2011 was a great year for us. Our team was assembled and the blog was launched. We were able to cover car events in the Pacific Northwest, feature some awesome local cars, and gain the support of the local car community. Artofstance was created for a love of cars and the love of photography.
Here’s a quick look back at how our 2011 went:
Kevin Yong came to us for a photoshoot of his 2001 BMW 325i, a car that he came upon on Craigslist, the source of everything good and bad. It had only 60,000 km on it which was rare for a 6 year old car at the time. We’ve seen pictures of his ride before as Kevin himself is a photography enthusiast. We loved the stance of the car when we got the chance to see the car live. Our shoot began on an early morning that gave us some great lighting and some beautiful morning fog. We could tell the shoot ahead would bring us some great photos!
Our third and final winner of our photoshoot raffle was Gary Chan, the owner of a 2011 Hyundai Genesis Coupe! For this shoot we had some more tools at our disposal to be more creative with our angles. We also did most of the shoot in an indoor location.
Ed was in the market for a new car after being in involved in an accident in his Nissan NX2000. He narrowed down his choices for a replacement to the Lexus IS300, Honda S2000 or the Acura Integra Type-R. He was immediately drawn to the Integra that was listed on Revscene and Craigslist. This was the second Type-R Ed looked at after viewing a rebuilt. After a phone call, meetup, and a ride around, “Kaori” was his.
Waterwerks NW hosted a TSD Rally where 18 teams took part in Washington State. Our starting point was at 425 Motorsports in Bellevue and our destination was The Old Spaghetti Factory in Tukwila. If you’re not familiar with what a Time, Speed, Distance (TSD) rally is, here’s a brief explanation from Wikipedia.
“The object of these rallies is to maintain precise times and precise average speeds on various segments of a predefined route. Each team usually consists of an amateur driver and navigator. Teams usually start a regularity rally at fixed intervals creating a field that is spread along the route.”
We participated in the rally ourselves driving a Mazda 3 and our friends helped represent the 604 in their Integra GSR.
Teams were given instructions one minute prior to starting and started their runs at one minute intervals after each other. Our rally would take us over two hours to complete and would cover 83 miles in a state that was unfamiliar to us Canucks. The team cars were varied, from widebody Audi RS4 to a BMW E39 M5 to a VW truck. There was some really slick rides!
The rally took us on some nice windy roads as well as the freeway. This rally wasn’t about which team could get to the destination the fastest, but which team could come closest to the time that the boys at Waterwerks NW had set. The following trophies were given out during our dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory:
Stage Green Road Rally winners:
Team Clueless with a time difference of 51 secs off the target time. Great job guys!
Best Rally Team Name: Team Milf & Cookies
Best Rally Team Costumes: Team German Hearted
Our team placed fifth overall with a time of 6:48 off the target time. Not too bad considering it was our first road rally in another country! We like to give a shout out to Waterwerks NW for putting on a great event and all the other teams that participated in the fun! We’ll definately be back next year in full force!
At the Revscene 2011 Summer Meet, we raffled off three free photoshoots. Here is our first winner, Kyle’s 1995 RHD JDM Subaru Impreza WRX. Having test driven a JDM WRX before, he decided to import his own with the help of Akira from Rise Auto Salon.
