Pedal (Book & DVD) by Zephyr, Ken Miller, Swoon Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Pedal (Book & DVD)
Book Review: Review of PEDAL
Summary: 4 Stars
It's an interresting document as it exposes this "counterculture" collective - bicycle messengers. The book is rather superficial with plenty of pictures and only four texts which vary considerably, ranging from contradictory-ragefilled-selfcentered-discourse to some interesting clearly depicting analysis. The DVD is great! Covering that cosmos: from the despatcher to the messenger, the bike races to the pedal driven task force in action.
Overall I rate it 4 stars, since it gets you acquainted to the NY messenger collective.
Jorge Coelho, Portugal, Faro
Book Review: meh
Summary: 3 Stars
I was super excited to receive this book and DVD in the mail. After viewing the short couple of videos online, I thought this movie was gonna blow my mind. It didn't really blow it though. Not to say that the DVD was bad, just wasn't as ground breaking as I would like. The thing that bothered me most about this purchase, however, was the quality of the printed materials. The book of photos that accompanies the package has terrible binding which cracked and fell apart after 1 viewing, and they edges of the whole package box began to bust at the seams after very little handling. These things bothered me the most. I like the artist's work a lot, movie is worth checking out, but overall, not a great experience.Book Review: to much emphasis on the dispatch life and not the real messenger life
Summary: 3 Stars
Pedal was good in the sense of the idea. I think that it was advertised as a messenger movie. I have a boyfriend who was a messenger and the flaw of this movie comes by making them all look like low level lifers to the streets not the real people who ride the job.
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