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Undocked and Unhinged: Meet the Citi Bike Boyz
This article originally appeared in 'Hypebeast Magazine Issue 32: The Fever Issue.' Please visit HBX to grab your copy.Ding! It’s a blazing hot July afternoon in the Bronx, and Jerome Peel rings the bell on his 45-pound bright blue Citi Bike as he flies around the edge of a handball court, charges up the 45-degree-angle embankment that borders it, and sails through the air. Thwap! He slaps both tires on the wall above the embankment. Thud! He touches down with the grace of a figure skater after a brief, physics-defying wall cruise, vertical to the sizzling concrete below. Ding! He hits the bell on his Citi Bike once more, an exuberant acknowledgment of victory.Tricks like these have brought Peel a unique brand of notoriety. He’s the founder of Citi Bike Boyz, an Instagram account-turned- l...
Undocked and Unhinged: Meet the Citi Bike Boyz
This article originally appeared in 'Hypebeast Magazine Issue 32: The Fever Issue.' Please visit HBX to grab your copy.Ding! It’s a blazing hot July afternoon in the Bronx, and Jerome Peel rings the bell on his 45-pound bright blue Citi Bike as he flies around the edge of a handball court, charges up the 45-degree-angle embankment that borders it, and sails through the air. Thwap! He slaps both tires on the wall above the embankment. Thud! He touches down with the grace of a figure skater after a brief, physics-defying wall cruise, vertical to the sizzling concrete below. Ding! He hits the bell on his Citi Bike once more, an exuberant acknowledgment of victory.Tricks like these have brought Peel a unique brand of notoriety. He’s the founder of Citi Bike Boyz, an Instagram account-turned- l...
Shigeto Koyama’s Extensive Animated World is a Perpetual Work In Progress
Shigeto Koyama’s professional credits span the Evangelion movies, Promare, Kill la Kill, Gurren Lagann, Star Wars: Visions and Big Hero 6. Though he’s renowned for his work on some of Japan’s most notable animated projects, the project closest to his heart is the “CCMS” collective, an “extracurricular” venture, with graphic designer Tsuyoshi Kusano (BLEACH, Fullmetal Alchemist, THE IDOL M@STER) and art director Ai Nonaka (Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, WORKING!!, A Channel). What started entirely on a whim while Koyama and Kusano were working together on Stan Lee’s HEROMAN series in 2010 has expanded into its own universe completely independent of Koyama’s nine-to-five.Entitled SHIGETO KOYAMA CCMS experiment OBAKE, Koyama’s comprehensive “experiment” serves as his NYC debut display – as well ...
Shigeto Koyama’s Extensive Animated World is a Perpetual Work In Progress
Shigeto Koyama’s professional credits span the Evangelion movies, Promare, Kill la Kill, Gurren Lagann, Star Wars: Visions and Big Hero 6. Though he’s renowned for his work on some of Japan’s most notable animated projects, the project closest to his heart is the “CCMS” collective, an “extracurricular” venture, with graphic designer Tsuyoshi Kusano (BLEACH, Fullmetal Alchemist, THE IDOL M@STER) and art director Ai Nonaka (Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, WORKING!!, A Channel). What started entirely on a whim while Koyama and Kusano were working together on Stan Lee’s HEROMAN series in 2010 has expanded into its own universe completely independent of Koyama’s nine-to-five.Entitled SHIGETO KOYAMA CCMS experiment OBAKE, Koyama’s comprehensive “experiment” serves as his NYC debut display – as well ...
Cabot Cape Breton Is Golf in Its Purest Form
For many people, playing golf in the north is akin to reuniting with an old friend who lives far away. Especially if you’re lucky enough to have won the weather lottery, there’s a keen realization that you need to savor the moment.As we strode about Cabot Cape Breton, the knowledge that in just a few months the carpet-like fairways would be hidden beneath a layer of snow reminded us to enjoy well struck drives and missed 4 footers just the same.Located in Nova Scotia on the remote island of Cape Breton, Cabot has been open for just over 10 years, and in that time it’s developed a reputation as one of the most in-demand seaside golf destinations in the world. Cabot is golf as it was meant to be played. This is carry your bag and battle the elements type of golf. This is turn your phone on a...
