I wonder what was the city’s first clue that this bike was abandoned.. the potato in the chain.. or the pinwheel in the spokes?
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Ha! What’s that growing in the wheel? So, if you call the number and say it’s not abandoned does the city just leave it there?
Hehe. Now this would be nice to have in NYC.
I saw that too, right on the corner of ashland, division, and milwalkee but I didn’t have my camera on me. What I thought was interesting about it was that it had been transformed into a public participatory art project. People had been adding and removing things for weeks.
BTW, Here’s a sneak peak at my blog, it’s still alpha , not even beta. I shouldn’t even be posting it, but I figured you and/or your fan club might be interested
Funny, I live in Houston and an abandoned bike would never wit around long enough to “grow” stuff.
That sucker would be clipped faster than you could say “but I’m pretty sure I left it here…”
A colleague sent the following email to me:
Folks,
My job forces me to take part in an art installation.
See the attached photo. Artist Joe Janka lost the key to his bike lock and left his bicycle on a rack outside the Division Blue Line stop.
He has invited other artists to decorate it. See this article in New City (3rd paragraph):
http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/3477.html
I had no choice but to tag the bike with a warning notice that the City will remove it if it is not claimed. Hopefully Joe will contact us so we can liberate his bike for him, a happy ending to his art piece.
- [name withheld]
SWEET! I knew there was some subversive element at work here.
We are to the bottom of the art bike mystery and the abondonment notice is a part of the collaborative installation. How perfect.
The perfect end of this installation, if it ever must end, would be for it to be liberated by the Working Bikes Cooperative, my favorite bike shop. You should all check it out if you need a bike. They’re a NFP dedicated to returning old bikes to working condition and selling them back to the public at sweet prices. Any profits and extra bikes go to delivering bikes to third world coutries where they are used to enhance mobility and local economies.
From the New City article (mentioned above)
What a great story! There are plenty of abandoned bikes and bike parts in NYC – they should all be considered ART Installations, ready to receive potato or flowers or eviction notices for art’s sake.