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AUGUST 2013A B EYOND THE ORDI NARY MAGAZIN E

UPGRADENOW!

TRAIN LIKE AWORLD CHAMP

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WELCOMEWaves were on them and under them this

month, with world-beaters in both places. The new

boats in this years Americas Cupare among the

most advanced vessels built for any sport, and

the crews that race them put their lives on the

line every time they take to the water. Beneaththe surface, but no less at risk, is Franco Banfi

and his driving passion: to photograph the most

dangerous sea creaturesin the world. Another

hidden world revealed by The Red Bulletinthis

month is the secret street artby Belgian graffiti

genius ROA. His images of animals could not be

more different to those of Banfi, yet they are

equally stunning. All that and much, much more,

including the stuff that makes soccer hotshot

Neymar so special. We hope you enjoy the issue.

READY FOR TAKE OFF

The catamarans that will slice throughSan Francisco Bay in next months

Americas Cupare creating a new typeof sailor for a new kind of sailing

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August

In fencing you have totrick your rival to win.

Turned out I had a realthirst for it. Its fun

Sharppractice:OlgaKharlan

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HAMEL/REDBULLCONTENTPOOL,DANWILTON/REDBULL

CONTENTPOOL,FRANCOBANFI,PHILIPPFORSTNER,JOYROOM

21 87ME & MY BODY

How European beach volleyball champClemens Doppler plays a numbers game

with the tool of his trade: his physique

THE JOY ROOM

With champagne showers, fountainsand house beats, this club is the hot spotfor thewise pleasure seekersof Mexico

76RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY

In New York Citywith the talentedstars of tomorrow as they breakfast with

Blondie and jam with James Murphy

BULLEVARD

10 photos of the month

17 newsSport and culture on the quick

21 me and my bodyClemens Doppler

24 Kit bag A bowmans equipment26 wheres your head at?Neymar

28 winning formulaThe science

behind indoor weather systems

30 lucKy numbersOne-hit wonders

FEATURES

32 Wet And WildUnderwater photographer Franco

Banfi on the dangers of a life aquatic

44 Girls NamesThe Belfast post-punk four-piece

get to grips with life on the road

46 Thrusting TalentWorld-class fencer Olga Kharlangets straight to the point

50 Uphill StruggleWho will come out on top at thePikes Peak International Hill Climb?

60 Painting The TownSecretive street artist ROA speaks

exclusively toThe Red Bulletin

66 Not Plain SailingFlying high with the new Americas

Cup catamarans in San Francisco

76 Lost In MusicThis years Red Bull Music Academy

attendees get into the groove in NYC

ACTION

86 get the gear A bikers back-up

87 party Clubbing in Mexico City

88 travel Dune bashing in Abu Dhabi

89 trainingInline skating

92 my cityA graffiti artists Dublin

94 playlist With Empire Of The Sun

95 save the date Events for your diary98 time warped Can it be true?

AT A GLANCE

32ANIMAL INSTINCT

A photographers subjects can be difficult,but the underwater creaturesin Franco

Banfis images can bite back fatally

HIGH DRAMA

Taking the high roadto victory with rally legendSbastienLoebat the PikesPeak International Hill Climb,aka The Race To The Clouds

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CONTRIBUTORSWHOS ON BOARDTHIS ISSUE

The comic book artist and

illustrator has had his work

published in theNew York Timesand the Wall Street Journal, but

hes not normally preoccupied

with football. Before he drew

Nymarfor The Red Bulletin,Inzana had never heard of the

Brazil and Barcelona hotshot.

I thought Neymar was the nameof Ernest Hemingways boat.

We Americans, he says, with

a grin, still see soccer as a fad,like the internet and penicillin.

RYANINZANA

A lifelong

passion formusic makes

the Dublin-based writer perfectly

placed to bring the best nw mscto the magazine. He also spends

time with artists with bigger

riders. I love great storytellers,

he says. Eugene Hutz of GogolBordello told me the epic tale of

his familys journey from Ukraine

to the US. Lee Scratch Perry hasyarns about the halcyon days of

reggae, involving everyone from

Bob Marley to Keith Richards.

Sadly, most are unprintable.

EAMONNSEOIGE

In 2008, the

Frenchman

crossed thePacific in a sailing boat, so when

he gets his camera out to take

pictures of boats, he knows ofwhat he snaps. To best capture

the ferocious beauty of the

Oracle teams Amrcas Cp

yacht, Grenier chartered ahelicopter and buzzed the boat

during its training runs in San

Francisco Bay. His photos haveappeared in newspapers and

magazines around the world,

includingParis Match, Yachting

WorldandLe Figaro.

GUILAIN

GRENIER

FRANCO

BANFI

I thought thatNeymar was thename of ErnestHemingways boat

RYAN INZANA

Growing up on

Lake Lugano,

little did Banfi

know that the lakes of his Swisshomeland would soon prove too

small for him. Since then he has

become one of the worlds leadingpractitioners of underwaterphotography. Crocodiles, whales,

stingrays: he approaches them allwithout fear. His most dangerous

assignment to date was shooting

a cheerful anaconda in Brazil:

it was only afterwards that Banfilearnt that the giant snakes will

swallow anythingthat comes near

them, with or without a camera.

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W I N T E R B E R G , G E R M A N Y

MIRROR IMAGESlopestyle is the discipline mountain biking

borrowed from snowboarding: big air and intricatetricks on an obstacle-riddled course. Its the one withthe most wow factor, so photographer Lorenz Holder

knew he had to do more than just point and clickto capture it correctly at the Red Bull Berg Line event.

The mirror was on a digger; Holder a tight deadline.My window of opportunity was small because

I wanted the sun in the shot. When Frenchman YannickGranieri leapt from ramp to ramp, the stars aligned.

Watch video of the event: www.redbull.comPhotography: Lorenz Holder

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G L A S G O W , S C O T L A N D

MIND GAMESFour years ago, Danny MacAskill was messing abouton his bike around the village of Dunvegan on the Isleof Skye. Four years and one day less ago, an internetvideo of his cycle tricks turned his life around. A seriesof further films established him as the best streettrials cyclist in the world. His latest project is a venuetailor-made for what he does best, inspired by whathe knows best: his own mind. Devised by MacAskill

to reflect his childhood passions, Imaginateis theobstacle course every kid dreams of, made real. Hisinner me reached out immediately: the first videogot two million hits on its first day of release.

See it come alive: www.redbull.com/imaginatePhotography: James North

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NAPLES, ITALY

PLEASURE FLIGHTThe airpseed indicator reaches 400kph. Aerobatics pilotMatthias Dolderer, in his Zivko Edge 540, makes spectatorsbelow in the Italian port city gasp in amazement. (Theyremainly there to watch the Americas Cup World Series; Dolderer,of the Flying Bulls display team, is providing extra thrills.)Knowing that the German flying ace would be passing over somechoice backdrops, including Mount Vesuvius, photographerOlaf Pignataro fixed a camera to tip of the Zivkos left wing.

Pilot project: www.matthiasdolderer.comPhotography: Olaf Pignataro/Red Bull Content Pool

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Five KnivesNot the usual Nashville sound:Anna Worstells mesmerising

vocals over dubstep beats.

BliTz KidsBritish emo rockers

letting distorted guitars looseon big-time melodies.

new BeaT FundLoud and edgy California hipsters

reminiscent of a 90s Beck.Recommended: Scare Me.

BeaRTooThThe motto of this in-your-face

metalcore ensemble from Ohio,USA, is: Let em have it!

PHOTOGRA

PHY:DANIELSIMON(2),TINAKORHONEN

Sport and culture on the quick

AzoresOrlando Duque heads for pastures new onthe Portugal leg of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series.d Trm

Drive into the future witha modern master of concept cars

ROADAHEAD

While working for Bugatti, German designer

Daniel Simon began sketching out futuristic cars

and spaceships in his spare time. By 2007, hehad enough grand designs to publish a book,

Cosmic Motors, which earned him a traffic jam of

fans, including racing legend Jacky Ickx. Then

Hollywood came knocking. Simon, 37, hasnt

looked back since, designing the Light Cycle

for TRON: Legacy. His new large-format bookseries, The Timeless Racer, depicts fictional

cars from the years 1981 and 2027.

