Tag: illustration
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The Short History Of Cycling Anime
Click or not: The Short History Of Cycling AnimeEven to zealous devotees of the velocipede, the short history of cycling anime would have been thought to be much shorter before watching this video. However, relative to a single mainstream anime series, the volume of cycling related content is lower than peoples’ expectations for the Ghost In The Shell remake. While all but the… …
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Carla Fuentes’ “Le Tour”
Click or not: Carla Fuentes’ “Le Tour”Occasionally we stumble across little nuggets of beauty when bicycles and art intersect. Carla Fuentes is an illustrator with an eye for detail and a deft touch with textures in mixed media. There’s an elegance to her brightly coloured work, the stripped back compositions tactile and feel intimate. Lucy Bourton from itsnicethat.com describes her work thus: Her series… …
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Viva Il Ciclissimo
Click or not: Viva Il CiclissimoWith this years Giro d’Italia entering its final week, these illustrations from Katsuhiro Otomo and Katsuya Terada give a neat snapshot of what’s probably the most interesting Grand Tour event. While they’re likely to be much less prolific in the cycling community, Otomo and Terada are two of Japan’s most renowned illustrators, Otomo bringing us… …
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Van Life: The Kombi Holocaust
Click or not: Van Life: The Kombi HolocaustThe VW Kombi van, cultural icon of unreliability, has survived on its redoubtable cool factor all these years. And probably a lot of servicing and vital organ transplants. My 78 was notorious for not starting by key, meaning every parking spot needed to be carefully selected for a sufficient slope to jump start it, and… …
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Getting Across
Click or not: Getting AcrossPunctuating grey, sinuous city streets, the intersection is a great equalizer for cyclists. While a rude inconvenience to those wielding automobiles, to the pedal powered a red light can be a small consolation for the multitude of fuming exhausts, close passes and errant doors. It should come as little surprise that navigating the city streets… …