Sentences with phrase «living as a bicycle»

, who somehow manages to make the world's most implausible living as a bicycle messenger for the world's most implausible courier service.

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«I'm working on phasing carbon out of my life,» he tells me as he plucks his infant son, Huxley, from a plastic tub mounted to the front of a clunky - looking three - wheeled bicycle Griffith had brought back from Denmark; he is, naturally, intending to build a better, cooler version of it.
If you live near some bike trails and could rent out 75 bicycles a day, you can go by the same model as above.
It is easier to get a sense of implicit memory if we think about riding a bicycle: When we get on a bicycle, we don't consciously remember learning to contract this muscle, or to lean in that direction; rather, what we learned during childhood is implicitly written into our nervous system and muscles, and that memory comes alive as a set of lived reactions.
I think it's important to analyze the data — if on the first date your guy (or gal) talks about some time consuming passion in their life such as a startup business, a planned bicycle trip across Europe, renovating a house, etc. there's a pretty good chance that he's going to be too busy for anything other than a «friends with benefits» type of scenario.
Be that as it may, it shouldn't prevent you from hunting further down the affection for your life, paying little respect to whether he or she possesses a bicycle or not.
Recalling Italian neorealist movies such as The Bicycle Thief, Man Push Cart is a slice of a very sad life.
Andrew Haigh's Weekend used Brief Encounter as the inspiration for an affecting gay love story, while Chris Weitz's A Better Life lifted the plot for The Bicycle Thief and set it in East Los Angeles.
The second involves a Victorian - era bicycle which allows its finder (Peter McEnery) to travel back in time and live as his own ancestor.
As soon as the middle - aged protagonists arrive at (the wondrous playground — a slide into the lobby — of innovation — so many gadgets and programs that make life easier for the consumer — and perks — an area for napping during work hours, free food and drink from the cafeteria, and color - coordinated bicycles to roam around the campus — that is) the company where they take an unpaid internship with the hope of landing a full - time job, the screenplay by Vince Vaughn and Jared Stern all but dismisses that latter elemenAs soon as the middle - aged protagonists arrive at (the wondrous playground — a slide into the lobby — of innovation — so many gadgets and programs that make life easier for the consumer — and perks — an area for napping during work hours, free food and drink from the cafeteria, and color - coordinated bicycles to roam around the campus — that is) the company where they take an unpaid internship with the hope of landing a full - time job, the screenplay by Vince Vaughn and Jared Stern all but dismisses that latter elemenas the middle - aged protagonists arrive at (the wondrous playground — a slide into the lobby — of innovation — so many gadgets and programs that make life easier for the consumer — and perks — an area for napping during work hours, free food and drink from the cafeteria, and color - coordinated bicycles to roam around the campus — that is) the company where they take an unpaid internship with the hope of landing a full - time job, the screenplay by Vince Vaughn and Jared Stern all but dismisses that latter element.
Lee's first feature focuses around the attempts of Nola Darling (Johns), aware but not ashamed of her reputation as a good - time girl, to sort out the three steady men in her life with a view (maybe) to marriage: the sincere and caring Jamie (Hicks), the self - obsessed model Greer (Terrell), and the outrageous bicycle messenger Mars (Lee).
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As Einstein once famously said, «life is like riding a bicycle.
In profiling compelling, young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple's first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle - powered maize shelters in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere.
-- As one of the few enthusiasts lucky enough to own an example of the Pegaso Z102, Douglas Blain reveals what this Spanish rarity is really like to live with / Auto - biography: Alain de Cadenet — Matthew Bell meets the racing driver, pilot, journalist and television presenter to learn about his cars and competition career as well as other, lower - octane interests / Rétromobile 2015 — Bigger, bolder, busier and better than ever, the popular Paris show celebrated its 40th anniversary this year / Turner: Made in Wolverhampton — This long - lived Black Country firm's output included bicycles, cars and commercial and agricultural vehicleAs one of the few enthusiasts lucky enough to own an example of the Pegaso Z102, Douglas Blain reveals what this Spanish rarity is really like to live with / Auto - biography: Alain de Cadenet — Matthew Bell meets the racing driver, pilot, journalist and television presenter to learn about his cars and competition career as well as other, lower - octane interests / Rétromobile 2015 — Bigger, bolder, busier and better than ever, the popular Paris show celebrated its 40th anniversary this year / Turner: Made in Wolverhampton — This long - lived Black Country firm's output included bicycles, cars and commercial and agricultural vehicleas well as other, lower - octane interests / Rétromobile 2015 — Bigger, bolder, busier and better than ever, the popular Paris show celebrated its 40th anniversary this year / Turner: Made in Wolverhampton — This long - lived Black Country firm's output included bicycles, cars and commercial and agricultural vehicleas other, lower - octane interests / Rétromobile 2015 — Bigger, bolder, busier and better than ever, the popular Paris show celebrated its 40th anniversary this year / Turner: Made in Wolverhampton — This long - lived Black Country firm's output included bicycles, cars and commercial and agricultural vehicles.
