Tracey Emin's Car Boot Treasures - In Pictures | AnOther

Tracey Emin's Car Boot Treasures - In Pictures | AnOther
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Posted: 28 Aug 2014 03:50 AM PDT

This weekend marks the return of the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair. See the likes of Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk, Mat Collishaw and James Unsworth selling their artwork for knockdown prices ranging from £50 to £800, out the back of their (Vauxhall) car boots. The fair takes place this year at Folkestone, Kent, not far from where Emin grew up as a child. In anticipation of the event, she shares her favourite items that she is selling, along with her all time greatest car boot finds.

Item for sale #1 — Egg Lady
"The Egg Ladies were originally made as an Easter special for Emin International. Essentially they are tiny handmade drawings on papier maché eggs and they are some of my favourite things."Lilac Legs by Tracey Emin #2 — Lilac Legs
"This is a very small edition for me and will be sold through my gallery in New York for considerably more than £5. By creating the raffle it gives everybody the chance to own one and raffles are really good fun at the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair. The Lilac Legs embroidery is taken from a work I made when I represented Britain at the 52nd Venice Biennale."Rosette by Tracey Emin #3 — Rosette
"I made my first rosette, actually for a horse, at the Thirsk Races in Yorkshire 11 years ago. The winner proudly said she would hang it up in the stables alongside all her other trophies much to my gallerist, Jay Jopling's shock! The rosette being raffled is an individual piece. The centre has a unique drawing and it's all handmade."Wanting You Napkin by Tracey Emin #4 — Napkins
"I never eat a meal without using a napkin, so to make one was a very easy idea for me. From the Emin International perspective it works well on two levels: you'll have the people who will buy a dozen and use them as napkins and then the person who will just buy one, frame it very nicely and hang it on the wall."Me Me, by Tracey Emin #5 — Me Me
"Me Me is a tiny little figure, seated. I called her Me Me because she reminds me of me!"

Tracey Emin's Top 5 Car Boot Buys:

1. Two life-size wax foetuses, bought in New york.
"They are of a gestation period of about 5 to 6 months. They sit on my table in my apartment in New York, as though gently sleeping, waiting to be born."

2. A statue of Psyche and Amor, bought in France.
"This particular car boot sale has really, really useless things from odd shoes to defunct electrical goods. On finding my little statue it felt like I had found gold. The next day, strangely enough, I received a postcard from a very close friend of the same statue. It was only then that I realised my loving angel was minus its wings, but it still sits on my mantelpiece along with my friend's postcard."

3. Lloyd Loom furniture, bought in Spitalfields.
"From my local flea market, I collect Lloyd Loom furniture and spray it gold to put on my studio roof."

4. Tiny animals.
"I have a vast collection of tiny animals, usually no bigger than an inch, ranging from miniature elephants to mice and cute kittens. I have thousands of these things and have plans to build a wonder cabinet to put them in, which will be floor to ceiling on one entire wall."

5. Vintage erotic photographs.
"They are my favourite thing to collect, what I look for every place I go. I am very particular about them as I try to make sure that everyone has the same thing in common — the golden section. This is something that is really difficult to explain to the men that have biscuit tins full of porn in the back of their cars.

The Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair takes place in Folkestone on 30th August.

Text by Mhairi Graham

Mhairi Graham is fashion writer at AnOther and AnOthermag.com. She also writes for The Financial Times and Wallpaper* and came runner-up in the 2011 Vogue Talent Contest.

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Posted: 15 Aug 2014 12:18 AM PDT

August 15-16

The two-day 16th Shell V-Power Pearl of Africa Uganda Rally has gotten underway today with two competitive sections (CS) at Star City, Matugga.

Forty-one cars have been be flagged off this morning at Silver Springs Hotel and headed to Matugga for the two competitive sections.

Ronald Ssebuguzi, the current NRC leader, will open the route for the 16th edition. Ssebuguzi's biggest worry is the recent rainy weather. "I hope it doesn't rain again in the next 24 hours," he said.

Police commissioner in charge of traffic and road safety Stephen Kasiima says drivers as well as fans must observe traffic rules during the even.

Umar Daudi and navigator Hamza Katende lost control of their car and knocked dead two children during the Southern Motor Club National Rally Championship last month.

Vintage viewing points at Star City, Matugga and Sanga (six sections) have been earmarked and you – the fan – more than anyone else hold the first card to safety.

The rally is expected to draw mammoth crowds in routes seeing how it is the biggest and most popular on the local calendar is the sixth round on the ARC calendar.

Uganda's Jas Mangat who is the Pearl Rally defending champion.

Total distance- 522 Kms
Competitive sections – 241 Kms
Longest CS- 37.65 Kms
Shortest CS- 14.84 Kms
Possible start list
Ronald Sebuguzi (Evo IX )
Gary Chaynes (Evo X)
Jas Mangat (Evo X)
Mohammed Essa (Subaru N16)
Duncan Mubiru (Subaru N14)
Jaspreet Chatthe ( Evo X)
Giancarlo Davite (Evo X)
John Consta (Subaru N10)
Manvir Baryan (Subaru N16)
Arthur Blick Jr (Subaru N12)

CS1- Star City 1 – Gombe 14.84km
CS2 – Star City 2 – Gombe 14.84km
CS3 – Sanga 2 – Masulita2 26.56km
CS4 – Masulita 1 – Semuto 27.08km
CS5 – Zion – Semuto1 37.65km
CS6 – Semuto 1 – Semuto 29.75km
CS7 -Sanga 2 – Masulita 2 26.56km
CS8 – Masulita 2 – Semuto 27.08km
CS9 – Zion 2 – Semuto 2 37.65km
CS10 – Semuto 2 – Semuto 29.7km

Skoda Fabia (2015) unveiled: first pictures of Czech ... - Car Magazine

Posted: 19 Aug 2014 02:00 AM PDT

By Tim Pollard

First Official Pictures

19 August 2014 08:00

Czech HQ has issued this pair of pictures of the new 2015 Skoda Fabia. They reveal a conservatively styled supermini in the vein of a shrunken Octavia with a dash more sophistication than todayâ€™s workaday hatch.

