRa Most rugged waterproof point-and-shoots are disappointing when it comes to image quality. Not so with the 16-megapixel olympus tG-850. In addition
to being shockproof, crushproof, freezeproof, and waterproof to 10m, the wide-angle 21mm lens produces very impressive images, high-def 1080p video and has a 360-degree panoramic mode, which is perfect for capturing big views in really wild places. £150 / €180, getolympus.com
the shoes Simple and comfortable, Vans slip-ons come in a dizzying variety of colours and patterns. Our pick is a new take on the Vans that Sean Penn wore in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. £47 / €65, vans.co.uk
the speakeR The durable and water-resistant Logitech Ue Boom fits into the side pocket of a backpack or the water bottle cage on your bicycle, so you can bring your music anywhere. The Bluetooth-enabled speaker pairs with your smartphone, and its sound quality is much better than most portable speakers we’ve tested. £170 / €210, ultimateears.com
the BaG For off-the-beaten-track adventures, ditch the roller bag and instead pack the north Face Base camp special edition duffel Medium. It’s versatile. with backpack straps and leather haul handles, and is made of a durable PVC fabric. £140 / €175, thenorthface.co.uk
the chaRGeR The Goal Zero sherpa 100 power pack is a weather-resistant lithium-ion rechargeable battery pack with a range of inputs and enough power to charge a MacBook Pro twice. £200 / €240, goalzero.com
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Plane viewsThe Red Bull Air Race World Championship touches down at Ascot in August. Until then you can catch all the action on Sky Sports.redbullairrace.com
lovers of petrol-powered pursuits rev up and rejoice: the goodwood festival of speed is back. the ultimate high-octane celebration features the world’s best vehicles. the highlight is set to be rally legend sebastién loeb attempting to break goodwood’s hillclimb record. goodwood.co.uk
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AnimAlmaestro of
motion-capture Andy Serkis (Gollum, this
year’s Godzilla and friends) is back as simian superintendent Caesar in dawn of The Planet of The Apes, after 2011’s
Rise of. dawnofapes.com
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mUSiCAlnot many
would have bet on Clint eastwood
directing the screen adaptation
of musical Jersey Boys, but he’s only gone
and done it, and brought Christopher
Walken with him.jerseyboys movie.com
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linklater’s Boyhood, shot over 12 years,
tells the story of a divorced couple
(ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette) and their evolving
relationship with their son.
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Goodwood Festival of Speed roars back into action for 2014
June 13-15
Rock upJune 27-29
Beach boundWith a roster of sea, sports and sounds, Sea Sessions has all the best ingredients for a long weekend at the beach. Held in beautiful Bundoran, ireland, by day the festival invites revellers to expel excess energy with beach volleyball, surf comps and BmX tricks. By night, the likes of The dandy Warhols, Kelis, leftfield and Beardyman keep the bass thumping ’til dawn. seasessions.com
Big names abound at download Festival, one of the summer’s biggest music gatherings. linkin Park, Fall out Boy and Aerosmith will all be touching down to headline in the midlands, but keep an ear out for homegrown rookie talent, too. The eight finalists of national band battle Red Bull Studios live at download will be making their stage debut, potentially the first step to the top of the line-up. download.redbullstudios.com
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the red Bull music Academy sound system is celebrating the onset of summer by bringing fresh beats to the colourful masses at uK carnivals for another year. starting in Bristol with the st Pauls’ Carnival, the party then moves to manchester on July 19, and makes a final stop at europe’s biggest street festival, the notting hill Carnival, on August Bank holiday weekend. redbullmusicacademy.com
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For home tennis fans, it’s hard to imagine how this year’s Wimbledon tournament can beat that of 2013, when an underdog army enjoyed the rare sensation of victory led by Andy Murray. While it remains to be seen if Mr Murray will resume normal Brit service and fail valiantly, other traditions like rain, strawberries and great tennis, are all but guaranteed.wimbledon.com
Ireland hosts the European Marathon Championships in the Ballyhoura Mountains of County Limerick. While the world’s best long-distance mountain bikers line up for the title on Sunday, amateurs are also invited to take on the clover leaf-shaped course, which climbs more than 2,000m over 93km. You can also watch from the sidelines for free.euromarathonchamps.com
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Donautal, AustriaMay 4, 2014 At 34 locations worldwide 35,397 runners together ran a total of 530,928km before they were overtaken by catcher cars, which had been following them with increasing speed. This was the first annual Wings For Life World Run, in support of spinal cord research. The last man running was Lemawork Ketema of Ethiopia. After 78.58km (48.83 miles) the 28-year-old prevailed over Peruvian Remigio Huaman Quispe, running in Lima, 11,200km away, and only 90m less than Ketema. wingsforlifeworldrun.com
“ I knew I would have to sprint at the end. so i saved up my energy” Lemawork Ketema, Wings For Life World Run winner
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