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PHOTOGRA

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2)

He writes hits like other

people write grocery lists

and he shops for others asmuch as for himself. Just this

year, Pharrell Williams, 40,

has been in the studio withbig-name collaborators

ranging from Destinys Child

to Daft Punk. He helped the

latter write the ubiquitoushit, Get Lucky. How does he

relax? Writing music for

childrens animated films:Williams latest soundtrack

is forDespicable Me 2.

: You work

across multiple genres, buttheres one thing your songs

have in common a certain

sense of cheekiness. :

Tragedy after travesty thereis so much going on. People are

becoming desensitised. I think

its a cultural shift among thecollective consciousness that

people are looking to smile.Is writing for kids films

different to writing albums?

Its kind of the same, except

you have to be harmonious

with the intentions of thewriter and the director. It

doesnt matter how good you

think the song is, it may take

them to a different place and it needs to be cohesive.What projects have you

got coming up?

Im producing albums for

Jay-Z, Kylie, Miley Cyrus and

Jennifer Hudson. They donthave to work with me, but they

have. Im pinching myself.

Im black and blue all over.

W..ams:

Pha

www.phawams.com

Wh good: Bsh monan bk sa GAhon n anng fo h Wod Champonshp

King of the hills?Last season, mountainbiker Gee Atherton often

found his way onto the

podium. This season,

hes usually on top of it.I changed my training and I now have

the best bike in the field, says the

28-year-old, Salisbury-born rider. Forthe imminent World Championship in

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, there

will be even more changes.

Theres going to be a lot of pedalling, sowere going to look at the weight, introduce

a hydraulically adjustable seat post and

maybe use bigger wheels, he says.Who can win? Greg Minnaar, Mick

Hannah, Aaron Gwin about five, six

people. If he had to choose: overallseries winner or world champ? The

overall winner says more from a sporting

perspective, but the World Championship

has more prestige. And that winnersstripy tricot [jersey] is damn comfy.Bgnnng on Ags 26: www.c.ch

Tokyo One Red Bull Street Styleentrant finds himself in limbo in Japan.Naoyk Shbaa

Potosi Stunt rider Aaron Colton takes a novelapproach to cornering on the open roads of Bolivia.Paco Cook

Hong Kong A drummer gets proceedingsunderway at the Red Bull Dragon Roar boat race.Andy Jons

Be luckyThe 2020

Olympics hostcity will soonbe revealed.

Heres hoping

for a bettermascot than

turiN 2006The Italians choseNeve and Gliz a

snowball and a blockof ice. They received

a frosty reception.

AtlANtA 1996It still remains a

mystery what Izzy,a blue creaturein tennis shoes,

exactly was.

BeiJiNG 2008The Fuwas were

symbolic of Feng Shuielements, but looked

like domesticatedPokemons.

We HAVeA WiNNer!

THE HIT MANPop producer and trendsetterPharrell Williams on collective consciousnessand his new passion: music for childrens films

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LaCONTIguy[Andreu Lacondeguy]

rides on Handmade in Germany

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Sounds of the cityBelfasts Belsonic festival isnt your usual field-turned-music venue, but a city-based series of big-name,outdoor gigs. Grand Custom House Square will playhost to up to 50,000 heady revellers for 12 days, asacts including Basement Jaxx, Ben Howard, Nine InchNails and Jake Bugg take their turns on stage. With notent to be pitched, this is an urban music celebrationfor those who prefer tarmac to mud, and a dailyhot shower to a 30-minute queue for the Portaloo.

www.belsonic.co.uk

Waking their markThe cream of British wakeboarders are gearingup for Loch Stock, a weekend of hard-foughtcompetition on Loch Lomond in Scotland. Riderswill battle for UK Wakeboard Tour points and all-important bragging rights, as seasoned campaignersand rookies alike use obstacles to show off theirtricks and aerial prowess. After the competition,there will be celebration and commiseration at

the evening after-party on the loch shore.www.facebook.com/LochStockScotland

Smokin on the water:Loch Lomond

Basement Jaxx live

FULL THROTTLE BERLINRadio host Sakhile Moleshe on current global club

trends from powerful synths to Portuguese recitativo

As an in-demand vocalist famous for working with South African danceduo Goldfish, Sakhile Moleshe travels the world, playing and making

music. Twice weekly on internet radio show Globalize Yourself Stereo,

Moleshe and partner Xee serve up fresh new electronic tunes from their

South African base. Tuesdays are dedicated to smoother tracks, whileon Saturdays the tempo rises, getting listeners in the party mood.

: Which music trends excite you most right now?

:Aggressive dance blended with Portuguese recitativo, where thesinger adopts the rhythms of ordinary speech. It comes from Angola, but

youre starting to hear it in European clubs and people flip out when it comes

on. Apart from that, Shangaan electro is exciting. The beat is incredibly

fast, double the tempo of rave music, and the dance steps are crazy!

Which world city parties hardest?Berlin. Recently I wanted to check out a club there called ://about blank.

I arrived at 11pm, but the place wasnt even open. When I came back at1.30, there were maybe 10 people on the dancefloor. At 5 in the morning,

when I was on my way home, the queue was snaking around the block.

Which song do you have on repeat right now?

773 Loveby Jeremih. For many years the most exciting house music

came from Berlin and London. Now America is striking back with a mix

of trap and house beats, powerful synths, a lot of bass and raw rap singing

all put to fast rhythms. This track by Jeremih is very much in that mode.

Vancouver Swapping pedals for paddlesat Red Bull Divide and Conquer in Canada.Bryan Ralph

Zeltweg One way to get a great view of theaction at the Airpower 13 air show in Austria.Red Bull Skydive Team

New York A Treequencer a sound tree in the recording studio for Red Bull CreationAaron Rogosin

Moleshe (right) andXee of internet radio

show GlobalizeYourself Stereo

WORDS:RUTHMORGAN.PHOTOGRAPHY:JAMESBOWLER

,REXFEATURES,GLOBALIZEYOURSELF

Globalize YourselfStereoairs every Tuesday and Saturday 6-7.30pm (GMT):

www.redbullmobile.com/globalizeyourselfstereo

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ME AND

MY BODY

CLEMENSDOPPLER

1 READY, UNSTEADY, GOIm 2m tall and weigh about

85kg, but I can weigh 3kg less

at the end of a season. Its

important to have strong trunk

muscles and the best wayto train them is on a Swiss

ball, by doing exercises on an

unsteady surface. I also

have physio twice a week.

2 HIGHLY EXPLOSIVETake-off power is vital on deep

sand. I train my leg muscles

with various types of squats.

When youre building up your

strength, its heavy weights and

not too many reps say four

sets of six reps of 130kg. Then,

when you want to increase your

strength quickly, the sameexercise with just 100kg,

but done explosively.

FEEL GOOD INK4All my tattoos remind me of

great moments in my life. I got

my first when I was 17: the design

was, of course, a volleyball player.

My volleyball-mad parents

wouldnt have let me get

anything else. The model was

a player from an American

volleyball magazine. Maybe Ill

soon be adding a third number

13 under the ace of spades on

my right arm, by the figures 03

and 07, the years I won the

European championships.

SCREWS LOOSE 5Ive suffered my worst injurieswhile playing. I ruptured my

left cruciate ligament a month

before the 2004 Olympics,

and did it again two years

later at the European

championships. The screws

that were put in my knee

the second time were taken

out when I had an operation

on my meniscus in 2011.

OFF THE SHOULDER 3The most injury-prone parts of

a volleyballers body are the

shoulders. Ligaments and joints

come under enormous pressure

from smashes and hard serves,

which is why I work intensively with

resistance bands to simulate the

ball-striking motion.

PHOTOGRA

PHY:PHILIPPFORSTNER

The two-time European beachvolleyball champion, 32, playsa numbers game with whatgoes into and onto hishighly honed physique

www.doppler-horst.com

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ILLUSTRATION:DIETMARKAINRATH

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THE LIONS HAVE BEEN FED

Congratulations to The British & Irish Lionson their successful Tour of Australia.

