A Camper Built on a Shopping Cart

Posted by John Farrier in Arts & Crafts, Car & Vehicle on September 19, 2009 at 8:35 pm


Photo: Kevin Cyr

New York-based artist Kevin Cyr is trying to construct a functional camper that’s built onto a shopping cart. It’s an expression of his fascination with vehicles and an exploration of a simple lifestyle:

It’s a functioning sculptural piece that seeks to explore aspects of housing, mobility, and autonomy. It is also largely about self-reliance and making due with less.

I have always been interested in bikes and vehicles and for many years they have been the subject of my paintings. My paintings document odd and derelict vehicles: old delivery trucks inundated with graffiti and rust, well-traveled RVs, Indian rickshaws and Asian bikes.

Throughout the last year, I decided to build my own type of vehicles. On a trip to Beijing, I conceived and built a CAMPER BIKE: an amalgamation of a Chinese 3-wheeled flatbed bike with an American cabover style camper. Interested in building a series of mobile vehicles and inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, I started sketching plans for CAMPER KART: a mobile unit built into a shopping cart—an ubiquitous urban object.

Artist’s Website

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LOLrio Kart

Posted by Miss Cellania in Gadget on July 1, 2009 at 9:09 am

Developed by MITERS, a group at MIT who build things, this souped-up shopping cart can achieve speeds of up to 45 mph! I don’t know, it doesn’t look all that safe to me. Link

 
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Carts of Darkness

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts, Media, Movies & SciFi on February 2, 2009 at 9:46 pm

Carts of Darkness is an interesting documentary film about a subculture of street life involving the homeless and the extreme sport of cart racing.

The National Film Board of Canada has recently posted the entire film online along with the usual trailers. The film by Murray Siple

“follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts down the steep hills of North Vancouver. This subculture depicts street life as much more than the stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The film takes a deep look into the lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face and the appeal of cart racing despite the risk”.

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