Woot, production at EVO VS WRX day yesterday was pretty full on! I ended up having one in-mount camera drop out on me in a Subie giving the camera a thrashing and being embarassed by the whole ordeal, but pretty much a solid training day, one more training day then Andrew will begin paying me more than lunch and shirts =) ... Next training day should be a drift one. It's hard waking up early on Saturday after a late Friday night! And I had work straight after production assist at the video store... Was just me and Mary and we had a good english chat at last... Sigh had a pretty deeply conversation with mum tonight about people coming in from overseas to study and work in an effort to get a PR... It's totally not as easy as it was once upon a time... And you really have to be willing to BE an Australian, not just live in Australia... Can't just be here coz the life is easier and better... No such thing as a free lunch, I can imagine it being freaking impossible to up and leave and embrace a new culture, but hey I guess it would've been something u would have begun 2 understand when u agreed to do it.
Anyways, I met up with DT after closing the video store and we headed to Butterfy's 21st at a bar in Parramatta (keep forgetting the name of that dang place)... Hahaha we rocked up at 9pm and got blasted for being late... But a couple of drinks round the house and all seemed happy as Larry, met a fair few people and caught up with a some old friends that I hadn't seen in a while... Epic seeing lil ol buttz again, hahaha was well worth facing any awkwards had there ben any, also discovered Su was born and raised in Aus hahaha, she seems to have had similar chilhood television habits to me... Was so wierd being the older guys at the club though ahahha, funny how how everyone seemed tired and abit beyond toasted when we were just getting warmed up hahaha... Hahah like hanging out with teeny boppers ftw. Party ended near midnight with the gang heading off to city extra, kinda regretfully too seeing awesome music started getting played hahaha I'll stick some vids at the end of this... But yeah Dave and I being old and hyped up and just getting started at the time headed east... Considered going 2 the city for more clubbing, but then conceded to have a good old men's talk at Lidcombe Maccas hahaha... Oh man the song they played just as we left was Satisfaction... Pure awesome... The 2nd vid is another killer song
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Hoonage and new work
Well happy belated Easter everybody!
Time warp..
It's good Friday, a public holiday... damn it's early... But damn I'm late! 7:15! We all have to be at church at 8:00 am for the prayer meeting! Now 8:30 am is hard nuff on at Burwood on a Sunday morning let alone 8:00am at Baulkam Hills on a Friday public holiday! Oh man I had a hard training session last night so went to bed as smashed as a plate at a greek wedding and would really appreciate the sleep. Anyways I said I'd be there so be there I shall... Damn gotta not be late, it takes 45 minutes to get there usually so that means I have 0 minutes to get ready! So on go the pants, in goes the toothbrush... A quick good morning to mum as I run out to start old faithful... No way am I gonna make it... Oh well, let's just try... Hahahaha... It's double demerits, I'm not silly enough to speed on these main streets... So here's there driving technique for the day... PUNCH it until u hit the speede limit hahaha... Well, I can tell u it works... I get to church at 7:54... Took me 25 minutes... that's a PB ladies and gentlemen hahaha
Anyways... Working back at the video store now... That's right I mentioned it in my last post... Been training with the gang on their Australia's got talent show... Man they work hard... Inspiring... So that's my weekend... but then check this out...
