ArtPrize is a radically open competition from September 23 – October 10, 2009 in Grand Rapids Michigan, home of the TerraTrike clubhouse. It is open to any artist in the world who can find space. Open to anybody in Grand Rapids, Michigan who wants to create a venue. Open to a vote from anyone who attends.
There is $500,000 in prize money with the top winner getting $250,000 and there is slated to be over 1200 art installations throughout a 3 mile radius of the city. In a town, and a state that has been hit the hardest in this resession, the influx of excitement, money and pride is greatly welcome.
We at TerraTrike salute Rick Devoss, the creator, and plan on attending the show, on TERRATRIKES of course.
We try to do this several times a year, and since we had absolutely perfect fall riding weather today we closed down the shop and all rode as a group to lunch several miles down the trail. It is always awesome to see a large group of trikers having fun on a nice summer day. It then occured to me that EVERY business should do this a couple times a year. It promotes good health, increases morale, and promotes our trikes!
It has been around for a while and cost a million yen, but the (FAIYATORIKKUBOBU) was a beautiful looking jet-powered bike. I cannot figure out the specs from the crazy google translation, copied below the fold, but suspect it would make one fast commute!
Help run the engine, for aircraft equipped with TABINJETTOENJIN RAJIKON structured as a real jet. The smell and the sound of hot air, you can get real experience as real. Full-throttle state (turbine rpm: rotation per minute 120,003 thousand) thrust in the 5 km (4.4 equivalent of horsepower) to get HAIPAWAASHISUTO, continue to pull the pedal in the flat road, and before I knew it fast you can reach. Since there is no sense of acceleration torque but it is not (about to get a child back then), also helped KUREZU takeoff climb also.
When we talk about transportation, we tend to talk about things in motion. What is often left unremarked upon, in conversations about crowded highways, is something without which those crowds would not exist: parking. That humble 9-by-18-foot space (the standard size of a spot) is where traffic begins and ends. It is the fuel to traffic’s fire.
Why is it overlooked? One possibility is that parking is more typically treated as real estate, the subject of arcane building codes and zoning regulations, rather than as a part of transportation networks; given that cars spend 95 percent of their time parked, this makes some sense. Another reason may simply be that, in most of America, parking is taken as a given. Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking, has estimated that 99 percent of car trips in the United States terminate in a free parking space, which means the nation’s drivers don’t have much incentive to think about parking—or not driving. In many American places, there are more parking spaces than people. Read more…
Putting heart and muscle into the term “bespoke,” Josh Hadar creates hand-crafted metal sculptures that double as functional bikes. He describes his process in a recent interview with RocketBoom. Intrigued? A bicycle custom built to your whims could run from $12-$35k, or if you live in NYC, you can try your hand at welding and metal sculpting at his Burn Clinic.
Theo Jansen is an artist and kinetic sculptor living and working in Holland. He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals which are able to walk using the wind on the beaches of the Netherlands. His animated works are a fusion of art and engineering. In the current BMW commercial Jansen says “The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds”.
Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.
Theo is a great example of an individual who is Part Of The Solution.
Gary Dagastine of Northwest Recumbents is definitely one of the “Good Guys”. He’s only been in business for a few years but is making quite an impression on his local community and improving a lot of lives. Check out this video.
It includes an acetylene headlamp up front, kerosene coach lamps amidships, Elk hide wrapped handle bars, brass bell, incandescent tail lamp and wooden fenders. They’ve also built a second trike named the “Silver Fox”.
It has been around for a while and cost a million yen, but the (FAIYATORIKKUBOBU) was a beautiful looking jet-powered bike. I cannot figure out the specs from the crazy google translation, copied below the fold, but suspect it would make one fast commute!
