Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2017 i The Red Bulletin

Steve McQueen rarely needed his stunt double. But Bud Ekins was good for two things—pulling off the famous motorcycle fence jump in 1963’s The Great Escape, and introducing the star to the Mk3, the first dedicated motocross bike, which McQueen customized for the Baja 1000 desert race. Half a century later, Gerry Lisi, Metisse’s current owner, got a call. A one-off replica of the McQueen Desert Racer he’d built for a London shop window was generating buzz. “Three times a day, someone wants to buy this bike,” said the shop manager. It spurred Lisi to build a limited run of 300—authenticating the machine from family footage supplied by McQueen’s son, Chad, and endorsed with the King of Cool’s signature. So far 100 have been sold, including to an oil tycoon…

Chinatown, Singapore. There are dozens of people cooking up a storm on every corner here. It’s a culinary voyage of the senses: Malay, Chinese, Tamil. It’s what every guidebook tells you about the vibrancy of the city state’s street-food scene, and a plate of food here will set you back about two Singapore dollars ($1.40). In the midst of the panoply, though, one stall stands out, its difference marked by the line snaking its way past neighboring stalls. The line leads to the inconspicuous shop front of Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice & Noodle, where the owner, Chan Hong Meng, has been in place for 35 years and cooks Chinese style, in honor of the man who taught him how to work a kitchen. Two dishes are served: Cantonese…

Two years ago, Chris Brinlee Jr. was sitting at a desk job at an advertising agency in Santa Monica dreaming of another life—a life like Mike Horn’s, in fact. The South African had built a career out of adventure, a modernday explorer who did things like swim the Amazon and circumnavigate the Arctic Circle by foot and sail. Brinlee Jr. hadn’t yet met Horn. In fact, he hadn’t even heard of him. All he knew was that the day job wasn’t going to cut it anymore. So he sold all his things, moved out of his loft in downtown L.A. and took off to go backpacking in northern Europe, and then climbing in the Himalayas, and then on mountaineering trips throughout the country. Pretty soon he was making a living…

“Idris Elba grabs the mic. Rita Ora dances at thedecks. That sort of thing happens here all the time.” What makes a club world-class? These eight things, according to Sei Moon . . . 1. Brand awareness “What makes a really good club different from a merely good club? The merely good club will find you with huge billboards and advertising, but the really good club you have to seek out yourself. High visibility doesn’t necessarily attract the best people, and you can’t have a great night out without good company. There’s no neon sign at the entrance to Drama Park Lane, which is the opposite of glamorous. And look at our entrance; you have to go through a parking lot to get into the club. We learned this reserved…

THE RED BULLETIN: You’re well known for your humanitarian activities, and last year you made a film, The Last Face, about aid workers. Are you trying to save the world? SEAN PENN: If there ever was a moment in time when I thought I could do that, I’m now old enough not to be able to remember it. But you’ve done an enormous amount of relief work in regions that have been struck by catastrophe, such as Haiti, southern Pakistan and New Orleans. What kind of qualities do you need to get involved in that sort of thing? I just think of myself as a facilitator, meaning I look for proactive people who have the talent required to do something for their fellow human beings. And even though you’re a…

Three agonizing attempts were what it took the Slovenian army to lower this extraordinary shelter by helicopter and fix it in place at an altitude of more than 8,200 feet on Mount Kanin. The weather at this exposed spot on the Italian border can be extreme, with hurricanestrength winds and torrential rainfall, and some winters bring 30 feet of snow. So why would anyone want to place a hut here? First, because people love a challenge, and second, the 360° view from the surrounding mountains to the Adriatic when the sun shines is simply jaw-dropping. The wood-and-aluminum hut, designed by Ljubljanabased architecture firm Ofis Arhitekti, is just under 8 feet wide, 4.9 feet long and accessible only by scaling the mountain on foot, or by helicopter. It can, however, sleep…

“THERE’S NOTHING MORE BORING THAN PERFECTION.” Ängie has fan clubs in Brazil and Russia, even though her music isn’t given airtime there. The British press, too, have woken up to the 21-year-old Swede, even though she has released only two songs. So how does that work? Simple: Ängie does all the things a young, upand-coming pop star isn’t meant to do. The name of her debut single doesn’t hurt, either. The Stockholm-based rapper began making music professionally two years ago after she sent a local producer a video she shot of herself in the bath, spitting nonsensical rhymes. Soon she was recording said single, “Smoke Weed Eat P*ssy,” in the studio of chart-topping producer and DJ Avicii and signing a record deal with industry giant Universal Music. The salacious, expletive-laced…

“THERE’S A CERTAIN BRILLIANCE THAT COMES FROM SILENCE, FROM SELF-REFLECTION.” Last year there wasn’t an eagle-hunting competition that Kairatkhan didn’t win. The herder, a native of the Bayan-Ölgii region in the northwest of Mongolia, swept all three of the events, including the prestigious Golden Eagle Festival. His dominance was such that Mongolia’s president awarded him a medal of honor. But reputation isn’t the only thing at stake. During the harsh Mongolian winter—when humans are most challenged in the steppes—Kairatkhan’s golden eagles are the source of sustenance. The arctic foxes and small animals they kill provide meat and the fur that clothes him and his family. And it’s precisely that line between life and death that prompted explorer and start-up veteran Sam Cossman to fly thousands of miles to spend Christmas…

