Nirvana superfan’s unique tribute
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One inventive cyclist has found a unique way to pay tribute to the 30th anniversary of Nirvana’s </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nevermind</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> album. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adelaide’s Peter Stokes took to the streets to recreate the iconic image of a baby swimming towards a dollar bill. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Using the popular fitness app Strava, which tracks exercise routes, Peter traced out the image using the streets of Adelaide as his canvas.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mr Stokes said the project took several months of planning to carve out his route, and took eight hours in total to complete. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7844441/never-mind.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/ff7e5bec975e42eb9fbba9962f88cce7" /></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image credit: Instagram</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He also said he listened to the 12-track album for the entirety of the 150 kilometre journey. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Definitely it was something I'd thought about a lot and been quite keen to do, to be a tribute to what I think is a really great album," Peter said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Earlier in the year [I was] going through my old record collection and going, 'Oh my God, that album's 30 years old this year', and just thinking, 'You know what, that deserves its own little piece'."</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nevermind</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was released on September 24th 1991, and features Nirvana’s most iconic hits </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Come As You Are</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Smells Like Teen Spirit</em>.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Peter timed his pilgrimage to coincide with the date of the album’s release, as he stretched his journey from Campbelltown in the north-east to Plympton in the south-west.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"The face was really difficult … but it's good enough," he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"We've got so much green space, so many parks which, from my point of view for doing this, are great to be able to cut through and take shortcuts."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Nirvana album cover was not Mr Stokes’ first cycling artwork, as last year he completed a depiction of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He's already setting his sights, and his handlebars, in the direction of even more ambitious street art projects. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"I'd kind of be really keen to do some major artworks," he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"I did start playing around with trying to design one for Van Gogh's Starry Night, but that got a bit tricky, so I might have to try some simpler artworks first."</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image credits: Shutterstock / Instagram</span></em></p>
