Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Photo shoot
We did the photo shoot today. Like any photo shoot, you need a lot of stuff.
First, you need a car.
Second, you need talent. That would be Charlie.
You need “below the line people” like Skid and Shawn, who showed up fashionably late on Saturday after I already had 2.5 wheels bolted on the car. They did [...]
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
A visit to Bonny Doon Village airport
I drove up the the Bonny Doon Airport this afternoon to get a look in advance of next Sunday’s photo shoot. In a word, it’s ideal. Ok, that’s two words.
Here’s a 30-second video shot with our new Flip, which we’ll be testing as an in-car camera.
And here’s a Geico commercial from today’s NASCAR race in [...]
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Prepping for the photo shoot
Not a lot of excitement today. I met with Shawn at Cary’s. Shawn did all the heavy lifting and changed out wheels on 1101. I dropped them off at Skip’s Tire and Auto Center where they’ll move the good tires onto new rims (including two that Shawn painted red). And we’ll have one new tire [...]
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
How to simulate being chased by a helicopter
We’ve scheduled a photo shoot for the car for April 27 at the Bonny Doon Airport. The managers are great folks and, like us, very community oriented. Brooks Institute-trained Santa Cruz photographer Jeff Luhn will do the photography. Larry, of Larry’s Electric, is bringing his boom truck. Why a boom truck, you might ask? Well, [...]
