Visual Arts

Visual Arts

Palazzo Pitti hosts the exhibition of the way of the wine in the antiquity

September 3, 2010

ROME — From Mesopotamia to our table today, from the rite of communion to lewd drunkenness, from a distasteful habit...

China in Rome

July 24, 2010

ROME — Chinese art has landed in Rome and risks never leaving the historical Roman palace of Palazzo Venezia. The...

Theater District upping its game

June 21, 2010

Emerson venture will benefit artists

This is the year of Caravaggio

June 5, 2010

ROME -- The genius of art

Blast’s verdict: Banksy hit Boston

Brittney Betbeze

May 15, 2010

Awesome.

Review of Beyond the Daily Life: Guerra de la Paz and Teresa Diehl

May 15, 2010

Temp exhibit has much to offer

Banksy: A postmodern Pioneer

Brittney Betbeze

May 15, 2010

And you can finally see something in Boston

Rome’s new Maxxi museum to open on May 30

April 27, 2010

Modern building starkly contrasts with old Rome

Sistine Chapel’s virtual tour

April 11, 2010

See what man is capable of achieving

The beautiful, artsy bubble belly

April 3, 2010

New Hampshire woman turns pregnancy into a body of art

Sten and Lex are the most famous street artists on the Old Continent

March 10, 2010

ROME: An interview with the famous street artists

After hours at Mrs. Jack’s

John Stephen Dwyer

March 8, 2010

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum gets hotter when the sun goes down

The Lysippus at the Getty Museum will return to Italy

February 16, 2010

ROME — The Lysippus will return to Italy. The statue portrays a victorious, naked and full-sized athlete and is attributed...

Shepard Fairey talks manhood

John M. Guilfoil

January 19, 2010

A different side of Shep

What do video games say about us?

January 15, 2010

Video games are a perfect representation of what the modern day consumer wants out of their entertainment. They evolve as...

Rome’s museum of museums

January 3, 2010

100 million Euro project underway

Local artist Brian Fox taking part in NHL Winter Classic

John M. Guilfoil

January 1, 2010

Wait till you see this

The Girl Project

December 11, 2009

5,000 disposable cameras created a movement

Helping through art

November 16, 2009

Medford nonprofit helps developmentally disabled through creativity

Egypt cuts ties with Louvre over ‘stolen’ steles

October 7, 2009

Egypt has severed ties with ParisÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ Louvre museum in an argument over artifacts antiquities chief Zahi Hawass claims were stolen by the world famous art museum.

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Blast Magazine was launched in 2007 with a simple thought — do journalism for the video game generation. We’ve really seen a lot since the 1980s. Nintendo Mega Man games, dial-up Internet, Dos, and the Palm Pilot were all in their infancy as we grew up. We shared files on 1.44MB (that’s MEGABYTE) floppy discs, and they were more than sufficient. As we grew up, the Internet blew up. Today you can stream a movie live in HD. Not only did HD not exist when we were growing up, but downloading a single, low-quality MP3 of our favorite song could take over an hour!

Technology developed quickly as we came of age, and we can claim to have mastered everything from iPads to Netflixes. But there is one thing that our generation did not have to grow up with — car maintenance.

A lot of us are interested in cars and trucks and motorcycles — this site wouldn’t be necessary if we weren’t. But how many Gen-Y’ers have ever had to change their oil? Change the brakes? Fix a cracked serpentine belt? Fixing cars was always something optional for us. We had to want to jack up a car and change a tire.

So now that we’re adults and we’re starting to recover from the crushing debt of our student loans, (We’re very bitter about this) we are finding our interests diversifying. If we were into cars already, we are getting more into cars. If we could never afford it, we are slowly raising our expectations. Say what you will, we are a curious generation.

Blast Cars is not exactly a beginners’ guide to the galaxy, but we’re not going to assume you know everything. We’re learning with you, and the experts we’ll bring into the process will walk both of us through everything we ever wanted to know about everything automotive.

In addition to restoring our Shop Truck, we are following some other Gen-Y restoration projects, including a racing bike. We’ll also bring you some relevant news, reviews, and rumors. We’ll even take a look at some of the most famous cars in movies, music, TV, true crime, and other popular culture. Let us know what you want to see!