#PublicArtFinder FS2024 Pointless Prize

[Nadine]

1/10/24- public art on a storefront in old town Alexandria 

[cvcalhoun]

1/10/24 – From Preservation and Framing Services Custom Framing, 4901 Wisconsin Avenue NW

 

[cvcalhoun]

Oh, and can I just express my relief that I made it before the deadline, having encountered this when I tried to post at 11:55 pm:

 

[shwong5]

1/11/2024 #publicartfinder wall scribbles along the 4 Mile Run Trail near the W&OD trailhead

[Serdar]

The Braddock Cannon marks the trail taken by the army of General Braddock which left Alexandria on April 20, 1755, to defend the western frontier against the French and Indians.

[LhasaCM]

1/11/2024 – A lovely mural on the side of a house in Foggy Bottom (Hughes Mews NW just off of Queen Annes Lane)

[Nadine]

1-11-24 Vigilante Coffee mural

There’s so much nice art on vigilante coffee it’s hard to choose one! (Course if I’d realized Joan was gonna post a pic of this wall I woulda taken a different one…. next time!) This mural is on the outside wall on the right. I see Joan took a slightly different view.  Neither of us could get the whole wall cuz there was a line of cars parked right behind your butt while you’re tryna take the pic….

[Joan]

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

1/11/24

[cvcalhoun]

1/11/24

On a wall in the outside seating area of Piccoli Platti in Bethesda.

[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 a 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 can find it also. 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!

[Boomer Cycles]

1/11/24 – bike art on the newly upgraded bike rail on the 34th Street (& Water St) staircase leading up to the C&O Canal

< forum won’t let me upload photo so I added my Strava ride link instead https://strava.app.link/bmxc68s1hGb >

[Indiana]

1/11/24 Statute in honor of the Temperance Movement, Indiana Plaza DC

Today I learned that this has been dubbed one of Washington’s ugliest statues. I didn’t think it was *that* bad…

(hope it works to cut and paste a thumbnail, and hope the photo uploading works again soon!)

[consularrider]

The Bike Arlington website is giving me a different error message when I try to upload from my iPhone (file type or size error).  Then when I try to open them on my computer I am getting a corrupted file message.  Good thing I upload to Strava first so I can save from there and then upload to BA.  Started yesterday on my second picture.  And now today’s photos are missing from the available files to upload, but are on the phone?

#publicartfinder – 01/12/2024 – Graffiti art on Peace Valley Ln between Justice HS and Justice Park

 

[Kbikeva]

1/12/24

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