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pSeinfeld used to do a bit about how the Black Box was the only indestructible part of an airplane, a design oversight in his estimation. “Why don’t they just make the entire plane out of the Black Box?”/p

pThe closest you’ll ever get to seeing such a thing is a car made out of seatbelts, or at least skinned in them. Artists Ann Conte and Jeanne Wiley covered an MG Midget in a weave of overstock seatbelt material and crafted seats made of Corian donated by DuPont, among other tricks:/p

blockquote[The Woven Car is made from] recycled and overstock materials, including pale gold seatbelts that were woven to create a checkerboard pattern around the body of the car, and 500 yards of webbing that was adhered to the shape of the car. The car’s stick shift is a bouquet of hollow ceramic flowers that were created by dipping live flowers in paper clay. The flowers were evaporated in the heat of the kiln, leaving a shell that was glazed. The tail lights are also ceramic, featuring 60s-inspired orange, yellow and red prints./blockquote

pThe resultant Woven Car is part of Massachusetts’ A HREF=”http://www.ssac.org/” South Shore Art Center’s Media Mix exhibit/A and will also be on display at Chicago’s A HREF=”http://www.greenbuildexpo.org/Home.aspx” GreenBuild 2010/A later this year./p

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