Picture a supercharged, 750-horsepower Mazda RX-7 screaming down a winding track. Picture “Mad” Mike Whiddett and Red Bull teaming up to take on New Zealand’s Crown Range – the highest paved road in the country. Picture 3,500 feet in elevation, 47 gut wrenching turns, the consistency of an engine reving to top speed and fire blasting out from its exhaust. Then watch this video.
This year at Baselworld, Bell & Ross announced it’s heritage line, paying homage to the innovation and style of 1960′s aviation. With that, they’ve created these limited edition pieces in honor of the revolutionary Falcon Jet that paved the way for both business and military planes. The look and feel of the face is an almost exact replica of the look and style of the retro times. One watch holds a simple face, while the other a chronograph. Bell & Ross
With many Jordan sponsored athletes competing in the NBA Playoffs, the brand is showcasing the custom footware worn by each of its feature athletes on the squad. Russell Westbrook, Ray Allen, Joe Johnson, Gerald Wallace and Rip Hamilton will be repping the AJ XX8. Carmelo Anthony will be wearing his signature shoe, the JORDAN MELO M9, a lightweight support and increased responsiveness through Nike Zoom cushioning. The Jordan CP3.VI AE will be worn by Chris Paul and teammate Blake Griffin will be sporting the Jordan Super.Fly 2, which he debuted earlier this year.
?uestlove & Rahzel treated the streets of SoHo, NYC with an impromptu show on a car lift. The show was to promote Red Bull’s new Music Academy. played a 20-minute set against a building-size mural of Questlove, who will be throwing an incredible event during the Academy’s takeover of New York City next month. The RBMA will hit New York from April 28-May31
Amateur filmmaker, Marc Donahue of Permagrin Films, showed off his half-circle grouping used 15 GoPros to use a rotating effect stopping time in mid air. Th effect produces a similar Matrix type rendering, only there is no CGI here. This isn’t revolutionary in the sense of film style, but completely new with a GoPro style camera. The video uses 15 cameras provided by GOPro for the video, he told blog FStoppers. Donahue added that he’s planning to release a music video using the same technique, soon.
Red Bull’s Hard Enduro is a mix of Motocross meets hiking meets rock climbing. Racers must treach through a near impossible bike course of snow, rocks, hills, trees… pretty much just tough nature. This year at Hell’s Gate, a course set up through the mountains of Tuscany, Italy’s most extreme enduro event took place this weekend. Watch the highlights and see who triumphed in a race where only the toughest survive…
You always hear how the late Steve Jobs was always ahead of his time. How his idea of the future would pave the way for products we couldn’t imagine living without today. Well the proof is in the pudding, Jobs’ conceptual thinking in the 1980′s was vastly beyond anything we could’ve ever imagined. Hartmut Esslinger accounts his relationship with Apple and Jobs in at a time where consumer electronics and communication technologies were there for the taking. Essliner writes a mind-blowing excerpt from his book, Design Forward, in Fast Co. Design. His innovative and conceptual thinking would reinvent the aesthetics of Apple products for the foreseeable future.
When Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy hit the range, no cup is safe. Nike welcome’s Rory McIlroy to the team by playing a little game of hole in one. When will golf brands learn, all you have to do is throw Shooter McGavin in a commercial and it’s game over.
Tip: navigate using the ← left and right → arrow keys Nike’s 3rd installment of the Free Trainer is almost upon us, set to release just in time for your New Years resolution gym membership purchase. the 3.0 is designed for the athlete who has more to offer than linear running, like jump training, cross fit or any other well rounded high intensity work out. The Free Trainer 3.0 combines materials in the upper with the flexibility increased natural motion.
The newest bowl game uniforms were revealed by Nike today for the upcoming Army Navy Bowl. The Uni’s pay tribute to when the “Black Knights were unstoppable on all fields of battle: 1944, the year the Army troops won a key strategic victory in WWII’s Battle of the Bulge. The football team at home was on its way to a perfect season and the first of three consecutive national championships. In tribute to Army’s historic victory on the battlefield, a historical re-interpreted West Point battle atlas map of the region where the offensive took place can be seen throughout multiple elements of the uniform, from the jersey to base layer to gloves, all the way down to the inside the cleats.” The Navy garb “pays tribute to the traditional dress white uniform – a powerful symbol of professionalism, achievement and authority throughout the organization’s history. The uniform’s clean, white look with black details and gold trim, as well as a new number / letter font” Navigate using the ← left and right → arrow keys
Gee Atherton, a Red Bull mountain biker in the Rampage series, encountered one of the toughest crashes we’ve seen in years. The Rampage Series has been acclaimed for attracting some of the most bad-ass mountain bike athletes in the world, combining mountainous jumps, treacherous terrain and all the means for having a really bad day. “The crux of the line this year was in the mid-section, a big step-down we built that was definitely one of the biggest gaps I’ve ever hit and was definitely something that was really playing on my mind,” he said.”
