Monthly Archives: August 2011

A Type Of Show

A Type Of Show is on next week. Today I dropped of my typographical piece to the gallery, guys weren’t in (I was there pretty early in the morning) so I dropped it off to their local cafe onRiley St. Robo Cog, damn rad cafe, wish it was around when I was living around the corner many years ago!

Contributing Australian artists and typographers — Timba Smits, Jim Parry, Atome, James Arboghast, Joel Birch, Tristan Ceddia, Andrew Van Der Westhuyzen, Merda, Dmote, Vince Frost, Benjamin Hennessy, Pudle, Morgan Veness, Marty Routledge, Gemma O’Brien, Jonathan Zawada, Wing Lau, Yosuke Ando, Luke Lucas, Jeremyville, Andy Uprock, Les Sharpe, Perso, Numskull, Ken Taylor, Justin Fox, Phibs, Luca Ionescu, Carby Tuckwell, Paul Nolan, Symple, Ron Garsuta, Toby & Pete, Bel Johnstone, Deanne Cheuk, Elizabeth Carruthers, Paul Astwood, Dboe, Will Lynes, Maud, Jay Ryves, Brooklyn Whelan, Bianca Chang, Emma Elizabeth, Moffitt.Moffitt & Paul McNeil.

I’m pretty excited about the show. More about the amazing names on the list, and the amazing work that’s going to be on display. I’m still feeling very un-worthy. Very very un-worthy! If you’re in Sydney, please come along on the night, it’s going to be awesome. I promise!

Like Minded Studio and kind of — gallery present A Type Of Show, with international artists Tony Dispigna and Alex Trochut.
With honorable Australian typographer Keith Morris.

Opening Wednesday 17th of August, 7pm — 9pm.
72 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, Sydney.

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Miles steps out into the real world, kinda


Miles, he be chillin.

Richie and I grabbed a coffee this morning at the local cafe with Miles! Miles is so happy and content when being pushed along in the pram, but as soon as we stopped at the cafe he started up HAHA. So long as the prams rocking and moving he’s good. So cute. :)

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Unas. I’m over it.


Chicken Jaeger, see the sauce? That’s pretty much what came out of my ass a few hours later.


The Schoff, always awesome.

So last night some of the boys got together for dinner at Unas. I’ve been a fan of their Chicken Jaeger Schnitzel for years now, but over the years I’ve seen the dish get smaller and smaller, less and less sauce, more and more expensive and just generally worse and worse. Last night was another one of those bad nights. Chicken was thin, tough and the piece under the top piece of chicken was burnt dark brown.

What’s worse is that when I got home I had a stomach ache, after I recovered I got a message from Garth saying his stomach was killing him and he’d gone to the toilet 3 times already.

FU Unas. Never again!

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Fan of the Van

Whilst many people out there get the impression that I’m a good designer, personally I prefer the work of others. One such guy is Mike Stevens (I call him “Van” as that’s been his username on JDMST since the beginning).

A while back Christina and I got Van to design the VWGolf.net.au logo (which we’re very happy with) and since we’ve opened up JDMST to membership I wanted to give our supporters a special edition Supporting Member sticker for their rides.

Van got it done quick, and in my opinion nailed it first go. I love it! I’m sure our supporting members will love it too.

For more information on JDMST Membership, click here. To visit Mike Steven’s folio visit: http://localmike.com

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New Top One Auto logo design

Yes being naughty and ripping shit off again. Top logo symbol is inspired by the F1 logo, bottom one inspired by the McLaren F1 logo. Cheeky bugger huh? Which one do you like best?

PS: New site is up: http://toponeauto.com.au

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SUGA’s Officially On Air!


Side profile. Front can go down a little more but I didn’t risk it.


Rear at it’s lowest setting.


Not set the preset settings yet so I was using the up and down on both right hand side buttons. 1, 2 and 3 will allow for all the way down setting for parking. 2 will be drivable setting and 3 will be for all the way up (can go a little higher than stock!).


All installed. Audio installation guy has been contacted, he will commence work on hiding all this gear this week.


Here’s a little video.

OK got to say I’m as excited as Christina is now! Just got back from TOP ONE and damn the system is AMAZING. It’s killer fast due to the fatter airlines we optioned for the kit. Just as fast going up as it is down, so fast it’s kinda scary! The compressor is loud, but not too loud, the sound of air releasing in the boot is pretty loud and freaky first time around as well.

I took it lower than Dedy had initially just to see how bad it was at the front, but the rub isn’t all that bad. A thinner tyre will fix it easy. Even with more aggressive offset and a stretched tyre it should be AOK (rim won’t touch, it’s all in the tyres). More soon!

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Bags R Us


Wiring mess.

SUGA is still at Top One Auto getting her air suspension installed. Great thing about the R32 Golf is that the battery is in the boot which makes all of this wiring potentially a little easier, and neater. The bad thing is that the rear boot is quite shallow in comparison to an ordinary MKV which means we’ll have to get an audio shop to design a raised cover of some sort to hide all the gear (huge aluminium air tank and compressor not pictured in the above shot).

She’ll be the very first R32 Golf to ever have air suspension in Australia. We won’t be sure of how low it’ll go straight off the bat, we won’t know how well the car will handle after the install too (whether it’ll be totally crap, or AOK). Unknown territory so it’s no wonder that the community is pretty excited about this install. More updates as they come!

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WTAC – Saturday


Today, instead of shooting cars I thought I’d shoot single and shy Cam (affectionately known as Tassie Cam after our Tasmania trip) with promo girls. :)


He looks very happy, yes?


Out of all the amazing cars there today Christina’s favorite was this bagged MKV Golf.


Totally out of place, but there was a huge showing of low rider style bikes.


Unridable works of art, pretty much.

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WTAC – Friday


Sierra Sierra Evo from the USA.


Hankook Evo.


Too many amazing cars to take photos of so I instead decided to bug people by yelling out their names and taking snaps of them as they turned around. “Charles!”


“Tendy!”

World Time Attack Challenge (WTAC) was on today. Perfect weather, bumped into lots of people, felt very much like I was at a rave! More pics here.

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Creamed Eggs with Truffle Oil


Danks St. Depot – Chive and truffle flavoured burps all afternoon (yuck!).

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