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Beyond Bicycles
http://rpscollective.com/BeyondBikes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._II.jpg/300px- I just discovered this contest. Maybe some BFers may want to enter. This is a call for work – Artists, Thinkers, Creators – We seek your human-powered machines, bicycle-based inventions, and interactive kinetic sculpture. In May of 2010, Rock Paper Scissors Collective is hosting BEYOND BICYCLES a celebration of the art, science, and politics of harnessing human power. Our inspiration is the bicycle, a simple machine that has transformed our experience of moving through the world. We see the bicycle as possibility, the tip of the big ol’ iceberg of human potential energy. BEYOND BICYCLES will be an exhibition documenting the many ingenious uses of human power past and present. The Gallery space at Rock Paper Scissors Collective is limited so large works will only be displayed during opening night. Our month long exhibition will consist of a collection large color photographs of works, accompanied by a printed zine. There will also be a web zine which will be more extensive than the printed version. We invite you to send us your work – past, present and future. What do you do with your potential and what do you believe is possible? Please send us digital images (no more than 10M at a time), specifications and descriptions. If you have video, please send us a link. We will accept proposals if your work is as yet unrealized. Include your contact information and let us know whether or not your work will be available for the May 7th opening. If your work is chosen, please be prepared to write a one to three page piece (how-to, history, etc.) about it for the exhibition zine. The submission deadline is March 15th. Send entries to: gallery _at_ rpscollective _dot_ com. By post: 2278 Telegraph Ave. Oakland CA 94612 |
Barnstable Patriot
October 3, 1893 Page 2 A Bicycle in the Air Earth bicycles are common enough, but air bicycles haven't yet come into general use. There is a machine to be exhibited at the Brockton Fair, however, which sails through the air as swiftly as a bicycle moves on the ground. It is called a "skycycle" and consists of a spindle-shaped balloon, beneath which is suspended what looks like a bicycle without wheels. Here sits the operator and propels his balloon by pedals, precisely as a bicycle is sent along. The "skycycle" is always under control, for it can be propelled and steered in any direction. Prof. Carl Meyers of Frankfort, N. Y., is the inventor of this wonderful machine, which will be seen nowhere in this vicinity except at the Brockton Fair. Nothing like it has ever been put on exhibition before. Perhaps the time isn't far distant when men and women will go spinning through the air on a "skycycle" as they now go on the ground with a wheel. At all events one man is doing this already. The Brockton Fair is held on Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7 of this year. On the last three days the wonderful "skycycle" will be exhibited there. |
It will be awesome if someday we can buy skybikes and soar above the cars stuck in gridlock. Of course, we can already do that to some extent!
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My submission melded a bicycle with a manuals coffee grinder. The only problem is that two complete revolutions is enough to grind 1 pound.
Oop! someone has already done it. http://www.vintagekansascity.com/100..._01_index.html http://www.vintagekansascity.com/coffee_grinder.gif |
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