Showing posts with label dispatch riders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dispatch riders. Show all posts
Friday, 8 June 2012
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
The world’s first Arabic web series, ‘Shankaboot’, is about a 15-year-old delivery boy and his scooter, is now raising awareness of social issues in Lebanon and beyond. Via: BrownbookRead more...
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Friday, 23 September 2011
Training day: A group of Post Office messengers watch as a driving instructor takes a colleague for an instructional ride on the back of his motorcycle. This is part of the training that the motorcycle messengers receive in order to pass a compulsory motorcycle test. Via: CorbisRead more...
Friday, 12 August 2011
Monday, 8 August 2011
Kevin Brennan performing a monologue from his book 'Gurriers' about the rigours of life at speed on two wheels in Dublin city.
An Australian dispatch rider showing his motorcycle to local Syrians in northern Syria, 1941. Via: VoicesRead more...
Sunday, 7 August 2011
Director/Editor - Raiko Siems, Producer - Michael Lund Cinematographer - Scott Frymire
Bikers - Jon Frosham, Victor Dudziak, Marnie and Giz Head
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Thursday, 30 June 2011
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
"(I was) a mobile motorcycle mechanic, specialising in fixing punctures on couriers' bikes around London. The trailer had fifty or sixty inner tubes, a tool box and axle stands etc with half a dozen tyres on top. The bike carried two or three more tyres, a CO2 bottle for tyre inflation, a radio, spare cable and assorted other stuff." Via: Venture RiderRead more...
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Sunday, 17 April 2011
Saturday, 16 April 2011
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| A SS dispatch rider blows past the sentry post at Marwencol with an urgent message. |
"After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark Hogancamp builds a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populates the town he dubs "Marwencol" with dolls representing his friends and family and creates life-like photographs detailing the town's many relationships and dramas. Playing in the town and photographing the action helps Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and deal with the psychic wounds of the attack. When Mark and his photographs are discovered, a prestigious New York gallery sets up an art show. Suddenly Mark's homemade therapy is deemed "art", forcing him to choose between the safety of his fantasy life in Marwencol and the real world that he's avoided since the attack...."Read more...
Sunday, 20 March 2011
The end of the Postie bike is nigh: Australian inventor Simon Williams Electric "Deliver-E Trike" Via: Gizmag (thanks Simon!)
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Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Monday, 14 February 2011
"A race for life-an incident on the Greco -Bulgarian border. Owning to the winding character of the road the motorcyclist, who was on reconnoitring work managed to escape his pursuers unharmed" Via:Read more...
Sunday, 30 January 2011
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