I know real art when I see it

[Jinglebob]

This work of art, entitled "Desert Gas Station", is by 3D computer artist Eugenio Garcia Villarreal. He works form his small studio in Monterrey, Mexico. The image was inspired by old B movies and the gas stations you often see in them. The old gas station reminds me of the ones I would often see along the side of the highways in west Texas during the 40s and 50s.

I am in awe of people who can create images like this no matter the medium used. One has to have a special talent to do that.

 

[okiegtrider]

I like it too. It's just the kind of place I like to stop and grab a pic of when I find one. Fewer of this kind of place all the time.

Glad you named the artist. I looked him up. He has a portfolio over on Flickr with a couple other entries that are in the same style and similar subjects as you showed here. Flickr

 

[soFlaNative]

Anything that evokes a feeling...
I could spend some time on that porch, feet up the rail.
Conversation only stopping when the Coke compressor kicks on.

 

[G.T. Smith]

I remember a Coke machine like that when I was a kid. I think that is the kind where you put your money in then slide the bottle to the end of the rack and when you push the lever down it releases the gate at the end. We used to wait till the guy couldn't see us and we just popped the top off the bottle and drank it with a straw. I think he knew but never said anything. I miss those days and those type of people.
Peace,
Gordon

 

[JayFramer]

Looks like Fallout.

 

[Stevens]

That is a geat painting. It is too bad so many of those have shut down, we had a couple of real classics around here. I remember a bottle of Coke for a nickle and a penny.
Steve W

 

[THE PILGRIM]

That is a geat painting. It is too bad so many of those have shut down, we had a couple of real classics around here. I remember a bottle of Coke for a nickle and a penny.
Steve W

Old school country store?
Was the pop in a cooler with a slide top?
Was it sitting in several inches of water?
When you selected your soda pop and took it out of the cooler, the icy water would run down your arm.
That's how it was in the old days in the country stores down South.

 

[TXSWFAN]

I'm a fan of this guy's work. He can flat out make some masterpieces. And I don't mean the photographer.

 

[rwsmith]

As you walk.....

As you walk up to the screen door on a sweltering day, you become aware of an 'old store' smell. The screen door is battered, and has a spring that closes it after you with a slapping bang. Your eye's adjust to the light, you become aware of the buzzing of flies and see brightly colored fly strips hanging in strategic locations and feel the breeze from a fan. The glass counter is full of candy and cigars. Your attention is drawn to a Coke machine with a lift up lid and you move across the worn floorboards. Ice cold in six ounce bottles. What a way to beat the heat. A bag of Lance's peanuts completes your purchase as the old proprietor punches the green keys on a brown, tarnished steel cash register and pulls a crank on the side while white tabs with large numbers slide up and down. Twenty one cents. You wonder what the world is coming to with such rising prices but you will get two cents back if you save the bottle so it's no big deal. You proffer a quarter and after scraping noises of coins in the tray, the proprietor hands you back three shiny pennies and one older coin. An Indian Head Penny. They haven't made those in a while. A quick 'Thank You" and it's back out the screen door that bangs shut behind you as you squint in the bright sunlight. Was there or will there ever be a better time to be alive than now?

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Yes indeed!
Now if you were real Country, you poured those peanuts into the soda pop.
We usually favored the larger 'Belly Washers' like Nehi and Royal Crown Cola. Pepsi a third choice.

 

[rwsmith]

I was going to keep quiet...

Yes indeed!
Now if you were real Country, you poured those peanuts into the soda pop.
We usually favored the larger 'Belly Washers' like Nehi and Royal Crown Cola. Pepsi a third choice.

I was going to keep quiet about the Moon Pie that I had stashed in the 'glove box' for desert.

Oh, and Pepsi would do if there wasn't anything else.

 

[CajunBass]

Old school country store?
Was the pop in a cooler with a slide top?
Was it sitting in several inches of water?
When you selected your soda pop and took it out of the cooler, the icy water would run down your arm.
That's how it was in the old days in the country stores down South.

I remember both kinds. And the older men and boys "pulling Cokes." Us kids never did it, we couldn't afford to lose...we had just enough bottles we'd picked up to pay for another "Coke"...they were all "cokes", didn't matter the brand.

And our favored snack was the big Lance Fig Bar. Sort of an oversided Fig Newton...only sweeter.

We had two country stores sort of like that within walking distance of home when I was a kid. Well, what I considered walking distance back then. It would probably kill me if I had to walk that far today.

 

[Retired LTC USAR]

Yes indeed!
Now if you were real Country, you poured those peanuts into the soda pop.
We usually favored the larger 'Belly Washers' like Nehi and Royal Crown Cola. Pepsi a third choice.

The only time Royal Crown Cola was drunk was to wash down a moon pie!

 

[pmanton]

That is a geat painting. It is too bad so many of those have shut down, we had a couple of real classics around here. I remember a bottle of Coke for a nickle and a penny.
Steve W

Yeah they had a can to collect the extra pennies. Some kids (not me) would steal the pennies.

 

[the ringo kid]

I cant recall the name of a certain artist or two-but I love their stuff. One of them does pencil-then inks his stuff which is so good it looks like a b&w photo. The other did/does futuristic outer space/moon/rockets/space wars stuff.
Stuff like these:

This I THINK is one of the artists works I could stare at and imagine-for hours when I was a yonker: Vince DiFate

This art reminds me of art that would be used on vintage Popular Mechanics magazine covers:

Etc etc etc...