Sport Prototipos published by Joel Cesetti , is a blog specialized as the name suggests...well in Sport Prototipos, and is a great source for new finds about motorsport. I'm always on the look up for something out of the common place , or I've not seen yet.
Today as usual, going trough the new posts, once again I found first-rate information about cars and people I hadn't the opportunity of having known before. Notwithstanding the beautiful photos posted, there is something that amazed me the most: on his recommended blogs and sites list I found Miha Furhan's blog, an amazing painter. The graphic treatment of his paintings is astonishing.
If you are an art lover, and mostly a motorsport art lover , you're better be ready to spend a long time visiting Miha's site.
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What can you say, after all these years of being a "defunct band and dinosaurs" these four men are still generating incredible interest in their timeless music which has only gotten better with age and and has influenced countless young talented musicians...Truly, they still swing the Hammer Of The Gods....Peace... ( posted by a fan @ Rolling Stone magazine)
Este é um blog voltado à assuntos gerais. No entanto, aqueles que vez ou outra nos visitam, já devem ter percebido que carros de um modo geral dão a tônica aos nossos assuntos. Carros no cinema, quando partes integrantes do enrêdo de filmes, quer seja sôbre caçadas aos fora da lei, ou ao esporte-motor, em sua maioria protagonizam filmes inesquecíveis. Abaixo alguns dos que estão colados à minha memória.
Grand Prix (1966)
Antes do Stallone escrever o roteiro do indigesto "Driven", de 2001, ele deveria ter assistido a brilhante Formula 1 - Opera "Grand Prix" do Frankenheimer pelo menos uma vez. Não, não...10.000 vêzes.
A referência absoluta do gênero.
Le Mans (1971)
Steve McQueen paixão pelo esporte a motor foi tão grande quanto à sua paixão pelo cinema. Foi um piloto de motos e carros da mais fina habilidade.
Seu trabalho como diretor e ator neste ícone do gênero estará cimentado para sempre na memória dos amantes do automobilismo de competição, e em especial Le mans.
A perseguição empreendida por Steve McQueen naquele Mustang versus o Dodge Charger numa escaramuça quase sem fim através das ruas tipo montanha russa de San Francisco é simpesmente boa demais, para deixarmos fora desta lista. Uma lição de "action moviemaking" sem auxílio de computadores.
Rendezvous (1976)
Ilegal, foi o rótulo imposto à este filme do diretor Claude Lelouch, mostrando um carro esporte em disparada através das ruas , no despertar de mais uma manhã parisiense. Por esta razão, costumava ser visto únicamente no sigiloso aconchêgo das reuniões entre iniciados e em casinos ilegais. Hoje em dia, está ao alcançe de todos nós, os amantes destas "loucuras", graças ao Youtube. Apesar da crença geral, a máquina usada nunca foi uma Ferrari, o som do motor é falso, nunca houve um piloto de Formula 1 ao volante, a não ser Lelouch em pessoa. Um tremendo braço.
Combine-se o diretor de Exorcista William Friedkin, com o vencedor do Oscar, Gene Hackman, um Pontiac Le Mans de 1971, e um assassino fugitivo num elevado de metrô, e teremos carros disparados em situações impossíveis como forma de arte.
Ronin (1998)
Não entendo a trama, e não estou nem aí. Porque me importar, quando tenho De Niro e a gostosa da Natascha McElhone arrebentando BMWs, Benzes e Audis através das ruas de Paris e do sul da França a velocidades de Grand Prix?
O diretor John Frankenheimer contratou pilotos de F1 (infelizmente nunca descobri os nomes, mas sei que é verdade) para protagonizar as "caçadas" que por incrível que pareça , chegam a superar aquelas de "Bullitt".
Mad Max (1979)
Apesar dos carros serem todos canabalizados, eram máquinas maravilhosamente concebidas. Êste é reconhecidamente, pela crítica, como o melhor filme de Mel Gibson, mesmo quando posto cara a cara com "Braveheart". Curioso passo da carreira do Mel Gibson : estilos radicalmente opostos, característica de que poucos diretores se podem dar ao luxo.
Como curiosidade: o orçamento de Mad Max (1) foi tão pequeno que Gibson era o único usando roupas de couro verdadeiro. Todos os outros usavam vinyl.
Farewell to the Cadillac XLR. The only and greatest Cadillac Sport street going car ever.
