#PublicArtFinder FS2024 Pointless Prize

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

I’ve revised rule #3 of the #publicartfinder game to only require posting your art find to your Strava because some of you have been unable to post to the Forum since the migration to a new platform. Posting your photo to the Forum is nice-to-do but optional.

How to play #PublicArtFinder (revised):

1. RIDE your bike AT LEAST 10 MILES, and on that ride, discover any art form (loosely defined: you know it when you see it) readily accessible to the general public. An art find on a ride that’s less than 10 miles does not count, even if you ride multiple rides in a day totaling 10 miles or more.
2. Only 1 art find per day will be counted. (This differs from Freezing Saddles 2023’s game when a player could submit 1 art find per 10-mile ride with multiple 10 mile rides per day.)
3. Share your art find via posting 1 photo to your Strava for the ride on which you discovered it. Posting also to the Forum is nice to do (easy to see all the photos in the contest in one place) but OPTIONAL.
4. All, or some part, of your bike must be in your photo or it will not count!
5. Post your photo ON THE DAY OF THE RIDE.
6. Use HASHTAG #publicartfinder (not CaSe SeNsItIvE) in your Strava Ride title so that it will appear on the FS2024 #publicartfinder leader board, which you can find here:
https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/publicartfinder
I will sweep this leader board for data periodically to feed the official #publicartfinder scorecard found here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ob3HlhU34D4xrtbttsDIAu2knT8MOIZQ2EcAr6s5YF0/edit#gid=1975917300
7. Friends of FS2024 are welcome to post, but only registered participants can win prizes.
8. Follow me on Strava (Karen Hass, https://www.strava.com/athletes/38633292) so I can follow you back and verify that your #publicartfinder rides meet all the rules.

The location of your art find is nice to include with the photo so that others may find it too. A description of the art (artist, medium, circumstances for it’s creation, etc.) is also nice.

One point will be awarded for each entry that meets all the criteria above. Entries will be judged by some faceless cabal, and may be awarded additional points based on subjective criteria such as use of creative objects (like your bike interacting with your art find), composition, light, artistic flair, witty captions, great stories, # of quality submissions, # likes/kudos/dislikes, etc. In the event of a tie, efficacy rules: most art discoveries/least # of miles will win.

Now go find some public art!

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[cvcalhoun]

1/18/24 From the former location of the Social Beast, 2340 Wisconsin Avenue NW

[cvcalhoun]

1/19/24 Paris Olympics 2024 mural, from the French Embassy

[cvcalhoun]

@karenbikes2gmail-com, I think you mixed up my numbers with @Boomer2U’s. See the leaderboard on the Freezing Saddles site; I have 19 entries and he has 18, but your spreadsheet shows the opposite. He’ll undoubtedly have one more before the day is done, but I just want to make sure I get credit for mine.

[Joan]

1/19/24 Library Eternal Truths

[LhasaCM]

1/19/2024 – Mural along the MBT at the pocket park at S NW

[Boomer Cycles]

1/19 – Thing 2 : a pop up folk art (snowman) at the S 4MR Park trailhead at the end of Commonwealth Ave, Alexandria VA (doubled up as today’s #scavhunt, too;)

[CCRider50]

MLK Memorial 1/19 ride (had issues uploading yesterday)

[cvcalhoun]

1/20/24

Call box repurposed as art, 3617 Wisconsin Avenue NW

 

[Kbikeva]

1/20/2024

this was a surprise to me to find it! It’s not very exciting, but it is art! I particularly like the figure with spiky hair.

[LhasaCM]

1/20/2024 – While the art installed in the underpass on M NE (by REI) is officially called “Rain”, on a day like today, they look to me more like icicles.

[consularrider]

#publicartfinder – 01/20/2024 – Mural on the wall by the Crystal City Metro Station

[Joan]

1/20/24 Korean War memorial in Ballston

[CCRider50]

1/20/24 Josiah Henson Museum, Bethesda, MD

[Boomer Cycles]

1/20 – Thing 3, pop up folk art (snowman), Aurora Hills hood of Arlington VA

[Sophie CW]

1/20/24 – Due to the snow and ice, I could get close to this chain-saw sculpture made from a dead tree:

But it looks pretty cool made from this video: https://www.mymcmedia.org/champion-oak-transformed-into-art-in-the-park/

[Author]

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