Clarence Eckerson, a New Yorker who produces short videos on subjects relating to bike and pedestrian rights and livable street design, is thinking of visiting Madison with his cameras later this year.
Since he is a relatively sane person, he won't be coming until winter is over and bikes are plentiful on our streets again; but I think a complete picture of biking in Madison needs to show how we survive when the weather is cold and snow is on the ground. It would be especially useful if the videos could show what the City does (and doesn't do) to keep the streets and bike paths accessible to bikers in the winter. I suggest this to Clarence, and he agrees. In his words: "Is there anyone in Madison that likes to shoot video? If so, it'd be cool to see what you are talking about in the winter with the plowed streets and paths. Very cool. If anyone would like to at least shoot some video of that and some commentary by you or anyone else, that might be nice to have as a resource. Of course if anyone does it, we would def. give them credit and as many copies of a DVD we would do in the future. "And interestingly enough, right now I am working on a separated bike path video here in NYC and one of the complaints is that a separated path wouldn't get plowed in the Winter. Of course all the separated paths all over the world have little snowplows they use...what a bunch of b....." I don't have the skill (or equipment) to produce video that anyone else would want to look at; but if anyone is interested in participating in this project (and perhaps, seeing your work on an interesting website), I'll be happy to do whatever I can to help. If you'd like to contact Clarence, his e-mail address is: trorb(at)earthlink.net. If you'd like to see some of his videos, go to http://www.nycsr.org/nyc/video.php or http://www.nycsr.org/nyc/video.php _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