The Bowling Green Daily News reported that the Cadillac XLR has ceased production forever this past spring. Spawned from the eye-popping Evoq concept, the Corvette-derived (but Northstar-powered) hardtop convertible finds itself as General Motors' latest cost-cutting casualty. Its high price, low volume and decreasing sales do not make for a strong business case anymore, especially in an economic environment that is not conducive to new car sales in general. We've driven the XLR – the supercharged V-Series – and we like it a lot. Rare and stylish enough to still turn heads, fast enough to paste a wide, goofy grin on your face, and comfortable enough to let you cruise for hours on end – as good as it was, the XLR (and its V-Series counterpart) never quite got the formula perfected. It was doomed to perpetual also-ran status in its category compared to the benchmark set by the Mercedes-Benz SL. The Corvettes also had better engines, manual gearboxes and cost a lot less. The current CTS-V boasts a substantially better interior, is faster and costs less still. And so the XLR drives into the sunset this spring. Frankly, it's a pretty good ride to be making that drive in.
Jason Castriota has spent most of his professional career designing some of the most iconic and beautiful sports cars of our era. Cars that kids, for years, will be playing interior decorator with, plastering them all over their walls. With the help of Pininfarina, and now, Stile Bertone, he's managed to put himself at the forefront of the newly re-emerged coach building game being played out at the top design houses around the world. Jason has been fortunate, and insanely talented enough, to have his say with the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, the Maserati Gran Turismo, the Maserati MC12-based Birdcage 75th Concept, Rolls-Royce Hyperion, the Ferrari 612 Kappa for collector, Peter Kalikow and of course, the Enzo Ferrari-based Pininfarina P4/5 for the now famous collector, Jim Glickenhaus.
After the official reveal of the Stile Bertone Mantide at the 2009 Shanghai Auto Show, we were able to catch up with Jason for a chat in between his picture taking with the extremely excitable Chinese journalists that were also attending the show. At first, we thought the man that had designed all of these mesmerizing vehicles would be kind of a self-appreciating prick as so many other car designers are, but our conversation with him proved this wasn't the case. Actually, he seems like a pretty cool guy. read more @ jalopnik.com
Lance Armstrong has been vigorously Twittering from the Tour de France course, and those following his Tweets may have perked up at this July 7 message: “Just saw my new Trek Madone (for later in the race) that legendary artist Damien Hirst put his touches on. Speechless.”
Though this is not his first collaboration with an artist—two of the bikes Armstrong used in his 2005 Tour de France victory were customized with designs by legendary graffiti artist Futura—Armstrong’s involvement in the art world has reached new heights this year: he’s raced on bikes designed by graphic designer KAWS, Pop Surrealist Kenny Scharf, and contemporary artist Shepard Fairey, and during Stage one in the ongoing 2009 Tour de France, which started July 4 and ends July 26, he rode a Trek Speed Concept time trial bike crafted by industrial designer Marc Newson. Armstrong is set to ride the same model decorated by Japanese Pop artist Yoshitomo Nara during Stage 18 and will spin into Paris on the Tour’s final day on a Trek Madone customized by art-world bad boy Damien Hirst. (He is riding a different Trek Madone during the other stages of the race, so he’ll have ridden four bikes in total during the competition.) The artists do not construct the bikes, but they do, however, add their one-of-a-kind touches to the frames, wheels, and wheel discs.
COUNTERCULTURE CYCLIST. Lance Armstrong riding his Marc Newson–designed Trek bike.
At the end of the tour’s 21 stages, the Hirst and Newson art bikes will become late additions to the Nike-sponsored “Stages” art exhibition, which opens tomorrow at the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, in Paris. (It kicks off tonight with a party at the gallery.) The exhibition, inspired by Armstrong’s battle against cancer, includes the art bikes created by KAWS, Scharf, and Fairey, but the 20 artists in the show focused mostly on Armstrong’s Livestrong message, rather than cycling. (Take, for example, Pop artist Ed Ruscha’s “Vital to the Core” piece in acrylic on linen.) The show will then move to the Park Avenue Armory, in New York City, this fall. The art is available for purchase, with proceeds benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
In March of this year, when announcing launch of “Stages,” Armstrong explained his desire to work with artists when he said, “I’ve kind of been a closet art collector. And in the last three years because I didn’t anything much to do other than run around with [Livestrong president Doug Ulman] and fight cancer, this art passion accelerated.” He went on to credit the involvement of Nike C.E.O. Mark Parker, who is a noted contemporary art collector. Armstrong said they “spent more time over the last three years talking about art than we spent talking about sports.” Herewith, a sampling of Armstrong’s art bikes over the years.
