Mystery Solved

In the leadup to this weekend's Eco Design Fair, we have been reading about heaps of do-good and feel-good events, and one in particular has piqued our preternatural lexicographer's curiosity. The official description's mysterious catch-phrase has haunted and taunted us, looping in our mind at night like a soothing yet inscrutable Pink Floyd track. "Cool qi is moving around the city with an eco creative spin on their ride…"

Yes. We like biking. We like earth-conscious things. We like creative things. This sounds like exactly our ticket. But…what is it?

At last, in a particularly vigorous round of Google searching for background info on the many varied, storied, admirable professionals, NGOs and sexy chefs (el Willy) involved in the Eco Design Fair, we stumbled upon an answer to our heart's unquenched thirst for the lowdown on this LOHAS event.

Here is the "creative" part: the route is from the Eco Design Fair to Anken Green and back to stop at "a new photographic exhibition 'Shanghai street bikes'". This much we'd gleaned from official press releases, spread in bits and pieces across several websites. Still no mention of number or name of photogs involved. Then, at 4:30, late in the afternoon as the sun began its golden descent filtering through layers of millions of airborn particles of pollution, we hit the jackpot. People's Bike has a flyer linking all the vertices in the love triangle: Cool qi. Good to Shanghai. Anken Green. The binding factor: Tyler Bowa.

The media darling, mallet-swinging bike polo guy is indeed the photographer whose images of two-wheeled glory hang on the venerable walls of Anken Green Gallery.

goodtoSH presents shanghaiFixed, photographs by Tyler Bowa, a free exhibition starting April 18 (this Sunday). See some previews here and see his other creative work on his personal site here.