Showing Revision 5 created 06/24/2014 by kelsey5.

1. Title:
   Ghost Bike
2. Description:

   An exploration of the grassroots "ghost bike" movement - why are these mysterious white bikes being placed in cities all over the world?

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   (Soft music and traffic sounds)
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   - I- I must say that when
   I pass one at a street corner,
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   it gives me a, a kind of
   an eerie feeling.
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   - The first time I saw it,
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   I didn't know what it was
   until I saw a couple of them.
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   I thought like why would someone paint their bike white?
   They must be kind of weird.
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   - It- it speaks volumes.
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    I just think that maybe,
    if more people were aware of what it was
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    and what it was for,
    that it would definitely get the message across.
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    - It's kind of mysterious
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    and kind of beautiful.
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    - It's really eerie.
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    - I think it looks
    really dead and lonely.
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    - It looks like it's miming,
    which is ironic.
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    And it's missing its, um,
    it's missing its rider.
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    So there's that, uh, sense
    of loneliness,
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    of, uh, despair
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    and loss.
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    - I think it's sad.
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    It's kind of, I don't know,
    it's sort of a combo
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    of it's sad and it's beautiful,
    you know, because of what it is
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    and what it stands for.
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    (soft music)
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    - A ghost bike is a, uh, bike that's taken
    and painted completely white
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    and is put at the scene of
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    a cyclists death as a memorial
    and a reminder that a cyclist
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    had died at that spot.
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    - Take the wheels off first and then
    take every little thing off of it, right?
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    Don't have breaks on it,
    don't have anything that-
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    Don't have a basket, don't have a bell
    or anything like that.
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    Just make it very minimalist
    as possible.
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    Because then you could actually get
    the proper shape and form of the bicycle.
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    It can stand out more instead of
    just simply being an abandoned bike.
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    Like, if a bike doesn't have any brakes,
    there's something special about it, right? It's not going anywhere fast.
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    It's a very global art form.
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    They're um- they're canonizing
    the deaths of cyclists
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    in the United States. St. Louis -
    that's where it first originated.
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    Though, after that,
    Poland got it.
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    New York City's taken off with it, Chicago.
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    - If these unfortunate symbols do
    keep sort of popping up all over the city,
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    then we'll have sort of
    a visual reminder of how many cyclists
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    actually do get killed,
    which is a lot, uh, in Toronto.
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    - So I guess in a sense,
    it is raising awareness for cyclists,
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    but, uh, not in a real positive way.
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    - I think that art should mix-
    that art should be somewhat
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    political in, in every sense
    of the word.
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    I think that art
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    uh, motivates people,
    inspires people,
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    moves people to action.
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    I think that it really is the, uh,
    the ultimate way of promoting change.
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    I think that it transcends
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    politics,
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    or politics the way
    we sort of perceive it.
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    Imaginative, good art-making
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    is- is really
    the best message
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    that we can possibly generate.
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