GW Bridge & Craftacular Times

I've got to thank Malaika for inviting me to ride over the George Washington Bridge to make my Spoked competition map look good. As of tonight, I'm the only competitor who took it to the Dirty Jersey level. 

That's my hot pink line jutting out to the left at the top of the island.

Me and Malaika did not get the memo that everyone on the GW Bridge would be fully decked out in spandex effects. But we still enjoyed the weather and had a nice time. 

We went to this little park on the New Jersey side and sat on historic artifacts. 

We rode back over the bridge, had lunch at the Boat Basin Cafe, which was pleasantly affordable, then almost went to the big make-up tradeshow but it was sold out, so we just headed to the BUST Craftacular.  

We bought some treats and I shopped Brooklyn Charm. 

Then we headed to our own homes for serious afternoon naps. Good Lady Biker times. Thanks for hanging with me! 

SPOKED Map Awesomeness Update

One week in and the map looks freaking awesome! Some people are showing out and making designs in the map. I am jealous. I need to go track some rides in the northern part of Manhattan.

I've been going straight to work and back home. Saturday I rode downtown for my PP volunteer shift but that's pretty straight down and back up north.

So many people are biking serious miles, like 5 times as many miles as me. Dang.

This is still a super-neat-o project and I'm glad they're having me.

We're a very small group of people, but most of our rides are reflecting the proposed area for the first wave of the bike share. 

SPOKED - It's cute already

An update on the Spoked project that I'm participating in. This is a project created by some School of Visual Arts students. Leave it to SVA kids to make something so cute and beautifully designed.

They must love me because when I log-in the interface is bathed in this gorgeous shade of magenta. That's like my team color.



I found out that at the end of this adventure-project, I can order a poster of my pattern that will look like this but much more rad. This is the first half of day 1.

I only know one of these competitors in "real life" and by "real life" I mean, a guy who I'm friends with on Twitter who I've come across in commuting a couple times. 

The Julie Demographic

I know I'm a big fat target audience for tons of stuff and I'm good with that.  I'm a young woman. I'm white. I'm college educated. I blindly subscribe to the idea that Apple products are it. I require things to be cute. I identify as a liberal and a feminist. I fit into categories and I'm fine with that. Market to me, baby.

I'm happily and enthusiastically participating in these SVA students thesis project. 

I found out about this project from Dmitry's blog. He somehow found out they used his #BikeNYC portraits to plot out their target audience. Funny I'm all up in their target audience and of course I'm flattered, excited and down.

I don't know all the rules exactly just yet, but I know I'll be tracking my bike rides for two weeks starting Monday and my patterns (created by my bike rides) will be drawn in pink.

Here's me today wearing pink lipstick, pink pants, pink gloves and rocking my pinkest bicycle.