A few crazies are crazy enough to organise a run for Sunday night (double demerits btw)... so we all meet up late Sunday night, this whole time I'm under the impression we're heading out into the boonies for the runs, but lo and behold, we're going to old pacific highway... Hot damn, why not call the police in advance and ask em 2 bring the salad for the party? Anyways, I decide to go, there's a fair few of us... Too many actually... about 15-20 cars meet at the meet point... Mainly hard parkers... So the first group take off... we wanna run... not park... We arrive before the start point and chill for a minute, there's about 8 of us... A few middle easterners see our meet and come to check us out in their 4 door GTST... Realise we're waiting for sumone so they rip a few heli's on their way out hahaha... Real classy boys (sarcasm much)... So we take off for the touge... was a pretty epic run, seems that rwd silvia's do better on the touge than awd rexies and evo's?! So I find I'm stuck behind the awd's at a crawl, we clear the first stage and I'm called to be in second place, and punch off again, during second stage, we come across a T intersection and what else do we see but the boys in blue... Nice... So the guy in front of me sprints out into the hills... and I'm following close behind... This was the fun part hhaha, we actually had something to run away from... Pity we can't keep going to do 3rd and 4th stages, we just pull back onto the freeway and head off to Sevo's for some demo'ing at an estate. So you'd think that was a pretty close encounter hahaha, not close enough... I notice around Baulkham Hills, the car behind me is flashing me like mad, I have no idea what he wants, the car in front of me is acting strange to, he signals to turn into a back street, and doesn't commit... Eventually he does so I follow him, the car that's been flashing keeps driving off on the main road and another car turns in behind us and we end up splitting up, then I look to see who it is and notice the disco lights flare up hahahaha... Oh dang... I pull over and he stops behind me, the car in front turns the next left and get's away... Then... what is this? The copper pulls out and goes after him?! Man I punch it outta there QUICK SMART... a left here, right there, another right, a couple lefts, and I'm in someones yard, I shut my car down and lay low for a while. You'd think I'd go hoome after this, but no I think we were thirsting for trouble that night... I end up meeting the guys again at Sevo's, we hang for a bit, too nervous to do demo's... The dude that got chased got defected, he's pretty shattered, but ok... We all go home...
Time warp..
It's good Friday, a public holiday... damn it's early... But damn I'm late! 7:15! We all have to be at church at 8:00 am for the prayer meeting! Now 8:30 am is hard nuff on at Burwood on a Sunday morning let alone 8:00am at Baulkam Hills on a Friday public holiday! Oh man I had a hard training session last night so went to bed as smashed as a plate at a greek wedding and would really appreciate the sleep. Anyways I said I'd be there so be there I shall... Damn gotta not be late, it takes 45 minutes to get there usually so that means I have 0 minutes to get ready! So on go the pants, in goes the toothbrush... A quick good morning to mum as I run out to start old faithful... No way am I gonna make it... Oh well, let's just try... Hahahaha... It's double demerits, I'm not silly enough to speed on these main streets... So here's there driving technique for the day... PUNCH it until u hit the speede limit hahaha... Well, I can tell u it works... I get to church at 7:54... Took me 25 minutes... that's a PB ladies and gentlemen hahaha
Anyways... Working back at the video store now... That's right I mentioned it in my last post... Been training with the gang on their Australia's got talent show... Man they work hard... Inspiring... So that's my weekend... but then check this out...
A few crazies are crazy enough to organise a run for Sunday night (double demerits btw)... so we all meet up late Sunday night, this whole time I'm under the impression we're heading out into the boonies for the runs, but lo and behold, we're going to old pacific highway... Hot damn, why not call the police in advance and ask em 2 bring the salad for the party? Anyways, I decide to go, there's a fair few of us... Too many actually... about 15-20 cars meet at the meet point... Mainly hard parkers... So the first group take off... we wanna run... not park... We arrive before the start point and chill for a minute, there's about 8 of us... A few middle easterners see our meet and come to check us out in their 4 door GTST... Realise we're waiting for sumone so they rip a few heli's on their way out hahaha... Real classy boys (sarcasm much)... So we take off for the touge... was a pretty epic run, seems that rwd silvia's do better on the touge than awd rexies and evo's?! So I find I'm stuck behind the awd's at a crawl, we clear the first stage and I'm called to be in second place, and punch off again, during second stage, we come across a T intersection and what else do we see but the boys in blue... Nice... So the guy in front of me sprints out into the hills... and I'm following close behind... This was the fun part hhaha, we actually had something to run away from... Pity we can't keep going to do 3rd and 4th stages, we just pull back onto the freeway and head off to Sevo's for some demo'ing at an estate. So you'd think that was a pretty close encounter hahaha, not close enough... I notice around Baulkham Hills, the car behind me is flashing me like mad, I have no idea what he wants, the car in front of me is acting strange to, he signals to turn into a back street, and doesn't commit... Eventually he does so I follow him, the car that's been flashing keeps driving off on the main road and another car turns in behind us and we end up splitting up, then I look to see who it is and notice the disco lights flare up hahahaha... Oh dang... I pull over and he stops behind me, the car in front turns the next left and get's away... Then... what is this? The copper pulls out and goes after him?! Man I punch it outta there QUICK SMART... a left here, right there, another right, a couple lefts, and I'm in someones yard, I shut my car down and lay low for a while. You'd think I'd go hoome after this, but no I think we were thirsting for trouble that night... I end up meeting the guys again at Sevo's, we hang for a bit, too nervous to do demo's... The dude that got chased got defected, he's pretty shattered, but ok... We all go home...
