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 my secrets are revealed:

• How I got into shooting drifting.
• Favorite drivers.
• Plus why growing a beard is the most important part of shooting high quality digital films.

Thanks to Joey Redmond of Wrecked Magazine.

Up close with car #109 of the 2009 Gumball 3000 Rally. Piloted by Wrecked Magazine’s Joey Redmond and Victor of ID Agency. The Bentley GT is wrapped in digital camo. Hope those guys have a blast and push the car to its limits (202mph) on the rally. Bummed that I couldn’t be along for the ride- will be at D1GP US Round #1 in Anaheim. Next year guys, next year…

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Pre-Gumball decals.

Looks kinda like a big pair of Puma’s. In fact a $200k pair of Puma’s… with 780ft/lbs of torque.

Really like the offset Gumball 3000 hood decal.

A tank of a car that can do knot-60 in 4.3 ticks of the second hand.

Here are some snaps from the past few days. This is the DGA, Directors Guild of America, building across from Joey and Jason (Wrecked Magazine) new place. It has been windy. There has been some amazing cloud movement! The bronze color of the glass and the blue sky caught my eye- and here it is now for your eyeballs. 

Check out some more of the images.

Close up on the Bianchi

Pacific Ocean eats the sun for dinner every night. 

Rolled with Joey and Jason down to Attic in Buena Park, CA. Very nice, large, laid out store, with tons of boutique brands- like Franco Shade!

FRSH, FRANCO SHADE. I’ve been a fan of them since 2002- still have my all over elephant print green trucker hat. Glad to see a rolling brand doing it.

FRANCO SHADE

Joey Redmond shooting some footage of the store. 

Outside of Portillo’s in Buena Park – an amazing Camaro.

Check out that wing! This is almost as amazing as…

The quad exhaust on this Miata. Single exhaust tips for each cylinder? No need to roll up the window either. 

Until next time.

A little while back, I posted about getting to watch Chris Forsberg drag race his drift built 350z at Fontana drag strip. Joey Redmond, of Wrecked Magazine, invited me to go with him and check out the occasion. Which is a great reminder that purpose built cars can be multi-purpose and by adjusting a few things- the power can be utilized in a different form. So a car that can freely break traction in high gear can also power down, launch hard, and record a fast ET in a drag race.

Here is my edit from a day at Fontana Drag Strip drag racing with Chris Forsberg.

Let me know what you think. Seriously, I want some feedback.

The full NOS tv episode from HIN Miami is now up! Quickly making the home page of Streetfire.net

For this episode, we shot at 8th and ocean, little bit of beach volleyball and of course all of the action at the Miami Convention Center- with all of the cars @ HIN. Be sure to watch for the burberry jaguar, RC Nissan GT-R drift car, go go dancing, bikini contest, and all of the NOS energy drink your stomach can take! Corissa Furr did a nice job hosting and bookending the piece. But the real hero is the floor dolly spreader- you will see the smooth dolly shots and time lapses where the camera moves seamlessly through out the show- having the floor dolly makes covering a show much easier and much better looking!

Thanks again to PM Lifestyle and NOS Energy drink for the opportunity to shoot at HIN Miami. 

I’ve been busy. Thanks to Joey and Jason @ Wrecked Magazine for giving me the opportunity to shoot/edit thie piece for them at the Red Bull World Drifting Championships. Music is by Alkaline Trio “Burn”. I think its appropriate considering the weekend was under the smoke filled skies of the Los Angeles area fires. This is the only time you’ll catch me using gradiants in my color work. I think it adds to the mood, no?

Congratulations to Rhys Millen on winning the Red Bull World Drifting Championship. For the RBWDC I was shooting for Wrecked Magazine. After the finals, Daijiro Yoshihara battling Rhys Millen, we caught up with Rhys at the podium and snagged this great interview.

I was able to insert some of Rhys’ best runs from the day into the edit. Check back to Wrecked Magazine and my blog for the final Red Bull World Drifting Championship videos and some Pro Am coverage. 

My friends at Wrecked Magazine, let me run wild at SEMA to produce “my” kind of drifting coverage. After watching everyone else tackle the unveiling of Samuel’s Challenger and Chris Forsberg’s new Nismo body kit on his 350z, I wanted to focus on the details that get over looked.

Because collaborations are so fresh right now: WRECKED MAGAZINE X WILL ROEGGE’s SEMA ABSTRACT VIDEO

Look for: Tanner Foust’s handwritten 2008 Champion door tag, Takatori’s multiple Pedo bear stickers, Vaughn Gittin’s ITB’s & HRE wheels, and a few dings even the biggest teams couldn’t polish out by the big show. Hope you enjoy. Thanks again to Wrecked for letting me front flip from the jacuzzi into the pool at the “Wrecked Hostel”. Canonball.

This past week has been a blur. Sunday I finished editing Patrick Mordaunt’s 2008 Season DVD for SEMA 2008. With the fall of riceboytv, I went to SEMA with hopes of securing freelance work and to catch up with friends. Las Vegas and I don’t really click. I would rather drop my green on: camera lenses, orange juice, and the occasional El Tarasco burrito.

The most interesting part of the week was NOT shooting. For the past 8 months I’ve been producing/shooting/editing videos almost every day. I caught a ride to the city of sin with the Mordaunt crew and crashed at the Wrecked house. Yes, House. Thanks to they guys @ Wrecked for the hospitality. This was my first SEMA show and it was over whelming! I’ve been to the video/film equivalent- NAB at the Vegas Convention center, but seeing so many different manufactures, companies, and niche markets represented was incredible.

Everyone at the show is snapping photos constantly. Point n shoot here, video crew there, and DSLR photographer over there. Here is my drive to Las Vegas and Thursday of the show.

Nothing but love for: Joey, Jason, Jake, James, (wow – lots of J’s), robleto, naderi, ricky, burga’time, and juicebox.