Summary
Keanu Reevesand ARCH Motorcycle co-founderGard Hollingerare taking the idea of creation and racing with it.
The duo also share the insights they learned on the road and how artists likeJames Turrellexpanded their horizons.
you might watch the full conversation in the video above, or you might read the transcript below.
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KEANU REEVES: Aah!
GARD HOLLINGER: Yeah, Roden Crater was pretty amazing.
REEVES: But I mean, cyberpunk ARCH Nazare?
Roden Crater, which is Episode 6 of your series, I was blown away by that episode.
What was it actually like for the two of you visiting that for the first time?
Because even just watching it on the screener, I was really blown away.
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REEVES: Just mind-expanding, jaw-dropping.
What an incredible experience.
HOLLINGER: The enormity of it, the ambition of it is impressive, and it’s not done.
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He’s still working on it.
It’s so incredible.
I’m truly blown away by the art and what he’s done.
I’m just inspired.
HOLLINGER: Great, great.
Do you have a favorite motorcycle to ride, and do you have a favorite motorcycle design?
HOLLINGER: An ARCH motorcycle.
REEVES: You like the 1s?
I like the KRGT-1.
That’s a Ford control.
He likes it a little sportier.
HOLLINGER: My list is too long.
[Laughs]
REEVES: Talk about one of the bikes you raced in.
Which dirt bike was the choice?
HOLLINGER: The 1983.
REEVES: There you go!
You get to be sort of nimble because it’s not such a huge company.
REEVES: [Laughs] Not a huge company.
It is not a huge company.
HOLLINGER: No, but it’s a huge endeavor.
REEVES: Life over the whole thing.
HOLLINGER: But you have to definitely pick realistic time spans to focus on each phase of it.
But we’re looking pretty far down the road.
With AI, are you even looking at stuff like that?
HOLLINGER: It’s there, and I know it’s being used in design.
My personal experience has been that it’s maybe not quite there yet.
Then theres a whole philosophical thing, which is another topic.
HOLLINGER: No, not yet.
REEVES: Maybe mapping.
HOLLINGER: It’s absolutely possible.
It gets used in many genres of especially motorcycle racing, car racing, this jot down of thing.
Working on ‘Visionaries’ Expanded Their Horizons
“Don’t limit your thought.”
You guys got to meet all these cool artists and be inspired.
REEVES: I would say my horizon was made even broader.
HOLLINGER: Yeah, which is lovely.
REEVES: Which is lovely.
Just don’t limit your thought.
Don’t limit what your horizon ispotential and possibility.
James Turrell is the person who created the Roden Crater.
Hes a brilliant artist.
What is it like when you are leaving a place like that, like your mental state?
And I think to that appreciation comes a specialness to actually being alive.
I’m wondering, Keanu, did you even bring up with him like, I make movies.
Can we film something here?
REEVES: Yeah, it was called, Can we do a TV show and interview you?
Because this is friggin awesome.
[Laughs] And hopefully, it’ll be inspiring to others.
The complexity of that.
HOLLINGER: The concept of time, the concept of time and space.
The way he was talking was above my head.
Did you understand all that stuff that he was saying?
HOLLINGER: He probably did.
REEVES: Absolutely not.
I’m looking to see about a verification of how light is affected by the observer.
I innately believe that.
I think we’re discovering all the time how nature is more mysterious and more profound.
Visionarieswill stream exclusively on The Roku Channel beginning March 7.
