{"id":2075,"date":"2009-08-20T07:50:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T05:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2009-08-20T07:50:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T05:50:06","slug":"kool-skool-15-examples-of-awesome-bus-mod-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/20\/kool-skool-15-examples-of-awesome-bus-mod-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Kool Skool: 15 Examples Of Awesome Bus Mod Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe words Bus and Boring share more than just their initial letter but that hasn\u2019t stopped an assortment of visionary artists from jazzing up this most utilitarian form of\u00a0transport<\/a>. These 15 examples epitomize the height of slick transit glorious!<\/p>\n

C\u2019Mon, Get Hippy!<\/h4>\n

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Bubble gum on a bus? Sure thing – and not just stuck under the seats. One of the most enduring 4-wheeled symbols of TV pop culture hit the road in 1970 when The Partridge Family painted an\u00a0old school bus<\/a> in psychedelic Mondrianesque graphics and hit the road to faux-musical stardom.<\/p>\n

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The series was revived in\u00a0Partridge Family 2200AD<\/a>, an animated cartoon version that, while supposedly taking place 200 years in the future, still managed a classic 1970s aesthetic right down to Laurie Partridge\u2019s bell-bottoms. The Partridge Family bus also got a radical makeover, as seen above.<\/p>\n

CatBus Cooler<\/h4>\n

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First seen in the Miyazaki animated film My Neighbor Tortoro, the\u00a0CatBus<\/a>moved on to bigger and better things\u2026 like Burning Man 2002. Stranger things have been spied upon the Playa but few have been more striking. It\u2019s too bad every school bus didn\u2019t look like the Cat Bus\u2026 generations of students would have arrived at school in a much better frame of mind.<\/p>\n

Pimp My Bus<\/h4>\n

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Students at England\u2019s Ellesmere Port Specialist School of Performing Arts don\u2019t mind riding the short bus, and neither would you – if it was a low-riding, pimped out\u00a0Caddy SUV bus!<\/a> Info on the pimped-out bus is few and far between but it seems to be an actual bus that has received a Cadillac Escalade front-end conversion with air suspension.<\/p>\n

The REALLY Short Bus<\/h4>\n

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Didn\u2019t make it into that swanky British performing arts school? Pity – instead of a cool Caddy you might be stuck riding the\u00a0Tricycle Bus<\/a> instead. This shortest of short buses brings kids to an Indian public school much the same way farmers bring their livestock to market. At least the kids aren\u2019t destined for the stew pot\u2026 one hopes. Study hard, kiddies, study VERY hard!<\/p>\n

School In A Bus<\/h4>\n

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At the opposite end of the scale is this rolling\u00a0computerized school bus<\/a>sponsored by Microsoft and enjoyed by students in China. You\u2019d better believe the kids riding on this bus will be exceptionally well behaved and won\u2019t even think of tossing an action figure attached to a very long string out the window. Geez!<\/p>\n

Sharp Dressed Bus<\/h4>\n

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The\u00a0American Visionary Art Museum<\/a> in Baltimore is weird enough on its own but the bus parked right outside adds just the right amount of wacky. The bus is covered in pieces of broken mirror, then decorated with assorted bird and animal figurines because, well, why not? Forget that Caddy SUV bus, if I\u2019m going to art school THIS is the ride of choice!<\/p>\n

Panama Hat Tricks<\/h4>\n

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Panama has a long tradition of painting\u00a0city buses<\/a> as elaborately as the owner desires. Sadly, this blast of local color may be coming to an end – authorities prefer that all buses be painted in standard color schemes to match their route. On the bright side, do you really want to ride a bus that features The Undertaker on its rear emergency door?<\/p>\n

Getting The Bends<\/h4>\n

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Advertisers just love buses; probably has something to do with huge, double-sided flat spaces that move through crowded urban areas on a regular basis. Since jaded city-types tend to tune out ordinary ads after a while, something striking is needed to drive home the message. In the images above, marketers take advantage of articulating buses and sliding entry\/exit doors by incorporating their functions into eye-opening guerrilla advertising.<\/p>\n

The Wheels On The Bus Go Round And Round<\/h4>\n

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Even big bus wheels are fair game – integrating a wheel or wheels into an ad also expands the area which can be used as ad space. Above are several choice examples that wheelie grab one\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n

Topsy-Turvy Bus Busts Budget<\/h4>\n

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The\u00a0Topsy-Turvy Bus<\/a> was built by artist Tom Kennedy and commissioned by Ben & Jerry\u2019s ice cream co-founder Ben Cohen working through BLSP, an acronym for \u201cBusiness Leaders for Sensible Priorities.\u201d The message being spread is that the U.S. budget is out of whack in a big way, to the extent that the government\u2019s priorities are upside down.<\/p>\n

Fast & Ball Bus<\/h4>\n

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Lars-Erik Fisk is a sculptor who turns things into balls. Trees, roads, barns and VW microbuses have all undergone the\u00a0Fisk<\/a> treatment, much to the awe & amusement of all who\u2019ve viewed them. When not rolling up the world around him, Fisk is the Art Director for the rock band Phish.<\/p>\n

Sky High School Bus<\/h4>\n

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The good news? You\u2019re riding on the coolest bus in your – or any – town. The bad news? On the\u00a0jet bus<\/a>, you\u2019ll never be late for school again. That\u2019s what happens when you yank a few rows of seats from a vintage school bus and stuff a Westinghouse J-34 turbojet engine through the rear doors. Ed Rooney approves\u2026 NOT!<\/p>\n

World\u2019s Ugliest School Bus<\/h4>\n

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What do you call a hybrid of a truck and a bus? Perhaps this unnatural and ill-advised vehicle could be called a Truss; it\u2019s that ugly. Students sit in the trailer portion much like cattle on their way to the slaughterhouse – on test days I\u2019m sure they can sympathize. Only the bus driver gets some benefit from the configuration as he\/she is isolated from the little monsters\u2019 screaming, fighting and lunch tossing. It\u2019s going to be very popular.<\/p>\n

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Now here\u2019s the RIGHT way to build a truck-bus combo.<\/p>\n

Bus Da Move<\/h4>\n

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The sides of the\u00a0Shortcut High<\/a> bus are emblazoned \u201cWanna be cool? Stay in school?\u201d, and if all school buses were like this one, then it\u2019s mission accomplished! Loosely based on a fabulous \u201849 Ford truck, this boss bus was the \u201cprincipal\u201d attraction at the 2002 SEMA show.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s another view of this awesome gangsta bus that brings stylin\u2019 to hypermilin\u2019.<\/p>\n

Stop The Bus!<\/h4>\n

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Our final entry is not a bus – it WAS a bus. Three buses actually, who together have found new life as a bus stop in Athens, GA, home of The B-52s. Strange as it may look, the oddest thing about this bus stop is the fact that the City of Athens felt the need to set up a Bus Stop sign at the bus stop made of buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The words Bus and Boring share more than just their initial letter but that hasn\u2019t stopped an assortment of visionary artists from jazzing up this most utilitarian form of\u00a0transport. These 15 examples epitomize the height of slick transit glorious! C\u2019Mon, Get Hippy! (images via:\u00a0David Icke,\u00a0Buses On Screen and\u00a0Career Capitalist) Bubble gum on a bus? Sure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-weburbanist"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}