& just when I’d dispatched 20 art students into Survivaballs, I found Brooke, Beka, and our new environmental ally & co-conspirator.

Meet journalist and film maker, Heather Rogers, author of Gone Tomorrow, the Hidden Life of Garbage. It is not a co-incidence that we are obsessed with composing and altærnative life styles and she is a specialist when it comes to what it might take to unravel status quo. We have work to do. America’s consumption is disgusting.

Join the Service Specialists

and the Straphanger B& (aka: Travis, Helen & Scarlet)

Tonight & Saturday

We’ll sanitize your hands

sing to you

and share how we got into

the Service Industry in the first place!

Friday: Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 7pm, 144 E. 14th Street//L to 6th Ave, FREE

Saturday: NonSense List 10 Year Anniversary Party, 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn//L to Morgan, buy tix @ Bluestockings Book Store(172 Allen Street)

Service is Improving Everyday at MTAService.org!

Hey Bike Loves.

I received the following email from a collaborator who I am working with towards some performance opportunties to bring attention the the Climate in Copenhagen. I plan to be over there and am going to find a way to support this very amazing adventurous project. Let me know if you want to join me or if you have any brainstorms to help!
xo
Larken

Dear friends

In July this year, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a
UK based art activists’’ collective (www.labofii.net) was
commissioned by the Copenhagen Centre for Contemporary Art

( www.kunsthallennikolaj.dk/en/ ) to make a new piece of work for
Rethink, ( www.rethinkclimate.org ) an exhibition of “political” art

during the December UN climate change summit. Last week the gallery
pulled out claiming it could no longer continue to support the
project for “practical reasons”. In fact they were frightened that
the project involved non-violent civil disobedience and that this

might be disapproved of by their funders. We feel that the December’s
mobilisations in Copenhagen are a landmark in history, where trying
to “play safe” is not a luxury we can afford. This was a political

pulling out not a practical issue. We are writing to ask for your
support so that despite the obstacles of cowardice the project can
still go ahead.

The project Putting the fun between your legs: The Bike Bloc, is a

collaboration between The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
and the UK Climate Camp ( www.climatecamp.org.uk). The idea is to
design and build a new tool of creative resistance for the RECLAIM

POWER mobilisations taking place in Copenhagen on the 16th of
December 16th, a day of civil disobedience supported by over 200
organisations many from the global south.( www.climate-justice-
action.org ). Made from hundreds of recycled bikes, The Bike Bloc

will merge device of mass transportation and pedal powered resistance
machine, postcapitalist bike gang and art bike carnival.

Bike hackers, artists, welders, climate campers and engineers will be
working together to design and build The Bike Bloc across two cities:

Bristol (Arnolfini Gallery 15th – 30th Nov, – as part of C-words
exhibition – www.arnolfini.org.uk and somewhere in Copenhagen (4th-
18th Dec.) The trouble is we no longer have a space or support

resources in Copenhagen, which with only 8 weeks to go puts us under
immense pressure.

If you have any idea of places, organisations, or, of collectives
that would be interested in hosting this project, and are prepared to

walk the talk, or would like to be involved please contact us as soon
as possible.

Yours
John Jordan and Isa Fremeaux

A Fund-raiser Party to Save Our Water from Toxic Gas Drilling
(From the party people with a conscience who brought you Toxic Splash Bash)

The Oil and Gas Industry is dangerously close to drilling in our watersheds with a toxic process
called “Fracking”, brought to you by Halliburton, that would permanently pollute our water supply
and air quality, ravage our land and farming industry and put us all at grave health risks.
We say “You can’t crash this party, Cheney! Get out of my water!”

Filmmaker, Josh Fox, has traveled across the US, collecting stories of those who have already
been exposed to toxic gas drilling and is finishing a documentary to show the world
the truth behind this supposedly “clean” energy source.

But we need help to finish it! FAST! The gas industry has been given the green flag to drill and we need to act now!
So join us and dance hard and drink up before we’re all fracked.
Bring your prom date! If you arrive on a bike- $5 discount!

Friday October 16th 2009
Doors open 8pm
Show starts at 10pm

The Fabulous line-up includes:
Chappo
Preacherman
More Live Bands and Acts!
Glorious Hula Hoop Stylings
An All-Female Dance Troupe on Bikes!
Free Food
Drive-in Movie Theater with Your Popcorn Man, Doug
Water Prom photo booth
2 Dance Floors with DJs and a swing!
Cheap Beer and special Sea Green Spiked punch
Splendid Raffle Prizes
An open rooftop with a romantic campsite of cozy tents!
And much much more!

