lolwtf: "F1 Nose Cone and Steering Wheel with Clock and Neon Light"

Posted by John Brownlee, February 11, 2009 11:12 AM |
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I'm not sure what's more incredible about this... whatever the fuck. The fact that its design resembles a toy F1, a steering wheel and a wall clock shot together through a Cronenberg matter teleportation device, or the bizarre hunchback model they've got squinting and slouching in front of it for an infusion of sex appeal.


F1 Nose Cone and Steering Wheel with Clock and Neon Light [Yab Design via Nerd Approved]

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#1 posted by Marcel , February 11, 2009 11:25 AM

Hey, in defense of the girl, if I was a model (teeheehee) being asked to promote a product, and it turned out to be this contraption, I would have the exact same expression and posture.

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#2 posted by TJ S , February 11, 2009 11:52 AM

I'm scared that she's going to beat me up if I don't buy one.

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#3 posted by Camillo Miller , February 11, 2009 12:05 PM

John, to be a perfectly Cronenbergesque situation, the girl should have a sort of slimy vagina opened on her stomach.
Oh wait, maybe that's the reason for that expression...

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#5 posted by bazzargh , February 11, 2009 1:01 PM

I guess the models are there to give a sense of scale to the freakish 7 foot plastic bears and leering waiter statues they sell...

Who buys larger-than-life-size bronze statues of kneeling, blindfolded, topless women anyway? Is there a large untapped market? Like maybe giants with empty mantlepieces and no taste?

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#6 posted by Tensegrity , February 11, 2009 1:02 PM

Wow, there is some seriously odd stuff at that site.

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#7 posted by DMcK , February 11, 2009 1:47 PM

Does it come with lube?

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#9 posted by Grenoire , February 11, 2009 7:42 PM

They sell giant dinosaur statues! Giant dinosaur statues for your garden! dayum

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#11 posted by strider_mt2k Author Profile Page, February 11, 2009 8:42 PM

This is the kind of shit that happens when folks step on a butterfly.

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#12 posted by elguapostrikes , February 11, 2009 9:10 PM

its la pequeña prohibita!

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#13 posted by WalterBillington , February 12, 2009 3:25 AM

Jesu Christi. Appalling taste and sight distortion meet midly above average sculpting capability mixed with distant-mind syndrome.

That vague fear creeps into my stomach, a kind of pre-adolescent fascination with the apparent care put into this rubbish, and hence admiration, but a keen knowing that it's wrong, it doesn't fit with the growing vision of the world, but darn it little Harry was congratulated by the pretty art teacher for his efforts and look at this stuff doesn't it look just like his and my if I could do it too how many people would want to be my friend I'd have lollies and candyfloss and special clown seats and balloons I'd get a call from Ringling I'd have an agent I'd be rich and desirable oh my ... oh my ... I think I will take up awful, awful sculpture too.

And the good bit is - I'm so sightless viz my true place shoved into a dark corner by Rodin and Henry Moore that I'd never even know the shame or embarassment that would normally eventually evolve out of my observations of the reactions around me.

There's a scary movie here folks.

Added to that the fact that I have a mild preference for the work of mon-sieur bome. After seeing those figures, i just don't know what's wrong and what's right.

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#14 posted by thechicgeek , February 12, 2009 6:22 AM

What the Hell is that thing?

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#15 posted by AirPillo , February 12, 2009 9:14 AM

This is what happens when F1 racing meets The Philadelphia Experiment.

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#16 posted by arkizzle , February 12, 2009 9:18 AM

Good thread :)

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#17 posted by dccarles , February 12, 2009 9:58 AM

Okay, I'll confess that I went looking for the larger-than-life-size kneeling blindfolded topless bronze figure. But my mind screamed 'it hurts, it hurts!' well before I found it.

I mean, it's easy to take cheap shots at 'Alien Encounter On Motorbike', or the knight's helmet trash can but...even the normal stuff is bad. It's just bland. The facial features on the figurines - is this Expressionlessism?

After seeing this and those Lamborghini stilettos I think I need a unicorn chaser. Where was that site where the artist reproduced classic paintings from vegetables? Without irony, those were awesome.

--Devin

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#18 posted by dole , February 12, 2009 10:03 AM

ARRRR, PIRATE STEVE LIKES THE LADY PIRATES.

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#20 posted by jennybean42 , February 12, 2009 10:23 AM

LOL @ 11. I'm gonna start using that as an excuse for more fcked up crap.

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#21 posted by presto , February 12, 2009 10:37 AM

How did they get a picture of one of Sarah Palin's sex dreams?

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#22 posted by Anonymous , February 12, 2009 10:41 AM

The model is sexy. I prefer models who look like 'real' women over the typical models who look like their bodies have been surgically enhanced by plastic devices and venom-derived toxins injected under the skin.

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#23 posted by Peekah , February 12, 2009 11:12 AM

Sex appeal accomplished!

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#26 posted by RedShirt77 , February 12, 2009 12:42 PM

And is this clock contraption not a Buckaroo bonsai sort of thing? Maybe they drove through a mountain and ended up inside their own steering wheel. It could happen to any of us really. The girl of course was the driver. She now has part of the shifter lodged in her spine.

Did everybody see this?

http://www.yabdesigninc.com/big_pic.php?pic=5020-R&category=home%20decor&id=39

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#27 posted by AirPillo , February 12, 2009 12:43 PM

Alternate explanation:

Imagine it as a prop from a movie about the Event Horizon, were it crewed by rednecks.

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#28 posted by teeman , February 12, 2009 1:09 PM

I think the model is kind of hot- she has kind of a "Klingon" look going on....

Rowwrr

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#29 posted by Halloween Jack , February 12, 2009 2:35 PM

With those shoulders, I'm guessing that she took a Formula One car apart with her bare hands in a fit of rage. That doesn't explain the transporter-accident effect, though.

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#30 posted by minamisan , February 12, 2009 4:24 PM

their asscheek-inspired "Mars Explorer Wall Decor" has got me intrigued too...

http://www.yabdesigninc.com/big_pic.php?pic=2560&category=new%20items&id=202

I wonder if they do international orders?

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#31 posted by Bill Beaty Author Profile Page, February 12, 2009 6:25 PM

WAY MORE IS ON EBAY: Giant Betty Boops, green plastic army men, terminator, creepy fullsize celebrities. Bluto on a Harley.

eBay store: LM Treasures

Or is this a competitor for YAB? Maybe both are obtaining them from a still secret source!

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#32 posted by bobkat , February 13, 2009 10:29 AM

this thread has some of the funniest comments i've ever seen on boingboing! thanx, everyone.

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#33 posted by Alpinwolf , February 14, 2009 8:52 PM

Frankly, I find the daring of their post-neo-dadaist surrealism to be composed chiefly of *HORK*.

I spotted another timepiece themed as someone of our favorite Age-of-Discovery Privateer class, but between the location of the ship's wheel, scale of the thumbnail, and my own para-dyslexic effect removing a critical "L"...
thought they were marketing Pirate Cock for a moment.

I shall look no further, as I now expect imminently to find your junk in a box for sale.

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