Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2017 i Maxim

Perhaps there’s truth to the old adage “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” Mate Rimac, the 29-year-old CEO of Rimac Automobili, certainly hopes so. Back in June, Richard Hammond, the presenter of Amazon Studios’ series The Grand Tour, stepped into one of Rimac’s Concept_One electric supercars for a hill climb in the Alps. Near the top of the run, the host lost control of the car and was launched sideways off the road, flipping down a steep embankment. Thankfully, Hammond escaped the wreck before it caught fire. But footage of the crash went viral, and just like that, the Concept_One was infamous. It’s a shame, because if there was any justice in the world the Concept_One would have already been widely known before Hammond’s crash. With it, Mate Rimac…

In the summer of 2013, the actor James Badge Dale was on the subway in his hometown of New York, reading the Times, when he came across an article about a wildfire in Arizona that claimed the lives of 19 men, members of a fire suppression squad known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots. The article left Dale stunned; the Yarnell Hill Fire, as the tragedy became known, was the largest loss of firefighter life since 9/11. “I was riding the 6 train downtown. I’ll never forget,” Dale says over coffee in the East Village. “I was so struck by these 19 men, in that moment where they realized that they are not going to get out…They stayed together to the end.” Four years later, Dale stars alongside Josh Brolin and…

It’s Friday night in Hong Kong and the crowds are filling the streets around Lan Kwai Fong. Pushing through the throngs of people, you pass a procession of bars pounding out Top 40 hits and EDM remixes. It’s a lot of fun if you’re 18 years old (the legal drinking age in Hong Kong), but what about the rest of us? “Hong Kongers are generally more interested in money than music, so we don’t have the really mature scenes you see in other big cities, like London or New York,” says Adam Wright, the longtime entertainment editor of the South China Morning Post. Thanks to sky-high rents, “venues have massive costs to cover, which means they need to move a lot of bottles, so they tend to target the VIP…

It can be difficult to find the common thread of Hong Kong menswear, which is as assorted as the city’s skyline. The British colonial era left behind an ingrained respect for tailoring, a long and exacting process that may seem at odds with the speed of Hong Kong life. Avant-garde designs, in which modish Asian metropolises like Tokyo and Seoul excel, take a backseat to the fine craftsmanship of storied tailors like Ascot Chang. Still, there is ample room for sartorial innovation. Many young Hong Kongese designers first ply their trades in New York and Europe, then return to leave bold imprints on the homegrown fashion scene. Here, a look at five names that define Hong Kong’s uniquely eclectic style. ASCOT CHANG Founded in 1953 by an immigrant from the…

For the duration of its 115-year existence, Cadillac has been held in varying high levels of esteem, based on the products it was turning out at the time. During the 1930s, Caddy reached for the stratosphere, introducing a worldrenowned V-16-powered line that was the equivalent of a Bugatti Chiron hypercar today in terms of unmatched desirability. This put Cadillac on par with its legendary U.S. competitor Duesenberg, and European luxury car manufacturers such as Rolls-Royce and Hispano-Suiza. Cadillac delivered a bare chassis with a V-16 drivetrain to Fleetwood, its in-house coachbuilder, which crafted bodywork for customers such as actors Tom Mix and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, making Cadillac’s V-16 a Tinseltown darling decades before the Escalade. Unfortunately, between the time Cadillac set out to produce its V-16 and its debut in…

K esler Tran has no interest in meeting other people’s expectations. The Los Angeles–based artist has made his mark in photography with bold images of some of the world’s most stunning women. His shots aren’t subtle, but there is a kind of purity in their unapologetic sexuality. “I don’t do warm-ups or wait for [the model] to get in ‘the mood,’ ” Tran says. “That’s all time-consuming with no real action…It begins with trust: Either they trust you or they don’t. There’s no middle ground.” Now an established artist with an impressive portfolio, Tran began his career snapping automobiles. It was a gorgeous swimsuit model from France who drew him to photographing women, and he just went for it. That “go for it” attitude extends to his shoots today. “There’s…

Blade Runner 2049 The sequel to the 1982 film and perhaps fall’s most anticipated movie, 2049 takes place three decades after the original Blade Runner. The story follows LAPD officer K (Ryan Gosling) as he works to prevent a collapse of society caused by the reintroduction of rogue biorobotic androids known as replicants. His only hope is to find Rick Deckard, a retired blade runner, the name for the special cop tasked with tracking down these human-like machines. Harrison Ford reprises his role as Deckard from the original cult classic. Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Sicario) directs this neo-noir sci-fi thriller. (Warner Bros., October 6) American Made Based on an unbelievable true story, American Made tells the legend of Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), an infamous smuggler and pilot who found himself entwined…

Twenty years ago, Macau was the kind of place that made Bugsy Siegel’s Las Vegas look squeaky clean. In the spring of 1998, a beefy prosecutor and police chief named Antonio Marques Baptista was tasked with cracking down on the Portuguese colony’s crime lords. People called Baptista “Rambo.” After his dog managed to sniff out a bomb that had been planted in his car, Rambo went after the one man he suspected had planted it: Wan Kuok-koi, alias Broken Tooth, the head of Macau’s 14K Triad, which boasted a membership of 10,000 in a city with fewer than 500,000 inhabitants. Rambo found Broken Tooth in a private room at the Casino Lisboa, where he was watching a Hong Kong movie about his own criminal exploits. As a crowd of gamblers…

