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Mike Luck. Cityscape. Luck-y In The Sky With Di...

LifestyleSunday, March 24th, 2013

Mike Luck takes you on a journey through a retro-future landscape. Possibly on mushrooms. We’ll admit, when we first watched Mike Luck’s Cityscape video in the crankandpiston office, a few of...

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Stone 911. Rene Kress. Rocking Porsche’s World

LifestyleThursday, March 14th, 2013

French stonemason Rene Kress has turned his hand to automotive-themed pieces, this Porsche 911 being amongst his most prized works. Some automotive traditions are set in stone. Take the design of...

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Augustine Kofie. Porsche Art Car

LifestyleMonday, January 28th, 2013

This past October (2012), The Lovell Gallery in association with Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection presented, GATHER, an exhibition by visual artists Augustine Kofie and Paul Senyol, whose works grace the streets...

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Fuel Magazine. Issue 12. On the shelves

LifestyleMonday, January 7th, 2013

It’s been a while since we’ve touched base with Luke Ray and his killer print product, Fuel Magazine. Now in it’s 12th issue and getting stronger by the issue, Fuel Magazine...

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The Need For Speed. Papercuts

VisionSunday, December 16th, 2012

Here’s a question for you: is it possible to satisfy a need for speed using just paper? Turns out all you need is need is a scalextric track, a miniature drift...

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Mikael Lugnegard. Epic Rendering

LifestyleThursday, November 1st, 2012

No doubt you’ll be staggered to learn, having glanced at possibly the coolest Scania truck in the known world, that Swedish digital artist Mikael Lugnegard is driven by concept development. That...

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Night Shooting. The Star Trail. Ben Canales

LifestyleSaturday, September 29th, 2012

Hunting for mind blowing examples of light capturing has become a bit of a habit of the team at crankandpiston recently. Yes we look mostly in and around the Middle East,...

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The Bentley Suite. Vrooom Service

LifestyleThursday, September 6th, 2012

More often than not, model renderings that are released by car manufacturers are ‘innovative’, ‘one of a kind’, or ‘unlike anything we have seen before’ if the accompanying press material is...

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Mercedes ‘Aesthetics S’. Quicker Than The Eye

LifestyleTuesday, September 4th, 2012

At first glance, this could be a contemporary piece of art, one of those magic eye images, or possibly the opening titles to any Mortal Kombat film. You probably wouldn’t guess...

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P1 Brand. God Save Our Tyres, All Ten Of Them

LifestyleWednesday, August 22nd, 2012

Any Sex Pistols fans in the house? Any Formula One fans here too? If you’re an enthusiast of both, then you might find this art piece of interest. This ‘God Save...

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Nissan Skyline. A Celebration. JDM

LifestyleMonday, July 16th, 2012

In 1957 the Prince Motor Company released a new model called the Skyline and the rest, as they say, is history.  In 1966 PMC merged with Nissan but the Skyline range...

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The Chase. FStoppers. Who Needs Movement?

LifestyleSunday, June 10th, 2012

Last week crankandpiston brought you a car chase from The Theory which, interestingly, included no actual cars. Now we’ve stumbled across another chase montage which includes cars, but no movement. Now...