Give Me 3: Thank Youzz
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trickmilla at 08.25.10 - 11:13 am
A few years back I started getting haunted by visions.
I would look up at the museum banners that line sunset and thought, why can't these things have bike safety messages designed by some of the awesome artists and designers in our community.
The idea kept bugging me.
I mentioned it to a lot of people.
I'd throw it out at BAC meetings or or at the city council, on bike rides, at parties.
One person I mentioned it to was my friend Aursha at LACBC.
She got hyped and immediately deputized me as an LACBC volunteer and we started having meetings about a bike safety campaign would look like and how it would get funded. Not long after Roadblock came on board and has been a super champ on thsi project ever since.
We had various meetings and discussions ... we knew what the city needed, just not how we were going to get it.
Eventually, an opening came up from the mayors office, and with our (seemingly aimless) plotting under her belt, Aurisha was at the ready with a proposal: if they came up with the printing, we could provide the design & content to them for for free.
This was an opportunity for the city to do something at for at least 1/2 price (and infinitely less work and an easier sell because the city has its own print shop.
This was the start of a long process that involved: debates, discussions, contests, begging, cajoling, meetings, sketches, designs, promotion, feedback, more discussions, more meetings, etc etc.
It didn't hurt that as we were nearing completion of this lengthy process, the mayor suddenly got inspired to start placing a new emphasis on cycling & safety and our poster was pretty much just waiting to be approved and printed.
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I only mention all of this because it really is possible for your dreams and visions about the city you want to live in to become a reality.
We all have these dreams and visions about what our city could be, and in the big scheme ... it is quite a small one, and I am more than a little bit lucky to have been able to participate in helping to make this happen.
Of course my vision was just of the finished product, not the hours and hours of work that would get us there, or all the people it would take for it to become a reality.
So with that I would like to thank:
Aurisha & everybody at LACBC
Roadblock & The Midnight Ridazz
Michelle Mowery & LADOT
Sergeant Krumer & LAPD
Mayor Villaraigosa
Heidi Sickler @ the Mayor Office
TJ & Orange 20 bikes (provided a prize for slogan contest)
Danny "Zuko" Gamboa - for the winning slogan
Geoff Mc Fetridge - For awesome, priceless pro-bono design work!
To all the Midnight Ridazz, especially, who submitted awesome slogans (we hope to be seeing the best ones on safety campaigns yet to come).
In closing I'd like to say that there is a bike safety poster on the streets of L.A. right now that absolutely, positively, would not have happened if it was not for the Midnight Ridazz (ya hear that Skull?). Ride on!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
Thank you all!
Midnight Ridazz por Vida!
PS. Stay tuned for the Give me 3 celebration bike tour.
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