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A bowmans kit might not seemto have changed much, butadvances in archery have keptdeadeyes open to new technology

KIT EVOLUTION

TARGETRANGE

ON A LIMBThe limbs are block-glued maple,planed by hand, reinforcedwith glass laminate. Recurvebows, with limb tips curlingaway from the archer, allowfaster shots than straight tips.

68 STATEIn 1968, this projectile wasstate-of-the-art, becauseit was made of aluminium.Advantage: its light.Disadvantage: it breakseasily and one bad shotcould bend it out of shape.

RISER SHINEA bows handle is known

as the riser. Wooden riserslive on in junior and hobby

sports; 50 years ago,hand-turned in maple,

walnut or rosewood,pros swore by them.

This wooden bow, from

a venerable Austrian

maker, now defunct, was

the trusty companion

of many a top archer in

the 1960s. The riser

weighs in at 1.8kg, andthe Zopf X7 was very

stable, but wood had its

downsides: it would

vibrate for some time

after an arrow was shot,

and was susceptible

to the elements.

Less reliable in hot

weather, the cold made

it brittle, sometimes to

breaking point.

The X7 was developedwith input from seven-time world championFrantisek Hadas (above)

www.archery.org

1967ZOPF X7

RECURVE BOW

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SEE & STEADYTop parts: the

mountable visoris adjusted for

the distance tothe target. Beneath:

three stabilisersmaintain balance

before and afterloosing the arrow.

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WITZ.DE,ACTIONIMAGES/PAULCHILDS

IN PIECESDetachable limbs debutedin 1963, becoming standardsoon after. Pro archers todayhave bows designed totheir body shapes usingcomputer software.

HARD COREModern risers are precision

mechanisms, optimally balancedto retain their original position

after shooting and made frommachine-milled aluminium.

STRAIGHTEN ARROWAn aluminium core wrapped incarbon fibre makes this arrowmore robust and wind-resistantthan an aluminium-onlypredecessor of the same weight.

This weatherproof bowseamlessly transfers the

force generated by the

archer to the arrow. Itssynthetic limbs absorb

vibrations better than

wood and the relativelyheavy riser (1.3kg) keeps

recoil low and the target

rate high. At London2012, South Koreas

Im Dong-Hyun (below)

notched a world-record699 points (out of

a possible 720) in the

mens team contest,using his trusty

Win&Win recurve bow.

In Olympic archery,a 12.2cm target centrering is targeted froma distance of 70m

www.win-archery.com

2012W&W INNO AL1

RECURVE BOW

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WHERES YOUR HEAD AT?

NEYMARTo-do list: lead Brazil to home World Cup glory; form Champions League-winning partnership

with Leo Messi at Barcelona. Fcil. Heres the stuff Brazils wonder boy is made of

Country LifeIf Brazil are to win

a sixth World Cup ashosts next year, theyll

need Neymar at hisbest. I dont thinktheres pressure on

me, he says, bendingthe truth like a top-

corner free kick.

Hey Neymar!Neymar da Silva

Santos Junior wasborn on February 5,

1992 in Mogi dasCruzes, Brazil. As

required by law for allBrazilian footballers,he played soccer inthe streets as a boy.

Youd think theydhave pitches all overthe country by now

FantasyStrike Force

I have a contract withSantos until 2014, he toldTimemagazine in February.

I intend to honour it.Three months later, he didthe dishonourable thing

and signed for Barcelona

for a transfer fee of 57m.

In the XI at 11In 2003, Neymar daSilva Santos Senior

moved his family southto Santos, on the coast.Later that year, his boysigned for Santos FC.

The thing I miss mostis playing football on

the beach with myfriends, said Neymar Jr.

KicksAnd Flicks

As the national anthemplayed before his

225th and final gamefor Santos, in April,

Neymar cried. It was

emotional. The filmof my life since I wasa kid came to mind.

Tweet Heart@Njr92 is climbing

Twitters top 100. At lastcount, he had passed

seven million followersand nudged the Dalai

Lama out of 87th place.Cristiano Ronaldo is

soccers top tweeter, with19 million followers.

Groundhog NeyNeymar has been nominated

for FIFAs prestigiousPusks Award every yearsince it began in 2009.

Actually, no he hasnt: in2009, it was Nilmaron the

list. Hes a top player,

said fellow Brazilian Nil, ofNey. The latter won in 2011and came third last year.

GroomedFor Success

Known in hairdressingcircles as the fauxhawk,

Neymars mane has drawnplenty of admirers from

mens mags and that ofPel, who says it, and

aftershave, matter moreto Neymar than football.

www.neymaroficial.com WORDS:PA

ULWILSON.ILLUSTRATION:RYANINZANA

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PERFECT

STORMHeres the forecast: indoor weathersystems and how theyre made

IN THE SKY

A photograph at his grandparents home inspired Amsterdam

artist Berndnaut Smilde to create an interior cloud, now

a source of wonder at Londons Ronchini Gallery. But how

on Earth or just above it does this installation work?Clouds are made up of tiny water droplets which

float in the air, explains Professor Thomas Schrefl of

Austrias St Plten University of Applied Sciences. Forthese droplets to form, water vapour in the air what

we refer to as humidity must condense around small

dust particles. The droplets appear when a relativehumidity of 100 per cent is reached or, in other words,

when the air cannot absorb any more vapour.

The total pressure of the air,p, is the sum of the partial

pressure of the dry air,pd and the partial pressure of thevapour,pv. Once the partial pressure of the vapour exceeds

a certain threshold, we reach the point of oversaturation.

This is the turning point when it comes tocloud-making. But temperature also has a role to play.

Relative humidity is defined as the relationship of

the partial pressure of the vapour to the saturated

pressure of the vapour:f=pd/ps 100. The latter isdependent on the temperature, T, as the solid line,

ps(T), in the illustration shows.

When a humid parcel of air meets cold ground, theair cools, the partial pressure of the vapour exceeds the

saturated vapour pressure, and clouds begin to form.

This part of the process is represented by the horizontaldotted line in our diagram. The point of intersection

with theps(T) curve is what we call the dew point.

IN THE GALLERY

So how does Berndnaut Smilde get a cloud into

a museum space? With trickery, says Schrefl.

Oversaturation occurs when additional water vapour isintroduced to already saturated air. What Smilde does

is intensively humidify the air in the gallery with a water

spray. Then he introduces vapour from a fog machineinto the space and the reaction occurs. Simple.

To ensure it floats in the correct space, it cannot

rise or fall too quickly. The vertical acceleration of

the cloud particles, aC, is dependent on the difference

in density between them and the surrounding air. If

the density of the cloud particle, C, is the same as the

density of the surrounding air A, the accelerationis nil and the cloud floats.

As before, temperature is vital too. Dew point and

density are dependent on this variable. This means

that for a cloud to form, the temperature must beunder 20C. Et voil a cloud-filled room.

More on the cloud artist: www.berndnaut.nl

WINNING FORMULA

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OMASSCHREFL.PHOTOGRAPHY:EEFTINCKSCHATTENKERK.ILLUSTRATION:MANDYFISCHER

Guaranteed to have a good atmosphere:cloud installation Nimbus Minerva by Dutch artist

Berndnaut Smilde, Ronchini Gallery, London

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LUCKY NUMBERS

ONEHIT WONDERSEvery musician hopes to have a hit, but for many, thats where

the dream ends. Here are small tales of big flashes in the pan

By Harper Lee or Capote?

Harvey

Balls Smiley

Hey,Macarena

WORDS:FLORIANOBKIRCHER.PHOTOGRAPHY:DDPIMAGES,REXFEATURES,FRANKW.OCKENFELS,SHUTTERSTOCK,XAVIERMARTIN

No no.1:Jimi Hendrix,Norah Jones,

Iggy Pop

By the book:Edelweiss

PachelbelsCanon in D

What do Jimi Hendrix, Iggy Pop,Beck and Norah Jones have incommon? Theyre all one-hitwonders. None of them hashad more than one Top 40 hitin the US charts. Beck is themost successful of the iniquitousbunch, having made it to number10 in 1994. The song? Loser.

1Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty

had seven Top 10 hits in the UKcharts as The KLF. In 1988, theyimparted their wisdom over 160

pages of a book, The Manual: HowTo Have A Number One The Easy

Way. Viennese jokers Edelweissfollowed the advice and enjoyeda number one in four countries

with their 1989 yodellinghit Bring Me Edelweiss.

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Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prizein 1961 with her first novel, To Kill

A Mockingbird. The novel has soldover 30 million copies, and was

made into a film, starring GregoryPeck, which won three Oscars.The author has never written a

follow-up, which has only fuelledrumours that large parts of thenovel came from the pen of her

good friend Truman Capote.

30,000,000

Spanish flamenco duo Los del Rioformed in 1962, and waited 34years for their first, and only, hitrecord. But this one really madeit big: Macarenais the mostsuccessful song ever by a one-hitwonder. The remix topped the UScharts for 14 weeks in 1996, sold11 million copies worldwide andunleashed a global dance trend.

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Historys first one-hit wonder wasJohann Pachelbel and his Canonand Gigue in D, which became aworldwide smash 264 years afterthe German composers deaththanks to a 1970 recording by thePaillard Orchestra. It has sincegone on to become a staple at

weddings. Green Day, U2 andAlicia Keys have all borrowedthe catchy chord sequence.

264In 1963, commercial artist Harvey

Ball was asked to design a lifeinsurance logo. Ten minutes later,so he says, the yellow, round and

grinning smiley was born. By 1971,50 million smiley badges had beensold. The logo may have made Ball

world-famous, but it didnt make

him rich. He never applied for atrademark or copyright of the logo

and earned US$45 for his work.

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ANIMAL

INSTINCTPhotographing live models can be a vicious

business, but Fra nco Banfis subjects

actually bite back. The Swiss snapper

on the dangers of a li fe aquaticWords: Arek Piatek Photography: Franco Banfi

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Close upEye to eye with a blue

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uddenly, the leopard seal is aware of the diver.

Dropping the wounded penguin it has been chasing,

it turns its full attention to the man with the camera.Terrifyingly, the 300kg predator moves at lightning

speed to come eye-to-eye with the photographer.

If it wanted to, it could kill him with a single bite

of its powerful jaw.For Franco Banfi, life and death situations like

this are just part of his everyday work. Its made the

55-year-old from Lugano in Switzerland one of theworlds most in-demand underwater photographers.

Over a career spanning 30 years, Banfi has seen

every dangerous thing the oceans have to offer and

photographed them in close quarters: crocodiles,sharks, giant squids, stingrays, the list goes on. His

motivation is simple. I prefer species that are difficult

to photograph. I risk my life for them, he says.Banfi discovered underwater photography in the

early 1980s. Some friends convinced me to dive in

Lake Lugano, he explains. The world underneath

that surface instantly fascinated me.Underwater photography a means of capturing

that world became Banfis passion. He taught

himself the technical aspects, as well as reading

up on as many species of marine life as he could.To get noticed as a photographer you have

to do what no one else has done before, he says.

Which is exactly what he set out to do, swiftly

establishing his own modus operandi.I dont dash off for the lucky shot; I try to gain the

trust of the animals first, he says. When dangerous

or shy ocean-dwellers tolerate your presence, yourimages take on an entirely new dimension.

Aged 25, Banfi sold his first photo to an Italian diving

magazine. At 34, he won the underwater photography

world championships in Cuba. Since then, his photoshave become a staple of respected wildlife magazines

likeNational Geographic,BBC Wildlifeand Stern.

The art of getting close to an animal, says Banfi,is a mixture of science and experience. Every

species reacts differently, but there is one rule for

survival that almost always applies: show theanimal respect, but never fear.

It was this rule which saved Banfis life during

the encounter with the leopard seal: I stayed

where I was and held the camera out to him. Heswam away. There are always exceptions, however.

When an anaconda gets aggressive, its better to

disappear, he says. Theyre primitive and oncethey start attacking they dont stop.www.banfi.ch

Wet and wild: FrancoBanfi takes a portraitof an 8m-long anaconda

Franco Banfi has30 years experience

as an underwaterphotographer

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Dancing with a manta rayThese giant specimens off the Mexican

island of Socorro accepted me after a fewdays. I laid my hands on them and let

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Bite-sized imageCaimans [alligator-like reptiles] grow

up to 2m long. To cool off during the day

they open their mouths in the water andremain in this menacing-looking position.

In Brazil I stalked one of them while

swimming. Always from the front, though,

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Eye of the tiger sharkIts one of the most fearsome animalsin the ocean: unpredictable, and with

a bite powerful enough to crack tortoise

shells. We lured this specimen off thecoast of Africa with fish blood. It came

dangerously close: you can see the

shadow of my camera on its snout.

Ice diving with belugasThis photo won a bunch of awards.

It was shot in the White Sea, off the

coast of northern Russia. Beluga

whales are generally scared of people,but this curious, playful guy was an

exception. He got so close that I hadto keep pushing him away withthe camera, just so I could focus.

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Chasing the impossibleNo one has managed to photograph the birth of

stingrays in the wild. A marine biologist and

I accompanied this pregnant female for a weekin the Atlantic, while taking care to avoid the

deadly sting. Unfortunately it got away from us.

What remains are photos of the animal on its

incredibly long search for a spawning ground.

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The well-fed anacondaThis photograph was taken in the

Brazilian wetlands area of Pantanal.

Anacondas wait for their prey onthe bank they even eat crocodiles.

This specimen had already eaten and

barely took any notice of us. But then

it got annoyed and opened its mouthfully in the direction of the camera.

That was our signal to retreat.

Teeth marks in the cameraA saltwater crocodile in a typical

lookout position near the shore off

Papua New Guinea. I approachedfrom the side, getting closer and

closer and then pressed the shutter.

Suddenly its head jerked in my

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Picking up signalsWhales know when youre nervous,

and it relaxes them when you radiate

calm. This photograph is the result

of harmony between man and

animal. With this sperm whaleI knew beforehand that it was

going to submerge. I went downfirst and took the photo while it

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Camera-shy monsterGiant squids can grab diverswith their tentacles and drag them

down into the depths. This colossus

accompanied us down to 80m, but

was cautious. When the cameraflashed it jerked away and

slowly snuck up again later.

Feeding the predatorsFor shark shots you always need

bait that you hold out, so they

can smell it, but not reach it. Inour case it was pieces of fish in

cage-like boxes. You start snapping

as soon as the predators approach.

This photo shows me off the coastof the Bahamas at 15m depth,

surrounded by 25 lemon sharks.

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label Captured Tracks and adding bassist

Miskimmin to the fold. In April 2011,

Girls Names released their morbidlythemed debut album,Dead To Me.

There was no plan; it was loose

and organic, says Cully. With [2013album] The New Life, we took a big step

forward. It was more ambitious; better

melodies. We produced it ourselves,

experimenting with sounds, new ideasand the result is like a dif ferent band.

It deals in some serious themes. For me,

I remember the excitement playing

America for the first time, says Cathal

Cully, Girls Names founder and creativecore. One night we were finishing

a European tour in Amsterdam and

the next were playing to a packed

crowd of New Yorkers in Willamsburg.Even now its kind of surreal.

But then you get quite a few

pinch-yourself moments when youdo what we do. On tour, a few years

back, I was standing outside a hotel

with our old drummer, Neil, and hestarted freaking out when he saw

Lee Ronaldo from Sonic Youth

walk by. He nearly wet himself

with excitement. Then again,he had a similar reaction when

he saw Jason Donovan.

Originally from the idyllicCounty Armagh village of

Camlough, Cully moved to Belfast

a decade ago to study at university.

Musics magnetic force wouldsoon alter his path through life.

Ive worked loads of jobs;

gardening, bar work, labourer, jobsthat give me flexibility to focus on

the band, says Cully. I worked in a

clothes shop not so long back and somekids walked in, spotted a turntable andasked Whats that? Music technologys

constantly evolving. The format changes,

but music lives on. Most bands arentmaking shedloads of cash, but a little

struggle can make for better art.

