Today In the BMW Welt

[Matski]

I‘m denying nobody it’s freedom of speech nor their right to protest. I didn’t compare the flour protest with the idiots who caused a woman’s dead. I think you know that perfectly well. I really don’t get why you need to end up with the word fascism.
I’ll leave it at that.

Anyway, indeed.

Mick, please dont misunderstand me, I'm not seeking to label anyone as fascist. I simply seek to convey the importance of not lumping one thing in with another just because the end goal is comparable. Going from throwing flour on a car to letting off explosives in the same sentence, as Scott did, is a risk even if it is well meaning and understandable.

If I'm making a big deal of it its because here in the UK recent laws have allowed ministers to effectively neuter any public behavior that speaks against them. It's fine when it stops idiots gluing themselves to trains, it's not so fine when it stops people literally just speaking out against our unelected ruling class.

 

[Matski]

That is beyond great, a joy to behold and very interesting the digital approach using tools to translate the originals, I guess with 3d scanning and who knows what else.

Well if you're not familiar with Gran Turismo 7, it might seem both more impressive and less impressive than it actually is, simultaneously. The game flatters most efforts with uts excellent graphics capability... But at the same time, creating liveries requires working with .svg files (XML based vector files) no bigger then 15.0kb each, consequently something like the Rauschenberg car uses hundreds of smaller, basically meaningless snippets of images to make the whole livery.. Just the car image on the side of the Baldessari car is about 5 or 6 sepearate files.

BMW Individual could offer this as a wrap, in "copy 1 of 50" mode, I don't charge them anything for the idea and I would be happy just seeing them. Or those of Gran Turismo 7 could perfectly buy this job from you

I actually had a guy ask me if I could supply the Calder livery so he could use it to make a wrap for his car. They're really not built like that though, the complete livery only exists within the game. So I declined.

 

[SCOTT27]

I remember a few years back there was an automotive styling company offering the Koons graphics as a wrap for E92 M3 Coupe’s. Until they got a cease and desist from BMW’s and Koon’s representatives.

 

[Mick Briesgau]

It's fine when it stops idiots gluing themselves to trains, it's not so fine when it stops people literally just speaking out against our unelected ruling class.

I entirely agree.