Core77's Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is excited to present Karl Anderson of C.H.U.N.K. 666, mutant bicycle enthusiasts!

Tonight's talk starts at 6 p.m. at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!

Karl Anderson: C.H.U.N.K 666 "Aquachoppers of C.H.U.N.K. 666" Hand-Eye Supply 23 NW 4th Ave Portland, OR 97209 Tuesday, April 2, 6 p.m. PST

C.H.U.N.K. 666 is a mutant bicycle club and civic society which has been building, riding, destroying and rebuilding human-powered choppers, tallbikes and battle wagons for 20 years. We've previously held free yearly public gladiatorial contests and historical re-enactments, but more recently, we prefer to injure ourselves privately. One way we do this is with a regular amphibious camping trip to Ross Island, the hollowed-out toxic waste dump and quarry in the middle of Portland.

This talk will briefly discuss our history, our philosophy of building machines out of trash, and our interactions with the city around us before describing how we create, operate and destroy amphibious human-powered vehicles.

Karl Anderson is a hardware and software experimenter who is good at thinking up projects but bad at predicting whether or not they will be practical. He has recently been involved in a travelling postapocalyptic training installation and a free telephone company.