prelude to a chase (2021) (Patreon)

I had a lot of really profound thoughts about this photo, where a car show had ended and it was just me and my friend's crinkled Valiant and an old Bug sitting in a parking lot. I thought about how the iconic works of film in the 70s—both moving and still—still maintain such sway over our culture, and so the cars of the era seem vastly more special. Normal economy cars from the 60s are imbued with a magical power when captured in images that no Chrysler Crossfire or Honda Fit will be able to replicate. 

I thought about how this image looks like an almost documentary-quality family-album photo when edited soft and 2:3...

and yet takes on an entirely different, tense quality when the frame is chopped and the vividity is increased and we can imagine it as the prelude to a chase scene in a b-tier 70s action movie. 

I thought about how the fact that color has been bleached from the modern automotive world means that there's fewer and fewer chances to get an eye-catching focal car—say, in two-tone orange and white—in any of your shots. (Closest you're getting is a Toyota CH-R, which is so busy stylistically I think it may drag a little too much attention to itself, unlike the iconic silhouette of a Bug or the simple lines of a Valiant, which emphasize simple blocking and colors.) 

But mostly I thought about how bad I want someone to toss me the keys to a '60s car so I can make some art with one, lol