Kustom♛King

Friday, September 24, 2010

Artists have arrived from every corner of the earth, from Borneo to Brooklyn, to swap stories, check out the art in the galleries, buy baby clothes with skull logos on them from vendors, and hell, maybe they'll do a few tattoos. With 20,000 people expected over these next three days, there is plenty of skin to be decorated.

Black'n Grey

Today is the book release for the latest in the series of hardcover coffee table books (or rather coffee tables) for Edition Reuss Publishing. Behold three-volume monstrous box set:

Black & Grey Tattoo: From Street Art to Fine Art.

The set can be purchased for 248 Euros via Hermansky Books, 210 BP (on Amazon.uk), and in the US, Amazon.com is selling the box set for the heavily discounted price of about $335 (it's originally $445). And you'll find them at tattoo conventions around the world through various distributors.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Kustom Vodka

"Sweden's first vodka in PET bottle. It's also one of the first vodka made of organically grown, Swedish barley. The new Swedish eco-vodka is distilled four times and has a clean, fruity nose with some spicy aftertaste and released in a Swedish-made PET packaging for minimal environmental impact. We have worked closely with Technologists at Petainer. Together we have produced a container which is environmentally friendly, has high levels of clarity and great shelf appeal, whilst at the same time is easy to manufacture in high volumes. We wanted to exploit the phenomenon of PET in the best possible way. The goal was to design would be integrated with the bottle."

Guardian

FantasticArt

by Ben Newman

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Art'n Pappas

Vara Pappas Photography

Bullet

by us choppers

1963 Turbine Car

There does seem to be a resemblance with Ford’s 1958 La Galaxie.

1963 Chrysler turbine car was the largest gas turbine passenger car test program. 55 cars were distributed to 203 volunteers in 48 states free of charge for 3 months between 1963-1966. Designed by Elwood Engel and engineered by George Huebner the cars were hand built by Ghia in Italy.

The CR2A turbine engine produced 130 BHP @ 3,600 RPM to the output shaft and a torque rating of 425 lb-ft. Although Chrysler recommended using diesel or non leaded gasoline. The engine could run on just about any free flowing liquid that burns when combined with air. Mexican tequila and Chanel #5 perfume were some of odd fuels people poured into the tank of these cars. The transmission used was a modified TorqueFlite 3-speed automatic.

Test results were mixed. Volunteers liked the vibration free and quiet operation of the turbine engine. They also liked the low maintenance, ease of starting, and fast warm up of the turbine even in the coldest weather. Poor fuel economy was a minor complaint because the cars run on lower cost fuel. Mileage was 13-14 miles per gallon. The biggest complaint about the car was poor acceleration. 0-60 miles per hour was achieved at a slow 12 seconds. However, if the car was “brake torqued” by holding the brakes and revving the turbine up to 50,000 rpm the 0-60 time was cut to 5 seconds.