Bikes plus tagging plus guaranteed national media attention at the Republican National Convention = new forms of mobile street political action. I'm thinking of both magicbike* and the no more prisons sidwalk tagging campaign**. And freeway blogging. And the French project that I can't remember the name of where two suspended robot painters dot matrix graffiti a wall. (You know the one.) It's nice when the street talks. But it's more noticeable when the street is spraypainted with catchy slogans.
Using bikes as automatic traces of urban pathways - so good. I bet Bloomberg's City Hall will not be best pleased by the anti-Bush sidewalk graffiti, however. The best thing about bikes: the police can't cite you if they can't ride you down...
Later: Eric reminds me of the Institute for Applied Autonomy's GraffitiWriter
* Yury of magicbike is somehow associated with this project, so it all makes sense.
**Sorry. Don't have a picture of this one. But everywhere that nomoreprisons activists go, they spray "nomoreprisons.org" on the sidewalk. The "indyvoter.org" people do it too. You can see it all over America, like a neon orange record of rallies, potluck dinners, and how-to-get-arrested workshops.
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