FS2022 #PublicArtFinder Pointless Prize
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@cvcalhoun 214768 wrote:
Bonus entry: House in the 6600 block of Elgin Lane in Bethesda has this silver sculpture in its yard. Unfortunately, I had to get it from quite far away, given the gate in front of the driveway and my lack of knowledge of stand your ground laws in this area. Hence why even the piece of my handlebar in the foreground looms so large.
The Faceless Cabal noted that this was uploaded 0:17 minutes after the midnight deadline, but after reading your Extra Mile story about your frozen bike battery (and fingers from resetting it by removing the cover multiple times) they decided to accept your submission. Well played!
@cvcalhoun 215200 wrote:
Any chance of getting the scoreboard updated? I know Boomer has other things on his plate, so I’ll accept if there isn’t, but I’m curious.
And the results after the first month of competition are …..
@cvcalhoun was both curious and on top of the scorecard due to 13 bonus points! She is also the second most efficient in hunting down public art per mile rode … so place your bets on her moving forward!Pete C is a distant second, but maybe earned bonus points under a different name on the Bike Forum where those bonuses are awarded … I dunno [emoji1744]? Pro tip: let me know if you post on the Bike Forum under a different name than your Strava ID!
Rod Smith was a late entrant and came dangerously close to sandbagging points, but is close behind at third place (and safe as long as he posts his finds in a prompt manner;-)
The names in”red” on the above spreadsheet have posted on this Thread … and some even earned bonus points … but use different names on Strava, so I don’t know how to assign their Strava miles nor verify their finds/posts. Repeat PublicArtFinder service message: let me know what your Strava handle is when you post on this Thread if they it is different from what you use here.
Finally, there may be some double counting amongst the early birds who posted before the BAFS leaderboard was reset to zero for 2022. Only 2 of the 6 “early birds” confirmed that they had corrected the #publicartfinder hashtags on their corresponding Strava ride titles. If you deleted, you can now retag those early bird rides (granted that you didn’t score them on a second ride already).
Full deets on scores can be found on the #publicartfinder scorecard https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1Ob3HlhU34D4xrtbttsDIAu2knT8MOIZQ2EcAr6s5YF0/htmlview
I will issue another update by no later than end of February. In the interim, go ride & seek some cool art!
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@Boomer2U 215347 wrote:
And the results after the first month of competition are …..
@cvcalhoun was both curious and on top of the scorecard due to 13 bonus points! She is also the second most efficient in hunting down public art per mile rode … so place your bets on her moving forward!Pete C is a distant second, but maybe earned bonus points under a different name on the Bike Forum where those bonuses are awarded … I dunno [emoji1744]? Pro tip: let me know if you post on the Bike Forum under a different name than your Strava ID!
Rod Smith was a late entrant and came dangerously close to sandbagging points, but is close behind at third place (and safe as long as he posts his finds in a prompt manner;-)
The names in”red” on the above spreadsheet have posted on this Thread … and some even earned bonus points … but use different names on Strava, so I don’t know how to assign their Strava miles nor verify their finds/posts. Repeat PublicArtFinder service message: let me know what your Strava handle is when you post on this Thread if they it is different from what you use here.
Finally, there may be some double counting amongst the early birds who posted before the BAFS leaderboard was reset to zero for 2022. Only 2 of the 6 “early birds” confirmed that they had corrected the #publicartfinder hashtags on their corresponding Strava ride titles. If you deleted, you can now retag those early bird rides (granted that you didn’t score them on a second ride already).
Full deets on scores can be found on the #publicartfinder scorecard https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1Ob3HlhU34D4xrtbttsDIAu2knT8MOIZQ2EcAr6s5YF0/htmlview
I will issue another update by no later than end of February. In the interim, go ride & seek some cool art!
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I’m not sure how the scoring works. I thought I had tagged each time in Strava, but then going back through here, I saw that I had posted at least 14 distinct times with bike in each photo. In the end, it doesn’t matter as it’s pointless…and it’s fun to set out to find something each day. The problem here is finding so many things in one day, but far enough away from my house that I don’t want to go back every day for the next week to get a separate photo.
At any rate, thanks for running this whole shebang Boomer! It gives me a target each day!
And here’s the first post for February. It’s a beautiful sculpture in an odd place — at the corner of an intersection near a whole raft of big-box stores. The extra photos are to show the lovely detail.
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The two children are riding a sweet horse pulling a wagon. The wagon has sacks of something in it. The piece is so complete. This is what I found about the artist: https://delavegastudios.com/
Asian art for the Chinese Lunar New Year bonus: I edited this post because I wasn’t 100% sure whether my first attempt was Chinese art or just a Chinese character. This one on Honey Pig in North Bethesda is Korean art with a Chinese flag in one of the hearts.
For those of you in the greater DC area, the #ReachWinterLanterns display at the Kennedy Center is well worth the visit, especially at night!
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@Kbikeva 215353 wrote:
I’m not sure how the scoring works. I thought I had tagged each time in Strava, but then going back through here, I saw that I had posted at least 14 distinct times with bike in each photo. In the end, it doesn’t matter as it’s pointless…and it’s fun to set out to find something each day.
At any rate, thanks for running this whole shebang Boomer! It gives me a target each day!
Strava says that you #hashtagged 9 rides in January, FYI. Hashtags on this thread do not get read automatically by the BAFS leaderboard (and there is no way to verify the 10 mile minimum distance here either; that’s where I depend upon Strava data). For what it is worth, I credited you a bonus point for laying down in a bed of thorns to get that vertical shot of the horse statue’s underbelly!
But as you say, it’s all pointless in the end anyway. But I’m humbled that #publicartfinder has served as a source of motivation for you to ride & seek. That makes you a winner in my book any day!
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