MY 1979 MONTE/ MOTEL HELL

HERE ARE A COUPLE OF FLICKS OF MY MONTE BEING WORKED ON FOR THE EXHIBITION BEING HELD AT THE MESA ARTS CENTER. THIS CAR WAS ORIGINALY OWNED BY DOC OF LIFESTYLE C.C. IN 1979 WHO ROLLED IT DOWN WHITTIER BLVD. A YEAR LATER IT WAS CANDY PAINTED BY BIG ED AND IN 1983 BOB AND SONS PUT THE TUCK AND ROLL THAT STILL BLESSES THE CAR TODAY. THE ONLY THING THAT I DID TO THE INTERIOR IS ADD A BILLET STEERING WHEEL AND A CLARION DVD HEAD UNIT. WHEN I WAS A KID AND I DREAMT OF MY PAINTINGS I NEVER THOUGHT MY CAR WOULD BE THE CANVAS.. ITS NOT ALL ABOUT ME THOUGHT THERE ARE ARTIST THAT WILL BE FEATURED THAT ARE MY FRIENDS AND INFLUENCES. MIKE PICKEL IS AN O.G. CAR BUILDER AND ARTIST AS A MEMBER OF THE BEATNIKS C.C. HE WILL BE THERE TO EXHIBIT LOWRIDER ART. HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR DESIGNING THE LOW RIDER MAGAZINE LOGO AND DRAWING PORTRAITS OF BOMBAS LOWRIDERS SLAMMED TO THE TEETH. JACK RUDY ALSO A MEMBER OF BEATNIKS C.C. IS FAMOUS FOR BEING THE GODFATHER OF BLACK AND GREY. JACK IS A REAL LOWRIDER AND THE ON THE HOMIE THAT I KNOW THAT HAS DROVEN A LIFTED CAR WITH WHITE WALLS TO NEW YORK AND BACK. ESTEVAN IS KNOW FOR HIS ABILITY TO CAPTURE THE RAW STREETS LOS ANGELES AND STREET CULTURE FROM AROUND THE WORLD HE IS ALSO MEMBER OF LIFESTYLE C.C. THERE WILL ALSO BE WORLD FAMOUS PINSTRIPERS DANNY D AND HOME TOWN HERO BUGS GONZALES.....

Name-dropping in American Philosophical Society's Publication

Reader Bryan points me to the latest issue of American Philosophical Society's publication, where this humble little site was mentioned on page 54.

The main article is titled "How Maya Hieroglyphs Got Their Name: Egypt, Mexico, and China in Western Grammatology since the Fifteenth Century" by Byron Ellsworth Hamann from
Department of Anthropology and Department of History, The University of Chicago.


http://www.aps-pub.com/proceedings/1521/1520101.pdf

The illustration shown above had this caption:

Car ornamentation with “Chinese” characters, photographed in Almería, Spain, in August 2006. The third character from the left is dao (“way” or “path”); the rest are nonsensical (or, as James Mathien put it, “Fakenese”). Mayanists might refer to these as “pseudo-glyphs.” Photograph by the author [Hamann].

The article is sixty-eight pages long, so be patient or get a few liters of beer in you before proceeding.