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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>

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The now grown up baby from Nirvana's album cover is suing the band

<p>The baby who appeared on the famous Nirvana album cover in 1991 is now suing the band.</p> <p>Spencer Elden, who is now 30 years old, is suing surviving Nirvana band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, as well as Kurt Cobain's estate for allegedly <span>violating federal child pornography statutes and child sexual exploitation.</span></p> <p><span>The </span>lawsuit also names the photographer who snapped the image, Kirk Weddlem and the labels behind the release fo the album.</p> <p><span>Spencer was photographed naked as a child for the band's most </span>iconic album cover, and is now claiming <span>his legal guardians never signed a release “authorising the use of any images of Spencer or of his likeness, and certainly not of commercial child pornography depicting him.”</span></p> <p>Spencer claims he has <span>suffered “lifelong damages” and is also suing for distribution of private sexually explicit materials and negligence. </span></p> <p><span>The famous album cover was snapped by chance, as Spencer's father Rick was a good friend of the photographer.</span></p> <p><span>Nick spoke to NPR in 2008 and said, “[Weddle] calls us up and was like, ‘Hey Rick, wanna make 200 bucks and throw your kid in the drink.”</span></p> <p><span>The image, which shows a baby Spencer in the pool diving after a $1 note, quickly became an iconic image and Spencer has recreated the album cover several times to celebrate </span>anniversaries of the release. </p> <p>The lawsuit filed by Spencer states, <span>“The permanent harm he has proximately suffered includes but is not limited to extreme and permanent emotional distress with physical manifestations, interference with his normal development and educational progress, lifelong loss of income earning capacity, loss of past and future wages, past and future expenses for medical and psychological treatment, loss of enjoyment of life, and other losses to be described and proven at trial of this matter.”</span></p> <p><em>Image credits: Shutterstock</em></p>

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