Hummer owners should shudder - either with envy or disgust

You remember our popular series about VW Beetle modifications, or truck mods? Today we go to the extreme: if you happen to own (or have access to a tank), there is no limit to what you can do with it. Not that you SHOULD do anything to it, but…

Here is a tank (or rather, armored personnel carrier) limo, courtesy TankLimo.com - available for hire for only $3,200, and for a special price ($760 USD) you can even drive a 56ton Chieftain Main Battle Tank… over a family sedan car! Like they say on the site: “Life will never be the same again!”

Release your angst crushing Japanese family car imports:

Hello Kitty… Aim.. Fire!

You might remember this Casio ad campaign for Baby-G watches:

“Tank-A-Lot” UK company got similar inspiration for their modified artillery armored vehicle - this time for the “Amnesty International” event.

(images credit: indymedia.org.uk)

The Coolest Shoot on the Internet

Gothic Image had a great idea of combining this pink-blinged tank vehicle with a similarly pink-clad gorgeous female model for a shoot. Here are the results… wow.

(images credit: Gothic Image)

There is another “Pink Tank” in London:
(by Alexandra Mir)

(image credit: Cubitt Artists)

and yet another one:

I suspect these tanks come with “Hello Kitty” weapons included, like this one:

(image credit: KittyHell)

Russian T34 in South London, painted by Cubitt Artists; (more info)

(image credit: Dave Sag)

It has been repainted several times, all pretty groovy:

(image credit: StefZ)

Pink Tank at Rock Werchter Festival 2007:

(image credit: Elliott Solomon)

KNIT TANK: Speaking of pink tanks, Marianne Joergensen covers the fearsome military machines with cute knitted blankets, making an unusual art statement:

(image credit: MakeZine)

“Peace” installation by artists Ulrike Rosenbach and Michael Fischer-Art at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin:

(image credit: AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

You can bling some heavy construction machinery in this way, as well:

Russian BTR for $105,000 USD

Courtesy Russian “Za Rulem” this modification has significantly more comforts than the Soviet Army spartan original (BTR-40P-2 which is widely known as BRDM-2). The final product appears to be quite road-worthy and may even fit in your garage.

(images credit: Za Rulem)

The plaque above even reads “Dear sir, please take notice” instead of usual “Attention, Beware!”

Here is the least expensive, but maybe not so convincing modification:

Finally, an idea with a great potential:

There is something childlike and innocent about the pompom shaped head pieces, combined with smiling models and free fitting clothing, that makes this Sonia Rykiel collection uniquely quirky. Stripes, oversized suits, feathers and fur all hit the runway as part of Rykiel’s whimsical Fall 1010 collection.

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If you’ve been snowed under for some time, these pictures will help you feel better

“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow?…” (Job, 38:22) Some translations put it as “the treasures of the snow”. Well, it seems some locations get entirely too much of this good thing:

Snowed under in the most epic way (somewhere in Switzerland):

(original unknown)

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It takes some effort to make twig-thin, leggy, gorgeous models look frumpy and bad. Marc Jacobs apparently had enough time on his hands to make that happen when he designed the Fall 2010 collection for Louis Vuitton. But where he did excel was in casting the not-so-twig-thin models. Then, only then, did the charms of the collection really become clear.

And so it was that the curvy Victoria’s Secret cast were clothed not once but twice during the international runway season: in Prada’s Fall 2010 show and again at Vuitton. More of the Mad Men era mid-calf full skirts, cardigans and bouncy ponytails were perfectly classic, this time with a Parisian twist. Busts and hips were accentuated.

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It’s rare to see Karl Lagerfeld stray very far from the classic. Even the futurism of last season was carefully balanced by the classical, yet Fall 2010 was rife with modern elements and futurist references. High-shine patent leather came in the form of leggings and jacket trim, before things got sportier with piped zip-up jackets and leggings which buttoned up at the sides.

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Rich black velvet lined in blood red, black leather, jewel encrusted accessories, and generous helpings of lace. Givenchy’s Fall 2010 collection had a familiar Gothic feel to it, this time intermixed with wetsuit-style neoprene - an element of the current sports and scuba obsession - unzipped downwards from the hips.

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