JUSTIN LOFTON QUICK FACTS Iowa Speedway Lucas Oil 200 July 11, 2010
Break in schedule, no break in racing: Lofton kept busy during the three-week break in Camping World Truck Series competition by racing in the Nationwide Series, and testing with his Red Horse Racing team. Two weeks ago, Lofton ran the Nationwide event at Loudon, New Hampshire, qualified an impressive ninth, and finished 17th. The laps Lofton logged on the New England track will be put towards good use later in the season when he returns with his RHR team this fall. After Loudon, Lofton trekked to the Gresham Motorsports Park short track in Georgia and shook down his No. 7 Toyota Tundra, with crew chief Mark Rette and the rest of his RHR crew, in preparation for this weekend's race at Iowa.
Back at it: Lofton has raced on the 7/8-mile Iowa track three times before within the NASCAR K&N Pro Series and the ARCA Racing Series. Of the combined three races, he has two top-10s
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The Work of Art in the Age of Outsourced Reproduction
On a recent trip to Montreal, the hotel room my wife and I booked was described as a “loft” and was likewise decorated with the requisite modern furniture and exposed brick walls. An offshoot of a very fine hotel located a few blocks away, our “loft” unit was comfortable and rather tastefully decorated. There were even original oil paintings on the walls, or so we initially thought.
After a few days in the room, something about the “artwork” didn’t sit quite right. It was all too homogeneous- the paintings in the bathroom (yes, above the toilet in a bathroom with no fan) and the ones above the bed and the desk all looked a bit too similar. We initially imagined that they had bought artwork from a local artist of limited creativity. My curiosity finally got the best of me, and I took one of the paintings off the wall and saw this:
Made in China hotel art, Model E-002
Upon taking both the paintings in the bathroom off the wall, we discovered that they both held the same model number and were both “Made in China.” There was no artist’s signature, and they were clearly painted on a larger piece of canvas that was cut up and stretched over various wooden supports to create a number of smaller “artworks.”
The "Artwork"
I should not have been shocked. It’s not that I expect hotel rooms to have great art- they usually have some sort of sailboat or flower themed art above the beds that blends into the wallpaper. I think the shock in this particular example comes from the very fact that the hotel went to such great lengths to brand itself as hip, modern, and urban. By putting abstract oil paintings on thick stretcher bars in each room, it conveys the idea that it is some sort of “artist’s loft” that we had the good fortune to stay at for the week.
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