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2009-10-10

Bicycle Diaries

Os passeios de bicicleta de David Byrne.
 
Byrne ends his book back in New York, where he organizes a daylong forum for ordinary people, biking advocates, city planners and police to discuss biking as a means of transport. Knowing his own cultural history well, he makes sure to integrate art and entertainment, asserting "if culture, humor, and politics can mix, making our city a better place to live can be fun." Ultimately, he advocates bicycling as a good way to observe and engage in a city's life - even for a reticent and often shy person like himself. The pleasure of cycling overlaps with basic needs for social interaction, and if a guy in his mid-50s can find happiness on a bike, shouldn't it be possible for most of us? Ler +