Filed under: Thesis Studio 1
As a bike user, I’m usually alarmed when biking in NY. Although we have all those bike lanes, people usually don’t respect and we have to look for ourselves and others. This time I decided to call attention to me, but, as always, in a good way. I attached a bubble machine to my bike and also I found a way to attach my I-Phone to a battery stereo sound and put it inside my basket, so it was hidden. For the soundtrack, I choose some lullabies written by Chopin, just using Piano.
My ride was around Chelsea and Meatpacking, around 1pm:
The response was much better than I expected. The whole ride took around 20min and during this time, I had at least 6 people interacting with me, or talking, or asking or laughing, not counting those who were smiling and commenting about it to others. Only one of them was not a very good response. This guy was in another bike and stopped next to me and said: – This can’t be fun! and when I asked why, he was answering while running away, but I imagine he said something like: it is supposed to be on the back, or something like this.
But besides him, some people were exclaiming: – Bubbles! , others were laughing and a woman asked me where did I buy that.
And for my goal, I had never had such a calmer ride. The lullabies were also relaxing, but I didn’t have to fight for a place on the lane.
If I were going to take it further, I would like to find a machine that could make bigger and more bubbles, find a way to create a louder sound and find someone that could record it for me, instead of leaving my camera on my neck.
Overall, I found it was pretty nice. Here’s a link to people’s expressions:
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