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Quick Snaps – JOB Chateau Elan FAIL

While JOB’ing it up at the Chateau Elan I smashed my head into the ceiling – FAIL.

Linhbergh got this snap mid-fall on the return. The beds were too soft and the ceiling was too low.

Gotta pay the cost, to be the boss. Or some other cheezy idiom for the occasional cost of being rad and doing goofy stuff.

Quick Snaps – FD Atlanta Screen Grabs

Yo! One of the reasons I started this blog was to let people in on how I shoot and create my work. These two images are screen grabs from Final Cut Pro and from footage from the 2010 Formula Drift Altanta event. Since November 2009, I have been integrating the Canon 7D more into my productions. Along with my work horse video camera – my Panasonic HPX-170.

The top image of Ken Gushi is from the bottom of the hill at Road Atlanta. 1080p/24 Canon 7D with the Canon 400mm f2.8 IS

The bottom image of Andy Sapp is from the starting grid at Road Atlanta. 1080/24p Canon 7D with the Zeiss 85mm f1.4

Both shots were graded with Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Looks 1.0

More coming soon. Back to editing.

A Day with Will – London via Linhbergh

Linhbergh and I rode the express to Paddington station and then hopped on the Underground to explore downtown London. We had a few hours to kill before our flight to Atlanta for Formula Drift. Linhbergh is a solid photographer and being able to travel around the city and take photos with him is a blast.

As part of Keep Drifting Fun, Hobo Herron and I have been growing out our beards since Long Beach. So this is about 2 and half weeks of beard’age for me.

So much bokeh, you would never know that I’m in Paddington station. London was chilly during the entire week I was there.

It also means that I can try out some of Linhbergh’s arsenal of Canon glass. Pristine “L” Glass. Running around the bank holiday deserted streets.

On the banks of the Thames by the London Eye.

Then we swung by NERO coffee for some breakfast outside of Big Ben and Westminster. Looking rather homeless on the steps.

Praying or getting a puddle reflection shot with my Canon 7D.

JOB – London, England

JOB, Jumping On Beds in London, England. Photos by Linhbergh. Added a pillow into the mix to do some snow & skate tricks. This was my first time doing a proper Jumping On Beds shoot in a few months.

Recent Work – Top Car Challenge

Castrol Syntec Top Car Challenge :30 Promo Spot

Production Company: Medium Monster

Project: Thirty second promotional spot for the Syntec Top Car Challenge
Role: Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Colorist. Produced by Ricky Chu

Shot on the Canon 7D and the Sony EX-1 (two driving insert shots)

Quick Snap – Credentials

In December 2007 I was given my first name badge at a event. The badge was my credential for entry and to work as a camera operator. Now, over three years later, my bundle of badges has grown. From being a tour member of the Nation of GO team, X-Games media credentials, three years of the Sundance film festival, FIA GT races, 24H of Dubai, Pike’s Peak Hill Climb, three seasons of Formula Drift, two years of the Long Beach Grand Prix, Mitsubishi press events, Bonneville Speed Week, the launch of the Microsoft store, and countless corporate meetings – the stack is big. It makes me smile to think of the past, the friends, events, and places I’ve been. It also makes me remember the Dr.Suess book Oh the Places You’ll Go that my mom & dad gave me at graduation – and think of the future.

I’m more qualified now and hungrier than ever.

Quick Snaps – My DC Shoes

About a year and a half ago, I became fascinated with high tops. Ditched the low top-low cut shoes I had been wearing for years in favor of a different flavor – high tops. There are many brands that make high top sneakers, but only one that I’ve found and like enough to buy pair after pair – DC Shoes. Right now, I’m on my sixth pair of DC high tops and that’s no easy task. I abuse shoes. In college, I murdered a pair of Reebok Classics in less than a month. Destroyed. Stitching was popping out, toe cap was worn, and they were faded.

My feet have been wrapped in DC goodness and been all over the place. If you follow this blog, you know I travel for work, and if you catch me on the street I’m probably wearing a pair of bright DCs. In the image above, the shoes start in top right and end in bottom left chronologically Oldest to Newest pair of high tops.

