Spent the weekend in Canberra with the BMU crew, Sparrow Hill on Saturday and Stromlo on Sunday. It was epic, so much fun, heaps of pictures and commentary HERE.

I’ve been working on an interface for design for a new documentary show on SBS called “Secrets and Lives”. It’s now live so I can finally talk about it!

PreviousNext hired me to be the head creative on the job, it was a super tight deadline but it was a lot of fun. The site’s a lot more interactive than most of the SBS sub-sites, each episode on TV is represented online with an interactive “webisode”.

You can check out the site here:
http://www.sbs.com.au/secretsandlives

Hope you like it!

Toilet stop.

Tips a nice day!

JDM YO!

OOH LA LA!

Out with the old!

The kit including remote controls to turn the volume on or off.

In with the new.

The exhaust sounds insane. It’s loud but not too loud. The sound is still definitely 100% R32 Golf but it’s a lot meaner at the same time. In soft mode it’s a little too soft but the option is a great one to have.

I pick Suga up from work later this afternoon. I’m sure she’ll be absolutely itching to hit the tunnels tonight!

Spent the day fitting up Suga’s new Kreissieg exhaust! Sounds a billion times more sex in real life. Pics to come soon!

How quickly time has flown by! Bikes Move Us is 1 year old today with 928 members and growing strong.

I’ve recieved a bit of thanks for starting the forum here, but a forum is nothing without it’s contributing members. Every single rider I’ve met through the BMU forums is a champ. Here’s to many more years!

Polished, for the very first time. More pics here.

Photo by Matthew Mead.

In 2005 I did a logo design and web site for Autopia, an automotive leasing start-up company, Jeffrey was at the wheel and he was also into cars, he had a WRX if I remember correctly and I spotted a GT4 playstation set-up in his home office too.

A few weeks ago I saw a white BMW parked a few streets down from where I live, it turned my head as it had Autopia graphics all over it (I get excited when I see my work offline, in public spaces). I ran into the BMW again, this time on tight street. I blocked him and wound down my window and said “Hey Jeff!”. :) Turns out he’s living around the corner from me and he’s still crazy about cars as the above picture from the last Circuit Club day shows.

PS: His company is doing great, which is awesome news!

Since I had no internet yesterday I thought I’d get some wheels fitted to the ED Civic. I had decided on the OG-San’s which I helped un-pack at JDMyard last week.

Spotted on the way to the tyre shop. Great name for a shop guys.

Spotted this rad car on the way to the tyre shop.

The ED, slammed low and ready for the new wheels.

15×8, my god they’re fat. Nervous… will they fit?

Oh yeah!

Got dish?!

195/45 tyres are sooo stretched to avoid rubbing issues.

I’d love for the car to be an inch lower but unfortunately the HKS coilovers are wound down as low as they’ll go.

Turns out the previous owner converted the rear drums to disc brakes, nice. I hadn’t even bother to look.

So needs a front lip now.

In other news Christina has been learning how to drive manual in the ED. We’ve found a great place to learn near Botany Bay, it’s quiet and it’s a bit of a circuit too with lots of giveways and stop signs. We’ve had 2 nights out there so far and she’s getting the hang of it quick smart, a few more weeks and she’ll be able to drive me home in a manual car when I get too drunk to drive! :p

My internet has been down for 3 days (again). This time the Telstra guy found the problem, some sort of interference from someone elses’s ADASL line, somehow. He assures me it’s fixed though (here’s hoping!).

A few pics from the weekend:

Poker and Karaoke madness at Sonny’s place.

Fung on the left is a poker manager at Star City Casino. He basically ran the night and it was quite impressive to watch him deal.

Sonny’s pretty crazy about Transformers as well, he collects these rare mini transformers.

Hotrod cost him $100 on his recent trip to Japan.

I got pretty plastered on the JD.

Sonny’s foose table!

Andy singing some sexy 80’s tunes.

Never gonna give you up!

3am Karaoke, the neighbours have got to love that.

The next day Suga took me to get a facial (?!). Her family has been getting facials from the same lady since she was 6.

This is what we saw when we walked in the door, crazy huh? So Asian. Straight out of Hong Kong!!!

That’ll be me. Yup, it was interesting. I liken it to doing an amazing detail on your car. So many products layered on then removed, layered on then removed, it was AOK actually!

We bought our forst tree (nyaw).

Any my Mum surprised us with an easy Xmas gift.

What I cook when I’m lazy. This was a killer spag bol though if I do say so myself, they get better every time!!!

Yesterday I dropped in to visit Yonas and Zi at JDMyard hoping to try out a few of their plastic front lips on my ED Civic. When I got there, a huge truck had just left this in front of the shop:

It’s so huge it blocks the shop next door too.

Wheels!

Yonas in the container (which was hot like an oven and smelly). 2 hours in and this is all we had got to.

Late afternoon. We unloaded non-stop. David, Yonas, myself, Zi and 2 other guys came to help out later in the day.

Dave and the towing boxes of wheels, all sorted.

OG OG-San.

OG OG-San.

OG Oldskool.

OG Oldskool.

OG Banzai.

Sportmax!

I also spotted this Seibon carbon bonnet for my ED Civic (ED/EF, same thing). Why so tempting!!!

Nice to see my logo design on a gearknob!

When we finally finished up it was dinner time and the Boss treated us good. Tingtao is a great Chinese beer, crispy, just how I love my beers.

We had dinner in a packed out, award winning Chinese restaurant in Hursville. They served up some traditional dishes that I’d never tried before. Duck with Taro and this soupy dish with salted egg, thousand year old egg and spinach.

Tasty chicken and Basil hotpot dish.

I didn’t get to try any of the lips for the ED, but I got carried away with the unloading and really got into it. Good thing as I hadn’t ridden my bike lately and I needed a workout!