Monday, March 30, 2009
Comics, films, and AWD drift
Hello and good morning! What a thoroughly enjoyable weekend! Had such an epic meeting on Saturday with Dane in producing the graphic novel! So we moved into storyboarding, oh man we got some killer slide for the novel at the moment... Too bad it was cut short coz he had to go do stuff... But we met later on in the day to catch Watchmen... FAROUT!!! That movie kicked so much arse that even Colonel Guile would be struggling to keep up! I knew that Critics either highly rated that movie or highly floored it... I was kinda worried going in to see it as I hadn't been such a follower of the original graphic novel, but I payed due diligence in reading up on it and doing research on it a while ago before the movie was released... WELL payed off! That was by far one of the most full, layered and thoughtful movies I've seen in a long long time! Superb! For those of you who plan to watch it, I recommend you do some background reading on the watchmen story and characters, all can be found on wikipedia.
Sunday, I spooled out to Oran Park raceway in another production assist role at superlap... A drool-worthy contest of Australia's fastest time attack cars (meaning that they're Jap!!!). Heaps of photo's can be caught HERE! Oh man I got to sit shotgun in an R34 GTR!!! That light blue one GTR088... It belonged to Dom and it was QUICK as a sting!! That thing had no problem lighting up all 4 wheels (GTR's are AWD)... He was telling me there's 4 levels of hecticness they tune the car to, and that on that day it was set to level 2... Enough to break loose but still be in control... Oh man it was EPIC!!! I got to rub shoulders with owner, mechanics, drivers and workshoppers who build australia's fastest street and time attack cars. I even chased and R35 GTR and caught up to it on foot! Hahaha it was driving away with one of Andrews camera's... 400kw in these legs man! So epic day, thoroughly enjoyed, am looking forward to getting trained so I can be more involved with camera setting up and running (which also means getting payed).
I got to ride shotgun in this thing!
And I caught up to this thing on foot!
This thing was WEAPON
Tilton Interiors Evolution was off the hook!
Sunday, I spooled out to Oran Park raceway in another production assist role at superlap... A drool-worthy contest of Australia's fastest time attack cars (meaning that they're Jap!!!). Heaps of photo's can be caught HERE! Oh man I got to sit shotgun in an R34 GTR!!! That light blue one GTR088... It belonged to Dom and it was QUICK as a sting!! That thing had no problem lighting up all 4 wheels (GTR's are AWD)... He was telling me there's 4 levels of hecticness they tune the car to, and that on that day it was set to level 2... Enough to break loose but still be in control... Oh man it was EPIC!!! I got to rub shoulders with owner, mechanics, drivers and workshoppers who build australia's fastest street and time attack cars. I even chased and R35 GTR and caught up to it on foot! Hahaha it was driving away with one of Andrews camera's... 400kw in these legs man! So epic day, thoroughly enjoyed, am looking forward to getting trained so I can be more involved with camera setting up and running (which also means getting payed).
I got to ride shotgun in this thing!
And I caught up to this thing on foot!
This thing was WEAPON
Tilton Interiors Evolution was off the hook!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
This goes out to Brent
Hahahaha so Brent and I have been talking on SMS and email since Monday... We were supposed to have lunch with Biggie, Che, Eugene and Peter at Vanessa's workplace (she works at the food level of the GPO)... Anyways we obviously talk about cars lots seeying he's rebuilding his car AKA the Gypsie coz of the curse that follows it! It's blown 5 motors and has been running for 18 months of the years that Brent has owned it hahaha. With the stuff going into his car I've told him that it's more beast than machine now hahaha How funny because the thing pretty much contains his blood seeing how much it cuts him everytime he puts his hands to it...
Odd isn't it, how our car's become like our own... Made up metaphorically and to a degree, literally with our own blood, sweat and tears... It's not dissimilar to the dragon from Beowulf... Half man... Half Angelina Jolie (grins)... They certainly are entities of the Netherwold... Succubii who drain us of our blood, wild beasts who prey on our flesh, oh how many a knuckle skin I have lost to the preying of my Netherworld mistress... The Gypsie must be satisfied by constant blood offerings, vampires by the trickling of our blood, beasts by the quiver of our flesh... My beast demands my sick love and affection, my undivided attention, sadistic and twisted, much like Akito Sohma... They suck our life essence and eat us out of house, home and sanity leaving us a writhing mess of defeated men... Alas, we'll always come crawling back to this place... For want of such a wild and seductive world...
