jay nel from south africa emailed some pix and info about an artist who does some amazing metal art made from old automobile parts, using anything he can, from radiator parts to spark plugs, to achieve his masterpieces. he says ...
Read More »the price of gas: part 2
took this photo the other day: $3.77 per gallon for 87 octane gas means 11% of that is taxes. it would be $3.36 without the taxes. roughly, for every ten gallons, you could get a free gallon if there were ...
Read More »taking a trip to meet an artist and builder
this bike first appeared on another site a couple weeks ago and something wasn’t right, but i was intrigued. i researched the builder as no link to his site was given, and shot him an email. we spoke on the ...
Read More »friday’s post of cool stuff #73: that’s nacho cheese, dr. seuss!
i don’t understand what’s funny about this song. it’s simply very sad and impossibly long. *** bless johnny cash. he would have been 80 this week. now that i’m half his age, i’m deaf when some speak. here’s something cool, ...
Read More »cemeteries and other stuff near my home
february is the coldest month of the year but last week it was 75 degrees in new orleans. i mention this and show cemetery pix from two locations near my home because i’m feeling simultaneously reverent while wanting to stick ...
Read More »keron grant’s cb750 brat bobber
besides the cool bike, he’s a great artist. i posted his work a year ago, and now he’s built this raw honda cb750k brat bobber. gotta clean up some wires and trim that heinous mirror by six inches, but i ...
Read More »random post of interesting art
yesterday i discovered a nifty link to “the most beloved” street art photos of 2011. beloved? oh, you art ****. when will you ever learn? anyhoo, i dig artsy fartsy stuff, especially graffiti and street art. out of the 106 ...
Read More »carved tires by wim delvoye
discovered this today on the always interesting go away garage. the artist is a belgian dude named wim delvoye. he does tons of interesting stuff from jewelry and photography to stained glass and giant life-sized gothic-styled sculptures of bulldozers. he ...
Read More »suzuki s40 boulevard brat "looky looky" | machine-13
received a text today from zack over at machine-13 in phx. zack is a talented tattoo artist and when he isn’t ripping into people’s flesh, he’s ripping apart little motorbikes and bobbing the living sh*t out of them. his text stated that ...
Read More »the bikerMetric 300
it was bound to happen. sooner or later bikerMetric was going to get 300 suckers to click the follow button. here are the latest souls i will dissolute into banker-hurting, beer-swilling, metric motorbike-riding braggarts of our planet’s impending doom. i’ve ...
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