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bike shop’s security camera captures LA temblor
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Bicycle for a Day
The Perfect Circle from Matthew on Vimeo.
Seen at the Bicycle Film Festival
Matthew Modine rides the streets of New York on a bicycle to tell everyone about “Bicycle For A Day.”
“Bicycle For A Day” is a fun, open and proactive invitation designed to inspire individuals, communities, governments and corporations to take a step towards solving the current environmental issues. BFAD is a global initiative bringing together people who choose to ride a bicycle rather than use gas-powered motor vehicles.
BFAD will debut with small, VIP events during Summer / Fall 2008 that lead up to a gathering at The South Street Seaport in NYC, to mark the “official” BFAD day, September 20th.
This is not a bicycle race! BFAD is a day to demonstrate how doing ONE thing can help improve the environment.
Bicycle Film Festival, Los Angeles
The What Cheer? Brigade crashes the 2008 Bicycle Film Festival in Los Angeles. Enjoy the video, complete with a monkey playing drums, nudity, infrared, and a blinkie in the tuba.
Bicycle Film Festival, Los Angeles from Phillip Barron on Vimeo.
Ross Harris has a video of Sunday’s block party.
tall bike, ca. 1933
This is a very short clip of a clown on a tall bike on Repeal Day, celebrating adoption of the 21st amendment and thus the repeal of prohibition, December 5th, 1933. Although the clip is not an authentic newsreel (it is an ad for whiskey, produced in 2007), the footage appears to be vintage. I edited out all but the bike. If you want to see the rest of the ad, you can find it in the Prelinger Archives.
Bike to Work Day, 2008
People in funny clothes, with funny modes of transportation and funny ideas about how to use roads. Must be a Bikers’ Breakfast.
Bike to Work Day, 2008 from Phillip Barron on Vimeo.
Song: the soundtrack of feathers & reverb, by Nomas.
Update: Photos from Raleigh’s Bike to Work Day events here.
if you rode a bicycle, you’d be home by now
The Freeway Ride I on Channel 4 News from RichToTheIE on Vimeo.
Looks like I-40 between RTP and Raleigh, doesn’t it? That’s because Raleigh has some of the worst commuting traffic in the country. Reader Dave Wofford notes, “I bet Raleigh doesn’t tout being on this list.”
The perfect commute is easy, inexpensive and reliable.
In cities boasting such factors, like Buffalo, N.Y., Salt Lake City and Milwaukee, the trip to work is a breeze. But for commuters in Atlanta, Detroit and Miami, the daily grind is just that, thanks to bad traffic, insufficient infrastructure and drivers who resist carpools and public transportation.
Other spots that came out on top include Oklahoma City, Okla., Pittsburgh, Corpus Christi, Texas, and Eugene, Ore. At the bottom: Orlando, Fla., Dallas, Birmingham, Ala., and Raleigh, N.C.
Thanks to Dale and Tino for the heads up on the video set. The Crimanimalz vimeo channel has more.
Slate V’s stupid bike lanes campaign
The request…
The results…
Are we sure they’ve found it? Isn’t Duke University’s Campus Drive bike lane a contender?
Bull City Bicycles, the video
Bull City Bicycles is a project I’ve been working on for close to a year now. Digging through archives for photographs and history on Durham’s cycling community, I stumbled upon H. Lee Waters.
Waters was a studio photographer from Lexington, NC in the early part of the 20th century. During the Great Depression, he shuttered his studio and hit the road to earn a living. He owned a 16mm film camera and a projector. He traveled to towns (117 in all) throughout NC, SC, VA, and TN; set up his camera; and captured street life on film. He would return home to edit each film, then revisit the town with a final cut. He presented his films in local movie houses, charging admission for townsfolk to see themselves on the silver screen. Footage from his visits to Durham are collected together under the name “H. Lee Waters Durham: 1937 — 1942.”
The Durham Business and Professional Chain produced “Negro Durham Marches On” in 1948. It remains one of the only sources of motion-picture documentation of the Hayti community.
The footage in Bull City Bicycles comes from these two films. A VHS copy of each is available at the Durham County Library. You can read more about H. Lee Waters here.
My film is a work in progress, and I’ll continue to update it (and this site as well) when there is something new to share. I owe some special thanks to the Linda A. Ironside Fund for the Arts Award from Triangle Community Foundation for making it possible for me to continue working on this project.
For now, enjoy the throwback to the ’30s.
CHANGE
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