The Nike Air Max line has been the pinnacle product of the company for over 20 years. The newest edition of the classic running shoe is lighter, more flexible and reengineered. Using Nike’s Flywire & Hyperfuse materials, they’ve constructed a lighter, yet more stable shoe for all walk of runners. The staple of timeless show construction meets contemporary innovation. Available January 2013
The BBC has released the full documentary of the, now infamous, Space Dive. The hour and a half doc shows the anticipation and preparation that went into this record braking feat. Now that the full documentary is out, there’s only one thing left to see. The blockbuster feature film staring Ryan Gosling. We’re waiting.
This season, Nike is releasing a line of wool running products to help you stay warm through the frigid bitch of winter. The one problem with this product is you wont be able to complain about not being able to run because its too cold. We’re patiently awaiting the release of their turtleneck and thin gold chain line.
Red Bull is just showing off now. A mix of great camera angle shots, great athletes and “Mouse-trap” type engineering pave the way for their newest video for The Kluge. The Kluge, which means, a witty, yet inelegant solution that succeeds in performing a particular task, gives the action sports and energy drink brand a chance to show off for us. Why, you ask? Because they can. Check out behind the scenes footage at RedBull
Now the dust has settled on Felix Baumgartner’s historic freefall it’s time to look back at how this fearless Austrian transformed himself from BASE jumper into the world’s most famous daredevil.
Chances are likely that your job doesn’t involve free-falling, setting a world record, wearing a space suit, risking your life or breaking the sound barrier. But in your line of work, Forbes tells us there are many similar traits you can share with Red Bull Stratos jumper Felix Baumgartner. You may just not have realized it yet.
Felix Baumgartner achieved the the longest freefall from 24 miles above the earth yesterday. The video was watched by over 8 million people on the Red Bull Youtube page making it the largest watched live stream to date. The Sonic Baum hit speeds over 833 MPH and broke the sound barrier “It is hard to describe, because I didn’t feel it,” Baumgartner told reporters after the jump. “When you’re in a dead pressure suit [with no reference points] you don’t feel anything.” Because of rapid spinning, he fell 17 seconds short of the free fall record still held by his mentor, Joe Kittinger, who jumped from 19.6 miles up during the Excelsior II mission in 1960 and fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds. Baumgartner also had some criticism to over come before the jump and post he noted “I’d like to give a special one finger salute to all the folks who said he was going to come apart when he went supersonic,” the former pilot joked to reporters after the jump, according to ABC News.
On Tuesday, 10/9/12, Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic free fall from the edge of space was postponed due to 17 mph winds. Although much to the dismay of our entire office, it puts the small window of opportunity the technicians have to work with into perspective. Those winds aren’t exactly the twister cow flying winds we think of when we think of canceling a multi-million dollar jump, but we understand the severity of the jump. To think of all the trivial things you can accomplish in 17 mph winds, walk your dog, go for a jog, read a book on a bench, read an ipad on a bench, even play a round of golf (make sure you throw a few grass blades in the air to judge the direction of the pesky winds), but you can’t jump from the edge of space. So we’ll wait another day, Red Bull, we hope you get your wings soon.
Red Bull Stratos, a mission to the edge of space, will attempt to transcend human limits that have existed for 50 years. Supported by a team of experts Felix Baumgartner plans to ascend to 120,000 feet in a stratospheric balloon and make a freefall jump rushing toward earth at supersonic speeds of 800 MPH.
Come Tuesday, weather permitting, Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner will attempt to be the first person to break the sound barrier in free fall. The mission will take Felix 23 miles above Earth in a small space capsule. He will then step out of the capsule and plunge to Earth hoping to reach speeds that exceed 690 mph. The vessel is rigged with 15 cameras so that the entire Red-Bull sponsored event can be broadcast live online. It’s an unthinkably dangerous stunt that will test the limits of the human body in one of the most brutal environments: Air pressure is practically nonexistent and temperatures can sink to negative 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Our friends at BusinessInsider put together an interesting compilation to show you how the stunt will happen step by step.
On Tuesday October 9th Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner will ascend more than 120,000 feet into the atmosphere inside a capsule attached to a helium balloon. Then, with nothing but a pressurized suit and a parachute, Baumgartner will jump out of the capsule and plummet toward Earth, breaking the sound barrier on the way down. What could go wrong? Quite a few things, it turns out.
As the sun rises over the New Mexico desert Monday morning, Felix Baumgartner will step into a space capsule suspended beneath an immense helium balloon and slowly ascend to the edge of the stratosphere, where he will step into the void and fall 23 miles to Earth. To do this safely, or, rather, as safely as possible, he will wear a pressurized suit designed to protect him from sub-zero temperatures, decompression sickness and the very real possibility that the liquid within his body could turn to gas, rendering him unconscious within seconds.
