A low, blue, badass two-wheeler that Ulman describes as his dream bike, it crystallised the approach that his career artworks would take, with his pieces growing in complexity alongside his growing confidence. One of the Boston-based artist’s most important early pieces was Lo Rida, built in 2001. A graduate of Boston’s Northeastern University, Ulman is a scavenger of sorts, a found-object sculptor who repurposes trashed radios, chainsaws, kitchen appliances – basically whatever he can get his hands on – into detailed models of cars, planes, speedboats and especially motorcycles. “I’m into the hot rods and the speed shit,” says Michael Ulman over Zoom.
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His weapon of choice? A high-speed collision of garbage, legitimate art and movie magic: the fire-spitting, double-neck Fury Road guitar. Wearing a red onesie and the dead skin mask of his murdered mother (metal enough for you?), the Doof Warrior is an eyeless field musician whose job is to marshal Joe’s army and relay his orders through sound.
But of all the movie’s madcap characters, one made more noise than most: Coma, the Doof Warrior. With the Namibian desert standing in for post-apocalyptic Oz, Fury Road sees Max Rockatansky, Imperator Furiosa and the five wives that she liberates from the film’s big bad, Immortan Joe, fleeing across the desert, with Joe and his army of very loyal, very loud War Boys in pursuit. READ MORE: Fuzz Was The Future: Satisfaction Guaranteed Critics and fans fawned over its bone-rattling action sequences, its sharply drawn world and its cast of colourful, unforgettable characters. When Miller’s modern update screeched onto screens in 2015 following years of production battles, the acclaim was explosive. Regularly referred to as one of the greatest action films of all time, this turbo-charged chase movie raced from the mind of Australian auteur George Miller, the man behind the original Mad Max (1979) and its follow-ups.
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