September 2010

A bike should look good on its own, but it’s incomplete until a person rides it

by Doug LeMoine on 20 September 2010

Shinya Kimura is a custom motorcycle builder, and the subject of a beautiful short profile on YouTube.

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William H. Whyte dissects a street corner

by Doug LeMoine on 16 September 2010

“There’s another kind of activity that we call ‘People just standing there, alone.’ Life swirls about them, and they let it all pass by. They just ... stand there.” From The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, by William H. Whyte.

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Only worn when mobbin’

by Doug LeMoine on 10 September 2010

So I was catching up with the haps in my new city today on Berkeleyside, and I noticed a reference to yet another cool thing that originated in Oakland. No, it’s not turf dancing, or whistle tips, or ghost riding, or even hyphy. It’s scraperbikes, old beaters totally tricked out with colorful, cheap, homespun decorations. [...]

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Why does cycling in SF suck more now than in 1994?

by Doug LeMoine on 9 September 2010

Cycling seems more dangerous, more hassle-filled, and generally more aggro than when I moved here. Why? Maybe it’s me. I moved to Berkeley recently, and I’m pretty close to having a lawn that I can tell kids to get off of. Maybe it’s that the city has changed a lot. There are more cyclists, more [...]

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HTML5 disturbingly close to bringing a tear to my eye

by Doug LeMoine on 2 September 2010

Aw, man. It just got a little dusty in my office at Cooper. Seeing my old childhood home in Leawood, Kansas will do that, especially when the Arcade Fire provides the soundtrack and when Google engineers work with a music video director to create the experience. The photo above is from an “interactive video” called [...]

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