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Events+moments del 2010: May 11th Dr. Sketchy’s girls on bicycles

January 18, 2011 7 Comments

Los events: this week There are some photos and events I didn’t get to publish last year, I will post them in the first couple of weeks of the new year so, some kind of my quasi-review of 2010.

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Last year, Alice invited Amanda, Constance and I to be the models for her fantabulous Dr.Sketchy’s event. The theme was Girls on bicycles and the event was SUPER fun. Posing and being still for 5 minutes is pretty hard work. It was awesome to see the pieces of art at the end, meet many of the artists and having a drink to toast for the event. Good times.

The event was at 111 Minna, we brought our bikes in and we posed with one of the bright orange public bikes. The audience was colourful and brught all their pads and pencils and were ready to rock. Here are the photos from the much overdue post from May 2010, so much fun!

lunch
Feed the models, had some snacks before heading to the event.
111 minna
Arriving at 111 Minna
constance
sssup
rearview from the girls
rearview view
bike. pose. chillin.
Amanda y Constance
stage view
An orange public bike. Stage view
sketchers
los artists
sketchers
sketch sketch
constance
muscleeeeeeeees. Constance held this pose for *AGES** ♥Go girl!!
strike a pose. there's nothing to it.
Alice is in the house!!
je jeeee
nautty!
blue red visions
watercoloresque — so cool!
constance -by jordan
Jordan and a drawing of Constance.
He was so nice to share them here are a few of Jordan’s sketches:
05111005 Cute Girls on Bicycles_Jordan Hines
title: “05111005 Cute Girls on Bicycles_Jordan Hines” by SweetBippie
05111001 Cute Girls on Bicycles_Jordan Hines
title: “05111001 Cute Girls on Bicycles_Jordan Hines” by SweetBippie

These are by Diane Oliver:
bikeonground
bikeonground by Diane Olivier
3onabike
3onabike by Diane Olivier
racing
racing by Diane Olivier
 holdingbike
holdingbike by Diane Olivier
 popdresssitting
this is one of my faves!! ♥thanks Diane
popdresssitting by Diane Olivier

Cute Girls on Bicycles 1
Cute Girls on Bicycles 1 by OwlBoogie
Dr Sketchys SF - May 2010 - Sexy Girls on Bikes
Dr Sketchys SF – May 2010 – Sexy Girls on Bikes by atomicbear
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these two (above and below) are by Jamdye
And one last one of so many talented artists that evening, this one by Blake B:
2010-05-11 21.02.54
 “2010-05-11 21.02.54” by schjlatah

oh heyyyy

Le Sketchers
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+++ I’d like to share the next few photos throughout the event, taken by Jesse M. — many thanks! +++







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the girls
Alice, yo, Constance y Amanda
♥ It was such a FUUUUN art-drawing-modeling event! ♥
’til next time Sketchy’s.

++Sketchy’s next drawing event is coming up tonight Tuesday, January 18th. More info here: “Comic book babes” Dr. Sketchy’s››
Next Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School: January 18th

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Events+moments del 2010: December craft fairs – Indiemart NightLife at the Academy of sciences

January 9, 2011 5 Comments

Here are 2 more rare-weekend posts for a little Saturday reading treat for the cozy couch potatoes =)
There are some photos and events I didn’t get to publish last year, I will post them in the first couple of weeks of the new year so, some kind of quasi-review of 2010.

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Academy of Sciences NightLife in December 9th.
craft night at the academy
Craft night at the Academy
–<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/meligrosa/5256035461/" title="claude!! <img alt="claude!!
Claude!! I love the albino half-blind alligator.
koo kooo ko
More albino animals. koo kooo ko
the academy at night
zzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzz
best outfit
Her red dress has KITTEHS all over. Love her outfit, she is so cute!
sock monsters
The sock monsters guy. He said this one monster looked like me. ja jaaa.
 craft night at the academy of sciences is boring

The part of restored side of the original Academy building was buzzing with vendors and shoppers.
oh hai
oh hai.  Thought the junction of views here was quite interesting.

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parking
Parking. The Academy of scions has plenty of bikes, though it gets pretty crowded at times.
Someone has previously commented on the limited use of bike parking for staff.
Does anyone have any updates or information upon that?

