The Safety Bike

Here's a delightful YouTube video of an art installation/sculpture/inventionby Mark Dixon and Christopher Huggins. . . watch along with millions of others and smile! This would rank up there with my blog posting on catfish noodling in the silliness category except that Mark Dixon, the artist-inventor, is someone I've watched grow up (I've known his artist-family for over fifteen years) and he's a genius (if I say so myself), a fabulously inventive artist in new media and old. So I notice when he does something; when I get an email from his parents, I know that parental pride will be mixed with something interesting. SafetyBike is the first of many projects projected by a two-week "Think Tank" collaboration by Mark Dixon and Christopher Huggins. It's a zany, anarchic, frivolous, hilarious, delightful gag and performance piece. And it even works. I'm planning on taking a week off from blogging (we'll see if I stick to it: blog posting is as much an addiction as blog reading), and I like the New Year combination of the weighty piece on Piaget, Vygotsky, and New Media, the Iowa shout-out, and now "SafetyBike." We'll aim for a combo something like that for this Cat in the Stack blog on the Interface of Anything for 2008. Happy new year!