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| west broadway |
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| staple street |
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| washington street |
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| 10th street |
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| broadway |
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| stone street |
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| crosby street |
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| cherry street |
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| w thames street |
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| thomas street |
[via Designboom]
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
NYC from behind
[via Designboom]
'My Bike' by Tom Dixon
'My Bike' is a 72-bulb chandelier installed within Paris' concept design store Merci until February 18, 2012. Conceived by British designer Tom Dixon, the technical and formal aspects of the sculptural lighting piece are derived from the engineered efficiency of a standard bicycle wheel, whereby the bulbs are arranged around a large spoke-like structure.
[text and photo: Designboom]
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Like Riding A Bike
'‘Like Riding a Bike’ is a campaign designed to try and change the way non-cyclists view cycling. The campaign references those carefree, happy days of childhood cycling, free-wheeling downhill with the wind in your hair moments.
This film is about how we captured the images - by stopping passing cyclists and getting them to agree to take part, be photographed and tell us the story of their journey.
A lot of people who may be considering the bike as an option see people out there on bikes that are really sports orientated, wear a lot of lycra with loads of technical gear, and they don’t associate themselves with that.
This campaign is trying to change that image and show that anyone can ride a bike.'
by Dominic Latham-Koenig
Friday, February 3, 2012
I RIDE THE LINE
'This is why I ride. Because in a world where more and more we are focused on the comfortable, on the ease with which technology allows us to live our everyday lives, riding is still hard and sometimes uncomfortable, and if you ride long enough and hard enough you will know what it feels like to physically fail. These are moments of solitude and clarity where, if I can say this without sounding too cliché, we can see what we are made of. It’s what allows me a window of a few hours to step outside the safe world around me, test the limits of what I know, and then come back and take a hot shower knowing that tomorrow if it gets to be too much, I can always run away again.'
read the full article by Justin Lindine on embrocation cycling journal.
Brooks and PEdALED at “MY BIKE” hosted by Merci, Paris.
A Major Exhibition of Cycle Wear and Accessories Starts in Paris this Week.
via The Brooks England Blog
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Father and Daughter
Father and Daughter is a 2000 Dutch animated short film, made by Michaël Dudok De Wit. It won the 2000 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
'A father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. As the wide Dutch landscapes live through their seasons so the girl lives through hers. She becomes a young woman, has a family and in time she becomes old, yet within her there is always a deep longing for her father.
The story can be seen as a metaphor. The father leaving on a boat signifies his death and the images of the daughter watching for him to come back is signifying her always thinking about him throughout her life. Towards the end when the now elderly daughter begins to travel through the overgrown, dried up riverbed is supposed to explain that she has died and is now travelling in the afterlife to see her father once again....'
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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