Also remember that any extra weight on the trunk / boot such as snow, bicycle rack or aftermarket spoiler will increase wear and shorten the cylinders life.
Alisetta, an orphan in Burkina Faso who lives with her grandmother, chooses Big Red as her bicycle and uses it to earn money to send her brother and sister to school.
The first is what have come to be recognized as Dyer's common denominators, the personal interests and obsessions that can be found in nearly all his work: travel by train, ship, bus and bicycle; the arcades, piazzas, and spired cathedrals of European cities; the tiny frustrations that make up daily life; the mutability and unreliable nature of memory.
Same as a person stealing your bicycle or a crooked money man stealing your gran's life savings.
And we focus on practical things that indicate quality of life, such as income, affordability of homes, whether sprawl is a problem, and how easy it is to get around via public transit or bicycle.
Tara springing into action as quickly as she did may have very well saved Jeremy's life as this video shows the dog viciously attacking Jeremy from behind while he rode his bicycle in front of his home:
Special emphasis on introducing your new family member to all those «scary items» they have never seen before and don't encounter in their everyday life such as bicycles, walkers, crutches, canes, skateboards, costumes (Halloween).
Slow down and take life easy as you ride your bicycle through Solvang and the Santa Ynez Valley while exploring Santa Barbara county wine country.
Nearly all of the permanent residents are native Hawaiians who live rent - free, with horses and bicycles as the primary form of transportation (there are no paved roads).
Angkor Village resort is well located for extensive site - seeing trips around the amazing Angkor Watt temple complex is also not far from Siam Reaps international airport yet it is a little bit far away from the colonial town itself so if it is night - life, traffic, and night - time crowds you are after then this may not be the best choice of residence, but for cultural exploits this location is perfect.The resort provides its own guides to show guests around the sprawling temple complex and can offer advice on both history and culture as well as when the best time to avoid the crowds are.You can alternatively rent bicycles and tour the complex yourself but this can be often hot, exhausting and complicated work during the hot season.
Famsterdam Life — Famsterdam Life is a blog related to all things travel with a specific focus bicycle journeys in and around the Netherlands Farsickness — Amanda's travel blog chronicles her adventures travelling around the world and living as an expat in Korea teaching English Feretting Out The Fun — With an adventurous spirit and an open mind, one can have fun almost everywhere Film & Travel — If you're a movie buff and you love to travel this is the site for you.
The all - inclusive plan at the Paradisus Punta Cana includes room accommodations as selected; unlimited meals and snacks; unlimited premium international and domestic alcoholic beverages; 24 - hour room service; in - room mini-bar with water, beer, and soft drinks (restocked once daily); all resort fitness and recreation facilities; non-motorized water sports including snorkeling, sailing, canoeing, waterbiking, windsurfing, supervised mini-club for kids 5 - 12 years old; evening activities including beach parties, live shows, theme parties and karaoke; all resort activities and entertainment including beach volley ball, archery, darts, giant chess, rifle - target shooting, table tennis, water aerobics, batting cage, bicycles, climbing wall, jogging trail and nature walks; also included are Merengue dance classes, horseback riding, 1 dive per person per week for certified divers, 1 round of golf per person per day at Cocotal Golf & Country Club (transportation to the course included until 3 pm).
The all - inclusive Unlimited - Luxury ® plan at Dreams La Romana Resort & Spa includes room accommodations as selected; full breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks each day in all restaurants with no reservations required; unlimited beverages including natural fruit juices and soft drinks and domestic and international premium brand alcoholic drinks; in room mini-bar stocked with soft drinks and bottled water; non-motorized water sports including catamarans, paddleboats, kayaks, windsurfing lessons, boogie boards, snorkeling equipment, banana boat rides and sailboats; introductory scuba lessons in pool; day and night tennis, tennis clinics and bicycle rental; daytime activities and live nightly entertainment; supervised Explorer's Club for children 3 - 12 years old.
Domestic, national, and monothematic subjects also characterize his paintings and prints, including surreal images of bicycles, kites, stones, volcanoes, and skyscrapers, as well as multitudes of people playing the «games of life
Virtually gone were fragile materials and unstable surfaces — the coffee, chocolate, feathers, blood, ashes and living plants that have been plaguing museum curators — though brilliantly executed exceptions, such as the collaged paintings Egan Frantz builds up from toilet paper traversed by blue - painted bicycle treads at the Michael Jon Art Nova space, sold out.
Marcel Duchamp is usually credited as inventing the readymade, but the essential idea of taking something preexisting and elevating it into art did exist before he created his first one (a bicycle wheel atop a kitchen stool) in 1913: in Pablo Picasso's Still Life With Chair Caning from 1912, for example, the artist collaged a piece of woven chair backing onto a two - dimensional canvas, and before that Degas clothed his Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (1881) in a real tutu.
