#PublicArtFinder FS2023 Pointless Prize

[Boomer Cycles]

How to play #PublicArtFinder:

1. RIDE your bike AT LEAST 10 MILES and share on this thread the discovery of any art form (loosely defined: you know it when you see it) that is readily accessible to the general public. Only one art form allowed per 10+mile ride. If you want to discover more art, then start a new ride on Strava and post another art find. Rides less than 10 miles do not count.

2. POST a picture [using Small resolution] on this thread of your art find with some or all of YOUR BIKE IN IT. Pics that don’t include your bike will not count. Adding your pic to your Strava ride helps w/ verification, but does not substitute for posting on this thread.

3. #Publicartfinder pics must be POSTED ON THE DAY of the ride just like #scavhunt.

4. Include the LOCATION of your art find so that others may find it, too.

5. Use HASHTAG #publicartfinder (not CaSe SeNsItIvE) in your Strava Ride title so that it will appear on the FS2023 #publicartfinder leaderboard https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/publicartfinder I will sweep this leaderboard
for data periodically to feed the official #publicartfinder scoreboard found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ob3HlhU34D4xrtbttsDIAu2knT8MOIZQ2EcAr6s5YF0/edit#gid=358841852

6. FOLLOW ME (Boomer Cycles) on Strava so that I can verify your #publicartfinder rides.

Entries will be judged by some faceless cabal on 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, 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 #publicartfinder in years past, go find some New2U art!

Now go Ride and Seek some public art ;-

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[Boomer Cycles]

@bikesnick 221520 wrote:

brontosaurus in McLean

That’s pretty cool! Can you please edit your post and include a more specific address, or at least neighborhood, so that others can find your brontosaurus? Thanks for playing #publicartfinder.

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[Indiana]

1/3/2023 Metropolitan Branch Trail near Alethia Tanner Park
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New art by https://lutherwrightart.com/public-art

[bikesnick]

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Large and elaborate Christmas decoration on Spring Vale Ave in McLean

[consularrider]

1/4/2023 – Park and Little Falls in front of the Falls Church City Hall

“A Walk in the Park”

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[consularrider]

1/4/2023 – Park and Little Falls in front of the Falls Church City Hall

“A Walk in the Park”
Artist: Richard McMurry (Graphic Art conversion by Roxane Kaylor)

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[Boomer Cycles]

For those of you also playing the FS2023 Daily #Scavhunt, feel free to double count artsy examples here, too, but be sure to add the location!

#scavhunt – “snow” @ Junction Bakery in on Mt Vernon Ave, Del Ray hood of Alexandria VA

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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

Horsehead sculpture in front of 14097 Rehobeth Church Rd, Lovettsville. Gotta ride gravel to get there.
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[Nadine]

1/4/23

There’s so much great art on the MBT now, much of it new!

I took a pic of a bit of it today. Didn’t get it straight. Friends were waiting. I know Boomer or Serdar woulda done a better job, but I think it’s still pretty.

Besides, symmetry is overrated [emoji2957][emoji38][emoji1744]

[Indiana]

1/4/2023 Lightweave at 2nd and L NE DC
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thank you, #publicartfinder, for promoting me to look up this installation I’ve passed a zillion times. I never new that the lights coordinated with the ambient soundscape. I kept waiting for them to turn blue again to better match my bike… Now I know why I couldn’t figure out the order to the changing pattern of colors–they had to match the traffic sounds!
https://www.futureforms.us/lightweave
Actual underpass condition today is a far cry from this artist rendering in GGW 2015 piece
https://ggwash.org/view/38558/noma-is-lighting-up-its-underpasses-next-up-l-street

[bikingjenn]

1/4/23 #publicartfinder For some this beautifully decorated xmas tree is the art but the bonus is the permanent art on the Arlington Shirlington Library wall behind it. Sort of a light show waterfall

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[cvcalhoun]

1/4/2023 “Embrace,” at the Marriott International on Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda.

[Rod Smith]

Georgia Piney Branch
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[Rod Smith]

East West Highway and Riggs Rd
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[Rod Smith]

Kalorama and Columbia
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[Rod Smith]

Stuart and 9th Ballston
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