Odd isn't it, how our car's become like our own... Made up metaphorically and to a degree, literally with our own blood, sweat and tears... It's not dissimilar to the dragon from Beowulf... Half man... Half Angelina Jolie (grins)... They certainly are entities of the Netherwold... Succubii who drain us of our blood, wild beasts who prey on our flesh, oh how many a knuckle skin I have lost to the preying of my Netherworld mistress... The Gypsie must be satisfied by constant blood offerings, vampires by the trickling of our blood, beasts by the quiver of our flesh... My beast demands my sick love and affection, my undivided attention, sadistic and twisted, much like Akito Sohma... They suck our life essence and eat us out of house, home and sanity leaving us a writhing mess of defeated men... Alas, we'll always come crawling back to this place... For want of such a wild and seductive world...
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Raining hard... I don't take enough photo's!
Hello! I'm bored at home... Eugene, Pete and Ray's birthday party was on today, Hahaha 25, 26, 27 respectively! Hmmm... I don't think I ever imagined myself as a 25 year when I was in my teens... It was a cool party! We were at Maroubra beach and the weather was perfect ALL the way till the end! THEN it started raining in TORRENTS... I rode with Mick today, although we finally got my car back up and running... Hahahaha here's an embarassing one. So dad rings me yesterday while I'm at work saying my car alarms going ballistic, I say coz it's the battery on it's last leg, so I explain to him how 2 switch it off, and he does so... Today I take the battery out and charge it off dad's car for about 10 minutes and reinstall it into mine, I try turning my car on and it won't even click over, so I call the NRMA and the dude get's here and is sussing it out. turns out my battery is fine and actually received charge from dad's car, I've just forgotten to turn the immobiliser off!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA.... Yeah yeah blonde moment.
MY THOUGHTS! I don't take enough photo's anymore! I missed out on taking photo's of the nam nuong patty that DT made today! and also, what really drove the thought home was this... I was looking for photo's of a cage calmp camera mount, I worked with one at powercruise but failed 2 take a photo of it so now I have no idea what I'm looking for! In the past I had always taken pics of the cool stuff i came across so would always be able to find reference for cool stuff i had come across. Oh wells... Anyways, I realise this topic is kinda boring... Well I want a cage mount so I record myself when I'm at the drifts... I'd like to try video and photo stuff on a dynamic car... So yeah, I'd like to get a cage mount.
So! Have I mentioned I'm off to see my 3d animation teacher this monday?!?! I'm so excited!!! Imagine they ask me 2 be a 3d teacher?! I WOULD SO WANT THAT!!!!!!!! So anyways, let's see what goes on, I'd love to get a heads up into industry.
Oh! and I know I haven't posted anything about martial arts, but yeah, part of my dojo is gonna be on Australia's got talent, please vote for them! let' me paste their vid here for u
Hakan, Lincoln, and Eleni... I train with these guys on Wednesdays, farout, I gotta train harder!!!
MY THOUGHTS! I don't take enough photo's anymore! I missed out on taking photo's of the nam nuong patty that DT made today! and also, what really drove the thought home was this... I was looking for photo's of a cage calmp camera mount, I worked with one at powercruise but failed 2 take a photo of it so now I have no idea what I'm looking for! In the past I had always taken pics of the cool stuff i came across so would always be able to find reference for cool stuff i had come across. Oh wells... Anyways, I realise this topic is kinda boring... Well I want a cage mount so I record myself when I'm at the drifts... I'd like to try video and photo stuff on a dynamic car... So yeah, I'd like to get a cage mount.
So! Have I mentioned I'm off to see my 3d animation teacher this monday?!?! I'm so excited!!! Imagine they ask me 2 be a 3d teacher?! I WOULD SO WANT THAT!!!!!!!! So anyways, let's see what goes on, I'd love to get a heads up into industry.