Hong Kong is among the world’s most densely populated cities. Thankfully, there are plenty of options to escape the grind. Countless hiking trails crisscross the island, and the surrounding areas are rife with parks, beaches, and other natural splendors. The best hike is along the Dragon’s Back trail down to the beach in Shek O Country Park, offering stunning horizon-to-horizon vistas of the South China Sea. Dragon’s Back is also the most popular paragliding spot in the city. Paraglide Hong Kong offers an introductory student pilot course (8 lessons, $1,329) with a teacher certified in the U.S., while Sky Adventure’s version is a four-day student pilot course (12 flights, $511). There are also plenty of mountain bike trails just a short trip from the city. For a relaxed ride try…

Heritage is both a help and a hindrance to Moto Guzzi, an Italian motorcycle manufacturer with century-old roots. A rousing start was followed by a tough era featuring numerous slipups and near-fatal stumbles that eventually steered Guzzi to where it is today: a company that creates eclectic, aesthetically interesting bikes typically unseen by the masses. And that’s something the company hopes to change. “With Moto Guzzi we are now facing what we call the ‘heritage brand dilemma,’ ” says Davide Zanolini, executive vice president of marketing and communication for Moto Guzzi’s parent company, Piaggio Group. The dilemma is this: “Preserve decades of history and tradition, or change to stay relevant for a rapidly evolving market? Heritage shouldn’t tell you where you are, but where to go next,” he says. That…

1903: First use of identical, interchangeable parts 1905: First closed-roof car 1910: First standard closed roof 1912: First electric starter 1915: First production V-8 engine 1915: First high- and low-beam headlights, called tilt beams 1928: First synchronized transmission gears 1928: First shatterproof safety glass 1930: Cadillac V-16 engine debuts 1931: Cadillac V-12 engine debuts 1949: Cadillac overhead-valve V-8 debuts 1951: First power steering 1952: Autronic Eye, the first automatically dimming headlights 1953: First wraparound curved windshield 1972: First antilock brakes 1974: First airbags 1981: First variable-displacement V-8 1997: OnStar, first consumer wireless telematics system 1997: StabiliTrak electronic stability control 2000: First infrared night-vision system, with head-up display 2002: Magnetic Ride Control electronically adaptive shock absorbers 2002: First XM satellite radio 2008: Escalade Hybrid, the first large luxury-hybrid SUV, unveiled 2011:…

Standing atop a peak in the Teton mountain range, Jimmy Chin scanned the face of the slope below. The ski down would be intense, but there was little reason for serious concern. The renowned skier, climber, and photographer had the skills to descend the route, and his riding companions, including big mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones, had already carved down the line with no problems. But as Chin began to cut back and forth across the route, a very real problem arose when the snow beneath his feet gave way. Chin was swept up in the ensuing avalanche, barely escaping death. In the awardwinning documentary Meru, in which Chin is both featured and serves cinematographer, he recalls: “For a moment, it looked like slow motion, and in the next moment everything…

Lance Funston was walking into Monaco’s Hôtel Métropole when something caught his eye in the parking lot: a $1.5 million (give or take) Bugatti Veyron. After meeting with a few friends, Funston left the hotel in search of the same Veyron, but when he found it, it had lost some of its allure. This time, two additional Veyrons were parked nearby. In an instant Funston realized that regardless of a car’s design and performance, to be truly special it also had to be exceedingly rare. What emerged from that idea was the Spiritus Clarion. Funston, CEO of health and beauty-aid company CCA, already knew quite a bit about customization. He had previously modified an Audi A6, a Pontiac G6, and a Lexus SC 430 to fix what he viewed as…

Just when you start feeling comfortable ordering a bottle at the trendy natural wine bar in town, here come biodynamic wines. They’re actually nothing new, but their popularity is soaring and proponents claim they may be key to wine’s long-term future. So what the hell are they? “Biodynamic is beyond organic,” explains Alina D’Amelia, a guide with Podere Còncori, a biodynamic winery beautifully situated among the mountains in Gallicano, a town in the northwest of Tuscany that I visited not long ago. “You also try to stay in balance and harmony with nature.” Whereas the organic credo is essentially one of nonintervention, biodynamics seeks to do more: to cure, remedy, improve, and, chiefly, connect back with nature. “Biodynamics are important because making wine is about farming—and we should take back…

Although Hong Kong cinema is now world-famous in its own right, the first films shown in the former British colony were in fact brought in from France by mail steamer. The year was 1897, and at the end of April, professor Maurice Charvet unveiled his “Cinematograph” projector to enthralled locals at Hong Kong City Hall. Charvet presented a series of shorts, which included the march of a French cavalry regiment. In 1909, Leung Siu-po (also known as Liang Shaobo) directed and starred in a comedy short called “Stealing a Roast Duck,” which costarred Lai Pak-hoi. Financed by Russian-American businessman Benjamin Brodsky, the silent “Roast Duck” was made alongside “Right a Wrong with Earthenware Dish,” which also was directed by Siu-po. However, the film was lost to time decades ago, and…

Thumb the remote start button on your car’s key and you’ve roused the Cadillac ghost in the machine. The electric starter that makes remote start possible is a Cadillac innovation dating from 1912. Before that (and for other brands, for many years afterward), drivers had to hand-crank their car’s engine to life. Since its founding in 1902, Cadillac has continuously pioneered design and engineering, introducing countless new technologies and trends. “Cadillac’s history has been marked by technical innovations and the development of groundbreaking technology,” says Uwe Ellinghaus, the company’s chief marketing officer. To avoid being trapped by that history, relegated to rehashing its greatest hits, Cadillac relocated from its Detroit home to the Big Apple in 2015 and is diving headfirst into city life. That has meant endeavors such as…

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