Edson's EG

What a day, it looked like it was going to be a day that I was supposed to spend it at home with my uncle. However, the day changed quite drastically when my teacher called me that she had a recommendation letter for me. I had to commute to school, and once there the sponsor picked me up. I thought I was getting a full ride but I was wrong she left me quite far away from where I live. Once she dropped me off I realized I was wearing some shoes that fit me so tight that I can't even walk a block when my feet are hurting. But I still love them.

Anyways I was in a death march when Edson called. This kid is the owner of a soon to be a "clean EG" nonetheless the car is fast. He was just letting me know that he was on his way to my house to drop off a dvd-car related.

I had walked around a mile and I was 2 miles away from my house, when I heard a familiar sound, it was Edson's car. I got so lucky to get a ride home with him. My feet were hurting, once we got to my house we decided to watch The Pursuit of Function.

The Pursuit of Function is a documentary about Hondas, and the passion that us, the owners have for these cars and their potential. We finished watching the DVD, and realized that had nothing better to do than go cruising and have a mini photoshoot. The sun was still high, and bright.

Headed to a couple of different locations. His car has a "Halo" status paint job, yes halo-the famous video game among xbox users.

Surprisingly in the last stop that we made it was really cold, therefore we didn't spend that much time there.

Here are the pics. Edson has put a good amount of green in his car. Recaro seats, full coilovers, lower tie bar, spoon shift knob, and a sparco steering wheel with a quick realease. Car is looking good, I can't wait until he gets a new paint job.

I love the view that this place has, specially the view of the Richmond/San Rafael bridge.

This is Edson - jerkin!

More of Edson and his car.

Now only the car.

I ♥ my Vans.

I don't remember the exact day when I fell in love with this brand. I know for sure that back in 2000 when I got into skating, punk, and ska, my friends and I always talked of all those cool brands and vans was one of them.

I got my first pair in 2004, of course they were the slip on checkerboard, then I got the Eras, other navy slip ons. And it wasn't until last year that I got the opportunity to work for Vans, when my collection really started. I had like 6 pair of shoes, before I worked for Vans, 3 of them were vans the others were some other brands like Adios, T.U.K, Duane Peters.

After 8 months of working for Vans, now I own 30 pairs of them, and out of all those shoes I have 3 limited edition shoes. The Supercorsas. They came out last year in a variety of colors. I have them in blue, white and brown. I hunted those shoes for 3 months. I found them on ebay.

I just love these shoes.

I remember the first day I saw them. My manager, who owns by now 100 pair of shoes, came into the store. I asked him what were they and he told me. I almost cried when he told me the price that he got shoes for. He's just lucky. He owns these shoes in brown and black.

I bought the blue ones, last week. I'm actually in the hunt of another 2 pairs. One of them are these same shoes but in black, and the second pair are the taka hayashi prison issue lx.

I just hope I can find these shoes.
Caption Above:The first pair of supercorsas were the white onoes.

Caption above: The brown and white shoes are Vault edition, while the blue ones are CA edition.

The following shoes are the ones that I'm after right now.

Praying that I can find them.

Triumph Daytona 675

We see sport bikes bikes all the time. Sometimes speeding down the highway, cruising around downtown, or simply just parked on the street. Some of them are so nice that we keep walking straight but we kept looking at them, these are the famous neck brakers.

Last weekend I had the chance to finally shoot my friend's bike. I met Carlos back in high school, when I was a junior and he was freshman. I didn't see him for at least 3 years, until I saw him back in March. That day we met up with a bunch of friends and went to the beach, I found out that he had a nice black Triumph. He saw my camera and told me to photoshoot his bike. It wasn't until last week when that happened. We made plans for two weeks in a row and nothing seemed to work out, due to our "busy" schedule if we can call it like that.

Last Saturday, after work I headed out to warped tour, but my friend called me to go to his gf's bbq, hell friends are more important than going to a dead punk concert where I was going bymyself, and indeed I was going only to watch bands that have heard of playing punk rock (insert here emo bands wanna be punk rock)

After spending some time with some friends, headed back home, and got a message from Carlos, asking where I was. I knew what was the next text. "wanna photo shoot my bike?" Of course I had time, after figuring out the meet up point. We headed to a desolated area to start the session.

Right after a few parked pics, he did a wheelie, and got an ok picture of it, we headed off to another location, where we finish the day, and where Irvin joined us. This guy scared us, he stopped abruptly and went on reverse quite agressively. He scared me because: first, I had my keys in the car. Second, I didn't recognize the car. And third, what would you think if a car pulls over in the way Irvin did it? ....safe to say a thieve?

It got dark too fast, and I didn't get the chance to get to a location where Carlos could do a burn out, and where we wouldn't get in trouble with the law. The next day after I got off work, it was a really nice, hot day. I asked my friend/partner in crime, David a nice location to make a burn out. Luckily he sent me to a nice location, where we finally did it. On our way to the location I picked up Chloe, who helped snaps really nice pics. She got the best shots of the burn out.

Carlos' bike is awesome. Beautiful machine, with an exquisite tone on the exhaust and a perfect black paint.

Let the pictures make the talk.

I love panning shots, this one is one of my favorite.

Carlos and Irvin.

This shot made Carlos happy, he said he had dreamed for this one.

Glad I help.