Photo: #Harrod Blank's 1972 Dodge Van is covered in cameras of all types. He doesn't know the exact number, but he estimates over 2,500.
Photo: #Harrod Blank shows All Things Considered host Tom Crann the interior of the van.
Photo: #Blank can operate the shutters and flashes of several of the 2,500 cameras with the push of one of the buttons on the dash. There are also hundreds of light meters fixed to the dashboard.
Photo: #Harrod Blank, the creator of the Camera Van, shows off some of the more colorful plastic cameras on his van, including a Mickey Mouse camera.
Photo: #A Mickey Mouse camera adorns the top of the Camera Van.
Photo: #The rear of the Camera Van contains a few of the working cameras. The panels contain two of his favorite shots taken by the van of people amazed to see it.
Photo: #An eye mosaic on the passenger door of the camera van.
Photo: #The tail light on the Camera Van.
Photo: #A camera mosaic on the left side of the van depicts the popular Kodak Instamatic X-15 model of the '60s and '70s. It is made up of X-15s and other defunct Kodak cameras.
Photo: #The roof of the van is fitted with a few movie cameras. Harrod Blank has screened movies taken with these cameras on the monitors on the passenger side of the van.
Photo: #Some of the more colorful plastic cameras on the van.
Photo: #Stage and film star Lynn Redgrave poses for a photo with the camera van.
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Harrod Blank's 1972 Dodge Van is covered in cameras of all types. He doesn't know the exact number, but he estimates over 2,500. (MPR Photo/Euan Kerr)
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The 13th annual Art Car Parade cruises through Minneapolis on Saturday. Art car owners cover their cars in all sorts of things: cork, grass, action figures, almost anything that's interesting for people to look at.

St. Paul, Minn. — Harrod Blank wants people to look at his art car, but he's looking back. Blank has attached over 2,500 cameras to a 1972 Dodge van. He's used some of those cameras to make still and moving pictures, on the move.

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