Freezing Saddles 2021 – Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt

[drevil]

EDIT 3/23/21 – FINAL RESULTS POST: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=210265#post210265
EDIT 3/17/21 – FINAL WEEK POST HERE: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=209861#post209861

I love taking photos, and having a goal usually ups the fun factor, so I’m doing a daily photo scavenger hunt.

Every night, I’ll post something you have to take a picture of the next day (along with the date). I’ll try my best to post before midnight.

It might be an object (a stop sign), a theme (something blue), specific (e.g., a bike laying on the ground), vague (e.g., confusion), a mish-mash of those, or none of those.

Rules:

1. Obvs, you should be a participant in Freezing Saddles ’21
2. It has to be on a bike ride on the day it was requested
3. It has to be posted on the day for which it was requested, i.e., 12:01 AM EST to 11:59 PM EST for the day it was requested. Sorry, I won’t count ones that aren’t posted for the day it was requested. That’s part of the challenge
4. The reason I say “for the day it is requested” is because I might do requests a few days ahead of time, but don’t take and/or post the pic until that day comes.
5. It has to be posted here on the forum in this thread
6. There should be text either in the title or in the post with the date and the found object/theme. Another option is to “Reply With Quote” the post with the request, i.e., simply click that button on the bottom right of my request so it is quoted above your picture
7. Description, short backstory or location are optional (but nice). That said, if your pic is abstract or not obviously relatable to my request, please explain (e.g., I ask for “happiness”, and you post a pic of a tennis ball you found on a ride, please explain how that tennis ball = happiness)
8. It has to be a picture you took, so if you’re in it, it either has to be a selfie or done with a self-timer
9. Only one pic/day. Please don’t pad by adding more than one pic/day
10. It has to be a picture, not a video
11. Let’s stick to things you find out there during your ride, and not things that you bring or make yourself (unless otherwise specified). Example 1: if I say find “2021”, don’t scratch it into dirt. Example 2: if I say find a flower, don’t bring a flower with you on your ride and take a pic of that. This kinda takes the fun out of looking for things, which is the whole point. (Rule added on 1/2/21)
12. Unless specified otherwise, your bike does not have to be in the photo. (Rule amended on 1/4/21)
13. Found item needs to be clear and discernible (or legible if text) in the picture. If you are using Tapatalk and are having trouble posting pics that are large enough, let us know and I/we can try to help you with it. (Rule added on 1/3/21)
14. Filters are OK, but no obvious/blatant photoshopping… not that I know anything about such things

Photoshop? by bikecentric, on Flickr

Scoring: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kgsAzaLIXN-IJMjscyNnQTNvWEp__VzgGBSkJDYrTfs/edit?usp=sharing

1. If you follow all the rules above, it’s 1 point/picture. I’ll like your pic if I have added the point to the tally sheet.
2. If I feel like you haven’t met all the rules, I’ll give you .25 points for the effort (Added on 1/11/21)
3. I’ll keep a tally with your forum name. I may reach out to you via the forum’s messaging, or ask you to reach out to me in a post in this thread.
4. EDIT ON 3/17/21: THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN ANYMORE -> At the end of FS, every like in each of your pic posts = +1 point. I’ll add these up at the end
   So for example, your pic has met all the conditions at the top, and has 3 likes. That will add 4 points (1 for the pic +3 for the likes) to your pot.

Notes:

1. Prizes TBD
2. Contest starts 1/1/21 and goes until the last day of FS ’21
3. Some of these will be hard. Fret not, some will be easy, so skip those days that are too difficult
4. Don’t ever ever ever ever do anything that can put you in danger or will result in hurting yourself. I promise I won’t ask for any pics of you riding on the Beltway
5. I might post pics, but mine don’t count in the contest

EDIT 3/17/21 -SEE FINAL WEEK POST HERE: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=209861#post209861

Topic

[Kbikeva]

1/18/21

I have to say this made me a bit squeamish (stay with me here). I started searching “public art” and terms like “African American”, “Hispanic”, “Latino”, trying to find some representative works that fit the description. Surprise – most public art isn’t tagged by these terms. Then I looked at a list of public art in Arlington (I wanted to ride outside my usual spaces). I was hoping that in the descriptions of the art there would be something that was a hint. I quickly realized that except for the Asian names, I was going to have to google each artist. Fortunately, I finally hit pay dirt and found an African American Woman artist whose work is in Arlington. I added the point to my route for the day.

It raises the question: If am new to a community and I’m looking for the public art work in my new community, who makes that list? How are the pieces described? Is there a better way to show BIPOC representation in subject as well as artist?

When I got to the location of my chosen piece, I was disappointed at the condition of the artwork. Granted, it’s winter and Covid and all that. And granted, mosaic work ages quickly and requires constant upkeep. But this just made me sad. So in the end, here’s her website: http://marthajacksonjarvis.com/ so you can see some of her not neglected work. And here’s the piece at the Arlington Public Library Shirlington Branch. (2004)

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[SusanG1693]

1/18/21 – #publicartfinder featuring (or by) a BIPOC
“Truths That Rise From The Roots Remembered” by Jerome Meadows at the Alexandria African American Heritage Memorial

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[consularrider]

@drevil 205605 wrote:

1/18/21 – #publicartfinder featuring (or by) a BIPOC

Let’s celebrate diversity on Martin Luther King Jr Day by taking a pic on your ride of public art that either features or is by a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color). It’d be nice if you could let us know the location, and if possible, the artist.

