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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #98 - I Saw the Sign, Part 2: Nâ€“Z

05.18.11

One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives
for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities,
and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the
encounters they find there.

It's a bike ride.

Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.

It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm
at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
We'll endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight).

On this bike ride, you might expect:
- full moon picnics
- inconvenient passageways
- "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- amateurish enthusiasm
- disorientation
- reorientation
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- karaoke
- geocaching
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0

Furthermore:
- usually 20-30 miles
- usually some hills
- a medium pace (probably not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- few stops, short stops
- but we're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light
- victory donuts!

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This week:

I Saw the Sign, Part 2: Nâ€“Z

We tend to think of cities as buildings, as roads, as parks and public spaces.
They are made up of material stuff, with mass and volume, and their meaning
is derived through their history and their use. But the city is also composed of
messages: billboards, signs, warnings, instructions. In the margins: notices
of yard sales, lost dogs, apartments for rent. While these don't typically have
much in the way of mass, they do have histories and uses. And our actions
are shaped and dependent upon them. If all the world is a stage, the signs are
just as much props for the action as the chairs we might sit upon.

This week, we continue the look at this semiotic dÃ©cors began early last
year with part one, A-M. Whereas that ride focused mostly on typographic history --
and especially the transition from the page into space -- part two will look more
into what happens once that leap into space has been made, a natural history,
if you will, or perhaps a geologic record. We will discuss how type operates in the
city and how the city, its people, and even the natural elements operate upon it.
Less concerned about beginnings and inventions, about when and where, we shall
focus our attention on what happens in the middle, the hows and the whys.

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At around 16 miles and with a slow pace, this ride is appropriate for cyclists
of all skill levels. As always, it is important to bring a bike in good working order.
And be prepared for a lot of stopping, because a lot of stopping there will be.

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Life is demanding without understanding

Certain shifting angles,
certain receding perspectives.

Posted by theroyalacademy

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