These brown, blue, and tan Spartans are my first pair of high top DCs. I owned a few pairs of low top DCs prior to the Spartans, but these shoes made me fall in love with the feel, the look, and the style – the color is understated and the design is clean.

These spartans are special. I learned to ride a motorcycle in this pair. Check out the wear in front of the laces on the toe cap from my motorcycle’s shift lever.

These three are my newest. The white/blue/green spartans are fresh. I usually only bring them out when I know they will stay clean. Which us difficult for me to achieve – because I tend to spontaneous break dance, jump around, and rock out.

These rebounds are worn like a good book’s jacket or the lines on a elderly person’s face. If these shoes could talk, they would tell you about walking around in Dubai, working on the Project Westy van for Keep Drifting Fun, or how they enjoy compliments about their color. This color is awesome, there is something about it that I connect with and is very representative of me. A large reason why I wear them so frequently.

These rebounds were bought at the DC store on Melrose in Los Angeles. The pattern on the inside is what sold me on them. Here is a great angle showing how I tuck the laces inside to keep the exterior even cleaner. Which also gives the tongue more poof and size. Which is a characteristic of the old late 90’s DCs which I liked in school.

The red rebounds are coated in primer over spray, have chipped plaster from ceilings while jumping on beds, and were worn across the US and back on the Nation of Go tour.

If the rebounds were a person, they would be a blue collar-hard working mechanic who secretly likes whiskey mojitos.

The new steez are the Rob Dyrdek signature mid-tops. Perforated leather, baby blue, quick lace style, and classic flat sneaker profile. Not as wide and flared at the top like the Spartans or Rebounds, but with the same style and character as the other DC’s I’ve grown to love.

Skinny jeans, a clean t-shirt, and a bright pair of DC’s – that’s me.

Recent Work – Art of Formula D: 2009 Retrospective

2009 Formula D Retrospective by Will Roegge

Premiered at the Art of Formula D: 2009 Retrospective gallery in Long Beach, California.

Featuring 2009 Formula Drift champion Chris Forsberg

Plus a linear progression through the seven round 2009 Formula Drift – Professional Drift championship series.

Produced by Medium Monster

Formula D: A 2009 Season Retrospective

Thursday April 8th, 2010 is the Formula D: A 2009 Season Retrospective gallery presented by ID Agency and Formula Drift.

It features the work of photographers: Linhbergh Nguyen, Jose Martinez, and Estevan Oriol + a new video by me. The video is going to be a re-cap of the 2009 season featuring footage from all seven rounds. Including Sonoma and Irwindale, which I shot for clients and didn’t release publicly – until now.

Don’t forget the first round of Formula Drift is this weekend in downtown Long Beach.

Automotive – Modified Magazine Scion NY Auto Show

My roommate Peter Tarach was at the New York Auto Show where Scion unveiled the new tC & iQ. Instead of going the regular interview route Pete used a 5D MII in photo mode to burst still images. Then in editing, he strung them together to create movement through the booth. Instead of being 24 or 30 frames a second – bursting the 5D at around 7 frames per second with a blur free shutter speed (above 1/100th).

Check it out. It has great camera movement. Nice work Pete. Way to make something innovative. Instead of the usual video.

Recent Work – 2011 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport

Mitsubishi Motors North America 2011 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport

Production Company: Medium Monster
Project: showcase the 2011 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport for auto show video monitors and internet marketing.
Role: Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Colorist.

Shot on the Canon 7D & Panasonic HPX-170 in 1080/24p.

Edited in Final Cut Pro. Graded in Magic Bullet Looks. Compressed with h264 codec.

VOW – Something Good Can Work

Video Of the Week – Something Good Can Work by Two Door Cinema Club. Pittsy, yes, thank you.

There are a few friends of mine who know my musical tastes and share a similar palette that recommend tracks for me. These friends are invaluable because music is constantly playing while I’m living my day. One of these such friends in Wes Pitts. Wes didn’t just recommend Two Door Cinema, he called me an insisted that I listen to them – because he had been listening to them for over a hour straight. An hour straight on his first listen to their music.

So immediately I shared them with those phsyically close to me. Hobo got an earful. Aya probably is sick of them by now.

Noni got an email and links.

Music travels by many means. Thanks Wes.