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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.37,0:00:36.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Soft music and traffic sounds)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.72,0:00:46.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I- I must say that when\NI pass one at a street corner,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.100,0:00:50.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it gives me a, a kind of\Nan eerie feeling.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.33,0:00:53.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The first time I saw it,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.33,0:00:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know what it was\Nuntil I saw a couple of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.87,0:00:58.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought like why would someone paint their bike white?\NThey must be kind of weird.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.97,0:01:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It- it speaks volumes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.40,0:01:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just think that maybe,\Nif more people were aware of what it was
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.88,0:01:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what it was for,\Nthat it would definitely get the message across.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.42,0:01:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It's kind of mysterious
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.13,0:01:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and kind of beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.25,0:01:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It's really eerie.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.30,0:01:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I think it looks\Nreally dead and lonely.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.97,0:01:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It looks like it's miming,\Nwhich is ironic.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.100,0:01:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's missing its, um,\Nit's missing its rider.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.83,0:01:41.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's that, uh, sense\Nof loneliness,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.33,0:01:43.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of, uh, despair
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.33,0:01:45.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and loss.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.33,0:01:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I think it's sad.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.100,0:01:52.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of, I don't know,\Nit's sort of a combo
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.12,0:01:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of it's sad and it's beautiful,\Nyou know, because of what it is
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.63,0:01:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what it stands for.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.63,0:02:02.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(soft music)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.97,0:02:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- A ghost bike is a, uh, bike that's taken\Nand painted completely white
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.00,0:02:12.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is put at the scene of
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.87,0:02:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a cyclists death as a memorial\Nand a reminder that a cyclist
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.100,0:02:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had died at that spot.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.97,0:02:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Take the wheels off first and then\Ntake every little thing off of it, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.79,0:02:31.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't have breaks on it,\Ndon't have anything that-
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.33,0:02:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't have a basket, don't have a bell \Nor anything like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.58,0:02:36.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just make it very minimalist\Nas possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.07,0:02:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because then you could actually get\Nthe proper shape and form of the bicycle.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.33,0:02:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can stand out more instead of\Njust simply being an abandoned bike.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.42,0:02:47.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, if a bike doesn't have any brakes,\Nthere's something special about it, right? It's not going anywhere fast.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.40,0:03:11.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a very global art form.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.97,0:03:16.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're um- they're canonizing\Nthe deaths of cyclists
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.100,0:03:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the United States. St. Louis -\Nthat's where it first originated.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.63,0:03:26.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though, after that,\NPoland got it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.100,0:03:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New York City's taken off with it, Chicago.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.40,0:03:36.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- If these unfortunate symbols do\Nkeep sort of popping up all over the city,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.87,0:03:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we'll have sort of\Na visual reminder of how many cyclists
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.25,0:03:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually do get killed,\Nwhich is a lot, uh, in Toronto.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.93,0:03:47.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- So I guess in a sense,\Nit is raising awareness for cyclists,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.100,0:03:49.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, uh, not in a real positive way.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.67,0:04:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I think that art should mix-\Nthat art should be somewhat
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.100,0:04:03.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,political in, in every sense\Nof the word.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.100,0:04:06.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that art
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.47,0:04:09.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uh, motivates people,\Ninspires people,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.100,0:04:12.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moves people to action.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.50,0:04:17.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that it really is the, uh,\Nthe ultimate way of promoting change.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.92,0:04:21.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(soft music)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.87,0:04:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that it transcends
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.97,0:04:34.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,politics,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.40,0:04:37.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or politics the way\Nwe sort of perceive it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.25,0:04:40.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imaginative, good art-making
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.100,0:04:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is- is really\Nthe best message
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.12,0:04:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we can possibly generate.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.100,0:05:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(soft music)