Alien Toy

"Venimos de Marte, ¿de Marte de quién?".

"Los marcianos llegaron ya y llegaron bailando el ricachá. Ricachá, ricachá, ricachá así llaman en marte el cha cha cha".

Dr. Octagon says: "Earth people, New York & California, I'm from Jupiter".

A very strange pick up truck with sixteen hydraulic systems has been sighted close to the San Ysidro border. Images of extraterrestrial phallic creatures drinking beer or in revolutionary outfits can be seen in Tijuana. 39 earthlings got black Nike sneakers before crossing the gate to heaven in Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego. Others haven't been that lucky and have been deported.

The dystopian deconstruction of modernism is what we call desmothernismo from the word desmadre in our mother tongue.

Salvador Chava Muñoz (radical bed dance world champion four years in a row) from San Ysidro altered the shape and the function of his car to an extreme where it is hard to recognize it at all. His research locates him in the avant garde of low rider culture. The Chevy Impala is the classic and revered mechanic icon and fetish of cold war post industrial America. The tradition dictates not to worship other makes. You shall alter the function but not the shape of the Chevy Impala.

Nobody is a prophet in its own planet. Pablo Ruiz Picasso had to leave Spain and settle in Paris in 1904 in order to break with tradition and the original form. As an outsider he was free to break Brunelleschi's laws of perspective and the notions of French good painting. He finally developed cubism and simultaneity in the picture plane. Picasso was an alien. The other most influential artist of the twentieth century had to migrate not to Paris but from it. After producing several canvases in the current mode of Fauvism, Marcel Duchamp turned toward experimentation and the avant-garde, producing his most famous work, Nude Descending a Staircase, number 2 in 1912; portraying continuous movement through a chain of overlapping cubistic figures, the painting caused a furor at New York City's famous Armory Show in 1913. Marcel Duchamp finally settle in New York and became a U S citizen in 1955. Duchamp was an alien. Aliens have played an essential role even in the development of nationalistic art. The influence of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti was essential in the developing of a Mexican renaissance after the Mexican revolution. A second renaissance is happening there right now with the new arrival of artists from Europe, Cuba and the U.S.

Salvador Muñoz is an alien. He came from Jalisco to California. As an outsider from the low rider community he was able to free himself from the classicism of the Chevy Impala. He is a self taught iconoclast. He transformed a 1973 Nissan pick-up truck into "Wicked Bed". The bed of the truck rises and spins opening itself in four independent parts. The doors shut out and spin fast while the hood jumps off and spins too. The front of the truck separates itself from the back and drives around independently while the rest of the car dances. Like some sort of doctor Frankestein he has given life to this aggresive irrational machine. The future is happening and is out of control like a mutated virus. Technology has been appropiated and used in seductive unexpected ways. It has become a tool of culture jamming and resistance in the streets.

Barrio ballet mechanique.

Desmothernismo.

Cultural exchange is essential in the development of new forms of art and expression. Migration implies cultural exchange. Therefore it is an essential factor in the development of a cosmopolitan avant garde. This certainly locates California in a privileged position to become an important cultural center.

Take me to your leader!!

We come in peace.

Guess what? We don't need any leaders.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Lowrider
• Radical
• Bed
• Dancing
• Nissan
• Alien
• Border
• Power
• Tools
• Salvador
• Chava
• Muñoz
• US
• Mexico
• Rubén
• Ortiz
• Torres

[macfrederick]

What a pile of shit. Silly beaners.

[ruortiz]

Most forums censor racists slurs or other aggressions of people with social dysfunctions and other mental problems. Valuing freedom of expression I will leave this reminder of how much work needs to be done in education and psychology. Comments like this politicise car culture and galvanize the minorities vote.

[doubletapm4]

isnt this truck in a fatboyslim video?

[ruortiz]

Yes it appears in the "Rockefeller Skank" video.

[bloodanddirt]

thats the most stupid thing ive ever seen...what a waste of time and money

[ruortiz]

This "waste of time and money" was sold to an important collector for a lot more than what we invested and the Tate Gallery in London attempted to buy it for a lot more than what he paid. He refused to sell it thinking the work is worth even more.

[123polito]

sick like freddy krueger truck.

[lampntv]

NO QUESTIONS YOU SICK MANN

[darius052004]

Between 3:57-5:07.....Now that's what you call a Transformer N real life

[EpikKustumz]

skip to 3:14

[xpez]

its fun to read the cultural cross section of detractors and advocates for this piece.

[rconrbarril]

ohh yes that truck was made it for salvador chava munoz!!

the trucks name is wicked bed!!! Fron San Isidro California champion in a low rider for 5 years in a row he was also mi neighbor!! Saludos Chava Great job!!!

[rconrbarril]

ohh yes that truck was made it for salvador chava munoz!!

the trucks name is wicked bed!!! Fron San Isidro California champion in a low rider for 5 years in a row he was also mi neighbor!! Saludos Chava Great job!!!

[RicerEater1978]

there is nothing i can say that can stress how much i hate this thing...

[h2theizzo]

keep that datsun scene alive. do another one :D

[salvador1an503]

@bloodanddirt lol you make me laugh foolmy grammar SIMON HOMIE I HAVE BAD GRAMMAR SO WHAT??? lol yeah sure that ever you say. a minute of my life. but like i said before foooooooooooool your stupid I aint even gonna waste my time on your wack ass

[bloodanddirt]

@salvador1an503 you're right, the only thing I've seen more stupid than this is your grammar and spelling, I mean really: "shyt" "hommie". oh, and I was watching because I had been mistaken in thinking it might be cool. I was wrong. Sorry that you watched this video. I know how you feel. Robbed of a minute of your life...

[salvador1an503]

@bloodanddirt to u it is a waste of time if it is than why the fuck are u watching it then? its their money not like its urs. worry bout ur own shyt hommie..