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car culture – a week in Monterey
At the Monterey Motorsports Reunion Legends of the Autobahn Concorso Italiano Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance (where the Revs Program awarded, for the first time, the Revs Prize for most historically significant car in show – [Link] Some selections from a gallery of photographs at archaeographer.com – [Link] Legends of the Autobahn Concorso Italiano – posing…
Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
Yesterday The Revs Program was at Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance – one of the greatest car shows in the world [Link] Some of our students attended the show as judges to award The Revs Prize for the most historically significant car in the show – a 1963 Porsche 901 prototype belonging to Don and Diane…
genuine simulation
A couple of weeks ago I took a fabulous drive on a rough Montana ranch road in a 1927 Vauxhall with Miles Collier and Murray Smith. The car was the genuine article, but could the drive, in this between-the-wars archetypically English car, be said to be authentic, in the far reaches of Montana and so far from…
figure and ground
Up in Boonville again. Figure ground relationships.
matters of authenticity and simulation
Is Disneyland authentic? This is a question I have pondered for a number of years, since I visited what was Eurodisney in 1992 (and explored in my book with Mike Pearson – Theatre/Archaeology – [Link]). It is too easy to say that Disney is superficial, or fantasy, or ideology. Here are a couple of cases…
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