Optionally, post it into Boomer’s #publicartfinder pointless prize as well

Happy hunting!

Shirley Chisholm State Park, Brooklyn, NYC, She was the first Black woman elected to the US Congress. By Danielle Mastrion.

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[Catedrew]

@drevil 205605 wrote:

1/18/21 – #publicartfinder featuring (or by) a BIPOC

Let’s celebrate diversity on Martin Luther King Jr Day by taking a pic on your ride of public art that either features or is by a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color). It’d be nice if you could let us know the location, and if possible, the artist.

Optionally, post it into Boomer’s #publicartfinder pointless prize as well

Happy hunting!

1/18/21 – BIPOC

“Passage” by Lynda Andrews-Barry, at the Arlington Arts Center, 3550 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA.

Passage includes 26 large-scale sculptures designed to evoke the ships that transported more than 12 million kidnapped and enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean between the 16th and 19th centuries. The artist is also descended from enslaved people. More information can be found here: https://arlingtonartscenter.org/exhibits/2020/lynda-andrews-barry-passage/

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[Serdar]

@drevil 205605 wrote:

1/18/21 – #publicartfinder featuring (or by) a BIPOC

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Edmonson Sisters

Sculptor: Erik Blome

Location: 1701 Duke St, Alexandria

Story: Paul Edmonson’s efforts to free his daughters brought him to New York City in the fall of 1848 and eventually to the Plymouth Congregational Church in Brooklyn, led by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Rev. Beecher took up the Edmonson’s cause, preaching about the fate of the Christian, light-skinned Edmonson sisters should they be sold down south, and quickly raised Bruin’s asking price of $2,250. By November 1848, Mary and Emily were free.

[tomacsh]

1/18/21 – #publicartfinder featuring (or by) a BIPOC
“Sewing the Fabric of Our Community” mural by Kate Deciccio and Rose Jaffe (Rose_inks), 2015

Captures the vibrant culture of LatinX immigrants and their contributions to my neighborhood, “Long Branch” (on Piney Branch Rd & Flower Ave, at the border of Takoma Park and Silver Spring, MD).

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[Boomer Cycles]

1/18/21 – #publicartfinder featuring (or by) a BIPOC

Mural (by Ella J Fly) on the side of the Birchmere Music Hall in Del Ray, Alexandria VA, featuring an AfroAmerican musician.
Thanks to [mention]HokieBeth [/mention] for taking me to this mural hotspot, and to [mention]drevil [/mention] for the #publicartfinder shout out!

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[HokieBeth]

1/18/21 #publicartfinder featuring POC

At the Birchmere in Del Ray. Louis Armstrong (?)

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[camiller]

1/18/2021 BIPOC Public Art

“Wakan”, in Reston on Circle Park Drive, represents the Lakota Sioux Indians in North and South Dakota. The word “Wakan” is a Lakota Sioux word meaning “of the Great Spirit” and symbolizes the strength and tenacity of the Sioux people.

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[Sophie CW]

1/18/21 – #publicartfinder featuring (or by) a BIPOC
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Sculpture, titled “Blossom” by Wayne Healy is located on near the the Rockville Metro on the east side. Called “origami… made in steel” by the artist, images depict the historically Black neighborhood of Lincoln Park, Clarence “Pint” Isreal, a Negro League baseball player who has a park named after him and William Gibbs. In 1936, Gibbs volunteered to become the NAACP’s plaintiff against the Montgomery County, Maryland School Board for pay equity discrimination in a case that would be known as Gibbs v. Broome.

[Kbikeva]

@camiller 205707 wrote:

1/18/2021 BIPOC Public Art

“Wakan”, in Reston on Circle Park Drive, represents the Lakota Sioux Indians in North and South Dakota. The word “Wakan” is a Lakota Sioux word meaning “of the Great Spirit” and symbolizes the strength and tenacity of the Sioux people.

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I’m glad to see they finally put a marker up. It hasn’t had one for many years.

[drevil]

1/19/21 – Beetle

On January 19, 1978, the last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany left their factory in Emden. Find a beetle on your bike ride and post the pic of it here.

Happy hunting!

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[camiller]

@Kbikeva 205716 wrote:

I’m glad to see they finally put a marker up. It hasn’t had one for many years.

I’m glad it had a marker. It would have been more difficult to appreciate the artwork without the marker.

[LeftyLaura]

1/18/2021 BIPOC Public Art

Contrabands and Freeman’s cemetery sculpture: The Path of Stones and Roses https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrabands_and_Freedmen_Cemetery#/media/File%3AContrabands_and_Freedmen_Cemetery_Memorial.jpg by Mario Chiodo, Italian, but the memorial was designed by African American Alexandria resident CJ Howard, prof @ Catholic Univ. Now I’m at a quandary which picture. You’ll just have to wait for it.

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[Serdar]

@drevil 205719 wrote:

1/19/21 – Beetle

On January 19, 1978, the last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany left their factory in Emden. Find a beetle on your bike ride and post the pic of it here.

Happy hunting!

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Gosh! I do remember seeing an old rusty blue Beetle parked somewhere. Now, need to find it.

[Author]

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