Oh! and I know I haven't posted anything about martial arts, but yeah, part of my dojo is gonna be on Australia's got talent, please vote for them! let' me paste their vid here for u
Hakan, Lincoln, and Eleni... I train with these guys on Wednesdays, farout, I gotta train harder!!!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Stuff happens, blogs get written
Hi! I was meant to use this title 2 posts ago! but I realised I was gonna talk mainly on finance on that one! so I renamed it! Today... It's gonna a be a bit more light-hearted hahaha...
So my car's run outta batteries... I washed it on Saturday before Helen and Dennis' birthday party (It was a Cosplay party!!!) and I carelessly left the key turned to the ON position meaning the dash lights were all sucking at the power. When I clean my car, I CLEAN my car, I took hours doing it, inside and out, vacuuming, Armor-alling, rinsing, washing, cleaning the WHOLE rim of each wheel, tire shining, and after the whole job, I left it sit just being all cool, a couple hours later, the alarm goes off! Oh no not a good sign, she only does that when someone unlocks the door if she's locked (which she wasn't) or if the batteries died... So I ended up getting a ride with Daniel to the party, I drove coz he dressed as Barrett Wallace and thus had a bazooka strapped to his arm, hahah that bazooka came complete with real firing action! The party was awesome, I was dressed as Marshall Law, Bruce Lee looking kinda guy, but it was so mad to see everyone put in an effort! Perhaps I'll get off my rusty dusty and stick some pics up on my lunch break!
OK! Pics, I did it!
SO! Anyways, it decides to rain the very next day and has been raining consistently since then! I had no way to get to connect group coz Brian took mum's car, and mum and dad took dad's car, and I'm left with a clean car that has a flat battery! Jane was kind enough to lend me hers... Oh! If you're wondering why I couldn't jumpstart my car, it's because it's parked in my driveway
That's my room you see there and it's at the end of the driveway, and the driveway can only fit one car at a time, so it's basically cornered! So anyways I'm gonna have to take the battery out, charge it up, then reinstall to get out of this situation...
NOW... Check out this thought that I had while chatting to Khang today... I can't go out with a 19 year old girl! I'm fast approaching too old! It would be frowned upon! Since when was a 19 year old girl too young to date! Let me paste an extract to an email chain that a few of the guys/gal and myself were involved with a lil earlier.
?Hahaha What brought up this thought? Well Khang and I were talking stereotype AZN's in cabra and how the guys date ridiculously younger girls... I got to thinking "Why don't they go out with 19 year olds at least? What do 19 year olds get up to that make them so hard to hook up with?" Then I realised that if I hooked up with a 19 year old, she'd be like... epically, totally young... 19 year olds, like... do uni and stuff... I'd be the old guy picking her up from uni and driving her out as her and her friends wave "bye" to each other... I'd be that dude that isn't part of the crew but comes to take her home or drop her off or seldom goes out with all of them to the club and just sits by himself why they all talk about 19 year old matters... Hahaha... Check this out... Her uni guy friends would look up to me as the guys that owns the drift car, does up cars and worked for PS3 before it got released... I'd totally be "UNCLE" status!!!"
Hahahaha! It's totally true! I never realised, and I can't rememember when I rolled-over into the segment of males who should not date 19 year olds hahaha... I just had a chat to Leanne about it and wethinks most of the ewww comes from the fact that we'd be at different stages of life, I'd be a worker and she'd be a student... Perhaps if she's 19, working fulltime, know where she's heading, then it wouldn't be so bad? But then another though... She's nearly the same age as my lil bro hahaha... I'd be so a cradle snatcher.
So my car's run outta batteries... I washed it on Saturday before Helen and Dennis' birthday party (It was a Cosplay party!!!) and I carelessly left the key turned to the ON position meaning the dash lights were all sucking at the power. When I clean my car, I CLEAN my car, I took hours doing it, inside and out, vacuuming, Armor-alling, rinsing, washing, cleaning the WHOLE rim of each wheel, tire shining, and after the whole job, I left it sit just being all cool, a couple hours later, the alarm goes off! Oh no not a good sign, she only does that when someone unlocks the door if she's locked (which she wasn't) or if the batteries died... So I ended up getting a ride with Daniel to the party, I drove coz he dressed as Barrett Wallace and thus had a bazooka strapped to his arm, hahah that bazooka came complete with real firing action! The party was awesome, I was dressed as Marshall Law, Bruce Lee looking kinda guy, but it was so mad to see everyone put in an effort! Perhaps I'll get off my rusty dusty and stick some pics up on my lunch break!
