For those of you that live in Southern California, I received the following bike show announcement. The show has some vintage bike content so I thought maybe some of you would like to attend. See you at the opening...
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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Ride your bike to B(yikes!)!*
Opening reception (free!), Saturday, June 24, 6 to 9pm
Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design
1700 Lida Street, Pasadena California (hillside campus)
Directions: http://xrl.us/
Apropos to rising gas prices and a national dialogue about developing sustainable energy sources, two side-by-side exhibitions at Art Center College of Design's Williamson Gallery will explore new concepts for mobility -- from innovations of the past to designs for the future.
An opening reception will take place on Saturday, June 24, from 6 to 9pm. Parking and admission are free, and the public is invited. The exhibition continues through August 31.
"2025: Personal Mobility" is installed in the gallery's perimeter spaces, featuring work accomplished by students during a Spring-term studio led by faculty-members Mark Ashcraft and Gaylord Eckles. Asked to design a human/electric-powered personal vehicle for the year 2025, students were challenged to think as futurists -- searching for clues in today's technological, economic, environmental, and political trends that ignite their vision for shaping the future. The student work on display includes research and analysis, concept sketches, package layout and 3D sketch models, development and detail sketches, future scenario storyboards, exploded views, final renderings, and final models.
"B(yikes!): Eccentric Mobility" is housed in the Williamson Gallery's central space, and includes the admirably unconventional. Forgotten designs from the past and current feats of backyard engineering provide a glimpse into serious tinkerer/designers' creative depths, and pay homage to the ultimate simplicity of the bicycle as an icon of non-polluting sustainability. Objects in the exhibition range from antique bicycles employing innovative drive trains, to contemporary human-powered all- terrain machines. Among the fifteen vehicles on display are Steven Roberts' "Behemoth," a late 1980s autonomous mobile information and communication platform, powered and propelled by human and solar power, linked via satellite with global information networks; "Flying Fish," a hydrofoil bike designed by engineers Alec Brooks and Allan Abbott, that flies above the surface of water using a two-foot wing; and New York artist Seth Weiner's "Terranaut," a wheelchair navigated by a live fish.
"2025: Personal Mobility" and "B(yikes!): Eccentric Mobility" will remain installed in the Williamson Gallery June 25 through August 31, 2006. Williamson Gallery hours are 12 noon to 5 pm, Tuesday through Sunday (12 noon to 9 pm on Fridays), closed Mondays and holidays. Parking and admission are free. Gallery website is located at http://www.williamsongallery.net. For taped gallery information call (626) 396-2446. Art Center is located at 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA, 91103.