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I built a career
out of loving music.
Pharrell Williams, Page 34
takeover the man to the immediate right of this sentence is
perhaps known to most of you. Youve all danced to his songs,
watched his videos, and maybe even follow his hats twitter account.
on January 20, Pharrell Williams wheeled around downtown L.a. in
sweltering weather on a BMX bike on our behalf, and then reclined
in a giant rented rv and dropped knowledge on careers, women, and
why hes over success. Since hes cool, we figured the things he
likes are cool, so we decided to just devote a chunk of our
magazine to them (p. 34). and then we added a bit more culture,
like our dream music festival (p. 78), since festival season is
upon us. Welcome to our Pharrellel Universe. We hope you like
it.
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climbing colorados 100 highest peaksand skiing down.
lordefresh off wins at the grammys, the new Zealand pop princess
starts a summer festival tour in america.
daniel riCCiardothe newest member of red Bull racings formula
one team shares his secrets to behind-the-wheel training.
ryan sandesthe ultrarunner plots a harrowing adventure across a
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Bullevard 08 game on!
Really, its OK if Mario is still your favorite video game
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Features
24 FreedivingThe risks of exploring the depths of the ocean on
one breath.
34 Pharrell WilliamsIs the multihyphenate entertainment mogul
bad at anything? (No.)
48 Ryan SandesGoing the distanceand then somein South
Africa.
54 Rolex 24 at DaytonaBehind the scenes at one of racings
premier events.
62 LordeDespite it all, you know she really wants a tiger on a
gold leash.
68 Chris DavenportTackling the many 13,000+ peaks in
Colorado.
78 Dream Music FestivalFrom the lineup to the food, we create
the perfect summer festival.
action 84 travel Climbing rocks in Rio 85 training Nothing but a
G Force thing86 nightlife Go big in Abu Dhabi87 my city Street
artist LEBO on Miami88 enter now Wings for Life World Run90 music
Bombay Bicycle Club92 games Infamous: Second Son94 buyers guide
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After shooting Shaun White and the Indiana Pacers the weeks
before, the Scot was exhausted when he arrived in L.A. to shoot
Pharrell Williams for our cover. Not that anyone noticed. The New
York Times Magazine and GQ regular hustled the Grammy winner
through several setups in an empty downtown. Pharrell was easygoing
and simple to shoot, says MacKay. The biggest challenge for me was
the L.A. sun, as my pasty Glasgow skin burns very easily. Story
starts on p. 34.
Finlay MacK ay
The author of a book about rugby and
articles about the wider world of sports, Pelatan dove deep into
the life and times of Guillaume Nry, one of the worlds top
proponents of freediving. The two Frenchmen conversed about the
limits of human endurance and the notion of BASE jumping
underwater. Competition in freediving is important, but is
secondary to the aesthetic: It has to be beautiful, says Pelatan.
Submerge yourself on p. 24.
jazz KuschKeLook in the passport of the writer and
photographer, and youll find stamps from adventure-sports
assignments in Indonesia, Angola, Malaysia, Runion, Mozambique, and
many more. You could say hes seen it all, yet he found the scope of
Ryan Sandes and Ryno Griesels Drakensberg Grand Traverse genuinely
surprising. This is next-level endurance stuff: less about breaking
records than about weather, terrain, and altitudeall the variables
of the Berg. His story begins on p. 48.
Frdric Pelatan
In love with snow since his dad first took him ski touring in
his backpack, Fohrman hasnt left the white stuff. For TRB, he
turned his lens on ski mountaineer Chris Davenport and friends and
their attempt to ski all 100 of Colorados highest peaks. Theres not
much better than traveling the often unexplored nooks and crannies
of Colorado, camping at trailheads, and exploring the mountains
every day with a positive, funny group of friends. Hike up, drop in
on p. 68.
ian FohrMan
the biggest challenge for me was the L.A. sun on my pasty skin.
Finlay MacK ay
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D o n t j u s t s e e t h e m , b e t h e m
next-level actingNow that Oscar nominees go virtual, is the
game-movie divide sealing shut?
Is it just moonlighting or a glimpse into the future of acting?
Juno and Inception star Ellen Page lent her talents to PS3
adventure Beyond: Two Souls, contributing body movements, facial
expressions, and emotions to leading lady Jodie, in the same way
actors are motion-captured for movies. (Footage of the game was
shown at the Tribeca Film Festival last year.) Willem Dafoe
co-stars; together, their characters try to solve the riddle of
life after death. The in-game action is typically Hollywood, as is
the scandal: Pics from a hacked version of the games shower scene
showed up onlinewithout the TV-movie friendly steam.
A virtual Ellen Page in Beyond: Two Souls (main photo) after
motion-capturing (inset) that mapped her body and facial
expressions for her virtual doppelgnger.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAYS In GAMInG Sentimentalists have good reason to
celebrate in 2014, with a bunch of anniversaries marking the debuts
of influential, iconic software and hardware.
nintendo dS When it appeared in 2004, the DS brought to mind old
Game & Watch handhelds. To date, about 154 million have been
sold, second only to PS2.
tetriS On June 6, 1984, in Moscow, Alexey Pajitnov finished a
game the world is still playing: There have been hundreds of
millions of downloads.
FiFAThe first one didnt even have a year: 20 years ago, FIFA
International Soccer launched one of the most successful game
series ever.
SiM CitY You build and run a city, and then, if you like,
monsters destroy it? An idea that, 25 years ago, people said was
crazy but has proved one of the most durable.
neS This gray box became a hit in Japan in 1984; America
followed a year later and the Nintendo Entertainment System brought
video games into the world.
SeGA GeneSiS Its now 25 years since Sega wowed us with what was
then a staggering 16-bit console and the worlds fastest blue
hedgehog, Sonic.
GAMe BoY It had a weak processor, a simple black-and-white
display and no backlight, and yet it was a global hit on launch in
1989. Nintendos greatest-ever product?
PLAYStAtion In 1994, the battle for supremacy between Nintendo
and Sega became a three-way. Sony released the first PlayStation
and left both in its wake.
. . . F O R M I L L A J O V O V I C H . Every two years, the
creatures from Resident Evil make a comeback. Its a welcome sight,
because no one hunts zombies as beautifully as Milla. It is no
shock to learn that the movies most successful female action hero
has been borrowed from a video game what is surprising, as our
picture shows, is that shes offing the undead with what looks like
an NES Zapper! Her sixth RE flick is planned for release next
year.
THAnK YOU, ZOMBIES ...
Undead reckoning: Five resident evil
movies have grossed $916 million
worldwide.
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compatible with everything.
Interoperability: Thats what its called when things made by
different manufacturers work with each other. Once an IT buzzword,
it has now found its way into childrens toy
boxes thanks to Golan Levin, a professor at Carnegie Mellon
University. Levin and his colleague, the designer Shawn Sims, have
invented the Free Universal Construction Kit (please dont use the
acronym), an arsenal of 3D-printer-made connection parts for 10
popular toy construction sets, including Lego. When my son was 4,
he tried in vain to put together a car from KNex and Tinkertoy
parts. That gave me the idea, Levin explains. He and Sims then
needed a name for the project, and it took a whole pitcher of beer
to come up with one. They have made the plans for the connection
parts freely available. There are print-on-demand services where
you can order them, says Levin, but its more fun to play around
with a 3D printer yourself, and your child will enjoy it too.
thingiverse.com/uck/
g o w i t h t h e f l o w
what ShoUld i PlaY neXt?So many games, so little time. Choose
your next one here:
Do you like shooting people?
