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  • m42b32M
    m42b32M
    m42b32
    wrote on last edited by
    #4032

    I think its actually just bare carbon, so they didn't even paint it (looks cool, but not an art car without the app). It's a neat idea but you can really only experience it if you are next to the car in person and from what I can tell you need to have an iphone, as the only link posted by bmw for the app was to the apple app store. As an android user I'll just have to make due with an unpainted M6...

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    • EarlE
      EarlE
      Earl
      wrote on last edited by
      #4033

      I don't know how to say it without being offensive to people who do design and digital work, but the talent it took to make that app and design what he did isn't something "world class artist" to me.

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      • EarlE
        EarlE
        Earl
        wrote on last edited by
        #4034

        " She spent three years conceiving the project commissioned by BMW. "

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        • B
          B
          B C
          wrote on last edited by
          #4035

          Its because we have been blessed with actual art cars in the past that were satisfying to look at.

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          • straight6pwrS
            straight6pwrS
            straight6pwr
            wrote on last edited by
            #4036

            Earl said:

            I don't know how to say it without being offensive to people who do design and digital work, but the talent it took to make that app and design what he did isn't something "world class artist" to me. 

            offensive or not, you are right. we have the power of supercomputers and we get 3D squiggly doodles.

            Dan
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            • EarlE
              EarlE
              Earl
              wrote on last edited by
              #4037

              I mean sure the app effects look somewhat neat but isn't the whole purpose of an art car to have a car covered in art? I understand each artist has a different medium but they should really keep it to artists who phyisically alter the car

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              • Ryan...R
                Ryan...R
                Ryan...
                wrote on last edited by
                #4038

                They should be embarrassed.

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                • patsbimmer1P
                  patsbimmer1P
                  patsbimmer1
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #4039

                  I'd be fine with them leaving it bare carbon and calling it good.  Just the fact that they've insulted our intelligence by even calling the pokemon go bullshit app art is frustrating.

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                  • EarlE
                    EarlE
                    Earl
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #4040

                    I mean bare carbon still isnt an art car lol

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                    • patsbimmer1P
                      patsbimmer1P
                      patsbimmer1
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #4041

                      Earl said:

                      I mean bare carbon still isnt an art car lol

                      Sure it is.  Minimalism.  It's better than this insult to our senses.

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                      • EarlE
                        EarlE
                        Earl
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #4042

                        I mean it is a bare carbon car with an app. So technically it is just a bare carbon car now lol. Not painting or applying a single thing to the body doesnt seem to make it art to me. To be minimalist they would have had to put some sort of mark on the car.

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                        • EarlE
                          EarlE
                          Earl
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #4043

                          Hence minimal, not none lol

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                          • patsbimmer1P
                            patsbimmer1P
                            patsbimmer1
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #4044

                            Earl said:

                            Hence minimal, not none lol

                            The number 18 is on the side.  How much more minimal do you want!?  Let's go back in time and say they never told us there was an app to use and BMW just said "Hey, we're saying fuck it and here's a bare carbon car we're going to race."  That situation would have been better than, "Ohhhhh! Look how progressive and abstract we are!".  Maybe there's a segment of their audience that "get's it" but clearly they missed the mark with the core audience that can't afford to buy a new car.

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                            • EarlE
                              EarlE
                              Earl
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #4045

                              That's just a normal door number in helvetica... She didn't decide the number or font lol

                              I am just saying as an art car, there is no art without the app. If it were just a new car that they stated "Hey we are running the new car without a livery." it would be one thing. I believe that the reason this is art is because it is "innovative and unlike any art car before". At the end of the day, it is nothing without the app or location that they are doing the VR experience. No extra work was actually put onto the car hands on by the artist to alter the way it physically sits on this earth. It will just be a raw car less a livery out on the track.

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                              • patsbimmer1P
                                patsbimmer1P
                                patsbimmer1
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #4046

                                Earl said:

                                That's just a normal door number in helvetica... She didn't decide the number or font lol

                                Sorry, I forgot to use my sarcastic font when I said that... But how do you know she didn't specifically choose helvetica for it's bold no nonsense statement making potential yet universal acceptance as a font standard!

                                I didn't realize you were so passionate about art and what defines art.  My point is this is stupid.  I understand it from a concept and how it is perceived as art but I still think it's stupid and that's the point of art, evoke emotion.  In this case it evokes contempt and disappointment.  Just the same way you could perceive bare carbon as art.  The way it reflects and absorbs light, the pattern consistency, etc.

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                                • EarlE
                                  EarlE
                                  Earl
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #4047

                                  I didn't even think to read it as sarcasm haha

                                  I'm not passionate but just disappointed that this is what the BMW Art Car Program has been turned into=/

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                                  • patsbimmer1P
                                    patsbimmer1P
                                    patsbimmer1
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #4048

                                    Look what this monstrosity is doing to our family!  It's tearing us apart!

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                                    97 328i Lola - sport package, m50 intake manifold, m50 manifold.com install kit, custom CAI, K&N filter, Borla exhaust, FK silverline coilovers, 25.5mm front sway bar, Powerflex front sway bushings, Turner Radiator, fan delete *sold*
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                                    • EarlE
                                      EarlE
                                      Earl
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                                        • jc43089J
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                                          Uhhhh wow!

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