Sipping a few sneaky lunchtime

beverages at the Pavillion on Belfast sOrmeau Road; Cully, Philip Quinn,

Claire Miskimmin and Gib Cassidy are

Girls Names latest incarnation. In2009, songwriter Cully accepted a slot

supporting Californian surf-rock band

Wavves and asked novice drummer NeilBrogan to lend a hand. Within months,

they were cutting an EP for American

glamour: carrying our own gear up venue

stairs in Turin. Its great, though; seeing

new places, meeting cool people.Cassidy didnt have long to learn the

songs. I got the call before Christmas

and was blown away when I heard thealbum. I practised to it at home, did two

rehearsals and was off to the Eurosonic

festival in Holland before I knew it. To be

honest, I totally winged it, he laughs.This August, Girls Names return to

the festival trail, their formidable live

reputation growing steadily.The next major Irish show is

Castlepolooza in August and then

Green Man in Wales, says Cassidy.

Weve certainly moved on asa band from the days of the first

album, says Miskimmin. I feel

a lot more comfortable with myplaying now, but half-hour sets

can be a bit crap. Our favourite

first song is 10 minutes long, and

we like to finish with one thatlasts maybe 12. That doesnt

leave much time in the middle.

Recapturing the hauntingatmospherics of The New Life

on stage brings its own challenges.

Weve rearranged the songs minussynths and added guitar sections, says

Quinn. We really lose ourselves in

the music at times, ramp up the sound.

Cathal often detunes his guitar at theend of songs, getting these interesting

tones. Its a lot different to the record.

For now, gigging takes precedence, butplans for the next chapter are emerging.

There are a few ideas knocking

around, says Quinn. Weve spoken

about moving abroad, to somewherelike Utrecht in Holland, even just for

a short time. A change of scene mightnt

be a bad call. After al l, everywhereis just a long van drive away.

www.facebook.com/GirlsNames

Belfasts post-punk standard bearers were once a surf pop two-piece.Now theyre 100 per cent bigger and twice as loud

Words: Eamonn Soeige Photography: Johnny Savage

it was a cathart ic process. Whatevershappened in life comes out in the music.

Since the records release earlier this

year, Girls Names have toured Americaand Europe, wowing audiences with

aural assaults of foreboding art rock.

I love touring, says drummer Cassidy,

the bands newest addition, who joinedlast December after Neil Brogan decided

on a time-out. The quick-witted, sharp-

dressed and impressively quiffedDubliner splits his time between band

commitments and business interests in

his hometown. We dont have a big fancy

van with reclining chairs. Were more 10-hour, back-breaking drives and then time

to magic up the energy to play. Oh the

On tour: Girls Names give their latest LP a live airing

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The line-up (from left)Philip Quinn guitarand synthsCathal Cully vocalsand guitarClaire Miskimmin bassGib Cassidy drums

DiscographyGirls Names (EP, 2010)Dead To Me (Album, 2011)The New Life(Album, 2013)

Stick Mans StoreAside from keeping time,Cassidy is also proprietorof that increasingly rarebreed, a record shop:Elastic Witch, on DublinsMiddle Abbey Street.

Strike A PoseNikolai Fraiture, TheStrokes bassist, isa Girls Names fan.His soundtrack toa 2012 New York fashionshow included theirtrack Lawrence.


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TALENTWorld-class fencer Olga Kharlan gets straight to the pointin the

run-up to this months World Championships in Budapest

Words: Ruth Morgan Photography: Sergei Chyrkov

hen she was a little girl,

Olga Kharlan dreamed

of being a shop assistantor a dancer. Fortunately for Ukrainian

sport, both career paths were sliced to

tatters the moment she picked up a sword.

That epiphany was 12 years ago. Now22, Kharlan and her sabre have won

two Olympic medals the first a gold at

Beijing 2008, when she was just 17 yearsold and numerous world and European

titles. This month, the girl from Mykolaiv,

near Odessa, is dreaming of yet more glory

at the World Championships in Budapest,and counting on dried fish, self-help and

Marilyn Manson to get her there.

: How did you

get into fencing?

:I clearly remember

the day I first heard about it. I was anenergetic child and used to go dancing a

lot. But when I was 10, my mum said, Im

sorry, but we cant afford to pay for yourdance lessons any more. My godfather

was working as a fencing trainer at the

time so he suggested I go to his club instead.

When did you first realise thatfencing was becoming a passion?

To begin with it was just a bit of fun, but

I discovered my true passion for the sportwhen I started getting results. I had a real

thirst for winning. I love that fencing is an

unusual sport, too you have to trickyour rival if you want to win. Thats fun.

There are three types of sword in

fencing: pe, foil and sabre. Whydid you go for the sabre?

The pe and foil jab, while the sabre

strikes. Its the only weapon where you

can score points with the blades edge.Its a very agile weapon, and as a result

the discipline is incredibly fast-paced.

We fence with greater energy whereas,with the pe and foil, theres a lot

of standing around and waiting.

What do you say to those who claimfencing is not a hugely physical sport?

All sports are physically strenuous, and

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sabre fencing is no exception. You needvast amounts of strength and stamina. We

move around with our legs half bent, so

theres constant pressure on the knees andback which are often injured as a result.

Plus were constantly bruised from hits.

How mentally taxing is fencing?Psychological fitness is just as importantas the physical side. Everything can

change in a second. So we dont just

train in the fencing hall, we train inthe psychologists study, too. He gives

me strategies to focus my thoughts.

Do you miss dancing, your first love,

despite all of your fencing success?Maybe I would have become a great dancer.

I loved samba and cha-cha, but Ill never

know. I sometimes watch ballroomdancing competitions because its so

beautiful, but thats where my interest

ends; my heart belongs to fencing.How did it feel winning bronze atLondon 2012 after gold in 2008?

Before London, I thought that if I didnt

win a gold like I did in Beijing, Id bevery depressed. But I realised that once

youre on that Olympic podium, youre

a winner. Id have liked to be a littlehigher up, but Ive got still time to get

there. Well see what happens in 2016.

How strenuous is your training regime?

Im in the gym for about eight hours aday, six days a week. I do general physical

training and then fencing training, where

we spend a lot of time practising movesand polishing our technique.

Can you eat what you like if youre

exercising that much?

I dont often go on diets. I really lovesavoury food, especially dried fish. Thats

the thing I cant resist. Oddly, I dont

like chocolate, but sometimes and thishappens very rarely I can eat a whole

bar of milk chocolate in one sitting.

After that, I just want dried fish again.Do you ever want to turn off your alarm,

forget the gym and hang out with yourfriends like a regular 22-year-old?

I dont have much free time to myself,and thats the hardest part of my

profession. When I do get time off, I like

to hang out with friends from outsidethe sport. When we meet, we dont talk

about training or competition. We just

go to the cinema, catch up and have fun.

Is talking shop a problem with yourboyfriend, since hes a fencer too?

Yes, Im going out with another sabre-

fencer called Dima, and we often speakabout our bouts and give each other

advice. My coaches would prefer I wassingle, but Dima being around has nevergot in the way. If anything, its helped.

What sort of music gets you in the

mood to do battle?

I love listening to music in my car;when Im at home; when Im training.

Sometimes I cant prepare for a match

unless Im listening to something. I haveall sorts on my iPod, from Metallica

to Justin Bieber. When my boyfriend

listens to my iPod, hes always surprised

by the choice of songs. Hes like,Youve got Marilyn Manson on here?!

Youve had a lot of attention for your

looks as well as your fencing prowess.Are you happy being labelled a pin-up?

Im very flattered that people appreciate

my looks, but feel quite embarrassedwhen they give me compliments. I really

enjoyed being photographed for a

Ukrainian mens magazine but it did

have some negative consequences. Myparents were fine about it, but my trainers

didnt understand why we [Olga and her

two teammates] did it. Afterwards I said

I wouldnt pose for another magazinelike that, but who knows? I might

You still live in the Ukranian town

where you grew up: Mykolaiv, nearOdessa. Are you a local celebrity?

Not really, because fencing still isnt

very popular there. If I get recognised,

its only because of my car because I havemy name and the Olympic rings on the

number plates. [The car was a gift from the

Ukrainian Fencing Federation for winninggold.] Its great when Im recognised as

it means people know what fencing is.

