{"id":10557,"date":"2010-01-28T11:01:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=10557"},"modified":"2010-01-28T11:01:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:01:28","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-muffler-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-muffler-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Muffler Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10561\" title=\"Muffler-tree-NoHo_2504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Muffler-tree-NoHo_2504.jpg\" alt=\"Muffler-tree-NoHo_2504\" width=\"416\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Muffler-tree-NoHo_2504.jpg 416w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Muffler-tree-NoHo_2504-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/>\n<p>I love sculptures like this, especially when they&#8217;re crafted by mechanics and stuck out on the street in front of their shops. I&#8217;m assuming that &#8220;Mofles&#8221; means muffler in some language. If not, there&#8217;s more that I love about this place than just the metal foliage.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10563\" title=\"muffler-tree-NOho_2505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/muffler-tree-NOho_2505.jpg\" alt=\"muffler-tree-NOho_2505\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/muffler-tree-NOho_2505.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/muffler-tree-NOho_2505-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been known to use a muffler or two in my handiwork as well. Here&#8217;s a movie camera prop I made out of a muffler and old vintage LPs for the 1987 MTV Award nominated video, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cugp1nWAmjo\">&#8220;Right on Track&#8221; by Breakfast Club<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/art\/sets-props\/index.htm\">I art directed and production designed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cugp1nWAmjo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10565\" title=\"Breakfast-Club-movie-camera\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Breakfast-Club-movie-camera.jpg\" alt=\"Breakfast-Club-movie-camera\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Breakfast-Club-movie-camera.jpg 375w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Breakfast-Club-movie-camera-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love sculptures like this, especially when they&#8217;re crafted by mechanics and stuck out on the street in front of their shops. I&#8217;m assuming that &#8220;Mofles&#8221; means muffler in some language. If not, there&#8217;s more that I love about this place than just the metal foliage. I&#8217;ve been known to use a muffler or two &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-muffler-tree\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,207,239,87,193,281,15],"tags":[61,3232,3245,947,949],"class_list":["post-10557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-bad-art","category-crafts","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-transportation","category-video","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-muffler-art","tag-muffler-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}