Sentences with phrase «car culture as»

Edward Kienholz used the car culture as an image of American excess in visceral, sexually explicit installations, even insisting that, after his death, he should be buried in a 1940 Packard coupe.

Richard Prince's Untitled (Van Door 3), a sculptural presentation of a van door suggests undisclosed cargo, the occult, even kidnapping, while his print Untitled (Upstate) presents a similar dead end of celebratory car culture as a vehicle appears stranded, abandoned, left in a field to rot — no way forward.

This exhibition also includes a new work from the Bruce High Quality Foundation, which exploits the cultural importance of cinema to the mythos of car culture as the brightly hued bumper of a New York City taxi, equipped with a motion sensing device, which interrupts the viewers experience, delivering the soundtrack of the movie Taxi itself as the spectator approaches.

It was about connecting people who are as in love with car culture as we are, and creating a universe for these impassioned racers to all play together.

Adding the above to a game that already has such great visuals and celebrates car culture as it does will really set it in a league of its own, although it's arguably already there.

With its aerodynamically - innovative exterior design completed at the Torrance - based Acura Design Studio, the 2017 NSX brings world's - first technologies and ultra-advanced engineering to this hotbed of performance car culture as Acura makes final preparations for NSX production next spring.

The Gran Turismo franchise is as much a part of car culture as your local cruise night, and next week, Nissan's going to use it to unve...

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In some recent surveys (reported in books like unChristian and They), it appears that most people in our culture believe that Christians are about as trustworthy as car salesmen and lawyers.

In some recent surveys (reported in books like unChristian and They Like Jesus but Not the Church), it appears that most people in our culture believe that Christians are about as trustworthy as car salesmen and lawyers.

Along with supermarkets, cars and car culture begat a whole new range of places where a person could buy a cup of coffee; gas stations, roadside snack bars, diners, motels, and campgrounds all introduced the now normal practice of offering coffee, sometimes for sale and sometimes as part of a larger purchase in all sorts of places.

I'll focus mainly on this, since it eliminates many other variables such as road quality, driver license system, car type / age / quality, driver culture, etc..

To begin the research, the scientists screened human DIPG tumor cultures for surface molecules that could act as targets for CAR - T cells.

McFarlane is of the clown - car brand of comedy, stuffing and cramming as much pop culture knowledge, immature guffaws, and crass politics into each minute of screen time available to him.

At the film's recent press day in Los Angeles, Waugh and stunt coordinator Lance Gilbert talked about their longtime friendship and professional relationship, what it was like growing up together on the sets of «Smokey and the Bandit,» «Vanishing Point,» «The Blues Brothers» and «Bullitt,» why Waugh considers Gilbert one of the best stunt coordinators in the world, the challenges they faced pulling off practical stunts and capturing amazing action sequences realistically in - camera without CGI enhancement, and the entertaining Easter eggs they included as a homage to the classic car - culture movies of another era.

The «Stanceworks Track Expansion» features «two modified vehicles from the renowned car culture enthusiasts, Kiwi Mad Mike Whiddett's insane MX - 5 RadBul Formula Drift car, and the KTM X-Bow R, as well as a brand - new road course of Bannochbrae set in the highlands of Scotland,» publisher Bandai Namco today advised.

This set of resource includes: • 6 attractive PowerPoint presentations which lead the class through each of the lessons • Fun and thought provoking activities and discussion starters, worksheets and questions to reinforce the learning • 6 differentiated homework tasks • A mark sheet which allows pupils to track their own progress • An end of unit test to prepare the students for exams or can be used as a form of assessment • A complete teacher's guide including easy to follow lesson plans • An answer booklet to help the teacher along The lessons are: Lesson 1 — Looking into ethical and moral dilemmas such as driverless cars and the impact of technology on modern life Lesson 2 — More ethical dilemmas including the ratings culture, medical apps, sharing personal data and cyber bullying Lesson 3 — Environmental issues with technology and how organisations and individuals can reduce these effects Lesson 4 — The Computer Misuse Act 1990 Lesson 5 — The Data Protection Act 1998 Lesson 6 — Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 For more high - quality resources written by this author visit www.nicholawilkin.com

In secondary education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to school.

As EVs and Teslas seep further into the mainstream, we'll see how the enthusiast car culture adapts to welcome and accommodate the new - age tech, if it does at all.

When Nissan sought to break into the U.S. market with its Datsun brand some time around the end of the Eisenhower administration, Yutaka Katayama, the legendary «Mr. K» credited as father of the Z - Car, road - tripped across our country, meeting middle Americans and absorbing the culture.

Built on the 87 - acre ruins of a GM factory and envisioned originally as a car condominium complex for metro Detroit's thriving culture of classic and performance automotive collectors, M1 Concourse evolved quickly under the watch of founder and CEO Brad Oleshansky.

LOS ANGELES, California — There are a few cars that come to mind when the topic of grocery store parking lot stalwarts comes up, but few are as deeply entrenched in affluent suburban culture as the Lexus RX.

«As we've seen hundreds of times over the years — from «Bullitt» to «Gone in Sixty Seconds» — Mustang fits the bill perfectly, and it's really a car that represents American culture at its best, which is why we chose it for Toby's ride in «Need for Speed.

