On the last day of the decade, December 31, 2009 – I’ve put together this highlight post of my 2009. The year has been great for me, I started my own production company, had several firsts (NASCAR race, Bonneville Speedweek, Pikes Peak, and FIA GT), and crisscrossed the United States on road trips no less...
Yearly Archives: 2009
Wrecked Magazine Interview
Issue #13 of Wrecked Magazine is out now. It’s the annual Pro Am issue, which focuses on the Amateur Formula Drift drivers who earned their professional licenses this season. It also features an interview with me! I am really excited about the interview and the issue. Wrecked Magazine’s Industry Indsider – Will Roegge. All of...
A Day with Will – Costa Rica 1
I’ll admit, most of the work I do allows me to travel. In the past couple of years, I’ve been able to visit some amazing places with jobs. When my schedule started to ease up towards the end of 2009 I decided to take a break, and… gasp, go on a vacation. My friend Katie...
A Day with Will – Costa Rica Preview
A Day with Will is the post category that came out of ‘A Day in the Life of…” challenge. Which was a single day photo exchange between myself and KD almost a year ago. It has since evolved into being a day in my life. Any day that I pick and have my camera around...
A Day with Will – moo goo gai pan week
Moo Goo Gai Pan week 2009. The week when Brian Steele and Jason Buckley are the same age for the year. Better known as the week between their respective birthdays. This year, a bunch of us went to Ocean Seafood in LA’s Chinatown. I brought the 7D and my 50mm f1.4 to document the celebration....
Climb Attack is Dean Batchelor Award Finalist
December 8th, 2009 was the Motor Press Guild’s Dean Batchelor Award Ceremony. My short, Climb Attack was a finalist for the Audio/Visual category. An honor just to be nominated. The other finalists: Audi’s Truth in 24 and the BBC’s Top Gear. Top Gear, being the most popular automotive television program in the world and Truth...
Recent Work – Nation of GO tour in Review
Nation of GO Tour in Review from Nation of GO on Vimeo. NationofGO.com – Tour in Review The Nation of GO Tour has reached its final stop, so we’re taking a look back on three weeks on the road. Shot for the BFGoodrich Nation of GO tour. The Nation of GO Tour is a 20+-day road trip...
Will Roegge is a Medium Monster
Will Roegge is a Medium Monster from Will Roegge on Vimeo. Death Machines, asked Joshua Herron and I to do video interviews about our backgrounds and specifically our drift videos. If you have ever wondered what got me into shooting automotive videos, what I do on the daily, and if I look like Harry Caray...
VOW – FECAL FACE Jeremy Fish Visit
Video Of the Week – Fecal Face, Jeremy Fish Studio Visit. Fecal Face, the San Francisco based art website, visits Jeremy Fish’s studio to check out his largest body of work to date – for his show Weathering The Storm. The video gives insight to mr.Fish’s process and inspiration for the collection. Which seems to...
Recent Work – Scion Racing Year in Review 2009
Scion Racing – Scion Racing Year in Review 2009 Scion Racing has been up to big things in 2009. Two Scion Tc drift cars, numerous Tc time attack cars, and a wicked 2jz powered drag car. To show the racing programs style and performance, they came to me to create a year in review video....
TV drop
My roommate Aya’s Camry died after overheating. Our TV stopped working. Sounds like two negative things, wrong, we made the most of the situation by taking care of both problems – at the same time. By dropping the busted up TV onto the Camry out of our third story apartment. Luckily, Joshua Herron was in...
VOW – Rhys Millen on Carson Daly
“If you have ever been on YouTube and seen Rhys Millen’s videos…” Here is Rhys’ segment on Last Call with Carson Daly. Thanks to Andy Sapp for the capture and post of this clip. It features a TON of footage from Climb Attack. Sweet exposure for Rhys and Climb Attack. Very cool.
Recent Work – Portrait of a Champion
Speedhunters – Portrait of a Champion Chris Forsberg, the 2009 Formula Drift Champion, is the first champion to come from a drifting background and not a professional motorsports background. NOS Energy Drink and Speedhunters.com teamed up to document Chris’ weekend at the Formula D finals at Irwindale. After writing the interview questions and operating camera...
ART PANTS – Linhbergh & I go 365 blogging
Linhbergh and I had been talking about doing a 365 photo challenge for a couple of months now. What is a 365 photo challenge? Its simple, take a photograph a day – for an entire year. ARTPANTS.com or RODCHONGSPANTS.com is that challenge blog site. Linhbergh and I will each post an image a day of...
Climb Attack finalist for Dean Batchelor Award
Climb Attack, Rhys Millen’s 2009 Record-Setting Pike’s Peak run is a Finalist for the 2009 Motor Press Guild – Dean Batchelor Award for Audio/Visual. Climb Attack is a short film which documents Rhys Millen’s 12:09 ascent up Pike’s Peak during the 2009 Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb. The short, was envisioned by Rhys and developed...
Recent Work – Honda Research Center
NationofGO.com – Team Honda Research Honda Research Center, Honda Element drift. For 2010 the Honda backed Element will be in the Formula Drift series – here is a preview of the Element sliding around the Honda Research Center test track in Marysville, Ohio. Shot for the BFGoodrich Nation of GO tour. The Nation of GO...
Scion SEMA Preview
The Scion Gallery on Helms Ave, Culver City. Not to be mistaken for the Helms Bakery off Venice. Different spot. Both hip, in their own respect. As a pre-SEMA show, Scion displayed a few of it’s project cars at the Scion Gallery. Scion really has a good sense of whats good. The Kogi truck has...
SEMA – Portrait of a Champion Premiere
Electronic Arts/Speedhunters x NOS Energy Drink present Chris Forsberg – Portrait of a Champion. Premiering this Tuesday November 4th, 2009 at the Bank in the Bellagio Hotel/Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada. Thanks to NOS & Speedhunters for giving me the chance to Direct this short! It came out excellent thanks to Rod Chong, Riley Vigier, and...
VOW – Drift Mechaniks revisited
Andy Sapp. Never seems to stop impressing me with his multitude of talents, the man is a: designer, driver, cinematographer, editor, MoGrapher, and lumberjack quality beard grower, to name a few. Andy just released this edit, which is a cut from my footage from DMGGMASD. Drift Mechanik’s Gossip Girl Marathon and Some Drifting was a...