Friday, 13. March 2009
Hot Rod Empire, Inc. - Review im RebelRodz Magazine (USA)
pixeleye, 21:31h
Im amerikanischen RebelRodz Magazine ist ein cooler Review zu meinem zweiten Fotobuch erschienen :)
Im amerikanischen RebelRodz Magazine ist ein cooler Review zu meinem zweiten Fotobuch erschienen :)
Hotrod Empire Inc. - Photography by Dirk Behlau
Dirk Behlau, or Pixeleye, as his known to his friends and foes alike, is arguably Germany’s foremost photographer and documentarian of the local hot rod scene. His still images of everything and anything that moves on four wheels and is frequently accompanied by beautiful creatures in short skirts speak volumes.
They are also bound in volumes; two, to be precise.Hotrod Empire Inc. is Dirk’s second picture book, and most likely not his last. We like it a lot, mainly because it has lots of rockability, but also because it doesn’t contain any pesky words and sentences to slave over; it’s all photos, and lots of them to boot. Well, there are some words, actually, but they’re at the beginning and at the end of the book. And they’re easy to read ’cause they’re in English.
As far as the visual content of the book goes, there are cars, of course, cool-looking American cars, some of which you might have seen already in RebelRodz—like Jay-Jay’s ’35 Ford that we featured in issue No. 4 (February ’08), for instance.
There are also girls in this book, girls like the beautiful Zoe Scarlett, Switzerland’s pre-eminent pinup model and seemingly Dirks perennially favorite subject, or the very sexy Maureen van Mortis. And there’s art; art must not be omitted from any book about kustom kulture. There’s Doug Dorr pinstriping a tiki head, Skratch pinstriping a
headlight, Doug Dorr again, pinstriping Zoe. And on it goes.
While all of the photography is first class, some of it is even more first class because it’s made to look like third-class snap shot art: coffee-stained, scratched up, scruffed up, seemingly out of focus, off-centered, greasesplattered pictures, all in an effort to lend age, use and authenticity to a genre that thrives on living in a greasy, rusty past.
More than anything, however, there are kars, kars, and more kars to ogle and admire, and that’s really what it should be all about, with or without explanatory words. After all, if a picture is worth a thousand words, Dirk’s slim little coffee table book is one enormous, wordy tome!
So do yourself a favor and check it out! For more info or how to order it, simply go to Dirk’s website: www.pixeleye.de. As they say in Germany: Yoo vil buy it und yoo vil like it! –J.W.
www.rebelrodz.com/rebelrodz/
Im amerikanischen RebelRodz Magazine ist ein cooler Review zu meinem zweiten Fotobuch erschienen :)
Hotrod Empire Inc. - Photography by Dirk Behlau
Dirk Behlau, or Pixeleye, as his known to his friends and foes alike, is arguably Germany’s foremost photographer and documentarian of the local hot rod scene. His still images of everything and anything that moves on four wheels and is frequently accompanied by beautiful creatures in short skirts speak volumes.
They are also bound in volumes; two, to be precise.Hotrod Empire Inc. is Dirk’s second picture book, and most likely not his last. We like it a lot, mainly because it has lots of rockability, but also because it doesn’t contain any pesky words and sentences to slave over; it’s all photos, and lots of them to boot. Well, there are some words, actually, but they’re at the beginning and at the end of the book. And they’re easy to read ’cause they’re in English.
As far as the visual content of the book goes, there are cars, of course, cool-looking American cars, some of which you might have seen already in RebelRodz—like Jay-Jay’s ’35 Ford that we featured in issue No. 4 (February ’08), for instance.
There are also girls in this book, girls like the beautiful Zoe Scarlett, Switzerland’s pre-eminent pinup model and seemingly Dirks perennially favorite subject, or the very sexy Maureen van Mortis. And there’s art; art must not be omitted from any book about kustom kulture. There’s Doug Dorr pinstriping a tiki head, Skratch pinstriping a
headlight, Doug Dorr again, pinstriping Zoe. And on it goes.
While all of the photography is first class, some of it is even more first class because it’s made to look like third-class snap shot art: coffee-stained, scratched up, scruffed up, seemingly out of focus, off-centered, greasesplattered pictures, all in an effort to lend age, use and authenticity to a genre that thrives on living in a greasy, rusty past.
More than anything, however, there are kars, kars, and more kars to ogle and admire, and that’s really what it should be all about, with or without explanatory words. After all, if a picture is worth a thousand words, Dirk’s slim little coffee table book is one enormous, wordy tome!
So do yourself a favor and check it out! For more info or how to order it, simply go to Dirk’s website: www.pixeleye.de. As they say in Germany: Yoo vil buy it und yoo vil like it! –J.W.
www.rebelrodz.com/rebelrodz/
