Author: Skorj

Saitama Air-Cooled Car Yard

Saitama Air-Cooled Car Yard

Words / Photography © Skorj / Magnesium Students of automotive design and history will advise us the death of the rear-engine air-cooled car was dictated by …

 

The Shuto: Tokyo’s Elevated Expressways

The Shuto: Tokyo’s Elevated Expressways

Words / Photography © Skorj / Magnesium Tokyo’s Metropolitan Expressway — Shuto Kōsoku Dōro — is Tokyo’s answer to handling large volumes of traffic traversing the …

 

Race Queens in the Modern Age

Race Queens in the Modern Age

In the 1999 film ‘Messengers’ one of the protagonists says to our Lycra-clad heroine, ‘You look like a race queen’. Parochially translated for American audiences as, ‘You look like a slut’, this missive unintentionally sums up the role of race queens in the modern world.

 

Hot Wheels.

Hot Wheels.

Tough guys, dweebs, mothers, stoners, ramen cooks, flower girls, beer delivery, geeks, goths, salarymen, plasterers, postmen, kids, oji-san; sometimes it seems as if every sub-culture …

 

An Ordinary Life.

An Ordinary Life.

Beyond the usual cliche, and outside of the normal expectation. These are the viewpoints a Magnesium photographer Skorj attempts to capture with his Polaroid camera.

 

Audi R8.

Audi R8.

In enjoying cars & motorcycles, to me there are only a few standout machines & few of them have electrified me as much as the Audi R8.

 

Retro Style

Retro Style

Text and Photography by Skorj / Magnesium The last decade has seen the Tokyo Motor Show move from one of the most glamorous, over-the-top, motoring events …