What is the most authentic place to ride?

I have only just found this thread and I must say I am amazed. I have an upcoming show at the Kemistry Gallery in Shoreditch titled "Authentic Surfaces: The Fixie Colony Algorithms" (working title). I have been out all summer photographing the exact same spots mentioned in this thread! Ha ha! I am particularly proud of the Brick Lane photo with a rare white tyre skid mark.

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/4087/authenticsurfaces1.jpg
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7094/authenticsurfaces2.jpg

O.M.G. i just totally LOLLED! hahaha

This is art in the sense that white room with a plastic chair in it was art at the Tate Modern.

I'll probably get a bit of it coned off too.

How is that authentic??? ;)

Alright Mr Universal, see this? this is an authentic birthday party in authentic dulwich with authentic fixie skidder in all age and sexes tampered upon this very spot, I didn't even use a fancy camera, just a small digital point and shoot pointing 90 degrees to what left of the authentic grass;

you can have it if you want, but only if you think you're authentic enough.

Is this NJS?

edscoble does to London's famous artists what he has been doing to bike component purchasers everywhere for years. ;)

Alright Mr Universal, see this? this is an authentic birthday party in authentic dulwich with authentic fixie skidder in all age and sexes tampered upon this very spot, I didn't even use a fancy camera, just a small digital point and shoot pointing 90 degrees to what left of the authentic grass;
Hi Ed! Ok thanks for that. Not sure if it is some sort of submission but I should say I haven't actually put out a call for entries yet however I am very happy to crit what you have made. (see attached)

Not sure if the concept of 'party' and 'sex tampering' is coming across. There's potential here just relax and have some fun.

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Okay that alone is enough to tell me you're actually is serious about the whole 'pointing camera 90 degree to the ground' movement, rather than a very very elaborate pisstake.

You should patent that idea before Lomography create their own version and schedule a day out for pointing camera at ground.

This thread is piss-my-pants funny. Its title is bare jokes.

I got fed up with people taking the piss out of my art work. This is typical for London. I have just been away in Copenhagen for 6 months doing an art internment where they genuinely fancy my work. I have had two exhibitions and been blogged about by some really nice looking girls. I am back in London now with some new jeans feeling fired up to get on and make some new work. I am considering doing something with the new hire bikes. I need to add the blue to my authentic surfaces but am considering filling a Barclays bike with orange paint and getting some job seekers to ride the entire highway route leaving an inky trail.

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Most authentic - not actually riding, but locking onto the flower bed rack.

there was an artist (think it was a whole family?) who recreated bits of ground 1m square as paintings/sculptures they were chosen at random by throwing a wire grid onto the ground and then recreated back in the studio.
couldn't find any info on the web so maybe i got it wrong but i remember reading about it a few years ago.

Okay that alone is enough to tell me you're actually is serious about the whole 'pointing camera 90 degree to the ground' movement, rather than a very very elaborate pisstake.

You should patent that idea before Lomography create their own version and schedule a day out for pointing camera at ground.

It makes it look like more of a piss take to me.

there was an artist (think it was a whole family?) who recreated bits of ground 1m square as paintings/sculptures they were chosen at random by throwing a wire grid onto the ground and then recreated back in the studio.
couldn't find any info on the web so maybe i got it wrong but i remember reading about it a few years ago.

I know who you mean. Can't think of the name though. Beautiful work.

I know who you mean. Can't think of the name though. Beautiful work.

The Boyle Family

I have had two exhibitions and been blogged about by some really nice looking girls.

Somebody tell Robert Hughes he's out of a job, the criteria for being an art critic seems to have shifted…

It's probably for the best.

The Boyle Family

Now that to me is like Monet's water lillies to most people. Perfection.

It makes me really excited. Can't wait to get my blue highway photos back from the retouchers.

Post a link to these blogs.

I have a theory on our mystery artist's identity.

Cos the writing here:

reminds me of the writing here:

:)

Post a link to these blogs.

Sorry, I am not interested in rabid self-publicity.

Proof of bullshit.

The blue surface is in the can. I managed to convince one of the worker men who paint the blue pathways to release the shutter himself after I got it all set up. Very poignant because the fumes that come off this stuff when it is being laid are probably going to send him to an early grave.

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I for one am almost in tears. The piece is redolent with the conflicts and tensions inherent in the whole superhighway scheme, and it's almost overpoweringly poignant.

It certainly reflects vital themes of the age, and juxtaposes the contradictions inherent in modern life with the nostalgic reflection of a simpler time.

International Boris Blue?

Blackadder:
and what's the scale Darling?" "err... one to one sir"

This is not the thin blue line but the thick blue line.

I feel one side of it represents the where society has been and the other where we are going. We are currently in the transmission period. The thick blue line. Will the transition be successful or will it fail. The same questions that are being asked of the cycles routes. Both have there sceptics, both have their believers , only time ill tell, which die the will roll.