Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Really a light bike pump!?


OMG - another one of those so simple it's beautiful moments.

So wonderful it won an award at the 2009 Eurobike.

Go to the PUYL website here.


Thanks again to Core77.



Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Molly in Yellow

Quick acrylic and chinagraph portrait of my daughter.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Just got back from NYC - here is some bike art.



Molly loved this crazy bike.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

She just started on a slippery slope!



We waited till she was 19 months but here she is on her first bike ride.
That is an 'iBert' she is sitting in and her crazy cute helmet is 'Duck Duck Goose' by Giro.

Molly loves it but Sarah and I are having to adjust to riding with our knees apart and to going slowly.

Scared of the day she starts going off by herself - My parents were brave to let me go riding 80 miles by myself when I was 16!!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Ann Patrick O'Brien



One of the other cycling themed artists at the Little Black Pearl show was Ann Patrick O'Brien.

She exhibited about 4 large canvases and then a collection of smaller pieces all showing abstracted forms based on bike frames. Pretty much black and white they capture a sense of dynamism and space. The larger canvases in particular looked great centered on a wall - reminded me of the futurism after WWII and also Franz Kline.


Go take a look at her website - its not all about the bike.

http://www.annpatrickobrien.com/

Friday, November 6, 2009

Milestone of Engineering

Yep the bicycle - we all know this.
Now watch a 14 minute movie to find out why.


Monday, November 2, 2009

Mimimalist City Bike.


I love Core 77 - so should you.
But I'll just keep pointing out the bike bits for you.

"We re-thought everything two-wheeled, with simplicity in mind," says Joey Ruiter of jruiter + studio, a Michigan-based design firm. "This is as stripped as you can get."