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This Kansas City landmark sits atop the Western Auto Lofts. The sign stands 58 feet high and contains 1000 feet of Neon and 2500 light bulbs. It was constructed in 1952 and restored in 2004, when the building was renovated. The building was originally built for the Coca Cola Company, but later became home to Western Auto Supply Company.
I wanted to do a larger work of Hans Stuck racing his C Type Auto Union up the Grossglockner mountain on his way to becoming German Hillclimb Champion in 1938. My Grandfather was there and took this photo of him at the start...
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I made a basic model in Maya and exported a wireframe - mainly to get the wheels right but it also allowed me to quickly experiment with camera angles.
This pencil sketch is A3 (pretty big for me). I tried one twice the size - transferring it to some card - only to find that the card wouldn't take any sort of paint or crayon without going wrinkly or showing the ridges in the card.
Next stage is to try again with a more suitable paper - perhaps using some charcoal. I may also try a digital paintover on this pencil sketch.
This building used to be Wesson Auto Parts. My grandfather, Ben Adams ran it for years and it pretty much died with him in 1986. I can still imagine it's smell and see all the cars in the bank in my mind. I was driving back up to Jackson tonight and decided to stop by to manual the pad out front. I think Ben would have dug skateboarding. I'm sure he took some diggers when he raced. I don't mind running into concrete either.
Strobist: Bare Vivitar 285 on the ground camera right.
Wesson, Mississippi
Rented in Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy.
Lancias have real cool design. Last time in Italy we had a Lancia Ypsilon and loved it, so when they asked us to choose between Fiat and Lancia we didn't even let them finish the phrase :-)
Only problem is, this car is probably too big for Lancia mechanics. It's a diesel with no turbo, so getting up to the local speed limit (130 km/h) takes quite a while, making it a bit scary when you're trying to get onto the highway. I'm sure they have better models, though... we always rent cheap O:-)
Anyway, we gave the car a good spin (1000+ km in two days) with no problems at all.
Incidentally, this time we were arriving on a Saturday evening, and all the offices for the companies we usually use (National and Avis) were supposed to be closed at that time (in the end they were open, though), so we reserved this car through a broker named Nova Car Hire whose database did find an open office.
Verdict: Thumbs up for both Nova Car Hire and Auto Europa. :-)
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File name: 08_06_018134
Title: Auto accident
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1937
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 3 1/8 x 4 1/4 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Traffic accidents
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.