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"Irony of ironies, I was struck by a driver in Adams Morgan while cycling and I'm laid up at the moment," Carrefour told DCist via email on Friday.
Carrefour said the driver who hit him was ticketed, and he expects to make a full recovery.
As for getting another Alice Swanson bike in place, on Monday he wrote that while "there are two [bikes] already painted white as back ups," he "won't be able to do it for a few days more (leg still hurts)."
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At this point this has nothing to do with Ms. Swanson and everything to do with his ego
You got that right.
Well obviously. But at least now DDOT knows where to send the bill.
Why does Legba keep Kanye Westing this intersection...no one likes your "art" or thinks it's relevant after you did your disservice to Ms. Swanson's memory.
I like his art. And I think it's relevant.
Some see an 'activist.' I just see a pretentious arsehole attention whore.
Personally, I don't consider the bikes 'art' at all, but then I could probably take a dump on the sidewalk and someone in this city would call it art.
Iceman's latest work, "Untitled Dump on the Sidewalk" is a rich, earthy tapestry of the human experience, condensed as it is in a few hard nuggets with some corn and bits of celery. Not since Legba Carrefour's masterstroke, "Spraypainted White Insults to the Memory of Some Dead Biker or Something" has DC witnessed a level of artistry so poignant yet pointless. I was awe-inspired by its scope.
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Comment o' the day right there.
The unidentified motorist who struck him was also making a statement; I wouldn't mind seeing him or her receive some NEA funding.
Full contact, interactive guerilla art.
Let him spend the rest of whatever money he has left on his ego trip.
He's no activist.....he's an asshole. Too bad the car that hit Legba Carrefour didn't do more damage. Then he wouldn't be able to litter the streets with his trash. Well at least I know what to ask for for Christmas!
classy there, drr1971.
so you don't like what legba has done. fine. but to wish severe injury or death on him? that's unnecessary and makes you look foolish.
Nah....it makes me look tired of some jackass who thinks throwing white garbage around is supposed to be a BOLD statement anf will shake up "the system". Screw him....he's no better than someone throwing a candy bar wrapper or used condom on the ground.
sure, fine. but do you wish bodily harm on them, or do you just ask them to pick their shit up?
c'mon, i get it, we're on the internet, you can say whatever you want and there's no consequence! it still makes you sound juvenile.
Yes...I do wish bodily harm on him (and other people who litter). They have no cares or thoughts for others. And this jackass is the worst kind....he claims it's "art"....so he should be allowed to throw what is actually garbage all over the place. Oooo....look at me....over here.....I'm making a statement with this pile of old bikes and tricycles.....who's paying attention to me....over here!!!! Spare me. You can paint a turd white....that doesn't make it art. The only thing that's close to being as pathetic as Carrefour are the saps who follow his claims of this garbage being a bold artistic statement. I'll enjoy in a couple of years when I'll be driving through DC and seeing this jackass knocking on my window at a stop light asking me for spare change.
drr1971: i don't think anyone here wants garbage on the streets. i pick stuff up when i'm walking down my block all the time. i don't hope to see people beat with a baseball bat if they drop a wrapper on the ground. it makes them a boor and a jerk, but not a 3rd degree felon. get a grip.
Yes...I do wish bodily harm on him (and other people who litter). They have no cares or thoughts for others. And this jackass is the worst kind....he claims it's "art"....so he should be allowed to throw what is actually garbage all over the place. Oooo....look at me....over here.....I'm making a statement with this pile of old bikes and tricycles.....who's paying attention to me....over here!!!! Spare me. You can paint a turd white....that doesn't make it art. The only thing that's close to being as pathetic as Carrefour are the saps who follow his claims of this garbage being a bold artistic statement. I'll enjoy in a couple of years when I'll be driving through DC and seeing this jackass knocking on my window at a stop light asking me for spare change.
