BIKE BY MAX KNIGHT/IMAGE COURTESY: BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL 2008
BRENDT BARBUR, the Founding Director of the BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL - & - friends have ALREADY !! posted a whole bunch of great pix from the awesome ‘Dear Velo’ opening. PHOTOS by: JENA CUMBO - check them out !!
in association with the 8TH ANNUAL BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL 2008 ….
PARTNERS & SPADE presents: ‘Dear Velo’ ….
a group show curated by KATHARINE BARTHELME and BRENDT BARBUR
the showed opened last nite, THURS MAY 29, 2008 & the afterparty was at
LIT/93 2ND AVE - with DJ’S PAUL SEVIGNY & ERIK FOSS.
the show runs: MAY 29 - JUNE 2, 2008 - 12-7pm
40 GREAT JONES STREET - just off the BOWERY - Lower East Side
see: ‘Dear Velo’
the show features many superbly crafted custom bikes & … a ‘JOYRIDE IN THE BACK’ - a small, but interestingly diverse, knocked-down selection of documentary bike photos - in the back room, and which also includes a couple of bike related artworks - notably a small paint and collage canvas by LIT’S ERIK FOSS.
you can find the complete list of the 14 show contributors on the: ‘Dear Velo’/page - which also interestingly hotlinks each artist, by name, to their individual websites/web presences - which are all definitely worth checking out.
some interesting examples:
1.
above image/check out: PATRICK TREFZ !!
2.
above image/check out: MADSAKI !!
3.
above image/check out: BEN WILSON DESIGN CO. U.K.
4.
above image/check out: BRADLEY BAKER/ZACH BLACKBURN/AL ZUGER/TRAKSTAR 231 ELDRIDGE, NYC. NY !!
and 5. (our personal fave !!)
above images/check out: BENNY ZENGA & THE WINKING CIRCLE !!
. . . and then, there’s BLACK LABEL !!
BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB - in - true downhome NYC rebel/country contrarian-death metal-to-the-wall-death-match - one-up-manship, is the only contributor/artist/collective that doesn’t have a hotlink to their name - on the ‘Dear Velo’ artist list - !! - but, that doesn’t mean they don’t have a web presence - O contraire !!
check out these sites - or - never !! ever !!hit artlovers, again. get off the site. stay off. be gone !!
check out: BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB & TALL BIKES/on WIKIPEDIA !!
check out: BLACK LABEL NEW YORK
image/BLACK LABEL/BIKE KILL/YouTube
image/BLACK LABEL/BIKE KILL/YouTube
image/BLACK LABEL/BIKE KILL/YouTube
and so !!, you gotta check out: BLACK LABEL/BIKE KILL on YouTube !!
. . the hard core bikers of BLACK LABEL - having FUN !!!
the clip is: ‘Bike Kill 2004′ - documenting the Annual Bike Event held by the BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB - this one shot in BROOKLYN, NY by RACHEL MEYRICK, for more info: see: randrpictures.com
make sure to click on the right hand tree - that’s her !!
.. hey, does anybody know: does bike kill rhyme with road kill ?
speaking of road kill - OMG - JOSH HARRIS is finally getting famous. credited with being the father of blogs vs. vlogs. no less. don’t thank me - thanK TOMORROW MUSEUM - with a little help from RADAR which recently posted Ondi Timoner’s early trailer for, guess what !! - I LIVE IN PUBLIC !!! ….good job RADAR. MAD MAX is alive and well, 2nd generation NYC. but even ALANNA HESS says QUIET was the baddest party of them all. a cross between the DARK FAIR & THE BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB - but throw in a firing range & some ugly sex, lies & videotape !!
not joking. here’s the ONDI TMONER TRAILER - WE LIVE IN PUBLIC/courtesy RADAR - on vimeo !! - check it out !!
and if you can listen to BAND Of HORSES - Cease to Begin - at the same time - then you pretty much know can know - how I feel about seeing the long threatened chronicle has actually taken shape - and is going be hitting the big screens any time soon. omg watch that sh*t fly !!. Hope it doesn’t get past the art houses. bet it won’t. must be how Cindy Sherman felt about Paul H-O. when Guest of Sherman actually landed in one piece and on the TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL screen, courtesy of SUNDANCE !! having a nice summer ? just asking.
and about BAND of HORSES - that’s gotta be Animal Collective or at least Rusty Santos, DEACON ? on one of those tracks?