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The Walt Disney-prodcued movie High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) follows a group of high school seniors as they navigate the emotional highs and lows of their final year at East High. The film was the first theatrical release of the popular High School Musical trilogy, and it opened at number one in theaters, the biggest opening for a musical at the time. Continue reading Pink Thing of The Day: Honda S2000 from High School Musical 3
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For Ridley Scott’s 1982 movie Blade Runner, filmmakers called upon concept artist Syd Mead to imagine the dystopian world of 2019 Los Angeles. In the science-fiction film, Rick Deckard, (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD officer of the Blade Runner unit, is assigned to track down bioengineered humanoids called replicants. Deckard’s personal vehicle is Police Sedan Number 56, a “spinner” that has been decommissioned and stripped of its ability to fly. (Angelinos: tell me that doesn’t remind you just a bit of a self-driving WayMo).
Continue reading Eye On Design: Deckard Sedan Movie Car from Blade Runner
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In 1976, British automobile designer William Towns created the Microdot as an evolution of his 1972 Minissima concept. At just 6.5 feet long, this car for city dwellers is a gas/electric hybrid with a 400-cc gas engine running a 3.5 kW generator to charge the batteries that power the electric motor.
Continue reading Eye On Design: The Microdot Mini Automobile
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This oversized Rubik’s Cube sculpture in the exhibit Cars Are Beautiful perfectly captures Mr. Brainwash’s talent for transforming familiar cultural symbols into exuberant, large-scale spectacle. Constructed from thousands of tiny Matchbox cars — each meticulously painted to correspond with the iconic color blocks of the classic puzzle — the work fuses childhood nostalgia with pop-art bravado. From a distance, it reads instantly as the beloved brain teaser; up close, it dissolves into a dense mosaic of miniature automobiles, each one a self-contained object of desire. Continue reading Rubik’s Cube Sculpture Made of Matchbox Cars By Mr. Brainwash
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Currently on view at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles as part of Mr. Brainwash’s exuberant exhibition Cars Are Beautiful, Furry Fiat is exactly what its name promises. Created in 2024, this full-size Fiat is entirely covered in Plush Pink Fur, transforming an everyday automobile into a surreal, pop-inflected sculpture that blurs the line between car culture, fashion, and contemporary art. Continue reading Pink Thing of The Day: Pink Furry Fiat By Mr. Brainwash