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Are you the center of your world? Do you like to play from a
first-person perspective?
Do you like sports, but actual running is a bit too much
trouble?
Are you a world-builder who would like to create and rule your
own kingdom?Do you like to hit
your opponent with weapons that seem realistic?
Would you get annoyed if someone rampaged through your lovely
kingdom?Are you over 18
and capable of losing without insulting your opponents
mother?
Are you a strategic thinker and team player who likes to measure
up against others?
Do you like to explore enormous game worlds in the hope of
discovering new things?
Would you like to give up the rest of your life and spend all
night and all day playing games?
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IBMs Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997, the first time a
computer beat a world chess champion. Now there are mobile-phone
apps that would thrash Deep Blue and the greatest grandmasters.
Checkmate, humans!
This Asian strategy game has more moves than there are atoms in
the universe. A human Go-masters ability to assess territorial
advantage at a glance lets him outfox the best computers. In your
face, motherboard!
Driven by Kasparovs loss to Deep Blue, Omar Syed devised a
strategy game his son could understand but a computer would find
hard. After 10 years of human-CPU matchups, soft flesh still beats
software.
VS.M A N V S . M A C H I N E :W H O S t H E B E S t ?
L E t t H E B O A R D G A M E S B E G I N !
Fred is GMRs best friend, and eats cake over the keyboard to
annoy him.
GMR is Freds best friend, but
never helps Fred with his math
homework.
In 2007, after 18 years of development and cracking checkers
mathematically, a team of scientists at the University of Alberta
unveiled Chinook, a program that will never lose against a human
player.
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that guy who looks like a Daft Punk Power Ranger.
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of Trials, the worlds best motocross game series.
Gripping gameplay, futuristic feel, incredible visuals.
Out later this year.
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At ?H o W D i D i t H A p p e N ? H o W D i D i t H A p p e N ?
p L o t t W i s tW H At s N e x t ? W H At H A p p e N e D N e x
t ?WA s t H e R e A s e Q u e L? A N o t H e R o N e ?
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Cambodia, 1970. A lone U.S. soldier is clearing a minefield. All
he has to help him is a cryptic map full of numerical codes.
Game maker Hasbro had already successfully transferred its
Transformers to the big screen. So why not Battleship, too?
One of the most successful first-person shooters would surely
work on the big screen. But watching it was like watching someone
play Doom, badly, and not letting you have a turn.
$ 4 2 m i l l i o n b u d g e t i n 1 9 9 3 s a y s : y e s , v
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The first of two films appeared in theaters in 1995 and was in
keeping with the spirit of the game. Fans enjoyed the
aliens-versus-humans thing and the fight scenes were OK. The 1997
sequel was terrible.
J u s t . O n e .
M o r e . M i n e .
Director Andrzej Bartkowiak found the crux of the gamekilling
beasts in helltoo unrealistic. So his idea for the film was to kill
monsters on Mars instead.
. . . R i h a n n a ? Y e s , i t i s .
S h e s g o t a g r e a t v o i c e .
Nine different screenwriters and an untried directing duo made
one of the biggest cinema flops of the 1990s out of the 1980s
favorite video game.
The human race is threatened with extermination by
technologically superior aliens. No hope of survival. How do you
think it all turns out?
D e n n i s H o p p e r , i n
h i s m o s t a b s u r d
r o l e a s a w i c k e d
b l o n d l i z a r d m a n .
Director: Michael BayScript: Charlie Kaufman The soldier:
Nicolas Cage The captain: Tyrese GibsonThe wife: Gemma Arterton The
buddy: Peter Stormare
P a u l W . S . A n d e r s o n ,
w h o l a t e r g a v e
u s t h e R e s i d e n t
E v i l s c r e e n
a d a p t a t i o n s .
T h e R o c k .
O t h e r H a s b r o
p r o p e r t i e s o n t h e
b i g s c r e e n : F u r b y ,
M y L i t t l e P o n y ,
P l a y - D o h .
Mario, aka Bob Hoskins, went on to appear in Nixon, Spice World,
and Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties. But tom Hanks was happy: He
wanted the part of Mario.
Our heros nerves fail him on the very last mine. Theres a white
flash, an explosion, and Nic Cage wakes with a start. His face has
aged 40 years. Hed fallen asleep at his desk.
A f a n - m a d e w e b s e r i e s
h a s l e d t o r e b o o t t a l k .
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f o r D o o m t o b e
s u c c e s s f u l f i r s t .
P I X E L P I C T U R E S
WHEN GAMES BECOME MOVIESHollywood is fighting to keep its
audience because theyre all at home playing
games. Four of these five films really exist; one wed like to
shoot ourselves.
B U L L E V A R D
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w i t h y o u , d r a m a q u e e n ? R I H A N N A I N B A T T
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installation he presented at the last Beaufort04the triennial art
expo in the Belgian town of Zeebruggeusing second-hand household
appliances and furniture he bought locally.
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between a white
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Power glove In 1988, what was meant to be the future of
controllers turned out to be ham-handed. Only two compatible games
were made.
virtuAl Boy Nintendo (see above) promised us a 3D virtual world
back in 1995. What we got were red flickering LEDs and
headaches.
oCuluS riftThis time its for real: A virtual-reality gaming
headset, financed by Kickstarter. Might we see them, at last, in
2014?
theres a capacity crowd here tonight.
Schoolboy defending.
theyve only come here to park the bus.
A good time to score.
every game is a cup final now.
it was handbags, really.
the manager must have read them the riot act at halftime.
He had no right to score from there.
im not exaggeratingit could be 10-0.
it was easier to score.
im going to make a predictionit could go either way.
Hes given 110 percent.
these two teams know each other inside out.
the first goal is going to make all the difference.
there are no easy games at this level.
what on earth was he thinking?
No love lost between these two.
Surely the referee could see that.
this is a dangerous free-kick.
Stonewall penalty.
And its in the back of the net!
weve seen those given.
time is slowly running out for them.
Absolutely unbelievable.
the referee is looking at his watch.
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3.2 GHz ram: 512 MB colors: 16.7 millionmost successful game:
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each with 1.6 GHz ram: 8 GB colors: Over a billionmost successful
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MICHAEl PEATo play Cesar Chavez, the actor studied his
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Michael Pea has made his name as a character actor in
award-winning movies like American Hustle, million dollar Baby, and
Crash, but he rarely gets to take the lead. That changes with the
new biopic Cesar Chavez, the story of the National Farm Workers
Association co-founder and civil rights activist.red bulletin: What
was your first thought when you realized youd be playing Cesar
Chavez?MiCHAel PeA: you cant print it, but i was like, Shit! We can
print that.it was actually the F word. i was like, F*ck, how am i
gonna do this?How much did you know about Chavez before making the
movie?my parents were farmers. They grew up in mexico and came here
illegallytheyre now legal. They were all for the American dream,
and so i knew about Cesar Chavez. What was the most surprising
thing you learned about him?in any drama i always try to put as
much humor as i can into the performance. What kind of jokes does
this guy tell? it leads me to understand the character better. id
heard that [Chavez] was kind of a silly guy, which i thought was
interesting.The role was a physical transformation.i gained more
than 30 pounds for the role. Chavez didnt look like a very physical
man and [the director] diego Luna was like, i want you to look more
like a pear, man. i couldnt wear a fat suit because it wouldnt
change the face, and [gaining weight] just does something for your
bodyeven for the way you think.www.participantmedia.com Cesar
Chavez opens March 28.
