We just made an expansion to the west coast with a new office in the city of Los Angeles. This move puts us in the heart of California car culture. Many activities and special events related to the car scene take place in the local Los Angeles area. Our company’s clients all take a large focus in Los Angeles and now we are here 24/7 to help assist their needs in this specific market. Our company will be more than twice as strong now with offices and employee’s on both coasts of the United States.
Our California mailing address:
8033 Sunset Blvd. Suite 987
Hollywood, CA 90046
The project we launched at the start of 2009 LuxuryVice.com has already exceeded our traffic numbers and expectations in it’s first 30 days. We hope this new project focusing on the luxury and exotic car market will continue to grow into something as large and succesful as Wrecked Magazine if not bigger! Keep updated on the website and you will find new and exciting content everyday.
Here is the full version of the video that extends to almost four minutes. We shot this video with a Sony EX-1 and put some new stylistic thoughts into the Hot Import Nights arena for this one. We used a tripod wheel set for most of the shots and help make the low light work out better. I feel like it was a very nice touch for the video and we had the Corissa Furr on the microphone for intro/outro which always helps!
We now have a west coast location for PM Lifestyle and making that move required a nice trek from Atlanta to Los Angeles. I packed up the Infiniti G37 and drove to Los Angeles over four days with Will Roegge. Here is a video that came together from the trip which Vimeo featured on it’s Vimeo HD page here http://vimeo.com/hd
I have heard about all these awesome company interactions and reach outs over the past few months as the Twitter hype spreads across the globe. Well on my personal account twitter.com/joeyredmond I have an @reply from the Port of Long Beach. They told me great job on our Wrecked Magazine / Redbull Drifting Championship video and they even RT (retweet for you non tweepels) the link out to their friends. Awesome, great thanks to the Port of Long Beach twitter.com/portoflongbeach and Formula D for making the event a reality. Hopefully they let us come back next year and just maybe I won’t even have to take a bus next time, hey, I can dream right?
Right before SEMA 2008 we launched Issue 7 or Volume 2 Issue 1 of Wrecked Magazine. This is the first official product after our one year anniversary and we are excited to keep pushing forward. Justin Pawlak made our cover after having an amazing rookie season in Formula D with a 1st place finish at Formula D Mexico and a 3rd place finish at Irwindale Speedway. We got an exclusive interview with Ziptied All Star Bash founder Brian Harte as well inside the issue. We reviewed the Mad Sklls Rhys Millen DVD inside. We also really nailed it with my favorite section of the issue with our Top 10 Wrecks in Formula D history. We also added AEM as an advertiser for Issue 7.
This is a graph Elizabeth Churchill (Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo) presented today and was snapped on TechCrunch. Green icons are users that have their photos open and red represent people who have their accounts set to private. This cluster your looking at is a sample cluster of 1,000,000 unique users on Flickr from back in 2005 and their settings on photos. It appears the United States is extremely open with the exception of the Utah area and Hawaii. Europe and India are very private while South America is a very open place. An interesting way to look at the world and Internet privacy.
Well one year ago today we put up the new site live 100% out of BETA. We have enjoyed the last year and all of our experiences with Drifting content from around the world. After we pull our face out of our yummy birthday cake we just want to take a second and recognize our sponsors that have helped make this year happen.
While this isn’t huge news for online video (Google Video has had the option for over two years) it gets us excited that this option is available now in Youtube. To specify a point, append a tag to the end of your video link with the following syntax: “#t=4m15s” (you can change the numbers before the ‘m’ and ’s’ to edit the minutes and seconds, respectively. For example, a video we made for our client NOS Energy Drink is the X-Games 14 flip of the Evolution 9.
The video includes some additional clips that some people might not be interested in or have a focus on. Let’s say if someone was writing a story on the X-Games 14 and they wanted to just reference the actual flip to compliment the story, they could use our full length Youtube video but just send people to the rally flip. Here is a link
They don’t seem to have a simple way to link into a point of the video other than manually adding the “#t=2m49s” to the end of a video URL. Perhaps Youtube is going to phase this feature into it’s products as they have not even mentioned this new feature on the Youtube Official Blog yet. Make sure to enjoy this great Youtube video while linking to particular videos across the Youtube network.
After this accident at HIN Nightshift Phoenix I have been in some debates on forums about the safety of media at events and I must say that some people’s replies have really blown me away. After watching this incident happen at HIN and witnessed other accidents in similar environments I think we need to grow up as a motor sports community already.
As someone who owns a company in the media business and does a ton of work around the automotive industry I just see something lacking in a major way. Don’t misunderstand me for a minute either, we have been to these same HIN demo’s and our crew has filmed them in the same fashion as the people above in this accident video. The link below is a video we made for NOS Energy Drink at Hot Import Nights: Nightshift New York. http://videos.streetfire.net/video/HIN-Nightshift-New-York_167950.htm
Now the shot you see from the Drifting demo seems very harmless because no accident had happened but that was filmed by a friend in film of ours who isn’t exactly an automotive media expert. If something were to of happened, he probably had no idea the danger he could of been in around that area. The other thing is anyone with a general credential can walk right up to that wall at HIN or into a hot zone of Formula D. Especially on the Formula D side I think they need to move into a teered system of media.
There is no reason many of the people cluttering the media pits at these events should be inside the area they are in and it just makes it generally more difficult for people who know what they are doing and have a purpose to get their job done. I have witnessed (especially this season at Formula D) some people just doing very dumb things on a hot track even though Formula D takes many great precautions for the media’s safety. Sadly Formula D cannot babysit everyone in the media section constantly observe them to assure they are not doing irrational things but they have to take the liability. Look at this perfect example from Formula D Long Beach. This kid during qualifying hopped on the k-rail and took photos for several runs until security ran and took him down.
This is the major issue I really see that is going on. When you receive a media pass at HIN, NOPI, BOTI, Formula D, Pro Am or any other organization no one delineates you from a official media partner, 5 year shooting professional, blogger, kid on Flickr, local forum or anything. This is where I think a teer system can help everyone’s headache and safety. I think bloggers and local forums/sites are a key and should never have to pay to enter an event but do they really need to be allowed inside the hot media area? Perhaps we need an approval/vouch system to get into the hot area or you have to attend an event first under a cold pass to understand more of what is going on?
Another main reason that got me motivated to right this post is the events that I witnessed at Irwindale Speedway this year. So Friday I woke up wayy early to attend a mandatory media meeting which was no problem. I was upset but swallowed my pride and rolled into this meeting even though I had to bolt out to LAX right after and then head right back to the track. Well after being told for a good amount of time the basics we left and were told we had to come to the meeting tomorrow. I show up to the next meeting on Saturday which wasn’t as early but seemed as brutal time wise. The basics were like don’t run out on the track, don’t be an idiot, stand here, don’t stand here. Well during the main event what does someone do? They jump right across the k-rail while track is hot. The course worker spots them and they did get yelled at immediately. It’s like really though? What if something happened to the guy? Was he really someone worth having the liability of being in a hot zone of the race track? Hopefully he will not be allowed to return after a brash action like that took place. With all of this being said, I want to hop off my soapbox by saying that most of these concerns I am bringing here because I hope we can get this stuff solved before a fatality is caused in the sport. That I feel would be tragic for all of us in the community. If anyone would wish to contact me I am open to help with any way to improve safety at venues from grassroots to the professional series. Just drop a line through the contact form and I will get back to you.
February 11th, 2009 by 
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