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Artist: Jerome Rocha
2019 Southwest Choppers Softail – Not Off The Shelf Jerome Rocha is no stranger to custom cars and bikes, he has building cool rides for over 35 years. He owns a small shop in Albuquerque New Mexico called Southwest Choppers. https://www.motortrend.com/features/2019-southwest-choppers-softail-not-off-the-shelf/
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Artist: Robert Vanderslice
Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/robert.vanderslice.35?fref=nf Videos: Robert Vanderslice: 11 Miles of Tape “Rob Vanerslice, artist and award winning custom car painter, takes us through his personal journey and the process of bringing a lowrider to life through paint.” 25 min Articles: Artist Profile: Rob Vanderslice Interview with Rob Vanderslice with Lay it Low. https://www.layitlow.com/threads/rob-vanderslice-paint-jobs.173745/ Creating the “Rob…
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Experiment: Build your own airbrush – Applying Bernoulli
“Rapidly moving air will be at a lower pressure than when it is stopped. This is called Bernoulli’s principle. So when you blow across the top of the straw, the rapidly moving air is at a lower pressure than the air above the water in your glass.” https://www.thenakedscientists.com/get-naked/experiments/build-your-own-airbrush-applying-bernoulli
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Video: How Does an Airbrush Work?
This is a short video that explains how an airbrush works. It is part of the newly organized “Airbrushing for Modelers 101” web pages
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Video: Lowriders Are a Perfect Mesh of Engineering and Craftsmanship
On any single car, you could easily have any, or even all of the following: https://makezine.com/2016/07/01/lowriders-are-a-perfect-mesh-of-engineering-and-craftsmanship/
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Article: Painting Cars for Mars
What does NASA do to get a rover ready for Mars? JPL’s paint shop does a thousand different paint jobs a year. And while every piece of spacecraft that comes through the shop is important, one headed for the Red Planet adds a little extra oomph. https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/22084/painting-cars-for-mars/
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Video: How butterflies inspired a new type of paint
Cypris Materials has developed a tunable structural color coating that can be applied directly to surfaces as a paint. Their technology can improve building and automobile energy efficiency by reflecting UV, visible, and infrared light, and it expands the available color pallet while eliminating the use of toxic pigments and colorants.
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Video: How low-rider graphics are painted on cars
Pablo Prado of Kandy and Chrome goes over some of his custom paint work for Lowriders. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-low-rider-graphics-painted-on-cars-2021-1
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Airbrush Useful For Making Microelectrodes, Not Just Art
The airbrush, that tool behind tattoos and T-shirts, may have an unexpected future… in technology. A group of engineering students have come up with a method for using an airbrush to make microelectrodes — tiny conductors used in an increasing range of consumer, research and medical products. The technique is simpler than the standard one,…
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Article: The Dying Art of Pinstriping…on the Cusp of a Renaissance?
Automotive history involves so much more than the development of powerful engines, advanced suspension systems, aerodynamics, and state-of-the-art technology. While those may be the bigger talking points that get the most attention, it’s actually the little moments—the nuances—that give this rich history its context (as well as its staying power) with enthusiasts. One such ‘little…
