Cueball
01-04-2009, 03:27 PM
OUR ART:
My wife, the artist, tells me there is art in all things. She has convinced me this is true and I have convinced her that Cueball is my art.
It is human nature to want something that is unique and that no one else has. I believe that is why some people chose to buy a New Beetle for their transportation.
We SoCal NBC members tend to take it one step further, customizing and adding special accessories to our cars to bring out the car’s, and our, special personality and enhance this belief.
It is refreshing to go to a car event, especially a VW event, and see our New Beetles. I walk down row after row of Golfs, Jettas, and Passats. Most are the same color, same wheels, lowered the same, same body kits, even the decals are similar and in the same spots. It is as though one car was done and won some awards and all the others simply copied it, I call them “me too” cars.
Do not get me wrong - - they are very well done and very clean with much attention to details, just lacking imagination. Then I walk among the New Beetles. What a pleasant change! Every one of them is different and unique. Each of them is showing the personality of its owner.
In this light I constantly dream about how I can change my “canvas”. How can I make my car more of a reflection of who I am? How can I make one more change and be different from the rest?
Cueball is different and I am proud of him. Your cars are different and I am proud to be associated with you all. I dream of other cars and other modifications, but they show up as drawings in my sketch book like the “custom vert” shown here. Most all of Cueball’s changes started in this sketch book.
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p192/swflbear/BEETLE%20PEOPLE/cueballart1.jpg
How different we and our cars are, but how same we are to be dedicated to this little, round, “chick” car and what they, and us, can be. Luke’s car shows his personality – slow, calculated, conservative, and very careful. Frank’s cars are stealthy, well thought out, electronic, and beariffic! Mike’s Nerbie is fun and nostalgic. Gary Paul’s is ---- well like Gary Paul. Marsha’s Kermit is independent and bold. Mike Levy’s is smooth, conservative, and classy. Sue Cowlings Uncorked is bold, flashy, and “in your face” fun.
These are just a small sampling proving our cars are great examples of our art and tend to reflect our unique personalities.
I have always preached to “modify your car to please yourself”. Do not worry about what others will think – it is your car in the end and you have to live with it. That is the way I have gone about Cueball and every time I open the garage or walk up to him I get the same stupid fluttering feeling of – now that is what I’ve always wanted, that is my art project. I hope that he has been, in some way, an inspiration for others to follow. Not in the copying mode, but in the ingenious, unique, self satisfying, you can do anything you put your mind to, this is MY car and my art mode.
Well this “side pocket” was not about performance or technical stuff, but rather something I truly believe in that I just could not keep in. Next time I promise to get off my soap box and back on track (no pun intended).
Keep the shiny side up and have fun – life should be an adventure, but it should be done with our art project New Beetles and our like minded friends!!!
My wife, the artist, tells me there is art in all things. She has convinced me this is true and I have convinced her that Cueball is my art.
It is human nature to want something that is unique and that no one else has. I believe that is why some people chose to buy a New Beetle for their transportation.
We SoCal NBC members tend to take it one step further, customizing and adding special accessories to our cars to bring out the car’s, and our, special personality and enhance this belief.
It is refreshing to go to a car event, especially a VW event, and see our New Beetles. I walk down row after row of Golfs, Jettas, and Passats. Most are the same color, same wheels, lowered the same, same body kits, even the decals are similar and in the same spots. It is as though one car was done and won some awards and all the others simply copied it, I call them “me too” cars.
Do not get me wrong - - they are very well done and very clean with much attention to details, just lacking imagination. Then I walk among the New Beetles. What a pleasant change! Every one of them is different and unique. Each of them is showing the personality of its owner.
In this light I constantly dream about how I can change my “canvas”. How can I make my car more of a reflection of who I am? How can I make one more change and be different from the rest?
Cueball is different and I am proud of him. Your cars are different and I am proud to be associated with you all. I dream of other cars and other modifications, but they show up as drawings in my sketch book like the “custom vert” shown here. Most all of Cueball’s changes started in this sketch book.
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p192/swflbear/BEETLE%20PEOPLE/cueballart1.jpg
How different we and our cars are, but how same we are to be dedicated to this little, round, “chick” car and what they, and us, can be. Luke’s car shows his personality – slow, calculated, conservative, and very careful. Frank’s cars are stealthy, well thought out, electronic, and beariffic! Mike’s Nerbie is fun and nostalgic. Gary Paul’s is ---- well like Gary Paul. Marsha’s Kermit is independent and bold. Mike Levy’s is smooth, conservative, and classy. Sue Cowlings Uncorked is bold, flashy, and “in your face” fun.
These are just a small sampling proving our cars are great examples of our art and tend to reflect our unique personalities.
I have always preached to “modify your car to please yourself”. Do not worry about what others will think – it is your car in the end and you have to live with it. That is the way I have gone about Cueball and every time I open the garage or walk up to him I get the same stupid fluttering feeling of – now that is what I’ve always wanted, that is my art project. I hope that he has been, in some way, an inspiration for others to follow. Not in the copying mode, but in the ingenious, unique, self satisfying, you can do anything you put your mind to, this is MY car and my art mode.
Well this “side pocket” was not about performance or technical stuff, but rather something I truly believe in that I just could not keep in. Next time I promise to get off my soap box and back on track (no pun intended).
Keep the shiny side up and have fun – life should be an adventure, but it should be done with our art project New Beetles and our like minded friends!!!