{"id":164,"date":"2011-06-27T16:37:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T23:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flathed.com\/blogHED\/?p=164"},"modified":"2011-06-27T16:37:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T23:37:26","slug":"auto-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/2011\/06\/27\/auto-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met my very first industrial designer when I was about 16. Well, to be fair, he was really just a an 18 year old kid getting ready to go off to Pratt Institute in New York to study Industrial Design. Either way, as a career choice, it was something completely new to me. This kid was an artist. He liked to draw. Every scrap of paper in his sphere became a occasion to create something. He&#8217;d draw anything- people, places, things, animals- but the thing that really got him, the thing that was sending him off to New York that fall was drawing cars. He wanted to design cars.<\/p>\n<p>Not being much of a car person, I couldn&#8217;t really understand the connection between art and cars. But, fast forward a few years, and I get it. I get the allure of a classic car, not just aesthetically, but emotionally. In other words, a really great car makes me think of really great adventures. It&#8217;s no accident that James Bond is known as much for his car as his jet-setting and world-saving. Luckily, I got hip to the art of cars just in time for Portland Art Museum&#8217;s current exhibition, <a href=\"http:\/\/specialexhibitions.portlandartmuseum.org\/allure\/\">Allure of the Automobile. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The exhibit, which runs through September 11, is a celebration of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2011\/06\/12\/automobiles\/collectibles\/12museum-slideshow.html?ref=automobiles\">car design<\/a>, and its connection to many of the important design movements. There&#8217;s no doubting their place among other great designed objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met my very first industrial designer when I was about 16. Well, to be fair, he was really just a an 18 year old kid getting ready to go off to Pratt Institute in New York to study Industrial Design. Either way, as a career choice, it was something&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artandmedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}