Showing posts with label bike stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bike stuff. Show all posts
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Ella likes Pedro's Green Fizz
Now, this isn't what you gutter balls might think it is. It's just a bike wash.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
How-to build your own backyard pump track
http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif"Fast fun could be just outside the kitchen window. Get diggin."
Look @ what this driver does to the bicyclist!
http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifThis bus driver is a DANGEROUS jerk!
Friday, January 27, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Bike safety film - circa 1963
http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifCheck out those BAM! KAPOW! effects and those cute monkey tails!
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
MISSING IN ACTION:
I am missing at least two things from our show.
1) my U-LOCK - black bicycle lock.
2) the two bike rims (spray-painted blue).
3) oh, also the little pink kid's bike---who has seen this?
I'm just trying to get a grip on our props/set pieces in preparation for the November 11th shows.
Anyone wanna help me recruit a new stage manager (Patricia is back in Mexico) ??
1) my U-LOCK - black bicycle lock.
2) the two bike rims (spray-painted blue).
3) oh, also the little pink kid's bike---who has seen this?
I'm just trying to get a grip on our props/set pieces in preparation for the November 11th shows.
Anyone wanna help me recruit a new stage manager (Patricia is back in Mexico) ??
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Hey, everyone----we need bike lights, any size, strength---even flashlights!
If you have some bike lights, flashlights, any kind of battery-powered light that can be fastened to a bicycle, please let me know or bring them to rehearsal.
Thanks!
T
Thanks!
T
Thursday, September 13, 2007
BMXers, yes.
Someone, I think it was Molly, asked if we were going to still have BMXers. Yes, definitely. I've spoken to Andre, whom we met at the Undermain, and he's cool with performing on the 22nd.
Now, there's a woman BMXer in FW that I will invite to join us as well. "Buckethead Wendy" - does anyone know her?
So many details...
Now, there's a woman BMXer in FW that I will invite to join us as well. "Buckethead Wendy" - does anyone know her?
So many details...
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Bike parking - night of our show
Quick note: I had just mailed a letter at the post office on 7th Street, mid-afternoon Friday (August 31st), when I spotted a little BMX-type bike leaning against the front of J & J's Hideaway (local watering hole).
I decided that I needed to find out who owned that bike; I had a strong feeling that I'd know the person.
As I approached the bar, the guy came out, and it was Stephen Moore aka "Massage Peddler" (he used to, maybe still does practice massage for cyclists). Stephen and I went to the same Catholic school, decades ago. We embraced, greeting one another, and he asked what I was up to.
Bike play, basically. And then, Stephen seemed to know exactly all about it. "Oh, it's going to be at the Sanders Theatre, yeah, my friend told me." Turns out, Stephen also runs lights and sound there, and will, most likely, be running lights for our show.
Stephen then said, "We're taking care of the bike rack for you." (What???!!!!!) Apparently, he has another bike fiend buddy who owns a rack that they're gonna haul over to the front lawn of the Fort Worth Community Arts Center--where the Sanders is located.
Stephen also offered the use of bikes, if we need any.
Magic happens if you slow down enough to notice it, make a place for it.
I decided that I needed to find out who owned that bike; I had a strong feeling that I'd know the person.
As I approached the bar, the guy came out, and it was Stephen Moore aka "Massage Peddler" (he used to, maybe still does practice massage for cyclists). Stephen and I went to the same Catholic school, decades ago. We embraced, greeting one another, and he asked what I was up to.
Bike play, basically. And then, Stephen seemed to know exactly all about it. "Oh, it's going to be at the Sanders Theatre, yeah, my friend told me." Turns out, Stephen also runs lights and sound there, and will, most likely, be running lights for our show.
Stephen then said, "We're taking care of the bike rack for you." (What???!!!!!) Apparently, he has another bike fiend buddy who owns a rack that they're gonna haul over to the front lawn of the Fort Worth Community Arts Center--where the Sanders is located.
Stephen also offered the use of bikes, if we need any.
Magic happens if you slow down enough to notice it, make a place for it.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
"Muerte de Ciclista" at the Modern Art Museum last night
Four of us involved with the project/play got out to see the only local screening of MUERTE DE CICLISTA, a Franco-era Spanish film, directed by anti-Franco filmmaker Juan Antonio Bardem--during a time of censorship and oppression of resistance in the arts. When, in 2007? No, in the 1950s. But alot of the themes of that period film could resonate strongly today. Both Ramz and I agreed that we would like to see a contemporary remake of this movie.
Hmm, it was Natalia, Ramz, Jennet, and I that saw the pelicula. It was very cool, very good. Done well.
We chuckled quite a bit during some specific scenes depicting hypocrisy, emotional manipulation, and outright scoundrel-ism (yeah, i just made up that word.)...
Thanks to Jennet for the complimentary tickets, thanks to Ramz for the ride.
"In Spanish director Juan Antonio Bardem's lacerating Death of a Cyclist (1955), released in America as Age of Infidelity, a couple traveling through the countryside strike a man on a bicycle. When they get out of their car to examine him, they find that he is injured but not dead. But instead of helping the man, Juan (Alberto Closas) and Maria Jose (Lucia Bosé) do the unthinkable. They flee - rather than reveal that they have been carrying on a long-term affair.
When they return to Madrid, the couple pay a terrible price for their deception. Guilt begins to gnaw away at them, especially at Juan, who is also experiencing conflict with his young students over an ethical issue at the university where he teaches.
