Your artwork can spread throughout this San Francisco alley

Last year, A A couple in San Francisco by chance Pay a lot of money For a dirt road. At a starting auction bid of $1, they paid $25,000, thinking they would get a screaming deal on a developable plot of land right next to their house.

They won their bid, but soon learned that what they had purchased was actually just a narrow 82-foot lot next to the house that could not be built on. They paid all this money for a dirt road.

“I couldn’t secure it,” says JJ Hollingsworth, the alley’s reluctant owner at the time. “It was a huge responsibility hanging over my head and it caused me a lot of anxiety and stress, oh my God.”

After reading about Hollingsworth’s story in the San Francisco Standard, three local “tech pranksters.” Offered to buy The Alley of Hollingsworth. The trio includes software engineers Patrick Hultquist and Theo Bleieralong with Riley Wallsmodern Employee at OpenAI Who helped create Beautifula repository for all emails found in Jeffrey Epstein The files are in .a format More easy to use Gmail-style inbox. The three of them also worked Strivea citywide manhunt that has been taking place throughout San Francisco over the past two years. (Waltz and Blair were reached in a group chat, but did not respond to a request for comment.)

Together, they paid $26,000 for the property, then another $10,000 to pave the road. Now, they intend to put some art on this land. To help do this, they recruit any and all online artists they can.

Announced today via A Waltz tweet, Street paint It is a website that allows users to submit low-resolution digital drawings for use in a project. Submissions will eventually be arranged into a collage of 6″ x 6″ squares for each piece of art. Users can then upvote, upvote or downvote different pieces of art to rank them higher in the collection.

Applications and voting begin today and end on Tuesday, April 7. The first 1,280 squares will be those officially laid out on the sidewalk, and the entire installation will extend along the 80-foot paved path.

“We want to let everyone, the entire Internet, draw this street,” Hultquist says. “This will be a great kind of collaborative art project.”

The project was inspired by Reddit r/placea 2017 April Fool’s joke turned into a community art project that allowed users to alter a large digital painting one pixel at a time. The result was a chaotic palette of images, memes and inside jokes.