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A Well-Earned Rest | Rumphi, Malawi
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Nice locker…
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“Priests of Pallas Parade Float. Men holding bicycle contraption bearing float in shape of oversized butterfly,” 1900.
Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri, 10005619
The first bicycle ‘Celerifere’ was made in 1790 by Comte Mede de Sivrac of France. I have no idea how they managed to ride it without pedals.
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The Austin Bike Zoo
This bamboo Ajiro concept bicycle rethinks both our means of transportation and the ways we manufacture our vehicles. Designed by Monash University student Alexander Vittouris, the Ajiro utilizes a production process that removes emissions instead of releasing them into the Earth’s atmosphere. That’s because the bamboo structure of this vehicle is grown straight out of the ground into a preformed mold. Vittouris envisions fields of bamboo gardens growing these human powered bicycles, which need only small modifications once mature to hit the streets.
“Consumption of raw materials has lasting implications – economically, socially and environmentally. This vehicle is about rethinking our approach to both design and ecological sustainability of the products we create and use,” said Vittouris. Instead of depending on the energy of factories to shape material into the form of a car, Vittouris’ design relies on nature for that energy.
The Ajiro is not only powered by the driver, but also has an energy storage system that allows for excess power to be stored and used at a later time. The Ajiro also provides a canopy of shelter for the driver and a reclining seat of woven bamboo stalks.
After the Ajiro is grown the skeletal structure that was used to form the base can be reused to grow future generations of this human-powered, low energy cycle.
Via State of Green
Bike Messengers With Mad Skills: A new documentary film called Line of Sight gives a helmet-mounted-camera view of bike messenger races known as alleycats.
The Deadly Nightshades in collaboration with Conspiracy to Commit Cool will be rolling out a mash up of bike culture, style and fashion to the south end of Kensington Market on June 23rd at Method LAB (148 Augusta Ave).
This week-long exhibit will include tall bikes, fork furniture, custom seats, giant dream catchers and more!
Showcasing Eric Plaxton, Alex Baravyan- Gauthier, Belle and Beau, Jacqueline Robins of the Velo Vixens, Fugitive Glue, Yvonne Bambrick, Laura Mensinga, Bad Taste Toronto, Erin Seaman and Emmett Mulligan. It all kicks off on June 23rd at 3pm with an afternoon of impromptu fashion design that blends fabric and bikes (sewing machines on-site!) and kinetic textile art.
Bicycle artists Cat Essiambre and Patricia Youn transform a bicycle into a paintbrush with us as we bike back and forth across a huge outdoor canvas to create an original bicycle textile. Fabric becomes function as we cut and sew wearable/functional items for our guests.
Then join us at 8pm to celebrate the world Vimeo premiere of ‘Fabric Bike’, a short film directed by Laura Mensinga and Kirsten White about a very special Satin Seafoam Bicycle Sculpture made by the Nightshades at The Make Den during the winter of 2011. Created with love, inner tubes, doweling, fleece, more love and golden lame fabric, ‘Fabric Bike’ has been touring internationally with the Bicycle Film Festival for the past year. By combining their lust for bikes, art and great parties, The Nightshades and The CCC are making biking a sexier way to save the planet.
Free entrance and dancing till you drop will make this an event you wont want to miss! And don’t forget to grab your Conspiract to Commit Cool badge.
(For more information please contact Cat Essiambre at catess@hotmail.com)
prastene pohadky
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