there are no shortcuts, no saying no to intimidating
inclines no changing course. Midway when creating art
with GPS as your paintbrush, you're basically fo
a single line across the city to create the piece ready
to roll Yacoub masseur follows points on a map.
Basically an entry point that I have to pop in which he
painstakingly plots in advance, straw ba, a fitness
tracking app on his phone, traces his every move if you
make a mistake, other do overs. No, basically I have to
start the whole artwork all ove again. If I make a big
mistake, he uploads his drawings to instagram where
they join a growing gallery from artists around the
world. More than 18,000 pieces are posted under the
hashtag GPS art representing hundreds of thousands of
miles marks. And then we have about 32 more miles left
to do full disclosure. I'm on an electric scooter
observing rather effortlessly. artist at work, I
also love the physical challenge of wrestling with som
of this artwork using my fixed gear bike makes for a
great workout art and exercise in combination, I gues
Yeah, it's a mix of art and exercise masseurs, musc
pursuit of this medium began with the pandemic when san
Francisco became a bike riders Paradise traffic
suddenly went away and from his or her free time
suddenly appeared. Part of the reason why I was writing
so much and doing these giant drawings is because my
work had completely dried up during the pandemic. His
work is event photography and photojournalism a career
putting him face to face with human struggles. Four
months into the pandemic he and his family encountered
that was a climb their own hill to climb one of his two
daughters, Xhosa, who was then 11 years old, ended up
in the hospital Where she was diagnosed with type one
diabetes right before her diagnosis was my first big
piece. I think you were on a bike ride when I was when
you were. Yes, I was I was drawing a giant picture of
eye of Horace, which is a symbol from ancient Egypt
that symbolizes health Since then, he's been tracking
is OSHA's health. Just got a text from my wife. We got
to upload my daughters pump data. I got a couple of
alerts that her blood sugar was not in the right place.
So it gives me a quick alert. So uh there's some
that we learn very early on in diabetes is that no
blood sugar is bad. They're just numbers and um keeping
them in range is important to your health. But you
should never be yourself up for having a blood bad
blood sugar. So it's not possible for me to have a
number in the wrong place. We'll be making a right turn
on 19. The peace Missouri's working on this day when
finished will read hashtag insulin for all to raise
awareness of the importance of having access to insulin,
not just by kids and adults here in the United State
but everybody across the entire globe. All humans. Your
dad's been doing these art pieces for some time now.
What do you think of them I think they're amazing.
They're really cool. He comes to me with these pieces
that he draws on his computer and he asked me for
advice, hey, how does this one look what better way to
use my art degree than to basically do a giant extra
sketch in san Francisco where I would draw things that
inspired me. This is the final piece inspired buys OSHA
I will stop at nothing to climb up the next super steep
hill just to make it look right the image this time
delivering a message from the hilltop. All right, I got
another hill to climb.