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Chops & Bobbers No.5 Kustom Lane Gallery from Fuel Tank TV...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:20:00 -0400

Chops & Bobbers No.5 Kustom Lane Gallery from Fuel Tank TV on Vimeo.

When it comes to art exhibitions, it simply doesn’t get much cooler than Chops ‘N’ Bobbers. Kustom Lane Gallery are gearing for the fourth annual instalment of the incredibly popular display of all that is vintage motorcycles, with an extensive range of simply beautiful two-wheeled machines complemented by artworks inspired by the theme.

“Chops ‘N’ Bobbers is pretty much based around all pre-1975 bikes. So Triumphs, Harleys - that sort of style of bike in that they can either be restored, or generally most of them tend to be modified,” explains curator Tony Peake. “But they’re modified in the traditional way, they’re not modified like a modern day chopper with all these bolt-on bits and pieces, but basically all of the bikes have to be built by the person who owns them. So like they’re all done in the traditional way, so you scrounge and you find bits and pieces and you add stuff onto it, you just don’t ring up a catalogue mob and just bolt a bit on, if you know what I mean.” He explains further. “So we’re reasonably strict on what sort of bikes we put in. We tend to get around about 16-18 bikes in the gallery, and then they are displayed along with complementary artwork, it’s the motorcycle and the art together. The Chops ‘N’ Bobbers means the choppers [modified bikes that have been chopped up], it’s whether they’re a Cafe Racer style thing. Or just a typical street bike that has been restored or whatever it might be. And then we generally get a couple of other guys that have got a, I guess you would call it a ‘barn find’ type bike, which is a bike that has been sitting in someone’s backyard for years and years and years that they have just dragged out and bring it along, and that’s how they found it, if you know what I mean.”

The exhibition evokes a stylish sense of history with a stunning dissection of a classic, time-forlorn, beauty in design. “It gives you a really broad cross section of what was happening in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s as far as what people did to their bikes during those times. We’ll have an early-style cafe racer, we’ll have an early race bike like a 1942 Harley Davidson that’ll be here on display. As well as all these Triumphs and things like that,” lists Tony with glee. “We’ll have an old Triumph here that was probably built from the mid to late ’60s, all flamed and all that sort of stuff. But all of the paint’s flaking off it - it’s got all of the old original equipment. You probably can’t ride it, but that’s not that point,” he laughs. “The point is to show people what they did back then. So it’s a bit of history lesson, but also to show what can be done you know these bikes are still pretty cool now when they’re restored and done up.”

As well as featuring the motorbikes - which are artworks in themselves - the exhibition will also be garnished by variousworks of art which further enhance the aesthetic of the era. “The artwork that goes with it is the same thing, we have different artists in Melbourne and a few overseas that contribute to the show and then put on an art show as well that goes hand-in-hand with the bikes,” Tony reveals. “The artwork that the guys generally do is old school style, generally photographs or images of old bikes, and then there’s some original artwork as well that goes with it. I try to curate in a way that the artwork complements the bike that’s sitting alongside it, so you’ve got a mixture of both. But the artwork isn’t just in the art that’s on the wall, you know, it’s also in the motorbikes, so there’s that artwork as well. Some of the work, you know we have artists that build bikes as well so there’s that sort of thing too, there’s a cross over between the two. It’s not just purely a motorbike show; it’s a mixture of both. The art might be the canvasses such as acrylics, oils, etc through to prints just depending on what people do. See some people do digital type art, some of it will be acrylics, some of it will be watercolour,” he divulges.

Getting an idea of the type of machines on display, you get the feeling that it presents an antithesis to the likes of American Chopper and their Frankenstein-like creations. “I don’t know if you know the modern day bike now got like a stupidly low forks and you can’t really ride them, all you can do is stick them in a corner and look at them. I guess it’s a reaction in the sense that you don’t have to have a really cool bike and spend $200,000. You can spend $20,000, $10,000, $5,000. It’s what you put into it, and you can still have a good bike, a bike just as good as that mega-dollar one. The only difference is the mega-dollar one generally you can’t ride,” Tony chuffs. “That’s generally what happens with it, so we try to keep it real, that’s all. I mean, this is going to be our fourth show of doing this, we’ve done it for the last three years it’s probably our most popular show as far as attendees go,” Tony reveals.

