GO DAWGS

In an altogether different direction, the new video (current project) has turned ninety degrees. The initial concept, a group narrative extolling the various virtues of bicycle riding, has shifted away from something I have already done, towards something I have also already done. But something I think I can do better. The basic idea, changed as I bit the click-bait of new media available at the Internet Archives, an invaluable media resource, came into crisp focus as I explored the page called ‘Movie Trailers’. And the rest, as they say, is history. 

Before I could say roll the credits, I had downloaded more than a dozen official movie trailers, all in the public domain, and went about the business of considering the endless ways I might sequence them into something fun, exciting, novel and appropriate for an hour spin class accompaniment. Easy, no?

Here are a few of them, and you can play along and consider formatting them into your own cardio cinema colossal. 

North by Northwest

Matlese Falcon

Butch Cassidy

The Crawling Eye

Oh Brother Where Art Thou

Superman

Ratatouille

Lord of the Rings

Harry Potter

The Shinning

Triplets of Belleville

The Truman Show

Tora, Tora, Tora

Young Frankenstein

A Few Good Men

Kung Fu Panda

The Princess Bride

The Sandlot

School of Rock

Cars

The idea will be to shift the interviews and steer them towards asking for a favorite movie among them, and to find a connection with cycling, however obvious or obscure. The answer naturally segues into the archival footage of what we always use as the bread and butter of the series, people riding bikes. 

So there is that.

The 112th Apple Cup kicks off in less than an hour so I must go. 

And GO DAWGS.