The Art of the Danglemug

[Cudzoziemiec]

ARTIST’S STATEMENT: UNTITLED DANGLE ART NO.01
“Cyclists dangle many items from their packs, but none is so ubiquitous as the metal mug. Evoking hunters, trappers, prospectors, and Scouts, each puts the cup on the outside ostensibly to save room in the pack and as a tune of hopeful optimism for dipping it into a rushing stream for a drink. Ultimately, the dangle mug is transformed into a signal of belonging and identity, with functionality sublimated into aesthetic aspiration. Most often making the bicycle look like a rolling junkyard trash pile exploded onto a confused horizon of industrial debris, dangle mugs remain a triumph of cupping intention.” —Joe Cruz

[Peter]

Also entitled "Well, photoshop my bottom, y'all."

[rogerzilla]

I have never dangled my mug.  I recently bungeed a big bag of salad to the top of a full Carradice Barley using an Ottolock, though.  I was quite proud of that.

[Cudzoziemiec]

If you did that in the desert of New Mexico or the Highlands of Scotland, it would be either seriously radical bikepacking or trans-surrealist statement art ("juxtaposing the mundane and fresh greenery with the harsh, depopulated landscape"). But in Swindon it's just a salad!

[Adam]

ARTIST’S STATEMENT: UNTITLED DANGLE ART NO.01
“Cyclists dangle many items from their packs, but none is so ubiquitous as the metal mug. Evoking hunters, trappers, prospectors, and Scouts, each puts the cup on the outside ostensibly to save room in the pack and as a tune of hopeful optimism for dipping it into a rushing stream for a drink. Ultimately, the dangle mug is transformed into a signal of belonging and identity, with functionality sublimated into aesthetic aspiration. Most often making the bicycle look like a rolling junkyard trash pile exploded onto a confused horizon of industrial debris, dangle mugs remain a triumph of cupping intention.” —Joe Cruz

Er, but that's not a mug, just a tin can with both ends removed.  What use is that?

[LittleWheelsandBig]

That is what makes it art. Art, pretty much by its nature, is something that isn’t useful as such but is interesting.

[Cudzoziemiec]

That's exactly the point. This is where I originally saw it: https://bikepacking.com/news/joes-dangle-art/
This might or might not be the same Joe Cruz: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/joe-cruz-art-280121

[Cudzoziemiec]

This one isn't explicitly intended as art, in fact it's someone's Tour Divide set up so should be purely purposeful, but it's so rusty it's hard to imagine drinking from it.

[Wowbagger]

That is what makes it art. Art, pretty much by its nature, is something that isn’t useful as such but is interesting.

I wish I'd said that...