Antonio Merinero: Pinball

We should've blogged this a few days ago. Sorry. The launch has gone but the exhibition continues. Beautiful stuff, Antonio! G

Pinball, Flipper ... is the game of neighbourhood bars, it’s easy to recall the sound – that dry "Tack"- of the metal ball bouncing of the bumpers. Visually catching, it’s “a game of skill” . Good games ending in “Replay” ... and bad games in either "Tilt" or “Game-over”. We didn´t speak English but so much we understood.

The shiny ball hitting kickers and slingshots and the ringing of bells, were the arcade’s soundtrack.
Toño Merinero brings those days of mechanical entertainment back, leaving the sound to our imagination, and putting our "machine" in the place of dreams. These originaland unique pieces, like all of Toño’s collages, provide a particular vision of everydaylife, making it art.

PINBALL
Antonio Merinero exhibits, in Makinostra, his collection of pinball machines for motorcyclists

Graphic artist, biker and unrepentant traveller Antonio Merinero shows his latest creation in Makinostra, Madrid. A collection of
mute pinballs designed on the lay out of the playfield of classic pinball machines reflect his passion for the Harley universe in an evocative and playful metaphor of "Biker’s Replay"

The, hand-drawn, personal reinterpretation of various graphical images and icons of “pop” inspiration make sense in a type of three-dimensional collage in which each piece each builds upon the aesthetics and visual context of different concepts of motorcycling: Cafe Racer, Chopper, Dirt Track, Bobber and Touring.
The piece by piece assembly makes each edition original and unique. Which is something magical in times when technology allow us to make unlimited, faithful copies of practically anything.
December 16 -20:00 hours.. until 10 January

Makinostra
General Álvarez de Castro, 26
28010 Madrid

Photo Vault - do the wave

GIF animations generator gifup.com

The art installation the Watertable under the Gardiner Expressway.

Beezer Birds

Hideous things have been created in the name of street art, but I do like these birds created by Bristol sculptor Jason Lane in St Pauls; perched on Grosvenor Road where the 1980 riots kicked off. They each have a BSA petrol tank body; a Bantam, an M21, and a C15 (?) BP

art deco sketch art of Michael Kaluta, from the artwork book of the movie "Metropolis", the incredible 1927 silent film

I didn't want to watch the silent film, not once I learned that a anime version with English vocals was made. It's a magnificent epic story that varies a lot from the original, and I recommend it highly. The original was written about on Wikipedia, and seems to be a very difficult story to follow, and that must be why it was editted differently by anyone who could, resulting in every known copy that existed from the 1930's to the 1990's having about 30 minutes cut from it to make the story cohesive. Watch the anime version for enjoyment, or the original if you're a film afficianado. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293416/

these two prints are from http://momentdinspiration.blogspot.com/2011/01/metropolis-book.html

1920's Cigarette card series on motorcycles gallery at Moment D' Inspiration

see the whole gallery at http://momentdinspiration.blogspot.com/2010/09/image-cards-cigarettes.html

Josh Hadar: bike sculptor

Costing between 10 and 40 thou, but tailored to the customer. Learned about it from Carscoop: http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2010/12/awesom-o-alert-tim-burton-your-bicycle.html or go right to the source http://hadarmetaldesign.com

Rex Burnett, the cutaway drawing king of Hot Rod magazine

See a gallery of 50 of these at http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/2010/06/rex-burnett.html

cool sketch art from Rulo Treviño

Enjoy the portfolio at http://trevinoart.com/

cool sketch art from Rulo Treviño

Enjoy the portfolio at http://trevinoart.com/

Car parts art

from http://englishrussia.com/

Conrad Leach at Gauntlett

Loyal Sideburn subscriber and world renowned artist, Conrad Leach indulges in some clever marketing by having his Cro Customs built Evo Sportster-powered board track/Brooklands-inspired street bike in the window of a Pimlico art gallery, Gauntlett, that is flogging his wares. G

Conrad's blog Conartism
UPDATE: Found a great online photo feature on this bike at ChopCult

Probably the coolest damn tank I've seen

from http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/

Oliver's Mount by Adi

I'm still writing the monthly roads column for Bike in the UK and Adi at 99 Seconds is illustrating it. This is the one he did for this month's Oliver's Mount story. Cool eh? G

Happy Christmas everyone

Thanks to Tim Beaumont Designs for the artwork.

Sideburn 9 Lives T-shirt

New Sideburn T-shirt has just arrived. To quote our mate Fly 'It's a tiger on a motorbike, what's not to like?'

Designed by cult British illustrator Stevie Gee exclusively for Sideburn. It has the 9 Lives tiger four-colour screenprint on the front with the Stevie Gee logo. The back print reads Sideburn in hand-drawn font by the artist too. And it's printed in England on a quality Gildan 100% pre-shrunk Ultra Cotton shirt.
Size small to XL.
Colours Sport Grey and Air Force Blue.
Like all Sideburn shirts, we limit to one run. When they're gone that's it.

The inspiration? Stevie says
"I finished your 4 colour tee design today. Hope y'all like it.
After our ongoing conversations about danger, risk and death, I decided to draw a big cat on a bike as they are super lucky, having 9 lives and all."
Best Stevie Gee

Buy it in the Sideburn Webshop. We'll be posting orders between Christmas and New Year.

UPDATE: Oh yeah, every 9 Lives order gets 2 Sideburn Soul vinyl screen-printed stickers

This has to be Doug DoRr's truck, it's in the Mad Bomberz CC and has kool art on it... the "Old Soul"

For Doug's kool Kustom car: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/05/doug-dorrs-cool-kustom-was-at-beatnik.html

Kustom Kulture art at the Primer Nats

Kent Rappert, awesome Kustom artist, you may have enjoyed his art in magazines... that is where I recognized his art from

All these photos are used with permission, so don't re-post them without asking Kent for his permission, it'd make your mom proud of you! No copying his artistic style either, that's not cool.