Last Wednesday I was hanging out with Larry, and we went over to FSR in Montclair to check out Fredric Aasbø's Supra. I hadn't seen his Supra since Irwindale 2010 so I was excited to see what they were doing to it! Larry had to do a feature on the car for Speedhunters, but Fredric wasn't done doing stuff to it yet, and then it had to get… Read More
The cars are cool, but for us, it's usually the people that make an event fun and memorable. Wekfest is usually the first event of the year where we get reunited with our out-of-town photog buddies and see all our local friends in one place. Read More
While digging through thousands (okay, hundreds maybe) of my photos from this year, I came upon this conclusion: I need to either take way more photos or stop altogether. That being said, here is a compilation of not the greatest photos, but rather the greatest moments of 2011 that I happened to capture with my picture taking device. Shown above is an upset Chinese toddler whose stupid mother purchased the wrong flavor instant soup.… Read More
What a year 2011 has been. It's been such a privilege to be a part of the Life Blasters crew, and I can't wait for what 2012 holds in store for us. My first Life Blasters post was on the PGP event in March, so I think I'll start with that. Jason Cancio has probably my absolute favorite car that drives that track. Not for its JDM radness, but for its pure originality. Stock metal, stock wheels, stock aero, slammed rwd STi hatch cannot lose.… Read More
Ahhh SEMA, that once a year excuse to go to Vegas that has nearly everyone in the automotive industry working overtime for weeks. The paint on some of the cars is only days old when they show up at the convention center, and the whole place is buzzing with news of all the new things happening in 2012. Read More
While we were all in LA for Irwindale, NBC came out to Larry's house to shoot an interview segment for their show Real or Fake. Interviewer David Garte asked them all about their Stuck video as the rest of us blasted them behind the scenes. Read More
Competition day finally came around. Team America's cars had only arrived on the previous day, but everyone was able to get their cars running fine before the event started. Ross took his bike out on the track to check it out. Read More
The following two days went by fairly fast. Most of our time we spent going to the big street markets to find some cool stuff to bring home. The big market we liked was a little too far to walk to, so we got courageous and headed to the streets to get some cabs. Read More
As some of you may know, Justin Shreeve and I got the opportunity to join Larry Chen in filming the World Drift Series in Tianjin, China. Our Journey began Saturday night, as we were meeting Larry and the U.S. drivers for the event at LAX. Justin and I arrived to the airport a few hours early, so we had time to mess around with our cameras… Read More
I decided not to write anything for this one. It's hard to write two stories about the same event, and there were a lot of good photos that wouldn't have fit that well. So I give you a Larry-Syle PhotoBlog. Read More
When you get a bunch of rad media dudes together (Will Roegge, Joshua Herron, Linhbergh and Grady Nguyen, Larry Chen, Skylar Smith, Joe Ayala, and Justin Shreeve), we tend to do stupid shit. The best part is not that we do said shit, but rather that we document it and share it with anyone bored enough to watch it. Last week, the eight of us covered the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) for a number of drivers and media outlets. The thing is, we only shoot from 3-9am,… Read More
Our Blasterpals Joe and Larry were on their way back to California from Formula D Florida and stuck at DFW overnight when their flight got cancelled. Like any good media guys, they made a video. Some people were pretty upset with it, but most people loved it. Check it out: They got worried that they might get in trouble when a local Dallas news station found the video and number of views skyrocketed. Soon after that, Good Morning America caught wind of it and wants to put them on the show. Pretty cool since… Read More
Last Saturday was Larry Chen's Fourth Annual World Drift Series video premiere at his home in LA. On our way out to the festivities, Will Roegge and I rolled through the Phờ-filled Vietnamese capital of Los Angeles to pick up the wonderful Tyler Brian Money. AKA T-Money. As we arrived… Read More
Since around January, Drew and I have been planning to go to a blues show in SF with my Mom. Thursday before the show, Drew calls me and tells me he can't make it because Luke Lonberger has an opportunity to test-drift his 2011 Formula DRIFT car at Willow Springs the same day. After a lot of considering I ended up tagging along, which sounds like a small feat, but brother, it wasn't.