ART + DESIGN
The Motorcycle Portraits: J Shia
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 J Shia, whose work and motorcycle customization shop Madhouse Motors has been featured everywhere…
Art and the Motorcycle (3): Linocuts for the Future!
‘Speedway’ is perhaps the most Modernist motorcycle image of all, with the…
The Motorcycle Portraits: Michael LaFountain
I look down and there's a motorcycle grip sticking out of the ground! I started…
Max Hazan and the HMW Vincent
All Max's bikes are ambitious and beautifully made, but the HMW Vincent is…
Electric Revolutionaries: JT Nesbitt Interviewed
JT Nesbitt's remarkable career includes designing motorcycles for Confederate…
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,…