Through the Lens: Hassan Hajjaj
Home has always been a nebulous concept for Moroccan artist, Hassan Hajjaj. Born in 1961 in the fishing town of Larache, Hajjaj and his parents moved to London when he was 13 as a way for his father to find steady work. Like many immigrant children growing up in the West, the jarring cultural differences between the two regions have always left a persistent feeling of ‘otherness’ in him when he reflects on his identity. “There’s a bit of a complex,” Hajjaj tells us, “you become a misfit in both places.”Subconsciously informed by his upbringing, Hajajj’s graphically-charged photographs conjure a feeling of familiarity and mystery — sparking new dialogues between North Africa and the West, high and lowbrow fashion, as well as blurring the line between reality and fantasy. The subjects in his...
Song of the Week: Blink and Dua Lipa Is Gone Again on “Houdini”
With honorable mentions from Marika Hackman, JOYNER, and more. Song of the Week: Blink and Dua Lipa Is Gone Again on “Houdini” Mary Siroky and Consequence Staff
Okay Grammys, That’s Enough Barbie
Maybe Greta Gerwig's masterpiece didn't need four out of five nominations in just one category. Okay Grammys, That’s Enough Barbie Liz Shannon Miller
Best New Tracks: Rick Ross x Meek Mill, Jack Harlow and More
As the week in music comes to a close, Hypebeast has rounded up the best projects for the latest installment of Best New Tracks.This weekâs lineup is led by Rick Ross x Meek Mill, Jack Harlow and Dua Lipa, who each released the joint album Too Good To Be True and the singles "Love On Me" and "Houdini." Also joining this selection are offerings from Lola Brooke, Black Sherif, ENNY with Smino, Tekno with Vybz Kartel and Dre Skull, Buju Banton and 070 Shake with Ken Carson.Rick Ross x Meek Mill - Too Good To Be TrueThe title of Rick Ross and Meek Mill's 17-track effort Too Good To Be True is pretty spot on. The joint album features guest appearances from Vory and Fabolous on "Dead Last," Teyana Taylor and DJ Khaled on "Above The Law," Wale and The Dream on "Fine Lines," Jeremih on "Gold ...
These Are Some of the Best Cars We Saw at SEMA 2023
SEMA has stood as one of the most important shows and conventions for automotive enthusiasts, because of the education, announcements and unveilings the car brands and manufacturers bring out each year. For 2023, the spectacle and presentation was as strong as ever, and it showed heavily with the cars and builds we saw. While there's no way to document each and every car at the show, 2023's edition of SEMA (short for Speed Equipment Manufacturing Association) highlighted a good mix of traditional tuning and built vehicles with new-aged techniques in design and modification. Overall, the show brought roughly 160k people to the Las Vegas Convention Center grounds with more than 2,200 vendors across 140 different countries – record numbers for the show, according to a SEMA representative. Ano...
“Slow” Runners Are Taking On the NYC Marathon at Their Own Pace
As the 2023 New York City Marathon draws closer, runners across the five boroughs – and those flying in from abroad – are readying for a 26.2-mile journey across the city. Beginning in Staten Island, runners will head over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn and aim for Queens. From there, they’ll cut across Astoria and up into the Bronx before making their way into Midtown, Manhattan, finishing at the bottom of Central Park.This year’s marathon counts more than 50,000 runners. The race itself is structured in “waves”: professional men and women run first, followed by five waves of amateur runners, that correspond with expected finish times. Those who run a 7-minute mile or less will fall into wave 1, with the ensuing waves correlating with higher minute-per-mile paces.The most eli...
I Miss the Joy of Superheroes
When it comes to cynical takes on the genre, the fatigue is real. I Miss the Joy of Superheroes Liz Shannon Miller
