(The Petersen Automotive Museum)
Appearing for the first time in North America in more than 30 years, "Andy Warhol: Cars – Works from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection" is now open at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, CA. The groundbreaking exhibition presents a rare and exclusive look at the relationship between the “Cars” artwork series and the vehicles it depicts. Taking place in the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery on the museum’s first floor, the unique display features five of the eight Mercedes-Benz vehicles ultimately depicted in Warhol’s final commission. (Note: This includes a rare, West Coast appearance of the fabulous 1954 Mercedes-Benz 196R "streamliner" on loan from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum.) To purchase tickets or for more information about the Petersen Automotive Museum, please visit www.Petersen.org.
Appearing for the first time in North America in more than 30 years, "Andy Warhol: Cars – Works from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection" is now open at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, CA. The groundbreaking exhibition presents a rare and exclusive look at the relationship between the “Cars” artwork series and the vehicles it depicts. Taking place in the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery on the museum’s first floor, the unique display features five of the eight Mercedes-Benz vehicles ultimately depicted in Warhol’s final commission. (Note: This includes a rare, West Coast appearance of the fabulous 1954 Mercedes-Benz 196R "streamliner" on loan from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum.) To purchase tickets or for more information about the Petersen Automotive Museum, please visit www.Petersen.org.
(Maserati images)
Maserati has unveiled its Project24, a limited series of track-only super sports cars - only 62 units - to raise the brand's unlimited performance to a new level of adrenaline. The Project24 machine starts with the technical specifications of the Maserati MC20, and then basically upgrades everything. The state-of-the-art V6 Nettuno engine adds new turbochargers to raise its output to 740HP; innovative suspension, carbon-ceramic braking system and competition tires, as well as FIA-approved safety features are also included. The target weight of the new Maserati Project24 will be below 1,250 kg, yielding a power-to-weight ratio of approximately 1.69 kg/hp. Designed by Centro Stile Maserati, the Project24 will offer a unique range of services, including track-specific experiences and state-of-the-art support, exclusively for the owners of Project24. How much? We don't know, but suffice to say, bring lots of cash-ola.
Maserati has unveiled its Project24, a limited series of track-only super sports cars - only 62 units - to raise the brand's unlimited performance to a new level of adrenaline. The Project24 machine starts with the technical specifications of the Maserati MC20, and then basically upgrades everything. The state-of-the-art V6 Nettuno engine adds new turbochargers to raise its output to 740HP; innovative suspension, carbon-ceramic braking system and competition tires, as well as FIA-approved safety features are also included. The target weight of the new Maserati Project24 will be below 1,250 kg, yielding a power-to-weight ratio of approximately 1.69 kg/hp. Designed by Centro Stile Maserati, the Project24 will offer a unique range of services, including track-specific experiences and state-of-the-art support, exclusively for the owners of Project24. How much? We don't know, but suffice to say, bring lots of cash-ola.
The AE Song of the Week:
I am unwritten
Can't read my mind
I'm undefined
I'm just beginning
The pen's in my hand
Ending unplanned
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
Oh, oh, oh
I break tradition
Sometimes my tries are outside the lines
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes
But I can't live that way
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
The rest is still unwritten
The rest is still unwritten
Oh, yeah, yeah
"Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield, from the album "Unwritten" (2005)*. Written by Danielle A. Brisebois, Natasha Anne Bedingfield, Wayne Steven Jr., Rodriges. Publisher: DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind. Watch the Original Music Video here.
