If you read this blog you already know about my building's basement-give-away-spot.
If not, it is as it sounds. I live in a big building and there is an on-going, anonymous, informal trading system going on with all my neighbours via a special location in the basement.
I give to the spot and I receive from the spot...
Today I picked up someone's DIY-poster-stuck-on-a-hunk-of-pressboard-situation. This is actually the second time it's been to the basement! Someone else brought it upstairs and lived with it for a few months and brought it back again. So it goes.
I rather liked the picture but had passed on it for several days because the whole thing was a bit of a mess... but today, in a fit of procrastination, I realized I might be able to work some magic.
It's from the Tour de France in 1924 and the caption says the front rider is Ottavio Bottecchia ascending the Galibier. I like the people in the crowd.
I managed to get it unstuck from the ugly board, trimmed it down, and hung it up in my studio with some cool old clips.
Viola! Sweet score!
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