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Dirty Car Art - Car as a canvas

MAKE Magazine

- 49 minutes ago

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Photograph by Kim Dow

Scott Wade of San Marcos, Texas, thought he could do better than write "Wash Me" on the backside of a dusty car. He started drawing caricatures. His father was a cartoonist of sorts and had taught him to draw funny faces. It was Wade's idea to make a dirty car window his canvas.

"For the last 20 years living on a dirt road," he says, "there's always dirt on my car."

With the sun baking it, the dirt takes about two weeks to form a stable work surface. Wade began, like anyone else, by using his finger, and then tried popsicle sticks. To introduce shading, he decided to use brushes. Over time he developed a range of techniques, which included using plants and rubber paint-shaper tools.

Wade particularly likes the dirt of central Texas, where crushed limestone mixed with clay serves as a road base.

"It makes the perfect dirt," he says. "It's very light-colored and the contrast is great against the dark shadow inside the car."

As he got more requests to create his Dirty Car he realized that he had to figure out how to dust up a car himself. Now, he can prepare a car in minutes using a light coating of oil and pyro-lite, a less toxic alternative to fuller's earth.

At the Austin Maker Faire in 2007 (& 2008), Wade dusted up his Toyota and created Monsters from the Movies, featuring the Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman. The next day he painted a tribute to Willie Nelson that included Waylon Jennings. "After a good rain," he says, "it appears to wash off, but in a couple days it comes back in a ghostly form."

Recently, he was asked to draw Biff Henderson for the David Letterman show. In addition to portraits, he enjoys dusting up the old masters. "I have this grandiose idea of parking cars all the way up the ramp of the Guggenheim Museum and painting in dirt reproductions of the pieces that are on the wall next to it."

>> Dirty Car Art: dirtycarart.com

From the column Made on Earth - MAKE 14, page 23 - Dale Dougherty.

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Brain Surgeons Give Mute Man Second Chance to Speak [Brain Surgery]

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pBrain surgeons at Boston University have enabled a mute man to speak again by implanting an electrode into his brain. The electrode senses when he's thinking about vowels and reproduces them using a speech synthesizer./p pThe man first lost his ability to speak after head trauma caused extensive bleeding into the pons area of his brain stem. BU researchers loaded him into a fMRI machine and asked him to attempt to produce specific vowels. After determining that his brain still worked regularly, they implanted an electrode directly onto its speech production parts./p pThe electrode itself is a marvel of science, containing neurotrophic factors which allow tissue to grown into and around it. While it sounds kind of gross, this stabilizes the electrode and allows it to reside long-term in the brain. It can only sense vowels right now, but the BU team is hoping that this type of technology will let mutes produce words directly in five years or so. [a href="http://thefutureofthings.com/news/5894/brain-surgery-helps-a-mute-man-speak.html"The Future of Things/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=12740577d7aa3a6164ad2d01b5cbce4ap=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=12740577d7aa3a6164ad2d01b5cbce4ap=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=12740577d7aa3a6164ad2d01b5cbce4a" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=l7wXHpH8"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=qahAFiEU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=9kRiY18Q"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=9kRiY18Q" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=FGBH8m5Y"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=FGBH8m5Y" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/a5Xv1isqGIk" height="1" width="1"/

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Gaming Roundup: N-Revolution; Red Bull/Sony Home; Giant Realm; Army/Second Life; JumpStart; GH5

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p â€”bImagine shutters N-Revolution gaming mag/b : UK-based magazine publisher a href="http://www.imagine-publishing.co.uk/" title="Imagine"Imagine/a is pulling the plug on N-Revolution, its Nintendo-focused title. But don't blame this one on the economyâ€”Imagine is folding the mag because its core gamer target doesn't seem to be Nintendo's focus anymore. "[It] has become increasingly obvious that Nintendo's strategy for Wii and DS ... has moved increasingly away from the hardcore gaming community that is our specialty," said Damian Butts, Imagine's managing director, in an a href="http://www.mcvuk.com/news/32563/Imagine-confirms-NRevolution-closure" title="interview with MCV"interview with MCV/a. /p p â€”bRed Bull sets up shop in PlayStation Home/b : Red Bull is developing an island inside iHome/i, Sony's long-awaited virtual world for the PS3. Gamers will be able to race planes on the island in competitions modeled after the real world a href="http://www.redbullairrace.com/" title="Red Bull Air Race World Series"Red Bull Air Race World Series/a. Red Bull is the first company to set up shop in Home. a href="http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/MostRead/866365/Red-Bull-becomes-first-brand-PlayStation-Home/" title="Brand Republic says"Brand Republic says/a Sony (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SNE" class="ticker" title="SNE"NYSE: SNE/a) execs kept mum on additional brand partners, but said they'd announce them in the coming months. iHome/i's public beta is slated for the end of this year. /p p â€”bThe Army invades Second Life/b : Not content with using in-game ads to recruit gamers, the U.S. Army is going virtual, setting up operations in a href="http://www.secondlife.com/" title="Second Life"Second Life/a. 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JumpStart World runs on a $7.99 subscription, a href="http://www.worldsinmotion.biz/2008/12/knowledge_adventure.php" title="per Worlds In Motion"per Worlds In Motion/a.nbsp; /p p â€”bActivision (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=ATVI" class="ticker" title="ATVI"NSDQ: ATVI/a) working on iGuitar Hero 5/i/b : Activision Blizzard revealed plans for a host of new advertiser-friendly games during a href="Massive Installs New Leader, Seals Extended Ad Deals With Activision Blizzard" title="Massive's gaming upfront"Massive's gaming upfront/a in NYC, including iGuitar Hero 5 /i and a iTony Hawk/i game that will likely come with a skateboard-style controller. a href="http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/12/03/activision-announces-guitar-hero-5-new-tony-hawk-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-more-at-in-game-ad-conference/"title="Via MTV Multiplayer"Via MTV Multiplayer/a. /p p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. 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