San Diego to Cabo San Lucas

Sorry, I wasn't quite done explaining how awesome my job is. For this video we drove with a caravan of journalists from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas in an Outlander Sport. So basically an all expense paid driving tour of the Baja Peninsula. The trip took about 4 days and was amazing. It is vast amount of variety in landscape as well as culture from one end of the peninsula to the other is almost overwhelming. From shanty town villages to insanely gorgeous vistas with endless miles of desert in-between, I have never experienced anything like it. The trip concluded in a resort hotel right on the water in Cabo which is begging for a return trip.

Luxury Drifting

I will gladly admit that I was jealous about this video. I would have loved to spend an entire day soaking up educational nuggets from Micah on the fine art of car control and tire shredding. That being said, watching the hours of video we came back with comes in a close second. It is moments like these that I remember how ridiculous my job is. Mr. DeLano, your task today is to hang out at the race track with your friends and film a car doing donuts and drifting...ALL day. Yes, ok...I can do that.

Mercedes SLS AMG

Gullwing doors! This is a beautiful car. I wouldn't buy it, but it's gorgeous. Why not? A better driving experience can be had for less in the R8, and if you are looking for pure sexiness, you have to pick Aston Martin. We shot this up in the hills above Santa Barbara, we just happened on this perfect newly paved road, although it was a bit narrow, it still provided a proper back drop for the SLS. We had two gopro's fall off the car, we thought for sure that one had tumbled off of the edge but eventually found it wedged in some underbrush. Lessons learned: 1) The slightly concave surface of the SLS wing is not a great spot for a gopro camera. 2) The rear quarter panel gets hotter than hell from the exhaust, also not a good place for a suction mounted camera.

Nissan Leaf vs Chevy Volt

Two of the most hyped green cars go head to head in this visual battle royale. Actually it's more of a side by side comparison set to some sweet 8bit inspired music by Micah Muzio. Check out the youtube comments on this one, who knew Nissan vs Chevy would be the new Hatfield and McCoy of the automotive world?

Jim Russel Driving school

I am slowly burning through my huge backlog of editing, quite awhile back we were invited up to Infineon Raceway by Mitsubishi to flog some Evos around the track and maybe learn a thing or two. Micah did the learning, I did the shooting and editing and from that unholy alliance this video has been spawned. Enjoy.

Ford Explorer

Along with the Jetta project, the beginning of this year was consumed by a huge project we did with KBB and Ford. We set off across the country to answer consumer's questions about the new Ford Explorer, we ended up with 5 videos, a crap load of frequent flier miles and very little sleep. Here are a couple of my favorites.

Portland Oregon

Breckenridge CO

2011 JETTA

Lately we have been busy working on videos for KBB "Guide Books" where we do a series of videos on a a specific car to be highlighted on KBB.com. The first series was on the VW Jetta. Here are a couple of those videos:

Land Rover LR4

Off road with style, we didn't jump this thing like the Raptor, but it is still an impressive climber. That being said, the Land Rover is not the greatest road trip car, we took a drive up to San Francisco with 5 people and luggage and comfort wise the back seat didn't really holdup over the 6 plus hours. I demand reclining rear seats! Could also go for a bit more padding in the seats. Given the choice of this or the new Explorer I would probably choose the Explorer, well at least in the sit on your ass for 6 hours category.

Audis on Ice

Directly on the heels of the Detroit Auto Show we shot up to Montreal with Audi to experience some all wheel Quattro action on a frozen race track. Most of the cars there are not even available in the US at this point, I am looking at you RS5. Here is the video proof of our sub zero adventure.

yo CUZ

some sidewalk time, post Shillelagh pizza and burger...

Play

Our park down the street is actually pretty awesome, my nephew can testify...

Flock of Pigeons

It was good to get out after all the rain and just walk around a bit...

Down came the rain

Plenty of water to go around....

LBC is Wet

We are getting pounded with rain here in Long Beach. I love the rain, but it is getting a little bit crazy round here, flooding on the bottom floor of our building, our parking garage, the street, and a tree just went over, oh yeah that tree was right next to a car that got moved onto the sidewalk from the flood water. Madness.

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Mazdaspeed3

There are plenty of photos to go around, but I have been neglecting the pimpage of my videos! Here is a still frame from our Mazdaspeed3 video, shame this moment only lasted for a split second, so it really looks more impressive as a still. Check out the entire video below as well!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FESQ5oWChXU