thanks for the pics Vellano Wheels!

This is pretty amazing.  Something about the tyre treads gives these sculptures an almost alien-like quality.   Someone find out who the artist is here so we can get some of these in front of our offices.

Photography by Cristian Guamanzara / ©2010 c3-photo.com |  All Rights Reserved

pics courtesy of Wheel Emotions Brooklyn NY & Vellano Wheels.

Blaque Diamond wheels have again been used to customize this Lexus SC-20.
The wheels are the Blaque Diamond Tight in 22″. The Tight wheels have been
customized by having the name Blaque Diamond written on the lip as well as red and white stripes going around at the edge of the lip.

You won’t want to throw stones at L.A.-based architect Steve Hermann’s latest project that features walls made entirely of glass. Located in Montecito, CA this pad is unlike the typical Hollywood Hills estates. Called the “Glass Pavilion,” the lot measures about three-and-a-half acres, just the seclusion you need to feel comfortable with a see-through home, as he puts it, “It allows you to be one with nature inside the house”. While he originally built it for himself, it’s now on the market for a cool $35 / £23 Million

The 13,875-square-foot home features five bedrooms, five-and-a-half bathrooms, a kitchen with a wine room and an art gallery that displays the architect’s amazing vintage car collection. Who says money can’t buy happiness?

Check out more images here.

(thanks to Dub Mag)

It’s time to be scared of your car.

Today’s cars are complex machines.  According to one report, from the journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, some cars today run on more lines of code than Air Force fighter jets — and even cheap cars can have the equivalent of 30 desktop computers worth of microprocessors inside.  You’re not driving anymore.  You’re along for the ride.

This is bound to cause problems eventually.  Some will be accidental — nothing that complex can work flawlessly all the time.

But some might not be.  Researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina (and by “researchers,” we mean “bored college computer nerds with lots of time on their hands”) announced yesterday that they had successfully hacked into a moving car’s computer from another moving car, wirelessly.

Yes, they drove in one car at highway speed, pulled up behind another car, hacked into its onboard computer and changed something.  All they did this time was flash a warning that the tires had lost pressure, when they hadn’t…but don’t you want a 1973 Impala without a single line of code in it now?

Specs:
Cls500
Full MEC design kit
Painted head lights
Painted roof
Full carbon fibre interior
Full suede, leather cross stitched interior
Vellano VTT

work done by By Progressive Autosports, Houston TX.

thanks to vellano wheels for the pics!