Every year on St. Patricks Day weekend the bike messengers of Montreal come together to organize a weekend of bicycle fun. Alleycats, goldsprint, and a criterium race all in conjunction with lots of booze! The big criterium race includes a hard core test of endurance, stregth, bicycle savy, and strategy! The course is a 1km loop that includes traffic lights, car-bike-and pedestrian traffic. Dangerous is definitely applicable. This years race saw three crashes, one of which took one cyclist to the hospital! The race saw the lead pack carry an average of a 42.85km per hour pace for a total of 35minutes. There was, blood, vomit, hot dogs, beer, smiles and comradery. Take a peak and spread the word!

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Illustration by Justin Mezzell

In this series of drawings titled “parallel world”, young Chinese artist Na from Bejing, plays with time, seen as a continuously moving flat escalator, and different dimensions, which are independent from each other while represented at the same time. Na’s drawings are all made using a mix of pencils and few coloured ones.

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I came across this print today which features a very biocreative rendition of the evolutionary biology of the creatures of the Legend of Zelda video game. Created for a show last fall at iam8bit gallery in Los Angeles, this poster by artist Jude Buffum shows 200 of the game’s legendary species complete with binomial Latin names and their common ancestors. Click here to see details of this print. Here is Jude’s statement from the show:

I created Magna Arbor Vitae Deku (traslated “The Great Deku Tree of Life”) a sprawling exploration of the evolutionary biology of the 200 most important species from the Legend of Zelda video game series. Complete with binomial Latin names (Zora Bellator and Zora Fluvialis share a common ancestor with the more peaceful species Zora Sapien, for example), the brances of the Deku tree trace the evolution of each species over millions of years. Forks in…