Do you think youll ever leave your

hometown?Ive lived in Mykolaiv all my life and I love

it there. All of my relatives live there and

I share a house with my parents and mydog. My mum always has something

delicious waiting for me when I get back

from competing I love her borscht. I planto live my whole long and happy life there.

Do you still get nervous before a bout?

I always get nervous! Confidence is

a weird thing. You can have it one minuteand then two seconds later its gone.

I have to distract myself from negative

thoughts. My inner voice helps me.I often talk to myself but not out loud.

How are you feeling about the

upcoming World Championships?

My goal is to win individual gold atboth the World Championships and

the next Olympics. Ill have to work very

hard to achieve that, but when I have,Ill be the happiest person in the world.www.redbull.com

If I get recognised

its only because of my

car because I have

my name and the

Olympic rings on the

number plates

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with no end in sight, each of them steeperand narrower than anything the three

road-trippers were familiar with in their

native Kansas. Mary grips the ceilinghandle nervously, but Eric has everything

under control. There are hardly any guide

rails on the side of the mountain roadand Eric has to resist the urge to peerover the edge. Tyre marks scar the

narrow curves so narrow that Eric has

to come to a halt to see around each bend.Soon, the family becomes aware of

a number of tyre marks leading straight

out, over the edge of the abyss. Marygasps for breath in the passenger seat.

In the back, Mary-Jo grins in apparent

delight. Altitude euphoria, mutters

Eric as he navigates the next serpentineturn. What have they got me into?

An icy wind is blowing when they

reach the summit of Pikes Peak; the12.4-mile ascent has taken them 45

minutes. The three Kansans turn their

gaze east, to the Great Plains from where

they have come hundreds of miles laidout before them like a vast, crumpled map.

In the souvenir shop they buy an

ashtray, a sweatshirt and a few fridgemagnets. Then its time to start their

descent. Some 1,440m below, skilful

mechanics are putting the finishing

touches to a small fleet of high-performance cars and motorbikes. The

following day, these vehicles will tackle

20 of the most legendary kilometres inAmerican road racing, when they take

Sky rocket: PeugeotSport built an 875hp208 all-wheel driveprototype for theworlds best rally driver,Sbastien Loeb, topilot up Pikes Peak

very year in late June, Eric, his wife,

Mary, and her mother, Mary-Jo, leavetheir home in Kansas and cross the state

line for an American road trip. This year,

Mary-Jo wanted to see Colorado, first thesmall city of Pueblo, then Colorado Springs

and then on to the highpoint an assault

on Americas Mountain: Pikes Peak.It was on this mountain 120 years

ago, on July 22, 1893, that the lyrics

to the immortal anthemAmerica The

Beautifulcame to songwriter KatharineLee Bates, and I probably wont be

around for the 130th anniversary,

says the elderly Mary-Jo in the backseatof the Volvo, her white ringlets bobbing

in the rear-view mirror.

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part in the 91st running of the Pikes PeakInternational Hill Climb. The Unsers,

the Andrettis, the Millens, all of them

have proved their mettle here in theinfamous mountain race to the summit.

In the late 1980s, the Europeans left

their mark on this race for the first time,pulverising the course record with asuccession of rally cars. With four-wheel-

drive and upwards of 500hp, they tore

through the 11-minute barrier on thegravel road to the summit.

The famous road was laid with asphalt

in 2012. At this point an ambitious localcould manage it in 11 minutes, but that

was too slow to break any records. By

the end of 2012, the 9 Minute Club

comprising those daring drivers whodmade the summit in less than 10 minutes

was five-strong. New Zealander Rhys

Millen held the record with a time of9:46.164, with French driver Romain

Dumas 0.017 seconds behind in second.

Making up the five was Japans Nobuhiro

Tajima and the two motorbike riders,Carlin Dunne of the USA and his

compatriot, Greg Tracy.

Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak, but by how

much. In training, his car 875hp strong,

875kg light burned a few seconds perkilometre from the competition, includingthe two current record-holders Millen

and Dumas. America loves winners and

there are huge expectations of Loeb.The 39-year-old is feeling the pressure.

A break between two training runs,

and the nine-time rally world championhas retreated to his trailer. His blue eyes

blaze, thrown into even sharper relief by

stubble now turned pepper-and-salt. He

sprawls on a bench, relaxed. Although ofslender build, his powerful upper arms

are testament to the work he has already

done, taming both mountain and car.First I had to establish trust in the

Peugeot, he says. I had to find out how

nervous the car was and what I could do

with it. During a test in France we sortedout the major problems transmission

too long; suspension too hard; steering

too direct and on the first run in Americathe car did everything I wanted it to. I

dont know what the old rally cars felt like

on Pikes Peak, but this ones insanely fast.

Nevertheless, can he really go at100 per cent speed here on these

miserly roads clinging desperately tothe flanks of the infamous mountain?Loeb hesitates: Lets say 99 per cent.

Theres another major drawback:

unlike the World Rally Championship

(WRC) there is no co-driver to dictatethe curves to him during the journey.

How well does he know the route?

Even before I came here, I hadmemorised the sequence of curves,

says Loeb. I studied on-board videos

at home, then I came here with my co-driver, Daniel Elena. We drove the route

and put together a pacenotes book, just

as I would in a normal rally special stage.In the WRC we only get to inspect

the course twice: the first time you put

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from souped-up single-

seaters to sidecars, all

kinds of vehicles compete

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he latter pair didnt

use petrol or dieselon their way up to the

summit in 2013, instead

they trusted their

fortunes to electricenergy. Indeed, this

was in many ways

a race made for theelectric engine:

conventional petrol-burning motors

have to cope with performance lossat high altitudes. Despite large

turbochargers and advanced electronics,

there simply isnt enough oxygen to

burn. Anyone who makes it to theseheights having surrendered a quarter

of the horsepower they had in the valley

has really done their homework.Electric cars dont have this problem,

of course, but their batteries even

in a relatively short race like this are

heavier than fuel engine units. And evenif big name car manufacturers like

Mitsubishi are now putting their name

to some of the electro-projects, thisstill remains pioneering work: little

more than glorified tinkering.

Of course, there wont be a whisper ofthis when it comes to the overall victory.

Not when the challenger is celebrated

French rally driver Sbastien Loeb. The

main topic of conversation here on themountain is not whether Loeb can crack

the record in his specially developed

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together the notes and the second timeyoure checking them. Here, the third

run onwards was all new for me. I was

able to tell Daniel 100m before the nextcurve what was coming, and he checked

it. I would say 120 left and he would

correct me, like 120 left plus. We droveit together nine times, and the last threetimes I didnt make a single mistake.

Perfection is whats required here

and Loeb wouldnt have it any other way.I approached Pikes Peak like I do all of

my projects: professionally, with a good

team and to the very highest standards.I know there is no room for even the

smallest error. But I have no interest

in just coming here and driving with

the pack. I want the record.There are parts of the course where

the road drops 500m into nothingness,

with no guide rail. At many of these curves,such as the forebodingly named Devils

Playground at 4,000m, the cars in the fastest

class reach speeds of well over 200kph.

With a car as powerful as the Peugeot,if you steer just a fraction wide, youre

history, says Loeb. You have to be precise.

It was actually easier before on gravel;you can work much more with the car.

Meanwhile, clouds roll in and the

weather service forecasts a 30 per cent

chance of rain.

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penultimate curve; at the finish line sheclings to him, sobbing. In the heat of the

battle, Bruno Marlins passenger, his son

Jrmy, leans so far out that the youngFrenchman scrapes his helmet visor on

the asphalt. American Wade Boyd wins

ahead of Japans Masahito Watanabe.Rivals on the track, they all embraceonce they get to the summit. Theyre

not racing against each other, but

against the mountain and the clock.That goes double for Sbastien Loeb,

the first starter among the cars. If all goes

to plan, he will win, that much is certain.Whats interesting is the time he does it in.

Long before you see him, you hear him.