Maria Jose is less bothered by the moral implications of killing a man, as she is fearful that her affair will be discovered and her social position slip should her wealthy industrialist husband Miguel (Otello Toso) find out. Matters become even more complicated when the couple discover a member of their social circle, a hanger-on and art critic, Rafa (Carlos Casaravilla), may know something about their affair and the crime and intends to trade on what he knows for money.
Maintaining an intense level of suspense, director Juan Antonio Bardem examines not only the burden of guilt, but also a Spanish society of disturbing schisms where people like Juan and Maria Jose operate above the law, in a bubble of wealth and privilege, while far below people like the dead cyclist's family and neighbors struggle to survive. These themes are further articulated in a haunting musical score by Isidro B. Maiztegui.
Unlike the dominant cinema of the day, Bardem veered away from the militarist, costume dramas and literary adaptations preferred during Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Highly influenced in tone and style by Italian neorealism, Bardem helped bring Spanish cinema to international prominence with his socially conscious and stylish films.
Bardem, who initially trained as an agricultural engineer, would go on to direct a number of other films which often concentrated on a central character named Juan and his disgust with the suffocating society in which he lived.
Death of a Cyclist was hailed by the international film community and became a winner of the International Critics Award at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. At least one American critic was unable to appreciate Bardem's gift. In an ungenerous and shortsighted review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther criticized Bardem's unique style in which the lovers are perpetually linked through editing, a self-consciously artful device which Crowther misunderstood as a technical deficiency.
At the time of his Cannes award, Bardem was serving a prison sentence for his political beliefs, until international outcry eventually led to his release from prison. Nevertheless, Bardem was arrested a total of seven times under Franco."
Hmm, it was Natalia, Ramz, Jennet, and I that saw the pelicula. It was very cool, very good. Done well.
We chuckled quite a bit during some specific scenes depicting hypocrisy, emotional manipulation, and outright scoundrel-ism (yeah, i just made up that word.)...
Thanks to Jennet for the complimentary tickets, thanks to Ramz for the ride.
"In Spanish director Juan Antonio Bardem's lacerating Death of a Cyclist (1955), released in America as Age of Infidelity, a couple traveling through the countryside strike a man on a bicycle. When they get out of their car to examine him, they find that he is injured but not dead. But instead of helping the man, Juan (Alberto Closas) and Maria Jose (Lucia Bosé) do the unthinkable. They flee - rather than reveal that they have been carrying on a long-term affair.
When they return to Madrid, the couple pay a terrible price for their deception. Guilt begins to gnaw away at them, especially at Juan, who is also experiencing conflict with his young students over an ethical issue at the university where he teaches.
Maria Jose is less bothered by the moral implications of killing a man, as she is fearful that her affair will be discovered and her social position slip should her wealthy industrialist husband Miguel (Otello Toso) find out. Matters become even more complicated when the couple discover a member of their social circle, a hanger-on and art critic, Rafa (Carlos Casaravilla), may know something about their affair and the crime and intends to trade on what he knows for money.
Maintaining an intense level of suspense, director Juan Antonio Bardem examines not only the burden of guilt, but also a Spanish society of disturbing schisms where people like Juan and Maria Jose operate above the law, in a bubble of wealth and privilege, while far below people like the dead cyclist's family and neighbors struggle to survive. These themes are further articulated in a haunting musical score by Isidro B. Maiztegui.
Unlike the dominant cinema of the day, Bardem veered away from the militarist, costume dramas and literary adaptations preferred during Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Highly influenced in tone and style by Italian neorealism, Bardem helped bring Spanish cinema to international prominence with his socially conscious and stylish films.
Bardem, who initially trained as an agricultural engineer, would go on to direct a number of other films which often concentrated on a central character named Juan and his disgust with the suffocating society in which he lived.
Death of a Cyclist was hailed by the international film community and became a winner of the International Critics Award at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. At least one American critic was unable to appreciate Bardem's gift. In an ungenerous and shortsighted review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther criticized Bardem's unique style in which the lovers are perpetually linked through editing, a self-consciously artful device which Crowther misunderstood as a technical deficiency.
At the time of his Cannes award, Bardem was serving a prison sentence for his political beliefs, until international outcry eventually led to his release from prison. Nevertheless, Bardem was arrested a total of seven times under Franco."
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Concept album about bikes
Opalina sent me a message yesterday, which included the following bike-oriented musical album suggestion. Just fyi.
Date: Aug 10, 2007 9:21 PM
hey have you ever heard the album SMiLE by Brian Wilson? Did you know it's a concept album about a time traveler that flies over the USA on a bicycle? I will make you a copy..
opalina
Date: Aug 10, 2007 9:21 PM
hey have you ever heard the album SMiLE by Brian Wilson? Did you know it's a concept album about a time traveler that flies over the USA on a bicycle? I will make you a copy..
opalina
Friday, August 10, 2007
my missing bici
Dom had it. I wasn't really worried about it 'til yesterday. Really, I just missed it. It's so cute.
Dom, what do you want to do about picking up the cruiser for our Friday Girl rehearsal? You *could* ride it from my house--it's not that bad of a haul at all. Lemme know, so I can be around to unlock it for you.
Andrea got a new bike from Panther Bikes. I haven't seen it yet.
Dom, what do you want to do about picking up the cruiser for our Friday Girl rehearsal? You *could* ride it from my house--it's not that bad of a haul at all. Lemme know, so I can be around to unlock it for you.
Andrea got a new bike from Panther Bikes. I haven't seen it yet.
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