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar We spend hundreds of hours
punching the keys on our Apple IIe traversing Brittania, repeating
mantras and losing sleep.
Goldeneye 007 Sleek and realistic, it ushered in the
first-person shooter. Its split-screen multiplayer mode is the
reason we have Call of Duty and Battlefield.
Star WarsBattlefront The game that finally allowed us to live
our fantasy of existing in the Star Wars universe. Still our
favorite shooter game of all time.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Its brilliant sound design,
exceptional graphics and cinematic execution changed the way we
looked at action in films.
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better than 10 bucks in quarters, three of your best buddies, and
an hour of Gauntlet.
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The freediver who, on his journey to reach world-record depths,
wants to expand his mindand yours.
Words: Frdric Pelatan Photography: Ian Derry
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Guillaume
Nry. It is liberation. It is breaking loose.
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fear is fear itself. Once it sets in,
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Guillaume Nry is pushing and dragging a trolley stacked high
with luggage down the corridors of Pariss Charles de Gaulle
Airport. His young daughter, Ma-Lou, hangs off his back like a
little spider monkey. Alongside them is Julie Gautier, girlfriend,
mother, filmmakerand Nrys confidante and freediving partner. The
Nry clan is fleeing the French winter to spend the next four months
in French Polynesia: Only a 25-hour journey separates them from
paradise. Things have been going well recently for the family from
a sports point of view, with the one-time world-record holder
having improved one of his many French freediving records at the
World Championships in Kalamata, Greece.
We have to fight hard for every meter. Thats the challenge, the
fascination.
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Nrys BASE jump dive into the worlds deepest underwater
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The whole community is in shock, Nry says. Our sport is
enormously demanding from a physical point of view, but I dont feel
its dangerous because we have to stick to all these safety
procedures. Or should I say I never used to feel it was dangerous?
Of course, now I wonder what to do. Does it make sense to carry
on?
Does this mean that one of the worlds best freedivers now fears
the deep?
My only fear is fear itself, he says matter-of-factly. Once it
sets in, you lose the cool and serenity you need as you fight for
every extra meter. In fact, we have to fight so hard for every
extra meter that we can never afford to tense up. Thats the
challenge, the art, the fascinating thing.
A few years ago, in another part of the Bahamas, Nry himself got
into trouble.
I dived down to a depth of 262 feet, doing the breaststroke.
When I came back up, I couldnt breathe, my whole body was tense,
and I was spitting blood. It was more than five minutes before my
breathing returned to normal.
Unlike Austrian freediver Herbert Nitsch, who suffered the
consequences of a 2012 accident, or Loc Leferme, who died in
training in 2007, Nry has resisted the siren call of the deepest
category of freediving, No Limits, in which aids can be used to
dive down next to a guide lineusually a weighted sled on the way
down and inflatable buoyancy aids on the ascent. The temptation to
compete in this discipline has been strong for Nry, but his
girlfriend has managed to dissuade him. She was pretty unequivocal
about it. She said, Its OK if you want to do it, but you have to
know youll be doing it without me. Nry readily agreed with that
ultimatum. His focus, in any case, goes beyond setting records.
Competing is fascinating, but its only scratching the surface.
Aesthetics are the really important thing when it comes to
freediving. Aesthetics are affirmation; what you do always has to
look good.
For Nry, the attraction to the sport started as a child. When I
was a kid, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut and was constantly
looking up at the sky. Then one day I saw a documentary about
freediving legend Umberto Pelizzari. That was the first time I was
confronted with a completely different world.
Nry and a friend would challenge each other on the school bus:
First one to breathe loses. Back in his room after school, Nry
would hold his breath for five minutes. He was 14 and hoping to
discover far-off galaxies, but he would elude gravity by going
down, not up.
Hes now set on sharing that wonder with others. Following the
online success of the short film Free Fall, which he and Gautier
shot together, the duos latest short, Narcosis, is being shown at
European film festivals. Gautier operates the camera, following Nry
into the depths. The most magical moment is when I escape gravity.
It is liberation. It is breaking loose. I fly with my arms open. At
those moments I am completely calm. Everything around me becomes
one, and I become part of that whole.guillaumenery.fr
But the 31-year-old Frenchman is broody and uncommunicative, as
he has been for several weeks, ever since Nicholas Mevoli, a video
producer and experienced freediver from New York, died while taking
part in a competition organized by AIDA, freedivings international
governing body.
In May 2013, Mevoli had become the first American freediver to
pass the 328-foot mark in the Constant Weight categorydiving down
alongside a guide line but not touching it, while wearing fins.
Four months later, he won the silver medal in the same category at
the World Championships. But on November 17, 2013, in the Bahamas,
while attempting a 236-foot Constant Weight without Fins dive,
Mevoli reached his depth, began to resurface as planned, but then
fell unconscious in the water. He was taken to a hospital, where he
died of what was later said to be pulmonary edema: capillaries
bursting under pressure and filling his lungs with blood.
I am completely calm during a dive. Everything around me becomes
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Whether its in Japanese sculpture, or the smooth lines of a BMX
street rider, the Grammy-winning producers unbridled curiosity
finds inspiration everywhere. A few items from his current list are
featured in the following pages of this, his Red Bulletin editorial
takeover.
pharrell
Designer, musician, artist & producer PhARRell WilliAMs is
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But first, he talks about channeling that curiosity, what the
music industry took years to understand, and what he hopes women
will feel from his new album.
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I find the magic in trying to just blend different worlds
together and mix it up.
If your voice is like velvet and people are used to hearing you
in things that would be conducive to a velvet voice, I would say
lets try gravel music.
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he man in that hat is as cool as youd like; voice above a
whisper but not much more, holding forth on the trouble with
success, the absurdity of hit-making, on why people dont feel
anymore. Forty years on this earth, 23 of them creating the type of
music that has soundtracked house parties, breathless and fumbling
late nights, slow cruises through the neighborhood, and Pharrell
Williams is still, remarkably, nailing it: Two global hits (Get
Lucky, Blurred Lines) in 2013, which netted him four Grammys,
including his second Producer of the Year award; another
party-starter, Happy, showed up on the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack
and won an Oscar nomination, as well as an award for the innovative
24-hour music video created for it.
But then theres also the hat, and what it reveals about the
taste-making gene Williams possesses. Last seen in Malcolm McLaren
and the Worlds Famous Supreme Teams Buffalo Gals video in 1982, its
a Vivienne Westwood piece that first appeared on the shelves of the
shop she and McLaren owned in London. Now tweeted, mocked, and
memed the world over, its almost as if Williams planned it. Which
hell assure you he didnt, because nothing Williams does follows a
plan so much as appears to him at the right moment, ready and
willing to be birthed into success. That includes his new album,
Girl, his first solo project in eight years, which comes out in May
but will likely be firing our collective synapses far beyond
that.
the red bulletin: What are you looking for when an artist walks
into your studio? pharrell williams: It is three things. It is,
one, what they walk in saying they would like to do. It is also
their energy that they just are naturally giving off. You know,
whether it is a cab ride or it is an argument or something that
they have on their mind. And then, third, it is the way that they
actually sound and vocal tone. I always try to make sure that there
is some interesting juxtaposition. So if your voice is like velvet
and people are used to hearing you in things that would be
conducive to a velvet voice, I would say lets try gravel music, if
that makes any sense. So there is some interesting alchemy
there.
