They turn, turn around, turn right then left, go back to the same place three times… Without this investigation by the New York Times, no one would ever have understood the mysterious zigzags of many New York cyclists and joggers. In fact, they draw. Armed with geolocation apps that mark their routes with a colored line on the map of the city, these athletes have fun reproducing, at the cost of kilometers of running or pedaling, images of their creation or masterpieces. known works. A cyclist named Janine Strong reproduced The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer’s famous painting, criss-crossing Brooklyn for 90 kilometers, constantly checking the lines of his giant sketch on his phone’s Strava app.
In San Francisco, street artist Lenny Maughan started in 2015. That year, actor Leonard Nimoy, aka Dr Spock in the series Star Trek, had just died, and Maughan had paid homage to him by drawing on a bicycle, all over the north of San Francisco, a hand with strangely spread fingers evoking the famous Vulcan salute of his hero. In New Jersey, across the Hudson, fellow “GPS Art” enthusiast Gene Lu chisels his routes to evoke other pop culture landmarks, like the bizarre ridge on the forehead of the Sigils. , one of the tribes of Game of Thrones… Work, that…
Software of shame
Le magazines Wiredhe amazes us with his revelations about these ultra-conservative churches which, instead of excluding their parishioners when they reveal themselves “unclean” in their eyes, let’s say gay or addicted to porn sites, offer them a last chance to free themselves from evil.