all things goodship

Good ol’ Riley Gannon sent this to me over the interweb.

Your favorite local non profit bike salvage and good time making group, the Troy Bike Rescue, are working with The Sanctuary for Independent Media to put on bike bike northeast.

Checkout Andrew’s article on the Times Union Blog, copy pasted here:

We are talking about Bike!Bike! Northeast which will happen on April 24 & 25 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media and Troy Bike Rescue.

Bike!Bike! Northeast is a convergence of the movers and shakers of the community bicycle movement from around the Northeastern states and locally here in the Capital Region. Participants will come together share skills and stories, brainstorm and network to build a bicycle movement in the Northeast.

We (a few of the core coordinators of TBR) came up with the idea for doing a Northeastern gathering of this sort on our way home from the (inter)national conference in Minneapolis last summer. I wrote a little about that great trip on this very blog. The goal is really to get a lot of visionary people in the same space who are thinking similarly with regards to bicycles as a vehicle not only for transportation, but building community and reinventing a better world. In Minneapolis, we spent the weekend with 200 of them from around the country and Canada… and we knew there were a lot from these parts who weren’ t there. The Northeastern version of BB, is potentially a less fuel-consuming more convenient commitment for people from places like Vermont, Mass. Connecticut, Rhode Island, and downstate NY (as well as the many locals) who plan to attend.

At the International Bike!Bike!, most of the draw is from community bike shops, not unlike Troy/Albany Bike Rescues. They come in many shapes and sizes. Some are large, fairly well-funded non-profits, others are garage operations and everything in between. For this regional affair, we want an even broader mix of people, to include anyone who is organizing around bicycles. So, in addition to several recycled bike shops from Providence, NYC, Worcester, and Ithaca, some of the other represented groups in attendance will be the Pedal People, Streefilms, Transportation Alternatives, Saratoga Healthy Transportation Network, Local Motion, and the Village Bicycle Project

The main day of Bike!Bike! Northeast will be a day of skillshares and workshops that cover a broad range of topics from a session about Family Bike Advocacy facilitated by Saratoga Healthy Transportation Network, to Bikes and Media Activism with Streetfilms of NYC, to Advanced Wheel-truing, Welding for Dummies, an outdoor Kids’ Bike Rodeo, and presentation by global community bike organizers, the Village Bicycle Project. These workshop sessions will run from 10am – 5pm on Saturday April 24th at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in North Troy, and Troy Bike Rescue’s downtown workshop space. Check out this list!

Community Bike Shop 101
skillshare and best practices community bike shops
Advocacy for the Whole Family
commuting as families and advocating for the rights of young people to use bicycles as transportation.
Educate, Advocate, Agitate – Media & Bikes
with representatives of Streetfilms and Transportation Alternatives
“A Woman’s Bike Book”
a discussion with the author
Welding for Dummies Like Us
Learn the basics of arc welding steel bike parts. Build a tall bike, a custom trailer, or weld your seat tube in place (no!! don’t do that!).
The Truth about Truing
advanced wheel truing workshop
Mallets for the Masses
bike polo mallet making and demo session
Hauling Stuff Show & Tell
How do you haul stuff? From homemade panniers, custom trailers, cargo bikes, and more.
Pedal People
how & why the Pedal People set up the cooperative trash collection business in NH MA
Village Bicycle Project
A Community bike project on the global scale
Upcycling
turning non-recyclable bike parts into fun & useful things
PLUS – outdoor Bike Rodeo and repair stand
with the Missing Link and Albany Bike Rescue (ages 5-15)

BBNE promises to be an energizing and inspiring event. Interested in using bicycles to build a better world? We hope you can make it! There is still room for more participation Register for Bike!Bike! Northeast online here.

I have been falling head over heels in love with old rock n roll and blues. Everything from do whop to surf to old R&B. I highly suggest buying/downloading all of the Mississippi Records compilations. They are a great “welcome” to this whole style of music and it is something anybody who claims to love music should checkout.

Mississippi Records Tape Series on rootblog

I would suggest Tape Series 1, 2, and 3.

Here are some gems from those tapes, as well as other personal favorites:

S.E. Rogers - Toomus Meremereh Nor Good

The Velaires - Brazil

Wanda Jackson - Tunnel Of Love

Bo Diddley - Hey! Bo Diddley!

Dave Travis and The Premiers - I Don’t Like Him

enjoy!

http://soundcloud.com/ison/slave-to-lol/

exert from Kinz + Tillou Fine Art:
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Kim Keever’s large-scale photographs are created by meticulously constructing miniature topographies in a 200-gallon tank, which is then filled with water. These dioramas of fictitious environments are brought to life with colored lights and the dispersal of pigment, producing ephemeral atmospheres that he must quickly capture with his large-format camera.

Keever’s painterly panoramas represent a continuation of the landscape tradition, as well as an evolution of the genre. Referencing a broad history of landscape painting, especially that of Romanticism, the Hudson River School and Luminism, they are imbued with a sense of the sublime. However, they also show a subversive side that deliberately acknowledges their contemporary contrivance and conceptual artifice. Keever’s staged scenery is characterized by a psychology of timelessness. A combination of the real and the imaginary, they document places that somehow we know, but never were. The symbolic qualities he achieves result from his understanding of the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, Keever fabricates an illusion to conjure the realms of our imagination.

Kim Keever lives in New York City, and has exhibited extensively in galleries throughout the United States and abroad.
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I can’t seem to find a website for the guy anywhere, sadly. He came to EMPAC and did a lecture awhile back for the architecture series that completely blew me away. Super nice guy and his work is amazing.

I am going to try and post more frequently, you will see. But for now I wanted to post this super killer snowboarding video. Even if you are not into shredding the pow pow I suggest checking it out because the progression of the sport has gone from hucking big air to borderline gorgeous art. The new double cork moves people are pulling off now are absolutely mind boggling and beautiful to watch.

TNO Afterparty
Friday, March 26th, 2010
9pm-2am
FREE! | 18 to get in, 21 to drink (ID required)
Daisy Bakers | 33 2nd Street | Troy, NY | 518-266-9200

Springtime! Finally we can start taking advantage of the sidewalk seating at Daisy’s… when you’re not on the dancefloor, of course. And dance you will this month.

Longtime regular Ryan Kick will be teaming up with partner Brian Anderson as “Hustle & Flow,” appearing in Troy for the first time! With releases on labels like Kolour and Greenhouse, they keep it going louder. Get there early for Properly Chilled, always on point with that song you’ve been dying to hear but just didn’t know it. And finishing it off is Goodship’s own Jenks, laying down the dirty beats to finish the night off right and heavy.

Hustle & Flow (House+++) | www.myspace.com/fuckinhero | Hustle Inc. Mix
Properly Chilled (Dubbed out Bliss) | www.properlychilled.com
Jenks (Dirty Bass) | www.goodship.net/blog/

Check out the Facebook Event Page!!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104646609567034

Daisy Baker’s
33 2nd Street, Troy, NY
518-266-9200

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