7.16.2004

Streetwriter: Josh Kinberg's Bikes Against Bush project, a WiFi bike that'll spray anti-Bush messages on the streets in chalk, is featured in Popular Science. Look for the bike in use at the Republican convention (and in my feature on hi-tech protest in the upcoming issue of Adbusters). Also: Doug Schmitz's rightwing tirade against Kinberg's project contends that it (and other ant-Bush efforts) represent the Left's "psychopathic rage towards President Bush." Read Kinberg's encylopedic MFA thesis about the bike--which details its construction, specs, and development, as well as the historical role of bicycles in creative resistance and movements like suffrage--and you'll see that his psychopathic rage is about as measured, thorough, and well-informed around. Which can't be said for Schmitz.

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