Zoltán Kecskeméti, a Budapest-basest programmer and designer, made this video a few weeks back:
I saw this and immediately checked Orbitz for one-way airfare to Hungary. Before I bought my ticket though, I was (thankfully) alerted to the fact that the gigantic bicycle sculpture shown pedaling upstream the Danube is purely conceptual as of yet- Kecskeméti had expertly edited his ideas into simple shots of the river.
Hungary, however, is somewhat bicycle-crazy. Budapest has hundreds of thousands of cyclists for whom bikes are their daily transport, their recreation through the crowded capital, and a fount of collective identity and power. Budapest Critical mass regularly draws tens of thousand of riders- here a video of last year’s Earth Day ride. 80,000 cyclists attended!
As you can then imagine, the response to the inventor’s kinetic river sculpture has been overwhelming. What started as an exercise in trick video editing has taken on life, and citizens of Budapest are campaigning to have the sculpture designed and built in earnest. I’ve decided to delay my trip to Pannonia for a bit, but I’ll keep you all up to date- OPEN Budapest, anyone?
what does Buda(pesht) have to do with Mesopotamia??