http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png http://jalopnik.com/tag/art http://jalopnik.com/tag/art Brooklyn art installation in Detroit pisses off Detroiters More »
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An open air sculpture installation in Vancouver, Canada full of three-foot long Volkswagen Beetle sculptures was vandalized last week. One of the sculptures has even been stolen for the second time this year. More »
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When is your house not a house? When it's a Volkswagen Bus. ("Ja," said Tom, "but can you drive your house to get ein plate of schnitzel? I don't think so.") [via fuckyeahcarburetors] More »
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Yep, that's a Lambo. This elegant pile of angles was produced using a 3-D modeling process that its makers have dubbed the Lo Res Project. How they made it is both simple and fascinating. More »
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Two Brazilian artists are bringing the streets of São Paulo alive, literally, anthropomorphizing gutters and sewers into smokers, sick kids and even VCRs. Don't ask. [6EMEIA via DigitalCrushes] More »
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A Russian artist commissioned some gun aficionados to take aim at a art-museum-bound BMW 3-Series and draw pretty flowers with the bullet holes. They missed. A lot. Gallery of carnage below. More »
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Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Here's one for the Mustang purists! More »
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Wacky Packages have been around for more than 40 years now (the '73 reissue of the first series got me hooked as a first-grader), and plenty of the stickers were gearhead-centric. Now you can get 'em seven feet tall! More »
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The Illegal Soapbox Derby in San Francisco was fun, but what if the city had actually sponsored the cars? Well, that's just what happened 35 years ago! More »
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We learned last year that most of you prefer hot rod pinups to European Booth Professionals, so here's a selection of Alameda photographer Phillip Hall's "Girls With Cars" work for you. More »
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Stop/Action, an art exhibit put together by three of my friends and I, and opening tomorrow in Brooklyn, is a frozen portrait of an explosive motorcycle ride. More »
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I felt quite proud when I managed to find the location used by photorealist painter Robert Bechtle for his most famous painting, Gran Torino Alameda. But my accomplishment was nothing, it turns out. More »
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Yessir, I sure do love visiting the junkyard, and all those Junkyard Find posts have resulted in some photographs that look snazzy as computer desktop wallpaper. More »
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Hacking up a hail-damaged car and turning it into a giant, highway-capable whale is one thing… but when your Whalemobile started live as a Yugo cabriolet, you're entering an alternate dimension of awesomeness! More »
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Head towards Woodstock, NY on Route 28 and just as you pass through Boiceville you'll see something strange even for Woodstock, NY. Mechanic Steve Heller's yard is full of rocket ship sculptures built from old cars. More »
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Today we're showing the work of a Los Angeles-based pro photographer who heads down on the street to find his subjects: battle-scarred American cars in their natural habitat! More »
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Spanish artist Maider Lopez stranded 160 vehicles on a typically empty, verdant road to display the impact of cars on the environment. It's fairly clever — unless you didn't intend to be part of an art installation. More »
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A road may be a flat surface for transiting from place to place for most. But here are seven surreal pieces of road art reminding us it can be so much more. More »
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Once I started attending the University Of California at Irvine, way back in the Reagan Era, it didn't take long for me to discover that the joint was packed with freakos creating weird performance art. More »
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Like just about all my friends, I decided to cross the Bay and head over to the Maker Faire last weekend. That's where I saw the Mercedes Pens. More »
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Some of you have remarked that Piaggio’s Vespa-based minitruck bears a remarkable similarity to the Looney Tunes character. Reader Juan Diaz nails the proof with Photoshop. More »
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Christian Pearce, illustrator extraordinaire, sees no limits when it comes to his hot rod art, proving that even the touchscreen-enabled Nintendo DS and the homebrew app, Colors can be a deadly combo for imaginative creation. More »
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Joe Bob Briggs hisself reviewed Alameda's drive-in theater back when I worked there, and I decided to write about it. First, though, I'd need a photo of the place, so I headed over to Flickr.
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One of our favorite albums this year is Neko Case's Middle Cyclone — and not just because of her booming voice. At 39, she's just barely a cougar, but what she's sitting on definitely is. More »
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I headed over to West Oakland last night, to check out the Boiler Bar May Day Party, featuring a slew of art cars and a few of the contestants from the Escape From Berkeley race. More »
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Want to check out the Golden Mean, a fire-belching Volkswagen Beetle-based giant snail that seats six and packs an 800-watt sound system inside its shell? With snake charming to boot? Head to Oakland tonight! More »
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You never know what you find when you start looking into the profound cultural effects of Wacky Packages. Not only did they begat Topps' Weird Wheels, but one card inspired real-life toy cars: Shot Wheels!
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Can the sense of freedom and joy caused by vehicles be expressed in a museum? Joseph Beuys’s Das Rudel does just that. With wooden sleds and hunks of fat. More »
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Want to terrorize the general populace as you ride your open-piped chopper to work at the accounting firm? Then these spooky DOT-approved motorcycle helmets may be just the thing for you. More »
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French filmmaker Richard Fabrice's short film "lamborghini" is three minutes of utter magnificence and no, it's not because of the scantily-clad young lady writhing on a Miura SV's trunk in a thoroughly European wedding dress. More »
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We gave you a brief sampling of the action in the Gator-O-Rama penalty box, and Judge Dube put together a mighty penalty gallery, but it's time we examined the Gator-O-Rama correctional system in more detail. More »
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The absolute necessity of a full-scale inflatable Bandit-style Pontiac Trans Am may be questionable, but that doesn't mean it isn't awesome and we can't think of a million fun things to do with it. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5163824&view=rss&microfeed=true Cutaways. We've always loved them, but never understood how they're made or what incredibly anal person created them. Here's the answer: Yoshihiro Inomoto, and he's been mastering these cartistic marvels for 40 years. More »
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Not long ago, I did some detective work and located the house that artist Robert Bechtle used as the backdrop for the Ford wagon in his most famous painting, Gran Torino Alameda. More »
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Josh Keyes has an eye for the post-apocalyptic, dystopian future, painting in a way that causes our brains to run circles around itself. Take a peek inside to see his incredible artwork. More »
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Not wanting to take the usual art car route by decorating the car itself, artist Robin Rhode installed a set of paint squirters on a 2010 BMW Z4 and set it in motion upon canvas. More »
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These creations built by a Chinese scrap yard owner won't be on the big screen in Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, but that doesn't mean they aren't just as cool as Bumblebee or Sideswipe. Of course, since these Autobots are just sculptures made from junked car parts, they're not able to transform back to vehicle mode. With mechanical details like crankshafts for legs and cogs for eyes, the bots are more art than alien monsters. Our favorite is the old BMW 7-Series bot, it has us thinking that if a certain 633CSi ever kicks the bucket, we might just have to commission this guy to make us a nice lawn ornament. More »
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