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Coming soon will be the ultimate luxury hyper-car – the $100 million Armstrong-Bugatti. World renowned artist Jack Armstrong has plans to paint the most expensive car in history with a Bugatti. It will officially be named “Armstrong- Bugatti: Cosmic X” or also known as the “Cosmic Dream Star.” This rare blend of exotic auto and creative art will truly become a Masterpiece!” The Armstrong-Bugatti will easily become the world’s most expensive Art-Car. Jack Armstrong stated, “I will break the World Record with an Art-Car, the same way I broke the world price records for the Most Expensive Motorcycle, Bicycle and Cowboy Boots on Earth.” The Life of Luxury is proud to announce that the Armstrong-Bugatti supercar will be exhibited in China in 2020. The custom art-car will feature Armstrong’s special, “cosmic” blue paint. Can you imagine the overwhelming interest that industry lovers will have? Once unveiled, the Armstrong-Bugatti will be seen in Macau, by millions of car and art fans. There have been rumors prior to this announcement that Jack Armstrong would feature a Rolls-Royce as his Art-Car. Well, we can confirm directly from Mr. Armstrong that he has chosen to feature a Bugatti. The reason he gave is, “I will paint a Bugatti, out of respect: for the family of artists, which is Bugatti.” But what Bugatti will be used? We can confirm that a top secret, new model Bugatti model will be announced at the Macau exhibit opening. How exciting is that? The Galaxy Macau casino resort is a luxurious property located on the Cotai Strip in Macau, China. It opened in 2011 with much fanfare. As a result, this opulent hotel quickly become the place to stay in Macau. This vibrant city is a short one hour ferry ride from nearby Hong Kong. Macau features a UNESCO World Heritage site city centre. Visitors will experience a rich blend of both Chinese and Portuguese culture. In addition, Macau is widely known as a world-leading gaming and entertainment locale. Over 30 million visitors arrive every year to take part in non-stop action. Gambling revenues are incredible and even dominate what Las Vegas brings in each year. Armstrong says “Modern art is more free than anything on earth and cannot be controlled by any historic system’s of art, that have been put into place, to control artists and markets with ‘curated – art’ that destroys the ‘originality.’ That is the essence of great art and vision.” 14
I’m used to hearing older Sha Na Na fans say “That was my era” about the early rock n’ roll years. I’ve understood in a limited way, but now that I’m old enough to savor my own coming of mature age and its historical setting, the ripening of post-World War Two American confidence and our winning the Cold War sit more solidly as defining elements than the overly revered Woodstock festival or the classic movie Grease, both of which I performed in. More than cultural landmarks like those, the defining impression I have of “my era” has turned out to be the freewheeling exuberance of expression that I witnessed in New York City and Los Angeles as the century ripened. There was never a lack of remarkable creative characters in either of the towns where I spent most of my time. I had bought into the hippy sandals earthiness of the 60s completely enough to find myself repulsed by the “me decade” garishness that came prancing in with the disco glitter of the 70s. Yet the 1970s turned out to be the decade for television stardom and peak earnings for me and my rock n’ roll group ShaNaNa. It was also when the “misery index” worsened for my countrymen so as to bring their rejecting Jimmy Carter’s presidency and favoring Ronald Reagan’s claim that big government was “the problem.” Then followed the “morning in America” 1980s with their economic growth and the disintegration of Soviet Communism, and it was evident that “the American century” could turn out to be, despite all the sporadic heartbreak and disorder, actually a valid TULE<strong>MAG</strong>IC descriptive phrase. Freewheeling ambition, excess, spiritual revivalism, and controversy were so common that we hardly took notice, and the flamboyance in the art of a young Jack Armstrong (even in the entourage of a celebrated Andy Warhol) could go un-noticed too. It caught my notice as a compelling embodiment of the spirit of the unfolding age that is “my era” only here in the new century. Seems to me, what we collect in art should reflect the frivolous side of ourselves along with the more pensive. I find both, to my surprise, in Jack Armstrong’s work. His paintings’ stunning richness of hue, before we knew computer graphics would be able to mimic it ever in our lifetime, typified our late-cold-war-era brashness. His casually hiding his own name in plain sight, and hiding some little-understood names of other things in plain site- - it’s a playful permissiveness that’s just bulls-eye on that brashness. And in my painting, titled “Tulemagic,” I find a glimpse of it that requires a gaze, again and yet again. I enjoy how it always provokes friends’ reactions, and for my own part, I’ve even recorded a song about it. 15
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