This video is of the cool multi-touch Audi configurator shown at the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung “IAA”. It’s a 3D application running on Microsoft Surface.
If only creating artwork was this easy!!
Audi Car Configurator on Surface @ IAA 2009 from Neue Digitale / Razorfish on Vimeo.
This is a short video I took of a Chevy Truck revving on the dyno at the Midwest All Truck Nationals on September 12, 2009 in Riverside, MO. It’s also my first attempt at uploading a video to YouTube.
It hurts to see a classic car getting smashed up but I must admit that when I see crash test videos, I have always wondered how an older car would hold up.
This video was done by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to celebrate it’s 50th anniversary. They paired up a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 2009 Chevy Malibu.
If you’re thinking the Bel Air with its size and big chrome bumper will hold its own, get ready for a surprise.
Josh Spradlin of Illuminati Motor Works contacted me recently about redrawing their logo. Illuminati Motor Works is an official contender of the Progressive Automotive X Prize.
Josh designed the logo and had painted it on the wall inside the garage. He needed to get the logo in electronic format so he could use it to get shirts printed or anything else he wanted to put the logo on.
The challenge about the logo was the 3-D overlapping triangle and circle. To get that effect I created the circle and triangle in separate layers. Then I duplicated each element twice per each side, cropping out the overlaying section.
Find out more about Illuminati Motor Works and Progressive Automotive X Prize.
Check out this video of Illuminati Motor Works.
This is a great video!! Being the lead singer of AC/DC is cool enough, but Brian is also a Gearhead, a very good driver and from the video, is really a nice guy.
I remember the Big Wheel coming out when I was growing up. I never had one but always thought they were cool.
Now check out the SS Trike. Its like the grown up version of the Big Wheel, but with a V-twin engine and a 24 inch front wheel.
Oh yeah!!!
I saw this video today and it is really something to see. The KillaCycle is the world’s quickest electric bike and on their website it states, “It is the quickest electric vehicle of any kind in the quarter mile”.
The power and the speed of this bike is one thing but what else is interesting is the silence. Being electric it doesn’t make any noise as it waits for the light, which makes for a usual scene for a dragstrip.
In the Hemmings Newsletter this week I saw that Dean Jeffries has a new book out called “Dean Jeffries: 50 Fabulous Years in Hot Rods, Racing & Film”.
Dean is a legendary car builder who was behind such creations as the Mantaray, the Monkeemobile, the Green Hornet’s Black Beauty plus a lot of other cars.
The write up about the book says it gives Jeffries’ own account of the circumstances behind the famous TV and movie cars as well as his relationships with personalities such as A. J. Foyt, Steve McQueen, James Dean, Bruce Lee, Parnelli Jones, and Elvis Presley. In the video Dean talks about doing some of the movie stunts.
I think this book will be a definite must have. If you already have a copy, tell me what you think of it.
Have you ever had something like this happen to you before?
I guess the worst for me was after clearing off all the windows, I wasn’t able to get the doors open.
The Bosozoku car craze in Japan could best be described as a cross between an anime cartoon and an art car. While the modifications aren’t what you would consider performance enhancing they do come with a certain level of creativity. I came across this post “Video: Japan’s Bosozoku roll deep, phat, loud and weird” the other day. I looked around for more information and found this video. What do you think about the Bosozoku craze?
