A 2004 Hyundai Elantra is worth about $ 5,000 cash today , consort toCars.com . Philip Romano ’s model is probably worth a bit less than that , since it ’s coat headlamp to bumper in coarse-grained smutty chalkboard paint .
The 20 - twelvemonth - old Romano is major in psychology at SUNY - Geneseo but describes himself as an artist ( been there ! ) . Over the past few mean solar day , he ’s been cruise around New York , parking the car in conspicuous office and hold back to see what happens . Though a moth-eaten black car that comes with its own chalk seems middling self - explanatory , Romano even invested in a vanity licence plate : DRAWONME .
“ I got the idea a few year ago , that when I got my first automobile , I wanted it to be used , ” the 20 - year - old Romano toldFox5 , “ and I want to incubate it in chalkboard blusher and let people draw all over it . ” Though this emphatically is n’t the first time someone ’s painted a machine with blackboard paint ( see : this 2010New York Timesarticle about a similar project ) , Romano ’s car has made news in New York this workweek . On Friday , he had parked the Allantra in front of MoMA , where the transmission line was around the block . shortly , people had pullulate the automobile , and a local intelligence work party picked up the news report — since then , Romano ’s car has been all over the cyberspace .
Which is on the nose the point : agree to Fox , Romano is hop to double up his newfound ill fame into a lifelike design internship for the summertime . PagingStefan Sagmeister ? [ Fox5 ; images good manners of Romano ’s female parent onImgur ]
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