{"id":41260,"date":"2025-07-28T08:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=41260"},"modified":"2025-07-28T08:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:58:39","slug":"garage-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2025\/07\/28\/garage-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Garage Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>Making for a fun environment.<\/I><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2025\/07\/23\/garage-kaizen\/ target=_blank>yesterday&#8217;s piece<\/a> I illustrated how continuous improvement of a workspace makes for a better work environment.  More welcoming, more useable, more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>I also mentioned how art works interspersed with the various tool walls and shelves lighten up the space, making for a warm welcome on every visit.  More fun!<\/p>\n<p>Here are the twenty varied pieces on display in my garage.<\/p>\n<p>These four prints are from images snapped at the Laguna Seca Historic Races in 2008, where the paddock is nothing less than a cornucopia of vintage machinery.  As always, it&#8217;s the details from the height of the mechanical age which fascinate.  All snapped on the Canon 5D with a 100mm EF Canon Macro lens and a ring flash:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\"><br \/>\n<I><\/I><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Classic motorcycles are always of interest, here displayed on tinplates:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to classic BMW air cooled twins, nothing beats period posters:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I first encountered the Sinclair Dino when filling up on a long motorcycle trip through beautiful Utah:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ford advertisement from the early days:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Back in the day 250,000km was deemed a high mileage for an engine.  So much so that Mercedes would give owners a certificate commemorating the event.  My 1983 300SD turbodiesel was on 343,000km when I finally sold it in 2005:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>License plates from my many locations:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>No self-respecting garage is complete without some bawdy tinplates:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>So there!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/GarageArt30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" \/><br \/>\n<I><\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making for a fun environment. In yesterday&#8217;s piece I illustrated how continuous improvement of a workspace makes for a better work environment. More welcoming, more useable, more efficient. I also mentioned how art works interspersed with the various tool walls and shelves lighten up the space, making for a warm welcome on every visit. More &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2025\/07\/28\/garage-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garage Art<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41260"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41276,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41260\/revisions\/41276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}