I was pretty stoked to pick up the November issue of Super Street to find the MotorMavens logo on the All Star Bash coverage that Antonio shot! One of these days I will make it out to California for one of these events. One of these days.
I walked away from Southeast Drift’s Land of the Great at Gresham Motorsports Park unscathed and uneasy.
Newly poured asphalt adorns the raceway, as Gresham itself is a freshly renovated facility. I don’t know if they have some sort of compound additive in the pavement, but the track has an immense amount of grip… making is VERY difficult for a 180hp tank to break loose. I was attempting to initiate faster than I have ever initiated… only to have the car set and hug the bank like I was going for a better lap time. The few occasions I could snap the car loose on the bank, it sucked the power dry from my rear wheels, pulling me right down toward the inner-wall. Fast.
I (somehow) managed to qualify seventh, and was paired up with my buddy Dennis Mertzanis for the tandem comp. I didn’t feel comfortable running solo – let alone tandem, so I told Dennis to steer clear of me… that I was basically going to forfeit the run to him. Dennis went on to take home 2nd place.
A fairly big-name in Atlanta’s drift scene approached me at the end of the day, and told me ‘this is the next level for drifting here’, and ‘that drivers are going to have to step it up if they want to participate’. This bothered me for several reasons… the biggest being FOR WHAT? This is grassroots drifting… it is supposed to be about having fun. What fun is wadding your car up into a wall, and having to sit the next season out because you ‘stepped it up’? For the majority of us who actually have an emotional stake in our cars – totaling it out trying to be a g-roots hero would be devastating. DEVASTATING.
I probably will not be back to drive at Gresham. The risk just isn’t worth it to me… especially when I (and the rest of Atlanta, really) have nothing to prove. Drifting already has it’s superstars. I just want to have fun with my friends.
The final Southeast Drift event of the year goes down this weekend at Gresham Motorsports Park. The practice event “Land of the Great” runs all day, and then once the sun sets… a comp ramps up under the lights. This will be my first time out to Gresham, and I love drifting at night, so I’m definitely stoked!
Shouts to BH Design for the flyer work!
I came across some old silk Metallica wall-hangings I had in storage, and decided to have a go at wrapping the back cushions for my Sparco Evos. I wrapped the driver-side cushion with a Pushead piece. It was the only one I didn’t mind slicing up, because I couldn’t stand the (newer sans-serif) Metallica logo on it. Because I didn’t want to cut up any of my other Pushead wall-hangings, the passenger-side wound up with the electric chair from Ride the Lightning.
This logo underwent a TON of revisions. Overall, I’m quite happy with the symmetry and overall balance of the final iteration.
My Creative Suite Pillows finally arrived! I think I ordered these back in May… and the response to them has been such that they were VERY backed up in production. The quality is awesome, and they were definitely worth the wait. I’m sure when I stop spending my couch money on camera equipment that these pillows will feel right at home.
After years of standing my ground and NOT joining the Twitter craze. I’ve finally caved. Over the past few years I’ve grown a distaste for social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. I just don’t seem to care about being accessible online as much anymore… aside from my own li’l corner of the internet right here. As time marches on, social networking sites seem more of an annoyance to me than anything – not to mention there always seems to be a ‘new’ and ‘better’ networking site coming down the pipe.
In the past six months… countless designers, developers, and creatives have all been telling me about gigs they’ve landed via Twitter. Until now, it hasn’t really hit home for me. With the economy sucking so hard in Atlanta, and my need to pick up more freelance work – it looks like Twitter it is. I figure if it gets my work in front of one more prospective client, than it is worth it. I don’t plan on going crazy with updates about the most minute details of my life. I want to keep things pretty profesh in that aspect.
If you’re interested in seeing screenshots of stuff I’m working on… by all means – follow me on Twitter.
