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Danes are known for biking through the rain, shine and even snow. Since coming to Copenhagen I have been fascinated by the biking culture here and am surprised I haven’t blogged about it sooner. I knew before coming that biking was a popular form of transportation but I didn’t quite realize the extent to which how many people biked on a daily basis. It seems so foreign coming from the states because the roads back home aren’t safe enough for people to bike to and from places. Even though public transportation is some of the best I’ve seen here, biking is still extremely popular in Copenhagen.

In fact biking has become almost a fashion statement. You can design your bike with color, style, accessories as well as what you wear on the bike. Unlike Americans, Danes aren’t afraid to rock any and all outfits on their bikes. I’ve seen women in stilettos, men in suave business suits and everything in-between.   

Last semester I really wanted to try biking to get to full Copenhagen experience but I was still a bit nervous. The Danes make it seem so effortless because they’ve been biking their whole life but navigating the street lights and hand signals in a busy city seemed like a lot. As it has been getting warmer with spring approaching and my friends have all gotten bikes — I finally decided to take the plunge and get one myself!! So now I am the proud renter of my very own bike in Copenhagen for the remainder of my year abroad.

Biking for the very first time since I was about 8 was scary to say the least; I’m surprised I even remembered how to stay on without falling. However, after practicing in some neighborhoods without cars for an hour or so I was already so much better. My goal is to be able to bike into the city for class in the next week or so. I’ll be updating you guys with my biking adventures soon and hopefully include a picture of me on my bike :)

Thanks for reading!

Blaire

Open Source Clothing.

Now I feel it imperative to reblog this, because the project seems to have hit a snag: The video they put up has been taken down because of claims of 3rd-party content, whatever whatever corporate lawyer stuff internet throttling stuff. That makes me think that Bennetton or one of the others whose stores were glimpsed in the background got their hooks in Vimeo. So I thought I’d tell you a yarn about how this thing works: You download the open-source plans for the machine. You build it. You download their open-souce clothing-maker program. You enter the desired measurements into the fields (the ones I remember from the video were arm and neck and chest measurements, so I’m sure they have waist and/or hips too) You print out your sweater, or hat, or scarf, or cardigan, or whatever it was that you selected. It takes an hour to print out the sweater, working off of the two yarn spools that you can see in the bottom right corner of this .gif That’s it. Custom-fit, custom-color clothing in an hour, for the price of yarn. Can you see why one of the clothing companies targetted in the video might have felt threatened enough to force the video to come down?

I know if I sold overpriced manufactured clothes, I’d see this as a looming menace.

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Barbara W. Tuchman

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7 Apr 2014

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Grieved // Pale Hands

She gets around the locks with her pale hands Whispering things next to my bed I can’t help it but those celestial eyes Are too fine to feel any fright This night is only skin deep This night is everything else but real The great relief when no reality remains When no reality remains How could it take me so many years to perceive? That there’s no reason to be scared If I sleep will you visit me again? I could kill For you to visit me again Lets pretend this is only in my head Pretend this is more than imagining Lets pretend that this is more than imaginings

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