Bike Festvial, Igfest and Two Childrens bikes.
Geoff left us to go on a tandem to Edinburgh with a brief to make some jousts for his game ‘Dirty Jousting’.
He did come back and me and al and Geoff and Simon (from Simon Games) did go to Castle Park and do some jousting.
Gosh it was well fun, I cannot wait for the real thing. Roll on 18th September.
//bentleg
Published on August 25, 2010 6:43 am.
Filed under: things to do Tags: bristol bike fest, geoff taylor, igfest, make room, simon games
On a bicycle made for two
My mate did ride a bike to Edinburgh.. check it…
Tandem Tales – Bristol to Edinburgh has been a mash up of different projects come together. Geoff cycled over 130 miles on the loaded tandem, alone, getting lost wanting to meet and share stories with people before getting to Edinburgh.
Hal picked him up in the van after two days and the Tandem then was used as a vehicle around the towns they explored. They met and impressed people with their overloaded bike full of instrument to set up and play anywhere, they were also inspired by some of the encounters on this trip.
As musicians they managed to get gigs in every town, winging it on the way, not knowing what was happening day to day. They proved that even with no show or direction – determination matters.
Edinburgh was physically a struggle totting kit around , late night gigs, no money and little food, too much cycling and drinking in between and no one to ride with…. read more here
Published on August 25, 2010 2:20 am.
Filed under: things to do Tags: geoff taylor, tandem tales
Two weeks, one shopping centre and a budget.
From the 5th – 17th September I will be donning a dictaphone, some pictures and some other things, probably white paint, and starting a two week residency at the Knowle Arts Space, Broadwalk Arts.
I just want to dance is a intervention on space, exploring stories through collected narritives, images and intervetions. Visual, probably witty and a little far away the works will develop over the two weeks and you, the spectator, viewer and my friends, will be invited to the private view on the 17th August, 6 – 8 to come and make and think and drink.
//bentleg
Published on August 24, 2010 5:09 am.
Filed under: things to do Tags: broadwalk arts, lets do nice things, participatory arts, photography, tasks
Published on August 23, 2010 3:09 am.
Filed under: things I got Tags: grant mitchell, postswap
I like to ride my bike, a lot
I have a bike. It is not cool, but I do know how to fix it as on a Thursday at Trinity Community Arts Centre you can go see an ace man called Roger and he helps you fix up your bike, for free (you got to pay for parts). This is ace. I tell you all about Strurmey Archer, should you wish to hear it, ever.
So I do like bikes. So do Sustrans, who are if you don’t know, a great charity that, amongst other things, manages the cycle paths. Aces, have you been to bath on a bike, it is ruddy great. They, along with lots of other Bristol based cycle people, are helping make a festival all about liking to cycle happen.
Bristol Cycle Festival is happening this September, two weeks of bike related events put on by the public. Aces. So, as part of the warm up to the festival this weeks task is all about cool people on bikes. Firstly I did get a photo of Matt Golding begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting as he looks cool on his bike and he is part of the team making the cycle fest happen
Me and Matt Do a Natter
Hello Matt. What are you doing?
We’re setting up a festival of all things cycling in Bristol. Anyone can submit an event and we are curating the calendar and promoting it. It will be great.
Why are you doing this?
Bristol is a brilliant place to live and ride. Riding makes you happy. And Bristol is the Cycling City. So between them we thought it was a good reason for a festival. And we were inspired by cycling festivals in other countries and thought we could do that here.
Where is it going to be Matt?
All over this wonderful city in all the nooks and crannies, and also right slap bang in the middle for a street carnival in the middle of the festival. There is also a ride to cheddar to get cheese, a race round St Nicks Market and there will possibly be a display of bike hovering by aliens. We are still negotiating.
Tell me a fact about bikes?
The bike was actually invented in order to chase cars out of small towns in Shropshire. It only caught on so much as it was soon realised to be much more fun than driving cars.
What you are to do
Task eleven: cool people on bikes.
find cool people; take a photo of them and then send your photo to: blog@bentleg.co.uk it then goes up here and well all look and it is great.
big up to J Bewley/Sustrans for the final three images,we do rock like blackpool rock, but better as we ‘aint bad for your health.
loves
//bentleg
Published on August 23, 2010 2:43 am.
