Handcar Regatta

The saintly city of Santa Cruz will be host to a most exciting event known as the Kinetic Art Cruz on Sunday, May 17th, 2009.

Pedal, Push or Pull
Unicycles, bicycles, tricycles, multicycles, baby carriages, skateboards, mobile sculpture… it’s a “Cycle-Logical” event!
All human-powered art vehicles are welcome!

Cash and special prizes will be awarded!

• Best Use of Recycled Materials
• Most Outrageous
• Best River Theme
• Best Team Entry
• Most Artistic wins Greatest Artist in the World!
• Greatest Artist of the Future (under 12)
• Best School Entry award is $500!

ITEM!
See Krank-Boom-Clank’s Hennepin Crawler there among other contraptions of note!

Splendid news everyone!

A new race team has surfaced for the Handcar Regatta. They hail by the intriguing name of “Welded Sykkelen”.

In their own blog words:

“Our idea, to create a viking ship to be powered by the four of us created out of 8 10 speed bikes. Our Team name, The Uff-Da’s. Our ship, Welded Sykkelen (Norwegan for welded bikes).”

Looks like an ambitious project and a spirited exercise in recycling parts!

Good show, lads! We at the Regatta Arts tip our toppers at the latest crew to join the honored ranks of Kindred Hackers.

As the wonders of the industrial age never cease, The Great Hand Regatta is about to set stage for the inestimable artifact that is:

NEVERWAS HAUL

This September 28th, 2008, “The Haul” shall find yet another home of plenitude and promise in sunny Santa Rosa, CA, at The Great Handcar Regatta!

To date, Neverwas Haul and her delightful crew of crack engineers and brazen lasses, this fairer sex often seen shamelessly taking to hand a wrench or two themselves, have been the toast of fabled towns such as the illustrious Black Rock City, NV, Oakland and San Jose, CA, and, of course, New Amsterdam, London, and mighty Shangri-La beyond the frozen seas, among others townships too numerous to recount here.

“What will they think of next!?” shall be the wide-eyed shouts of giddy disbelief from honored guests at The Great Handcar Regatta!

Three Cheers and Huzzah!

There is yet much more to learn, good reader!

• Read the Neverwas Haul Times for these and other largely historical facts:
  

  Neverwas Haul , a self-propelled 3-story Victorian House, made from 75% recycled equipment and materials, returns with new interiors, operating system, and collections from its travels around the world (i.e., oddities of the Jules Verne era including a Camera Obscura, described below). The Haul measures 24 feet long by 24 feet high and 12 feet wide and is built on the base of a 5 th wheel travel trailer.

• A brief interview with Major Catastrophe (a.k.a. Shannon O’Hare) is recounted at the Aether Emporium Wiki.
• Current news and information found at the Neverwas Haul Tribe.
• Extensive electro-luminescent renderings of said Haul are available via Flickr.
• ITEM! Be the first to nab your very own Neverwas Haul handmade googles!
  

  UPDATE! One fetching reader, Choklit Chanteuse, informs us of Neverwas Etsy Shop. Word has it that said goggles will be AWARDED as PRIZES to adoring Regatta attendees!

• Watch amazing moving pictures of Kristies Flyer, their winsome little steam-carriage
  

• And this movie of Neverwas Haul (ITEM! lower your loud speaker volume first!).