There's all kinds of outrageous car art in the Bay Area, especially in Berkeley: a car with a pumkin on it, a van belonging to an antiques shop on Telegraph that's covered in CDs, excessive handwritten bumperstickers. This bit of elegant line painting on a PT Cruiser I saw two days ago on Shattuck, in downtown Berkeley, struck me as unusual in its restraint: usually people who paint their cars go all the way over the top. Or is it a standard piece of decoration on PT Cruisters I've just never caught before? There's something almost cheerily mystical about the runic curves and the choice of colors.
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Saturday, April 09, 2005
Car Art
There's all kinds of outrageous car art in the Bay Area, especially in Berkeley: a car with a pumkin on it, a van belonging to an antiques shop on Telegraph that's covered in CDs, excessive handwritten bumperstickers. This bit of elegant line painting on a PT Cruiser I saw two days ago on Shattuck, in downtown Berkeley, struck me as unusual in its restraint: usually people who paint their cars go all the way over the top. Or is it a standard piece of decoration on PT Cruisters I've just never caught before? There's something almost cheerily mystical about the runic curves and the choice of colors.
There's all kinds of outrageous car art in the Bay Area, especially in Berkeley: a car with a pumkin on it, a van belonging to an antiques shop on Telegraph that's covered in CDs, excessive handwritten bumperstickers. This bit of elegant line painting on a PT Cruiser I saw two days ago on Shattuck, in downtown Berkeley, struck me as unusual in its restraint: usually people who paint their cars go all the way over the top. Or is it a standard piece of decoration on PT Cruisters I've just never caught before? There's something almost cheerily mystical about the runic curves and the choice of colors.