And the magic is when you are able to marry those elements
together. Like, Man, I didnt know peanut butter and chocolate could
go together. Yeah, it is called a Reeses cup. But you would never
know unless you try.
So that is where I find the magic, in trying to just
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They look like toy figures. They are the same size and made of
the same material. Yet unlike G.I. Joe action figures, designer
toys are not to be played with. Theyre to be collected. They are
the bridge between pop culture and high culture, between comic fans
and art collectors. Designer toys are produced by reputable
designers and artists in small, expensive batches, making them
highly collectible in a very short space of time. So a 6-foot-tall
Mickey Mouse skull-and-crossbones figure by American artist KAWS
can fetch prices similar to that for a used car. The Design
Exchange museum in Toronto is now giving these colorful plastic
miniatures their first large exhibition.
This Is Not a Toy runs through May 19 and shows the origins of
this culture dating back to the 1990s, from early urban vinyl works
by Hong Kong designer Michael Lau to detailed miniatures by
renowned artists such as Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara. For
co-curator Pharrell Williams, who loaned a few pieces from his
collection, the impact of the work cant be denied. It opened my
eyes to other kinds of art. Artists like Murakami, Jeff Koons, KAWS
... even forms like architecture and design. Its like a crazy
portal, and the awareness of art and design has led to some of my
best collaborations.dx.org
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T H I S I S N OT A TOY Design
Since Im forever a student, Im always looking for interesting
people, places, and things. Feeding my curiosity is key. I love
searching for new things that can
change my perspective on how I see the world. If your brain isnt
constantly learning, youre doing yourself a disservice. Im a big
believer in pushing yourself to explore new worlds that challenge
what you perceive to be true. Take a look at
some of my favorite inspirations right now.
Who doesnt love toys? Whether youre a child or a big kid like
me, a great toy
can instantly bring a smile to your face. This museum
exhibit proves why designer toys are a new platform for fine art
expression. It speaks
to the kid in all of us.
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blend different worlds together and mix it up. In pairing and
trying, there seems to be no fear of failure whatsoever. Mmhmm. Do
you fear failure at all? Because looking at your track record, you
seem to be very consistent from success to success. What do you
mean? The fear that maybe this shit isnt working out. Maybe this
track isnt going to hit. Maybe that clothing line isnt going to
work. Do you think about it in those terms? Yeah, I dont even
understand that. My mind just cant even process that. And it has
always been like that? Yeah. When you love something, what are you
scared of? I suppose you are scared of negative reaction. Well, if
you are thinking about fame and success, yeah. But who Well, if
youre on top, I guess the fear would be losing that, right? Losing
that touch. Right. But if that is your main concern, being on top,
then you probably should find another business. Because our
business works off of emotion, and it is
not really easy to quantify it outside of what it is. It is like
saying, Well, are you afraid of how the
ball is going to react to the ice hockey rink? No, because that
is not what it is meant for. The ball is for that world and the
puck is for that world. Emotions are just emotions. So when a song
works, you should just be thankful, because that is not why you do
it.
So any kind of success that I have ever had on a song is not my
doing. So you dont do it for that, because I cant control that. I
do it because I feel like it feels good and it may resonate with
other people. So it is not really good to mix the idea of what
success is and the purity of why you do something.
Unless, define success. Big or huge? That means that after I
have done what I did or anybody else that has made their
contribution to something, success means the people voted, they
requested, they shared it with a friend, they purchased it, they
downloaded it. And they did it in large numbers.
That is what success means. I have nothing to do with that. I
cant control it. I can only control what I do.
When I was young, yeah, I looked at it differently, because I
looked at a lot of people who quantified
If that is your main concern, being on top, then you probably
should find another business. Because our business works off of
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Delicate, all-encompassing choral singing begins. Then we have a
gentle piano chord, some hissing beats, and an elegantly smoky,
instantly captivating voice. Banks takes no prisoners. As soon as
you hear the first few bars of her London EP, you know that this
25-year-old artist from Los Angeles is here to stay. Because her
songs represent a long overdue link between warm, soulful R&B
vocals and ice-cold electronic music. It is minimalistic,
glittering, sexy. As if Lana Del Rey had spent a night in the
recording studio with James Blake.
Even though Banks only released her debut single a year ago, she
can already count names like Pharrell Williams and Katy Perry as
fans. Perry declared her love for her last fall over
Twitternot a bad career boost considering Perrys 50 million
followers are tops on the social network.
Jillian Banksher full namehas been making music since the age of
15. What started it all off was a friend giving her a toy keyboard,
which was supposed to help her get over her parents divorce, an aid
to help her process her emotions. And it did. It worked as
self-help for a long time,
BA N KSSongstress
something she did just for her. I could let everything out in my
songs. Insults, secrets, aggression ... it was incredibly
liberating, she recalled to Billboard magazine. And then I was
hooked.
She only shared her music with the rest of the world once she
had completed her psychology studies, uploading her song Before I
Ever Met You to SoundCloud. Zane Lowe, the British radio DJ and
influential opinion maker, discovered it there and played it on his
BBC Radio 1 show. His advice was, Listen up. Banks is gonna be the
next big thing.
A self-fulfilling prophecy. Within months, Banks had a record
deal in the bag, lingerie company Victorias Secret had used her
song Waiting Game in its new advertising campaign, and in January,
she placed among the top 5 in the BBCs Sound of 2014 contest. The
poll has been a reliable yardstick for new talent and in recent
years has foretold the breakthrough of artists including Frank
Ocean, Adele, and Florence and the Machine.
Banks has now somewhat withdrawn from view in London to work on
her debut album, which should appear in the course of the year.
Working with her in the studio are flavor-of-the-month electronic
producers Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Lil Silva, and
Shlohmo, the latter working with her at the mixing desk on her
latest single, Brain.
She only hears all the fuss about her indirectly. Social
networking isnt her thing, she explains. She is happy to leave that
to her management team. None of which means that she doesnt care
about her fans. She even published her private phone number on
Facebook, adding: If you ever want to talk, call me. So have there
ever been times when she has regretted being so open?
Not yet. Most people write really nice messages, she told MTV.
What I like best are the text messages where people tell me my
songs helped them when they were feeling lonely.
For those of you thinking you might want to reach out, go right
ahead.
Her number is (323) 362-2658.hernameisbanks.com
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song makes it to the top when it sounds just like everything
else. Then yeah, but I like the different stuff anyways.
And you know what? I am not the only one. There are so many
people that love different things. That is why I like the concept
of a phone, you knowconnectivity is a huge part of it, too. But
where the device companies are really smart, they realize people
wanted to customize things, because individuality is
everything.
Your house smells like what you want it to smell like. It has
been customized by you. Can you imagine where you wake up where
there are only three furniture layouts for everyones home in the
world? Yeah, it is funny; music is kind of like the only place
where there are people that believe that delusion, that there is a
formula. I guess you can lump Hollywood into that as well. Yeah,
but there are festivals that celebrate indie filmmaking that dont
celebrate indie music, not with the type of visibility that they do
in the film world. And film also has the advantage of playing with
two senses, whereas music is just auditory. That is why the
business of music has had such a slump, because they always thought
it was in the song first.
