Monthly Archives: November 2016

Good Morning Amanda

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Waking up to this is awesome, then reality kicks in…

Braindead as fuck right now, but Amanda and I click, and we’ve been D&M’ing lots despite me being super jet-lagged. Like the ouroboros, we’ve been trying out to figure out the meaning of life and stuff (lol!).

So refreshing to meet a girl who looks like Amanda does, but carries none of the usual negative associations. She’s not “just” a DJ, she’s not “just” a model either, she’s just a super rad human being (full stop really) who doesn’t take herself too seriously, and is fumbling through life like lots of us are.

I had “LIFE” written in bold in my calendar today. I woke up at 5am and was ready to go, only to realise phone service and shops were not going to open until 9.30AM so I tried to do as much online as I could, but it was soon apparent to me that without a phone you can’t do jack shit these days.

I tried to pay someone some money; internet banking now forces you to enter in a code that’s sent to your mobile before you can finish an online transaction. No mobile phone means no banking then! I then tried to cancel and activate cards online, again, the banking site sent codes to my phone so I couldn’t activate my cards remotely.

I then tried to get a new drivers license online. I got pretty far, but the final step required me to pay for a re-issued license by credit card, which I obviously don’t have just yet. Fail!!! /rant.

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Skyrim x Popped my Game of Thrones cherry

I managed to play a little bit of Skyrim just before I left for LA. Sydney to LA is a 14hr flight so I figured that I had plenty of time to catch up on movies. Once we were in the air I was hunting down a movie to watch that was in the theme of Skyrim, that failed, then I came across Game of Thrones (Season 6) and booya! I hadn’t ever watched an episode of GoT so I just dove right in and ended up watching every single episode straight in one sitting (as you do).

Loved the music, worlds, architecture, characters, death, gore and special effects; all of which set my frame of mind up nicely to come back home and play Skyrim.

Whilst I was away I got a message from my friend Amanda Sierras (who’s a DJ/Model I met through Breanna Espina/Zen/shooting). She needed a place to stay for a couple of weeks before she jets off on an Asia tour. I figured playing games on the couch would be a pretty geeky/bad guest thing to do but hey I just had a 14hr flight back home, I was buggered as fuck and needed some down time, she’d totally understand right?! I loaded Skyrim up and Amanda instantly lit up and showed me her fingers, which had games from her childhood tattooed on them.

She asked what I was playing. I said “Skyrim!” and she replied “I know Skyrim! What are you? A mage, or warrior?”. Gahhh! This girl is amaze!!!

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Yup, that’s the Lucas Arts logo tattooed on Amanda’s finger (and yup we had enough of the Trump debate and played Skyrim instead!).

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Trump was winning. “Stuff politics, let’s play Skyrim instead!”.

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There’s SO much undulation in this world. You can climb up and over mountains if you choose to.

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Apparently these Sweet Rolls are a bit of a thing in the game. I’m lucky I haven’t gotten to to know the game for long enough to know this, otherwise missing this event where Bourke Street Bakery lovingly re-created the Skyrim Sweet Roll would have been devastating.

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Exploration, finding a companion and looting. So many instant similarities to Fallout 4, except you can’t really modify your home (let alone create settlements like you can in Fallout).

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Lydia’s an awesome companion in battle, but as a character, she’s nowhere near as deep or developed as most main companions in Fallout 4 (which I felt I had genuine connects with).

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The world sure is beautiful at times.

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Entering a cave is often like entering a new world.

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Puzzles like this kill me. I ended up having to youtube this one unfortunately.

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But it got me my first Elder Scroll.

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My character ended up being more of a combat character, lots into one-handed skill, spells with the other and shouts on top.

I’m glad I’ve gotten to play a game which SO many people out there have been raving on about for years. I’ve now got Battlefield 1 to play, and the post man just dropped off a copy of Dishonored 2 earlier today. It looks like I’m more up to date on games than I’d originally thought!

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Special Edition is out now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

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Unbelievable

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Amanda is trying to figure out which country to move to. I’m trying to figure out how to get off the planet!

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Import Bible Old & New

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Original photo.

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David’s artwork.

David from Import Bible sent me a message the other night to ask if I could try and take a front on shot of the Old & New 997 Slant Nose at SEMA for him. I did, and this is what he’s come up with (so good!).

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Vegas Trip: Day #8 – LA – Petersen Automotive Museum

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#history

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FD concept!!!

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Yup even concept cars rock Toyo R888’s in the US!

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Old.

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New.

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Still the dream (with RB26 heart of-course!).

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Tuner section (again, 86 was on Toyo’s!).

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And yeah, this stopped me in my tracks, and hit me like a 2 tonne heavy thing.

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Go Adam! Their Forza set-up definitely needed some work (not inked and some dummy mode where the cars were auto braking).

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The Jewel of the show.

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Deus RPRSNT!

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John and Simon scored this S14 for their LA stay. I was quick to grab a ride just for the experience!

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Yeah roads are pretty damn fucked up in LA!!!

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And back to Shake Shack to try their normal ShackBurger and awwwww yeah, super dirty, tasty, the complete opposite to In-N-Out’s much cleaner burger, but I love it!

