General.

Growing up watching Tour de France with Danish film-maker and commentator Jørgen Leth on television has made  me a life-long fan of bicycling. From the history of bicycle journalism to the extreme sacrifices the riders must live through to perform at the top level, I am completely in love with the sport. This is also true when it comes to bicycle design. When my beautiful Fuji Track bike was smashed by a car a couple of weeks ago, I started looking at the 2010 bicycle designs and found this beautiful Eddy Merckx EMX-1  road bike that I completely fell for. Though I almost love everything about this bike, there is on thing that I - as a graphic designer - hate about most modern bicycle design: The amount of ugly logos and colors that destroy the beauty of the bicycle frame. I feel there's something ignorant about these designs, especially when considering the bicycle design from the past. Bicycles that people like Fausto Coppi, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Luis Ocana rode. These were simple, elegant and beautiful designed sculptures.

Just to make a simple test I removed all the logos from the beautiful EMX-1 in Photoshop, and I must say that the difference is enormous. It actually doesn't look like a bike for bowling team any more. Imagine what could be done with the color scheme to make this bike elegant. The biggest difference for me is the fact that now you actually see the beautiful, subtile logo on the front of the bike. Oh god, I would like to have my hands on one of these.

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I just released 4 new tracks with my band Silence is a Virus. The tracks can be streamed for free via Facebook, or downloaded for free via www.silenceisavirus.com. The genre is a combination of post rock and alternative metal, something between Sigur Ros and Deftones. You are free to distribute the tracks as much as you like, and if you enjoy listening to them, please join our page on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.

This is a video I did with Scott Waynes Indiana, Nik Psaroudakis and Nien Lam. It shows us experimenting with placing objects on the sidewalk to redirect the flow of pedestrians.

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Lately I've been doing a lot of Processing and it's pretty clear the the Processing IDE doesn't compare to powerful applications like Eclipse. There's an excellent tutorial on processing.org on how to import the core.jar Processing library into your Eclipse Java project. I tried the tutorial, but couldn't figure out how to import the core.jar - because when trying to import the filesystem, I couldn't expand the Processing applications folder. Because OSX treats applications like an encapsulated file, it's not possible to browse into the Processing folder and select the library. In Finder it's possible to right-click and select "Show Package Contents", but you cannot do this from inside the Eclipse dialog. This is how you solve the problem:

1. Select your Applications folder and press "OK"

2. Manually add "/Processing" in the textfield.

3. Click "Browse". Now you will see the package contents of the Processing applications folder

4. Navigate to the core.jar file and import it.