The new, third-generation Fabia sticks with the crisp, defined surfacing that has come to represent Skodaâ€™s ascetic formality. Itâ€™s a no-nonsense design for a straightforward, family-friendly, good-value car brand, it seems at first glance.

Skoda Fabia: the specs, details

Not a huge amount of technical information has been announced ahead of the Skoda Fabiaâ€™s Paris 2014 motor show debut.

But Skoda has issued an interview with head designer Jozef Kaban, who claims the Fabia is â€˜a sportier vehicleâ€¦ The result is a young, fresh and modern compact car that sets new standards in its segment.â€™

Kaban says the new 2015 Fabia draws heavily on the VisionC concept car, which was designed to roll out a new look for the new generation of Skodas.

â€˜Skoda is able to combine great functionality with an expressive, emotional and more sharply defined design. This new design direction is the next step in the development of our brand and the new Skoda Fabia is the first model to communicate this design language. Drawing on elements of the Skoda VisionC design study, the Fabia is more expressive, more dynamic and sportier.â€™

Sportier? Surely Skodas shouldnâ€™t be sporty!

Our thoughts exactly. But Kaban is adamant that Skoda needs to break out of its budget family space roots and inject more emotion to what has become a functional brand.

â€˜Skoda has made a name for itself by producing cars with great functionality and above-average interior space,â€™ said the designer. â€˜We sense that now is the right time to create a stronger connection between the functionality of our cars and an expressive and emotional design.â€™

Yet despite these sportier overtones, Skoda promises to uphold its core values. The boot is the biggest in the supermini class at around 330 litres, claims Skoda, and the new Fabiaâ€™s cabin is wider and longer than before. The whole car is 90mm wider

The cabin has MirrorLink technology, so the onboard computer screen can mimic your smartphoneâ€™s and the engines are promised to be up to 17% more efficient. The cleanest will top 90mpg and promise CO2 emissions of just 80g/km.

And Skoda is again offering personalisation aplenty: there are 15 paint colours to choose from and you can choose contrasting hues for the roof and door mirrors.

The new Skoda Fabia is due in showrooms in early 2015, priced from around Â£10,000. Read more about the Skoda Fabia in the run-up to the Paris motor show on 2 October 2014.

Hyundai i20 (2014): first pictures of grown-up new ... - Car Magazine

Posted: 11 Aug 2014 01:30 AM PDT

By Tim Pollard

First Official Pictures

11 August 2014 07:30

Here is the new 2014 Hyundai i20 supermini, unveiled this morning ahead of a Paris motor show debut in October.

Designed in Europe and built in Turkey, this is a Europe-focused supermini and benefits from a new, pumped-up platform designed to close the gap between the i20 and class leaders such as the Ford Fiesta and VW Polo.

Hyundai is claiming one of the most spacious cabins in the B-segment, thanks to a wheelbase stretched by 45mm â€" a couple of inches longer than before. The distance between the two axles is now 2750mm.

Result? The â€˜passenger compartment can comfortably seat five adults,â€™ claims Hyundai. â€˜Combined front and rear legroom is best in class at 1892 mm. Trunk capacity is also segment-leading: 326 litres when the rear seats are upright.â€™

Sounds roomy to us. A Polo can pack only 280 litres in its loadbayâ€¦

Hyundai i20 (2014): more specs, details

A panoramic sunroof is a class first in the supermini segment, claims Hyundai. It reflects lashings of gadgets and larger-car features available on the i20, including front and rear LED lights and a rear-view camera. Although we have to despair if supermini owners canâ€™t reverse safely without a TV screen to assistâ€¦

Hyundai cites its new design language, dubbed Fluidic Sculpture 2.0, as the inspiration for the i20â€™s inoffensive, quietly smart looks. Now that former Kia design chief Peter Schreyer is leading Hyundaiâ€™s wardrobe department, weâ€™re seeing signs of a more confident stylistic palette, weâ€™d say.

The new car was designed in the Koreansâ€™ styling studio in Russelsheim, Germany. Particularly noteworthy is the gloss black C-pillar, which wraps around the rear of the car like a Miniâ€™s â€" to help create the impression of a floating roof.

Why the new Hyundai i20 is a giant baby

At 4035mm long, the new Hyundai i20 bursts through the four metre barrier â€" once the threshold beyond which no supermini could pass. Itâ€™s 66mm longer than a Fiesta, for goodnessâ€™ sake.

This growth spurt helps explain why the newest Hyundai i20 is claimed to be so roomy. It also puts more clear water between it and the i10 city car, traditionally Hyundaiâ€™s biggest selling car in the UK.