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Dodgeball Rally: live pics from London

We jumped in the Benz to make some supercar art…and found the Dodgeball supercar run

  • As Michelangelo remarked: a man paints with his brains and not his hands.

    Sadly, we have no brains, so we decided to grab a camera, jump in a S65 AMG Mercedes and create some automotive art on the dreary streets of London - the only city on Planet Earth to make supercars look, well, not supery in any way. Well maybe a bit...

    Our setting? The start of the Dodgeball supercar run in Park Lane...

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  • "The artist smears subtle textures of Lamborghini against a melancholic background of No Parking cones and Some People Talking."

  • "A clear application of the interpenetrative nature of modern Mercedes-Benz and AMG. The artist juxtaposes the £154,000 S65 TopGearAMG against a 10-mile walk from door to kerb to accurately portray IdiotsWhoCannotPark. (That's us, by the way.)"

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  • "The bloodthirsty nature of modern supercars; like a voracious cockfight where prize gamecocks battle for ultimate car-park supremacy."

  • "The inclusion of a red people carrier is a witty and wonderfully rage-filled reprise; a clear statement concerning the laws of appropriate MPV colours."

  • "The artist has cleverly highlighted the subject contained within: Very Much Badass."

  • "Ingenious use of photography here; the bleak, high-vis-jacket London landscape leers at us in reflection. Minicab, anyone?"

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  • "A sprinkling of the macabre. The lone builder epitomises a gulf between the common man and a gaggle of finely tuned fighting Cocks."

  • "A parade of beauty juxtaposed with the despondent chime of urban warfare: ruddy builders in high-visibility jackets taking tea breaks."

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  • "Like a fly desperately fleeing the wave of a faecal storm, the mini-roundabout sign peeps at us as a symbol of our onslaught from urban car use."

  • "A magnificent image, unequivocally clear about the effects of modern supercars. Either that, or the photographer hasn't got a ruddy clue what he's doing."

  • "A conceited disconnect. The artist, clearly leaning on antidisestablishmentarianism, fails to portray what lots of horsepower being nailed sounds like."

  • "B*gger. Traffic."

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