But you know, as the paradigm is shifting, everybody is starting
to realize that kids want a visual. That is why YouTube gets more
audience than any radio station collectively. But you always
thought visually. Yeah, but most musicians are the same way. I am
no different. Hence the term the blues. You interviewed Spike Lee
and talked about the importance of using Fight the Power as the
main anthem in Do the Right Thing. How can songs contribute to the
feeling that you get from film? Well, film gives you two different
senses. It is curated. With music, some of it is left to your
imagination, what you want to picture in your mind. With a film
there is a curated direction by the point of view of the director
and the music that is under it. So those two are working in concert
to sort of take you to a place that the director has intended.
So film sort of has the jump on it, but I think the music
industry is catching up, because all of the indie artists are just
like, I dont want to leave it up to your interpretation of what I
am feeling when I make this song. I would like to show you. So you
are watching all of the indie kids make the best music, because
they are thinking about music 3D, the way it has always been
intended. Is there an album or artist that you think is doing it
particularly well? Well, you know what? Even on a big popular level
there are some artists that have figured it out. Look at Beyonc.
Her visuals were so strong that the only marketing she did was
either tweeted or she put something on Instagram.
I am not exactly sure of the method that she chose, but she just
dropped the whole thing. She just put out a bunch of videos and her
songs and was like, Here. It is my art. No gimmicks, no
their happiness by how successful they were. And nobody wants to
work really hard and not get recognized for it.
You want to be appreciated for your work. But that is a fine
line in appreciating your work and it doing super well and you
getting hooked on that. If you get hooked on success, you are
screwed. How did you manage to avoid that? Well, I have been doing
it for a long time, and I realized the thing that always gives back
to me is my curiosity for how I can find new chord progressions,
new sounds. That is how I am rewarded, because I cant control
anything else.
So when something is successful, that is what you guys always
see me saying thank you for all of the time, or I put my hands
together, because I want you to know that I know where it comes
from, and point up.
You know, we are vessels. We are straws. We are not the juice.
And anyone that believes that, those are the people that end up,
you know, losing their minds later on in life or not happy.
I dont have to be the juice. I dont have to be the glass. I dont
have to be the coldest part of the whole entire thing, which is the
ice. You could be that. I am just happy to be a part of it. You are
the facilitator? I am a part of it. I am a participant. The minute
that you claim you are a facilitator, well then you are the
all-powering. And are you? If everybody that made a song gained
that kind of power, then I mean, what would this world look
like?
That is why everything is fair, right? We all play a part in it.
It is like an ant farm or a beehive. Everyone has their job. My job
is to just listen and sort of try to channel it through, but it is
coming from somewhere else, hence the term channel. So I am
thankful when songs become what they do, because it is not my
doing. There are some producers out there who think its possible to
manufacture hits; that a chord progression, that a certain hook
sung by someone, will guarantee success. Sure. You dont subscribe
to that at all? Well, not unless you want to get in the rat race
and compete with everybody else and hope that your
I dont have to be the juice. I dont have to be the glass. I dont
have to be the coldest part of the whole entire thing, which is the
ice. You could be that. I am just happy to be a part of it.
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campaign. And it has really honestly caused the record industry
to sort of take noticewell, the smart onesbecause there are still
cocky ones that are like, Oh, well that is Beyonc. But those are
the old guys. The ageless ones are the ones who are just thinking
forward and they realize that he who occupies the majority of your
senses with something that is irrefutable wins. Did you struggle
with the structure of the record industry when you started?I was a
child. I had no idea what was going on. All I knew is what drove me
then is what continues to drive me now: music that I am like, Whoa,
that feels amazing. I just love the feeling of great chord
structures and great melody and lyrics that just touch you, you
know? Youve got a new album now, the first solo one in quite some
time. Why was it time to do it now?I didnt know it was time. I
never know anything. That is part of just being open. When things
are too predetermined, I have never really had success with that.
It is going to be this, this, this, this and this. That is all ego.
And that is all you sort of rely on, because your ego is basically
you have your experiences and then you have your memories of your
experiences. And the way in which your mind, as a librarian, goes
back to refer to this information is where your ego, where you can
sort of measure or quantify what your ego is. Well, I know such and
such and such and such, so therefore
Have you ever heard that phrase, God laughs at our plans? And
that is why. Because when you think you know, you can be blindsided
by something that is completely left of center and just change your
whole shit.
I have learnedI am 40 nowso I have learned to not do that. I
have learned to just be open and just experience things. And when
something strikes me, go get acclimated with it instantly, because
I may not hear it again. Because what are the odds? There are 7
billion people on the planet. And just because that is a lot of
people doesnt mean that the odds are in my favor.
So there is no such thing as knowing. You just have to be open.
So I try so hard. You know, I really work at just sort of trying to
be egoless so that I can be open and not miss important morsels of
music and points of view, new ways of making music.
If I go in there so predetermined, then I am I have learned to
just be open and just experience
Everybody is starting to realize that kids want a visual. That
is why YouTube gets more audience than any radio station
collectively.
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things. And when something strikes me, go get acclimated with it
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This Los Angeles duo consistently works to bring disparate
elements of the art worlds togethergraffiti and graphic
designthrough both massive motifs and fine detail. Its a simple
concept, but David Rabi Torres and Davey Leavitt have been applying
it in impressive fashion for four years now. Like the time the two
of them painted the front of a house in delicate woodcut style, or
when they recount American colonial history using outsized,
detailed, pop-art prints, or when they cut up their own artwork and
then put it back together in a jigsaw-like honeycomb. When it comes
to creating their melded works of art, the only rule for Torres and
Leavitt is that there are no rules.
The ReD buLLeTIn: Youve been working together since 2010; how
did that come about? ToRRes: When I met Davey, he opened my world
to the design and the elements of type and really clean
sophisticated design. I was just running around in L.A. trying to
paint walls, do graffiti and shit like that. We shared similar
values and a conceptual
CY R C L E Artistsmaterials can help communicate that? l: Its
exciting every time we get a reason to buy a new tool. Thats an
exciting moment in the studio. It started with the shittiest brand
you can buy at the local hardware store. And then you get a DeWalt
and everything changes as far as how precise you can get with your
angles and cuts. Currently were saving up to get a laser machine.
Thats going to be our new tool that were excited to have, for sure.
Just doing it all ourselves, were going on Youtube figuring out how
to do it.
Your motto is We never Die. The initials in Pharrells band
n.e.R.D. stand for no one ever Really Dies. Is that just a
coincidence? T: It is, totally.L: But I mean, its not in a sense
that if thats his mantra, thats the type of person he is. Its
similar to the type of people we are. We can relate to his style.
He could be just a hip-hop artist or he could be just a producer.
But he does everything and hes open to change. Just like
us.cyrcle.com
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dream of what we wanted to do with our work. I didnt just want
to do graffiti and he didnt just want to do design. You paint
walls, make short films, and build skull sculptures out of
flowersis there a through line in Cyrcles work? LeAvITT: Personally
I never wanted to be stuck in a style because thats not my style of
living. Im a really manic bipolar person, because Im changing all
the time. I love change. In order to grow we have to find new tools
and then we have to learn how to use them.t: The process for
anything we create starts with an idea and a concept and a message.
And then we figure out how to visually communicate that message.
