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I have to thank my dear friend Joel, aka Lamour Supreme, for this belated birthday present. When he said “I have something for you”, I suspected it’d be some limited edition toy he splooged on worth millions in Japan. When I saw him 2 weeks ago, he brought out a portfolio and handed me a piece of paper.
It’s the original Demon On A Track drawing!!!!
I just got a frame for it and am beyond stoked. This is the best birthday present anyone’s ever given me. So bad ass man!
THANK YOU!
rendering and reality
A reader forwarded me this project by Alsop Architecture. They said it was ‘right up my alley’ and they were very right. When I first saw it, I immediately thought it was an MVRDV project. I was wrong obviously. Hell, I even thought it was a Dutch project. Wrong again. This 8-story project was just completed in Manchester.
The parti model of stacking blocks is very much a dutch approach to architecture. In fact, I’m not ruling out that Alsop used MVRDV as a precedent of sorts for it. The project is entitled Chips and consists of “3 fat chips stacked on top of each other”. While most projects relate to the context via vernacular stylings, Chips relates through the use of super graphics.
Each mass has text on it that relates to its surrounding neighborhood.
Pretty rad! Head over to Alsop to see more images.
COG magazine is giving away three custom laser engraved Brooks Swallow to the winning team of their first annual COG invitational bike polo tournament.
It’s this weekend!!! June 5-7 in Milwaukee, WI USA
Why is it that everyone COG does is so dialed? Must be a Milwaukee thing!
Beautiful!
Juliet Elliott – A stop-frame film from Charge Bikes on Vimeo.
Nick from Charge just sent me this new video featuring everyone’s favorite fixed gear hesher chick, Juliet. Very cool project. Jose Martinez has been doing this a lot lately too. Multi-sequenced pictures brought in as a movie.
Lookin good as always!
I know it’s already been posted everywhere, but there’s something I want to emphasize here…
Look, everyone is into this new cool thing called fixed gears and it seems like in the past few months, we’re seeing more and more people express their love for it in various ways. Some people blog, some photograph, some videotape, some write articles, some build, some create and some market. It’s really great and we need to support this! Hell, if you have an idea, run with it!
This project is the by-product of real man hours. That man is “Super” Ted James. I’ve yet to meet Ted, but one day I’d hope to. As always, I extend a welcoming hand to NYC anytime Ted!
14 Bike Co is a recently opened shop in London. Super Ted is building 14 bikes for the shops 14 riders. Those chain gang guys and gals are slowly receiving their frames at the mo’ [how’s that for vernacular slang?] and even though that’s not the final fork [in fact, that’s an aftermarket fork], Ted’s busy designing and cranking away at these bikes. You can see more pictures here and follow their updates here, at their blog.
Ted, FGLDN and 14 Bike Co, I commend you. GREAT JOB!
Hippo jokes aside, we did shoot some lines for Empire today. We asked Andrew Temkin to come out and snap some shots for the book. Here’s a great portrait he took of my bike and me.
Thanks Andy!
Keep Watch at the Bicycle Film Festival for another trailer that will make you want to ride your bike!
… a good foot and a half over them!
Picture by Massan via DQM
Arik Roper, the man behind the some of the album artwork of Sleep, High on Fire, Earth and others has a new book out called Mushroom Magick. I missed the opening party last Friday, which I’m bummed about, but the book is now available!
Roper also did a recent collaboration with Mishka, which will be available shortly!
Go bigger!
Via. Hardcourt Bike Polo
Today is shaping up nicely. I got free coffee from Gimme! for commuting to work by bike today (which I do anyway, everyday). But still, free iced coffee is always an added bonus. Which reminds me, it’s bike month, so give your girlfriend (or boyfriend) the ride of their life!
Affinity just got a new facelift last weekend. Rimx came in and painted a huge mural. He started Thursday night and it took him until the wee hours of the morning to finish it.
Came out dope. Swing by the shop to check it out!
They should be getting in another addition to the shop soon. Something I helped them out on.
Wow. I can’t even begin to imagine the cost per square foot of this insane build-out for Bastard by StudioMetrico.
Amazing. Beautiful details and the store looks MASSIVE!
Check out the whole design process, construction process and final product over at Arch Daily.
Previously:
And for Those Who are Still in Wintertime…
From what I can tell, this guy Toku rides hard. He’s always making appearances on Sexy Sushi‘s Flickr riding his neon BMW.
These two recent uploads, in grainy black and white are tell tale signs of the riding that’s going on today.
Great shots man!
This weekend brings the 5th-annual Bicycle Fetish Day. Last year was a great time and my fingers are crossed that the weather will hold out.
The City Reliquary Museum & Civic Organization is proud to present
The 5th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day
This Saturday, May 9th 2009 from 12-6PM
On Havemeyer St. Btw. Grand St. & Metropolitan Ave.
In Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, NYC
If you’re coming from the City, here’s the location. It’s in the middle of Williamsburg on one of the most scenic blocks in the area.
Previously;
Bicycle Fetish Day 4
Wilis made me a pretty rad birthday present this year. I usually don’t make a big deal about that time every year, so I don’t ever expect anything from anyone. Needless to say, I was pretty impressed with this canvas and am stoked to have it.
Thanks man!
Kenny Scharf‘s graphics on the Livestrong series Trek TTX has gotta be one of the best collaborative bike frames to date. Something about it reminds me of the old World Industries graphics. Ying and Yang, water vs. fire, etc. I refuse to post the Shepard Fairey one. It’s hideous.
via Supertouchart
So I’ve been meaning to post this for a few weeks but just never got around to it. Two weeks ago, Morgan, the guy who cased the 16 set in Vancouver was visiting NYC. He brought with him a few prints from Travis Jutson.
This one in particular is really great. The digital image doesn’t do the printed version justice. Thanks man!
Ku. Jewelry is a small company based in Brooklyn. They started making bike-related pieces in 2007 and are still going strong. Check out their blog here and their site here.
The chainring bolt ear rings are amazing!
Really great work. Great to see artists still thriving in Brooklyn!
