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Billy Corgan quit Twitter to launch a website about people and their cars

by Jesse Locke

The Chronicles of Corgan have seen another surprise twist with the Smashing Pumpkins singer launching his latest bold endeavour. People and Their Cars is a website featuring vintage slide images of the things in its title along with other old-timey treasures such as bridges, ships, trains, and bedrooms. See a few examples below:

The Artist Formerly Known as Billy spells out his modus operandi in the written equivalent of a monocle “Wherefore” page:

Pictures (mostly Vernacular), design elements (found), and ephemera with smatterings of Art (conscious). If you share please link back to this site. And duly note: Vintage slide images are presented in an ‘as is’ condition, without correction or removal of their inherent imperfections.

Corgan is giving Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee a run for its money in the literally titled website game. He’s taking the project so seriously that he’s quit Twitter to focus on these smatterings of Art. That means @Billy is up for grabs if you’re reading this, Billy Eichner!

The website also offers a ‘Red Border Club’ email list, giving members “not only the chance to receive additional images, but to be ‘first-in-line’ for updates on new merchandise and forthcoming People And Their Cars/Hexestential books. An it’s all for FREE: with no catch, fees, or obligation to buy.”

If your personal Venn Diagram includes Kodachrome photos, Cadillac Eldorados and “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”, sign up now!

[h/t Consequence of Sound ]