And thats where the work will continue to change. Because its not
inspired by a style, its inspired by an idea. Thats what frees us
to do so much different stuff. What do we want the sculpture to
communicate? What
If art doesnt have purpose, whats the point? This is
something Cyrcle understands very well. Theyre committed to
creating poetic visuals that grab your attention. Cyrcle
takes street art to a new level of creativity that elevates
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completely blocking everything that could have been the best
thing that ever happened to me. So when I had the awesome
opportunity to work on the first Despicable Me, I had to listen. As
much as I felt like, Oh, you know, I can make songs and whatever.
No man, they had a direction. They knew what they wanted. And in
that process, I learned more about reaching more people or just
opening songs up. OK cool, so you think the music is there. You
think the lyrics are there. Cool. Is it as accessible as it could
be? Was that line sung as good as it could be, so that it is clear
and the diction is clear?
In other words, is it legible to peoples interpretation. It
might not be, because your ego told you that you killed it. But if
you would remove your ego and only use your feeling, that is when
the best stuff comes out. Is that a difficult lesson to learn for
you? It was a great lesson to work, because that is how Happy came.
Because I swore out that I had it nine times in a row, nine
different songs for that one little scene. Nine? Yeah. And it was
only until I was completely out of ideasno more ego, right? Because
what I knew about Despicable Me the first time is that [the main
character, Gru] is mean and duh, duh, duh, so therefore and it was
a mistake.
So it took nine times to sort of get it through my head that I
needed to be open and realize, OK, yeah. Gru was a mad guy in the
first one. He is happy now. So how do you write a song about
somebody being happy and just having a relentless mood about it?
And then the song came. But you had the basics of it? I didnt have
anything. That is what I am trying to tell you. The basics are
where the ego comes in. Remember, you have to be open. But surely
you have to start with something. Zero. But that is crazy, because
youve built a career out of knowing it and of having it. No, I
built a career of loving music and sometimes becoming intoxicated
by things working out and sort
of thinking it was me. And it wasnt me. A hit song is not your
doing. The song is your doing. The hit is made by the people. You
cant lose sight of that. What purpose does the new album serve for
you?I was just given the opportunity and, you know, when asked what
I wanted to make it about, I went with the feeling. So I did decide
with my eyes closed. But what does that mean? Did you just ask your
own follow-up question? Yeah. That was a rhetorical question. What
does that mean? That means not, Oh, I am so good. I can do it with
my eyes closed. When someone says that they are doing it with their
eyes closed, what they are ultimately saying, what that really is
supposed to mean, is that you didnt think about it and that it was
second nature because you were going off of feeling.
I went off of feeling. I didnt look around peripherally to see
what this person was doing and what that person was doing. I went
inward so that I could go upward. So I made it with my eyes closed,
which means the litmus test was when you close your eyes, does it
work for you there? That means no outside influences. So I made all
of the music just based off of feeling, not thinking. Because every
time I have ever thought too much in my whole entire life, I have
f*cked it up. So you think, What does euphoria sound like? What
does sadness sound like? What does giddiness sound like? I mean,
you are ascribing sounds to emotion. Yes, but that is what all
musicians do. That is not singular to me. We just all do things our
way. And your way is who you are. The way of doing things is what
makes you who you are.
In other words, we all speak English, but somehow you use the
words differently than I do and you use it in your way. Your way is
your fingerprint of who you are as a person. A lot of us make music
the same way. It is just your way is more specific to who you are
as a person. Do you know what I am saying? I do. I also think it is
interesting how you have never been afraid to indulge interests,
directions. What do you have to lose? Failure? If you are concerned
about failure, then you cant make no good music. Why is the new
album called Girl? Well, there is major purpose in there. But let
me switch gears on you. Let me tell you my intentions aside from
the content is the feeling, so that we have a through line between
how I make music. So at
A hit song is not your doing. The song is your doing. The hit is
made by the people. You cant lose sight of that.
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Down Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens, weaving in and out of
traffic and hopping the planters on his BMX bike, Nigel Sylvester
wasnt earning much street cred.
People called me a white boy and made fun of me, he says. They
didnt understand the culture. With the typical path to BMX stardom
unavailable to him, Sylvester seized upon the power of YouTube. He
made videos showcasing his freakish ability on a BMX bike as he
carved up New York. Sponsors followed, including bike-makers
Brooklyn Machine Works, who, last year, reached out to Sylvester
via one of their investors: Pharrell Williams.
THe reD BulleTiN: What does Pharrells involvement mean to your
scene? SYlveSTer: It started with skateboarding. Seeing someone
like him embrace that, it automatically made it cool and
acceptable. Kids in the hood start to ride skateboards, and youd
never ever seen that before. Hes just that influential in
culture.Why? Hes a producer and music drives culture so much. I
hope the same happens for BMX culture. Ive been a fan of Pharrells
for a minute. And hes been embracing BMX culture for a long
time
n i g e lsy lv est e rBMX rider
What kept you in it?I liked the freedom, dude. It was the best
way to express myself. As a child, I was into art and music and
played basketball and football, but there was something about the
bike that I was really into. It was a feeling I had at that early
age and I practiced at it and I was good at it. I saw results. And
I saw dudes like [BMX pro] Dave Mirra, who took it to such a
height, and I was like, If he can do it, then its possible. But
coming from where I came from, I had to put my own perspective on
it, my own life story, and my neighborhood and background into it
and it came out differently. I took a whole different route.Which
was The traditional way is that you work hard to get sponsored and
you ride contests, and the more you win the bigger star you are.
For me growing up, I didnt have access to contests, and I didnt
have access to the skateparks that these contests were based on. So
I had to figure out another way to get myself out there. Luckily
enough, street riding was becoming very popular,
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2001] and I remember seeing that when I was super young and thats
another reason I stuck with BMX, because I saw someone like him
doing it as well. On that level, that made it more cool for me. I
saw someone who looked like me doing it.Why was that important?
Actual BMX culture wasnt popular at all. People called me a white
boy and made fun of me because they didnt understand the culture.
So I definitely had like those naysayers and haters, but I stuck
with it and was able to make a career out of it.
where you rode rails and used what was provided to you. I was
using my neighborhood to ride and express myself. It was like NYC
was the canvas and I painted my picture on whatever it offered me.
I was able to mix riding with the lifestyle I was livinginto music,
into art, into fashionand I put that into my riding. Whenever I put
a video out I made sure to include that, and I was able to attract
a different type of people and get eyes on what I was doing. And
big companies saw that and they were like, Wow, this kid is
different. I didnt ride the X Games. I used the Internet and word
of mouth.What do you hope your collaboration with Pharrell results
in?I want to give kids an opportunity to aspire to be part of that
brand and just do good by the industry. Im hoping that teaming up
with someone like Pharrell, we can get it out to the masses and
show the world what this BMX culture is about. People have this one
image of it. Theres one type of person you think that rides BMX
bicycles, but its not true.nigelsylvester.com
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Anyone can ride a bicycle, but how many people
truly create art with it? When Nigel Sylvester leaps into the
air with his BMX
bike, its beyond just entertainment. He
approaches his craft like a mad scientist who pushes the limits
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and just try to make something that would be real stimulative.