Dress Up in your best Prom duds with some seaweed taffeta or an algae corsage.

How much:
10 clams in advance (reservations- waterunderattack@gmail.com)
15 clams door

WHERE:
WOW HAUS
37 Grand Avenue
Third Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11205

WHEN:
October 16th 8pm-late

For more info: waterunderattack@gmail.com

I am in a new all girls bike dance troupe and this is our inspiration.

Monday night we are a part of the single largest live simulcast event in all of New York history. We are bike powering a very special surprise music act…find out if a screening is near you at AgeofStupid.net!

Thank you to Stephanie and Dr. Kenet for a wonderful time celebrating Isabelle’s Bat Mitzvah!  We were so surprised that we won the dance competition and we loved all of the fun games and awesome picture taking opportunities with the green screen!

Our pictures from the evening at BLVD can be found here

Your support keeps our wheels turning!

Love,

Travis & Larken

B& of Bicycles

Maritime Madness Aerial Open Mic

Skybox, one of the main projects keeping House of Yes (342 Maujer street, Brooklyn) afloat presents
a tsunami of a show! Our most dedicated first mates will throw you
overboard with an evening of aquatic delights. With over 15 aerial
acts, this is the most exiting thing to have washed ashore in all of
Brooklyn. MC’d by the famous Ben Devoe of the infamous Bushwick Boat.

Catered by Band of Bicycles.

$10. All booty to benefit Skybox.

8pm doors 8:30 show

Thank you to Victoria and NYC & Co

for making this dreamy day a reality!

xxoo B& of Bicycles

Every year around this time, thousands of artists, recreational-drug enthusiasts and Phish fans flock to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for the countercultural fete known as Burning Man—a bastard love child spawned by Hunter S. Thompson, Bozo the Clown and Joan of Arc. But for Saturday 5, Winkel & Balktick (wandbnyc.com) planned a party-till-the-break-of-dawn event in a warehouse that will morph into a fantastical version of the Galapagos Islands. We found out how Stranded stacks up to “the playa.”

The art
Burning Man: If you’ve been eating peyote for every meal, a desert tortoise taking a dump on your sleeping bag might rival the work of the Old Masters. This year’s theme is “the process we call evolution.”
Stranded: Winkel & Balktick are celebrating the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Olek, a Brooklyn artist, describes her performance: “I crochet latex balloons and acrylic yarn camouflage sculptures that people can wear. It’s like being inside a specifically conditioned suit.” Lauren Larken, of climate-conscious bike crew Band of Bicycles (bandofbicycles.com), will demonstrate a hybrid bike-powered blender and spinner. (Translation: a stationary bike that makes drinks and art simultaneously.) It would be hard to miss the gold ensemble sported by Michael Dirt Saab of Modern Gypsies. And then there’s Fluff McFluffster: “He’s doing an installation called Camp Fluff,” says Winkel. “He’ll be bringing a bunch of tents, a firepit, marshmallows and himself in a bigfoot costume.” Oh, and don’t be startled by artist Hali Vik’s animatronic lizards.

The music
Burning Man: There hasn’t been a rave camp since 1996. Where are we supposed to unleash our glow-stick nunchucks now?
Stranded: DJs Been Jammin’, Arrow Chrome, Reza, Zemi17 and D_Juice will share the turntables. D_Juice has some surprises in store: “Prepare for sound installations, art, theater, workshops and random acts of mayhem.” Also on the bill is A. Taylor Kuffner, co-creator of the Gamelatron, the world’s only fully roboticized gamelan orchestra. His contribution is a themed piece called Temple of Ephemeral Light Creatures on Gamelatron Island with video artist SeeJ.

The venue and tickets
Burning Man: There are no walls and hardly any rules in Black Rock City, a temporary community of 48,000 ($360 at the gate).
Stranded: A mere $15 in advance, or $20 at the door, will gain you entrance into a Sunset Park, Brooklyn, warehouse. (The exact location is revealed to attendees after they R.S.V.P. to TONY@wandbnyc.com.) “It has 15-foot ceilings and huge windows, some overlooking the Statue of Liberty,” says Winkel.

The attire
Burning Man: Whether you’re draped in purple velour (very desert chic), wearing red fishnets on your head or just walking around in your usual tinfoil hat, Burning Man’s dress code is black-tie optional.
Stranded: Kae Burke, cofounder of the House of Yes and the owner of Make Fun (makefunstudio.com), hosted a costume workshop at the end of August. “I’m looking forward to seeing all the beautiful people and art all together in one space,” she says. “When people dress up, they become living decorations.”

Stranded has no official connection to the big show in the desert.

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