OK! Pics, I did it!
SO! Anyways, it decides to rain the very next day and has been raining consistently since then! I had no way to get to connect group coz Brian took mum's car, and mum and dad took dad's car, and I'm left with a clean car that has a flat battery! Jane was kind enough to lend me hers... Oh! If you're wondering why I couldn't jumpstart my car, it's because it's parked in my driveway
That's my room you see there and it's at the end of the driveway, and the driveway can only fit one car at a time, so it's basically cornered! So anyways I'm gonna have to take the battery out, charge it up, then reinstall to get out of this situation...
NOW... Check out this thought that I had while chatting to Khang today... I can't go out with a 19 year old girl! I'm fast approaching too old! It would be frowned upon! Since when was a 19 year old girl too young to date! Let me paste an extract to an email chain that a few of the guys/gal and myself were involved with a lil earlier.
?Hahaha What brought up this thought? Well Khang and I were talking stereotype AZN's in cabra and how the guys date ridiculously younger girls... I got to thinking "Why don't they go out with 19 year olds at least? What do 19 year olds get up to that make them so hard to hook up with?" Then I realised that if I hooked up with a 19 year old, she'd be like... epically, totally young... 19 year olds, like... do uni and stuff... I'd be the old guy picking her up from uni and driving her out as her and her friends wave "bye" to each other... I'd be that dude that isn't part of the crew but comes to take her home or drop her off or seldom goes out with all of them to the club and just sits by himself why they all talk about 19 year old matters... Hahaha... Check this out... Her uni guy friends would look up to me as the guys that owns the drift car, does up cars and worked for PS3 before it got released... I'd totally be "UNCLE" status!!!"
Hahahaha! It's totally true! I never realised, and I can't rememember when I rolled-over into the segment of males who should not date 19 year olds hahaha... I just had a chat to Leanne about it and wethinks most of the ewww comes from the fact that we'd be at different stages of life, I'd be a worker and she'd be a student... Perhaps if she's 19, working fulltime, know where she's heading, then it wouldn't be so bad? But then another though... She's nearly the same age as my lil bro hahaha... I'd be so a cradle snatcher.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Production Assist at Powercruise
So... What an unforgettable weekend... I've spent the last 2 days, immersed in the haze of burning rubber, the aroma of burning petroleum, with the taste of gritted sweat on my palate and incessant ringing of combustion in my cranial dome. Yes it was Powercruise EC.
It all started with a post on Nissan Silvia forums from Andrew who was looking for a couple of volunteers to help him out with a production assistant role for the Powercruise EC DVD... Free shirts? Free caps? Free entry? I'm in! There was a catch though... You had to be prepared to go on-track, meet and greet high profile motorists in person, go for rides in insane cars, rig expensive film equipment and get involved in the production of a DVD. Alas, prepared to face the challenges, and keen to grow my experience in production and media, I put my hand up and got accepted as one out of two volunteers.
So I rock up to Eastern Creek Raceway, sweet talk the wonderful dear lady at the front office to pass me a media staff vest without having to put a $50 deposit, get to the marshaling area and meet Andrew the producer and Pat the cameraman for the first time.
A brief rundown of what to expect of the weekend, meeting up with Rick my fellow assistant, we then set off into the abyss of roaring motorblocks, spooling turbo's and shredded tires. The job was easy enough, mounting and unmounting cameras to panels, windows, rollcages, making sure they get taken to where they need to be, and just odd runner jobs... Sure this coulda just been another voluntary job to check out something cool and score freebies, but beyond that it was filled to seam-bursting capacity with opportunity for one who wanted to get involved in the scene! Rubbing shoulders with such names such as Luke Fink, Anthony Bilic, the Driftmob team, Trick & Mansweto not to mention working with Andrew Hawkins (ex Ignition DVD, Blood Sweat & Gears now Jet Multimedia). There was plenty of time to wander around, get to know people, check out some crazy rides and having a camera and mount in-hand was license to jump in any car you wished in the open cruise sessions. It was such an insight meeting people from all walks of life, witnessing them come gather together for a common passion in motor vehicles. From young Matt, powersliding in his 2nd car, a Datsun 1600 running it's 2nd FJ20 block, blowing second gear and redline clutch dumping third to initate heart stopping drift, to down-on-his-luck unemployed pensioner Brad in his SLR5000 Torana that he bought and built as a 17 year old, it was unforgettable meeting such a diverse range of people sharing a common passion.
