Somewhere Groups of Friends are getting together to do neat work

Somewhere in Vancouver, Groups of Friends are Doing Something Special from Alejandro Zuluaga on Vimeo.

This is time for Christmas, sharing, helping out and getting involved in the community with friends and family. Telia, a co-worker from the Urban Native Youth Association, decides to gather some friends, fundraise some money and give socks away at the Carnagie Community Centre in the down town east side. Get together with your friends, have fun, get involved.

Vancouver from the Bicycle… my bicycle

This is my bicycle manifesto, it is my statement a case for riding a bicycle instead of a car.

We live in an Era of machinistic dominance, times of utter industrial pollution, unsustainable city development, concrete and synthetic based metropolis. The bicycle stands as an icon to reclaim physical, mental and spiritual autonomy. It will get you out of the gas polluting vehicle, away from the couch and the stupifier tv, it will get your adrenaline pumping, your cardio working, your legs strenghtened and your weight on check. It will keep you away from smoking as you commute, it will give you better sleep, make your early commuting exciting, it will make you hate the rain, the hills, aggressive drivers and big vehicles. It will show you well your day to day fitness, it will remind you when you need to take more care of your body, sleep more or eat less.

The bicycle is the proletariat chariot of the 21st century, it is community, diversity, self-exploration, speed, style and revolution. It offers an alternative to face climate change, the oil crisis, it offers a different way of rethinking inner city development and commuting routes. There are about 52 bicycling communities and subcultures in vancouver ranging from commuters to extreme mountain bikers, from world naked bike ride activist against climate change to velo-mutation shows of 3 bike high monsters with fire turbines, there are bike co-ops, coallitions, clubs, speed demons, tin collectors, rat alley racers, film makers and more.

If you dont ride a bicycle it is time to reconsider riding one, for the sake of the environment, for the well being of your body, for the health of your mind, in the spirit of revolution, the proletariat and building a progressive community.