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NYC Displays David Byrne-Designed Bicycle Racks
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by Jarrett Martineau | August 20, 2008 at 09:31 am
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It's hard not to love David Byrne. He's an acclaimed and prolific musician, a widely respected visual and installation artist, a blogger, and an avid cyclist.
And now nine of his two-wheeled, transport-inspired designs, in the form of art installation bike racks placed in different neighbourhoods around New York City.
In typically cheeky form, Byrne's pedalled the extra mile and created each rack to reflect a different neighbourhood.
The Williamsburg "Hipster" is just too perfect -- and I assume that the only bikes parked there will be Billyburg hipster fixies?
Musician, artist and bicycling enthusiast David Byrne has designed nine unusual bike racks that have been installed around New York City.The Department of Transportation says the artistic installations by the Talking Heads singer are meant to spark interest in bicycling.
Each rack reflects its location. A guitar-shaped rack named Hipster has been placed in Brooklyn's trendy Williamsburg neighborhood. A rack that looks like a dollar sign is in the Wall Street area.
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at 02:35 on August 21st, 2008
Photo ©2005 Jeremy Richardson
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at 04:13 on August 21st, 2008
David Byrne rules. He did a whole art series with Powerpoint.
at 10:45 on August 21st, 2008
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at 09:15 on August 24th, 2008
The Bike Racks look great! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brCk1-AVvRk
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at 16:09 on March 21st, 2009
i love me. i am great. huh?