Posts Tagged ‘portland’

With this year being the 20th anniversary of the iconic Austin movie “Slacker”, it’s only fitting that the Independent Film Channel (IFC) has come out with its own tribute to the slacker capital of the northwest, Portland. In their new show Portlandia, comic actors Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein write and star in a collection [...]

One of the criticism hurled by the bike boulevard opposition is that the facility gives road space over to bikes at the expense of cars. Well, yeah. Creating great bike facilities is about getting people to change their transportation choices and what better way to do that than to elevate the desired choice of transportation? [...]

This week the European Pro racing season kicked off in earnest with Paris-Nice, the Race for the Sun. With the race, comes the return of the play by play commentary of Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin and all their unique metaphors. Like anyone who watches coverage provided by this duo regularly, I’ve often had their [...]

The Bicyclists Craftmaster Independent DVD available online at The Bicyclists website Overall impression: 3/10 Last night, Portland filmmaker Carl Jameson was kind enough to provide a free showing of The Bicyclists, his feature length film about characters he developed in his online series, The Bicyclist. Both the web series and the film focus on Conrad, [...]

Hertz, the giant car rental company, has a car sharing service, called Connect By Hertz which is expanding to new cities very quickly. For an overview, I recommend this Dave Brooks article today in World Streets. This is interesting because Hertz seems to be taking on Zipcar, the current largest carsharing service, directly. From the [...]

Last year I visited Portland and wrote about America’s cycling nirvana. They certainly have not let up in improving their city for those on two wheels. Here are just a few cool things being done as recently reported by BikePortland. Bike path second layer of proposed double decker bridge When Portlanders make room for cyclists, [...]

Review: Bicycling and the Law by Bob Mionske, JD “As Mr. Wells was driving north near Broadway’s intersection with West 74th Street, Miss Thomas was approaching the intersection from the opposite direction. Shortly after noon, near this intersection, something went wrong with Wells’s vehicle and their paths fatefully crossed. Wells los control of the Duryea, [...]

Today is the first day of Bike Month, so it is only fitting that we shoot for the moon with this cycling music video put together by Copenhagenize for the City of Copenhagen to see what is possible. Copenhagen – City of Cyclists from Colville Andersen on Vimeo. Of course, we don’t have to look [...]

Mike Hoffman was kind enough to write this up about the Seattle International Bike Expo, and posted it as a comment yesterday. I really appreciate his insight so I’m promoting it to a full post. His full comments are below – what a great community! I went to the 2009 Seattle Bike Expo. It was [...]

I came across a fantastic podcast the other day from the blog Portland Transport and I’ve been listening to all the episodes I can since. It’s very much like the ANC Radio show is here in Austin, except this show is ALL ABOUT BIKES! Entertaining and full of event ideas we could try here too [...]