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Drivin’ me wild


This is the most recent photo of the Mercedes Pens with additional pens glued to the sun roof. It was shot at the marina in Berkeley during Art Car Fest 2007 on the last day after How Berkeley can you be parade. Harrod Blank author of the Art cars book asked me if he could take pictures of the car.

Also there was a recent article by Len Vinas and Jessica Barcenilla posted in the Golden Gate Xpress called Drivin’ me wild. It features the Mercedes Pens, Darwin, Eartha Karr and the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir Artcars at the recent Artcar fest 2007. Check the multimedia button on the upper right hand corner.

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Art Car Fest 05 Video


Last weekend was Artcar Fest 2007 and have a bunch of pictures I want to put on my blog but I am too stinking tired to do anything, but I just found a video done about Art Car Fest 05. It was the first year that I had attended this event with hardly any pens on my car. Interviews with artists from all over the US & Canada who gathered for the 2005 ArtCar Fest in the San Francisco Bay Area. Featured cars: … all ยป Amethyst, Cinnabar Charm, Mercedes Pens, Temple Bus, Siren, Von Tiki, La Sirena, Science Is Golden, Periodic Table Car, Glass Quilt, Daisy Singer, Truck In Flux, Buick of Unconditional Love, Banana Bike, Sopa Box Derby Coffin and many others.

Ken Duffy took a bunch of photos of Artcar Fest 07 on his flikr account check it out.

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Harmony Festival 07 was a great weekend!

I was there for three days hanging out and getting help gluing pens on the Mercedes pens. This time around I wrote names on the pens before gluing them on the car. The car now is 95% covered with pens so all I have to do is cover the inside and convert the PVC tubes into pens. Met some really interesting folks who came by the car. One of them was none other than Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who came right up to me and said “Nice Car”. Of course I had to take a picture, because how often does a presidential candidate comes up to go and compliments you on your art car. Never heard of it, ever.

Also got call from Jesse who wants to do a show about the Mercedes Pens and post it on his vlog wow cool show. I will meet with him next week sometime to shoot an episode about the car. The funny thing is that sometime ago I mentioned that I wanted to do a regular show, maybe this will help me get started. Stay tuned.

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Mercedes Pens in The Media

As a result of going to Maker Fair 07 in San Mateo I receaved some really cool media coverage of the Mercedes Pens Art Car.
The first was a very brief shot on a piece done by CBS Sunday morning news June 3, 2007 called Tech Geeks Shine At Maker. Its a great piece about the fair check it out. (Video Link 90MB)

The other piece was done by Metro Teknik a swiss media outlet. If you can figure out what it says, let me know. Well, I guess I went global this year:)