Tuesday, July 13, 2010

The Long and Winding Road(s)

1965 Plymouth Barracuda with revised lines.
Small Mercury Hybrid for China.

C H O P S — The same generic 'winding road' background was used in these two very different looking chops. The top one is a revised 1965 Plymouth Barracuda, with revisions to the C pillar mostly. This was also the Exner/Engel period at Chrysler, with Engel 'filling out the box' of Exner's earlier forms. The bottom photo shows a small Mercury for the Chinese-domestic market, the Monterery Hybrid. I used a high-tech feel with a totally different palette than the warmer, older 'Cuda image. I also use similar cobblestone images for the 'floors' in my chops. I have about 5 stock images that I use to create new ones for each chop. I consider using existing pieces of images like this to be the same as 'sampling' in music mixing and collage-work in other fields of art.  Plus, it's only a hobby after all, lol.

6 comments:

  1. Telsa will now be supplying Toyotas with their battery technology. Have you ever tried cross pollenating any of them?

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  2. that little Mercury started out as a Toyota Corolla. it's interesting that Toyota supplies engines for the Lotus Elise, and now will be assisting Tesla, which builds a version of the Lotus also. I don't think any company can really be called independent anymore,

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  3. JUST CHECKING IN.IS THE BIRD STILL ALIVE?

    GRANNY

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  4. TG; I haven't gone outside to check yet. it's raining a little bit, which we REALLY need, but i'll check on it soon.

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  5. Granny: The bird is gone now. Other robins are still over there. I think they like the freshly dug dirt all around the new plants. It's like a worm smorgasbord over there! But the sick bird either got better or something got it during the night. We have deer, raccoons, and foxes and even a fishercat which is neither fish nor cat.

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  6. POOR LITTLE THING.
    NATURE TAKES CARE OF EVERYTHING.

    GRANNY

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