GOOD, one of our favourite online magazines, has recently published The Energy Issue, touching on cap and trade, designer renewables and elevators it’s definitely worth a read. From the GOOD website… Contemplate the nearest light switch. Flip it and you instantly become part of a chain that leads from the now glowing lightbulb to thousands [...]
Just before Christmas, we travelled over to Bristol with Matt Little to run a very special workshop with members from Spoke ‘n’ Chain, APE Project, Cube Cinema and Bristol County Council. The aim was to build a series of bicycle generator system that could be used independently but also linked together to create an larger [...]
Magnificent Revolution will be screening the classic 1978 Jamaican film Rockers outside the Brixton Village (aka Granville Arcade) on Coldharbour Lane on Thursday 30th September at 8pm. BRING A BICYCLE! Rockers is a 1978 Jamaican film by Ted Bafaloukos. Several popular reggae artists star in the movie, including Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace, Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, [...]
We finally managed to perfect our Bicycle Blender. Isn’t she lovely? She’s hand-made using a recycled bicycle training stand, a flexible drive shaft, pannier seat rack, blender and a bit of mdf. The average electric powered blender can use anything from 400-600 watts (around 10 people pedaling on our bicycle generators). Powered by just one [...]
Been a long time coming… Cocos Lovers in the back of a van in a field in Cambridgeshire. Cocos Lovers – The Pedal Sessions from Magnificent Revolution on Vimeo.
Sam Isaac – Carbon Dated – Pedal Session from Magnificent Revolution on Vimeo. Sam Isaac and his band power their own performance for the very first Pedal Session by Magnificent Revolution at Wood Festival 2009, Oxford, UK. samisaac.co.uk Filmed and edited by Phil & Colin Sound and mix by Stewie Juices
A momento from Secret Garden Party 2008 courtesy of The Photographical Wizard that is Djim Mas
January 25, 2011