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December 16, 2024

The late, great Hunter S. Thompson is quoted as saying, “Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.” So, if you are fun runner, and you are going to make art with your GPS trackings, then you might as well go all out.

Duncan McCabe took that approach before setting out on his 10-month, 700-mile journey to make a GPS art depicting a man dancing across the streets of Toronto. The 27-second video of a man tipping his hat while dancing to “Purple Hat” was the culmination of 120 runs that averaged about 6 miles. It was McCabe’s second crack at making the motion art, as he previously made another showing a few animals “walking” across the map. 

That is certainly a way to make a mundane task more interesting and take your mind off the fact that you’re about to run 6 miles. I will never know though, as I just don’t run to begin with! 

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