ART + DESIGN
The Motorcycle Portraits: Michael LaFountain
The Motorcycle Portraits is a project by photographer/filmmaker David Goldman, who travels the world making documentaries, and takes time out to interview interesting people in the motorcycle scene, wherever he might be. The result is a single exemplary photo, a geolocation of his subject, and a transcribed interview. The audio of his interviews can be found on The Motorcycle Portraits website. The following Motorcycle Portraits session is with Michael LaFountain of Raccia Motorcycles. Raccia builds sleek cafe racers that often mimic…
Art X Moto: Larry Poons and Big D Cycle
Keith Martin of Big D Cycle explains his relationship to legendary abstract…
Max Hazan and the HMW Vincent
All Max's bikes are ambitious and beautifully made, but the HMW Vincent is…
Décor Motor: Spinzi Wheels in the Spice
Tommaso Spinzi brings wheels into a 1716 Baroque palazzo in Turin to celebrate…
Jack Leong and the Ace-Hy M.C. Archive
Everywhere Jack Leong went, he brought a camera, including when riding his…
Walt Siegl: High Performance Attaché
Walt Siegl's career arc is unique, from art-school dropout in Austria, to…
The Roads Less Traveled: Bernard Testemale
Bernard Testemale's extraordinary wet plate portraits are on exhibit at RAW…
Valen Zhou: The Railway Engineer
Valen Zhou spent whole nights working on his second custom motorcycle, to…
Hugo Eccles and the XP Zero
The XP Zero is a superb piece of design: it retains traditional styling cues,…
A Suzuki Hayabusa from Paper
Like meditation, the art of modeling is a kind of prayer, and the ultimate…
The Motorcycle Portraits: Shinya Kimura
Shinya Kimura is the legendary motorcycle artisan who first came to worldwide…