Beat Magazine
Lachlan Kanoniuk
beat.com.au/arts/chops-n-bobbers

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ADBNE 2013 – Opening Titles from BREEDER on...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:49:49 -0400

ADBNE 2013 – Opening Titles from BREEDER on Vimeo.

Double-exposures in motion.

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Breeder was invited back to create the opening titles, so once again, we threw ourselves into the project and didn’t hold back. This year, we developed an ambitious aesthetic based upon the idea of double exposure, inspired by Alabaster’s amazing track and the conference’s program design. We worked around the theme of binary, juxtaposing the urban sprawl and nature, black and white, flight and fall, and unification and disintegration. It was a labour of love and we couldn’t be prouder with the end result.

analoguedigital.com.au
studiobreeder.com

Credits
Creative Direction: Joyce Ho
Producer: Adam Sebastian West
Cinematography: Chris Morris, Alex Gee, Adam Sebastian West
Editing: Alex Gee
Design Lead: Joyce Ho
Design: Alex Gee, Timothy Lovett, Jai Mitchell
Compositing: Chris Morris
Animation: Alex Gee, Joyce Ho, Grayson Huddart

Starring: Abagail Pirie, Anthony Trojman

Sound by ALABASTER

Martin Croston & The Vultures from Fuel Tank TV on...

Wed, 01 May 2013 17:34:58 -0400

Martin Croston & The Vultures from Fuel Tank TV on Vimeo.

Martin Croston is a member of The Vultures custom car club based in Melbourne Australia.
The journey to build Martins treasured Hot Rod was a long and deeply personal experience. Martins Hot Rod was built using 1929 Dodge 5 window body and a 331 Cadillac motor, he talked to us about his views on what building a Hot Rod means and how friendship and a passion for Hot Rodding are all vital ingredients when approaching a build.
for release updates check us out @:
fuel-press.com
fueltank.tv
facebook.com/fueltanktv
Music:
“Can’t buy a dream”
Written and performed
Hanks Jalopy Demons
Froms the album ” Going Straight”
myspace.com/hanksjalopydemons

Directed by
Tom Broadhurst
Camera Operators
Aaron Cuthbert
George Husband
Tom Broadhurst
Editor/ Colour Grade
Daniel De Silva
Produced by
Tom Broadhurst
Luke Ray

Oxyana Trailer from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.oxyana.com

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:14:59 -0400

Oxyana Trailer from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

oxyana.com

COST OF LIVING from BenDavid Grabinski on...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:46:04 -0400

COST OF LIVING from BenDavid Grabinski on Vimeo.

Action/Comedy/Sci-Fi
Written and Directed by BenDavid Grabinski
Cast: Brandon Routh, Bret Harrison, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead
foindustries.com
Please play it loud.

The Build Film from Instrument on Vimeo.The Build is an...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:00:17 -0400

The Build Film from Instrument on Vimeo.

The Build is an interactive film exploring the world of custom motorcycle making through the stories of three independent builders in Portland, OR.

View the full experience, including shop tours, bike builds and builder information at:
thebuildfilm.com

Bottled History from Smith Journal on Vimeo.Ray Gascoigne has...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:45:00 -0400

Bottled History from Smith Journal on Vimeo.

Ray Gascoigne has been around boats his whole life, as a shipwright, a merchant sailor, and now as a ship builder on the smallest dry dock there is: a bottle. This short film, by Smith Journal and Melbourne-based production studio Commoner, picks through the wood chips to tell the story of a craft honed over 60 years, and the man behind it. A step-by-step account of the process was featured in Smith Journal volume six. Find out more about the project: bit.ly/10eWkuF Learn more about Smith: bit.ly/sDgUHh

Presented by Smith Journal (smithjournal.com.au)
A film by Commoner (vimeo.com/commonerfilms)
Music by Ben Yardley

Our most recent production at Bandit Films Director: Tom...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:39:13 -0500

