After I got the mor-door model A home it was apparent that it was much worse than I had thought. The frame IS in good shape for a future project so I did ok with the buy,,, My wife suggested that I make some yard art out of the shell,,,,so I got a bunch of cloths hangers some rope and heavy gloves and started to drag the body parts outta the shop and stack them around a tree in the side yard,,,,, It's been there a couple of days now and most of my neighbors that have noticed it thinks its cool,,,except for Mr.Asshole down the street,,,he made a point to knock on my door today and ask me when I was gonna get rid of that junk car? Started on me by saying did I know there was a law on the books about abandoned cars,,,, I ask him has he ever heard of ART? He said he is gonna call our county office about the mess? in my side yard,,,,I respond that I think I might call the county sheriffs office about his under aged son riddin' his dirt bike on the streets in this neighborhood,,,no license,no brain bucket(law in S.C.for anyone under 18)! With all that said,,,he stormed off,,,,BTW,,,Mr.Asshole doesn't even have to drive by my home and see my JUNK,uh,yard art,,,,,and rarely does come this way,,,,I guess Mr.Asshole Jr. musta told him and he had to stick his nose where it don't belong! Soo,whatta you guys think,,,is it Junk or Yard Art?,,, HRP
Make up a fancy looking plaque to set in front of it with the title of the artwork, the name of the artist, and a brief paragraph decsribing how it portrays the materialism, waste, and the loss of our heratige in modern American culture. Maybe fill the area around it with wood chips or gravel or something to "set it apart" from the rest of the yard, kinda like a zen garden or something. Get all this set up then contact your local preservation society and see if they can make something official out of it
ART is what ARTISTS make. An ARTIST can claim ANYTHING he makes is ART. SOme of it is "good" ART and some of it is "schlock" but it's still ART. ARTIST is one of the few self-proclaimed "'titles" left in our society. A school's degree isn't necessary to claim the title, nor does a school's degree automatically make one an ARTIST. Are you an ARTIST? You are if you claim to be. If you claim to be an ARTIST you can claim the LAWN SCULPTURE to be ART. Sheeite, it's not even pornographic or demeaning to anyone's politics or religion!?! Maybe it needs a naked lady straddling the hood for this dweeb to think it's "ART"? I have a 7 foot tall sculpture of a bird of paradise flower in the front yard. Wife made it out of the bed sides from my 40 GMC. Someone, (sorry, forgot who.) on this board suggested mounting a bowling ball on a pedestal to use for hammerforming fenders. I put a blue yard sale bowling ball on 1/2 a rear axle housing and have that in the front yard too. I (can) call them ART because they were made by ARTISTS. (Just for back up, Wife and I do happen to have several University Art degrees between us.) This "Back Seat Dodge '38" is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles Museum of Art, although it was deemed "pornographic" when first displayed. http://www.artchive.com/artchive/K/kienholz/back_seat_dodge.jpg.html
I for one will say my opinion is that... the only cars in driveways or back yards should be drivable ones only placed there to give your vehicle a rest before the next turn of the key. Any non-drivable parts cars are not pleasing for suburbial eye pleasantries and should be hiden in barns, or behind fences. Of course art is a completely different area that I will not subject an opinion on.
Some of the best looking yard art I've ever seen. If you were my neighbor, I'd have no problem with it, in fact I might try borrowing some of it!
After that, call your local newspaper, they love stories like this....trust me! If people can put old wagons, wheelbarrows and such in they're yards why not an antigue car?
That thing looks salvagable to me. Of course everything I buy is fucked up, hence my sig.....I want it!
You should go for a surrounding topiary theme. Maybe some shrubs trimmed to look like gas pumps & a station, or a surroundling rock garden to look like it is at an intersection. Looks nifty to me! There's always going to be someone in your neighborhood who is pissed off at something. If you can put up with him, you're doing his kids and the community a service by giving him a diversion to focus on... and the rest of us think it looks cool.
Hang some window boxes all around the inside and plant flowers. Maybe some in the headlight buckets... Fuck MR. ASSHOLE... and his rotten kid, too... If there's no fluids, it's no problem. It's not even a car... it's parts. No wait... from the last picture, it's sitting at an angle with respect to the yard... It's ART...! JOE
My Grandmother lives 'round the corner in Zirconia/Hendersonville and I can assure you that there's plenty of "yard art" there that looks way worse. Last neighborhood I lived in had swamp buggies and Dale Earnhart memorials etc... (actually Unpunk01 is still there!) That is much better.
my asshole neibors complained about a 1950 chevy panel i pulled out of a field for being in my drivewaycops gave me a ticket for unregistered vehicle. I said fuck them and moved it to where my mailbox stood remounted the mailbox inside the headlight . It stayed there for a year before i sold the truck for 20 times more then i paid for it. cops and neibors could not do a thing about it.
Pete, buddy, I am sorry to hear u say this. U would must likely hate my place or my dads place. I coulda really give a shit less what people would say about my junk...ahh cars that is... I guess I just have a different opinion of what is beautiful then many people. I find myself just staring at my cars for some time just dreaming and planing and thinkin how beautiful they are. The more cars, junk, and old rusty metal I have layin around my house, the happyer I am... Again I am sorry u feel this way. I may have to put a sign up to tell those with fragile suburbial eyes to look away as the presence of my house my cause severe unreversable damage!!! BUAHAHAHAH!!
Looks grand to me! You might want to trim the folage a little for Mr. Asshole. You know there some guys here that would kill to have that as a project in their garage. But I like the rake it has on it.
I tried the yard art thing once, and was told by code enforcement that it had to be anchored into the ground (concreted) to be considered "yard art". I knew of a guy that lived in an upscale neighborhood who had one in his garden, it didn't look as cool as yours though! I'm diggin' it!
Nothing wrong with your Sculpture of the car...., but those friggen dandelions have to go...!!! We have a guy that burried half a 61 Caddy with the lit headlights pointed upwards and half a Beetle hanging through a fence and a Model A p/u wheelless right in the city of Milwaukee and he gets away with calling it his "ARTWORK!" Main thing that others had pointed out is that it doesn't have fluids, battery, or anything that could damage the soil..., plus the fact that it doesn't have tires (for DOT Taxes) so it shouldn't be considered a car..., means that it must be Art....!!! You should be O.K. but seriousely..., get rid of those weeds...!
Show us more like a street name and I will solve the problem for both of you. You just need to insure the yard art first. Rock Hill is close enough I can get the job done. HAHHAHA
To me it's a junk car that needs to be rebuilt - I've worked on stuff worse than that. It at least has the bottom 12 inches of metal. But that body in any shape is a work of art... I like the idea of using gravel to simulate a roadway. Or maybe you can find a real gas pump to go behing it. ~ Paul aka "Tha Driver" A flower is nothing more than an educated weed.
dictionary says art : the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects; also : works so produced sound like it to me i want 1
It's beautiful. I wish I had something like that to "plant" on my side lawn. PS: are you going to be at the cruise at McDonalds next Saturday night? I'm visiting friends in Greenville again and we might make it down to Anderson for the cruise. My AV8 is still in a million pieces with the tranny swap, but I plan to go cruising anyway.
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