Wild Wheels
"The desire to express individuality by customizing and otherwise personalizing automobiles has been a part of car culture throughout its history."
Wild Wheels: Art for the Road from the Petersen Automotive Musuem in Los Angeles. If Kustom Kars are your thing, I'd highly recommend taking a look through their back catalogue of exhibits.
Comments
LJ user 'lara7' has an art car; it's covered in 5.25" diskettes.
Posted by: rone | February 18, 2004 8:41 PM
Spooky how you chose Emily's Mondrian Car. She's a friend whose husband used to be a fellow inmate in the software gulags. Stuh-range.
Posted by: jim | February 18, 2004 9:00 PM
jim: that's pretty wild! I chose it because, out of all the cars in the exhibit, I felt it best fit the aesthetic of the Goof: lowbrow and loungey, with a whiff of retro. I don't think the latter two were part of Emily's creative manifesto, but oh well, it works for me.
rone: if you dig around on lara7's pages, you'll see that she's been involved in one of Emily's art projects as well.
Welcome to the incestuous world of Art Cars!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | February 18, 2004 9:34 PM
I like the look of that car. I once owned a 1959 Ford Edsel and I would love to have have given it the Mondrian treatment.
Posted by: Fritz Decat | February 18, 2004 10:11 PM
I remembered what that car reminds me of: The "coach" class staterooms on "Starship Titanic".
http://www.adventurecollective.com/screenshots/sgt_bedroom.jpg
Posted by: rone | February 19, 2004 2:11 AM