Critical Mass and City Beautification
=v= Critical Mass, the monthly bicycle ride/demonstration that's spread to 300 locations worldwide, is rapidly approaching its 10-year anniversary. Here in San Francisco, where the first ride took place, some of us are putting together a huge celebration.
Beth made a big bold poster that looks like this one, except that it now has a big red "10 Years" graphic made from a Golden Gate Bridge pylon and a cruiser bike. Hugh made a giant cartoon poster, one panel of which can be seen in this Critical Mass Missive flier (be advised, it's over 40kb in PDF format).
The third poster can be seen online: Mona's velorutionary angel. An homage to the posters of Alphonse Mucha, this one invites close inspection because of its fine detail and, of course, exquisite beauty. I've been posting handbill-sized copies of this, but people keep swiping them as keepsakes. It seems as if half the city's smitten with this angel.
San Francisco has spent tons of cash on supposedly-Parisian-style poster kiosks. To complete the effect, they should all be displaying 12-foot-tall versions of this poster, as a city beautification project.
=v= There's a new web page dedicated to our 10-year anniversary celebration: Talk Fast, Ride Slow. It has info on obtaining some of the posters, so's you can beautify your own city.
Posted by Jym on July 26 2002 23:05