Some more Pros and Cons
Pros:
Use the Mobile Art Trike... M.A.T!!! to enhance, minipulate and distort billboards, adds and signs around the city. I think this has a few things working for it. First off, these signs are flat, usually have neutral backgrounds, plus they get lots of attention from people.
Use the projectors to mimic one of those scrolling led displays, the kind that show weather, breaking news and time. This could be anything like a video, pictures of a running tally of somthing
Finally the last pro i have is because these are bikes we can take them places where most cars are not allowed. Im thinking the nicollet mall and the greenway. Both have a high volume of people on them.
cons:
These trikes will be heavy, combersom and fragile. We need to "street" prof as much as we can before we take them out. The idea for the road case is a very good idea. ALso we WILL need spare parts for these things. Chains break, you get flats all the time and we should be prepared.
another problem i see, that others have brought up is trying to distance our selves from groups that have a strong agenda. These should be used as a tool for art making, not propaganda, though some humor or sarcasm always is good to me:P
lastly, i think from a pure technical standpoint, these bikes may take longer to assemble then we all think. Im not sure what state thier going to be ariviing in but these kinds of projects ALWAYS take longer then you think, and we should really plan ahead to overcome this.
thats all ive got!
Comments
I love the idea of calling it M.A.T. it's catchy. lol. I think you have a good point about street proofing the bikes. I think we should have another bike that will carry supplies, chargers, or whatever else we may need, so maybe we should be looking at creating another bike that is just for storage. I have tons of spare bike parts in my garage and am a good welder. I think we could build the storage bike from scratch, if I get a little assistance.
Posted by: David Dobbs | January 27, 2008 5:11 PM
I love the billboard idea. This could also be something to open to elementary-college students as a kind of contest- if you could advertise anything, what would it be? or how can we manipulate what is there already?
or even get kids to 'take back' corporate space- they could decide what they would rather have on billboards, and we could project them up with classes...
Posted by: Ilana Lerman | January 28, 2008 12:27 AM
I also am a big fan of the billboards. This may be good or bad, but using billboards brings it back to grafitti. In my eyes that can change the stereotype of destruction associated with graffiti. Specifically using billbards the basis should be art and art only. If politics is put on a billboard that will only heighten the negative stereotype.
Posted by: Hadija | January 28, 2008 3:11 AM