SEMA 2009 is now over. As always it flew by before I even knew what was up. The whole week I walked around shooting for Mobil 1. Phil Luis from Theory helped me out tracking down all of the Mobil 1 cars at the show.

There are a lot of things that happen at SEMA that are crazy. Some things are just plain odd. I snapped this photo of a model shoot. Who brings all of these all this stuff to SEMA?

I’m not really sure where the time went, but before I knew it, it was Friday and I found myself at bar with some of the Drift Alliance riding the mechanical bull.

Andy set the bar pretty high. No one could complete on his level:

The Wrecked Staff had to take their turn as well:

Thats pretty much it for my SEMA coverage.

This is Bud, he was saved from an abusive home. Now he just sits around and eats crickets.

We just rolled up some updates to the twitter feed. Before the feed only pull in results from one keyword, “Formula D” now with the changes you will be able to see tweets from anyone using several terms including “Formuald”, “Formula D”, “Formula Drift” and “FormulaDrift”. This means that you will get more comprehensive coverage from the Formula D events this season. The Formula D Long Beach event had more than 500 tweets that were recorded from people at the track. I’m hoping that we get over 1000 for Atlanta. The Formula D Atlanta Event Channel is live over at: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/twitter/fdatlanta09/

and if you want to see what was said in a previous event you can go over to http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/twitter/ and view old events.

Over the weekend I was mostly working on Wrecked, adding some long over due features to the backend. I did however manage to escape from my desk for a little while and catch the new bond film Quantum of Solace. I think that it was a very good bond movie. I must say that Daniel Craig is growing on me as a James Bond actor. I don’t think that he will ever replace Pierce Brosnan. That will just not be possible.(I spent to many hours watching Goldeneye and playing it on the N64) Daniel Craig plays a much darker and deeper Bond the Pierce does. I think that I’m starting to like that. This movie has much more action than the last one, but at the downside to that it did have some lacking in the plot developemnt area. But I can over look that after it is a Bond movie, action is what you want in a Bond movie. Overall a great movie and that I recommend to anyone that want to go an watch a good movie.

It takes a lot to impress me on the internet these days. I must say that I’m really impressed with hulu. About 30 Minutes ago I noticed that hulu was not playing the videos that I wanted to watch. Frustrated, I fired up twitter and starting complaining about how it would not work. About 5 minutes later a new peron started following me. @hulusupport curious I check out their profile. This is what their last message was:

It turns out the Hulu monitors twitter to figure out probems that they are having. There were tons of people that were asking questions and hulusupport was helping them out.  They also told people about outages in their area. I find this very impressive. To me that shows that hulu understands that people that watch their content. I’m impressed.

Yep I’m now on Friendfeed. Be my friend, add me on friendfeed.. User name: jasonsmall

Got to love all of these crazy apps on the internet.

For Irwindale, we put up a feed that showed anyone Twittering about Formula D. Now we’ve taken it a step further. I’ve spent the last couple of days rewriting the code that we used for Irwindale and hopefully improved it so that it can handle SEMA. If you want to know whats happening durring SEMA check out http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/twitter/sema08

And if you missed Irwinale check out

http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/twitter/formulad08

If you want to contribute to the SEMA Twitter feed, signup at twitter.com and just use the word SEMA in your twitter post.

This was on the home page of thepiratebay.org today:

I love those guys…

Ok, there have been a lack of blog post on my blog as of late. My bad. I’ve been under the weather for the last week. Still trying to get better..

I’ve been trying to get some revsions done on the site over the last few days. But its been really slow. Mainly because I’ve been sick.  Most of the updates arn’t going to be visible, or at least they should not be . I’ve been working on doing some rewrites to make the site more CSS based. I like using CSS more and more everytime that I start programing in it. Hopfully by rewriting parts of the site using just CSS it will fix some of the display issues that can occur from time to time.

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to go with the NOS guys to the Sturgis Bike Rally in SD. This was the most intense week of my life. We did not hang out with the weekend riders. We stayed with the real bikers, the ones that road from Cali on homemade “shitboxes”. Bikers chained themselves up to their bikes at night outside of gass stations. Bikers that when they road, got a nod of respect from everyone at Sturgis. True bikers. I have countless stories from this event that I can’t even comprehend. We put together this video for NOS. Between the music and the characters in this video it gives a pretty fair representation of what being at Sturgis was like/  If you ever want a week that you won’t forget, go to Sturgis, look for a guy name Rico Fodrey, tell him Jason the camera guy for NOS sent you. He’ll show you what the rally is really about.

Sturgis 2008 with Rico Fodrey