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Crash Bonsai Brings Miniature Hoonage Aftermath To Your Cubicle
Someone who has experienced a car-on-tree collision first hand generally never wants to reenact the event, but if you do, there's now a company that caters to you. Crash Bonsai provides a means of reenact your tree collisions — in like 1/8 the scale. That's right folks — it's essentially nothing more than model cars crashed into bonsai trees.More »
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Mad Max Hood Mural Will Add Style To Your 2nd-Gen Camaro!
You're proud of your Malaise Camaro (and who wouldn't be?) but you want it to stand out from the crowd? Head on up to Windsor, where a mere pittance of one hundred Canadian dollars will get you this 1977 Camaro hood with custom Road Warrior airbrush mural. That's right, you're looking at a signed 1985 work by Ivan of Cosmic Studio here. There's some rust and paint chipping, but the plastic scoop is just fine. Thanks to Hoser Dave for the tip! [Kijiji]
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Berwyn Car Spindle Up For Sale!
We were all quite sad when we learned that the Cermak Plaza Shopping Center overlords had decided to remove the legendary Berwyn Car Spindle from their property. But now the Berwyn Spindle may be relocated... to your front yard! Yes, it's up for sale on eBay, with a starting bid of $50,000 (and a shipping cost of double that, so you'll probably elect to go pick it up yourself. Make the jump for some video of the Spindle. [eBay] More »
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Sometimes You Must Buy The Hood Ornament
After I violated my 'Don't Buy Junkyard Emblems' policy recently, I didn't think I'd fall off the anti-clutter bandwagon just a couple of weeks later. However, when you find a '56 Chevy hood ornament in near-perfect condition for just $9.47... well, you really don't have much choice in the matter. Now it hangs from the picture rail molding in my living room, right next to a photo of a rusty engine in a Minnesota scrapyard. I'm sure Martha Stewart would approve.
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Pedal-Powered Buick Owner Stands Up To The Man In Court!
It turns out that John Law takes a dim view of human-powered cars on the streets of Toronto, as artist Michel de Broin discovered to his dismay when he attempted to take his pedal-powered 1986 Buick Regal out for a little spin last year. In Mr. de Broin's view, the Shared Propulsion Car, with its perfectly functional brakes and steering, is safe for street operation. Safer, in fact, than gasoline-powered vehicles, and so he is fighting his Operation of Unsafe Vehicle ticket. [National Post]
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When you're talking about painters who get the Jalopnik Stamp-O-Approval™, the Two Roberts come to mind immediately. You got your Robert Williams, of course, and then you got your Robert Bechtle... and what more could you need? I've got a print of Alameda Gran Torino hanging on my living-room wall, and it serves as inspiration every time I head out the door on a DOTS photo expedition (especially when I see a car like today's '65 Comet). I've gathered up a few of Bechtle's many car-themed paintings for our enjoyment on this fine Tuesday. [The New Yorker, SFMOMA]
Car Paintings By Robert Bechtle
When you're talking about painters who get the Jalopnik Stamp-O-Approval™, the Two Roberts come to mind immediately. You got your Robert Williams, of course, and then you got your Robert Bechtle... and what more could you need? I've got a print of Alameda Gran Torino hanging on my living-room wall, and it serves as inspiration every time I head out the door on a DOTS photo expedition (especially when I see a car like today's '65 Comet). I've gathered up a few of Bechtle's many car-themed paintings for our enjoyment on this fine Tuesday. [The New Yorker, SFMOMA]
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"Reactive Sparks" Turns Traffic Agony Into Pretty Art
A new art installation by Markus Lerner is turning the agony of sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic into something a bit more pleasing on the eyes. "Reactive Sparks" is an art installation commissioned by lighting company OSRAM. It watches traffic patterns and maps the patterns into seven light towers that sit alongside the road. Each tower contains 110,000 LED lights, likely provided by OSRAM. More »
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$35,000 In Lottery Tickets Used To Create Hummer H3
This Hummer H3 is built from $35,000 in losing lottery tickets. No sheet metal here, folks. The piece is by Brooklyn-based artists Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was and it's entitled Ghost of a Dream. The tickets came from local bodegas, where they were discarded by unlucky patrons.More »
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What Every Rampage Needs: Sexy Chick In Space!
