I'll start today's blog with a little imagery, before explaining why there's a robot at the top of your screen today instead of a car or something.
"A chrome skeleton, like death rendered in steel."
I've been a Terminator fan for quite a while. I can watch those movies over and over, but the thing that draws me to them isn't the never ending struggle of the human race and the machine; it's how fuckin' cool the machines look compared to the human race. If you could get some kinda aftermarket 'make yourself into a T1000" kit, I'd be there. Those mean little laser-looking eyes, the cold hard steel and all those exposed (once the skin's gone, anyway) hydraulic pumps and stuff. Sexy as hell.
Last night, watching the original Terminator movie (arguably the best, IMO, cos Arnie is a bad guy and there's no crazy liquid metal crap) my hot-rod-modeller mind got to thinking. How SICK would a Terminator hot rod be? Consider the inspiration for this: everything brushed metal, minimal in it's aesthetic qualities yet massively functional. Evil looking, yet mechanically beautiful at the same time. Everything in it's raw state, a palette of metallic tones punctuated only by those devilish red eyes.
Wouldn't be hard to convert to four wheels huh? A beautiful mix of functional yet futuristic components all finished in metalizer tones of steel, magnesium, aluminium and chrome. Like the quote above (by Terminator creator James Cameron, incidentally) says , a chrome skeleton, like death rendered in steel. Red headlights and a small computer monitor for a dash, showing vital data about the outside world in monochrome black and red letters. And yeah, it'd probably start out as an old Ford. Not very futuristic? Maybe, but neither's the human body, and the Terminator looked good modelled after that...
Looking forward to The Sarah Conner Chronicles tomorrow, hope it aint a bust.
I'll be back.
JB
"A chrome skeleton, like death rendered in steel."
I've been a Terminator fan for quite a while. I can watch those movies over and over, but the thing that draws me to them isn't the never ending struggle of the human race and the machine; it's how fuckin' cool the machines look compared to the human race. If you could get some kinda aftermarket 'make yourself into a T1000" kit, I'd be there. Those mean little laser-looking eyes, the cold hard steel and all those exposed (once the skin's gone, anyway) hydraulic pumps and stuff. Sexy as hell.
Last night, watching the original Terminator movie (arguably the best, IMO, cos Arnie is a bad guy and there's no crazy liquid metal crap) my hot-rod-modeller mind got to thinking. How SICK would a Terminator hot rod be? Consider the inspiration for this: everything brushed metal, minimal in it's aesthetic qualities yet massively functional. Evil looking, yet mechanically beautiful at the same time. Everything in it's raw state, a palette of metallic tones punctuated only by those devilish red eyes.
Wouldn't be hard to convert to four wheels huh? A beautiful mix of functional yet futuristic components all finished in metalizer tones of steel, magnesium, aluminium and chrome. Like the quote above (by Terminator creator James Cameron, incidentally) says , a chrome skeleton, like death rendered in steel. Red headlights and a small computer monitor for a dash, showing vital data about the outside world in monochrome black and red letters. And yeah, it'd probably start out as an old Ford. Not very futuristic? Maybe, but neither's the human body, and the Terminator looked good modelled after that...
Looking forward to The Sarah Conner Chronicles tomorrow, hope it aint a bust.
I'll be back.
JB
1 comment:
Nice blog site! Must admit, i also love the Terminator series.
You must check out my Terminator salvation Poster i photoshoped up on my blog page.
It's a total made up poster - not an offical one.
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