Rode again with the midnight marauders. it was fun as usual. In that ride I learned two new things. The first one that my camera can take cool photos like the one below. The second thing is: When two group of somewhat intoxicated people passes one another it takes just one scream from one party at the other and a frantic screaming and waving session ensues.
Kim Chapman doing a bike salute.
Happy Park(ing) day. I hope to see the various instillation here in town. Before I started bike salute I made another art project web site that deals with Traffic and photos.
I am going to be vague in order to kill this Non-Story. I read a funny post on an interesting blog and made a comment about it.
Before I wrote the comment, I searched the name of one of the characters in the story, let’s call him KA. I did this research because the story seemed to unreal. The first result in the search was KA public relations which seemed to fit the blog post, so I included the full name of this PR company in the comment. I did it not knowing that there might be someone else who has similar name and works in marketing too.
I hope this is the end of the story about two companies with the same name that work in the same trade.
The image below is a composite of all the bike salutes so far. I wrote a script in processing that accumulated the R,G and B values of each pixel than divided it by the number of images (267 so far).
The idea to do it came from seeing the work of a Jason Salavon
at a gallery last year.
The resulting image was very gray so I normalized the image in Photoshop.
Photographer Chris Thomas is documenting the cycling scene in Kansas city, MO.
You can see his work on on his flickr page. I don’t know if it is him but everyone looks happy in his pictures.
This site is using AWSOM PixGallery plugin for Wordpress to handle the gallery part. By default the quality of the images in the gallery was 75 ( 75 is the default value in the imagejpeg function). I replaced one line of code and now the images are at 100 and they look so much better. It is trade off, now the images take more memory and will load a little slower. I might have tweak the quality/file size ratio it in the future if I’ll need to. In the meantime enjoy the new and improved images.
This video is from Critical Mass ride in Budapest from September 22nd 2008.
Many thanks to Suzanne Nathan for sending the link.
I had a blast yesterday at the Boulevard Lakefront Tour . 62 miles (100 Kilometer) of cycling gave me a Runners High like never before. If I had a silly smile or was making stupid jokes while taking photos, blame the endorphins. The Weather was perfect, the atmosphere was friendly and the path was interesting. Who knew that there are hills inside the city limits? We covered lot of Terra incognita (at least for me). Bakelite78, The band that played at the post ride event was fun and even if no one danced I know that the music was appreciated.
Jeff Solin doing the bike salute.
UPDATE Brad Pierce, I messed up the photo of you and I apologize for that. Thank you for posing.
UPDATE2 - INSULT TO INJURY It is Crairg Pierce whom I owe an apology for not having his picture taken properly. Another apology goes to his brother Brad Pierce for mislabeling the his photo.
I ran into Half Acre Cycling team in northerly island and most of them did the bike salute. yay.
Kevin Clark from Half Acre Cycling doing the bike salute.
if you want your cycling team, company, rock band, improv group or nonprofit to be featured please contact me.
While I was taking pictures of bikers doing the bike salute last Friday (August 29th) fellow critical mass rider Don Sorsa was taking photos as well. His photos are a side view for some of the bike salutes I shot. You can see them on his site.
If you have photos of me taking photos please let know and I will gladly link to it.
