The Chips Quinn Scholars at VU did this quick piece last week. Our friend Anne Medley instructs the course. Each summer, students come to Nashville to set their lenses on local businesses and learn about video journalism.
They spent an entire morning trying to catch up with Nathan – literally. Proving yet again, that he is the fastest courier in Nashville – boo ya. This is what they came up with. Thx Stacy and Kaitlin!
These helmets seem a little like tofu that tastes like turkey, but who knows, maybe a little style is all it takes? You can’t really argue that these Denmark designed lids are svelte. BUT, may I have one beef?? I just read a blog that proclaimed that these are the first bike helmets created that don’t make you look like a dork?
Excuse me?! Did you just call the rest of us dorks?
The new Yakkay Bicycle Helmet, "Brainwear for Smart People"
Don’t launch a smear campaign on the rest of us “bucket headed” cyclists. Seriously people. I can remember getting this bicycle bully stuff pulled on me as a kid. “Haha – nice helmet, dude,” says the no-helmet kid. Or, do you remember the kid whose parents always bought him the nice stuff? He never had the cheapo Bell helmet with no vents like the rest of us. That kid had a skater helmet, and a Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtle helmet, and the so-much-cooler-than-everyone-else helmet.
The all time cake-takers and the no-helmet kids. It’s clear that they have nothing to make fun of – although I certainly don’t want to get the last laugh in this situation. I’d rather be the my-mom-made-me-wear-it kid.
Bottom line – helmets are dorky. Hat’s off to designers who try to make helmets ‘cool’, but let’s be honest. You’re never going to get the Paris Hiltons of the world to wear a helmet, until you make being dorky cool. So quit trying to make tofu into turkey. Just enjoy the tofu for what it is.
