Category Archive: Motor

Few things move people like cars, and few people take photos of them like we do.

The Shuto: Tokyo’s Elevated Expressways

The Shuto: Tokyo’s Elevated Expressways

Words / Photography © Skorj / Magnesium Tokyo’s Metropolitan Expressway — Shuto Kōsoku Dōro — is Tokyo’s answer to handling large volumes of traffic traversing the …

 

Race Queens in the Modern Age

Race Queens in the Modern Age

In the 1999 film ‘Messengers’ one of the protagonists says to our Lycra-clad heroine, ‘You look like a race queen’. Parochially translated for American audiences as, ‘You look like a slut’, this missive unintentionally sums up the role of race queens in the modern world.

 

Hot Wheels.

Hot Wheels.

Tough guys, dweebs, mothers, stoners, ramen cooks, flower girls, beer delivery, geeks, goths, salarymen, plasterers, postmen, kids, oji-san; sometimes it seems as if every sub-culture …

 

Boy’s Toys – Vintage Bikes in Tokyo

Boy’s Toys – Vintage Bikes in Tokyo

Photos by Brian Scott Peterson / Magnesium Photos Text by Jim O’Connell / Magnesium Photos The feeling of entering these shops is not unlike that of entering …

 

Audi R8.

Audi R8.

In enjoying cars & motorcycles, to me there are only a few standout machines & few of them have electrified me as much as the Audi R8.

 

The Headlights are the Windows of the Soul.

The Headlights are the Windows of the Soul.

Photos by Brian Scott Peterson / Magnesium Photos For over a  century car makers have known the grill is the face of the car whether its …

 

Retro Style

Retro Style

Text and Photography by Skorj / Magnesium The last decade has seen the Tokyo Motor Show move from one of the most glamorous, over-the-top, motoring events …

 

Gallon Power Racing

Gallon Power Racing

This was the photo that inspired the yet to be published series, “Analogue Bike.”