What really dropped my clutch was getting to know the guys in and around Driftmob. So I rock up to the martialing area and all around me I'm surrounded by muscle cars... Loud... Proud... Metallic... Bright... And commanding attention, but then I look through the crowd and find one, two, three, four, five Silvias, lined with a few Skylines... Just chilling out minding their own busines... 'I'm going THERE!'. So in short, I get to spend the next 2 days hanging out with some of Australias finest drifters. Being the production assistant guy, I get to go in-car and on-track to witness up-close, these guys in action!
Here's an in-car shot of Anthony 'Hectic' Bilic as he's getting ready to head out onto the track for the days drift demo, we rigged up a cage cam on his rollcage and my job was to make sure that it was rolling when he hit the track to catch his action. Down to Earth and friendly, Anthony really shows his finesse on the track.
This is the lineup of the drift demo guys... Heading the pack is Andrew's S13 driven by Victoria's Luke Fink... One of Australia's finest... These cars shredded through countless tires over the weekend and Andrew's car ended up blowing a tire and breaking a gearbox!
These are on-track shots of the drifters starting grid... Uwaaaaa! My job here was to make sure that the camera on the blue GTR was running. Basically the cars weren't allowed to be released until I gave the all clear that the camera was on and running! Coooooooooooool!
But of course it wasn't just the drifts that took place... There were plenty of cruises, off street races (drags), burnouts, dynos, show 'n' shines and powerskids! Enveloping the entire raceway in plumes of vehicular madness!
Even a Nissan GTR made it's way to the show... This is the first time I've seen it in person and I got close enough to see the dust that had gathered on it from all the skids everyone was ripping on the track!
The powerskids had my jaws drop to the tarmac... I've always appreciated the deafening roar of high powered big blocks... But to be so close and to smell the combination of methanol, rubber, octane, blood, sweat and gears made it an unforgettable experience! It really was a weekend to remember... It had really ignited a reappreciation in me for the range of motor vehicles that get built and forged a respect and appreciation for those who craft them... These people are just like you and I, some hold day jobs, some don't, some go to school, some like partying hard, others like fishing! Boys and girls alike! Motoring enthusiasm really is alive and well!
This is Trick and Mansweto's Ford Capris, the fastest street registered vehicle in Australia... A-NI-MAL... Trick and Mansweto really are just really loving family guys, it was heartwarming to see 2 honest, hardworking men who's family were all there to support them and have a fun family day out...
All in all, I had an unforgettable day at Powercruise EC... I'll definitely be making a few of the faces familiar ones, and look forward to future events. I'm definitely down for more production assistant work! Thanks to Andrew Hawkins of Jet Multimedia for this amazing opportunity and a truely unforgettable experience... Thanks to Rick for returning my phone and wallet when I ditched em in the suite... And for all the crew and drivers for making the weekend what it was!
It all started with a post on Nissan Silvia forums from Andrew who was looking for a couple of volunteers to help him out with a production assistant role for the Powercruise EC DVD... Free shirts? Free caps? Free entry? I'm in! There was a catch though... You had to be prepared to go on-track, meet and greet high profile motorists in person, go for rides in insane cars, rig expensive film equipment and get involved in the production of a DVD. Alas, prepared to face the challenges, and keen to grow my experience in production and media, I put my hand up and got accepted as one out of two volunteers.
So I rock up to Eastern Creek Raceway, sweet talk the wonderful dear lady at the front office to pass me a media staff vest without having to put a $50 deposit, get to the marshaling area and meet Andrew the producer and Pat the cameraman for the first time.
