#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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[Serdar]

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I found this New2Me public art on a sidewall of St Elmo’s Coffee on Kenwood Ave (Fairlington) in Alexandria. This establishment has two more locations in Del Ray and Old Town North, but this one is the newest.
https://www.strava.com/activities/8391750755

[bikesnick]

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The “Kilroy was here” graffiti (cricled in red) became associated with US soldiers during WWII.
Two were included in the WWII Memorial, but not in an obivious place.
They are located on the west side of both arches, in little alcoves with some vents, behind locked gates.

[Robbie Rob]

Map art located Iocated on Washington St in Old Town.
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[bikingjenn]

1/14/23 statues

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[Rod Smith]

Parked on Good Hope Rd SE under the Anacostia Freeway, this truck never moves.

[Rod Smith]

[Rod Smith]

[cvcalhoun]

1/14/2023
From BoneJour in Bethesda

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[Rod Smith]

Sorry if you’ve seen this one before. I’ve posted a very similar picture on another website. Same mural, same bike, different day.

[Rod Smith]

Phone battery died taking this shot which might be why it’s out of focus.

[bikingjenn]

1/14/23 Statues in a falls church yard

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[Red]

#Publicartfinder with the Fairfax Squirrel Dodgers…VE Minibus at Woodson HS.
#woodsonhs

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[bikingjenn]

1/15/23 The Fern Pull that Mark showed us; homemade bike art with FS Friends–Navy Yard near the Whole Foods[ATTACH=CONFIG]29687[/ATTACH]

When I go through the forum website instead of Tapatalk, it rotates my photos…suggestions?

[consularrider]

#PublicArtFinder – 1/15/2023

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“Dogs of Del Ray” by Patrick Kirwin on the north side of Stomping Grounds on Mt Vernon Ave in Del Ray

[cvcalhoun]

1/15/2023
One of the medallions on the PNC Bank at 5530 Connecticut Avenue, NW

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