Working Under Pressure

I am majoring in Biology, pre-med to be specific, and here I am working against the clock to get an assignment done for my photography class. The final product of this assignment will come out soon.

Ok so tonight I called Irvin, I had an idea of a shot for my assignment, and I'm satisfied with the results, now I just have to choose one, or maybe a couple, but definitely one shot will set my assignment.

I already photo-shoot Carlos' bike, also Edson's EG, and I was only missing Irvin's coupe, and tonight was that night. I'm not completely satisfied with the photo-shoot, I mainly shot the rear of the car, and again I was mostly shooting for my assignment.

You guys have to see how nice and rear suspension setup looks. The color of the coilovers-off red blends nicely with the polished LCAs, and the red ASR subframe brace. I know Irvin's car is green, dark green, I wasn't too sure if the red subframe brace was going to look good; however, it did blend and nicely, I just can't wait to see Irvin putting more work into his car.

Well, the night started like a normal Sunday night for me, heading home after couple hours of work. When I Irvin responded to my txt, agreeing that he wanted to get couple pics of his car. And off we went, Irvin was nice enough to pick me up, and drop me off. Props to him even though he's always in a serious mood.

First we headed to the Marin Hedlands, I wanted to get a shot of his car with the Golden Bridge in front of the car, but at a lower level. Indeed I got the shots, but only with one of the towers.

It was windy which made my tripod shake like salsa dancer, since the legs of it are so skinny and weak.

After giving up on the shots for that location, because of all the cars that were coming, and going I went to the car to get a close up shot of the bridge and the car, when I had great opportunity to meet and socialize for a little bit with three ladies. They were really friendly, and fun. Note, they were also driving in a nice Lexus sc430.

Too bad that Irvin was too serious, I think he was mad at me when he noticed that I stopped taking pictures of his car, and instead I offer myself to take pictures of the ladies.

After we left we realized that the area where we were was just too populated at the moment. It's funny that when we got to the spot, there was no one there, only us, and five minutes later, boom everyone decided to come and join us on our photoshoot.

We headed to the park that is at the water level, on the east side of the bridge to take the last pics. Once there I took only one shot, and it started to rain, I kept taking pics, but the wind was just too strong and kept moving the tripod.

Still I got nice shots of the bridge, but mainly Irvins car, or at least the rear of it. hehe

And I know it's been a while since I last posted on my blog with some nice pictures, after getting the bad news of my beloved dog passing away, I needed to do something like this to distract me at least a little bit.

I'm happy I live in the Bay Area, is so rich in beautiful landscapes, and thank God for having the friends that I have.

Enjoy the pics.

P.S. there's a lot more pictures to come off this car.

Some cloud that Irvin fell in love with, I heard him murmuring/wishing that Ariel the little mermeid would come out of there holding the little yellow fish. Kid scares me sometimes.

some random shot that I took here, I just took it because of the clouds, yet the picture has a lack of balance and colors.

The Ladies

The ladies again, but the picture was slightly edited on photoshop so the bridge was visible.

Irvin with his car

R.I.P Skippy Martinez.

On September 16, 1996 I picked him up from a pack of 12 little hair balls with tails, and cold noses. He was the only one with white and champagne/brown fur. The only one out of 12 cockers that were white with black. He looked like his dad, he was the baby version of his dad. My dad, my brother Misael were there with me when I picked him up. He filled that empty space that we had in the house. So many stories, and trips to the lake with my four legged friend. Chasing other dogs, cats on the street, or scaring the birds and rats off the backyard.

I said good bye to him in August 15, 2004 with the hopes I was going to see him back again.

But the destiny didn't let that happen.

Today at 7:57 p.m. my best friend, the only loyal pet who loved me even when I yielded at him for doing bad things, passed away.

I don't care if all this paragraph is sentimental or anything like that, I'm sad because I wasn't with him in his last moments.

I'm sad, I've lost a member of my family.

Love you Skippy, I will always have you in my heart. Couldn't have asked for a better companion even when I left you in the last 6 years of your life. I missed you all the time we were apart.

Thank you God for giving me such a loyal friend, thank you for giving him 14 years of life.

Skippy

August 10 1996-November 16, 2010.

The EG!

Ok, I believe I mentioned that I was not going to keep, and work on the EG. But my plans for the car are changing
But before, I actually start working on making the car different I am going to list the bads and goods of the car.

GOODS:

Exterior
-Paint is flawless, is fresh paint job.
-It has all the taillights, and headlights.

Interior
-Had a clean interior. ( I said had because I gutted part of it, still working on getting all the useless things out.)

Engine
- Runs strong


BADS:

Exterior
-Fenders are shaved
- Has a 4 door front bumper
-passenger door has shaved moldings
-there are signs that the car was green.

Interior
-Cluster is riced out
-cluster doesn't work
-Shifter is broken
-no radio
-Cluster is ugly as fuck
-Cluster has no lights
-The dash has no lights

Engine
-makes a weird noice (nothing serious)
-Valve cover, strut bar and air filter are painted green
- I hate that kind of color green
- Is riced the fuck out (engine bay)

The Plans

I already got a new door, I'm going to install it this week.

Need to paint the trunk and interior, since I'm gutting it out. I also need to get fenders, and front bumper.

After the exterior looks normal. I will start on the mods.

There's no better way to start than swapping the car. That is my goal and in 3-4 months the car will have a new engine, and is going to be a B series.

After that will get a complete new suspension setup. Also rear disk brakes.

Once all the performance modifications are done, I will star with the details, which are new paint job, roll cage, seats, JDM goodies sucha as jdm headlights, corner lights, visors, BYS wing, top secret mirrors, rear diffusers, tow hooks, spoon front lips, wheels, 949's, Volks, Spoons or CPFs.

Will upload pics later I'm tired, had a long fun day, went to the local junk yard which reminds me of all the unique things that happened there. That will come tomorrow.