And here is what I wore for the evening. Due to nasty allergies, I was a tad high on very rare Sudafed dose. Yuuuuuuck…
and off we go
and off we go
Evening ride

Evening ride

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’til next time NightLife at the Academy + indie mart.
This concludes the 3 Holiday artsy craft events. Cute stuff, lots to see, large little fan of the DIY indie crowds.
// xxo♥m

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Events+moments del 2010: December craft fairs – Bizarre bazaar

January 9, 2011 2 Comments

There are some photos and events I didn’t get to publish last year, I will post them in the first couple of weeks of the new year so in chronological rewind. Some type of quasi-review of 2010.

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nov 12 craft event

The Bazaar Bizarre was held in Ft. Mason, in the “grueling far and hilly” and burritoless north side of town, which also happens to have amazing Golden Gate, Marin and many views of the beautiful Bay. While riding to the event in the super crowded parking, I ran into Dave and his Schwinn krate-mayhem crew.

ran into dave + his crew
Dave is one of the nicest guys you’ll find biking around the city 🙂
Later I found a photo Dave had also snapped of me. Him and his friend Ed were on their way back to the ballpark, they looked prepared. 
Love running into bikey peeps riding all over the city!
Meli on the move
Meli on the move by krate-mayhem

There were a number of interesting things and vendors that had grat stuff, but I only made it for about 10 minutes. Ran into a couple of friends, bough a one-sie(is that what they are called?) for my buddy’s new baby boy and left. When I can’t chat to the vendor on voice level, or hear my thoughts while getting smacked by antsy elbows, messenger bags and purses that can’t seem to be able to get through, it is time to leave.

So ditched it all and I went riding. 

I deviated towards the Crissy field area to follow the sunset and some quiet time.

Riding instead of crowded crowds, anytime.

nov 12 bizarre bazar craft event
Bazaar bizarre is too crowded for me.
 beautiful
Beautiful
sunset seeker
Sunset seeker
qué beautiful skies
Qué beautiful skies. Wicked.

—‘Til next time Bizarros

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Events+moments del 2010: December craft fairs – the holiday Renegade fair

January 3, 2011 4 Comments

There are some photos and events I didn’t get to publish last year, I will post them in the next few weeks of the new year so, some kind of quasi-review of 2010.

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renegade frenchie
The obligatory banner-Frenchie shot. I now have a gazillion of these.

The Holiday Renegade fair was fun and as always full of cute overloads. My camera was almost dying so I got to snap some photos. I got to hang out with my handsome Hambone Design peeps at first, then wandered around to see what new shops and findings I encountered.

semi-wet rain panda
Rain panda
On my way there, it had just stopped raining.
always someone admiring the mural
There is always someone admiring that fun mural
concourse needs racks

A serious issue here is the bike parking situation. Racks, lack thereof. I recall using the front one for a couple of events (by the 8th street entrance) and for the rest such as the Green festival, I recall having the Bike parking valet SFBC service. Are there not enough events here to have a sufficient amount of bike racks, did I totally missed them, or does the management of the concourse not know/nor maybe has not decided to get in touch with 311 (Link: Request a bike rack!) to get those racks installed? Seeing how easy would be to cut some of the cables of beautiful bikes attached to fences or very weak hand rails, brakes my bike heart to even think that thieves thrive for these situations. Us bikers are a crafty bunch, there was an invasion of bikes creativly parked all around 7th/8th Brannan. I parked at the corner of Room and Board, closer to Townsend.
What is going on here concourse, allow more bike racks!!
Moving along –

 fabriquettes
The ladies of Fabric Horse, from Philly. How AWESOME is that fluorescent handbag?! 
I’m in love. But I also know I dont need another bag…. la lalalalalala.
hip bike posters
hip bike posters, cool cats from ELAY. and I don’t know what the ginger discount is all about.
jersey maker from san diego
Skulls and other cool women-line jerseys, made by a woman based out ofSan Diego, Calif.
tom girl shop
Tom girl shop. Isn’t she adorable?! she is super nice =)
I also loved the guys that had the gigantic octopus helmet-pillow thing, does anyone know the name of that shop. 

They were so funny.

 Later in the evening, I met an enthusiastic young man and his camera, and he so nicely asked if he could take my photo (Thank you!! It gets on my nerves when I catch people I don’t even know trying to be sneaky, well – I also snap a million photos of people, but you know what I mean those lurker types…not cool). I said yeah of course. He told me I was the most eccentric gal in the building. Mmmh ok, if he thinks so. LOL

yo, at the Renegade fair.
Photo taken by Deo | Credit(C)Deowaves

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Til next time Renegadettes!!

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Los events: the weekend starts today!

