Monocle has a short video on bike companies that are harnessing well known IDer’s to rethink form.
This is what it looks like kids.
March 9th, 2010 by Daniel Stromborg
Design Observer has a great article on David Maisel’s Library of Dust.
An excerpt:
Each canister held the remains of a human body, an unknown person who had been labeled mentally ill, who had been locked away in an asylum, and who after death had been left unclaimed for years, stacked on a shelf. These canisters held significance far greater than simply being beautiful objects.
The gallery installation didn’t make this clear, and it’s a failing. Unknowing visitors, I was told, first think these are images of bullets, paint cans or corroded batteries. When they are told what they really are, most are stunned into silence.
Go on, get your depressing read on.
If you’re gonna be tossing the balls about…
February 25th, 2010 by Daniel Stromborg
They might as well be these guys. Beautiful, hand-crafted medicine balls, heavy bags and other meat head type tidbits all still made by Lineaus Hooper Lorette himself of the Lineaus Athletic Company.
Seems like quite an interesting guy – he hails from Marfa, TX and has penchant for collecting prison art and relics from Mao Zedong’s Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution. More at sightUnseen.
I’m not going to lie, this thing is Ugly.
February 22nd, 2010 by Daniel Stromborg
It seems a classroom full of super-nerds (an endearing term btw) at the Yale Mechanical Engineering School created a proof of concept for the popular conceptual “spokeless wheel.” The complete bike is F-ugly (bad cross between a Softride and Trek Y come to mind), but who cares really. They made this thing actually work – belt drive and all.
No Gear, by Bas Koopmans
February 16th, 2010 by Daniel Stromborg
The Cannibal vs Bas Koopmans
via It’s Nice That
Off With His Pants!
February 15th, 2010 by Daniel Stromborg
(Photo Courtesy Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Bike Thefts are up 29% this year in LA. Looks like some “messengers” took things into their own hands recently. A charming tale of some good ol’ fashioned vigilante bike loving (a la Gawker Media):
For Your Consideration
February 9th, 2010 by Daniel Stromborg
The BK1
February 4th, 2010 by Daniel Stromborg
I’ve always been one for concept, be it high or low. As long as you have one, I’m cool with it. Show me a dumb object that fails to tackle a single problem and I’ll give you my honest opinion. It’s stupid and lame and you’re probably going to make an ass load of money with it and I’ll be left jealous and full of resentment for the remainder of my life. It’s that High Concept Goodness that I like. The stuff that says “Hey, you’d have a better likelihood of beating this guy in an arm wrestling match than being able to afford making me, but if you really want to, you might consider selling your daughter’s virginity.” It’s that kind of project that sparks a bit of the heat in the loins for many of us.
5 years … enough time to make new friends?
January 11th, 2010 by Daniel Stromborg
Enjoy yourself Mr. Thompson!
The “Bike Crash Heard ‘Round the World” finally gets some resolution. In case you live in a cave and ride a trainer, Christopher “Who’s your daddy now, Bitch” Thompson the former doctor convicted of assaulting two LA cyclists by doing the ol’ Stop Short move was sentenced to five years today. Justice served with a side of lube.
A la LA TIMES BLOG
Train to Eat
January 11th, 2010 by Daniel Stromborg
Long ago, I came to terms with the fact I can eat. If prompted (and feeling particularly sexy and in the mood), I can go toe-to-toe with just about any other of the overly fit idiots out there and take home the “massive single sitting caloric intake” bragging rights… and no, I’m not always particularly proud of this ability.
But like most you, I also try to be smart and savvy with my post-ride binges. Enter Casey Weaver’s Culinary Competitor. While unfortunately not a blog about athletes taking the competition into the kitchen, it does offer up some fine looking recipes
a la Ritte Racing