We massively revamped our website over at Southern Reel. To celebrate… Cole, Kyle, and I each pulled our top 10 photos from the road last year. Boiling down thousands of photos to yield a top 10 was not an easy task in the slightest. I love each photo for different reasons. It was a struggle… but the process was immensely reflective and incredibly rewarding once the dust settled.
Head over to Southern Reel’s blog for the full write-up!
While I was up in Detroit for New Years, I got to experience a fraction of the infamous Packard Automotive Plant amidst a heavy snowstorm.
It was UNREAL to say the least.
Full post soon. Stay tuned…
HBCOTY 2013 from Andy Sapp on Vimeo.
This video’s existence will make more sense if you head on over to Team Rowdy and read about the Hot Boy Car of the Year Contest (HBCOTY).
This video was planned, and the principal photography was executed in a matter of hours. As per the rules, it was shot entirely using iPhones (4s, 5, 5s). Unfortunately, all of those phones shoot at different frame rates (23.976, 24, 30, and 120fps)… and my 5s freaked out when trying to ingest all of the footage using iMovie for iPhone. So I had to edit this video with a computer this year… whereas last year’s entry never saw a computer once. It was shot/edited/uploaded directly on/from my phone (which still blows my mind).
This video was a BLAST to make. BIG BIG thanks goes out to Greg Thore and Byron Hill for helping me shoot this on a TOTAL whim, in the freezing rain until 4am. But like the cries of the opening line screams… “when it’s cold, and when it’s dark… the freezing moon can obsess you”. And that it did.
Back in May, I picked up a new daily… a Hellrot Red 1993 BMW 325is. My friends Alie and Jeremy were moving out west and needed to sell this beaut! It just to happened, that gas mileage in The Destroyer™ was bleeding my wallet dry, and I needed something slightly more fuel-efficient. That put me in the right place at the right time to pick this car up cheap!
I immediately snagged some Raceland coilovers and slammed the hell out of it on a old set of Racing Dynamics.
I have some funny plans for this car that are light years from happening. For now I’m just enjoying some gas-savings and having a fun daily again! This car has humbly reminded me how good I am at driving like an absolute maniac. Kindred spirits we are… kindred spirits.
