Here’s a helmet I recently finished for a drag racing driver. The team car is a Volvo chassis with a giant Chevy engine in it. That’s why it’s called Crazy Volvo and has a combined Chevy-Volvo logo. I did all design, airbrushing, lettering and pinstriping. The driver basically just gave me a rough sketch of the logo idea, and a photo of the car so that I could see the color scheme, and said surprise me.
Every aspiring pinstriper should see this video. Quality is a little poor. But you can easily hear what’s being said. This is advice from THE pinstripe legend, Kenneth “Von Dutch” Howard.
Dirty Rotten Rides a cool site about Hot Rods, Customs, Motorcycles and smoking hot Pinups, just did a feature on me. Very nice people, you should check it out.
Finished the car lift project this week. The task was to create a city skyline in the sunset on each beam of the lift. Since I had to create 4 similar skylines on each pillar, I decided that the best effect would be achieved by doing a dramatic airbrushed sunset behind a stylized cartoony metropolis skyline. After the masking was removed I added all the window lights, tiny antennas and other details freehand with a brush. I tell you, that’s a serious amount of dots.
This was a co-op project with Morten from, North Side Custom. I called Morten in to handle the initial black base coat of the pillars, as well as assist me on some of the airbrushing and to do the final clear coat.
South Island Rumble 2010 was a blast. 10 bands in two days, gravel pit racing, very nice car selection, and the best of weather. What more can you ask for. Here’s some of my photos from the meet. The pinstriping and artwork you see in these photos where done by me at the meet.
A friend of mine from Sweden has made a pinup calender to raise money for kids with undiagnosed braindiseases.
Here’s her message to you.
“This calendar is for CHARITY and everyone involved is doing this because of their good heart and spirit
and I’m truly greatful for everyones participation.
The ONLY economical gain is the one that will go to children with UNDIAGNOSED BRAINDISEASES.
Children like my son Giovanni.
My sons disorder is stationary, but there are other children with progressive undiagnosed braindiseases
and they need all the help they can get, since their condition is fatal.
There’s not enough money put into research for these children since, even though they are a high number of children with
an undiagnosed braindisease, each and every child is a minority since one childs condition isn’t completely compatible
to the next and since there’s no other known cases to compare with…
Due to these facts it’s hard and expensive to search for answers (a diagnos) or a cure.”
You can get the calender and support their cause at http://calendargirls.blogg.se
Thought I’d share this video from Bottrop 2010 with you. Don’t know if it’s because I was there, but I think the good atmosphere of this years show just reeks from the clip. The clip is a teaser for a full show that will be on KARACHO.tv later.
After six months or more I finally got my magazine project, Kustomposten, finished and shipped to the printers today. I’m very exited about it. It’s has been my pet project for a long time. I saw some test prints today, but I can’t wait to hold the actual first issue of the magazine in my hands.
I’m a big fan of Dice, Rolls & Pleats, Primer etc. those are all foreign magazines in the same genre. I wanted to create one for Denmark in danish. Yes, for now it’s in danish, sorry for that to those of you who don’t read danish. It was one of the premises for the project to try and see how it would work in danish.
Creating a magazine is a LOT of work, and there’s virtually no economy in it. Especially not if you choose to narrow your potential readers down to the few people in the world that speaks the language of a country most people think is a freeway to Sweden. I knew from the beginning that I would have to look at it as an art project. I consider it to be more of a collectors item then a magazine you toss in the bin after you’ve read it. That’s how I consider the subculture magazines I buy. Therefor I strive for best quality print and a cool format with high quality photos. I may experiment more in the future with the printing, there’s so much I would like to try.
I guess this is what musicians feel like when they put out a new song. Will people like it?, or will they think it’s crap? You never know. I hope that the people in the danish hot rod, rockabilly culture will want to have their own magazine and understands that buying it means supporting the idea. Advertisers and sponsors will also be most welcome in future issues. Anything that can help keep the project flying. People who just want to help would also be great, writers, photographers, proofreaders, you name it. If you have a skill of some sort that you think can help out, please get in touch.
By the way. The cover model is Katja Cintja posing with my ‘65 Chevy Pickup shot by Dirk “Pixeleye” Behlau
German TV station ZDF is producing a tv show about Kustom Kulture. At the Walldorf Weekender ZDF did some filming with photographer Dirk “Pixeleye” Behlau shooting pinup model Katja Cintja posing with my 65 chevy pickup truck. I was of course on the spot shooting some behind the scenes photos. The show will air in fall as far as I’m informed.
You can see some of Pixeleye’s finished photos from the shoot here