We thought we'd seen every possible accessory a Dodge Rampage could possibly need, but we were wrong. Oh, so very wrong. TheEastBayKid found this 1984 Dodge Rampage with Sub Lime paint and a custom-etched mural entitled Sexy Chick In Space on the rear glass. Yes! This is right on so many levels that all I can do is express my disappointment that we've already removed the rear glass from our race car and thus have no canvas suitable for this Mr. Guise's etching skills.[Cardomain]
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An Exploding Chevy Can Be Pretty, Really
We don't know your opinion on the Chevy Metro. But we can assume that Cai Guo-Qiang is not too fond of the four-door sedan, as he has an art exhibit currently on display at the Guggenheim museum in New York City displaying the gradual exploding of the car. Six Metros have been hung in the famous rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece. The entire exhibit is intended to simulate the violence of a car bomb, by using lights and careful positioning. More »
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Chevy Nova Completely Frozen, Art Flourishes In The Upper Peninsula
Jalopnik's favorite ongoing art project, the Frozen Chevy Nova has finally been completed. The Nova is frozen and looks wonderful despite ice issues, temperature fluctuations, blizzards and Malaise-era leaking parts. Our hats off to Mary and Sue as well as the community in and around Michigan Tech who helped this project get off the ground... and then get frozen to it.More »
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Steampunk Aston Martin Model?
I don't know if I would classify this work of art from Christopher Conte as steampunk, but it's hard to put any other kind of label on this customized Aston Martin model. Conte is an industrial artist who has given this Aston his own touch. I usually don't condone chopping up AM's, models or not, but this has an unusual and intriguing feel that's hard to dismiss.More »
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Map Of USA Made of States' License Plates
Here's some art which brings up a "why haven't I seen that before" thought. License plates, cut into the shapes of each state, arranged into the shape of the United States. Neat. Is it cool enough to fork over prices starting at $1,895, depends on if you've got spare scratch laying around. Of course if you've got a set of fifty plates, a template of the US (a map comes to mind) and a plasma cutter laying around, you can make your own for probably a lot less. Still a clever idea we wouldn't mind having on the wall of our garage. [License Plate Art]
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Polish Homebrew Tractors In German Gallery Show
Lets say you were trapped in communist-era Poland and needed to do some farming. Waiting for The State to provide you an unreliable proletarian tractor was out of the question. Because, after all, you wanted to be able to actually grow the grain that would get transformed into the wodka that would make your life bearable. So what did you do? Why, you built your own mechanized tiller of the soil, of course. That's just what enterprising farmers did in the pre-Solidarity days. The results of their homebrewed engineering have been cataloged and assembled in a new exhibit at the Zak Gallery in Berlin. "Machines," true to its title, is an exhibit of just that: the contraptions Joe Poland put together in the totalitarian past—and may still use to get things done.More »
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Hubcap Creature Art Is Inmate-Approved
Those hubcaps scattered on the side of the road are no longer being collected by felons, but rather people who are debatably just as bad: artists. Hubcap Creatures is an art project that that takes those forlorn, castoff discs and transforms them into creatures ready to... Eat the souls of automobiles! Or something of that sort.
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Jalopnik's Favorite Art Project: Freezing A 1978 Chevy Nova In Ice
Mary Carothers and Sue Wrbican are our kind of artists, having dedicated much of their efforts towards the issue of mobility, landscape and the influence of the automobile upon American culture. Their latest project explores, among other things, the transition from the late 1970's into the Malaise Era of the early 1980's as epitomized by the Chevy Nova, which was replaced by the less than stellar Chevy Citation. The monument to this change will be a 1978 Chevy Nova frozen into a block of ice at Michigan Tech University on Michigan's Upper Peninsula.Can we avoid a world cluttered with boring, underpowered subcompacts but still avoid destroying the environment? Or as the artists put it: "The Frozen Car points to the classic struggle of culture versus nature. It is a monument to a tragedy meant to remind us of our present choices." Below our conversation with the artists.
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The Trophies of the 24 Hours of LeMons
Among the many cool things that set the 24 Hours of LeMons apart from the more boring forms of motorsports is the stuff that goes to the winners. In addition to back-breaking sacks of nickels, beautiful handmade trophies are handed out to the teams who triumph in their classes. So, after you check out the official list of winners, jump like a Datsun B210 and check out some of the highlights!More »