To resonate with women? Oh yeah, totally. Totally. Women have been
so good to me and my career. What do you need to understand about
women to write songs for them? Well, I think most of the time we
hear songs that are written at women versus for. You know, it is
like most products. It is not really for them, it is just marketed
at their insecurities. It doesnt really fit her hand like that
though, does it? It is not really the smell she truly prefers, it
is just what your old, antiquated corporate statistics tell
you.
But where are you doing these consensuses and with what types of
women? My thing is lets start doing things with them truly in
mindtruly in mind. That is not writing something at her. That is
writing something intended for her.
And the only way to do that, the only way to really sort of
figure out if that works or not is based off of feeling. That is
what she is going to tell you, what she feels. Are you trying to
demystify that otherness in women? Is it kind of about trying to
understand it or cater to it? I just want to make music that
ladies, the girls, listen to and they feel an escapism. That is my
intention. Sometimes I think that success comes from being very
calculated and being very smart and not getting too involved. Yes,
Steve Jobs. He so geniusly brought that product to the world; it is
called a computer. But we are human, and that is what a computer
will never be able to do is feel. That is what still makes us the
superior species on this planet. So you are a curator of feeling?
At this moment. Has it been different earlier in your career? Yeah,
because, like I said, when I realized that thinking is not my path
and feeling is for me, I started to realize that people are so
dismissive about other peoples feelings.
I have always felt music since I was a little child. But I
realized that it was the key probably in the last 10 years. Because
before that I just wasnt thinking. It was like private flights,
Ferraris, jewelry, all of those things that mean nothing. Ferraris
get old. They depreciate as soon as you drive it off of the lot.
The same as a Honda Accord. You have got to trade it in in two
years, because in four you have lost a lot of money. And I
appreciate the car, I do. I still do. But that is not what it is
about. You cant take that when you go. You take your feelings with
you and your experiences that gave you those feelings. And also
what you gave others. That is the wealth, man. An experience. The
coolest thing that you talk about is your trip where you went and
you had a good time. The first thing that you talk about it in
terms of your description, Man, it was awesome.
the genesis I knew that the criteria was festive, celebratory,
and I wanted everything to feel urgent. So I worked really hard.
Urgent is an interesting word to use. Urgent just means like, Man,
what is that? Stop and listen. Shooting, always shooting for unique
and undeniable. Always shooting for that and using the feeling as a
compass. We are so dismissive of our feelings. Yet most of the time
when you hear about them in songs, unless it is a real good
singer/songwriter, it is always generic. But your feeling is like
one of the your feeling connects to your spirit that separates us
from the rest of the animal kingdom. We have feelings. Our feelings
can lead us to do really crazy things or really amazing things.
You can tell when someone is standing behind you, even if they
are not making a sound. You can feel it. You can walk into a room
and you can tell when someone doesnt like you. You can walk in a
room and you can tell when there is something going on between
those two.
It is a feeling. But we are always so dismissive of it. So with
this album I intended to capitalize on that
Our feelings can lead us to do really crazy things or really
amazing things.
For more on Pharrell and his passion for BMX culture, check out
The Red Bulletin Presents on YouTube.
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The Red Bulletin meets Ryan Sandes and Ryno Griesel
as they attempt to set a fastest known time for South
Africas
Drakensberg Grand Traverse. Its a 130-mile journey
on foot, with no support and very little sleep.
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he Drakensberg is Southern Africas highest and most iconic
mountain range, and its towering basalt peaks, rock-art-adorned
caves and remote valleys have commanded reverence throughout
history. Opinions differ over whether the South African pioneers
dubbed them Dragon Mountains because they believed dragons to live
in the misty valleys, or because the ranges spiky profile resembles
that of the mythical beasts back. Perhaps a clue lies in the more
traditional name uKhahlamba, which means Barrier of Spears in Zulu.
What is certain is that while the lower slopes and streams can be
safely explored by fun-loving eco-tourists, the higher reaches are
best left to well-equipped, expert mountaineers.
Among this high-altitude club, an obscure challenge has
developed over the years: To travel on foot, carrying all your own
gear and without receiving any form of support, from the north to
the south. It has become known as the Drakensberg Grand Traverse
and is the mother of all hikes. Its a trek that usually takes an
experienced hiker some six to 10 days to complete. Trail runners
Ryan Sandes and Ryno Griesel are planning to make the journey in
less than two.
From the acknowledged start at the Sentinel parking lot near
Witsieshoek, the
T pair will have to navigate more than 130 miles of rugged
alpine mountains to the finish at Bushmans Nek. Along the way, they
must summit six of the most prominent peaks south of Kilimanjaro
(for an altitude gain of over 29,527 feet) and will seldom drop
below 9,842 feet above sea level. Imagine running from Philadelphia
to
about Baltimore and back, non-stop, while holding your hand over
your mouth and nose, and climbing the equivalent height of Mount
Everest. Sandes, whose legs have carried him to high-profile
ultra-trail-race wins on every continent in the world, has no
illusions about what lies ahead.
Mentally, this is the toughest thing Ive ever attempted, says
the Cape Town native. This from the runner who set a speed record
through Namibias Fish River Canyon in 2012. (Six hours and 57
minutes for what is normally a five-day hike.) The Traverse is just
so long and so far and so slow. Most of the terrain is really not
runable eitheryoure on the edge of steep cliffs with no options
around the side. On average, youre probably doing about 3 mph.
Mentally, that just smashes you. You might think, OK, cool, Ive
only got 12 miles to go If I was trail running, I could do that in
an hour and a half to two hours, but up there, its about four.
Sandes plans to overcome the challenge like he does
ultra-distance races: By breaking the hike down into smaller goals,
taking it one peak at a time.
The first peak comes after about 5 miles, Sandes explains, but
the second
TEN HOURS TO THE NEXT PEAK: Massive distances and hostile
terrain will make for slow going during Ryan Sandes (above and
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is about 31 miles further on. So, 10 hours to the next peak and
all the terrain looks the sameits beautiful, but its
monotonous.
The sheer magnitude of the task has left the prolific race
winner with a philosophical approach. Ive learned that ego isnt
going to get us very far, he says.
he Berg is bloody awesomely big, says David Bristow, author of
Best Walks in the Drakensberg, and a Traverse veteran. If you look
at the Berg side-on, it has a helluva
rugged profile. Each one of those high points represents a ridge
and every dip a ravine, so what youre doing is just climbing ridges
and ravines. All day long. The terrain is also incredibly rugged.
There are these huge alpine grass tussocks, which will definitely
pose a problem for running. You could easily twist your ankle on
that, easily break a limb.
Not the kind of challenge, then, that you just pencil into your
diary, lace up your trail shoes, and go tick off. I didnt want it
just to be Ryno taking me on a glorified guided running tour of the
Drakensberg, Sandes says. When Sandes
and Griesel run through the gate at Sentinel car park in March,
they will have done four comprehensive reconnaissance trips, and
close on two years worth of planning.
For Sandes, the strength needed for the power hiking and slowish
scrambling fits his training program perfectly. For Griesel, it is
the biggest goal of his year and hes been putting in big road
mileage in Johannesburg.
Over the years, the record attempts have evolved from
traditional hiking to speed hiking [going faster and lighter], and
then it moved into adventure racing, explains Griesel, who, along
with Cobus van Zyl, set the existing record of 60 hours, 29 minutes
and 30 seconds, in April 2010. This is the first time, as far
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we know, that the Traverse is being approached with a running
mentality.
