This is my first attempt at dubbing one of the ancient VHS copies of bike-era TV coverage. There is a mountain of this stuff, slowly eroding, that needs to be converted into bits and released into the wild… a somewhat daunting project that involves dubbing to a digital video recorder, importing into iMovie HD, doing more than I did on this one (like adding a title and proper fades), exporting at some suitable quality level, uploading to YouTube, and embedding here. I get tired just thinking about it, but it has to be done eventually.
This CNN piece is from a time when I had wrapped up the Winnebiko II adventure, and was embarking on a random speaking tour via a converted school bus. The Computing Across America book was finally published, and I was starting to think about the third bike version (the one that would come to be known as BEHEMOTH). The footage here was shot around Atlanta, and the newest addition to the bike was a 3-watt Oki 491 cellular phone…
CNN Science & Technology Week Special
Aired: July 4-9-10, 1988
I have some posters of this version of the bike (18×24 inches), and would love to sign one and mail it to you… $10 plus first class postage in a mailing tube. The Winnebiko II is accurately represented, and the associated text highlights the features of this machine... the version that covered both coasts of the US from 1986-1988. Click the button below to order one... it will take you through PayPal checkout (which works with a credit card even without a PayPal account).
Random posts from the archives:
One of my early interests in "the computer hobby," as it was called in the 1970s, was music composition and synthesis. My homebrew 8008 system (October 1974) was immediately paired with a Walsh-function waveform generator and top-octave synthesizer, and as those early heady years passed I ...
This is a much-loved publication Down Under, and this somewhat amusing story was clearly written by an enthusiastic reporter... a few things were lost in translation (like my email address). But I love the imagery of the "invisible envelope of dataspace which surrounds Steve and his bike."...
This is one of my all-time favorite bits of media coverage, and not just because I love Make: magazine (both print and blog). The author of this piece, Howard Wen, really nailed the essence of my technomadic projects... including the wince-inducing irony of their tendency to explode fractally in...
