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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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CBC Radio | September 2, 2004

Unfiltered

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With Lizz Winstead, Rachel Maddow, and Chuck D | August 31, 2004

Cops Put Brakes on Bike Protest

Two days before a yearlong project to create a Wi-Fi-enabled bicycle-mounted dot-matrix printer could spray anti-Bush messages in chalk on city streets, it came to a grinding halt...On Saturday, New York City police confiscated the gadgetry-laden bike following the arrest of its inventor, who had just concluded an interview with MSNBC... More

By Cyrus Farivar | August 31, 2004

High Tech "Bikes Against Bush" Protest Fails to get off the Ground

“My equipment, my bicycle, my computer, my cell phone and all my electronics gear has been confiscated,” Kinberg says. “I was arrested while giving an interview and describing my invention to Ron Reagan for ‘Hardball’ on MSNBC..." More

By Adam Balkin | August 30, 2004

Bikes Against Bush Gets a Flat

Josh Kinberg, the inventor of Bikes Against Bush, the funky wireless bicycle that broadcasts anti-Bush text messages, was arrested this weekend. Strangely, the arrest didn't happen during the Critical Mass bike ride on Friday, but on Saturday, while Ron Reagan was interviewing Josh for MSNBC's Hardball... More

By Geeta Dayal | August 29, 2004

Guy behind that SMS-printing protest bike arrested at the RNC

That was fast: Joshua Kinberg, the man behind Bikes Against Bush who was planning to use a bike with a wirelessly-enabled printer attached to spray paint protest messages sent via the Internet or text message at this week’s Republican National Convention, managed to get himself arrested on Sunday morning. The printer on the bike is only supposed to spray non-permanent chalk rather than paint, but he’s being charged with vandalism anyway.

By Peter Rojas | August 30, 2004

Hardball

Joshua Kinberg of Bikes Against Bush guest-blogged for Hardblogger, folowing his release from arrest, which happened while he was demonstrating his invention to Ron Reagan. Watch Reagan's interview with Kinberg. Below is his account of what happened, and what "The Tombs" was like... More

With Ron Reagan | August 29, 2004

Bikes Against Bush Whacked

More troubling bike-related news from the RNC: Bikes-Against-Bush creator Josh Kinberg got arrested yesterday afternoon while demonstrating his invention during an interview with Ron Reagan at MSNBC. As we have previously reported, Kinberg's bike is set up to spray chalk protest messages on the sidewalk- the plan was for people to submit the messages via the Bikes-Against-Bush website... More

By Jake Dobkin | August 29, 2004

Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted

Joshua Kinberg, creator of Bikes Against Bush, was arrested in NYC for vandalism while being interviewed by MSNBC. Kinberg's website describes his project as "using a Wireless Internet-enabled bicycle outfitted with a custom-designed printing device, the Bikes Against Bush bicycle can print text messages sent from web users directly onto the streets of Manhattan in water-soluble chalk." Both Wired and Popular Science have done stories on Kinberg's work... More

By Timothy | August 29, 2004

RNC protests: Bikes Against Bush organizer arrested

A post on an indymedia website says activist Joshua Kinberg -- inventor of a wireless, bike-mounted, dot-matrix printer for spraying protest messages in the street -- was arrested yesterday at the RNC in NYC. At the time, he was reportedly being interviewed by Ron Reagan, covering the convention for MNSBC...Kinberg's invention allows users to spray messages transmitted to the bike-printer by way of the 'Net or SMS. They're painted in a water-soluble chalk solution that washes away with water (not spray-paint, as misreported elsewhere)... More

By Xeni Jardin | August 29, 2004

Bikes Against Bush's Joshua Kinberg Arrested

IndyMedia is reporting that Bikes Against Bush creator Joshua Kinberg - this is the guy with the bike that spray-chalks anti-Bush slogans behind his moving bike - was arrested while giving a demonstration of the vehicle for MSNBC's Ron Reagan. While a sergeant on the scene agreed that the wash-away spray chalk probably wasn't defacement of property, Kinberg was still arrested for an unknown charge. As of last night, he was still in custody without yet having been charged... More

By Joel Johnson | August 29, 2004

Activist Bike Creator Joshua Kinberg Arrested

Bikesagainstbush creator Joshua Kinberg was arrested while taping an interview with MSNBC's Ron Reagan in Manhattan Saturday afternoon...Kinberg was stopped by police while demonstrating the bicycle for the television interview. His bicycle is a high-tech graffiti writer, using chalk to print anti-Bush political messages sent by people via the internet. Apparently there was a question of whether or not the sprayed messages were a defacement of property...When Kinberg showed the police sergeant how the bicycle used a non-permanent spray chalk, the sergeant seemed to agree that it wasn't defacement, at which point Kinberg asked, "am I free to go?" After conferring about it, officers decided to call superiors, then came back moments later to place Kinberg under arrest and confiscate the bicycle... More

By Yatta | August 28, 2004

Yury and his Magicbike

"I made a New Year's resolution that I would do everything in my ability as an artist to stop Bush from being re-elected," says Josh, explaining why he dedicated the last full year of his life to building the world's first wireless bicycle that receives and broadcasts anti-Bush text messages... More

By Geeta Dayal | August 29, 2004

The Majority Report

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With Jeneane Garofalo and Sam Seder | August 25, 2004

Time Out New York

Artist Joshua Kinberg has created a bicycle connected wirelessly to the Internet. The bike is equipped with a special spray-chalk distributor that will apply messages submitted by the site's visitors onto the streets...