Every change of gear is an explosion

amplified by the Rocky Mountain cliffs: astaccato of explosions coming nearer and

nearer. Between Devils Playground and

the summit, the road keeps disappearingand the eyes strain to focus. The

silhouette of the Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes

Peak should be appearing down there, but

its already ahead, at a crag further on.The ear has tricked the eye. Later the

telemetry will show a peak speed of more

than 240kph, the wild beast with thehuge spoiler zooms, roaring, from one

corner to the next, disappears, reappears,

tears past at easily 170kph on a double

60-degree curve, at the end of whichyawns a 300m abyss. At the exit, the

inside front wheel is exactly on the white

line marking the edge of the asphalt. It isan exact, clinical procedure: one of those

moments which very few men on this

planet can pull off in a car.

The clock at the finish line shows anunbelievable 8:13.878, one-and-a-half

minutes under the existing record.

Membership of the 9 Minute Club isa bit less special today. In second place

is last years victor Rhys Millen, with

a respectable 9:02, which might be aneternity better than his old record, but

is still in a completely different league.

At 4,300m above sea level, Loebseems happy and relieved: I felt goodin the car and I decided on all-out

attack, he says. Pikes Peak was my

season highlight, and this record meansa lot to me. He will drive his last WRC

event in his native France this autumn,

and in 2014 hell enter the touring car

world championship (WTCC) in aCitron, which will manage a mere third

of the performance of the Pikes Peak

Peugeot. The nine-time rally worldchampion has enjoyed his mad week

in this unbelievably powerful, radical

car, built just for him.In the meantime, the mountain has

reminded everyone why they call this

event the Race to the Clouds. It drawstogether a mighty contingent in white

and grey and gives it a vigorous shake:

rain, hail, snow, fog, wind it takes

the whole afternoon to get the last24 cars up the hill. Theres no hope

of a record or even a respectable time

now, and how could there be: nowits the turn of the soapbox cars, the

home-built, rebuilt, the jerry-built,

the family teams; the products of

long winter nights tinkering. Thespectators greet every last one of

them with great respect and genuine

enthusiasm, and rightly so.Sbastien Loeb is still up there on

the summit, in the middle of a sleet

shower and pea-soup fog. Everyonedrives down together, whether hobby

warrior or record holder. Everyone

is equal before the mountain.

In the Best Western Hotel inManitou Springs, where Eric, Mary

and Mary-Jo are recovering from their

previous days exertions, theres a dozycalm. Mary-Jo snores lightly on the

veranda, Mary browses the latest

edition of theNational Enquirer. With

earphones in his iPad, Eric is watchingthe race online. Bit of a hotshot, this

Loeb. Next year, Eric decides, hell

send the two girls up to the summiton the cog railway. Hell master the

route to the top alone and wont slow

for any curve. How hard can it be?www.redbull.com

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On top of the world: Sbastien Loebcelebrates at 4,300m above sea level

he following day,as early as 3am,

a good two-and-

a-half hours beforesunrise, a 1km-long

colonnade is working

its way up themountain, past the

herd of campervans,

which were already in

place the day before. Admittedly, the banon open fires makes hearty weekend fun

difficult. Colorado is suffering from

severe forest fires and hoping for rain.Up at the summit, its bitterly cold.

Along the road, yesterdays meltwater

from late-season snow is still frozen.First up are the motorbikes, the riders

exposing themselves to the dangers

of the mountain without roll cages or

any of the protection afforded to theirfour-wheeled rivals. Supermotos and

vintage racing bikes follow, all

conquering the mountain to a greatshow of reverence from the fans.

A few dauntless individuals serve

to remind us that sidecars still exist, with

hearts bigger than anything humanoid.Johnny Wood almost dislodges his

passenger, Giorgina Gottlieb, in the

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Hes a faceless superstar: a wall-painting

nomad, artist and rebel. The Red Bulletin spoke

exclusively to ROA in what is his

longest interview to date

WILD SIDE

THE

OF TOWNHes a faceless superstar: a wall-painting

nomad, artist and rebel. The Red Bulletin spoke

exclusively to ROA in what is his

longest interview to date

WILD SIDE

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OF TOWN

Words: Jasmin Wolfram and Andreas RottenschlagerPhotography: Philipp Greindl

Words: Jasmin Wolfram and Andreas RottenschlagerPhotography: Philipp Greindl

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Long spray days:

First my shoulders

ache, then my back

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LPHOTOGRAPHY:ELSAOKAZAKI

: You spray huge

motifs onto public walls, often

under extreme time pressure. Which

parts of your body start to hurt first?:I recently worked on a motif

in the commercial port in Linz, Austria,

for nine days; sometimes 12-hourshifts with no break. First my shoulders

hurt, then my back, and then the index

finger on my right hand, which is the

one I use to press the spray-can nozzle.Of course, a motif on that scale is

a mental challenge, too.

ew York; London; Berlin.

If you hunt around theworlds great cities, youll

find ROAs animal murals on

walls in courtyards, sprawled

across the side of factories.Inspired in part by the sketches of Charles Darwin, the secretive Belgian street artist

paints in simple blacks, whites and reds and has, of late, become hot property. Now,

rather than running from the law, he is being offered gallery space by big-name artdealers. Some of his works are the size of several tennis courts, while smaller pieces

hang in prestigious venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Last year, the Stolen Space gallery in London gave him a solo exhibition.

Although his art is publicly displayed worldwide, ROA is a very private man.There are no photos of his face in the public domain. His pseudonym, he says,

doesnt mean anything. His reasons

for privacy are simple: Works aremore important than people.

When The Red Bulletinmeets

him, hip-hop is blaring from laptopspeakers on the second-floor balcony of

the Galerie Hilger NEXT in Vienna.

Empty spray cans are strewn across the

floor. The sun will be going down anyminute and hes running out of light.

ROA has to have his latest

installation an enormous kingfisherwith outstretched wings finished by

the following evening. But, as night

falls, he finds time to sit down withThe Red Bulletinfor a rare interview.

Not pictured: ROA inthe Galerie Hilger

NEXT in Vienna: I am awall-painting nomad

How do you go about transferring anA4 sketch onto a multi-storey building?

I make my sketch directly on the wall.

A wall is like any other work surface, justa little bigger. I find it boring to reproduce

something youve already painted, so my

sketches are mainly doodles. I want to

create something new and fresh each time.Many of your works could be painted

over. Does that bother you?

Of course I want my works to surviveas long as possible. But when I leave

a place, thats my job done. The wall

doesnt belong to me and the world

doesnt belong to us. Its a public placeand anyone with a spray can or a tin

of paint can change that at any time.

Is street art modern art?Its contemporary, not modern. It

doesnt matter if street art is defined

as intellectual or underground, or howseriously it is taken. The main thing is

that it happens. The term street art was

created by people who had nothing to

do with it, similar to a lot of general terms,it merely connects street and art. But

street artists have existed much longer.

Its not limited to painting: mime, jugglingand music can all be street art, too, so

it is a bad term that describes nothing.

With fines and prison sentences, not

everyone accepts this as an art form.

It would be better if people worried lessabout their privacy or property and saw

these artworks as a gift, not something

which adversely affects their environment.

When you were young, you spray-painted the walls of derelict houses.

Now you have artworks hanging

in galleries. How do you reconcilethose two extremes?

An artist is an artist. It doesnt matter

Artists shouldonly createthings thatinspire them

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In June of this year ROAcompleted two huge

murals in Linz for theAustrian citys Bubble

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where or how he works or the contextin which he performs. The main thing

is feeling that desire to create something.

Its not about how great people thinkyou are, or how well you hold your

place in the market. Its nice to have

bread, cheese and chocolate spreadon the kitchen table every morning.How do you define the term artist?

An artist can do what he wants. If

someone comes in and defecates on thefloor of this gallery and calls it art, its

art. Whether the public likes it or not is

another matter. A true artist should onlycreate things that inspire him, not stuff

thats easy to sell. I did all sorts of jobs

in the past, just to be able to afford spray

paint. Now its the other way around: Imake my money with paint to buy paint.

Your art is all about taming wild

animals. Why?I dont actively tame them. Some

people think my animals are sweet,

others find them aggressive. When

I paint the animals, they appear static,but theyre not necessarily dead.

