More bar tape collabs from Cinelli this time with Mike Giant.

Spotted over on PC

“Just Another Day” | Mike Giant & Derick Montez from Justin Gallagher on Vimeo.

Great cinematography… nuff said

I’m quite a big fan of Mike Giant and I just spotted these new pieces coming out soon, they look pretty awesome! I maybe a little late on this but still, its good shizzle!

Via Skull Press

Remember a while back I posted the SF Bicycle Messenger book cover with photography by Beryl Fine and cover illustration by Mike Giant. Well Beryl kindly sent me over some sample shots.

Beryl Fine is a photographer based in San Francisco, who strives to find beauty in the unconventional; her photos are bold, yet they expose a frailty that is so inherent in human nature. For this project, she photographed 23 bike messengers, men and women, who are all represented in the book.

Known as urban street messengers, today the modern bike messenger stands synonymous with their predecessors, the pony express, but rather than a horse or pony their trusted steed rides between their legs on two wheels. They’re gritty.

Foul mouthed, rough and tough street couriers. Glamour aside, these men and women have an unforgiving job keeping them outside in sun and sleet, rain or shine, riding for good or bad. They remain lurkers of the urban streets wheeling between buses, semi trucks, taxis and oblivious street pedestrians, delivering the valuable documents that keep the wheels of progress turning.

San Francisco Bicycle Messengers, created by Beryl Fine, captures the charm and the obscurity. The rough exterior and the human character has been taken and abstracted by the camera’s 35mm lens, to revile honest portraits of these men and women.

San Francisco Bicycle Messengers, a 100-page photo book, with a silk-screened cover illustrated by Mike Giant. A limited edition of 500 copies will be available May 1st 2009.

A portion of the books proceeds benefit the S.F. Messenger Broken Bones Fund as well. Please check her website over here.

thanks Beryl!