DISCOSALT’S FAVORITE MUSIC VIDEOS WITH BICYCLES
[photo credit: Lorenzo Fariello]
With The Bicycle Film Festival celebrating its 10th year on June 16th-June 20th, Discosalt is celebrating the Bicycle all week long. Kicking things off here with a tribute to some of our favorite music videos with bicycles. Check them out below and enjoy! More to come….
The Go Team: For My Funeral
Feel good Bike dancing in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Nada Surf: Whose Authority
Michael C. Maronna, (aka. the elder Pete from The Adventures Of Pete and Pete) sticks it to the man as a NYC bicycle messenger.
Doomtree: Drumsticks
P.O.S., Dessa and their Minneapolis indie hip hop crew ride bikes through town.
The Smiths: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before
Classic 1987 clip. Moz and pals biking around Manchester. The Smiths’ last video and single. It bombed! and by the time the video was released, the band had already split up. Fantastically shot and edited and the end of a chapter in Indie.
Flaming Lips: Watching the Planets
Wayne Coyne inside a man-sized plastic bubble traversing over throngs of naked nymph like cyclists being framed in perpetuity, oh and a giant furry vagina. Boobs, butts, balls and bikes… and it wasnt filmed in Greenpoint? By the end of the video, Coyne bares Heavy D and the boys just like everyone else in the video.
Bat for Lashes: What’s a girl to do
This might be one of the best music videos in the past 10 years and one for the Furries. Natasha Khan, flanked by a bike gang of animal headed bmx tricksters bike alone on a dark country road…or are they?
SHORT FILM: MINI BIKE WINTER 2010
Mini Bike Winter is a annual 2 day bicycling event full of F.U.N., activities, partying, and some of the most ridiculous displays of hipster biking you will ever see, brought to you by Zoobomb in Portland, OR. The event is the staple of crazy bicycling entertainment which keeps everyone warm with laughter and…well, beer… a lot of it. It’s also an open invite event and free to all with events like the Ben Hur chariot war, bike bowling and the mysterious “cupcake challenge”. Grade A bike culture, with less emphasis on “culture” and well, again, more on beer… a lot of it. Because nothing says I love biking, like whiffle bat beating your friend into a bloody pulp while strapped to a mini bike chariot dressed as a post apocalyptic bike enthusiast. Curious to see what this is all about?, photographer Richie Tomaseen has shot and cut (using mostly a Canon 7d) some of the events highlights in a mini film about Mini Bike Winter. You will be laughing by the cupcake challenge, I promise. All photos courtesty of BikePortland.org’s photostream. You can check out the film and Soundtrack below:
“Shock” – Nero Remix
“Gecko” – Datsik
“Swagga” – Datsik & Excision
“Peacebone” – Animal Collective
“Fuse” – Hudson Mohawke