*Bedingfield wrote this for her brother on his birthday as a birthday gift because she was short on cash. It's about living life to the fullest, not planning everything because you never know what may happen. Each day is a blank page and it is up to you to fill it. This song conveys the idea of keeping our eyes open for all the possibilities in our life. This was used as the theme song to the MTV show The Hills. Joe Cuello, MTV's Vice President of Music Integration explained to Rolling Stone magazine why this song was chosen: "The song really reflected the feel of the show and we wanted to help push the career of artists like Natasha to make sure that everyone was really aware when they were watching the show who it was sung by. We tried to dovetail it all together so we featured her music video over the end credits. For us, that's a really incredible promotional tool. We see a huge response from that in terms of online and in sales. It's really gratifying years later to see that it's so inextricably tied to our show." Natasha Bedingfield told Seventeen magazine that this song is about "just not worrying." She explained: "I really started to have dreams for myself when I was 17, but I was always afraid people were going to laugh at me. I finally just said, 'Alright. I'm going to write songs, even if they're bad. I'm just going to keep writing until I get good.'" The song has come to mean a lot of different things to different people. Said Natasha to PopEater: "I wrote 'Unwritten' for my brother, for his 14th birthday, it was a very personal song. I feel like his life was reminding me about how people make us feel like we have to have it all figured out already. We have to already choose what college we're going to go to, what subject we're going to study, and we don't even know much about life yet. So that was a very personal story about my life, about his life, that kind of thing. It was amazing just to meet people and hear how many different people had their own parts of the song they felt meant something to them. A lot of people played it at their graduation. Other people play it at their weddings, whatever." "Unwritten" was the most-played song on US radio in 2006. The song started going viral on TikTok after user Èsco Upp uploaded a remix in February 2021. Two months later when Bedingfield uploaded a video of her dancing to the remix, the trend reached a new peak. (Knowledge courtesy of Songfacts.com)
I am unwritten
Can't read my mind
I'm undefined
I'm just beginning
The pen's in my hand
Ending unplanned
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
Oh, oh, oh
I break tradition
Sometimes my tries are outside the lines
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes
But I can't live that way
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
The rest is still unwritten
The rest is still unwritten
Oh, yeah, yeah
"Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield, from the album "Unwritten" (2005)*. Written by Danielle A. Brisebois, Natasha Anne Bedingfield, Wayne Steven Jr., Rodriges. Publisher: DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind. Watch the Original Music Video here.
*Bedingfield wrote this for her brother on his birthday as a birthday gift because she was short on cash. It's about living life to the fullest, not planning everything because you never know what may happen. Each day is a blank page and it is up to you to fill it. This song conveys the idea of keeping our eyes open for all the possibilities in our life. This was used as the theme song to the MTV show The Hills. Joe Cuello, MTV's Vice President of Music Integration explained to Rolling Stone magazine why this song was chosen: "The song really reflected the feel of the show and we wanted to help push the career of artists like Natasha to make sure that everyone was really aware when they were watching the show who it was sung by. We tried to dovetail it all together so we featured her music video over the end credits. For us, that's a really incredible promotional tool. We see a huge response from that in terms of online and in sales. It's really gratifying years later to see that it's so inextricably tied to our show." Natasha Bedingfield told Seventeen magazine that this song is about "just not worrying." She explained: "I really started to have dreams for myself when I was 17, but I was always afraid people were going to laugh at me. I finally just said, 'Alright. I'm going to write songs, even if they're bad. I'm just going to keep writing until I get good.'" The song has come to mean a lot of different things to different people. Said Natasha to PopEater: "I wrote 'Unwritten' for my brother, for his 14th birthday, it was a very personal song. I feel like his life was reminding me about how people make us feel like we have to have it all figured out already. We have to already choose what college we're going to go to, what subject we're going to study, and we don't even know much about life yet. So that was a very personal story about my life, about his life, that kind of thing. It was amazing just to meet people and hear how many different people had their own parts of the song they felt meant something to them. A lot of people played it at their graduation. Other people play it at their weddings, whatever." "Unwritten" was the most-played song on US radio in 2006. The song started going viral on TikTok after user Èsco Upp uploaded a remix in February 2021. Two months later when Bedingfield uploaded a video of her dancing to the remix, the trend reached a new peak. (Knowledge courtesy of Songfacts.com)
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