Our most recent production at Bandit Films

Director: Tom Broadhurst

DOP: Daniel De Silva

“Don’t know much” a music video we produced...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:01:19 -0500

“Don’t know much” a music video we produced for the Melbourne based band “The ReChords”

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Chopped Rod and Custom Festival 2012

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:28:59 -0400

Chopped Rod and Custom Festival 2012

Travelling to the Sydney Motorex 2012 with The Eldorado’s...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:14:16 -0400

Travelling to the Sydney Motorex 2012 with The Eldorado’s and other crew

The Fuel Tank TV Annual to be released in June 2012 is a...

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:03:00 -0400

Annual #1 DVD releasing June 23rd 2012 check www.fuelzine.com for details from on .

The Fuel Tank TV Annual to be released in June 2012 is a collectable DVD release of all the re-edited Fuel Tank TV films , including unseen footage.
Keep checking out these links for updates and information about the future release date and where/how to purchase:
fuelzine.com/
facebook.com/fueltanktv
facebook.com/fuelmagazine
fueltank.tv/
Chopped Rod and Custom festival 2011
chopped.com.au/
Taking place an hour and a half north of Melbourne, Chopped is a unique cultural experience similar to that of being thrown back to a 1950s/60s Hop Up Carnavale. Thousands of fans from around the country partake in a mix of traditional style hot rods & custom cars alongside bobber & chopper motorcycles with entrants running head-to-head throughout the show in two-lane old-style dirt drags entertaining the crowds.

See the complete film @: www.muvi.es/w1861Martin Croston is a...

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 23:38:08 -0400

See the complete film @: www.muvi.es/w1861
Martin Croston is a member of The Vultures custom car club based in Melbourne Australia.
The journey to build Martins treasured Hot Rod was a long and deeply personal experience. Martins Hot Rod was built using 1929 Dodge 5 window body and a 331 Cadillac motor, he talked to us about his views on what building a Hot Rod means and how friendship and a passion for Hot Rodding are all vital ingredients when approaching a build.
for release updates check us out @:
www.fuelzine.com
www.fueltank.tv
www.facebook.com/fueltanktv
Music:
“Can’t buy a dream”
Written and performed
Hanks Jalopy Demons
Froms the album ” Going Straight”
myspace.com/hanksjalopydemons
Directed by
Tom Broadhurst
Camera Operators
Aaron Cuthbert
George Husband
Tom Broadhurst
Editor/ Colour Grade
Daniel De Silva
Produced by
Tom Broadhurst

Presenting a short documentary (16mins) that profiles Martin...

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 04:29:00 -0400

Presenting a short documentary (16mins) that profiles Martin Croston a member of The Vultures custom car club based in Melbourne Australia.The journey to build Martins treasured Hot Rod was a long and deeply personal experience. Martins Hot Rod was built using 1929 Dodge 5 window body and a 331 Cadillac motor, he talked to us about his views on what building a Hot Rod means and how friendship and a passion for Hot Rodding are all vital ingredients when approaching a Hot Rod build.

fueltanktv: News Flash!! We will be releasing the full length...

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:33:00 -0400

fueltanktv:

News Flash!! We will be releasing the full length version of Martin Croston’s film that will be featured on the Fuel Tank TV Annual DVD releasing June 23rd, you will need to go to
www.distrify.com and create an account or sync with your facebook profile. We will be asking for a small fee ($1.99 est) to see the full length version..all proceeds go towards helping us make more films..stay tuned for details

http://www.fuelzine.com/news/

https://vimeo.com/36629975
http://fuelmagazine.bigcartel.com/product/vultures-cruise-photo-book
Martin Croston is a member of The Vultures custom car club based in Melbourne Australia.

The journey to build Martins treasured Hot Rod was a long and deeply personal experience. Martins Hot Rod was built using 1929 Dodge 5 window body and a 331 Cadillac motor, he talked to us about his views on what building a Hot Rod means and how friendship and a passion for Hot Rodding are all vital ingredients when approaching a build. See the whole film on the Fuel Tank TV Annual No.1