There has been white turd in one of the treeboxes near my house for the last few weeks. I have been wondering what illness or bad dinner the dog had that left it, but now I realize it's actually part of Legba's project. I'm glad we had this talk, it's really been bugging me.
Agreed. Now, a used condom on the ground with the penis still inside it? That's a bold statement about Man's inhumanity to His junk.
It also might mean that Paris Hilton is in town.
Great. Now I've got that "detachable pe~is" song in my head. Thanks.
I would love to see a used condom with Carrefour's junk in it!! I would get some gloves and a surgical mask and feed that little severed pecker to a rat.
DC Police, I think that this guy just announced that he would be committing a crime (littering or vandalism, depending on how you want to look at it). Can we get some enforcement?
So if this fool keeps on dumping garbage into Dupont Circle, can we find out where he lives and start dumping trash on to his lawn? [Not to encourage this act or anything.]
No, that wouldn't be nice. I'd like his address so I can forward him my daily junk mail...I mean leaflet art.
Isn't there something better for you people to be angry about than ghost bikes? World hunger, cancer, something like that?
Whatever they are, they're not ghost bikes. Legba called them a Public Art Project.
I think part of the objection people have is that this PAP doesn't address world hunger or cancer, or even safety on the street.
Was it really the best idea to take time out of your busy schedule of fighting world hunger and cancer to express your annoyance at blog commenters who disagree with you? How many people died in the world during those precious seconds you spent commenting?
Here's a story about him doing his activist art (er, tagging):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6158-2005Apr20.html
And FWIW, his nom de hipsteur is derived from the trickster messenger of the voodoo gods.
I think one bike is a nice gesture, 20 bikes is overkill. Was Carrefour responsible for the initial bike, or the swarm of 20 that came to replace it? The 20 was obnoxious, but the one was classy.
amusing how crazed and irritated people get at the sight of bicycles in the USA. Why is that anyway?
I don't think anyone has problems with bicycles per se. Jerky bike riders who make decent bike riders look bad? Maybe. Junk bikes dumped haphazard on the sidewalk? Definitely. But when said junk bikes are dumped as a "memorial" by an attention whore who wouldn't know art if it stood on a unicycle and peed in his face, you better believe people get irritated.
Anybody remember the Hubert Humphrey Memorial Plaza/Hobo Urinal that was next to MLK Library? They need to do the same thing here: pave it over and forget the whole thing ever happened.
Wow. monkeyerotica is calling somebody out for being an attention whore. Where will this end?
I'm annoyed b/c he used what appeared to be a perfectly fixable Raleigh 20 in his temporary display. What a waste of a decent bike.
A lot of people in DC are just starving for a reason to be angry at something. Anything really. Artists. People with funny hair. Bikes painted white.
You know, putting his name in print is only going to encourage him and feed the underlying narcism of this ridiculous and counterproductive mess. I'm a fan of activism, but this ain't it.
These bikes are now just a joke, nobody cares that some hippy wants to get their jollies out of pissing off DDOT... what point did this serve?! It only incurred the tax payers money in removal costs!
If that whacko puts up another bike I think he should be arrested... surely there are ways of tracking him down from his website registration info. The more he keeps up this vendetta that is not even his to keep, the more he degrades the original meaning!
It's so stupid and juvenille I can't even imagine the reasoning behind it. What a moron... I never wish harm on anyone but if there are other visually impaired or blind walkers like me out there, who might be able to take a minor injury, go trip over one of those things and sue the hell out of this guy! Jeez...
Yeah... people always forget us people who have visual impairments/are blind. There are enough things on the sidewalk (trees, posts, newspaper boxes, vendors, store signs, etc.) that trip us up. One bike is fine, but don't litter an entire neighborhood even if they "don't block pedestrian walkways". I have seen plenty of visually impaired people in this city to make it a hazard.
This guy's "art" just degrades the original purpose of the bike, which I didn't have that much of a problem with in the first place.