People give them their own meaning

thats whats beautiful about art.Your motifs all come from the animal

kingdom. What is it that you dont

like about people?

Animals reveal a great deal about thetimes we live in, the things that affect us

and the way we live our lives as humans.

do you get to spend at your

home in Belgium?

Its got to the point where my realhome doesnt feel like home any more.

Im like a wall-painting nomad.

Some of your pencil drawings arereminiscent of the old masters of

Belgium and Holland. As somebody

raised in the Low Countries, do you

see yourself as part of that tradition?Were all influenced by the conditions

we grow up in; the things we see as

children. The impressions they makeinspire us, even if we dont realise it

at the time. From that point of view,

its possible that the European schoolinfluenced my painting style, yes.

Your work fills walls 20m high. How

do you get the proportions right?

I dont use projectors or grids. Theywouldnt be any use, because when

Im starting out, I dont know how the

artwork is going to proceed. I find thatout while I am painting. I have photos

of the animals I want to paint and I look

at their skeletons so I can understand

their anatomy and proportions.In 2011, you painted in Gambia. What

did the people there make of your work?

The people are open to creativity,they are not afraid of change.

Is this the biggest difference to Europe?

Why do Western graffiti artists paintalmost exclusively in rundown or

backstreets locations? Because these

are the places where nobody is bothered

by what we do. But theyre also theplaces that have the most potential for

transformation. Now there are owners

of properties speculating that street artcould actually help house prices to rise.

What gets you more excited?

The freedom of a legal location

or the thrill of an illegal wall?It doesnt matter if something is

legal or illegal. The only thing

that matters in the end is that youcreate something interesting.ROAs latest exhibition: www.inoperable.at

How did the work of Charles

Darwin inspire your motifs?

Darwin researched different animalspecies all over the world and was

constantly on the move. In that sense,

were very similar. Im extremelyinterested in biology and the vast variety

within the animal kingdom. But

ultimately, Im an artist, not a biologist.

You keep the details of your privatelife closely guarded. How much time

Vital signs: ROAs work hasgiven the port in Linz a facelift.

Below: his intricate sketch ofa mountain goats skull

Street artcould raise

house prices

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Deadly and demanding, the huge catamarans

that will slice through San Francisco Bay in

the Americas Cup next month have created

a new type of sailor for a new kind of sailingW o r d s : A n d r e a s T z o r t z i s

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he wind in San Francisco Bay barrels

through the Golden Gate Bridge likea gang of brawling longshoremen spilling

through the doors of a bar. It whips the

placid waters of the morning intofrosted whitecaps by early afternoon,

buffets the regal hills of Angel Island and

whistles through the ghostly windows

of Alcatraz, blowing the baseball capsoff the heads of Midwestern tourists.

On the water, boats heel and the

edges of their canvas sails flap sharplyin the strong gusts. But on the 72ft

catamaran with a 260m2sail speeding

past them, there is little sound.

The boat the Americas Cup committeehopes will give sailing a shot in the arm

begins heeling as the first fingers of wind

hit the wing. The 11 members of the crewtuck themselves into an area dug out of

one of the two hulls. Paired up around

four grinding handles attached to high-tech winches, they hold perfectly still.

Its a game of inches as skipper Jimmy

Spithill looks up at the sail and wing

and then out in the direction he plansto head. The grinders, who operate the

sails, move in synchronised motions for

a few revolutions, trimming the sailand wing in and out. The only sound

is the mechanical crank of the wing as

the boats hulls begin to rise out of the

water. First the windward hull, then theleeward, as it rises up on a 250kg slice of

carbon-fibre daggerboard, a manoeuvre

called foiling that enables the boats tohit speeds in excess of 39 knots (72kph).

Other boats pound through conditions

like this, but the AC72 cuts througheverything. Its remarkably stable on top

of the water as the speed ticks up and up.

Spithill gives the word and the crew

spring into action. A tight choreographybegins as they bound across the width

of the boat, skidding down on the netting

and bracing themselves against theother hull as water whips through.

The boat begins a slow tack and more

bound across, including Spithill, who

joins them on the other side. He steadiesthe wheel and heads upwind toward

Fort Mason. Behind him, three chase

boats bearing the Oracle logo swerve inand out of the AC72s wake at top speed

like a motorcade, straining to keep up.

Spithill is the skipper of Oracle Team

USA, current holders of the AmericasCup. The red-haired Australian became

the youngest skipper to win the trophy

when he steered Larry Ellisons trimaranto victory in the 2010 competition. Next

month he and a top-flight international

crew of 11 will take on the winner of

a three-team selection series betweenboats from Sweden, New Zealand and

Italy in the 34th contest for a trophy

awarded since 1851.I dont think anyone, even pro sailors

a few years ago, could ever predict or

think this is where we would end up

today, says Spithill, 34. From whereweve come from to where we are is

a vertical quantum leap. Its not a slow

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I dont think anyone,

even pro sailors a few

years ago, could ever

predict or think this is

where we would end up

today. From where weve

come to where we are is

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Were working so

hard were on the

edge, and when you get

to the end of it, youlook around and think

if you could bottle

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breaking apart. It took more than sevenhours to recover the boat from the water.

The dangers are set against a backdrop

of the sports far-reaching potential.These boats are unmatched in their

demands on sailors and their design

innovation, and theyre set to generatethe sort of buzz and TV audiences theAmericas Cup, and the sport of sailing,

desperately need to justify the hundreds

of millions spent in investment each year.To no one is this more apparent than

Spithill, who swears he remembers the

jubilation that greeted Australia IIsvictory in 1983, the first time a non-

American boat had won the competition

since the first race in 1851. He was three

years old. Seven years later, he won hisfirst race on a wooden dinghy that he, his

sister and his dad found on a scrap heap.

Hes now behind the wheel of a boatcosting an estimated US$10 million.

His crew hail from eight countries. The

fitness levels required of the team are

Olympian in this category. And the rushhe gets from sailing is unparalleled.

THE FEELINGIt was intimidating the first time

I stepped on, says Spithill of theAC72. We spent countless hours going

through the design with the engineers,

the predictions, the CAD drawings.

But when you step on that and it startsmoving, its like youre going from a

pony to a thoroughbred. As soon as that

boat hits the water, it is alive and it justwants to go. All it takes is as little as

5 knots [10kph] of wind. Its really

demanding because it takes so muchenergy and concentration. One little

slip and this boat will bite you.

You hear the foils start to hum when

you go over 40 knots [74kph], and thewind is like being in a hurricane. The

guys are working so hard and youre on

the edge, and when you get to the endof it, you look around and just... Yeah,

if you could bottle that up, youd do well.

THE RESPECTYou never ever underestimate the boat.

You give it a lot of respect and dont ever

relax. Youre 100 per cent focused. With

other boats, a lot of the time, its like, Hey

guys were gonna take a break and sitdown and relax. It doesnt happen. Thats

when an accident can happen. Its not like

you take the wing down and have lunch.

A lot of the time you dont have thetime to say, Hey heres whats coming up.

Or, Get ready for this. You need to make

progression. Weve just gone Bang! Its

like weve broken a brick wall down.

The AC72s increased power also ledto tragedy, however. In May of this year

the Swedish Artemis Racing catamaran

broke apart during a downwind Americas

Cup training session. British Olympicgold medal winner Andrew Simpson

died in the incident after becoming

trapped under the water. His death led

to a number of proposed changes in racerules, including a maximum wind speed

reduction to 23 knots (43kph), down

from 33 knots (61kph).Crewmembers must

also wear life vests with oxygen canisters

tucked on the outside, which can give

one minute of air if they go under.In October of last year, Spithill and his

crew were fortunate to survive their own

brush with disaster. On the eighth dayof training on the boats, Spithills AC72

nosedived in rough conditions as he

navigated through its most dangerous

manoeuvre the sharp turn from upwindto downwind sending the 11-man crew

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each and every decision in a calm way

while youre red-lining the boat. Andthe guys on board have to make

decisions when theyre completely

exhausted. Its split-second and you

need incredibly smart guys. You canhave the fittest guy in the world on the

boat, but if he doesnt have a strategic

mind or

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