For decades, bicycles were used as the principal mode of transportation and were an essential part of Chinese life.
2013 Make every show like it's your last, Frac Île de France / Le Plateau, Paris, FR Once upon a bicycle, not so long ago, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL Ryan Gander's Associative Photographs, 2004, Zabludowicz Collection, New York, US How I Imagine artists physically envisage the internet when using it as a presentation platform, Desktop Residency, www.desktopresidency.com 2012 These are things that I do nt understand, Daiwa Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima, JP Esperluette, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR Boing, Boing, Squirt, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, MX Lost In My Own Recursive Narrative, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT Ryan Gander: An Exhibition of Recent Paintings, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, DK An exercise in cultural semaphore, GB Agency, Paris, FR The Fallout of Living, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
The works created with salvaged materials such as a vacuum cleaner hose, bicycle parts, and found wood convey humbleness and invite us into understanding the lives of those living in poverty.
A groundbreaking architectural intervention by artist Sarah Oppenheimer, which will link the museum's modern and contemporary collections through meticulously crafted sculptural forms placed in the floor, ceiling, and walls; Recent contemporary acquisitions, including A Man Screaming is Not a Dancing Bear by the artist collaborative Allora & Calzadilla, Untitled (bicycle shower) by Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Live Ball by Nari Ward, as well as works by Guyton \ Walker, Los Carpinteros, Elad Lassry, and Susan Philipsz; An exhibition of eight large - scale color photographs by South African artist Zwelethu Mthethwa, inaugurating the wing's project space for changing exhibitions; An exhibition of outstanding drawings by artists including Lee Bontecou, Philip Guston, and James Rosenquist from the BMA's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection, presented in the museum's new dedicated gallery for prints, drawings, and photographs; A new site - specific work by acclaimed Baltimore street artist Gaia.
Gang is a nine - foot installation of a bicycle, four figures, and a larger - than - life sculpture of «Martin» as their leader, all clad in brightly - colored children's clothing.
When I spoke at last year's Passivhaus conference in Austria, I suggested that as well as exporting the idea of Passivhaus, we had to export the idea of Vienna - where almost everyone lives in lovely apartments in mid-rise buildings, where there is wonderful transit and bicycle infrastructure just about everywhere.
And as any cyclist who lives in flat tire country knows (goatheads are my personal bicycle nemesis), a tire liner and some goo (True Goo is the shiz) will keep you rolling through most minor punctures, and is a cheap and effective remedy that can be applied to pretty much any bike tire.
This prototype bicycle camper seems like a great idea, but unless you live in a very flat region without high winds, the Wide Path Camper might be better suited to using as a backyard microcabin.
Even when the wheels fall off your bicycle garden, it can continue life as a stationary garden and a reminder of your preferred mode of transport.
Thanks to a creative project underway in Portugal, one retired old clunker has been given a chance to make amends for its polluting past life — by being resurrected as a bicycle.
As someone who lives on a major arterial road with streetcar service in downtown Toronto I am well acquainted with navigating streetcar tracks on my bicycle.
Admit it, you've been there: curled up on the couch in your pajamas, watching a good movie, and thinking to yourself, «The only thing that would make this better right now is a pint of New York Super Fudge Chunk and a spoon — but then I would have to get dressed and go outside...» Istanbul residents living near the popular shopping street Bağdat Caddesi on the Asian side of the city now have a solution to such dilemmas that is as ecofriendly as it is effortless: Bicycle delivery from Ben & Jerry's.
They've the modest mission of being «dedicated to improving the lives of Angelinos through environmental justice, cultural awareness, community and youth outreach using the bicycle as it's tool.»
After all, you would have lived a very accident - prone life if you've made as many bicycle accident claims as the bicycle accident lawyers Colorado can believe in at Cannon Hadfield Stieben & Doutt, LLC.
Some riders who are hurt during bicycle accidents suffer life - threatening injuries, and as seen on Chicago area bicycle accidents discussed on this site some of these accidents result in fatalities.
We assist clients with cases involving car accidents, pedestrian accidents, bicycle accidents, skateboarding accidents, motorcycle accidents, loss of life and other types of personal injury such as product liability and slip - and - fall accidents.
Injuries as a result of a bicycle accident can change a person's life causing financial loss, medical expenses and emotional trauma.
They're using bicycles more than their parents ever did, they care more about «green living,» and they're waiting later in life to have kids of their own — all factors pointing away from the car as a mainstay of American adulthood in the future.
College students living in off - campus housing are ideal candidates for needing renters insurance, since many students bring thousands of dollars worth of personal items, such as electronics, a computer, textbooks, clothes, furniture, and a bicycle, with them to school.
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