Team Zombish's (Zombie & Amish) kinetic bike sculpture that won 2009 People's Choice Award at the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby.

http://www.kinetickensington.org/

"A Kinetic Sculpture is a human-powered vehicle that also has an artistic theme. Think of parade floats on bicycles, or mummers on hand crank driven pirate ships, or an alien space ship on 2 welded togther bikes, it's zombie amish folks, it's a bar and bar stools on a bike, it's anything you can dream up. A Kinetic Sculpture Competition is all about fun and ingenuity, making the wackiest, most interesting contraption is the goal- finishing the course or winning is not.  Kinetic Sculpture Competitions have been taking place all over the world since 1969 when a California artist named Hobart Brown made some artistic improvements to his son's tricycle.

 

The KKSD is not a race, but rather a design competition and parade celebrating human powered transit and art in Kensington. Award Categories include- Best Art, Best Costume, Best Engineering, People's Choice, Best Breakdown and a special secret judge award. People get to vote for their favorite entry at the event, so come to the fest and VOTE! "  Save the date May 22nd 2010!

ZOMBISH
A collaborative effort with Joel Erland and Kate Kaman of HumanKind Design, Vincent Colvin & Lane Davis, the sculpture was constructed out of 7 bike frames.  A double tandem, it comfortably sat five riders, four forward moving power sources and one puppeteer that controlled the horse's flappable wings and galloping legs.

Videos can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqCFUiUYB0Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT1xHi3R4Hg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce5GzymRS8s

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