MetaFilter posts tagged with cars and art

Aspiring Animators & Game Designers, Study Your Calculus & Combinatorics

zarq — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:20:49 -0800

Every film Pixar has produced has landed in the top fifty highest-grossing animated films of all time. What's their secret? Mathematics. Oh, and 22 Rules of Storytelling. Dr. DeRose has recently been giving lectures about the Pixar formula ("story, concept art, modeling, rigging, shading and lighting") around the country. On Youtube: Movies, Math and Making. PDFs of his papers are archived at Pixar's website. Vimeo: Math in the Movies: Making It All Add Up

Shiny!

Mitheral — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:34:20 -0800

Posters of famous movie cars (and trucks; and planes; ... a few space ships; .... the odd train.) done in the style of vintage race advertising posters.

The other film adaptation of J.G. Ballard's "Crash"

Egg Shen — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:58:41 -0800

Long before the David Cronenberg film (NSFW: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), before even the publication of the novel, Harley Cokeliss directed Crash! (1, 2) - a short film adapted from the story in J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition, starring Ballard himself and Gabrielle Drake (sister of Nick Drake). (previously) ... in 1969, I staged an exhibition of crashed cars at the New Arts Laboratory in London — three crashed cars in a formal gallery ambience. The centerpiece was a crashed Pontiac from the last great tail-fin period. The whole exhibition illustrated a scene from my previous book, Atrocity Exhibition, where my Travis hero stages a similarly despairing exhibition. What I was doing was testing my own hypotheses about the ambiguities that surround the car crash, ambiguities that are at the heart of the book. I hired a topless girl to interview people on closed-circuit tv. The violent and overexcited reaction of the guests at the opening party was a deliberate imaginative overload which I imposed upon them in order to test my own obsession. The subsequent damage inflicted on the cars during the month of the show—people splashed them with paint, tore off the wing mirrors—and at the opening party, where the topless girl was almost raped in the rear seat of the Pontiac (a scene straight from Crash itself), convinced me I should write Crash. - J.G. Ballard, "The Art of Fiction" No. 85, The Paris Review

It didn't turn out minimalist

Nabubrush — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:26:34 -0800

And it doesn't suck. The Jeff Koons BMW art car is out. Here's Wired's take on it, and Autoblog with a little piece of video from the unveiling. Despite some concern before the unveiling, the car seems to have been pretty well received. The art works well with the actual race car concept, perhaps in contrast to some past versions (Lichtenstein's looks pretty speedy, though). Unlike past cars, the art was designed in CAD, printed on vinyl, applied to the chassis and then covered with clear-coat (Koons worked with BMW to ensure that it wouldn't affect the aerodynamics). Here's a brief clip from BMW covering the cars, and a site featuring images of each car. Also, Jeff Koons as a passenger at Sebring. The actual art car, piloted at Le Mans this year by Andy Priaulx, Dirk Müller, and Dirk Werner, completed 53 laps (DNF). The other BMW team placed 19th. This is an update of this previous post, but the subject was also covered here.

Quality is the best business plan

Rhaomi — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:15:58 -0800

Toy Story 3 hits theaters today, and it's already winning universal acclaim as an enchanting and heartbreaking wonderwork, employing understated 3D and a "real-time" perspective that deftly capitalizes on the nostalgia and can't-go-home-again angst of a generation that grew up with the series. It has a strong pedigree, with 11-year-old predecessor Toy Story 2 the rare sequel to equal its forebear, 1995's Toy Story (itself the first CGI feature in history). And it joins a lofty stable of films: over the last 15 years, Pixar has put out an unbroken chain of ten commercial and critical successes that have grossed over $5 billion worldwide and collected 24 Academy Awards (including the second-ever Best Picture nom for animation with Up), a legacy that rivals some of the greatest franchises in film history. But there's rumbling on the horizon. Although the studio has been hailed for its originality (of the 50 top-grossing movies in history, only nine were original stories -- and five of them were by Pixar), two of their upcoming projects are sequels, both of them based some of their least-acclaimed films (Cars 2 in 2011 and Monsters, Inc. 2 in 2012). And while 2012 will also bring ~~The Bear and the Bow~~ Brave, the first Pixar flick to feature a female protagonist [previously], fellow newcomer Newt has been canceled. With WALL-E/Up/Toy Story 3 guru Andrew Stanton focusing on his 2012 adaptation of John Carter of Mars and with forays into live-action already in development, does this mark the end of the golden age of Pixar? Or is this latest entry lasting proof that even the toughest case of sequelitis can be raised to the level of masterpiece? Pixar's Original Short Films:

