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…

Autosuggestion – rough cuts

Mike and I have edited the script of last week’s presentation of Autosuggestion – our new work of Theatre/Archaeology. Autosuggestion – the script There’s still some fact checking to do – mainly on the details of car history (and any suggestions will be very welcome – use the comment form at the end of the…

car futures – art views

This weekend at the meetings of Performance Studies International Bruce Tomb introduced us to Maria del Camino – a flying car! Well, kind of! This ’59 Cadillac is mounted on a hydraulic excavator, and is named in homage to Maria – human turned android in Fritz Lang’s 1927 science fiction movie Metropolis. Maria appears in…