Interior/Exterior My very own BMW/MINI Art Car
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My very own BMW/MINI Art Car
As many of you know, between 1975 and 1999, BMW commissioned twelve artists to use their cars as canvases for the artists' work. Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein were some of the names among them. I've always been fascinated with those cars, and since I've never seen one for sale, and would never be able to afford one even if I did, I decided to make my own. I met an artist named Tristan Eaton at the NYIAS, where he was painting the roof of a Ford Flex on the show floor. He has designed shoes for Triple 5 Soul, toys and cartoons for Kid Robot, and laptop casings for Dell Computers. He agreed to create a piece that will make my car one of the most unique Mini's on Earth, and to film it for Garage 419. Here is the result. It is 100% original artwork, and it will never be replicated. The whole design is done in black and white reflective vinyl, which has some pretty cool properties at night when it gets lit up by a camera flash or car's headlights.
And if anyone cares, the car's specs and mods:
2006 MCS JCW
18" JCW Wheels
JCW Carbon Wing
Palo Uber Scoop
Piaa Lights
Mini Mania Intake
Mini Mania Long Tube Headers & Race Cats
Farnbacher Loles Custom Software
Alta 15% Pulley
Valentine One / Blinder Laser Jammers
Uniden CB Radio
AI Design Custom Brake Light Cut Out
Special Thanks To:
Tristan Eaton - For his genius
www.thunderblogspot.com
Acid Studios NYC - For their location and helpfulness
www.acidnyc.com
Garage Wall Wraps - For the vinyl
www.garagewallwraps.com
Voila' My Very Own BMW/MINI art car:
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And if anyone cares, the car's specs and mods:
2006 MCS JCW
18" JCW Wheels
JCW Carbon Wing
Palo Uber Scoop
Piaa Lights
Mini Mania Intake
Mini Mania Long Tube Headers & Race Cats
Farnbacher Loles Custom Software
Alta 15% Pulley
Valentine One / Blinder Laser Jammers
Uniden CB Radio
AI Design Custom Brake Light Cut Out
Special Thanks To:
Tristan Eaton - For his genius
www.thunderblogspot.com
Acid Studios NYC - For their location and helpfulness
www.acidnyc.com
Garage Wall Wraps - For the vinyl
www.garagewallwraps.com
Voila' My Very Own BMW/MINI art car:
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Last edited by MattF NYMC; 05-12-2008 at 10:37 AM.
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corny as it sounds, it's always been my lucky number, and 777 is like the devil's lucky cousin. the pattern used on the hood and roof is a chain created from the logo for my driving club.
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I thought about it, and then realized that it would be dangerous and irresponsible of me to do that, since the back is the part that gets hit with headlights the most, and the car reflects so bright that it would blind people on the highway. Also, the back of the car is also kind of cluttered with tail lights, license plates, and the like, so we just decided to put the vinyl on the rear window and let the side patterns fade out.
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I can do one better. We videotaped the whole thing for my webcast TV show, Garage 419, and the video will be online tomorrow for all to see. I'll make sure to post it here. It took Tristan and his crew about a week to get the designs right, a full day to cut the vinyl out, and about 12 hours to install on the car. It wasn't nearly as easy as just slapping some stickers on.