PANERAI LUMINOR SUBMERSIBLE 1950 3 DAYS GMT AUTOMATIC TITANIO Strong armed Epic is a word too often overused, but it’s perfectly justified when describing our cover star, explorer Mike Horn. Arguably the most traveled man alive, Horn has solocircumnavigated the equator without powered transport, trekked to the North Pole in perpetual winter darkness without dogs or motors, traveled the length of the Amazon by riverboard and lost fingertips to frostbite. But his most epic feat began last May: a two-year solo circumnavigation of the globe via both poles. This watch, built specially by Panerai for Horn’s voyage, has a 47 mm titanium case, is waterresistant to 300 m and houses a twin-barrel movement with a threeday power reserve. The run has been limited to 500 pieces; it’s unlikely the other…

“It’s a whole new way to use your bike.” Pro BMX rider Sebastian Keep, 34, lands his spectacular tricks on walls Croydon, England In his new video, Walls, British BMX legend Sebastian Keep defies gravity. A prime example is Keep’s jump over the railing of a pedestrian bridge, landing on—yes, on—an exterior wall at a height of 30 feet, before dashing down a ramp into the street. How does the stunt end? Check out the video at redbull.com/bike The next issue of The Red Bulletin is out on April 11…

When you’re the daughter of a blonde bombshell and a blue-eyed charmer, you’re likely to inherit a few of their stunning attributes. For Ireland Basinger-Baldwin, whose parents are Oscarwinning actress Kim Basinger and razor-tongued actor Alec Baldwin, her genetic traits are enviable: She’s a staggering 6 feet 2 inches tall, with aquamarine eyes and the curves of a Bond girl. But the 21-year-old Ireland is also the product of her parents’ rocky divorce and a bitter battle for her custody, which left her with a fractured sense of identity. After checking herself into rehab in 2015 for “emotional trauma,” Ireland emerged from the darkness with a stronger outlook on life and a closer relationship with her family. With a healthier head and heart, she immersed herself in her modeling career…

Anyone hoping to showcase the savage beauty of surfing needs to get as close to the professionals as they can, while they’re on the waves,” says Australian photographer Leroy Bellet. But then he would say that: This 18-year-old snapper has a particularly risky method of capturing top surfers in action. Instead of swimming into the water and waiting for the surfers, as many of his counterparts do, Bellet has a Jet Ski launch him into the same wave so that he can chase down his targets on his own board, Nikon D810 at the ready. “I’m surfing while I’m composing the picture,” he explains. “So there’s a high risk the shot will go wrong.” It took Bellet four months to get this shot of surfer Scott Dennis, photographed off the…

More than just a fighter jet for the road, Ferrari’s LaFerrari Aperta was built to celebrate the marque’s 70th birthday, making it a 220-mph, 950-hp instant museum piece. Price of entry: $1.7 million. Chances of getting your hands on one: nil. Before the roof-off version had even made its debut in September last year, all 200 had been sold, to an ultra-exclusive band of collectors. Unless you got an invitation, ownership is out of the question—no matter how rich or famous you are. Unless . . . Enter Tom Hartley Jr. The 33-year-old Englishman has his showroom in rural Derbyshire in the U.K. but trades in supercars across the globe. Having left school at 11 to join his father selling sports cars, he’s sold more supercars than probably anyone on…

1. Be a detective “So you want to get on the guest list at your favorite club? Find out the name of the party promoter and write them a polite, amusing email. You’d be surprised how often it works.” 2. Get there early “The rule of thumb is that the action only really gets started halfway through a club night. The main DJs play between midnight and 4 a.m., but if you’re in the club before then, you can discover some new and exciting acts.” 3. Drink with style “Barkeepers and promoters know where the best afterparties are. But if you’re so drunk that you can no longer speak, the chances are you won’t be invited.” 4. Sound it out “You can tell a good club by the quality of…

“As much as I want to be wild, I have to be mentally focused.” MAD MIKE WHIDDETT Drifting may look like a sport that requires the driver to lose control, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. It is, in fact, a sport that requires an entirely new level of control. At 154 mph and 8,800 rpm, you need to have your wits about you. This is how world-renowned Kiwi drifter “Mad” Mike Whiddett attacked the corners of Franschhoek Pass, near Cape Town in South Africa, driving BADBUL—his quite insane triple-rotor Mazda SP3 RX-8—in September last year. The “Mad Mike” moniker, given to him by a commentator during his previous career in freestyle motocross, is now something of an oxymoron: Behind the wheel, Whiddett appears ice-cool and ultra-focused. According…

“What I like the most are the aerial moves. They were invented in Mexico.” Adam Bridle The lighting manager at Mexico’s Arena Naucalpan, an indoor sports venue in the northwest of the capital, figures he’s seen just about everything the technicolor world of Mexican wrestling—aka lucha libre—can throw at a man. “You see and hear all kinds of things,” grins Rey. This includes everything from polite-looking Mexican families bellowing the foulest obscenities at fighters, to drops of wrestlers’ blood falling onto the spectators, to flying fighters who crash into the crowd when they’re hurled out of the ring. “We have hundreds of damaged chairs, whole rows that have been crushed, and mangled tables back there,” says the man also known as El Virus. “I’ve even had to shave someone’s head…