Celebrating Chop’s Teen Center’s 10th Anniversary and unveiling the innovative work of the teen members, “The Rolling Bones” Regatta 2011 racer will be on display.
Plus more: live music from Chop’s members band, refreshments, and the chance to meet the amazing people who offer so much to our township of doers and makers and artists!
The bizarre and stylish kinetic escapades of famed tool-bound rabble-rousers, FBUC (Fun Bike Unicorn Club), will unleash their curious flavor of pedal-punk madness at Harmony Festival 2011 this June 10th through 12th in the, ahem, so called “Steampunk Garage.”
Did You Know? One of the builder clubs at FBUC known as Krank-Boom-Clank of Hennepin Crawler fame provided said vehicle to the infamous band Primus for a 2010 U.S. tour promotional photo shoot. And did you know said band will be playing on Sunday, June 12, at Harmony Festival? There just may be some sort of melding of the two say the little birdies who know…
The rabble-rousing-dare-devil-collective-of-freak-bikes-and-more-builders known as Fun Bike Unicorn Club (FBUC) have just launched their new Aetherweb destination:
The enterprising lads spared no expense to share a wealth of high resolution, gorgeous electro-luminescent photographs of their many contraptions and adventures of ill-repute around the Bay Area. Those represented, of course, are the infamous:
FBUC at Apple Blossom Parade 2010; Photo by Clifford Hill, Sassy Monkey Media
As witnessed these last three years, the builders and brave lads of FBUC (Fun Bike Unicorn Club) shall journey southward again to Maker Faire 2011 in sunny San Mateo, CA, this weekend on May 21st-22nd.
Don’t miss this most exciting extravaganza yet including Todd Barricklow’s latest kinetic Oddcycle, the big-wheeled pedal-powered contraptions by Krank-Boom-Clank and The Feed Barn, and this year’s not-to-be-missed doozy of death-defying stunts in Whiskeydrunk Cycles’Whiskeydrome (and much more mayhem)!
Three veteran Handcar Regatta organizers (who are also builders in Krank-Boom-Clank and Whiskeydrunk Cycles) have banded together at newly dubbed “Feed Barn” for fabrication, art, and party fun with your local ne’er-do-wells in soiled coveralls.
Levi’s Gran Fondo kick-off exclaims: BYOB (Bring Your Own Bike), including DIY hand-built rides, eccentric builders, free beer, catering, and all the fragrant chain grease you can muster.
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The Great Handcar Regatta starts early this year:
WITNESS Chop’s Teen Centerrailcar unveiling called “Locust Motive” at 5:30-7:30pm on Friday, September 24th, 2010. It’s a party in the street, featuring the infamous Hennepin Crawler by Krank-Boom-Clank and possibly other contraptions of doom and delight!
REMINDER! Those stalwart hucksters of DIY virtues we know and love, FBUC, will be marauding upon a maelstrom of contraptions o’er the San Mateo fairgrounds this weekend, May 22-23 for the annual Maker Faire 2010!
MIND BENDING! Like the Luther Burbank Rose Parade last weekend (and the Sebastopol Apple Blossom Festival Parade before that), three teams and their four GIANT mechanical contrivances, plus a multitude of more nimble kinetic doohickies, will careen leisurely through the 80,000+ throng of the gaping rabble at the faire.
AND MORE! Vendors of fine wares seen at The Handcar Regatta and members of The Glorious Etsy Steamteam shall be on hand to adorn and inspire at the FBUC encampment, including Choklit Chanteuse of Adornments for Tarts, Sarah Dungan of Industrial Fairytale, plus Nullalux of Theriaca Fina (literally, “fine treacle”).
GET THEE TO THE FAIRE! If you have even the slightest inkling toward hacking and building, or wish to nobly educate and enlighten your children for a better future, you simply must extract yourself from your couch-bound indention and see this amazing Maker Faire!
Sonoma State University (SSU) shall be host to a vivacious exhibition featuring HAND-BUILT CONTRAPTIONS of competitive glory, large and not-so-large-scale ART works, plus actual festival PROPS and, of course, a jaunty array of well-attired lads and lasses we’ve come to adore at our fair festival known as The Great Handcar Regatta.
Special thanks to Spring Maxfield for curation and exhibition idea. Michael Schwager for additional curation and exhibition management. Also, our own invaluable maven of Regatta volunteers, Carla Stone, in addition to the staff of the SSU art department at large.
Gallery Views
** NOTE: A parking permit fee is required on other weekdays and nights on the campus. The closest lot LOT A is “reserved” and costs $5 per motor carriage. Nearby non-reserved lots cost $2.50. See the following MAP (PDF) for parking locations. Weekend parking is free in most areas.
The fanciful mechanical concoctions to be witnessed this year will amaze, astound, and, with Lady Luck’s serendipitous caress, inspire too The People in attendance! Huzzah!
Engineers’ Arcade Gallery The Engineers’ Arcade also has updated photographic depictions, featuring:
Celebrating Chop’s Teen Center’s 10th Anniversary and unveiling the innovative work of the teen members, “The Rolling Bones” Regatta 2011 racer will be on display.
