Chicago Messenger

(1998) This is a very short documentary piece that focuses on the joys and hazards of being a bike messenger in Chicago. The story is told through still images that are animated, and the concentration here is the skill of the editing as it interweaves with voice-over narration by the messengers themselves.

This short and the other related pieces were shown during Tom Frisch's MFA Thesis Exhibition.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• EVL
• Electronic
• Visualization
• Laboratory
• Chicago
• Messenger
• Tom
• Frisch

[r0b0tafflicti0n]

I like that you interviewed average bike messengers, not the image of a bike messenger (20-something hipster white male on a $1500 fixed gear bike).

[Limyun]

Should be: demand>Supply=mo$ for the same product.

[TreeBeardJace]

@shorty6packs Chicago still has some real messengers.  I think of the folks who come out once the weather gets nice are the types that you are describing.

[craps36]

I got a GT road bike!

[shorty6packs]

I think that this was BEFORE douche bag rich kid elitist hipsters. and 1500$ bikes. demand =supply=mo$ for the same product.

get smart.

[fuzzydizzle]

awesome video

[r0b0tafflicti0n]

(and by "average" I do not mean something negative, but the average messenger you'd see on the streets)