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Damien Hirst Donates Audi A1 ‘Art Car’ For Sir Elton’s Charity
Annual White Tie and Tiara Ball to auction unique work of art this week.

This year’s White Tie and Tiara Ball, which takes place on Thursday 24 June and will be held – as always – at the home of Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish, will feature an extraordinarily special auction item. Audi, which has been one of the Ball’s key supporters over many years, is donating an A1 car that has been made into a work of art by Britain’s foremost contemporary artist, Damien Hirst.

The unique Audi A1 has been spin painted by the artist in his studio in Gloucestershire, and is fully driveable and road legal.

“This is one of the most exciting auction items we have ever had for White Tie” said Elton John, pictured with partner David Furnish in front of the Hirst Audi. David adds “Audi has been a wonderful partner with us, and this year they have really produced something fantastic. I am sure it will be a huge hit with our guests”. As part of the same Lot, the car will be auctioned with a 6ft diameter canvas spin painting, which Hirst completed at the same time.

The A1 is so new it will not be seen on UK roads until November 2010, and this special artwork has been created even in advance of the car’s mainland European launch dates. The uniquely finished example of the premium compact hatchback was produced in close collaboration with Audi AG in Germany, which has been engineering the production for more than six months.

2010 is the eighth year Audi has supported EJAF with special auction lots. The A1 art car is the most remarkable and exclusive donation Audi has ever made. Bidders on the night will have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to own this piece of Hirst’s exceptional work.

“We are enormously proud to support Sir Elton John’s remarkable fundraising ball for the eighth year in succession with the donation of a priceless and unrepeatable work of art for auction” commented Audi UK Director Jeremy Hicks.

The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) was established in 1993. It is amongst the 10 largest AIDS grant making organizations in the world, currently managing over £14 million in programmes across 15 countries supporting thousands of men, women and children with life saving medication, as well as information, nutrition, education, shelter and support. The White Tie & Tiara Ball, now in its 12th year, is the EJAF’s foremost fundraising event, generating some £40 million since its launch in 1993. For more information visit: www.ejaf.com.

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Speaking of XBOX, Microsoft’s E3 press conference opened this morning with a bloody and thrilling preview of “Call of Duty: Black Ops.” Don Mattrick, head of the Xbox group, came on stage and announced an exclusive deal with “Call of Duty” publisher Activision to get expansion packs first on the Xbox through 2012.

Mattrick did reveal a new, smaller Xbox 360 with built-in WiFi and a 250 gig hard drive that will be available in stores later this week. It’s glossy block with an angular shape and chrome highlights. It’s going to cost the same as the current 250 gig model — $299.

I’m not going to front like this wasn’t the gigantic fist sucker punching the phone makers at HTC & Samsung, but let’s be clear, this toy doesn’t touch the RIM Blackberry Business Machinery we rock at ChrisBarclay.com . I do know this..I don’t care how dope the phone is, I’m still scared of a 2 year contract with AT&T or any other provider because I hate contract, but since AT&T is pushing this bad boy out first, I will use it as leverage for my upgrade with my current Telecom Provider. LOL.

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BMW Group View :As part of his creative process, the artist collected images of race cars, related graphics, vibrant colors, speed and explosions. The resulting artwork of bright colors conceived by Koons is evocative of power, motion and bursting energy. Its silver interior along with the powerful exterior design, the Art Car will impart a dynamic appearance even when it’s standing still.

Cool, and not serious about 50 Cent snatching up one of these vehicles, he’s not in need of Army type protection any more, at least I wouldn’t think so..since he’s now an actor. Check these joints out, article written at FastCompany.com by BY CLIFF KUANG.

Mercedes-Benz is muscling into the defense business: Today the German automaker has announced four new, heavily armored models. The concepts will be first shown on June 11th at Eurosatory, a European trade show for the defense industry.

All of the machines are geared toward modern wars, and the need for nimble all-terrain vehicles rather than tanks: The Actros 4151 AK, pictured above, is an eight-wheeled, all-wheel drive “protection class” transport that offers high grade armor against artillery and landmines. (Specifically, level 4 protection against ballistics, which means enough armor to stop a 155mm explosive shell at 30 meters; and level 4b protection against landmines, enough to stop an explosion directly under the vehicle.) Meanwhile, three lighter trucks are also in the works.

Here, the FGA 14.5, a chassis platform that’s intended to be customized for specialized use. It’s built on MB’s G-class SUV’s–which themselves were engineered to be modular, so that they could eventually be reconfigured for myriad uses:

And finally, MB is producing two trucks similar to armored Humvees, the LAPV 6.X and 7.X (pictured below), both of which will allow Mercedes investments in modular truck designs to pay dividends via military business. The 6.X is built upon the same modular system as the G-class SUV, while the 7.X uses the system from the Unimog, MB’s legendary go-anywhere vehicle. Both are intended to serve as heavy duty recon trucks, with level 3 protection–that is, enough to stop a 7.62mm shell at 30 meters. (In short, don’t shoot at these things unless you’ve got a gun that’s too big to carry comfortably.) The German military has already ordered up the 6.X.

Military vehicles are a natural fit for the company–they’ve already got 5,000 heavy service centers in 160 countries, which means they can send parts and mechanics almost anywhere in the world on short notice.
But you probably won’t be seeing these in the U.S. military anytime soon–American armed forces are heavily invested in the Humvee platform, and that means billions and billions sunk into a supply chain that can’t readily be re-engineered for another vehicle. (Not to mention the politics of sending a contract for vehicles abroad.)

Read among other very interesting things found at the great magazine I subscribe too.. Fast Company

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Steve Jobs: Master of Innovation
The Apple founder birthed the personal computer, was banished from his empire and then saved it from ruin. Along the way, he changed the way we work, play and communicate. And he’s not done yet.

BY John H. Ostdick

On a foggy, cool day in January, Steve Jobs and Apple are bidding to change the world again. Jobs sits comfortably in a leather chair in front of a rapt San Francisco auditorium crowd, a large video screen tracking his hand movements on a thin, slate-looking object resting comfortably in his hands. Dressed in his trademark blue jeans, dark turtleneck, and New Balance shoes, the wire-framed Apple co-founder and culture-shaper peppers his speech with “remarkable, awesome” and “amazing” references to his company’s latest new wave—a notebook device called the iPad. This “truly magical and revolutionary product” fills a category need between his company’s successful laptop and iPhone and iPod business lines, Jobs says.

Sterling Performance

Jobs has established a rock-star-like persona around colossal, innovative successes that dwarf a couple of high-profile failures. The 55-year-old is personal, smooth. He exudes, well, a cool vibe.

Before his product announcement, he ticked off some heady numbers: In January, Apple sold its 250 millionth iPod; Jobs’ self-proclaimed “mobile-devices” company now has 284 retail stores that attracted 50 million visitors in the fourth quarter of 2009 alone; its “apps” store offers more than 140,000 software applications for its mobile products (more than 3 billion downloaded in the store’s first 18 months of operation); and Apple revenue makes it a more than $50 billion company.

The company’s iPod and iTunes store “changed the way we discover, play and purchase music,” Jobs says. In February, the company announced that its iTunes store recorded its 10 billionth song download (Johnny Cash’s “Guess Things Happen That Way,” purchased by a Woodstock, Ga., customer).

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Just a little bonus humor from last month, John Stewart on APPLE & Steve Jobs.