Extremobile is brought to you but none other than Extremo the Clown creator of the world famous Mirabilis Statuarius Vehiculum. This is the van he drives around Portland for his window painting business, nice van Extremo, what is that sign say anyways???
Extremo the Clown is Scot Campbell, a graphic artist who once ran for Mayor of Portland. He is also the creator of Mirabilis Statuarius Vehiculum which is latin for extraordinary sculpted vehicle that took about seven years to make and has 318 thousand miles on it. It's adorned with three hundred heads and the big one on the back is a fountain. He says he was the inspiration for the carthedral art car and now I can see why, its an amazing car with amazing detail. Scott is currently working on another car which we hope to feature on Art Car Central as soon as its done.
Too busy to go to Graceland this year on a pilgrimage to go see Elvis? No worries because the Elvis Traveling Museum Art Van may be the answer to all your troubles.
JoDavid a Seattle-based fine artist has been transforming his 2001 VW camper van into the Elvis Mobile. Its a traveling homage to the King complete with murals painted on magnets and nice looking mini museum in the trunk. It was a project started as a labor of love for his wife Marlow Harris, an avid Elvis fan and occasional Priscilla Presley impersonator.
So the question begs to be asked, will there be any weddings performed at the Elvis mobile and the answer is maybe. So far there has only been one recorded wedding and that was performed by ordained minister and friend Extremo the Clown who happened to be around during last years art show at the Fremont Fair in Seatle.
If Jo David or his wife ever become ordained ministers there will be a lot of happy couples who would love to be married by Elvis in a town near them.
In case the wedding load get to heavy for them, there are plenty of other Elvis mobiles around the country and even Australia that could possible work as alternative wedding locations for the happy couples.
Elvis Art Van - 2009 Athfest Art Car – Photo credit Jim Diffly
