The Magic Bus from Into the Wild
by Eva Lechner
Title
The Magic Bus from Into the Wild
Artist
Eva Lechner
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art/photograph/digital Work
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SOLD a 36" x 24" print to a buyer from Kilsyth South, VIC - Australia.
SOLD a 12" x 8" print to a buyer from Grand Junction, CO - United States.
SOLD on 07/04/22 a Men's T-Shirt (Regular Fit) - Charcoal - Medium to a buyer from Esslingen, Baden-Württemberg
An old city bus plays an important part in the film INTO THE WILD. Once left behind by miners after the axle broke, this Fairbanks City Transit System Bus 142 from 1946 was used as a shelter by hunters and rangers. It became world famous after Christopher McCandles stayed here for four months.
The film tells the true story of the last two years of his life, during which Christopher McCandles (Emile Hirsch) wondered all over the United States and finally chose the lonely life in Alaska. He died in August 1992 and was found dead two weeks later in what he had called the “Magic Bus”. Starvation, in combination with eating a toxic plant or fungus, may have been the cause of his death.
Out of respect for the McCandles family and because the bus is so remote - it can only be reached by the difficult and sometimes very dangerous Stampede Trail - a replica was made by putting parts of two busses from the 1940s together. This made it also easier to film inside the bus, for instance by taking the back door out. Filming was done near the small village of Cantwell.
3rd place tie in the Contest Old Rides in Nature Settings-February 2019
1st tied place in the Contest SELECTIVE COLOR with PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION-February 2020
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July 12th, 2018
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