Luxo, Jr. (1986) - Red's Dream (1987) - Tin Toy (1988) - Knick Knack (1989) - Geri's Game (1997) - For the Birds (2000) - Boundin' (2003) - One Man Band (2005) - Lifted (2006) - Presto (2008) - Partly Cloudy (2009)

Notable moments in Pixar films:

I Will Go Sailing No More (Toy Story) Motivational Speaker (A Bug's Life) When Somebody Loved Me (Toy Story 2) Kitty has to Go (Monsters, Inc.) Opening scene (Finding Nemo) Missile Attack (The Incredibles) Racing Pile-up (Cars) Cooking (Ratatouille) Opening scene, Define Dancing, End credits (WALL-E) Married Life, Carl Goes Up, Stuff We Did (Up)

Pixar previously on Metafilter:

Treating Astro Zombie and his girlfriend to a tour of the studio and tickets to the premiere just for inspiring them Granting a young girl suffering from cancer her last wish Essays About Pixar Lots more

SF Car Gallery

mathowie — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:22:42 -0800

San Francisco Vehicles Cropped to a Square . A cool, quirky gallery of over 100 vehicles parked in San Francisco, arranged by color (be sure to page through them all and notice the color transitions). Includes a few cool shots and a few WTF cars.

My other car is a minimalist

twoleftfeet — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:52:46 -0800

Jeff Koons joins other modern artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Frank Stella in treating BMW cars as a canvas for art. All the BMW art cars. (Previously, with lots of dead links.)

Action painting

ardgedee — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:18:19 -0800

How to Paint a Picture With a Car (Bandwidth-saving Youtube version) Transcript. Selected works of other car-painters. Explanatory nomenclature. Other works.

Pass the Future, please.

cenoxo — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:36:40 -0800

Tales of Future Past* — It's been a looong Monday. Do you want to get off the planet and out of the city to a place where you can really live? Well, here's some food for thought on the way home down life's highways. First, take a break from all this depressing war talk. Then empower yourself by giving yourself some space and maybe taking off for a few days. Drive just a bit slower, turn up the volume and imagine that your mechanic will say the tranny's OK after all. Once you're in the front door, take time to get slightly wired and forget all about politics. Get recharged for tomorrow: have a nice long bath, put your mind at ease, watch Ur Fave shOw, and listen to some soothing music. Now, don't things look a lot better? [*Note the 'Start the Tour' links at the bottom of each page.]

Sunday fun

nickyskye — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:35:26 -0800

Sunday sillibiz: Snackimals, really fancy fashions for dogs, RubikCubism, hairstyle names from 1970s Ebony ad, burquas for men, fetish dollies [nsfw], Art Car Museum, the hideaway cosy, baby tiger cub sleeps and plays. [via]

Boom! One day your car goes boom!

DrJohnEvans — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:52:08 -0800

Toutes les autos de Tintin Including pictures of the original models where available.

Carthedral

Gator — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:34:58 -0800

"Q: Is that another car on top?
A: Yes, it's a VW bug." -- Carthedral. A few more (clearer, daylight) photos here.

Human camera

tellurian — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:26:08 -0800

The Tokyo skyline [Windows or Real media] drawn from memory by savant Stephen Wiltshire.

did you find mr potato head?

drezdn — Wed, 04 May 2005 22:40:18 -0800

The most prominent feature is the cow skill mounted on the hood. When art cars go out to pasture.

School of Rock

filmgoerjuan — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:33:22 -0800

The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir

Hell Bent

snez — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:02:55 -0800

"Hell Bent" - the title I've given this sculpture, is the culmination of an untold number of hours work. The sculpture depicts a modern Formula One car at speed, mid-turn, and indeed in the wet.

crashbonsai

ginz — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 03:03:35 -0800

crashbonsai No passengers have been injured in CrashBonsai accidents, although some drivers have reported a brief, even euphoric loss of consciousness.