Tuesday, February 27, 2007

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Check this shit.

My love for 80's/early 90 Mercedes has been completely restored!

P.S.
Your all shit! Not one response to the competition, remember there will be a prize. I'm working on a example for you because you obviously need help.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Competition

I know this is a little premature been as I have about 5 people read my blog (one of them being my Dad), but I am ill and sat at home bored so I have devised a competition, when I say devised I mean stole. This is a complete rip-off of a competition Carrhart held, go to Carhartt Streetwear for a little inspiration.
What I want you do is to customise a paper model of a car.

Step1
Choose which car you would like to customize. I have found some nets of some nice 80's European cars that I think will lend themselves well to being paper models. Here are your options:

Fiat Panda
Citroen BX
Renault 5
Mercedes W123

These images reduce in quality as the list goes on, this is because I had to screen dump some and edit others. I went to great effort to get you these.

Step2
Use all or any of your artistic talents to make your model the most exciting paper car model anyone has ever laid their eyes on. You can edit it on your computer with Photoshop or even Paint! You could also print it out and work on it old school with pens, pencils and paints and stuff! You could edit it in 3D by sticking stuff on or cutting bits away.

Step3
Take a picture, if your car is a bit shit then take a good picture you might be able to redeem it!

Step4
Send your picture to me via email to willbeaumont88@hotmail.com then comment this post (or any other competition related posts I may do in the future) with your picture in, so the whole world can see your paper car.

I am not putting a time limit on this competition purely for the fact that I may not get many people doing it. So I will have to make it last quite a while for me to get enough responses.

I will also be giving a prize to the winner. I will judge the entries myself and I will email the winner back so I can get details to send them a prize! I don’t know what this prize will be yet; I’m going to wait until I pay my speeding fine so I can actually have a budget.

Good luck!

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When I initially took this picture I was convinced it was going to be a -, but I've been thinking... if I (a small, skinny, white, middle-class, British, boy) were to drive this Lexus it would perhaps be the opposite to what people would be expecting so would that would make it cool (in a funny ironic way.) but it would only be cool if I did it or people who had similar attributes to me. So if you do not exude all of those elements you probably wont be able to make it look cool, or at least funny.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

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Small, basic, German car in white and on foreign plates! How could this not be cool!

Monday, February 05, 2007

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Mini drivers who think its cool to park next to other Minis, how sad!

Saturday, February 03, 2007

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I know its out of sequence and I know I shouldn’t really rate my own cars but...

... look at how it shines! I love the winter weather I didn’t even have to chamois it. The leaf on the spare wheel adds a nice touch don’t you think?