#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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[LGRides]

3/12/23 “Energy Bloom”
Raflo Park, Leesburg

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[consularrider]

#PublicArtFinder – 3/12/2023

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Scrap art at the metal worker’s place at 6100 Washington Blvd in Highland Park-Overlee Knolls (aka Fostoria)

[bikingjenn]

3/12/23 Decasleetze [emoji943] #publicartfinder Arlington Courthouse area 7-11

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[Rod Smith]

How dare they put a clothing shoes box in front of that Mas Paz mural!

[Rod Smith]

Met Branch Trail near Q Street

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

3/11/2023

Painted power box outside Capital One Hall on Capital One Tower Rd, McLean, VA.

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[Rod Smith]

DC Market, 16th and W SE, near the Frederick Douglas House

[Rod Smith]

Bald Eagle Rec Center, MLK and Joliet, SW

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

3/12/2023
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Painted power box outside Capital One Hall on Capital One Tower Rd, McLean, VA.

[Indiana]

3/12 Annie’s Ace Hardware nasturtium art, 8th and Monroe NE DC
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[cvcalhoun]

3/12/2023
“Starry Starry Night” on Norfolk Avenue across from the Tastee Diner. Original description I ran across a couple of years ago was, “Businessman David Goldberg, owner of Bethesda’s Union Hardware, used over 1,200 pieces of door hardware, including door knobs, brass plates and door levers, to create this amazing mural outside his downtown Bethesda shop.”

I’d actually looked for this back then, but the Bethesda Union Hardware has closed, and the people at the new location knew nothing about it. Today, I just happened to stumble upon it, and immediately recognized it.

[Boomer Cycles]

Sculpture harkening to the pioneering past along the Moab Canyon Pathway mm 1.0 (dedicated bike path alongside highway 191, Moab UT, outside Arches National Park).

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[consularrider]

#PublicArtFinder – 3/13/2023

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Not a Vixen, but a Huskie at Innovation Elementary School (formerly Key Immersion). This fence was on N Adams St at Key Blvd in Courthouse.
The fence fillers are not plastic cups, but purpose built squares to fit in standard chain link fencing.

[consularrider]

#PublicArtFinder – 3/13/2023 – #2

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Bicycle Club, S Washington St & Wallace St, Tinner Hill, Falls Church

[Rod Smith]

Worth a closer look. Sorry about the chainlink. I couldn’t get my bike in the shot without including the fence. Rules is rules. Kings Convenience Store, 16th and U SE

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