Filed under: things to do Tags: bev, bikes, bristol bike fest, matt golding, photography, rubberductions, sustrans, tasks
Slighty Out Of Focus, naked lady on bike
So we did get a full house. That was good. I did forget my camera, that was not so good.
// bentleg
Published on August 19, 2010 4:00 am.
Filed under: things to do Tags: bikes, lets do nice things, life drawing, shop
Boom town fair
The day before we left for Boom Town Amy and me found ourselves outside scrap store, trolley laden with delights, calling up taxi firms, who were rather fervent in over charging us. I says Amy, lar, sod it, lets just push this here trolley though St Pauls and to the studio.
It fell over just outside the star and Garter.
We did take a rather long time to arrive at Boom Town, it was an epic drive, but we did find a rather nice village that goes by the name of Bibury. It has a trout farm and lots of American Tourists.
Boom Town rained. Being prepared and all we did have a massive tent, but that was a tiny bit pointless due to us being giving a geodome, which was great, expect for the leaky bits.
So, we did set up, we did make badges and we did do face paint; this was done in the middle of the leaky tent, for the first two days, due to the rain and all, but that was cool as on Sunday god did decided to make sun and we sat outside and rummaged through old national geographics, cut circles with circle cutter and painted butterflies and swirls on faces.
In between all this jazz I did go to the church and check out my sisters amazing mother in law skills and dresses. Watched a few people get married and that. It was lovely.
Boom Town is a bit like an organized free party; there was some amazing walkabout actors (see women dressed like old women from Labyrinth) and the Invisible Circus’ show on the Sunday night was probably one of the best shows I did ever see. I was huddled up with my friend watching people twist and twirl and balance and jump. I tried to get into the vide at the Dance Off stage, but the music was trance and me and trance, well we just do not get along.
My friend India Banks did shave save the rave on the back of someone’s head. That was ace too. I got told I had amazing arm pits. That was a little bit odd.
My legs hurt from lunging.
//bentleg
Published on August 17, 2010 10:13 am.
Filed under: things I do Tags: boob town, lets do nice things
What I did wake up with in my shoulder
For true. Personally I think it is a secret communist mark and did go about showing my shoulder, discreetly to people who looked liked commies, the ones with fur hats and pale skins. Others think it is a plane.
Published on August 17, 2010 4:59 am.
Filed under: things I do
Shop Dutty and The Goldmine.
I met Joh last year, I went into Shop Dutty (which on Cheltman Road, just by the the Here Gallery, which I do very much like) and said and more or less, can you give me a free thing that I can send to people in Postswap. Joh said yep and I did send a lucky person a purse.
Shop Dutty is run by Louisa and Joh. Louisa likes music (bass heavy to be precise) she likes fashion and she created a lifestyle brand Dutty Girl. Joh does clothes too and she says of Joh ‘ she is a dream buisness partner, just like super women’. Both ace and Lush.
I admire what Louisa and Joh do. I mean they do make well cool clothes but they also manage to marry their passion and enthusiasm for fashion and music together in a really inspiring way. I mean, they look cool, they make cool stuff and they are also really cool people. Aces. Louisa says that they don’t resell clothes, they make them unique they make up-to-date. I like this.
Shop Dutty have just opened, what I have to say, is an ace shop at the Central reservation space. It has an abundance of things that are most defiantly wearable (I did go buy things as you know you should, technically it was working). You should go it is open until mid October.
The Goldmine is at 15-19 Stokes Croft (Opposite Pieminster)
Art for Fashion sake.
As I like Shop Dutty and I like artists I went and found an illustrator to make me a bespoke art piece. I did use twitter to introduce Shop Dutty to Jess Gurr and said to Jess Gurr, go forth with your tools and make some work, innit.
Jess is an illustartor you can check her work here.
Published on August 6, 2010 4:41 am.
Filed under: things to do Tags: art for arts sake, dutty girl, here gallery, jess gurr, shop dutty, the goldmine
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