Mark Havens is a genius. At some point in his life, the photographer became enamored with the decal sheets that came in his model car boxes. One thing lead to another and now the photographer is releasing a new project titled, "Displacement." <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
Beautiful Pop art. The paper negative spaces rock. I'd Love get up close to one of those 5 ' pieces. Takes me back, very nostalgic. 'Water slide'.. When I was a kid here in Adelaide, there wasn't much $$ paint on cars, so the young cats would use waterslides on their cars. Most of them were 15-20 y.o english Fords, or old Holdens. A couple of reversed wheels & no exhaust pipe! Kid $$'s = STP', 'Bardahl', Roth stuff on the rear 3 windows. Thanks Ryan.
Bitchen, man I remember as a kid sitting at the kitchen table with a tupperware bowl of warm water trying to get those decals to slide off in just the right spot. Gonna have to buy a print for the shop.
not feeling it at all. I like the old models and the cool decals, full sheets would be cool to see blown up, or even partial sheets that show some individual decals. those all just look poorly cropped to me. I guess the poor cropping makes it "art" ...
Hmmm. Might need a little roadtrip to Philly. Looking on his website, I see his show is up until next month. 'Bout time for another pie run. But in this case, can you say, "Philly Cheese Steak???!!!"
Wow & to think all I ever did with them is dip them in water and apply them crookedly to A car Art is art and it isn'for everyone but, I dig some of those shots, thanks.
Kinda cool stuff. Since I'm in Philly, a graphic designer, and a model nerd from way back, I'm going to have to check out the exhibit; those should have much greater impact at the actual, mega-enlarged size.
Takes me back. Did anyone else put these decals on there sun glasses as a kid? I know I did. "Cool Hand Luke" "man with no eyes" sun glasses with Hilborn injection and Moon Eyes stickers. lol
man i hate trying to put on old decals! that yellowing takes precision! But from an artistic standpoint, they rock. very creative. well done.
Ryan, you ought to see if he can swing through Austin with this. Isn't there a gallery on the west side of Cesar Chavez that would have a show like this?
Dec.1968 i found out a class mate built models too thought i was all alone building models until this guy spoke up..i bought a legal size mannila envelope full of decal sheets from him for a dollar had to skip lunch for 4 days to get the money together...there was at least a hundred sheets inside... going way back in time to when his older brothers built models in the 50's..mostly car but some boat and plane ...i had to put it in my locker to avoid the science teachers wrath and after next class found someone had stolen them i was crushed still am.. no...padlocks were banned cuz some kids had locked other kids in the lockers for hours ...and had to be rescued this whole transaction might of been a planned multi person scam all along .. never will know who took em... although i have many older sheets now that day for an hour i was "king"of decals thanks for posting this topic this path led to studying plastics, graphic arts,auto tech.selling /trading parts.....car magazine collecting.. and now hoarding models and real cars,.... there is something in the look of these decals that just grabs me..thanks again
I agree. It's a shame that the website photos are cropped to the edge, they would have more impact showing them in context, ie: on a wall with people in the photo for scale.
Cool stuff, I'd like to see that exhibit. As an old time graphics person, I have always loved the B&M Hydro Stick guy
Cool! Begs the question though - "Why didn't I think of that?" Or "Is it really art, or just something cool?"
I think the crops were very well thought out and not completely random. Giving enough information to identify it for what it is, and not over sharing. Mis-registration is part of what makes them cool. Silk screening these with metallics would be bad ass.
Very neat idea. Since its right close to me, I'll have to get ride together to check out the exhibit.
I like the waterslides that were individually printed on a sheet. You didn't have to trim them real close...just cut 'em apart. When models started to get cheesy and cheap (70's), you'd get a whole sheet of decal images that were one piece and had to trim them as best as you could. They didn't stick for shit either. How many times did you think the decal was ready to slide off the backing paper, only to have it split in two when you forced it a bit?
Yep, that one's killer. I couldn't find one anywhere when I wanted to do a model of 'Greased Lightning' (the white version), so I made up some decal sheets. Here's the link, although I'll have to upload the image of the sheet again... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=191380&highlight=decal+sheets
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