THE YOUNG ONES SLEPT.

Awesome to see people you went to high school with, doing rad things in the arts and on bikes. Check out this new video from The Great Bloomers - a great little band signed to Maple Music. The fact that it's shot on the island adds extra bonus points. Maybe one of my favourite spots in this city. Soon soon it will be warm enough my friends...

MORE INK...

...then Irene has sewing machines. If you didn't catch that link in the last post, Nighshades Patricia & Laura were quoted in a National Post article about winter biking & ice racing. Hilarious.

Speaking of Seafoam....

Leader's new frame colour for 2011 is Seafoam Green, I just read about it over at Pristine Fixed Gear Blog.



Speaking of Rad and pretty bikes, tomorrow in Vancouver there is the 17th Annual St Valentines Day Massacre Alleycat to balance out the amazing freezing bikeness that will be ICYCLE in Toronto. It gives me the warm fuzzies to know that there will be gatherings of amazing cyclists on both coasts.

xoxoxo

BLOG TRAITOR!

Over here at camp nightshades, we’re fairly partial to the colour seafoam. Or celeste if you will.

Some of us more so than others. Some of us, so much more so that they began their own blog solely dedicated to the colour. So much so, that they’ve almost entirely stopped posting on the DNS blog altogether... and instead have dedicated all of their witty repartee and bike related candor to another solo venture.

24/7 SEAFOAM. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!

jokes.

Namtron actually writes a really great blog about her adventures on the west coast and abroad. Bikes. Babes. And everything seafoam. A true Nightshade through and through.

Sourcing Sustainably

Eco Fashion World is a rad resource website that I have been following for years to get information on eco fashion brands and eco fashion happenings around the world. Over the past Eco Fashion Week here in Vancouver I got to meet and befriend the publishers Erda Schnarr and Aaron Handford. We've solidified the relationship even more, and I will be writing for them. Check out my first article:

Webinars at Work
Using technology to make change in the real world

It's a review of The National Association of Sustainable Fashion Designers' webinar with Source4Style on sustainable sourcing for fashion designers. It was a great webinar, read up about it, and if you are a designer yourself or simply interested in environmentally friendly clothing check out these two great organizations.

If you're interested in working with Eco Fashion World, or a brand looking to get exposure hit me up at meg@ecofashionworld.com

ROBO-RAINBOW.

Sew Fresh/Sew Real

BIKE RAP

Just messing around on the Internets, listening to some music. Yesterday I was listening to something in a car while I was moving, and it just made me want to ride my bike.

First, check out our girl Sunny D's new track "Moving" with Stone Tone and Angry Drew.


With this bike related beauty TO native Abdominal won the 2007 Echo Songwriting Prize for the best song in Canadian independent music by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada.

And this Rye Rye ft MIA song has been in my top rotation since its ACTUALLY BEEN SUNNY in Vancouver this week. Great for riding bikes...


Continuing with the sunshine theme, check out Bliss and Eso's Sea is Rising. Not related to bikes but I can break my own rules. Their group captures a zeitgeist... Check out their Addictions video for some mind blowing graffiti and animation.


And see what Jamie T thinks about riding bikes at the end of Calm Down Dearest...

VOMIT? or AWESOME???!!!

I found this while searching for more about bikes in the 90's as a procrasination tool for what I should really have been doing... sleeping. It was sadly labeled as a vomit bike, by Two Five Six, a blog out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Don't worry beautiful bike with outlandish colour scheme, strange breaks and thick frame.... I like your FUNK.

Who else is with me?

BICYCLE PORTRAITS.

I've always found the idea of bike portraits to be a telling exercise. Indicative of both culture and personality and reality. So when I found this portrait series of South African cycling culture by Stan Engelbrecht & Nic Grobler - my interest was peaked. South Africa is definitely a country with a convoluded history and an interesting cross section of individuals as a result.

The entire series is really quite beautiful, and definitely worth a more indepth look. Check out the entire project and initiative here.

Also, this woman is seriously amazing. I really hope to be still be riding at 82 and 3/4 - with an equally lovely outlook on things.