Gallery 110% Incredible

Wow. Gallery One Ten is incredible! The opening of their transportation show kicked off with a play by BYU students on the issues of current transportation: bussing, biking, walking, driving, scooters, paratransit, longboarding...it was great.

Then, to get everyone's gears turning in their heads, the whole group walked, biked, strollered (now a word), bussed, drove, or wheel-chaired their way to the Gallery One Ten, where hot chocolate and cookies were served and a roomful of artwork was waiting to be explored.

What a great place! There was a car-racing station, HUGE pieces of butcher paper laid out for people to trace their footprint and write a message about transportation, the front of the gallery was covered with bicycles, and there were photos and drawings and paintings lining the walls. Even the chicken bike was there! It was packed!

I don't know who drew this picture, but DANG! Pretty sweet, huh? I took a detail photo of the mermaid and what I think is water shooting from the body of the ship.

Look! Here's my entry, with people looking at it and laughing and smiling! Yay!

Shake Your Peace

My buddy Gabe Dominguez fronts a music group called Shake Your Peace. These guys are touring Utah on bicycles this month, carrying all their food, clothes and instruments on their bikes the whole way. These photos are from a show they played at the One World Cafe in Salt Lake City.

See that teeny wooden box with speakers in the background? That's their amplifier, made from used car audio parts. This amp is even more unique becaue it doesn't plug into a traditional power outlet. No, sir! This amp is pedal-powered! Yeah, my buddy James is riding the bike (with his killer tiny vest) and, in turn, powering the sound. If he were to stop pedaling, the amp would die down and there would be no sound.

Check out ShakeYourPeace.com for more info on the band, the 2007 Bicycle Tour of Utah, the human-powered amp and more photos and videos of the group.