The Flaming lips are shooting a video up in Mt. Tabor park from
10am-10pm. It's a naked bike ride video. We're hauling up the disco
trike and setting up the live feed. Let's hope we can get a good signal
and not violate the terms of the Stickam service agreement to badly.
Join in virtually and say hello.

VIDEO:
Recording from the webcast - It's very choppy because of our connection issues:
NOTES:
We had a blast up at Mt. Tabor park and it's still going
on (as far as I know). The broadcast was a surprisingly a bit choppy
due to the location and we almost got shut down on Stickam.com cause we
showed butt cracks on the first take. I thought that would be okay.
The
ranger didn't like the butt cracks either. He forcefully said, (and I'm
paraphrasing), "put on bottoms or we'll put on handcuffs".
He felt that FL were pushing the limit of their permit with the park. Ya think?
I
think if the city wants more Naked Bike Ride movies and the massive
budget$ behind them they need to lighten up. Who hasn't seen genetalia
in the Portland park before, anyway? ;) Eww, it sounds nasty that way.
Well, it was actually quite beautiful today.
In the first scenes
the band leader, Wayne Coyne, was carried around by (TEAM BEER) John
Howe's trike in a in a big plastic ball (fully clothed) above the crowd
of 120 or so naked (and later topless) riders. I was concerned that he
was going to roll off the zip-tied milk crates that were holding him up
and down the hill, but several strong Portland Cyclists prevented
catastrophe during each take. By the look on his face I'm not so sure
Wayne was convinced of the safety on his self-designed contraption.
Wayne says he'll get naked later in future scenes.
It
was (and is) a perfect day for a naked bike ride video. You can still
ride up and let the Flaming Lips exploit your body or catch the video
at some later date.
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