Last day in the US, we checked out the Petersen Automotive Museum, just 20 minutes drive from our hotel. On show was ‘The Art of Bugatti’, but we went straight for the vault tour!

No photos allowed in the Vault Tour, such a shame as there were some pretty amazing cars underground, the one-of-one 1925/34 ‘Round Door’ Rolls, a Mercedes used by Sadam Hussein and much more.

Well worth checking out if you have a few hours to burn. I couldn’t get my eyes off the McLaren F1, even going back to level 2 to check it out twice.

For more info, visit: http://petersen.org

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Vegas Trip: Day #7 – LA

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Just happened to get the Good Morning carpet in the lift this morning.

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Really quite liking the W Hotel we’re staying at on Hollywood Boulevard (bed was super comfy too, had a great sleep).

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I messaged John Lor of Greaser, he was in Santa Monica and said that the sun was up and that it was beautiful there so a few of us jumped a maxi uber and braved the LA traffic (which apparently never eases up) to get there. Once we got there we realised the entire beach was covered in a super thick fog!!!

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Made for this pretty gnarly photo.

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We ate at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.

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The shrimp (pictured here) was soooo good. Rest of our meals were awesome too, service even better (the tipping system here really seems to work in regards to service, something Sydney could perhaps better from?).

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We did a little shopping in the outdoor mall a few streets back from the water, and noticed the fog subsiding so we headed back to the pier to watch the sun go down.

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First thing that came to mind was Grand Theft Auto! Man that game re-created Santa Monica SO well!!!

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Dinner at Shake Shack!

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100% went for the wrong burger. Instead of going for a classic (which I usually do when visiting new burger joints) I went for the SmokeShack (bacon) and it came loaded with hot peppers which had me sweating (I’m allergic to chilli!).

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The OG! Zi and I.

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Mr Antonio Alvendia of Motormavens, who lives in North Hollywood, dropped past the hotel for a few drinks, we ended up cruising to Koreatown for a 3am feed too. Massive catchups, so good!

Woke up fresh (no hangover thank God!), hit Starbucks next door and a few of us made the call to check out Santa Monica. Once we got there we realised there was a crazy fog covering the entire boulevard! The weather was strangely cool too, but that didn’t stop locals from swimming at the beach. We had a huge feast at Bubba Gump, which was way better than I remembered Bubba Gump to be, and spent the rest of the day just chilling out with John and Simon from Greaser in Sydney.

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Vegas Trip: Day #6 – LA

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Goodbye Vegas (thank God lol!).

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Boys on flight, THIS close to missing it lol!

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W Hotel – Ballin’ like hell.

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Fulfilled.

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Squint a little, you might see it.

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Spotted.

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Fuuuuck, this trip is cursed I swear LOL. Almost missed flight, some boys did miss it LOL, we’re so loose I think we should just come back home LOL!

If you love the Cross, you’ll love Vegas. If you hate the Cross, fuck Vegas!

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SORCERY

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My buddy Ravi from V2lab Florida is kicking off a new label: Sorcery. He’s supplied me with a few onesies (SO HOT!) to shoot on local girls when I get home, should be fun!

Model/US Zen Babe: Jessica Sunok – Shot in Las Vegas.

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Vegas Trip: Day #6 – Hoover Dam & Death Valley

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Hertz so good.

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Adam’s the driver of the JDMyard WTAC EG Civic, he’s been doing ALL of the driving on this trip too (champ!).

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Piss Stop. Our shitty rental for the day. It had a pretty bad wheel vibration in the back unless we did at least 100 miles/hr lol.

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First stop, Hoover Dam.

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It’s damn huge!

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We then spotted this lake, and thought we’d head towards it.

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At the lake.

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Then we had In-N-Out Burger again. 100% love the burger, still not sure about their chips. Super impressed that they make them in-house, but they’re just a little too tasteless and clean for my liking.

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Best Song Ever came on the radio (if I ever get married, this is my wedding song!).

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Breaking Bad.

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Our Destination.

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We were so thirsty after the lookout. The general store was shut for stock count, the fuel station’s drink machine was bust but we found this bar, it was pretty freaky lol so we skulled our drinks and got outta there pretty fast.

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It was late by the time we got back, we were hungry to we had Korean BBQ close by to the Wynn.

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Hite, it’s my fave Korean beer. SUPER CRISPY. If you like Asahi, you’ll like Hite!

Super chill day today. We had planned to get to The Grand Canyon, but on realising just how far away it was (and a few of us couldn’t make it back that late due to a dinner meeting) we had to drop the idea, so we checked out Hoover Dam and Death Valley instead. SO glad we did this today, was great to be out there in the middle of nowhere!

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iPhone 7 Bokeh

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Check out this shot, which was taken with Antonio’s iPhone 7 in “portrait mode”. I’m impressed!

PS: Follow Antonio: @antoniosureshot

PPS: My story is getting out there LOL! I ran into a guy I had never met today at SEMA, we got chatting, then he said he’d heard about me getting drugged and waking up with a T-Shirt around my waist HAHA!

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