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Mar 23, 2010
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Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid Concept
(image source | Geek and Hype)
(image source | Geek and Hype)
Unveiled at the Geneva Auto Show, the Porsche 918 Spyder is not only a high-performance, sexy sports car, but a planet loving hybrid too - so suck it hippies! Click here for the official Porsche press release and be sure to check out this video for the behind the story behind the making of this dream machine.
Mar 4, 2010
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James Piatt’s “MOFO” - Green Muscle Car
(image source | James Piatt Design)
Who says you can’t have a cool hybrid electric car? Mixing in vintage racer styling and a belief that caring for the environment can indeed be cool, James Piatt’s MOFO is one bad-ass M%&#$!@ F&^!@*# plug-in electric vehicle. The MOFO, or Motorized Flexible Operation, is imagined with a 2.5l V6 that can carry you from 0-60 in 3.5 seconds at a tree-hugging 75 mpg. Piatt’s vision goes beyond a simple PEV, but to include the option to run on hybrid gas/electric power, or just on gas at the press of a button. Good luck selling this one James! It’ll be fun to at least imagine, for now.
(image source | James Piatt Design)
(image source | James Piatt Design)
Source | James Piatt Design
Feb 18, 2010
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Sada-Kenbi Wooden Car
(image source | inhabitat)
What can you make out of wood? Anything, well at least according to Japanese wood-makers Sada-Kenbi. The shop produced the car they call “Maniwa”, that is capable of speeds upwards of 55mph. While this car is fun to look at, and maybe even drive, shouldn’t someone have told Sada-Kenbi that Duesenberg had already done this? Nah, let them have their fun.
Via | inhabitat
Dec 18, 2009
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Dani Miras Bike Locker Concept
(image source | Behance Network)
With the MTA cutting services and probably prepping another fare increase, not to mention the desire for alternative transportation to decrease our footprints on the worlds environment, biking to and fro has seen a massive increase in recent years. However, there are only so many poles and fences to lock your ride up to, so what is one to do when parking your bike becomes harder than finding a spot for your car in a Wal-Mart parking lot on Black Friday? Dani Miras idea is to install bike lockers inside of public spaces. This is an interesting space-saving, theft prevention concept that just might work.
(image source | Behance Network)
Perhaps these bike lockers are a more affordable option in our cash strapped city as we look to provide viable options for transportation methods around town, but wouldn’t what Japan does be so much cooler? LINK
Dec 17, 2009
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Alex Lukas - The Eventuality of Daybreak at Glowlab
(image source | Glowlab)
Glowlab is pleased to present The Eventuality of Daybreak, a solo exhibition by Alex Lukas featuring a new series of post-apocalyptic urban landscapes that blur the visual boundaries of fiction and reality. Glowlab will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, November 12, 2009, from 7 to 9 pm.
Lukas’ work explores the existence of disaster, be it realized or fictitious, in contemporary society. Hyper-realistic motion pictures and unforgiving news footage depict seemingly identical – and equally riveting – facades of tragedy. The artist recognizes that relentless visual bombardment has resulted in society’s desensitization to the aesthetics of destruction.
For The Eventuality of Daybreak, Lukas has selected photographic spreads of well-known metropolises from vintage publications and uses them dually as canvas and unlikely subject. Through a deft handling of paint and carefully placed screenprinted passages, the artist pushes these aging illustrations in futuristic contexts. Submerging these cities conceptually and physically, Lukas inundates images of American cities with layers of media representing cataclysmic floods and crippling overgrowth.
Also included in the exhibition are works on paper depicting near-future scenes of devastated landscapes – crumbling infrastructure, overturned trucks and telling signs of human despair. As a counterpoint to the underwater cities, these darkly atmospheric and barren vistas signal devastation through an unsettling sense of absence.
Lukas’ intentional use of dated imagery presented in tandem with contemporary situations forces the viewer to reconcile two differing ideologies of urban space. The artist’s work calls into question society’s collective acceptance of the urban environment as an arena of destruction, once thought unthinkable and now seemingly inevitable.
The exhibit runs from November 12 – December 06.
Glowlab is located at 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave.
For more information visit Glowlab.
Nov 13, 2009
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