{"id":617,"date":"2008-05-30T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/05\/30\/bicycle-film-festivaldear-velo\/"},"modified":"2008-05-31T12:44:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T17:44:04","slug":"bicycle-film-festivaldear-velo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/05\/30\/bicycle-film-festivaldear-velo\/","title":{"rendered":"~BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL\/Dear Velo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dear
\nBIKE BY MAX KNIGHT\/IMAGE COURTESY: BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL 2008<\/p>\n

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 !!
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

in association with the 8TH ANNUAL BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL 2008 ….
\nPARTNERS & SPADE presents: ‘Dear Velo’ ….
\na group show curated by KATHARINE BARTHELME and BRENDT BARBUR
\nthe showed opened last nite, THURS MAY 29, 2008 & the afterparty was at
\nLIT\/93 2ND AVE – with DJ’S PAUL SEVIGNY & ERIK FOSS.<\/p>\n

the show runs: MAY 29 – JUNE 2, 2008 – 12-7pm
\n40 GREAT JONES STREET – just off the BOWERY – Lower East Side
\nsee: ‘Dear Velo’<\/a><\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

you can find the complete list of the 14 show contributors on the: ‘Dear Velo’\/page<\/a> – which also interestingly hotlinks each artist, by name, to their individual websites\/web presences – which are all definitely worth checking out.
\nsome interesting examples: <\/p>\n

1.
\n\"Patrick
\nabove image\/check out: PATRICK TREFZ !!<\/a><\/p>\n

2.
\n\"MADSAKI-BFF
\nabove image\/check out: MADSAKI !!<\/a><\/p>\n

3.
\n\"Ben
\nabove image\/check out: BEN WILSON DESIGN CO. U.K.<\/a><\/p>\n

4.
\n\"Bradley\/ZACH\"
\nabove image\/check out: BRADLEY BAKER\/ZACH BLACKBURN\/AL ZUGER\/TRAKSTAR 231 ELDRIDGE, NYC. NY !!<\/a><\/p>\n

and 5. (our personal fave !!)<\/p>\n

\"Benny<\/p>\n

\"Benny<\/p>\n

\"Benny
\nabove images\/check out: BENNY ZENGA & THE WINKING CIRCLE !!<\/a><\/p>\n

. . . and then, there’s BLACK LABEL !!<\/p>\n

BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB – in – true downhome NYC rebel\/country contrarian-death metal-to-the-wall-death-match – one-up-manship, is the only<\/em> contributor\/artist\/collective that doesn’t<\/em> 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 !!<\/p>\n

check out these sites – or – never !! ever !!<\/em>hit artlovers, again. get off the site. stay off. be gone !!<\/p>\n

\"Black
\ncheck out: BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB & TALL BIKES\/on WIKIPEDIA !!<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Black
\ncheck out: BLACK LABEL NEW YORK<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Black
\nimage\/BLACK LABEL\/BIKE KILL\/YouTube
\n\"Black
\nimage\/BLACK LABEL\/BIKE KILL\/YouTube
\n\"Black
\nimage\/BLACK LABEL\/BIKE KILL\/YouTube<\/p>\n

and so !!, you gotta check out: BLACK LABEL\/BIKE KILL on YouTube !!<\/a>
\n . . the hard core bikers of BLACK LABEL – having FUN !!!<\/p>\n

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<\/a>
\nmake sure to click on the right hand tree – that’s her !!<\/p>\n

.. hey, does anybody know: does bike kill rhyme with road kill ?
\nspeaking of road kill – OMG – JOSH HARRIS is finally getting famous. credited with being the father of blogs vs. vlogs. no less. don’t<\/em> 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 !! <\/p>\n

not joking. here’s the ONDI TMONER TRAILER – WE LIVE IN PUBLIC\/courtesy RADAR – on vimeo !! – check it out !!<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

and about BAND of HORSES – that’s gotta be Animal Collective or at least Rusty Santos, DEACON ? on one of those tracks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}