Bicycle Film Festival - After-Afterward

Ok so I didn't write anything yesterday. If y'all are locals then you know that yesterday was a day for being lazy. Which I did. But I can't leave everybody who didn't make day 2 hanging, so here we go; BFF recap round 2:

The third program (2 per day, just like before) opened with pretty much the HOTTEST thing I've ever seen... a flatland-riding Czech nun. GAH! Yeah that plays on so many of my weaknesses. There were a couple animated shorts, an artistic cycling film (look it up, fixie kids ain't got shit on this), and lots of other quirky weird little bike movies, including the superbly creepy Bat For Lashes What's a Girl to Do music video. One that really stood out to me was "Jim's Lines", about an artist who's medium is sand and who's brush is a rake being dragged behind a bicycle. I found a copy on youtube so check it out if you weren't there:

Lots of good stuff and it ended with a Lucas Brunelle world tour video to get everyone pumped. During the intermission we headed to the corner store and I had a discussion with the proprietor who couldn't figure out why so many stinky sweaty kids in cut-offs and tiny hats were invading his store. I clued him into the BFF and the beer prices, at which time it all became clear to him.

The final program (#4) was both my and the crowd favorite: The URBAN Bike Shorts! This opened with a 2 minute short called "King of Skitch". That dude was intense. The best part of it was when he jumped a stairway at the end and SHATTERED both spinnergys. That was pretty awesome. There were a couple of fixed gear videos, including The Making of Bootleg Sessions 2 with Austin's own Ben W making a couple second appearance. Can't wait to see the whole thing. Lucas Brunelle lit it up again with one if his crazy race footage films. I swear I need to get me a helmet cam someday, that stuff's out of control.

I have no idea what it has to do with "Urban", but they re-played the Ski Boys video from the previous evening. That was by far my favorite video of the festival and I'm really glad it's on the DVD. The final film of the night was a documentary about the Warriors-themed alleycat that was done in New York several years ago called "Warriors: The Bike Race". THAT kind of stuff is what I want to see Austin being able to pull off in a few years. Huge turnouts, themed costumed teams, the works. With the way things are going who knows, it could happen. I know enough crazy people to pull it off.

Once the festival ended it was off to the after-party at Mellow Johnny's. They had free beer, more bike films, and an art exibit of vandalized and/or mutilated Cinelli track bikes, from what I could gather. Not trusting in the providence of a free keg, we stocked up from the 24 hour store and then ended up in a park a short ways away from the party. From there it was home again, to write on some goofy website about this thing I did last weekend.

All in all it was a great time, and well worth the measly $25 for 8 hours of awesome, plus an after-party. With all that said there was some bullshit that went down. I've heard of 3 people so far who had shit ripped off from their bikes while they were at the BFF, including someone who lost a front wheel:

MACHINED WHITE VELOCITY FUSION laced to a BLACK PAUL HUB was stolen from a bike at bicycle Film Fest! Keep an eye out for this wheel!!

Thanks!

Annie

In the days of non-machined Deep-Vs laced to Formulas, a machined white fusion/black paul is a pretty infrequently seen combo. If anyone knows anything about this, give Annie a holler.