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The Slot Car Wall Sculpture by Pete Nidzgorski

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This is great. Since we last featured Pete for his beautiful storage cabinet design, he's been hard at work dreaming up new cool stuff...

 
 

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What you see above is his Slot Car Wall Sculpture which features an old slot car set:

Old HO Slot Cars and Track are easily found online. This set up [about half of the track I got] cost me around $100. Track layouts are practically infinite.

Check out Pete's site and all the pics here. (Thanks, Pete!)

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Anyone know where the white stool (with laptop) is from?

posted by enb on 2008-03-05 12:01:42
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LOVE IT! so fun and cool and quirky and visually-satisfying.

posted by *heather leaf* on 2008-03-05 12:05:00
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Better than much modern art out there.

I love how it is the symbol for infinity (hope and promise) and yet the cars just race endlessly (futility) since there is no finish line.

Surprisingly thought provoking from such a humble source. Very very cool.

posted by patrick (the other one) on 2008-03-05 12:20:29
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Very cool, I actually built a cabinet based on his design. Just the 8 or the infinity symbol by itself make a great graphic element. Then you have the happy little surprise of the cars and it being a track. Nice work

posted by plastolux on 2008-03-05 12:37:01
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Very cool...but the cars are in the same slot!

posted by AlmostAD on 2008-03-05 12:43:44
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I must just not be cultured enough to appreciate this....
yes, I could have just kept that to myself...but I feel that it needed to be said.

posted by jamilkb on 2008-03-05 12:54:03
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My childhood! On a wall! Brilliant!

posted by wiscompton on 2008-03-05 13:09:31
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brilliant!

posted by luckysquid on 2008-03-05 13:10:33
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AlmostAD I just noticed that too-- those things are totally going to crash, and it'll be awesome.

posted by kvh on 2008-03-05 16:43:28
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I love it. Let me start digging through my brother's Hot Wheel stash!!!

posted by umeboshi on 2008-03-05 21:45:44
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Pete, I think I will do this on one of my walls. Conceptually brilliant! Thanks so much for sharing the idea.

posted by lightspeed on 2008-03-06 01:37:23
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What a great idea! Love it! By the way...I love that pendant lamp! Where did you get that?

posted by suzy8track on 2008-03-06 15:58:16
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Stool is vintage / one of two via eBay
Lamp is from Sunami Flatlights:
> http://www.sunami.se/index2.html mods
Clock is handcut foamcore with wood decal:
> http://x818.com/junk/asterisklores.jpg
The cars ARE MISTAKENLY on the same track, the lesson:
> Don't rush the photo shoot
Thanks.

posted by peteski on 2008-03-07 14:16:31
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Thanks for the info Pete! I'm definitely going to look into getting one!

posted by suzy8track on 2008-03-07 18:56:30
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