pages from James Jean's for a NYC bicycle film festival poster
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Pendleton using the ever popular bike-as-prop w/ their tartans.
"The human body is not designed to move faster then fifteen miles per hour. Our sight, our ability to interpret things, to process things is bicycling speed... Anything higher is against human evolution. And I'm convinced that as people end up spending more of their lives at a human speed, they're going to be happier. That happiness cannot be attained at higher speeds." - Dan Burden
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With the rise of Apple's iPhoto and blurb, self publishing a (hard or soft cover) book is now possible. And a mighty professional looking one at that!
David Byrne & Cindy Sherman riding down the West side path
I saw this poster in the window of a cute little boutique in Portland, Oregon this past summer - and it left a lasting impression. If just half the employed U.S. population spent $50 each month in independently owned stores... for every $100 spent, $68 of it returns to the community through taxes, payroll, and other expenditures. If you spend that in a national chain, only $43 stays here. Spend it online and nothing comes home.so... SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BIKE SHOPS!!!
Good's Biking to Work infographic last month was great... now this one compares The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity.The average American is both overweight and spends more than 100 hours per year commuting, that vast majority of those hours being spent in a car. Are those numbers correlated? Could we help reduce our societal weight gain by encouraging more commutes by bike or foot? Our latest Transparency is a look at the number of active commutes in several countries, as compared to those countries obesity rates.You really have to zoom in to read to the numbers - green is # of trips by bike and the orange is the % by foot. While the U.S. has the highest obesity rate according to this graph (66.7%), the Netherlands the highest rate of trips by bike (22%), and Switzerland the highest by foot (45%).
This flamboyance is part of a curious new movement called Tweed Rides, informal gatherings of spiffily dressed ladies and gents cycling leisurely through town and disdaining finish lines. Tweed Rides began in London earlier this year and have spread this fall to Boston, San Francisco and Chicago. As the directions for this weekend’s Tweed Ride in Washington, D.C., put it: “Leave the fleece, Lycra and outer shell at home. This ride is for the dandy.”
Last month I had the good fortune of being introduced to Dutch artist + photographer Roos Stallinga! Roos is the creator and author of the recently published Ride With Me NYC – a New York City bike guide. The book takes you on cycling adventures though the city... combining a fun mixture of photographs, art, maps + interviews with NY bikers who share tips and experiences.
I was already an experienced city cyclist, being from Amsterdam, but I remember for the first time following a friend through the traffic on First Avenue in the East Village as a first it does feel a bit like being deflowered! I remember feeling scared and thrilled at the same time, and when we arrived at the destination, I was hooked. I really feel that biking is such a great way to get around New York, I love it so much, that is why I wanted to make a book about it, to share this joy.What would encourage more women in NYC to bike…
It will happen, and is already happening I think. But, maybe more nice comfy bikes & happy female role models around. It's just a matter of time, probably, and people like you and me doing it and talking/writing/drawing about it.Living in Amsterdam, what kinds of cyclists do you see…
You really see everything on a bike. Women dressed up, dressed down, men in suits, with more than 2 children in a cargo bike with dogs and groceries, totally pimped graffiti-ed bikes, pink ones, and with a sound system build in:-) You do see some more cruisers lately, and the cargo bike has been a trend for a while now, especially for yuppies.What would your dream commuter bike be like…
Jobst Brandt is a mechanical engineer (Stanford) with extensive experience, having worked for Porsche automobiles, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Hewlett-Packard and Avocet bicycle products. He is best known in the bike industry as the author of The Bicycle Wheel, the definitive text on the theory and practice of building bicycle wheels.
As Byrne pedals through metropolises from Berlin to Buenos Aires ... he sees economics revealed in shop fronts and history in door frames. With a highly personal mixture of humor and curiosity, he records his thoughts on globalization, world music, urban planning, fashion, policy, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more. Byrne explains why efforts to increase bicycle use may solve some of the world's pressing transportation and energy concerns, and in an appendix, offers tips on bike security, rider safety, and clothing and listings of bicycle activist organizations across the country.
And mark your calendar for the panel discussion 'Cities, Bicycles and the Future of Getting Around' on Tuesday, September 22nd at 7pm at Barnes & Noble Union Square!!! The event will feature a (seriously) stellar group of speakers:
Janette Sadik-Kahn, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation
Paul Steely White, Executive Director, Transportation Alternatives
Mitchell Joachim, Professor at Columbia and Parsons
and, yes, the author himself
Sketches above via DavidByrne.com
Portland-based Red Bat Press creates these hand watercoloured wood-block prints... no two are exactly the same.
Nikki McClure uses only an X-acto knife, and cuts out her images from a single sheet of black construction paper -- creating a bold language that translates the complex poetry of motherhood, nature, and activism into a simple and endearing picture.Spotted this poster in a shop window in Portland, OR... poster available online at BuyOlympia.com and is printed in Portland by a family-owned print shop.