By Ethan LaCroix | August 26, 2004

Six Simple Ways to Reboot the System

Joshua Kinberg planned to unleash "Bikes Against Bush" -- bicycles capable of spraying slogans on the road as they roll, like mobile dot-matrix printers. The takeaway: An angry website isn't enough. Digital protest has to hack the real world...

By Clive Thompson | September 2004

Reuters

Joshua Kinberg, producer of Bikes Against Bush, poses with his newly developed writing bike near his home in Brooklyn, New York... More

By Seth Wenig | August 24, 2004

Associated Press

Although Kinberg says he expects to receive a wide range of messages and each message will be archived on his site, he will not be printing any pro-Bush messages. "It’s Bikes Against Bush," he says. "It has a point of view. And it’s my bike"...

By Ellen Simon | August 15, 2004

Anarchy at the RNC

Joshua Kinberg will hit the streets on an "internet-enabled tactical media weapon for non-violent creative resistance." Outfitted with a laptop, webcam, GPS device, and cellphone, his tech-laden bike will receive text messages sent by visitors to BikesAgainstBush.com. At the push of a button, he'll select messages to print on the pavement using a robotic chalk-spraying device... More

By Paul Schmelzer | August 12, 2004

Fahrrad-Graffiti gegen Bush (German)

Um sicher zu gehen, dass US-Präsident Bush im November auch wirklich abgewählt wird, lassen sich seine Gegner einiges einfallen. Ein New Yorker hat einen Fahrrad-Drucker entwickelt, der Anti-Bush-Losungen auf die Straße schreibt... More

By Holger Dambeck | August 6, 2004

Bike Writer Pedals for Protests

New Yorker Joshua Kinberg is a bike messenger of a different stripe. Instead of ferrying legal papers between lawyers, he uses a homemade, wireless, bicycle-mounted dot-matrix printer to spray protest messages in the street... More

By Leander Kahney | August 2, 2004

Taking it to the Streets

Josh Kinberg just finished his master's thesis and hit Print. It read only "I Love New York." His adviser loved it... Of course, Kinberg's degree is an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design in New York City, and his thesis is a bicycle that receives text messages and prints them in foot-high chalk letters, then blogs a digital photo and GPS map of the printing, all while the rider cruises along... More

By Mike Haney | August 2004

SMS-Printing Bike

The bike sprays foot-high chalk letters of any incoming text message and then creates a photoblog and GPS trail to document the ride... More

By Kate Fehrenbacher | July 29, 2004

Paula Zahn Now

Bikes Against Bush was mentioned during a segment regarding expected protests at the Republican National Convention in New York City.

With Maria Hinojosa | July 9, 2004

Cult of Mac Blog

Check out the fantastic video of Joshua Kinberg's ChalkWriter, a bike-mounted "printer"... Controlled by a PowerBook, the printer sprays chalk onto the sidewalk from an array of rack-mounted aerosol cans. As Kinberg cycles by, the ChalkWriter prints out messages along the pavement... More

By Leander Kahney | July 17, 2004

Unfiltered

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With Lizz Winstead, Racehl Maddow, and Chuck D | June 17, 2004

Dot-Matrix Bicycle Printer

Kinberg has invented a bicycle that doubles as a dot-matrix printer, huffing out low-resolution ASCII characters from an array of spraypaintchalk cans mounted on the bike's rear and controlled by a Powerbook... More

By Cory Doctorow | June 17, 2004

Interactive Art in NYC

The Gothamist prize for most devious project must go to Josh Kinberg and his Bikes Against Bush project. Basically, he cross-bred a bike, a computer, and six cans of referee line chalk to make an automatic, mobile-web enabled graffiti machine... More

By Jake Dobkin | June 3, 2004

Parsons Students Mix Social Science with Technology

There's also a device that is sure to start a conversation among Republicans: the 'Bike Against Bush.' It's a high-tech, rolling protest for the 2004 Republican National Convention... More

By Adam Balkin | June 2, 2004

Cyberbikes To Spray Anti-Bush Text Messages on NYC Streets

Joshua Kinberg is taking his anti-Bush protest to the streets this fall, and like hand-drawn hopscotch squares, it'll probably stay there for several days, if not weeks... More

By Joya Dass | May 10, 2004

Joshua Kinberg and Bikes Against Bush

The Wireless Weblog has a nice interview with Joshua Kinberg, the New York-based 'Wireless Activist' who is the founder of 'BluetoothUsersAgainstBush.com' and inventor of the new 'Bikes Against Bush' project, in which a moving, spray-chalk equipped bike will automatically paint messages on the streets of New York during the upcoming Republican National Convention--messages transmitted to the bike from people on the internet... More

By Joel Johnson | May 7, 2004

Profile of a "Wireless Activist"

Interview on the Wireless Weblog.
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By Michael Sciannamea | May 5, 2004