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Peter Hatch’s Guerilla Sound Events

Monday, September 10th, 2007
  This weekend was the Junction Arts Festival in Toronto. A Bike Friday folding tandem from the Bicycle Forest was used for one of the performance pieces. Peter Hatch’s ‘Guerilla Sound Events’, with Margaret Bardos, Benjamin Covey, Jamie Hoffman and Andrea Naccaretto, are short, spontaneous performance art pieces intended to draw attention to urban soundscapes through unannounced sonic interventions. While often humorous in nature, they also call for a more active role in shaping our urban soundscapes. This video captures a moment from the performance where the riders stop, break into a few lines of the song “Daisy Bell” and then carry on down the street.

Bicycle Forest Toronto Location?

Monday, June 25th, 2007

This weekend, I checked out some empty shop space in Toronto.  The space is located between the Beaches and Leslieville, just a couple of blocks from the lake.

New Shop Space

The main floor is 750 square feet.  I tried to imagine how various rental bikes might fit in the room.  Unfortunately, the following image is unrealistic as the pickup truck bike would never fit through the 36″ door.  The Couchbike could be assembled inside, but it would have to be disassembled to fit back through the door as well.

New Shop Space

I never imagined that I would ever live in Toronto, but this is certainly a nice part of town.  There’s lots to think about here.  Decisions, decisions.