February, 2011
Not Just a Label
POSTED IN Front End, Portfolio February 23, 2011
VI was briefed to do the re-branding for this highly regarded online fashion community. My role on this project included Interaction Design, XHTML & CSS.
NYC Bike Ride
POSTED IN Everything Else February 3, 2011
(This post originally appeared on Fixed Gear Cape Town)
It’s taken me all of a month to finally get around to putting a few of my favourite pics together from the holidays, but here they are.
After some nightmare flight delays and lots and lots of snow, we finally made it to NYC in time for New years. Having seen Ian’s post go up a few days before about NYC Riders over the xmas period, I got the itch to have a ride around the city.
On 2 Jan, after having fully recovered from the NYE hangover, I ventured out in search of a bike to hire.
Staying with a friend in the Lower East Side, there were stacks of bike shops around. A friend recommended Chari & Co. on Stanton Street. Besides having loads of very desirable gear, the guys were friendly, and had me sorted in no time. I was kinda hoping to hire a fixie (which they do have), but the city streets were still a mess from the blizzards a few days before, and what with the yanks driving on the wrong side of the road, I figured it would be a bit more sensible taking a freewheel and brakes for my first ride around the island.
The snow had for the most part melted away, but a lot of streets were still quite iced up. Where there was no longer snow, there was a thick layer of caked up mud/sludge/glass/trash along the shoulder of the road (which inevitably led to me getting a puncture later in the day).
I did the round at all the big tourist sites, but highlights were most certainly the view from the Williamsburg Bridge, high-tailing it down 5th Avenue and the mirror view over the Jacky Kennedy Reservoir in Central Park. Lo-lights were the puncture and that I managed to stack it like a total fool right in front of the Flat Iron building. Staring at the building instead of the curb in front of me, I flipped over the bars. Fortunately at super slow speed, but still enough to leave me with a few good bruises. I call it NYC’s way of saying ‘hello’.
If you’re interested in seeing my whole route, you can check it out here, and use the absolutely frikkin cool 3D function to see a fly-over of the route, it’s RAD!
Enjoy the pics
