Vroooooooooooooooomm!
August 31, 2010 9:07 AM Subscribe
Shinya Kimura likes motorcycles. (A short film about a custom motorcycle engineer.)
I cannot see it for some reason, I see the web page, but video is a blank rectangle. Anyone hazard a guess why?
posted by sfts2 at 10:51 AM on August 31, 2010
posted by sfts2 at 10:51 AM on August 31, 2010
heh. I'm reading Matthew Crawford's treatise on the glory and the pay of manual labours (mefi's gone around on it here, here and finally reached its limit here) and so this sort of video is like pure brain candy.
sfts2: its flash, so you'll need a recent version of something that can play it.
posted by zenon at 2:06 PM on August 31, 2010
sfts2: its flash, so you'll need a recent version of something that can play it.
posted by zenon at 2:06 PM on August 31, 2010
Most beautifuly ugly bike I've seen. From a poet mechanic. Sounds like a facinating guy.
Great find.
posted by anti social order at 5:46 PM on August 31, 2010
Great find.
posted by anti social order at 5:46 PM on August 31, 2010
This is so good.
posted by basicchannel at 6:01 PM on August 31, 2010
posted by basicchannel at 6:01 PM on August 31, 2010
Now that my curiosity is up here is what I found:
The bike in the video likely the one he calls "spike", and if wiki is to believed, is likely one of many built from a pre-1984 HD that Shinya Kimura favors. His style is called wabi sabi (austere refinement), and he's recently moved to Cali with the aim of making art.
His blog is suprisingly well done, and he's all ready got the art angle down with a flash heavy website which has many more pics here.
posted by zenon at 3:59 PM on September 1, 2010
The bike in the video likely the one he calls "spike", and if wiki is to believed, is likely one of many built from a pre-1984 HD that Shinya Kimura favors. His style is called wabi sabi (austere refinement), and he's recently moved to Cali with the aim of making art.
His blog is suprisingly well done, and he's all ready got the art angle down with a flash heavy website which has many more pics here.
posted by zenon at 3:59 PM on September 1, 2010
I really don't think his style is called wabi sabi. But the bikes are great.
posted by sneebler at 9:02 PM on September 1, 2010
posted by sneebler at 9:02 PM on September 1, 2010
I put that wrong - it was his wiki page claiming his inspiration was wabi sabi, his particular style is called "Zero" style. I picked up on the wabi sabi because I find it to be a really fascinating idea, and I think it does fit Kimura aesthetic.
posted by zenon at 1:25 PM on September 2, 2010
posted by zenon at 1:25 PM on September 2, 2010
« Older Beep Do Doot Repeat | Oval and Out Newer »
This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments
Well edited, great images.
/now I'm going to go ride
posted by HuronBob at 9:23 AM on August 31, 2010