“I wanted to get below the surface and demythologize the process.”

-Bill Porter, on the touring show he helped curate and oraganize, called Designing an Icon, Creativity and the American Automobile.
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This is gonna start off all esoterically autobiographical, here, so bear with me.

In May 1998, in a bookstore in Maryland, the day before a 128-mile bike ride, I started reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.  Which was, as it turned out, a pretty big deal for me.

What does this have to do with car design?

Well, this.

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Top Gear did a fitting tribute to Saab’s demise, complete with VHS footage, Clarkson’s huge hair, and music they apologized for.

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ICON 4×4  has been one of my favorite things in the last couple years. Sure, they’re crazy-expensive toys, but the same could be said for the iPhone. What I love about them is that they take what was a good idea, and make it as good as it can possibly be, with the best tools we have to play with.

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Art for art’s sake. If you appreciate race cars of the 60s and 70s and really nice paintings, you should check out SpeedStar Gallery.

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