BicycleAroundTheWorldByLindaSvendsen2017
Introduction/Definition/etc
Picked up a bicycle related book at a library book sale, for $0.50,
turns out it's a photography book, with only locations of bicycles,
but some idears on making it better, imnsho...
Body
Could use some more text, maybe on an accompanying website?
Rorschach test on what people, of many ages, cultures, languages,
abilities, etc think of the bicycle, surroundings, and maybe some of the
artists' description, crit the photography/ exif data, etc...
Others might use it as a wish book, and/or what bicycles mean to other
cultures...
Say American Mountain Bikes aren't anything like what someone grew up with,
and they needed a photo of a bicycle to show, what it was like...
Others might use it as a cut out type thing for dreaming of traveling,
and what it might look like, usually just a bicycle left in a public space
various stage of repair, most useful, but some losing air, etc...
MetaData
Some abstracted information could be gleaned from the photographs,
either mechanically by computers, and/or by people, to create a database,
and work from there, numbering pages, sort by location, age, manufacturers, etc...
A photo, some across two pages, others with a blank back page,
No page numbers provided, but finding them by locations
Town, Country,printed in white? text on most pages, a few may have
on previous pages, and any missing?
Physical description
of the bicycle, location, etc?
what is being carried (green bananas, birds in cages, people, etc),
any people in the photo?
climate?
lighting?
etc?
Kick stands, pull up stands, racks, chain guards, wheel guards, etc...
Rust and age estimates, and more...
Design considerations for certain conditions?
Alaska?
Dessert?
Urban
Rural,
etc...
Book Data
ISBN 1-58685-209-4
List $19.95
CopyRight 2002
Paperback
Gibbs-Smith.com
(This book not found in current catalog, so out of print, but not listed?)
PO Box 667
Layton, Utah 84041
Links
http://www.gibbs-smith.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
A good book, specially for the library book sale price,
but I didn't look at it head of time, seems small glossy
coffee table type book, maybe a vanity press (not really?),
in Utah? which LDS mission people go recruiting for Mormon/LDS
in various countries, continents, cultures, etc,
but whatever, it's many times on bicycles, and some look interesting,
so technical details, manufacturer, model, use, utility, surviving
the elements, etc... could be good technical data,
Like Janes' for bicycles?
Design sourcebook on making other frame types?
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
What would a photograph of bicycles do for you?
Any artistic value?
Identify the bicycle?
That's my bike in X,Y, Z...
Like tour journals, diaries, etc...
What makes a good photograph?
Any story required, or just make up your own?
Can you remember where all your photographs are taken?
When?
Why?
Whom with?
License
Creative Commons Share and Share Alike, Non Commercial,
Non Derivative, for the whole site's contents unless otherwise explicitly stated
Page History
20170122 Jerry
- fix website spelling, and a few typos
- Sentence structure needs work, but might not be worth it...
- Data, only really...
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20170118 Jerry
- Jerry created this page to log a book, and some idears on it, about other stuff, etc...
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