A visionary, an optimist, a futurist, a talented businessman, and a profound speaker. Today, on the one year anniversary of the death of Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, we look at some of his most inspirational quotes. Read the rest of the Steve Jobs quotes here
Steve Jobs died one year ago today. As Mashable best said, “Steve Jobs packed a lot of living into his 56 years. If his career had ended 30 years ago, he still would have made history for helping popularize the personal computer. But he did so much more than that.” To honor the tech and cultural icon we have complied the best Steve Jobs infographics from the web. Below you’ll learn about his accomplishments, the global impact he had, facts you might not have knows, his 10 commandments for success and the impact his death had on the web. See: The 6 Greatest Steve Jobs Infographics on the Web
Apple vs. Samsung and the Campaign Against Google from Minute MBA by OnlineMBA.com on Vimeo. If you haven’t noticed the epic battle taking place between Apple and Samsung you must have been living in a cave for the last several months. Apple revolutionized the cell phone industry with the debut of the iPhone in 2007. Like any technological advance, it was only a matter of time until the imitators arrived. Late last year, Apple filed suit against Samsung, who they claim has twelve products infringing on seven of Apple’s patents. Juror’s agreed and hit Samsung with over a billion dollars in damages. Now the question is how will Samsung choose to appeal this decision and more importantly what kind of impact could a verdict like this have on the smartphone and tablet markets? Watch the following One Minute MBA video to catch up on the news.
Watch as professional mountain biking legend Darren Berrecloth, attempts an 360 in one of the world’s most remote places – the Upper Mustang Region in Nepal. For most, the pure commitment of this trick is frightening, add on to that the long trek up the uncertain terrain of the backcountry and you get th veteran himself doing what he does best in super slow motion.
We at the RSVLTS are huge fans of Red Bull and the video content they have produced in the recent years. From their full-length films like The Art of Flight to original television series like The Red Bull Signature Series on NBC and the NBC Sports Network, Red Bull has continued to wow us with athletes who push the envelope to what is possible in extreme sports. They have done so again with Red Bull Rampage, a free-ride mountain biking contest that is held annually in Utah. Check out the top five moments from previous Red Bull Rampage events and be sure to tune-in October 7th for the Live webcast of the Red Bull Rampage final. Red Bull Rampage
Over the next few months we’ll be publishing a new editorial series, showcasing the working space, living space and general “where the magic happens” space of our friends and colleagues. The point is to profile people offices, apartments or man caves highlighting meaningful items that they’ve acquired over the years. Keep an eye out as we connect with top musical artists, publishers and influencers to find out what makes them tick. For our inaugural feature, we’re going to give you an inside look at our lair.
Former Formula One driver David Coulthard drives the Red Bull Racing Running Show Car through the 1.5 mile Lincoln Tunnel, which connects New York and New Jersey. Coulthard had loads of horsepower (and no gridlock) on his side, so he no doubt set the record for the fastest-ever commute through the tunnel. The Formula One team is in New York City this week with the high-revving demo car around the tristate area. Somewhere Vin Diesels ears are ringing. Next season the Grand Prix of America is expected to race through the streets of Weehawken, NJ, right across the Hudson River with NYC as a backdrop. Red Bull Racing decided to take advantage of some free summer time by taking a joy ride right around the corner of its future venue. Everything you need to know about the 2013 Grand Prix in New Jersey Sebastian Vettel was in New York a couple of months ago for some hot laps of the New Jersey circuit and to make an appearance on “Late Show With David Letterman.” This time, Red Bull Racing ambassador David Coulthard is behind the wheel.
This year, watch innovators, Bell & Ross pays homage to the aviators and navigators of World War II with the Vintage WW2 Régulateur Heritage. In the Second World War Bomber pilots and navigators needed a watch that emphasized clear legibility and ease of use even while wearing gloves. Bell & Ross’s new model incorporates several of the solutions employed on timepieces of that era, including an extra-large 49-mm-diameter case; an ergonomically engineered bezel with wide-spaced notches that rotates in both directions; an oversized, grooved crown; and a classical regulator dial, with a large, central minutes hand and subdials for the hours and seconds. The regulator dial was considered more easy to read at a glance because of the emphasis on the minutes, the most important indicator for a pilot on a mission, who needs to make quick, precise reads of short intervals of time. The legibility of the dial is further enhanced by the contrast between the black dial and the sand-colored hands, numerals and indices. $6,000
This Jordan commercial features two opposing international forces training their whole lives then meeting where it all matters, The 20– Olympics. A cool homage to the role the original Dream Team played in introducing basketball to the world on an international spectrum. Except by the time this commercial actually takes place it will be China vs China Jr. And so without further ado, another really rad Nike-esq commercial to get your day started.
London based illustrator / designer / graphic artist, Stephen Cheetham is a major sneaker fan and has thus created a series of crisp graphics showing many of Nike’s most iconic shoes from the 70′s through the 2000′s. The graphic ranges from their original Cortez running shoe in 1971, through their Considered BB of 2007. The Nike swoosh is synonomous with creating the highest level of athletic shoes since the beginning of man kind. Right? Either way take a look at this neeto infographic of the worlds most popular brand through visuals.
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