December 17, 2010 1 Comment
TGIF TGIF TGIF TGIF TGIF TGIF!!!

Friday: Bike Share Technology Showcase 10am

Mayor Newsom and city officials will be showing off San Francisco’s own bike sharing program, thanks to a $7.9 Million pilot program. Come see the future of commuting.  

10am-3PM Civic Center. via sffuncheap.com
+info here: link

Saturday: Heist gallery 7-9pm

+info: mike giant + heist gallery
Saturday +Sunday: Renegade fair holiday sale 11am-7pm

“Join us for the 2nd Annual Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale in San Francisco on December 18 + 19, from 11am – 7pm in the Concourse Exhibition Center’s East Hall (620 7th St.)”
Free event
+info here: link

Sunday: Endangered Species Big Year Bike Tour 9:30am

This sounds really outdoorsy cool!
Sunday, 19 Dec 2010, 09:30
Meets at the Bazaar Cafe – 5927 California Street
+info here: link 

Sunday: Annual Holiday/Christmas bike ride

From SFbike.org/chain

‘Tis the season! Don your Santa hat and join the SFBC’s annual two-wheeled tour of some of our favorite city’s festive light displays. This year’s route is a moderately hilly 8 miles with a special surprise picnic destination. So bring your granny gears and a tasty snack to share with other hungry cyclists. And if you’ve forgotten the words to some of those old Christmas carols, well, we’ll remind you.

Statue start.
Free event. Heavy rain cancels
Meets at Panhandle statue on Baker/Oak+Fell

This ride was printed with one of my photos from the 2009 post!! 
and also digitally published on SFgate/96hours by city wheelwoman Anna and other of my fabulous peeps (CTX+V!) were quoted. Awesome!!
See article here: Bike about town | Holiday Lights Ride: Viewing the best of S.F. cheer

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Behind the scenes: the SF bike expo 2010!

December 15, 2010 3 Comments
catwalk list
Bike catwalk list

It is finally here! Another MEGA fun behind-the-scenes post, for the day we were all fashion bicycle models for Pedal Savvy at the SF Bike Expo in the Cow Palace, November 6th.
This was fun, we modeled, got tons of hairspray and fancy stuff on our hair, got our make-up done and off we went.

hair
getting lots of hair spraysssssstsssssss
cheeeez
cheeeeeeese
wheeeeee
here I am!!
all smiles
KT
I love this photo of KT, while she wasn’t looking =)
racks
zzzzzzzz
make-up session. and I was ready for mi second dose of coffee!
Listen up everybodyyyyy
“…Shall we read the following chapter…”
sssssup
sssssup
Gwen's mom
the show isn’t complete without Gwen’s mom around =) We love her!!
patricia
Patricia
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/meligrosa/5177470017/" title="Katieeee <img alt="Katieeee
Katie super star doing some finishing touches on the bicycles.
The bikes included brands like Felt (mine came with a coffee cup holder…how apropos) Public, Electra, dutch bicycle, Globe, Dahon, and even a bamboo bike!!
bisous
bisous for everybody
!!!
Gwen at work
HAAAY
Gwen and us — HAAAAAAAY

There was some review around the interwebs, blabbing upon how this stuff was so hip, unnatainable and how much it didn’t represent the bicycle community across the states. You know what —- this is San Francisco and it is a world-class city with all its flaws, beauties and struggles. We were all there because we opted to do so, opted to support our friend Gwen and the SF Bike Expo team and we are ALL riders between the ages of 18 to 40+, and although we don’t represent everybody, we do our best to do so, work our ass off either in school or jobs, and bike every day. We also had two young children to model for the evening show with their dad, so cute!
Know that the companies and tailors, many of them locally-based, that provided their goods to be shown off, were more than proud to do so. We all don’t buy an entire outfit, nor buy the latest and greatest to ride — we are here because is fun, we are city people and if you don’t like to see us having fun and enjoying our day off by being here all day in this fabulous bike fashion show, then don’t get caught up judging against it. I’m also not about to promote the mentioned site link, which is in no big city, but somewhere in the east coast and probably snowed in. So that’s that and that said..

