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One hundred days ago, media studies major and former hardcore frontman Blake Kasemeier and his bike hit Berkeley pavement on a human interest quest. The premise of his blog, The Hundreds, is simple: “100 people who ride bikes in 100 words in 100 days.” He’s interviewed our rocket scientists and beloved pariahs alike, a rag-tag bunch of Berkeleyites with a singular two-wheeled hunk of metal and rubber bringing them all together: bike.
But here’s the kicker: Kasemeier isn’t really in it for the bikes. He doesn’t care if you’ve got a fixie, a carbon fiber frame or fork, or if your handlebars are purple or green or polka dot or if you’ve got a spoke card of a dead chick whirring around and around on your rear tire.
He wants to know about the pies you bake, the awkward wedding you just came from, the buggy race your grandfather won way back when, why you don’t trust limousine liberals, your DIY kombucha class, your paper-bag IPA business, the lasers you build, and how you outran Hurricane Katrina chasing your future wife from Central America to Berkeley.
He writes like NPR’s Ira Glass talks. Sputtering. Whittling down to the sallow core of Berkeley’s cycling community. With the project’s completion, Kasemeier aims to create a zine and a multi-media art installation, projecting his pixilated sepia-toned portraits onto walls like mosaic. He hopes to go global with The Hundreds. We vote Amsterdam. Or by the looks of Japan’s elegant new solution for bike theft, perhaps Tokyo.
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100 People Who Ride Bikes In 100 Words In 100 Days [The Hundreds]
Comments:
Nov 22, 2009 at 4:14 pm
It’s at the bottom: http://onehundredbikes.blogspot.com/
Nov 23, 2009 at 6:02 am
Kate!! You’re a writer!!!!
Nov 22, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Cool. Am I missing something, or is there no link to the blog?