FS2022 #PublicArtFinder Pointless Prize

[Boomer Cycles]

Back by popular demand for its second season w/ enhanced guidelines [emoji849]):

1. Discover any art form (loosely defined) that is freely accessible to the public while completing at least a 10 mile bike ride. Monuments and Memorials are EXCLUDED as they are a different PP by @HokieBeth. Only one art form discovery allowed per 10+mile ride. If you want to discover more art, then start a new ride. Rides less than 10 miles are not eligible.

2. Post here on this thread a picture [use Small resolution] of your art form with some portion of your bicycle in it. Include the location of the art form following examples from the Little Free Libraries (also excluded) so that others may find it, too. Public Art rides/pics should be posted daily, so as to allow all a fair chance to play. Sandbagging posts NOT allowed and will automatically disqualify you from this pointless prize.

3. Hashtag your ride #publicartfinder (not CaSe SeNsItIvE) in your Strava ride titles if you want to appear on the FS2022 #publicartfinder leaderboard https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/publicartfinder which I will sweep (at least monthly) for data for the official #publicartfinder scoreboard found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ob3HlhU34D4xrtbttsDIAu2knT8MOIZQ2EcAr6s5YF0/edit#gid=58255797

4. Follow me (Boomer Cycles) on Strava so that I can verify your #publicartfinder rides

Entries will be judged by some faceless cabal on totally subjective criteria that may include use of creative objects (like your bike interacting w/ an art form), composition, light, artistic flair, witty captions, great stories, # of quality submissions, and/or # likes, kudos or dislikes, and bonus points. In the event of a tie, efficacy rules: most art discoveries/least amount of miles wins.

If you played last year, go find some New2U art! Don’t game the competition by resubmitting your discoveries from last year. Honor system in effect, but there may be extra points for self-policing or calling out any offending FS veterans!

Now go Ride and Seek your art form;-!

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[Rod Smith]

@Boomer2U 215439 wrote:

Nice bike! Is that a Volagi??

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Thanks! Van Dessel WTF https://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/2677433/

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

@Rod Smith 215422 wrote:

1832 Fenwick St. NE in the Ivy City neighborhood
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Great shot!

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[Nadine]

2/3/22

You know that elephant sculpture Rod found in Arlington? I went to check it out and indeed it only looks like an elephant from one angle. It’s also an arch with a table under it!

[Kbikeva]

2/3/2022 There was actually snow here last night and it was COLD riding. All of my cold weather riding gear is in Virginia (I didn’t think I’d be here this long). But I layered up, and went out in search of something new to post.

This is at a local public library. It’s actually a clever camouflage of a HVAC system, nicely incorporated into the rest of the architecture.

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[consularrider]

Is this #publicartfinder or #memorial?

“Valor” and “Sacrifice” at the east end of Memorial Bridge

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[BianchiBoy]

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Lake Artemesia Visitor’s Center, College Park

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

Discovered these outside of “The Point,” a new condo building in Reston at the end of Roland Clark Place.
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[cvcalhoun]

2/3/2022 (Well, the ride started that day, although it’s 2/4 now — the perils of always riding around midnight)
This is a sort of fake origami (obviously not made of paper or it wouldn’t survive) at 5425 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase.

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[Kbikeva]

@karenbikes2@gmail.com 215592 wrote:

Discovered these outside of “The Point,” a new condo building in Reston at the end of Roland Clark Place.
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We’ll have to add them to the Reston Public Art Bike Tours!

[BianchiBoy]

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Club 300 Bench at the Lake Artemesia Welcome Center, College Park, MD.

[Kbikeva]

Put your back into it?

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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

Here’s another relatively new public art installation in Reston. It’s located in a new condo development between Sunrise Valley Rd and the toll road. The piece is titled “Simon,” referring to Reston’s founder, Robert Simon. The sculptor is DeWitt Godfrey. More about this piece and the artist: https://publicartreston.org/project/simon2/
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[consularrider]

#publicartfinder – Ian Bird Art at the corner of N Ohio St and Washington Blvd in Fostoria (Highland Park/Overlee Knolls)

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[cvcalhoun]

2/4/2022
Farr Park, which is part of The Collection, 5471 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase

[Kbikeva]

What a delightful surprise as I came around a corner in the next neighborhood over from here.

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