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    Infiniti G37 Anniversary Art Car Is Definitely Weird

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    Image of FЯeeMan FЯeeMan
    09/29/09

    In reply to Infiniti G37 Anniversary Art Car Is Definitely Weird
    All this and nobody commented on Ms. Taillefer's name?
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    09/28/09

    In reply to Infiniti G37 Anniversary Art Car Is Definitely Weird
    Believe it or not, this isn't the start of Infiniti Canada's involvement with Cirque Du Soleil - I have a friend who spent a summer promoting the new FX at their shows in Calgary and Vancouver.
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    09/28/09

    In reply to Infiniti G37 Anniversary Art Car Is Definitely Weird
    While this is not my cup of tea, I still appreciate the amount of work and talent that went into it. The link to Vlane includes a time lapse movie of the artist painting, yes painting, it onto the car.
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    09/28/09

    In reply to Infiniti G37 Anniversary Art Car Is Definitely Weird
    I don't like this Infiniti's art work even though it is their anniversary. I like the art work on this Lamborghini even less.
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    Image of Buickboy92 Buickboy92
    09/28/09

    In reply to Infiniti G37 Anniversary Art Car Is Definitely Weird
    I like BMW's art cars better.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    09/28/09


    @Buickboy92: You are correct, sir!
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    Image of Number_Six Number_Six
    09/28/09

    In reply to Infiniti G37 Anniversary Art Car Is Definitely Weird
    It is no more obfuscatory than their original zen garden ads (the ones with a picture of a rock, for example), that made people wonder what the hell Infiniti was for.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    09/28/09

    @Number_Six:

    Needs more gentle creek burbling noise, and the car really gets in the way!

    /likely was at least half the nails in the Infiniti coffin (the first-gen Q was pretty cool)
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    Image of Number_Six Number_Six
    09/28/09

    @Glenfiddich is good: Yep, the original Q45 was desirable and should have been made more so by some great advertising.
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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    09/28/09

    In reply to Infiniti G37 Anniversary Art Car Is Definitely Weird
    Where's the pics of the door opening to the emergence of a couple dozen assorted Romanian, French, Tunisian, Cypriot, and Congolese midgets? Or is Cirque du Soleil too uppity for that kind of thing?
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    09/28/09

    @Ash78 is going POLAR...: It will however produce 12 contortionist women, and 3 androgynous men wearing flesh colored spandex.
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    Image of skierpage skierpage
    09/05/09

    In reply to Olafur Eliasson Turns BMW H2R Into Frozen Art Car
    I saw it at SFMOMA, it's OK. Eliasson is making you feel extreme sensations and think about them a little. The car is just an excuse to put you in a very chilly room. It's hard to make out the car under that cocoon, let alone its mechanicals. His pieces playing with light and water are a lot better.

    Maybe it's a subtle rebuke at BMW believing that a fuel that has to be cooled or compressed at substantial expense is ever going to be a good idea.

    Jalopnik featured the frozen Chevy Nova art car.
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    Image of dragon951 dragon951
    09/04/09

    In reply to Olafur Eliasson Turns BMW H2R Into Frozen Art Car
    "In driving a car, one obviously also negotiates the way time-space is constructed."

    That's right, I bend time in my car!

    ...Oh wait, that wasn't time, it was space...or was it? I don't know, what does a bumper count as?
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    FP: Your Volvo is awesome! Anyway promoted this comment dragon951 was starred dragon951 was unstarred
    Image of wojo wojo
    09/04/09

    In reply to Olafur Eliasson Turns BMW H2R Into Frozen Art Car
    I wonder if it would be considered art if I were to adroitly extend my middle finger and gracefully raise my hand towards him, in order to comment on the frosty relationship between himself and the real world and possibly how he as an existential individual navigates in a world defined by absurdity and irrationality?
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    FP: Your Volvo is awesome! Anyway promoted this comment Edited by wojo at 09/04/09 4:03 PM wojo was starred wojo was unstarred
    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    09/04/09

    In reply to Olafur Eliasson Turns BMW H2R Into Frozen Art Car
    What I think of this? Put this Eliasson guy in the freezer to determine his parameters for his time and space.
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    Image of M3Fraz : The Stig's fat American cousin M3Fraz : The Stig's fat American cousin
    09/04/09

    In reply to Olafur Eliasson Turns BMW H2R Into Frozen Art Car
    I have a design degree from RIT. Does that mean I can stick a Hot Wheels car in a freezer, take a time lapse photo of the ice buildup and call it art? Or does this sort of thing only work for dudes that run around in the dark with colored flashlights?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/04/09

    @M3Fraz : The Stig's fat American cousin: I suppose that would be art. Think I should?
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    09/04/09

    In reply to Olafur Eliasson Turns BMW H2R Into Frozen Art Car
    Ironic...and it's lost on all those directly involved.

    This had to be shipped to wherever, constructed, then have press people there to cover said "art", dismantled, and shipped back to wherever. I can't see the unassembled parts being useful for much, either.

    Um, bonehead, all of this is a waste of resources, none which are powered by hydrogen.

    Damn...people are freakin' stupid. Media whores.
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    Image of GIC asks not for whom the bell tolls GIC asks not for whom the bell tolls
    09/04/09

    In reply to Olafur Eliasson Turns BMW H2R Into Frozen Art Car
    "Eliasson has removed the car's outer shell and replaced it with a complex, translucent skin made of steel mesh, reflective steel panels, and many layers of ice."

    That statement almost implies function as a car; if it were somehow driveable under that mess it could be cool in a sick, twisted way. So I'll refrain from judgment even though it looks like a fossilized dookie from Optimus Prime.
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    Image of TimTim TimTim
    09/04/09

    In reply to Olafur Eliasson Turns BMW H2R Into Frozen Art Car
    /reads press release
    I don't get it.
    /reads again
    What?
    /reads again
    I got nothin'.
    /reads again
    So, this curvy ice cocoon supposedly has a hydrogen powered race car underneath? How does that work? What's it do? What makes the ice? Do you have some sort of schematic I can look at?
    /reads again
    OOOOoooh, ART CARS... There should be Myers-Briggs compatability classification on these articles.
    /ISTJ
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