Showing posts with label cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cars. Show all posts

Friday, 18 June 2010

Try to save my soul tonight, oh, it's nobody's fault but mine

Yvan Rodic, the man behind Face Hunter, snapped this dapper young rake at the Volvo subject60 party in Paris. Personally, I appreciate this man's original style, choosing a vintage townie over the de rigueur tarck bike...

Monday, 17 May 2010

Because when all my dreams and all my plans just cannot turn out wrong

WELL DONE MARK WEBBER! Winning the Monaco Grand Prix and leading the Championship, bloody good job! Stay focused! Keep going!

Monday, 10 May 2010

Marching the hate machines into the sun

How we roll in The Shire: I love the names they give the 'older-style' apartment blocks around here and I'd like to create a series of paintings highlighting the typography. Dropped into Jackson Surfboards on Saturday to check out the longboard market, some classics in there, including a signed Robert August original! Lovely day for a ride on the 20"! Mad old Valiant at the Beach and the selection of Tamiya colors at the hobby shop in Miranda. Great weekend. Again...

Thursday, 21 January 2010

I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more


Ben Quilty is up there as one of my favourite artists, and not only because he does incredible paintings of wrecked cars. He puts it up the art world cognoscenti a bit.

Monday, 18 January 2010

Mellow as the month of May


I have a bit of a soft spot for the graphic quality of the Jagermeister BMWs, a racing sponsorship that has existed across many models and racing classes. Love the bold black and white gothic type against the Jager orange, and the classic stag's head logo provide a classic contrast.

Saturday, 12 December 2009

You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed




What a great day! Deus had a vintage surf and skate swap meet and, as usual, it was legendary stuff, on a perfect Sydney summer day. Met the art director of Mambo who was in residence during the glory days of the late 80's, early 90's. So he would've been the boss man when I did work experience at Mambo in 1990, which was Year 10 at high school in Australia. I apologised for fucking up the glue machine while I was there. Had a great chat with him about the surf and art culture that was heavily influenced by Mambo in those days. Being a young kid growing up in the Central West of NSW Mambo was the Holy Grail of street fashion, right up there with Vision Street Wear and Airwalk sneaks. A couple of the prints above I had up on my bedroom walls in Year 9 and Year 10 and were a big influence while I was studying 3 Unit Art during my HSC. I guess that's why I dig Deus so much now, seeing as how Dare Jennings (founder of both Deus and Mambo) has brought the same artistic passion to motorcycles and bicycles as he did to the surf and skate scene.

Get over and check out Carby's photos on the Deus Gallery, they're heaps better than mine!

Friday, 13 November 2009

There may come a time you just can't seem to find your way



Rode past this awesome Charger on Crown Street the other day, and Reminded me of some of the funniest moments of my childhood, watching the Road Runner constantly outwit the Coyote. Watch and laugh.

Thursday, 29 October 2009

I thought hell a kiss is just a kiss but this is...



John Cooper Works (JCW) is a company originally founded in the year 2000 by John Cooper, the legendary racing car constructor and tuner responsible for, amongst other achievements, the Mini Cooper. Prudently, they have also started manufacturing bicycles. Thankfully they seem to be quality machines that are styled and specced to maintain the integrity of the Cooper marque. Reynolds 531 tubing, real Brooks saddles and tape, and Sturmey Archer drivetrains. Well done, Cooper!

Wednesday, 16 September 2009