Bicycle Celebration!

For my final project, I would like to develop a celebration/parade/festival of bicycle riding. The event would take place in and around Overton Park, and would include an art-bike parade, bike safety game show (projected live feed?), art activities for all ages, live music, and possibly a scavenger hunt and other bike related activities.

My hope is that the event will make people excited about riding bikes, as well as educating about bicycle (and driver) safety.

I know this is a big project. Preparation for the event will include:
-Planning the date and time with parks department
-Promotion
---Posters
---Press release to be sent out to radio stations, newspapers, businesses, and organizations
---Bicycle and driver safety zines to be distributed at art events, bike shops, record stores, other businesses
---Maybe turn my van into a mobile gallery for Broad Ave art walk on April 13, featuring bike-related art, hand out fliers, etc
-Volunteer recruitment
-Live music people
-Games/art activities planning
-Equipment round-up




Finally, the documentation of the event will be very important. I want to film the parade, interview people about what they love about bikes, what would make this a more bike-friendly city, etc.

Inspiration over break

Harry Belafonte's Sing Your Song

Soap Factory experimental stuff:
-Gun shaped projector that only worked by heartbeat
-Kinnect game about urban planning

Walker:
-Video of inside of a subway
-Frank Gaard

House of Balls

three ideas:

1. I was thinking a lot about bikes.
How can Memphis become a more biker-friendly city?
Awareness.
So I filmed from the perspective of a biker biking in a bike-friendly city.
It would be projected outside in a public place on a very large screen in front of a slew of stationary bikes. Ideally, the man-power coming out of the stationary bikes would power the projection, but even if not, the viewers would ride the bikes and watch the film.

Here's a link about turning an exercise bike into a power generator:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Turn-an-exercise-bike-into-an-energy-bike/

2. Project from car onto highway walls or median bikers, animals running, people running.

3. What's up with Memphis' public transit system??? a million poor people AND a million cars? how does that make sense? Even Minneapolis has more reliable, more frequent, easier to use, and more transferable buses and trains. WTFFFF!!! So I want to make something public for MATA. Maybe project from the top of the North End terminal videos of easy/made up bus-routes, no more waiting, transfers. It should be interactive because I am not personally involved in the transit system of Memphis but I have seen the way it affects people negatively. I will ask people waiting in the heat what they would change about MATA if they could. Get people dreaming.