98. The tale of the fictional record sleeve.

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Let's first meet our stars. A slightly customized, white hardtop 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air, imported from Miami by Jon Inge "Doc" Halvorsen from C&C Rider in my hometown. Many thanks to Jon Inge, a great sport with great taste in cars.

It may surprise regular Travelogue-readers that a nature lover like me also love cars. I don't. I hate most cars. But I love the beautiful cars. The Ferraris. The E-types. And the classic Chevys, like this one. Here's some details in black and white.

Beneath are the human stars Mimoza Hasani and Rikke Norby, on their first meeting with The Car. They seemed to like it. And if you're male, and don't see anything you like in this image, it's time to face facts. You're gay, dude.

But back to the reason why we're in this schoolyard after hours. This is the making of a record sleeve and booklet for the fictional (so far) Pia Zawa Soundtrack album, which presents music from the fictional playlist in a fictional club in a fictional town. This (fictional) 70's-styled cocktail-bar - Funky Muzak - will soon become an important part of the new Pia Zawa universe, and the record sleeve's design will have to be inspired by it's design. The car points back to a more elegant time, and is a contrast in the sauce - like a splash of Floridian citrus.

What I do now is combine the shot below, from the schoolyard, with the background from Setesdalen's Western Hills.

And then we have this.

A little splash of 70's design and graphics - and BAM! The fictional cover is a digital reality, at least.

The theme of this series of photos IS inspired by Thelma and Louise, yes. But also by Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Kill!, and True Romance, and Bonnie and Clyde, and Badlands, and Natural Born Killers, and almost every decent road-movie ever made, perhaps excepting Rain Man.

Time to go to sleep.

Next: The conclusion of Prologue In Urbanburg.