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Have you ever wondered what happens to all those old cars which turn into neither steel scrap nor gleaming restorations? Cars which simply fall out of the life cycle of cars and fade away. Alícia Rius has. She’s a photographer from Spain who describes her work as a “search for hidden treasures”. Her latest project, From the backseat of my car, shows the view out of cars which have passed the point of no return between car life and car death, not quite cars anymore but not quite landscape yet, a place where wildflowers and dashboard buttons mingle. More »
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The fine folks at Animal New York pointed us to Alejandro Cartagena, a Mexican photographer who works in the poorly-planned, sullen-teen-roaming suburban communities near Monterrey, Mexico. His latest series called Car Poolers is a bird's eye view of work men riding prostrate in trucks. More »
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This is Noel Fielding’s take on the iconic color combination of white, red, yellow, green and black better known as Ayrton Senna driving the wheels off one of his McLarens, drawn upside down in felt-tipped pen on the back of a Royal Mail envelope for The Guardian. Fielding, who discussed his artistic influences, referred to Senna as enigmatic and spiritual and called his racing “almost like an act of poetry." More »
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Digital artist Aaron Koblin—he’s the guy responsible for The Wilderness Downtown, the poignant and beautiful Arcade Fire music video which is generated to your childhood address—has a new project and it’s an endless stream of cars you can add to. Using the magic of HTML5 like in his previous work, anyone can draw a car and have it roll down his superhighway, slotted in between lightning cars, boxy cars, wedge-shaped cars, UFO cars, and the kind of cars I can draw, which look like discarded napkins. Make sure you draw something which has a chaingun mounted between its cylinder banks. More »
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At something shy of five minutes, Parigot, a French-made animated film, would be a tough sell for a car chase movie. For one thing, there are no cars in it, only a bicycle powered by an outboard engine vintage motorcycle. But what’s lost in horsepower is more than made up for with sheer speed, disconcerting avian swarms and a breathtaking, mega-Euro cityscape. Go watch. More »
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French artist Phillipe Pasqua created a unique allegory for the blending of man and machine: he covered a Ferrari F430 with leather and tattooed an intricate mural on the cowhide. More »
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Italian designer Riccardo Giraldi’s Scalextric track is an interesting way to model the deep focus needed to race cars around a circuit. Using Arduinos and some sort of weird headset, the players control their cars with, well, their minds—and get a bit of extra boost when they blink. More »
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Know what's awesome? BMW's art cars, which combine huge artist's names with bright colors and plenty of Ms. Know what else is awesome? E30 M3s that still get raced. That means this car, built by a Jalopnik reader and destined for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, will blow your mind. More »
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Stencil artist and Jalopnik reader Xander Walker didn’t wait until 2013 to see the poster for F1's newest race. He created his own and he’s got a run of 300 signed and numbered copies for sale. More »
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Prints and paint, but no photoshop. The founder of the excellent formfreu.de, Markus Haub, transforms vintage racing pictures into the coolest car art we've seen all year. More »
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A few years ago, a professor at Pasadena Art Center College of Design was planning to build a drivable Sega OutRun cabinet. He did it, and it works. More »
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This is the music video for “Savage Night at the Opera” from the Vancouver-based band Destroyer’s new album Kaputt. It’s a motorcycle homage to Rendezvous shot in Vancouver by David Galloway, and unlike that video of the new fastest lap around Manhattan, it’s entirely lovely to watch—and it comes with a twist. More »
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Reverse Graffiti, sometimes known as "grime-writing," involves erasing away the soot, dirt, and pollution on a surface to create an image in the negative. Artist Moose Curtis and Fotorater founder Marc Cameron teamed up on commission from the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and set four eco-cars in reverse on the walls of Munich. More »
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Yesterday we showed you a few shots of Brooklyn artist Jonathan Brand's amazing Ford Mustang made entirely out of paper. Now we've seen it in person. Here's some more photos of the car so far. More »
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Mercedes-Benz never put the 1954 300 SLR "Uhlenhaut Coupe" into production, and the only two examples ever built are locked in its museum. But a trio of German artists will sell you this: a statue of the 300SLR made from 10,000 pieces of scrap metal. More »
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A few years ago, Brooklyn artist Jonathan Brand sold a 1969 Ford Mustang he rebuilt with his father to pay for an engagement ring. In his latest work, entitled "One Piece at a Time," he's reconstructed that Mustang, piece by piece, at 1:1 scale, using nothing but paper. More »
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A massive piece of public art depicting what is essentially a crude wooden bicycle may look silly, but remember that this is the chukudu, East Africa’s homebuilt truck of necessity, life, and death, which can carry 1,300 pounds of cargo. More »
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This is serious wrought iron, even more serious for the village of Dédestapolcsány in northeast Hungary, an area known for its selective distribution of wealth. The car lovingly depicted in vertical superleggera appears to be a strange mixture of BMW and Buick (or possibly Maserati), with cracks on its windows paying accidental homage to the Sig runes known from recent European history. More »
