There is a lot of backlash going around against fixies in NYC lately. And with some good reason. With so many frail hipsters picking up a track bike the same way they would buy a new pair of skinny jeans, the trend is boiling over. People spend years learning how to control a fixed gear bike in the city, and a lot of these new kids don’t understand what they are doing until they plow down a pedestrian or two. If you’re just getting into riding track bikes, you have to respect the bike, because it will fuck you up (and the people in your path) if you can’t control it. Looks like this dude had enough:
Posted on September 14, 2007 at 12:37 PM | Comment (2 comments)
I know everybody has done this by now, but here is Shannon’s version of us.
Posted on September 08, 2007 at 06:02 PM | Comment (2 comments)
Shannon and I slid into the MoMA free of charge last week thanks to her former employer. We had initially went up there to see the Richard Serra show (see my review below), but after we woke up from that one, this wall by Dan Perjovschi made the trip uptown worth it. One big white wall, one chisel-tipped black Marks-A-Lot© and a crane, Dan Perjovschi came up with a group of funny, smart, witty, political, poignant and honest drawings. We stood in front of the wall for a good 20 minutes. Good shit.
Posted on September 07, 2007 at 10:33 PM | Comment (1 comments)
I know Richard Serra has a great history as an American minimalist sculptor, but the show was a yawner. For me, this kind of large-scale minimalist work is only interesting in large metropolitan plaza’s. With busy people walking through and around it during lunch hour, kids playing on it, pigeons perched on top of it and the bustling, dirty city sounds echoing off of it (and maybe some skaters skating on it.) Take that same piece and put in a sterile, stuffy white room with some sterile, stuffy white people and you have no contrast; minimalism on minimalism and thats no fun. Here is my review of the show:
Posted on September 07, 2007 at 10:07 PM | Comment (0 comments)
Kyle got a good crew together for a long Monday ride. We met up at 8:30am for coffee, then took the train up to Cold Springs, NY. Under clear blue, perfect sunny skies our ride took us almost 70 miles down through Bear Mountain, Rockland Lake State Park and Nyack. From there it was all the way along the Hudson to the George Washington bridge back into Manhattan down though Washington Heights to Broadway all the way down to Allen and Stanton for some food and beers at Epsteins. Not your run of the mill spandex-sportin’ bike dudes you might see along these upstate routes, our motley crew covered some serious ground (and hills) that day. We’re all skaters that got into bikes at some point and it was really fun to roll with a good crew of friends old and new. The only person missing was Massan (next time, blood.) Left my camera at home, but Kyle, Nish, Joe and Asa took some flicks.
Posted on September 07, 2007 at 09:03 PM | Comment (0 comments)
