~BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL/Dear Velo
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?