{"id":597,"date":"2008-09-01T17:11:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T03:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=597"},"modified":"2008-09-01T17:11:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T03:11:25","slug":"cars-and-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/cars-and-lego\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars and Lego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdcore.de\/wp\/2008\/06\/30\/t-shirt-mit-den-beruhmtesten-geek-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-596\" title=\"carshirts\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/carshirts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/carshirts.jpg 500w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/carshirts-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I was searching around for good material I could use in class to teach Illustrator, I came across this illustration that has all these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdcore.de\/wp\/2008\/06\/30\/t-shirt-mit-den-beruhmtesten-geek-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">cool cars from various movies, TV shows, and video games<\/a>. I don&#8217;t recognize them all, but there are more then a few that bring back old memories for me.  Excitebike, the Starsky and Hutch car, James Bond&#8217;s underwater Lotus, ZZ top&#8217;s Coupe, etc. If this was a T-shirt I&#8217;d get it right away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/olog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-598\" title=\"olog_01\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/olog_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/olog_01.jpg 500w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/olog_01-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this really talented Lego builder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/olog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Florea<\/a>. This stuff is pretty amazing. There seems to be a whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mocpages.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LEGO &#8220;MOC&#8221;<\/a> movement (&#8220;My Own Creation&#8221;) now where people compete for their own design creations using Lego pieces.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve come a long way from the time I used to just stick a block together with 4 rubber tires and pretend that was my Landspeeder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was searching around for good material I could use in class to teach Illustrator, I came across this illustration that has all these cool cars from various movies, TV shows, and video games. I don&#8217;t recognize them all, but there are more then a few that bring back old memories for me. Excitebike, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,30],"tags":[70,69,71],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-toys","tag-cars","tag-illustration","tag-lego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}