A brief rundown of what to expect of the weekend, meeting up with Rick my fellow assistant, we then set off into the abyss of roaring motorblocks, spooling turbo's and shredded tires. The job was easy enough, mounting and unmounting cameras to panels, windows, rollcages, making sure they get taken to where they need to be, and just odd runner jobs... Sure this coulda just been another voluntary job to check out something cool and score freebies, but beyond that it was filled to seam-bursting capacity with opportunity for one who wanted to get involved in the scene! Rubbing shoulders with such names such as Luke Fink, Anthony Bilic, the Driftmob team, Trick & Mansweto not to mention working with Andrew Hawkins (ex Ignition DVD, Blood Sweat & Gears now Jet Multimedia). There was plenty of time to wander around, get to know people, check out some crazy rides and having a camera and mount in-hand was license to jump in any car you wished in the open cruise sessions. It was such an insight meeting people from all walks of life, witnessing them come gather together for a common passion in motor vehicles. From young Matt, powersliding in his 2nd car, a Datsun 1600 running it's 2nd FJ20 block, blowing second gear and redline clutch dumping third to initate heart stopping drift, to down-on-his-luck unemployed pensioner Brad in his SLR5000 Torana that he bought and built as a 17 year old, it was unforgettable meeting such a diverse range of people sharing a common passion.
What really dropped my clutch was getting to know the guys in and around Driftmob. So I rock up to the martialing area and all around me I'm surrounded by muscle cars... Loud... Proud... Metallic... Bright... And commanding attention, but then I look through the crowd and find one, two, three, four, five Silvias, lined with a few Skylines... Just chilling out minding their own busines... 'I'm going THERE!'. So in short, I get to spend the next 2 days hanging out with some of Australias finest drifters. Being the production assistant guy, I get to go in-car and on-track to witness up-close, these guys in action!
Here's an in-car shot of Anthony 'Hectic' Bilic as he's getting ready to head out onto the track for the days drift demo, we rigged up a cage cam on his rollcage and my job was to make sure that it was rolling when he hit the track to catch his action. Down to Earth and friendly, Anthony really shows his finesse on the track.
This is the lineup of the drift demo guys... Heading the pack is Andrew's S13 driven by Victoria's Luke Fink... One of Australia's finest... These cars shredded through countless tires over the weekend and Andrew's car ended up blowing a tire and breaking a gearbox!
These are on-track shots of the drifters starting grid... Uwaaaaa! My job here was to make sure that the camera on the blue GTR was running. Basically the cars weren't allowed to be released until I gave the all clear that the camera was on and running! Coooooooooooool!
But of course it wasn't just the drifts that took place... There were plenty of cruises, off street races (drags), burnouts, dynos, show 'n' shines and powerskids! Enveloping the entire raceway in plumes of vehicular madness!
Even a Nissan GTR made it's way to the show... This is the first time I've seen it in person and I got close enough to see the dust that had gathered on it from all the skids everyone was ripping on the track!
The powerskids had my jaws drop to the tarmac... I've always appreciated the deafening roar of high powered big blocks... But to be so close and to smell the combination of methanol, rubber, octane, blood, sweat and gears made it an unforgettable experience! It really was a weekend to remember... It had really ignited a reappreciation in me for the range of motor vehicles that get built and forged a respect and appreciation for those who craft them... These people are just like you and I, some hold day jobs, some don't, some go to school, some like partying hard, others like fishing! Boys and girls alike! Motoring enthusiasm really is alive and well!
This is Trick and Mansweto's Ford Capris, the fastest street registered vehicle in Australia... A-NI-MAL... Trick and Mansweto really are just really loving family guys, it was heartwarming to see 2 honest, hardworking men who's family were all there to support them and have a fun family day out...
All in all, I had an unforgettable day at Powercruise EC... I'll definitely be making a few of the faces familiar ones, and look forward to future events. I'm definitely down for more production assistant work! Thanks to Andrew Hawkins of Jet Multimedia for this amazing opportunity and a truely unforgettable experience... Thanks to Rick for returning my phone and wallet when I ditched em in the suite... And for all the crew and drivers for making the weekend what it was!
Saturday, February 21, 2009
First article is up!!!
Woohoo! So after all this procrastination, I've finally completed my first article/techinical write-up!! I posted it up in a few areas of NS and will get to putting it up in a few other places like SilviaNSW and maybe even SAU... But wow that was fun! I hope it proves useful to lots of people! I enjoy writing about my experiences and what I came across, it's just the formatting, copyrighting and legalistic stuff that's crappy and boring. You can check out the NS articles post here. So I think I'm gonna go get me something to eat now... I've been on tis computer for way too long! Who would have thought that I'd spend more time on the pc doing a writeup than playing games! Well hopefully there's more articles to come!
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