Let your body move to the music, hey, hey, hey. 
Come on, vogue.
We had our favorite paparazzi and friends in the house!
paparazzi
we all love Richard
dusty is hereeee!
Dustyyyyyyyyyyy
and then, the camera loves you
…and then, the camera loves you
howdy
scoreeeee
JD scored some rims
brush up session
the we had a brush-up session
heeeeeeey
we are readyyyyyy to go!
adm love!!
Robin’s finishing touches
Dad and kids
triple troubles!! =))))
with Joe
Matching reds – I hearts Joe!!
amour de ma sunglasses
amour de ma sunglasses — mi amiga KT of VéloVogue 
 
last pose
KT et moi had way too much fun back there!
frenchie et freinds
We had a huge bike pile going on, so here are most of our bikes. It does a body good.
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And what is a bloggera to do, asides drinking coffee and taking photos….
Richard caught me right-handed doing both, here is me and below the shot I took from the stage:
Meli and a camera
and here is, once again a shot from the bikecatwalk shot from the stage! =)))
the crowd!!
the crowd!!!

  

+++can’t get enough?! Here are more goodies

Photographers were Dusty (set not up yet) and 

Richard (with assistant Ivy and friend!) of cyclelicious whose set can be viewed here: link
Adrienne recently posted a cute SF Bike Expo “tribes unite” post at CYLRAB here: link

Just this week, the video sprung out from the blogesphere, was so happy to see the clip, which quite sums it up. +Eeek and whose legs are those sans tights?!? The videos sum up so much fun!!

Gracias y thank you to everyone that dropped by +enjoyed the show!!feed the models. and bring all the coffee to me!!
♥xxo.meli

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The 2010 SF Bike Expo roundup

December 15, 2010 1 Comment
Cow Palace — Saturday, November 6th

The SF bike expo was a long but super fun day of everything bikeuniverse.
We had a break between the fashion shows at around 1PM and later that afternoon, so we got to wander around and enjoy some bike action. Was nice check out the booths, meet up with my peeps, super fun to see the cyclocross races and the butt-kicking women, and the awesome BMX/dirt jumping events. SO RAD.

And so it goes, the day began like this:
KT, Kevin and I in the morning. We met for coffee but I don’t think I was fully conscious yet – I certainly needed lots of my beloved caffeine that morning.

KT joy sunrise
wheeeeee
dave +his crew
Dave, Ed and their schwinn crew. These peeps of ours are always such early birds, love it!!

The scraper bikes from Oakland, were in the house. The always bring a freshly made soundtrack/CD and sell it for about 5$-10$. Sweet!
ssssup
flat top extraordinaire
scraper circles
Scraper circles

i got 5 on it
I got 5 on it.
Lots of people were outside checkin out the events, races and Etc. 
A stylin’ lady stikes a pose with her classy blue bike

pretty lady

And then, a tremendous hour of pure awesomeness:
my favorite!!
up there
mega wheeeeeeeee
soooo awesome
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sara murdaaaaaaaah
meanwhile back inside, miz Sara Murder and team at the Pushbike booth
pushbike to go

Pushbike to go, that bright pink Bullitt rocks!!
eva lu
I got to hang out for a bit with cutie patootie Eva-Lu
from the other sunny side of our Golden state. watsuppppp!
hallo!
hallo!
nan at the b.spoke tailor
Nan and friends at the b.spoke tailor booth.
Mia in the house
Momentum magazine’s Mia all the way from Canada!
dan + public gals
Dan and the Public crew
rickshawnettes
The pretty Christine and company at the Rickshaw bagworks booth.
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Riding back

And then, after a long day of bikes and fun, we were ready for some food and then, more party!! A few of us from the fashion show, Dan from Monkey Electric, Mia and many other of our peeps, oined the Bike Savvy pedal ride back into the city. Good times!

I’d say we bike about 8-10 miles on the way back (Geneva> Alemany> San José> Valencia — Etc.)

evening savvy ride
Evening savvy ride crew

monkeylectrique
Monkeylectrique of monkeylectric.com
fixing to fix
A mid-size ride is not complete without a flat. This is in the Excelsior, on Geneva and Mission
san josé in its entirety
We. Are. Traffic.
Riding on San José in its entirety.
oh hai
oh hai.
dinner for 16. at los jarritos
FOOOOOD!
lucky charms
Lucky charms

Sad face our new fixie friends didn’t get into the after party, which was 21+.
They had the coolest bikes. KLaw got to ride the one without brakes. Insane — Maybe next year!!
how the hell do I brake?!
“how the hell do I brake?!”
parking our bikes at the afterparty
parking our bikes at the afterparty

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The afterparty was fun, but all good things come to an end. And this concludes the blog post for this year’s SF Bike Expo 2010.
‘Til next time!!
♥xxo.meli

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