Segseat Blog

WACK!

Do you know the party scene from "Breakfast at Tiffany's"?
The Warhol Factory-like underground loft bash in "Midnight Cowboy"?
We went to the opening party at MOCA last Saturday night for"WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution". Wow! Thousands of literally beautiful people, mostly young, expressively dressed, dancing and drinking while cel screens flashed in upraised waving arms.
A human kelp forest of glamorous ecstasy.
The show is a gargantuan international survey of Feminist Art with an emphasis on the 70's.
Great show, but this is not an art blog.
It was at the looser, larger, "Temporary Contemporary" now known as the Geffen. It's in Little Tokyo which is gorgeous at night wrapped in the L.A. skyline; especially seen from the center of a tidal wave of swirling, churning bodies in an outdoor lounge created just for one evening.
A mirage, it's L.A., we're a desert.
Yes, I did this with the Segway/Segseat.

Billions of Stars

"...people need not be limited by physical handicaps as long as they are not disabled in spirit."

Professor Stephen Hawking

http://www.hawking.org.uk/disable/dindex.html

Valentine for You

eye to eye

2-7-07

Here's a partial list of places we've taken the Segway/Segseat combination:

Through Christmas crowds at the Grove.

A "Big Box" chain store.

Various farmers markets.

A hospital to visit a friend.

A Rock concert,(in a small club).

Restaurant brunch buffet.

Favorite news stands.

I'd gradually stopped going to these and other places.
I lived in the incredible shrinking world of diminished mobility.

The Segway/Segseat is an astonishingly maneuverable combination.
I can move now with the ease and speed my body remembers in dreams.

Since my relative strength and endurance fluctuate, the Segseat removes
any anxiety about over extending myself and being caught up short.
I've often been in a situation where so much energy has been spent getting
to a place that there's none left with which to enjoy being there.

Here's what's really powerful though; with these two devices, you may
be able to spend hours a day interacting with other people at eye level.
Disabilities disappear.

A Fine Upstanding Blog

There are dedicated,admirable men and women at service in the L.A.P.D., but they have a really stupid pursuit policy. It's thanks to this policy and its gift to me of an incomplete spinal cord injury
that I'm writing this blog.

I'm not the only example of such collateral damage and it could have been worse.
I'm neither quadraplegic nor paraplegic. I can walk slowly, with difficulty and embarassing clumsiness.
Most importantly, I'm alive. That's the subject of this blog; being alive and continuing to enjoy it.

The Segseat allows me to use a Segway HT. I can stand when I'm able but keep rolling while seated.
This combination allows me to experience the exhilaration of unrestricted motion for the first time in ten years.

More to come, stay tuned.