Meet the BikeCrafters: Makeshifter Canvas Works, Velo Gioielli, and Filmed by Bike
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Art/Culture
Gal by Bike: How guerrilla artist Dawn Furstenberg started making ‘road signs for the soul’
While you’ve been sleeping, guerrilla bikeway artist Dawn Furstenberg has been hard at work to remind you not to miss your life.
Meet Armando Luna, Pedalpalooza’s #1 fun seeker
A passion for fun, a daily obsession.
Montréal’s amazing murals are a free street-level art gallery that’s always open
Cycling is more interesting when there is free art to ogle.
“Gear Sphere” sculpture coming to North Williams Avenue
Adding even more bike to the Williams Avenue bikeway.
Art project will put Portland riders on a pedestal as climate change heroes
It’s not everyday you get called a hero just for riding a bike.
Portland artists featured in Artcrank’s new online store
Art and bikes what’s not to like?
Meet Aixe Djelal, the ‘helmetographer’ behind BicycleHead
She captures the ephemeral vignettes we often see but rarely capture.
Craigslist post about post-dooring romance inspires film
Still from Mike Vogel’s Doored. Remember that awesome Craigslist post last summer when a guy got doored while biking downtown, but instead of being angry at the door-operener he sort of… fell in love? Well it turns out that Craigslist post was the inspiration one of my favorite movies from the Filmed By Bike festival … Read more
‘Circle Century’ documents 660 lap, 100-mile ride around Ladd Circle
Still from Circle Century. Southeast Portland resident and hobbyist movie maker Merritt Raitt debuted a new film at Filmed by Bike over the weekend. Circle Century documents his attempt to ride 100 miles, non-stop around Ladd Circle. Raitt, who lives just a few houses down from the circle, accomplished his feat back in August 2011 … Read more
Renowned Embacher Collection coming to Portland Art Museum
Screen grab of PAM email announcing the exhibit. The Portland Art Museum has just announced that their summer exhibition schedule will include Cyclepedia: A Century of Iconic Bicycle Design. The exhibit is based on the book by the same name which documents the bike collection of Vienna-based designer and bike connoisseur Michael Embacher. According to … Read more
Ten years of Breakfast on the Bridges: An evening of stories
BonB veteran Steph Routh.(Photo by Michael Andersen)) This guest post is by Michael Andersen of Portland Afoot, PDX’s 10-minute newsmagazine about buses, bikes and low-car life. Dozens of fans of one of Portland’s most unique and durable bike traditions met Tuesday night at bicycle tavern Velo Cult to tell stories from more than 120 mornings of … Read more
Comment of the Week: Gratitude for N/NE Broadway project