Like RM, I fear they will continue the dumbing down of driving as a skill, lead to an «it wasn't me, it was the car» culture and ultimately legislate real drivers off the road, on the grounds that they're too great a liability, due to being human.

It's slight, not nearly as exaggerated as the amount run by enthusiasts in the «stance» culture or the specifications run on proper professional drift race cars, but it's enough to immediately catch your attention and affect the car's handling.

Southern California is one of them, being the center of the entertainment industry, as well as having a legendary car enthusiast culture dating back to before World War II.

While America is the leading auto emissions nation, developing nations are becoming car - centric cultures as well.

As the first recognition of car enthusiasm in mainstream culture since the oil crisis of 1973, the article created a sensation, and Barry was commissioned to write the first draft of a screenplay that eventually became a bad movie, King of the Mountain.

In a decade or so, you'll need an autonomous car, bicycle or public transportation to make your urban commute, saving the driver - operated automobile for transportation in rural areas and between cities, and for sport, and for annual celebrations of our culture such as this event.

As Director of Ford Racing Jamie Allison said at our «Racing and Performance» forum in November: «SEMA is the intersection of cars and car culture.»

The experience SEMA is gaining through the student career paths programs and exploring youth engagement will guide the association as we create more opportunities to help keep custom - car culture in the minds of young people.

As darkness falls, what better way to explore Berlin's unique mix of history and hip culture than from the warmth of the world's most exciting four — door sports car?

But no one thinks of the NSX as an American car, and no one thinks of the Corvette as anything but the epitome of American automotive culture.

As the world's car builders — aided by computers, wind tunnels and marketing surveys — reach toward optimum satisfaction of the global community's transportation needs, perhaps individual auto models will lose their corporate and national identities and become universal items, equally familiar in different cultures.

Ford Motor Co. will replace Chevrolet as the presenting sponsor of the 2017 Woodward Dream Cruise, metro Detroit's annual celebration of car culture.

As an artist, Tillrock takes a unique approach, capturing the essence of his automotive subjects in pencil, and he is best known for his detailed, almost photographic depictions of go - fast vehicles and iconic car - culture scenes.

Originally ushered into the Japanese auto manufacturer's model lineup as a flagship vehicle to demonstrate the company's advanced automotive technologies and performance capabilities, the Nissan Skyline GT - R has become a revered fixture in not only the global automotive enthusiast community but has transcended the car world to become an icon in popular culture through blockbuster motion pictures as well as video games.

On the third Saturday of September each year is an event known as «Wavecrest», a major meet of woodies, which are vintage cars in which the rear portion of the bodywork is made of wood; these vehicles are a traditional part of West Coast surfing culture.

Miramar Surf Camp organizes tours to the nearby city of Leon (45 minutes by car) where you can experience Nicaraguan colonial history and culture, visit the largest cathedral in Central America and try the delicious local food such as Gallo - Pinto, Donut Soup or Quesillos.

As for what to expect: «The film adaptation will be a fast - paced, high - octane film rooted in the tradition of the great car culture films of the 70s while being extremely faithful to the spirit of the video game franchise.

Launch yourself between chaos and control as you hit the loud pedal and roll into underground car culture.

As a movie, Need for Speed was typical car culture silliness, with a hint of 70s cross-country counterculture.

To treat humans, and in this case an especially talented set of humans, as old cars to be run into the ground is one of the great under - reported and truly terrible practices of an industry with such pop culture cache.

A series of championships each offer a number of racing divisions to choose from, themed with a fine eye for every corner of motorsport culture and car design - racing trucks, vintage Grand Prix, early hot hatches and so on - plus a few dramatic one - off «showcase» events as palate cleansers.

As a big majority of them are right - handed, the cars are engineered and designed to be steered from the left side, which allows drivers to better protect themselves against the upcoming threats — when technology was imported to the other nations this designing choice was assimilated in their cultures as welAs a big majority of them are right - handed, the cars are engineered and designed to be steered from the left side, which allows drivers to better protect themselves against the upcoming threats — when technology was imported to the other nations this designing choice was assimilated in their cultures as welas well.

The fourth Track Expansion features two modified vehicles from the renowned car culture enthusiasts Stanceworks, Mad Mike Whiddett's insane MX - 5 RadBul Formula Drift car, and the KTM X-Bow R, as well as a brand - new road course of Bannochbrae set in the highlands of Scotland...

Ghost Games is working closely with Speedhunters (a blog that focuses on car culture) this time around as car culture becomes a key focus in the game.

The artists exaggerate the idea of «car culture» by cramming as many friends and acquaintances as possible into one car.

The experience of the automobile as both object and idea comes to frame multiple and divergent artistic inquiries on the car, the road, and a culture of ever - increasing acceleration, emergent from the work of multiple, renowned Post-war and contemporary artists.

In Shrines to Speed this reality is evoked by Warhol's image of twisted piles of metal and steel, set against William Eggleston's diptych portraying 1970s pleasure seeking culture with a man and woman posed alluringly, proudly, next to cars which appear not as backdrops for the image, but co-presences, even extensions of the subject's bodies themselves.

The sixty plus works of art by nearly forty artists, additionally reflect international artistic responses to an US dominated ideology of car culture — either in its specificity as an object or in its symbolic significance — from Swiss - born Sylvie Fleury to Belgium's Wim Delvoye.