Griesel has an adventure-racing background and is in charge of
navigation, logistics, and keeping the attempt within the rules and
mountain ethics of the Traverse. Aside from navigational skills and
mountain-running prowess, he believes what will set their attempt
apart is less sleep and lighter loads. Were taking small, 3-gallon
packs with no tents or sleeping bags, so we dont actually have the
facilities to sleep, Griesel half-jokes.
For an adventure racer, 45 hours without sleep is not out of the
question, but Sandes will need to close his eyes at some point.
When youre exhausted on a normal trail, you can kind of switch off.
But with the Traverse being so technical, you have to be alert all
the time, he says.
Sandes is planning two or three power naps of 20 to 30 minutes
each, and hes hoping to push it to at least 18 hours before he
needs the first one. If its raining and cold, we wont be able to
stop, which is why were not cutting corners, he says, having
realized the need for proper waterproof gear after being caught in
severe weather in October 2013. Were going as light as possible,
but at the same time if you run into trouble, you have to be able
to get yourself out.
heyre going in March when the weather should be good, says
Bristow. Its the best time, but its still susceptible to heavy
cloud along the escarpment edge. You
can get horribly lost. Fall off the edge The runners will be
carrying GPS
devices, waterproof maps and enough food to last them for 60
hours, as well as a Yellowbrick tracker that has a panic button
should things get critical. A film crew shooting documentary
footage from a helicopter will act as emergency back-up, but at no
point during the attempt will they have any communication with the
runners, and they are only allowed to assist if a rescue is
required.
If the March mist does persist, its likely GPS wont work and the
helicopter wont be able to reach the runners anyway. If something
goes wrong, you can be pretty much stuck up there for a week if the
weather closes in, admits Sandes.
But thats just the type of challenge he relishes, and hes well
aware that no ones going to be taming any dragon. Its more about
spending some time tracing its back, on its own terms, and
hopefully rewriting the record books in the
process.ryansandes.com
The Drakensberg granD Traverse runs from norTh To souTh,
sTarTing aT The senTinel parking loT perimeTer fence anD enDing aT
The bushmans nek borDer posT perimeTer fence.
Way poinTs incluDe:
The chain ladders mont-aux-sources summit (10,767 ft.) cleft
peak summit (10,751 ft.) champagne castle summit (11,079 ft.)
mafadi summit (11,322 ft.) giants castle summit (10,872 ft.)
Thabana ntlenyana summit (11,423 ft.: The highest peak in southern
africa) Thomathu pass must be used to descend to bushmans
nekprevious Traverse recorDsapril 2010 60 hrs., 29 mins., 30 sec.
ryno griesel and cobus van ZylDecember 2009 61 hrs., 24 mins., 11
sec. andrew porter December 2008 81 hrs., 52 mins., 52 sec. stijn
laenen and andrew hagen 1999-2008 approximately 15 documented
unsuccessful attempts feb 1999 105 hrs., 39 mins. gavin and laurie
raubenheimer
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Linda Vaughn is missing from the start. In years gone by, the
garages and boys bedrooms of America were graced with the buxom,
formidable vision of Miss Hurst Golden Shifter. For almost half a
century, the blonde was a fixture at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the
full-day race at the legendary racetrack that traditionally kicks
off each international motorsports season. This year she has
decided not to attend.
But pretty much everyone else is here. Former Formula One
drivers, sports-car greats, gentleman drivers, and showbiz stars
form a colorful contingent in Daytona Beach, Florida, all
contending with the action on the super speedways oval for a day
and a night. After the start-finish straight, the racers turn
toward the infield, to the east and west horseshoes, clocking in at
over 185 mph.
Until his 70th birthday, you could usually see Paul Newman at
the start; two Andrettis have won here, as have Al
The Daytona International Speedway bills itself as
The World Center of Racing.
Unser Sr. and Jr., Hurley Haywood, and Chris Amon. The career of
Infiniti Red Bull Racing technical genius Adrian Newey really took
off here in 1983, when the young designer turned a March
Engineering car from a design write-off into a surprise frontrunner
almost overnight. Only engine problems in the 23rd hour prevented
Neweys drivers from waking up the day after with a new watch on the
bedside table. Winners of what began as the 24 Hours of Daytona in
1962 are awarded a Rolex Daytona watch; the prize-givers splurged
for naming rights in 1991.
For all this history, 2014 represents the start of a new era in
U.S. long-distance racing. The countrys two rival racing series,
GrandAm and American Le Mans, have come together and agreed on
joint rules. This years Rolex 24 was the first race of the new
United Sportscar Series, and 68 cars divided into four classes
revved their engines at the start.
The top tier, Prototypes, is a walkover for the representatives
of the erstwhile GrandAm against the open sports cars of the
American Le Mans series. The Daytona prototypes share the lead
among themselves. They may say that constancy trumps sheer speed in
long-distance races, but here its full speed ahead from the first
lap, says three- time Daytona winner Memo Rojas. Twenty-four-hour
races have become long-range sprints.
The Daytona International Speedway is huge. The tens of
thousands of spectators
Mechanics endure short bursts of frantic activity between waits
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fans. Theyre a good match for the cars that thunder past at 185
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grandstands that can seat 168,000 and tremble as the field goes
into the first lap. The differences in performance are so great
that the first lapping comes less than 15 minutes into the racethe
circuit is a 2.5-mile ovaland thats after the worst of the
jalopies, the homemade family projects with a lot of heart but
little else, are stricken from the field at registration. Because
things are dangerous enough without them.
At 4:58 in the afternoon, after a driving time of 2 hours and 47
minutes,
leader Memo Gidley laps one carand smacks straight into another,
the No. 62 Ferrari driven by Matteo Malucelli. The impact of
Gidleys Corvette DP into the back of the Ferrari is so powerful
that everyone fears the worst.
At this point, the cars are driving into the setting sun and for
a moment you cant see anything at all says one driver. The race is
stopped and Gidley has to be cut out of the wreck of his car. The
race has long since resumed when news finally comes that the two
drivers are responsive. (Gidley would go on to spend 12 days in
the hospital and endure surgery on his broken left heel, elbow,
and leg, and a compression fracture in his back. Malucelli was kept
overnight for observation.)
Accidents are inseparable from the Daytona experience, as much a
part of the legend of this race as who takes up singing duties of
The Star Spangled Banner at the start of the race or the Catholic
Mass Celebration in the media center on Sunday morning. The camping
area in the infield is divided into three areas: partying north,
rich east, and family-friendly south.
Tires, fuel, wipe the windshielddone. Thats the pit stop in an
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In the north, between turns three and four, are the frat boys,
the party animals. They brought beer and small tents in pick-ups,
SUVs, and other vehicles with a whiff of the farm about them. They
also came with plenty of wood for the campfires, which tend to
blaze a little brighter around here. Firefighters regularly take
stock of the situation, just to be sure. Its not even midday before
the tent ropes claim their first stumbling victims, who bawl their
disapproval. The unmistakable sound of couples coupling issues from
a few tents.
Things are very different in the south, the home of RVs and
those who appreciate the finer things in life. These
In three of the four classes, places are decIded In the last 15
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vehicles have a bedroom, a kitchen, and a closet, and a dead
animal is sacrificed to a gas barbecue rather than open flames.
Here, the cuts of meat and the paunches of those grilling them tend
to be larger than in the north. These are experienced campers. Most
of them have flatscreens elegantly worked into the bodywork of
their mobil