Act fast. Barrett-Jackson auctions in Palm Beach will be selling this beauty on Apr 11-13.
Lot #375 – This Ford Station Wagon re-creation is based on the car in the movie “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo. It’s powered by a 5.0-liter 8-cylinder engine and an automatic transmission.
And lest you forget the source…
Green screening and digitally enhancing scenes with motion tracking and 2D/3D software tools is in just about every mainstream TV show and movie these days. But jumping the uncanny valley has still been elusive (at least to my eyes).
Nikita Daikur’s odd and low-fi way of using these tools is a wild ride. Give them a watch.
Check out his odd techno street party
Or this ‘Ugly Parking lot’
Last year for the month of March, motion design studio Mr. Kaplin released a series of alphabet animations loosely inspired by an object or concept beginning with the featured letter. The project, A Month of Type, was published to the studio’s Instagram, and was also compiled into an alphabetical list of the animations with a soundtrack by BXFTYS.
If you like these inventive type interpretations check out 36 Days of Type, a project that asks designers from across the globe to animate their own letters and numbers throughout April and May.
ARTHUR: We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights who will join me in my court of Camelot. I must speak with your lord and master.
GUARD #1: What, ridden on a horse?
ARTHUR: Yes!
GUARD #1: You’re using coconuts!
ARTHUR: What?
GUARD #1: You’ve got two empty halves of coconut and you’re bangin’ ’em together.
ARTHUR: So?