34 Incredibly Down-To-Earth Vehicle Mods

34 Incredibly Down-To-Earth Vehicle Mods: [ By Marc in Gadgets & Geek Art & Technology & Futurism. ]

It’s refreshing to see ingenuity unleashed from societal mores on an industrial scale. Why not add treads instead of wheels? Who says a home AC can’t work in a car? Vehicle modifications can be incredibly fancy. These are not.

(Images via popcrunch, jalopnik, artcar, yourcobalt)

Have fun with the family car! As long as it works, it works, right? Vehicle repairs can be completed with items found around the house, or cars can be enhanced with mobile beer taps… Imagine that boring sedan freed from its boundaries.

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Mobile hot tubs are typically found on ultra-expensive limousines. Handy, down-to-earth types have learned how to reject the 1% by creating their own mobile masterpieces.

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Treads are cooler than tires. Nobody is contesting that. All the pain and effort required to replace a vehicles tire’s with these treads is totally worth the end result.

(Images via digg, digg, digg, weeville, weeville, digg)

Giant tires or tiny tires… they’re both fun. Nothing is more eye-catching than an extreme. Take your car and kick it up a notch by upgrading those tired old rims to something outrageous.

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Limousines are not as posh as they used to be, huh? These fantastic do it yourself works of art are amazing. It’s tough to understand how these vehicles could possibly be street legal, however.

(Images via artcar, popcrunch, artcar)

Wood, cardboard, and laminate flooring are just a few of the creative materials that ardent characters use to decorate their vehicles.

(Images via keepbusy, lilligren, lilligren, break)

If the air conditioning unit works in the house, why wouldn’t it work in the car? It may not be the most elegant solution to hot summer days, but it sure helps!

(Images via solemio, sethbarnes, coolfunpics, rv)

The truly green revolution gets 300 miles per hay bale.

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Haunted House? The Abandoned Mansion of Steve Jobs

Haunted House? The Abandoned Mansion of Steve Jobs: [ By Delana in Abandoned Places & Architecture & Design & Urbex & Parkour. ]

The life of late Apple magnate Steve Jobs was unquestionably full of interesting twists and turns. One of the lesser-known battles fought by Jobs was that of Jackling Mansion, a home that polarized the town of Woodside, California and became one of the area’s most intriguing abandoned places.

An Historic Home

(all images via: Jonathan Haeber)

The Jackling House was built in 1925 as a residence for copper mining baron Daniel Cowan Jackling and his family. Famed Californian architect George Washington Smith designed and built the stunning 17,000 square foot home in the popular (for the area and the time) Spanish Colonial Revival style. Inside, a massive pipe organ provided a fascinating focal point.

Steve’s Role

Steve Jobs bought the breathtaking property in 1984 and lived there for about a decade. The home was then rented out for a number of years until 2000, at which time Jobs stopped maintaining it and the building began to fall into disrepair. This once-magnificent home began to crumble and eventually became one of the most opulent abandonments in the country.

But Jobs didn’t intend to abandon the place altogether. He had a plan to demolish the original Jackling mansion and build a more modest family home in its place. In 2004 he received permission from Woodside to move forward with his plan…but the town’s other residents had another idea.

Upholding Heritage

A citizen group of preservationists called Uphold Our Heritage was quickly formed in order to block the demolition of the building. They filed lawsuits against the town of Woodside and against Jobs personally, stating that both parties had failed to recognize the historic value of the home and would be doing the town a disservice by tearing it down.

The legal battle that ensued was epic. From 2004 to 2011, Jobs and his lawyer returned to court time after time to gain the necessary demolition permits. The two sides struggled seemingly endlessly, with the preservationists insisting that the home was an important piece of history and Jobs insisting that it would take more money to salvage the mansion than it would to simply tear it down and build a new home.

The End of the Battle

Whichever side of this argument makes more sense to you, the reality is that Jobs eventually won the fight. He was granted the permits necessary to demolish the Jackling House in 2011 and the house was torn down just months before his death.

Thankfully for those of us who love exploring the depths of abandoned places, photographer Jonathan Haeber was able to capture these incredible photos before the building was gone forever.

Haeber arrived at the mansion sometime around 2007 to find the gate open and the property unlocked. He ventured inside to produce some of the last-ever images of this breathtaking and majestic home.

Although the paint was peeling, the plaster was crumbling and the elements had begun to reclaim the building, it was not hard to see the past splendor of the place.

In a very real way, the neglect suffered by this beautiful mansion only served to increase and highlight its best features. The world lost a truly elegant piece of architecture when the Jackling House was demolished.

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Street Seats for the People: Bold Guerrilla Furniture

Street Seats for the People: Bold Guerrilla Furniture: [ By Steph in Furniture & Interiors & Guerilla Action & Art & Urban & Street Art. ]

Just try to locate a truly comfortable outdoor, public place to lounge around your city. Typically what you’ll find are rigid benches that discourage people from lingering too long. Artist Oliver Show sought to remedy that in Hamburg, Germany, by creating bold yellow benches, couches and other seating areas in unexpected places.

The sculptural, flexible seating areas are created by wrapping yellow drainage pipes around the city’s existing infrastructure including bridge trusses, bike racks, handrails and trees. The material is low-cost and weather-resistant, and its bright color enables it to stand out among the largely neutral hues of its surroundings.

“The interventionist and experimental approach to me is more important than the quest for a ‘perfect’ product,” the artist told Der Spiegel (via Architzer). The installation won Show a design award from the HFBK Leinemann Foundation for Education and the Arts.

When urban spaces are designed to prevent people from getting too comfortable – a problem that could be partially solved by coming up with some creative solutions for homeless housing – they perpetuate a cycle of constant motion that keeps city residents from pausing to notice, enjoy and interact with their surroundings. If only urban planners would take more cues from artists, and from the very people who use the infrastructure they design.

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