This year The Philosopherz Stone is bringing it's first art car, the STEAMBUG! We are super excited and many aspects of it are progressing rapidly. To follow along keep on eye on our blog over at www.STEAMBUG.com. This project has been awarded a Transformus Art Grant, which is awesome, but we still need YOUR support. If you are interested helping out with time, construction help, painting help, artistic design help, lighting help, or the ever needed funding help, please contact STEAMBUG at philosopherzstone dot com. Join our Google Groups at:
Snippets from our Art Grant Application (posted on our blog): Introduction
Last year, a number of members of my theme camp decided that this year we needed to bring an art car to Transformus. We have been coming to Transformus for several years and it is time to contribute at a deeper level. I really wanted a trailer to take our Audio Assault national (within the nation of Mysteria, that is). One of my super highlights of last year was listening to one of our campmates on the piano. I thought it would be nice to spread her music around a bit, maybe listen to her playing to the dying embers of the effigy burn as the sun rises. This idea of a sound trailer stuck in my mind, being able to spread sonic art around in the form of our diverse DJs, spoken word, and chiller music. The Vision Looking at options, with the economy the way it is, purchasing seemed out of the question. So, my plans became simple: thinking of something artsy involving a theme and lots of person-hour enhanceable options - without too much monetary investment. I started to look around and think, what do we already have? I realized my purple '69 VW Beetle was just about a pre-made art car! We could take off the doors (they are attached with four Phillips head bolts on each side) and it would do just fine. Although, I wouldn't do it on the highway, it could pull a small trailer at slow speeds. I started thinking, if we have a trailer, another fantasy of mine was to have a stripper's pole for peeps to dance upon. And, with my father's technical seal of approval for structural integrity (he has worked on VW's since before I was conceived), I realized the pole should be on a round platform roof rack mounted on my Beetle. Then I thought, it would be amazing to have wings coming out from the beetle, to give it kind of inverted, winged zeppelin look. ... (More at www.STEAMBUG.com) |
