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Month: December, 2008

JPG, Zen, and fixed

One of my photos is up for a vote. The question: whether it should be included in a magazine issue of photos themed Zen. If it moves you, feel free to vote here by February 10th. Note: You probably have to become a member of JPG magazine first.

Dave Wofford: Bull City Bikers

When Dave Wofford (37) tires of preventing forest fires, he designs graphics and presses letters at Durham’s finest fine-art letterpress, the Horse and Buggy Press. Originally a champion of Raleigh’s art community, Wofford has come to see the aesthetic benefits of living, biking, and now blogging in the Bull City. His Critical Mass posters (featured [...]

bottle bike

For their entry into the Juicy Ideas Entrepreneurial/Environmental Contest, a team of four industrial design majors at Appalachian State University reCYCLEd some plastic bottles. By melting down bottles, and I mean a lot of bottles, and fabricating them into the double-diamond shape of the traditional bicycle frame, they created a clean mode of transportation while [...]

bright bike

Lots of folks wrap their bikes in electrical tape, whether for rust protection (in my case) or theft prevention (making it look more like a beater). But this guy has a better idea: wrap your bike in reflective vinyl so that it lights up like a Plensa sculpture when hit with a car’s headlight beam. [...]

new bike

Thanks mom and dad. I’ll have to do a little work on it (grease the wheels, etc) before I can ride it to work.

Periodic Tables

Join me tomorrow, Tuesday, December 9th, 7pm at Broad Street Café to talk about Oscar Pistorius (aka the blade runner), the Six-13, Michael Phelps, the Adidas Innovation Team, and other controversies in the world of sports. It’s part of the Museum of Life and Science’s new Periodic Tables, Science Café talks.

side effects of clear cutting

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