The scene on South First Street was interesting, but I wasn't really ready to take any pictures until I saw this tire biter going after somebody's bike. Then I noticed there were also other weird aliens doing strange things.

     

I think autonomous clothing is the brain child of one or more bike party regulars that want to deveop a local brand of their own. Whatever the truth is, their booth was a good contact point for bike party types. They were between monkeylectric.com and bikeglow.com, which made the area kind of a "bike party zone". Even more so because the theme of the bike party was going to be "light your bike".

     

  

     

The fine print below SILICON VALLEY on that magazine cover reads "where fashion is atomic". The guy between the woman in yellow and the one in black behind the Helium table seems to be the main guy there. I talked to him a bit, he's more of a fashion type than a laws of physics type. The "elements" in the elemental fashion show were earth, ice, water, fire, and power. The pictures were very well done, which made it a visual treat to leaf through the thing. A good magazine to kick off at a grass roots art celebration.

    

That hairless cat was getting lots of attention from people that noticed it.

  

I realized that all of a sudden bikes were few and far between. I went to what I thought was the rendevous for the begining of the bike party ride, but it was long gone. There was a bird telling bicyclists that showed up "Go to Cesar Chavez Plaza and wait for the regroup there." Click above to see what happened from that point.

     

After I got back from the ride, it was quite dark. The scene had changed a lot. There were bands playing at both ends of the street, and the whole thing was a lot more happening.

There was a mysterious group called the yarn bombers that were using their knitting skills to strike art into the soul of the gathering. I saw several things like this "bombed" tree.

     

In the foyer of the quilt museum this morroccan restaurant was handing out samples of their lentils and salad. I can assure you it was delicious food.

  

     

     

I'd say knitting is more sustainable technology than the neon patterns I was seeing in the same general time frame.

     

I think that monster with the blue skin on his face is a bandersnatch. The guy with the net and the vorpul blade was going after it. I didn't really hang around long enough to get the whole plot, but it did seem like there was an Alice In Wonderland theme to what was happening.

        

I tried the hula hooping, but I'm just not very good at it. Lots of people had fun with that area though.