Cool "art bikes" for Lauren & Jim

[KBCraig]

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/04/art-bikes-with-bite/

[Jim Johnson]

   That guy has a lot talent. 

He needs a better photographer.

[KBCraig]

Did you see the video on his website?

http://mta.tumblr.com/

The "Dog" is way cool. So are the trikes that steer at both ends.

[Jim Johnson]

Yeah, that guy is a genius.  To make great piece of art functional and useful is very difficult.   

And those three wheelers are the most intricate of that style that I have ever seen.
They're very fun to ride too, they're Big Wheels!

[sandm000]

Opinions, I thought they looked overly complicated for a recumbent bicycle, and therefore less than impressive.

[Pat McCotter]

Opinions, I thought they looked overly complicated for a recumbent bicycle, and therefore less than impressive.

You uncouth cretin! 'It's art dammit!

[Pat K]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!

[sandm000]

You uncouth cretin! 'It's art dammit!

is this art too?

Needless complexity is not necessarily art.

[Tom Sawyer]

 Yes it is art... just maybe not your cup of tea.

Art doesn't need to be practical, it is an esthetic.

[Jim Johnson]

I don't find anything needless about Dog Bike Guy's work.  I find it intricate and beautiful because I've tried that type of art.

Purists should stick to unicycles. 

[sandm000]

If everything we do is art, how can we distinguish that which is art from that which is life?

/I don't want to be in this conversation. I started by saying that my OPINION was they were too complicated, and I didn't like them. I rebutted someone else's claim that Ars Gratia Artis is a noble end in and of itself, where I am of the opinion art should convey an emotion or idea other than "The artist can make this and claim that it's art".

Example of art http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article2412899.ece
Please take a critical look at the bikes again, If you are a bike modder (as at least one here is) you may appreciate the complexity of the design or the difficulty in construction, for the other 8 people here it looks like extraneous iron curlicues welded onto an otherwise great machine.

[Recumbent ReCycler]

I think his bikes are really neat.  I hope that I will some day be able to make bikes as nice as his.

[Tom Sawyer]

Sorry Mr. m000,
Just answering your question.

I think life is also art, at least if you're having fun and doing things beyond basic survival.

If everything we do is art, how can we distinguish that which is art from that which is life?

/I don't want to be in this conversation. I started by saying that my OPINION was they were too complicated, and I didn't like them. I rebutted someone else's claim that Ars Gratia Artis is a noble end in and of itself, where I am of the opinion art should convey an emotion or idea other than "The artist can make this and claim that it's art".

Example of art http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article2412899.ece
Please take a critical look at the bikes again, If you are a bike modder (as at least one here is) you may appreciate the complexity of the design or the difficulty in construction, for the other 8 people here it looks like extraneous iron curlicues welded onto an otherwise great machine.

[KBCraig]

I'm a firm believer in "form follows function". But sometimes, the form is the function. 

[Jim Johnson]

When I look at a cave painting... I see a man tracing an image that only he can see.
I imagine two other men standing close by... one asks, What is that?  The man drawing answers, "It is a beast of the field."  The first man retorts, "That is no beast of the field!"
The second man says, "You have captured it's soul."