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With glorious Moon rockets turning into low Earth orbit space trucks turning into one last trail of ionized air, what is there to say about the US manned space program other than Astronaut Suicides, a photographic series by Sara Phillips, Neil Dacosta and Saskia Thomson. In images which alternate between terrible subtlety and shocking violence, they show how far we have come from the glory days of the Mercury Seven. More »
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Virginia is a great place to drive. Lots of open, twisty roads opening into scenic vistas. There's also that little track down south known as Virginia International Raceway. It's in that spirit that friend, designer, and track addict Kevin McCauley put together this great piece of car art. More »
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Not all of the vehicles present at last week's Burning Man Art Conference and Business Workshop were RV campers inhabited by radical CEOs. Some of the things-on-wheels that people drove around the desert were actually quite artistic and inspired! This fire-shooting steampunk octopus, complete with moving arms and eyes that pop out, is one such example. Needs a few additional safety features, but it's still probably safer than a Pinto. More »
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Next time you see your old pair of worn Kumhos chucked into a pile just imagine what would happen if they were given to Korean artist Yong Ho Ji, the Michelangelo of recycled tire art. More »
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It’s another few days until Formula One returns from its extended summer vacation. Until then, revel in this painstakingly detailed stop motion animation of a race, done in Lego on a dream medley of Monaco, Zandvoort, Spa and the Nürburgring. There’s plenty of overtaking—of the unusual kind, some of it. More »
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It looks like one of those plastic parts trees from a model kit, but this is Ayrton Senna's 1991 F1 championship-winning McLaren MP4/6, deconstructed and transformed into a wall sculpture back in the '90s. Now the art piece is up for auction. More »
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California artist Chris Burden’s city of 1,200 Hot Wheels cars is close to completion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It’s a giant, noisy, throbbing city of custom-built toy cars, and it’s also a sad farewell to the first century of the automobile. In Burden’s city, you see, the cars move on tracks. (via kottke.org) More »
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Toiling away will never be like flogging a classic GT at 11/10ths, but a line of seats inspired by classic sports cars' butt-buckets may make doing that presentation just a bit less sucky. More »
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Timothy Inzana combined his skills as a motion artist with his love of automobiles into a unique project using math, metalcraft, computer illustration programs, and a lot of creativity to create multi-layered works for art. More »
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The artists behind the light graffiti cars are back with a few of this season's F1 cars photographed at the British Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton surely couldn't wreck a car made of light. More »
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By now you should be familiar with fashion mogul Ralph Lauren's classic car collection, which includes the rarest and most beautiful cars ever built and has been on a traveling show around the world. But how do you install a car in a museum? More »
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To debut its Amarok truck in Turkey, Volkswagen hired chalk artist Julian Beever to depict a subterranean pickup bursting through the sidewalk. Meanwhile in the United States, a VW salesman wondered where he should tie the balloons to the Routan. More »
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Did you ever think of the 928 as an omnipotent Greek deity transmogrified into a giant aquatic bird who seduces—or, depending on the interpretation, rapes—the mother of Helen of Troy? Photographer Alex Rank did! Click through to experience this classical reinterpretation. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5807752&view=rss&microfeed=true An airbrushed PT Cruiser depicting naked people in a "passionate embrace" drew attention from a Utah TV station and a report to the South Jordan police. Meanwhile, who gets to walk free from harassment? Mormon nudists. More »
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This cute film from Eric B. Shanks (the guy behind this) charts one 2,264 mile trip from the sunny West Coast to the chilly East Coast in as many modes of transportation as he could film, including a ferry and a BMW M3. The joy of motion, beautifully captured. More »
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A new Bugatti Veyron costs around $1.6 million, depending on how you outfit it. A 1936 57SC Bugatti Atlantic fetched $30 million at auction. This Bugatti-inspired desk, then, may seem like a value at just $240,000. But it isn't. More »
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Dutch artist and car nut Diederick Kraaijeveld creates ridiculously accurate photorealistic mosaics out of salvaged wood that's already painted (he doesn't paint them). He also does household items (and Steve McQueen), but his cars are spectacular. More »
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How do you furnish your shack made of road signs? Furniture made from the same. This short orange shelf would look great in the foyer. More »
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The asstastic Audi A7 may be all aluminum und schteel, but artist Tarasa Lesko was able to take 285 pieces of paper and 750 parts to render it in flattened wood pulp. And it only took 254 hours to finish! More »
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If you like our Formula One race reports in Crayola, you’ll love the crayon-and-marker art of Miha Furlan, who applies mad drawing skills to kindergarten art sets to produce drawings of race cars and supercars. The 28-year-old Slovenian’s work is just plain gorgeous, and he’s not lacking in taste when it comes to picking his subjects: he’s got Daytonas, Chaparrals, Alfa Romeos, vintage F1 cars, and even the BMW 3.0 CSL. More »
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Digital artist Luis Nieves rendered this gorgeous Ford GT40 in Gulf Oil livery complete with a digitally enhanced driver using multiple programs including ZBrush. More »
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Specifically, a yellow Acura NSX equipped with a snorkel, a diffuser, and a track pass. You figure it out. Just please don’t leave it by a dumpster. More »
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