December 8th, 2005 + del.icio.us +digg
Damian Ortega’s exploded VW Beetle:
“The ‘exploded’ Beetle owes something to the cartoonist’s bag of tricks: telescoping rods have been inserted so that headlights ‘bug’ outward and a strata of gears and casings fan through the air. Ortega has literalized the spitting, sneezing, ramshackle character of the car; its expansiveness is absurd and poetic at once.”
On exhibition currently at the MOCA.
December 11th, 2005 at 3:32 am
I can’t stand how cool this is.
December 15th, 2005 at 4:28 pm
Reminds me of the exploded Cummins engine in Columbus, IN
http://www.therepublic.com/Main.asp?SectionID=44&SubSectionID=112&ArticleID=11062
(best online photo I could find)
December 15th, 2005 at 4:55 pm
Patrick - that exploded engine is very cool. If anyone has any more info, I would love to see it. All I could find is that it is by Rudolph de Harak…
March 23rd, 2006 at 7:03 am
The exploded engine was apparently done to tell the story of the company workers at Cummins Engine Company. He liked to relate and communicate with his audience and he did a lot of displays that were tres cool. One of them was Minutes+Hours on 200 Water Street NY which is basically a huge digital clock.I know that no-one is going to look at this but hey. I’m actually doing a study on de Harak so thats why I know these things
June 8th, 2006 at 7:11 am
In the New York Times they had a great photo from an Eames exhibit of a perfectly exploded Eames Lounge http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/arts/design/26eame.html?ex=1149825600&en=8c03063e21d2ca87&ei=5070