I had some free time on Christmas and after reading about High School #9 on the BBC/Icecream blog myself and a buddy Jacob Agajanian wanted to go check it out. You cannot really get in, they have the place covered in fences and stuff but after driving around the school we found an overpass of the 101 and were able to snap some pictures of the side tower of the school in the background. Yes, this is a Los Angeles Unified District public school being built by the state that is going broke in like two months. On the bright side, the school looks super awesome.
Here is the first time lapse we did with it being a bit brighter outside.
Then we moved the camera once it got darker and ran another time lapse to the side of with it being much darker outside.
All in all a very fun Holiday. Finished up the night with some Indian food and NBA basketball down the street at a friends place. I should be doing more of these SLR videos when I have some free time, hoping to get some done in Las Vegas next week!
I reset my iTunes plays at the start of 2008 and here are the top 10 albums I listened to according to my iMac iTunes play count. I guess this is more of my “work” albums since my iPod plays are not counted. Here we go.
10. Nirvana - Nevermind
9. DJ Am x Travis Barker - Fix Your Face
8. Chimaira - Resurrection
7. Girl Talk - Live at Chop Suey in Seattle, Washington
6. Kayne West - Graduation
5. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
4. E-603 - Something for Everyone
3. Cake - Prolonging the Magic
2. Neptunes - Presents the Clones
1. N.E.R.D - Seeing Sounds
So after going back and forth with two not so “Internetie” friends for months now on the impact and influence of the Internet I finally have a bet we have agreed to and settled on. The Internet is really it’s own society and for 2009 I want to be a good citzien by contributing as much as I consume of the Internet for 2009. So with all that being said I have been given 10 tasks that must be met for me to win this bet.
The bet has a fair play doctrine as well, since the bet is about me being a good citizen I cannot just go accomplish these tasks on December 30th and declare victory. So each month I will blog a report of my progress and hopefully I can crush most of these “requirements” of the contest.
Will Roegge flew out to Atlanta and came on the drive to Los Angeles and probably had no idea what he was getting himself into. Four days later we wound up in Los Angeles and I got moved into my new place already. He did a great job capturing some good memories of our travels except cut all the good stuff about aliens because he doesn’t believe in them…but Will is still good by me, he will believe one day. Check out the video and stay peeled to UrbanRacer as more of the story goes live soon.
For day two we rolled out of Mississippi and found this abandoned motel called the Journey Motel Court and did a mini photo shoot that is on Urbanracer.
This photo I snapped on a local highway in Arkansas as we detoured and explored around Little Rock, Arkansas.
Then in Oklahoma we caught the sunset right off I-40 and camped out for the night. Day 3 of the trip we really hit the open roads and have some fun in our G37 which is right around the corner. To read the full day two story just head on over to UrbanRacer.com or click this link: http://www.urbanracer.com/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=3568&z=2
The first day was a short one due to some horrible weather in Mississippi. Before leaving I had to have a last meal of just some southern food goodness which I scored at Daddy D’z, I recommend it to any Atlanta traveler.
After finally leaving Atlanta we headed east on I-20 until veering off at night on Alabama 78. Then quickly onto the future 22 and into Tunica, Mississippi. Here are some snaps from along the way.
Would love to hear any feedback on photos/story at Urban by comments on the blog. You can read my full story over at Urbanracer.com by going to this link:
Well I had been trying to hold off on making any announcements on the blog here until UrbanRacer got our story up and we figured out everything that was going on. In what is one of the most unplanned/unorganized cross country moves ever I am pretty much going to pack the Infiniti G37 and bring only what I can fit in it (nothing) for my initial trip to California. This is part of a phase to migrate PM Lifestyle x Wrecked Magazine out to the west coast but all that will be a slow boring process that we should spare details on.
Bob over at UrbanRacer.com was awesome enough to walk around with me at the LA Auto Show and I pitched him the idea to cover my cross country travels and document the whole experiment and he went for it. The story up right now is a starter to post showing where I will be traveling and my car preparation. I leave in about 48 hours and will be pumping stories out to UrbanRacer every night once we find a Starbucks (no hotels, living in the Infiniti) for three days.
Make sure you read the introduction story and keep your eyes peeled to the UrbanRacer website for all of our updates as I trek across America.
Yes, sorry another poker post. I finally got to see the WSOP in person this summer in Vegas but after browsing youtube for random poker videos I realized after watching the Top 10 Moments of Poker that the 2005 series is where I really started to get into the sport. Around then I also met fellow poker player/drifter Chuck from St. Louis who really helped me step up the poker madness. Anyways, even though I am moving to Los Angeles next week I am trying to figure out what my plan of action is for WSOP 2009. Not sure if I will still play in Tunica or wait and play in San Diego. Anyone planning on playing in San Diego that is a Drifting fan let me know, a +1 for the event would help sway my choice pretty quickly.
Check out my Flickr gallery for tons of personal content from my Redbull weekend. We even caught up with Yoshioka and went out with him in Hollywood. Sadly he was not a seeded driver over the Redbull weekend but he came as a spectator. During the event the wildfires ripped through Los Angeles and caused some amazing colors and look to the sky along with some ash all over everything.
