Pedal (Book & DVD) by Zephyr, Ken Miller, Swoon
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Book Reviews of Pedal (Book & DVD)
Book Review: PEDAL is powered by the NY city streets... deep in the funk.
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD is for all those interested in the subculture of bicycles, not just bike messengers or track bikes, but fighting for space with cars/taxi cabs, pedestrians and the police. This documentary is fast paced alongside those in the messenger (outlaw) community, and shows the true grit of the rotten apple. While the book has very little text, the small amount is amazing, and it is covered with beautiful pictures of roudy messengers competing in the Bike Messenger World Championships. A MUST BUY FOR ANY BICYCLE ENTHUSIAST. Definitely worth watching over and over again.Book Review: A fast, hardcore lifestyle.
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD and book exposes the harsh realities of being a New York City bike messenger. Sutherland does a great job uncovering the life, drama and details of living a fast-paced life.Book Review: A really cool package
Summary: 4 Stars
The book is great, I love the photos, but was expecting more words to go with them. Only downside is the cover fell off the first time I opened it up, the glue let go. I think I can fix it up with something a bit better though.
The documentary is pretty good, an interesting look into the lives of some NY messengers. It only seems to scratch the surface though - there must be so much more of a story there. I would have liked to have heard from more people. And coverage of CMWC would have been good too.
I'll definitely watch it a few more times before lending it out to friends. Overall a really cool package.
Book Review: Review of PEDAL
Summary: 4 Stars
It's an interresting document as it exposes this "counterculture" collective - bicycle messengers. The book is rather superficial with plenty of pictures and only four texts which vary considerably, ranging from contradictory-ragefilled-selfcentered-discourse to some interesting clearly depicting analysis. The DVD is great! Covering that cosmos: from the despatcher to the messenger, the bike races to the pedal driven task force in action.
Overall I rate it 4 stars, since it gets you acquainted to the NY messenger collective.
Jorge Coelho, Portugal, Faro
Book Review: meh
Summary: 3 Stars
I was super excited to receive this book and DVD in the mail. After viewing the short couple of videos online, I thought this movie was gonna blow my mind. It didn't really blow it though. Not to say that the DVD was bad, just wasn't as ground breaking as I would like. The thing that bothered me most about this purchase, however, was the quality of the printed materials. The book of photos that accompanies the package has terrible binding which cracked and fell apart after 1 viewing, and they edges of the whole package box began to bust at the seams after very little handling. These things bothered me the most. I like the artist's work a lot, movie is worth checking out, but overall, not a great experience.
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