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Cabbie encourages riders to create art

NEW YORK (UPI) -- A New York cab driver says he has collected more than 7,000 sketches from passengers outfitted with a pen and a stack of computer paper.

Fabio Peralta, who has been driving a cab for 40 years, said his one requirement for passengers is that they be willing to give him some manner of art created in the back of his cab while en route to their destinations, the New York Post reported Monday.

"I tell them to create art, any kind of art," he said. "I don't care what it is. Whatever comes to their brain, I say.

"Doctors, lawyers, bankers will say, 'Hey, I'm no artist.' And I tell them they become one in my cab," Peralta said. "I never had a painting I didn't like, no matter how bad it is."

Peralta said he hopes to bind some of his favorite drawings into glossy booklets "when I have enough money."

The cabbie said he is now experimenting with a new artistic medium: Having his passengers participate in 30-second video sketches.

"People do whatever. They wave to the camera, they talk about their day, they tell stories," he said. "I ask if they want to be filmed, and then I pull over in a safe spot."

Copyright 2009 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 06/16/2009

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