These are two quick teaser videos I shot with my Canon SD1100 photo camera while getting a ride along at Ebisu’s famous Nishi Short Circuit. Wrecked Magazine will have some amazing full video coverage up soon thanks to NOS Energy Drink. For now, here is Chris Forsberg in front of our S14 in that white 180sx with the exhaust bouncing on the ground.
Here is a second video I shot while riding with Chris in his black S14 aas we chased down Andrew from PowerVehicles.com in the video. These are a great preview to how awesome the whole weekend of Spring Matsuri was! A huge thanks is owed from me and Chris Forsberg to everyone at Powervehicles.com and Allen from Tomei for really making our trip amazing!
I put this together to show a client the work we did in Slide America. I thought the quick 10 page look book came out pretty cool so I decided to upload it here on my blog. It’s got magazine coverage from Turbo Magazine, Import Tuner, HCI, and S3 Magazine along with our New York Times review and IGN.com stories. Let me know what you think!
We hit El Toro for a quick SEMA preview video of Neil Tjin’s 2010 Chevy Camaro. The car will be in the AirLift booth on display all week if you would like to take a close look at it. We shot this video in a small timeframe and I think it came out great as a small teaser video. Let me know what you think!
Back in high school I owned this amazing 1996 Midori Green Honda Civic. Quite often some friends and me would drive in the empty mountain roads near where we grew up. This night in the video me and a friend went out in his Ford Focus. He got a little too excited and took off way to fast for this very confusing turn. It’s a huge S with a 40 foot elevation change with a kink at the top of the S which you cannot really see.
He didn’t know the road that well and wound up hitting his brakes and dropping a tire off the road. The ground drops off just off the street and the car flipped into the ravine, slide around, and landed against a tree. He was completely fine and more pist that his CD’s flew everywhere into the forest. The car was totaled without a question but a crazy video came of it which I just found in some old files. Below is a picture of my 1996 Civic Hatchback that was the camera car in the video above.
We made a trip to SPD so we could unveil to the world Daijiro Yoshihara’s new Lexus IS350. With a sponsorship partnership between Discount Tire and Falken Tires they were able to bring on Daijiro Yoshihara from his Pontiac GTO to take on this Lexus. The car was getting it’s finishing touches done at SPD before pre season testing when we came to visit.
Jonathon Bradford from Falken was super accomedating and Daijiro was quite some fun on the microphone with us. These two photos are of this gorgeous Lexus V8 motor that I couldn’t get enough of.
My favorite part about Daijiro Yoshihara’s Discount Tires x Falken Tires Lexus IS350 is the new rear radiator setup. A gorgeous mount job which will prevent putting this car out of comission on a front end collision. If this works out I wonder if the whole Falken team will convert to a rear mount setup.
On Daijiro Yoshihara’s GT Channel blog he posted a photograph of the Wrecked Magazine crew after we shot the interview. Check it out!
I know I recently posted the teaser to this video but we just got the full render up on Youtube and their other social media websites as well. I love some of the footage we captured at the drifting demo’s with our Sony EX-1. Enjoy a quick flash into the 2009 Hot Import Nights season. Enjoy this piece thanks to NOS Energy Drink’s great viral program NOS TV.
MATS stands for the Mid America Truck Show which is essentially the SEMA for truckers. We flew into Louisville, Kentucky for a four day shoot at the conference with Mobil 1 Delvac. Mobil 1 had one of the best looking and busiest booths at the whole show. They had Sam Hornish Jr’s #77 Penske/Mobil 1 Dodge inside the booth with a NASCAR simulator as well.
I met a trucker with over 4,000,000 miles on his rig who was an owner/operator. He has a business card that says “Professional Clown” and he was making little balloons for people. We put in a request for a more adult focused project and we got this! Some amazing skill in this design right here. I watched him do it and have no idea what he did to have these come together.
To close out the festivites Mobil Delvac threw a huge concert and invited thousands of people to come and enjoy the show. Krista Marie opened the show and then Halfway to Hazard kept the energy going inside the stadium. After a quick intermissions Aaron Tippin came out and headlined the show playing some of his most well known hits.
Here is a photograph of Aaron Tippin and myself before the concert backstage. I wish I took more pictures in Kentucky but I really dropped the ball while out of town. I did do a couple Yelp reviews you can check out:
We headed down to Hot Import Nights for NOS TV. This is a preview video we released right after the show to get people for the full length one. Some nice slow motion drifting shots from local Pro Am guys and a few clips of Chris Forsberg ripping it up as well. If you visit the website you can watch the video in High Def.
We arrived at Dumont Dunes mid last week to shoot some behind the scenes footage for NOS TV with Kyle Busch and his sand rail. This was the base camp that was setup by Kyle and some other drivers that were out having fun in the mid week.
We quickly hopped in some rails and rode out to a jump site where the guys had tons of fun for the afternoon. This is Kyle’s rail in the photograph above which is powered by a twin turbo LS1 engine and weighs around 2,700lbs. This was my first time riding in a sand rail and it was amazing!
Jason actually snapped this photo while I was filming Kyle taking these jumps. Below is the teaser video and first installment from our day out at Dumont Dunes with Kyle for NOS TV.
I got sent this image recently from a buddy who was over in Kyoto, Japan. He walked into a Super Autobacs and while browsing the movie section he found a copy of Slide America. Very exciting stuff that he found our movie inside an Autobacs. I owe a thanks to Thuy at Livesocket who got us at Autobacs in the first place and Autobacs has become one of our largest sellers of Slide America overall so they are owed a big thanks as well. If you have been living under a rock and still don’t have a copy of the movie you can score one for $9.99 on the website.
