JOYENGINE: cause sharing is cool

Funny how many ‘hipsters‘ know little about maintaining their cool track bike, cause you can only get so far before you have to eventually change a tire. You eventually have to care…Maybe the unfriendly attitude of a bike mechanic does serve a purpose.

Don’t just chase the DIY aesthetic, embrace it as a chance to learn something.

Our faith in electronic technology will enable us to achieve a more sustainable and enjoyable earthly existence.  With modern technology we will find a way to get off the crack-like fossil fuels we’ve become so dependent upon.  Our improvements in electronics will allow our individual and collective efficiency to continue to increase.  We will make more - faster and in a seemingly smarter manner.

But, will we really improve our human experience in the process?  Seems like it, but we’re going to have to find a way to manage our e-waste first, and merely shipping it overseas for another people to contend with is certainly not the answer.

Managing our e-waste is going to be one of the most important steps in continuing to improve our human experience. Unfortunately, every time one piece of our technology is improved another is rendered obsolete.  This obsolete technology is then shipped far, far away - out of sight out of mind, where it inversely impacts the lives and well being of others.   We must continue to take responsibility and find more efficient ways to reduce, reuse, and process and recycle our e-waste.

The good news is, change is afoot… Design the 4th Bin.

How and where to recycle all of your gadgets

tres birds workshop and cypher13 have teamed up in effort to design an electronic waste logo and recycling bin for NYC…  Valiant Technology presents, Design the 4th Bin.  Check it out.  Here’s a little inspirational leave behind assembled by Mr. Moore after last weeks ideation sess… rrrad.

A day was giving to me by design.

I raced to catch the express bus to Denver, every stop sign was blown off and cornering was taken proud and loud.  Not one negative gesture by an auto! no stopping.

The cush security arm was placed upon by most beloved non-living material item.  Imagine for a moment; a free ride (ecopass) to Denver with my bike, designated bike lanes, bright sun, oxygen, smooth concrete, wool knitted bike parking Koozy to protect my frame. all provided by others. thank you people of denver/boulder for making spaces where the bicycle reigns.

yes, I believe that was on-site crocheting.

ARTCRANK Minneapolis 2009 looked super rad.  The Tran/Josh x Celeste/Lifter twatter left us a bit jealous.  But, we’ve got a feelin’ the Colorado posse’s gonna hold shit down too.  On that note - we just wrapped our posters with our man Ray at Good Thoughts on the press - and damn… tasty work, Ray.  Here’s a preview of PROPER TRANSPORTATION by cypher13 starring Mike Moore, Miria Moore, Maya Moore, and Maya Moore’s dolly.  Saturday the 11th is gonna be poppin’!!! We’re just happy to have been invited to play.  Thanks ARTCRANK.

Here is what the adminstration of Sarkozy came up with for Paris…

3/4 of the Moore Family in transit.

From the other side of the world…Measuring transportation efficiency in Santiago Chile March 17, 2009…

A collaboration between Goody Silvertein & Partners / GE and North Kingdom brings an interesting new twist on the use of Flash components like the web cam and image recognition. The technology itself isn’t all that new and has been used in a bunch of mediums over the past few years, but in this case, has proven its value. Some other examples of this FLAR (Flash Augmented Reality) can be found all over the internets. Some of the potential applications haven’t been explored yet but could be seen as a limitless well of “easter egg” sort of experiences across multiple platforms.

Thanks for sharing the link Adam!

P.S. We’ve tried this in my office and it seems to work pretty well, even off of the iPhone screen.

National Cargo Bike Championship…Via - Copenhagenize.com

Maybe a version in the U.S. can be created. How sweet would a FedEx vs. UPS battle on bikes be?. Or maybe a pizza delivery category.

The fifth annual North American Handmade Bicycle Show is rolling into Indianapolis, Indiana, today through this weekend, giving Midwesterners a chance to ogle some of the most beautiful bikes ever made and shake hands with the craftsmen who built them. Via - Bike Mag

After a bountiful 2008 summer of growing vegetatables for our family of four in a small yard garden, we have attempted to continue the growing cycle into the colorado winter.  It has been successful and easy.  We made 4ft x 8ft boxes with plexy glass tops.  The boxes were inserted into the ground 1-1/2 ft below the surface.  The earth maintains a constant 54 degrees below the surface.  The boxes / plants tap into this heat all winter to avoid freezing.  Good soil was added and seeds planted in September.  We eat thanksgiving out of them and xmas too.  Today, I ate a spinach salad for lunch that was picked this morning.  It has been amazing to open the boxes up after a night of below zero temperatures to find bright green plants ready for harvest.  This experiment will influence my architecture.