Yes. It seems that Bob Mionske is finished. A sad day in a way for bicycle advocacy education at velonews. Maybe Chuckles will take over the column.
I didn't read all of Bob's columns. But the ones I read, I did seem to learn something new, or at the least reaffirm what I believed to be the truth, or at least believed to be one way to interpret the law.
It was posted back on the 5th of this month I guess. But I didn't catch it until Maynard posted it here.
While on the velonews subject. I don't get the print version at home. But occasionally I get a second hand copy now and then. The March 2009 one with the team preview and some Cyclocross coverage fell into my hands. And there were two remarkable things. One, Adam's blog entry seemed to be an actual print piece. Cool. Well I should say seemed to be because I haven't actually compared them line for line side by side.
Anyway second, is the Pearl Izumi ad. Seems they've been running it a bit, in that it has been in the last couple copies of VN that have been tossed my way instead of the recycling bin. If you've thumbed through VN (the ad isn't in CX Mag and that's the only other cycling publication that i read lately) you'll know the one I'm talking about. The female model "wearing" the black and white "octane" kit? Headline: Insanely Anatomical with some asian characters...
Maybe those characters say photoshop, because, well it is a good job but it isn't perfect and that's a naked women with a photoshop layer of "Octane" covering her. First i didn't really notice. Only the seam for the jersey seemed to be odd. But then it is a photoshoot so getting it perfect is demanded. Right? Well I got looking at it more closely since the ad is on the back paged of the March 2009 issue. Pure "airbrush" and it looks to be digital not pre-photoshoot. I could be missing the underlying secret. Maybe it is one of Big Jonny's pinup links. What ever it is they should have at least shot the picture in a warmer room. or not. I'm going to go back to studying the photo some more. Oh and btw - the real give away is down at the red-trim on the legs... not to mention the collar and the sleeves and the hem of the jersey.
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A friend of mine (Ilse Geldorf - Belgian road champion) had her photo in the paper a few months ago. At first glance, she looked like she was wearing her national champion skinsuit, but upon further inspection i quickly realized it was painted directly onto her naked body.
Bob is moving to bicycling magazine, I believe. Actually, I know.
And did you see his new website at http://www.bicyclelaw.com? I wonder who put that together. Clearly, someone with mad skillz.
Damnit! I ask Bob Mionske my first Cycling related Legal question, he gets back to me via personal email telling me he's going to look into my heretofore unexplored issue, I get all stoked that he's going to publish it on The Velonewseses and then he up and quits!
he's saving it for Bicycling mag i guess ;)
ah well that's good to hear erik... the site does look good... more people should hire who ever designed it... it would make reading the interweb more tolerable...
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