21st Ave Bicycle's new web site

21st Ave Bicycles (hey, that's us!) just got a new web site. It looks amazing! I am so pumped out of my mind that I am just might start breaking things. That's what I do when I am happy. Yes, I am that metal.

Go Vikings

Customer Solutions vol.3: Child's seat

This is a good one, for sure. I am just go ahead and say it, glad my dad didn't come up with this. Children's seats have to pass safety tests to make sure it is safe enough to carry your most precious cargo, you child. I guess the test for this number is if your kid is still on at the end of the ride then it works.

Live Bong

Sean made me this bracelet.

Moment's of Magic

Take a look to the right of the screen. You will notice a new feature to the BLAM, Kyle's Moments of Magic. He is mine and Sean's boss here at the shop... I know, I can hardly believe it either. He is funny, so funny in fact, Sean and I thought it would be a good idea to have updates of his twitter feed. Get ready to laugh.

Kyle and the new addition to the family, Midge.

Dead Scilence at Ampersand

Please join Ampersand for the opening of our new show, Dead Silence : 1930s Morgue Photography.

Free drinks courtesy of Ninkasi Brewing Co.

Our October show features a selection of 16 vintage morgue photographs taken by one R. Magnus, a photographer working in Hoboken, New
Jersey in the 1930s. Adopted as a general term in 1880s America, morgue replaced the coarser, though perhaps more direct, dead house, to
describe the location where the bodies of unidentified persons or those that died of violence were kept before being released for burial. Etymolo-
gically, morgue is a nuanced word, deriving its meaning from the French morguer, which denoted a place where new prisoners were held so
that jailers could become familiar with their looks for future identification. At its most basic, morgeur means haughtiness, to look at solemnly, to
defy. It’s this idea of haughtiness, of posing & posturing, of declaring your existence, of placing yourself in front of an onlooker, whether that be
a prison guard or a portrait photographer, that resonates so sublimely in these photographs. Rather, it’s the absence of such posturing that is so
mesmerizing. Less about the nuances of violence & crime in an age that paralleled Weegee's street photographs, Dead Silence focuses instead
on a singular kind of portrait photography in which the sitter no longer has the ability to declare that he is.

Hope to see you.

Myles Haselhorst

Ampersand - Gallery & Bookshop
2916 NE Alberta Street, Suite B

www.ampersandvintage.com
www.ampersandvintage.blogspot.com

Hi Five, Japan

Usually, I am the best looking in the room. It's tough really, but today when Daisuke Yano's buddy, Teisuke Morimoto from PDW Japan, came in today, I couldn't say that. Wow, he's a sexy beast. Women followed him in off of the street. I've never seen anything like it.