Cat Scratch Fever: UK's Tim Knowles uses Jaguar E-Type to make art
Click on the image above for high-res gallery of Tim Knowles' Jaguar E-Type art plotter
Art created by a car brings to mind painted tire tracks and Pollock-esque droplets in hues of 10W-30, ATF, and grime. Thinking past such direct markings, artist Tim Knowles has taken a fixed-head Jaguar E-Type and turned it into the fastest moving Etch-A-Sketch in existence. In the cargo area of the sporting coupe is a rig with an elastic mounted pen which slides on rails. Turn the vehicle in one direction, the pen goes the other way – it slides forward when braking and accelerating makes it slide rearward.
A similar system was dropped into a Volvo V70 and driven across the Alps to an art gallery, generating the drawing for exhibition along the way. Traversing mountains is all well and good, but this Jag goes racing! Brands Hatch and Monaco have created two works of art that fascinating in their combination of gestural and linear qualities. The drawings are both abstract and loose, while also being symmetrical and controlled. Hey, it's at least as cool as that stuff done by wildlife. Thanks for the tip, Alex!
Gallery: Jaguar Art
[Source: Tim Knowles]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Enok 7:53PM (2/09/2009)
I'd like to see one of these drawings become a clue for a forensic investigator trying to figure out where the car has been.
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Michael 7:54PM (2/09/2009)
http://i40.tinypic.com/22dxzd.jpg
Art.
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Torrent 8:00PM (2/09/2009)
COTD
Berto 8:30PM (2/09/2009)
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Farmboy 10:43PM (2/09/2009)
You have a gift. LOL
PumaGTO 8:30PM (2/09/2009)
they shoud stuff this thing in the back of a GTR and see what kind of lines the G-forces of that thing can do.
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Dimex 10:07PM (2/09/2009)
Yo dawg, we heard u like art so we put a canvas in your Jag so you can sketch while u drive
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jpock 2:31AM (2/10/2009)
Hahahahah... you're a genius.
moyoi 3:49PM (2/10/2009)
I LOL'D
Dan 10:35PM (2/09/2009)
Throw out the paper. Close the rear hatch. Now that is Art.
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Farmboy 10:43PM (2/09/2009)
Apparently we are supposed to say screw the elephant and monkey who can draw. This Jaguar can too!!!
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Samus Aran 10:45PM (2/09/2009)
What passes for "art" these days...
Next time I go to the toilet, I'm going to call it "art".
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nighttime__ 1:49AM (2/10/2009)
wouldn't be the first time someone had that idea AND made money from it.
ugg.tryptophan 4:44PM (2/10/2009)
What passes for "art" these days?
Well nowadays art is valued for the idea behind it, not how much time or skill is used to craft photorealistic images. If you dont get the idea (or dont care) than its worthless to you.
Mobius_1 5:58AM (2/10/2009)
Nurburgring Nordschleiffe.
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GOT 9:33AM (2/10/2009)
I wonder if this is how Piet Mondrian created his painting prelims... :D
I might be cool if they had some sort of BRUSH nib on that device. The single-width lines don't look very interesting.
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Clarence Young 3:35PM (2/10/2009)
Copyright infringement here. That is my very own Etch-a-Sketch artwork!
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