First online feature!

So last week I talked to Ryan about putting his car up as a feature on intunedonline.com as one of my first features. He agreed and he gave me the stuff I needed to know and last night I got an email saying that it was up. I'm pretty pumped about it and I'm sure you can expect more features in the future. Probably not until winter is over though.. :(
That reminds me.. winter is the reason why I lack blog posts these days.. there's nothing interesting when it's cold and everyone has winter beaters and their garage queens are put away haha


Anyways, click the pic to check it out!

Import Tuner Longshots

Picked up the Import Tuner issue for this month and saw that my photo of Terence's S2000 was featured in the LongShots section. Woooot!! Go pick one up!



For those that are interested in his shoot from a while ago, here is the link
Terence's S2000

Who Likes Spoons?

Well, thanks to Terence I was able to pick up this Spoon S-Tai diffuser BNIB because he decided that it didn't go with his original plans. The result? It saves me the wait, it gives me an early Christmas present and it also puts me back into debt.
It's a bittersweet thing, but I think it's gonna be sick when it's on. Did some test fitting at speedtech with Paul and it looks like it'll fit with little trouble. Sorry guys.. no pics of the test fitting.. I'll keep it on the downlow till then. 
Next step? Wait till April... BOOOOO

IntunedOnline's Newest Recruit

Aside from the unfortunate mishap yesterday with my car, I'd like to be one of the first to say that after a long wait, intunedonline is now up and running after a long hiatus and renovation.
Near the end of their renovation, Ian Nerida contacted me through my blog. After seeing my work and the cars that I shot, he asked if I wanted to come aboard and shoot cars for them to feature.
This is great not only because do I get some exposure for my work, but the cars that I shoot now have the chance to get out there in the scene.
There are plenty of cars in Calgary that deserve recognition and I'm excited to help make that happen.
One of my first online exposures was with Jackie's S2000 on HellaFlush which was awesome. Let's see if we can make it happen again elsewhere.
Click the links to visit the site and take a look around. Remember to check in once in a while to see if any cars you know have been featured! Woooo

To the person that did this...

... I will find you through the fingerprints you left on my car from swiping it to "see" if there was any paint missing and cut your fucking balls off or your fallopian tubes and and stomp all over them. Then I'm gonna pick them back up and "see" if they're still OK to use, hand them back to you and walk away.
So god damn depressing.. This happens EVERY winter. I think my car is bad luck and I need a new one. The only paint that is still original on my car is the roof. Now I think I need a new paintjob on the rear bumper, quarter and lip. FMLFMLFMLFMLFMLFMLFML


You mother fuckers.

2009 Year End Meet

It was the annual year end meet today, and it had to be one of the coldest days this week. However, we had a pretty good turnout and we had a lot of guys come out and bring their cars for the last time this year.
It was good to see people come even though it was at least -15C with the windchill. We had our moments of sun peeking through that helped, but it was good nonetheless. Here are some pics of the meet of whatever I got around to taking. My hands felt like they were gonna fall off within 15 minutes of being there.. I tried my best haha

















Visit my flickr photostream to see whatever I didn't post here
Jason Hoang's Photostream

The Time has Come...

A few days ago, I was hesitant on putting my winter tires on since the forecast was saying it was gonna be sunny one hour and snowy the other. You never know in Calgary...

Today had to be the coldest day so far, and I fear it only goes downhill from there.. Snow has accumulated on my car and it's beginning to start on the roads. It's only a matter of weeks before it's here to stay permanently. 

Good bye blue skies, good bye warm sunshine, good bye grip... =(

This is why I love what I do

So, anybody who has known me long enough to remember the days of calgaryplanet.com may remember that I used to write a lot, whether it was about myself, an expression, or an emotion that I may have been feeling. For those of you that don't know me for that long but have been updated with my blog or are sort of familiar with it may remember my post a while back called "Her Ring". It was for Diana maybe 3 or 4 years ago that I wanted to post up for the sake of remembering.
Here's a link if you are too lazy to go back and find it..
Her Ring
Now, I'm a member of many forums and online communities which allow me to keep in touch with the car community and help others keep updated with me for whatever reason they may have, whether it be with my pictures, my life or the cars that I shoot. This also helps me get my blog and work out to other people who use these sources. I have gotten a position to shoot for an online import scene because of these sources which was my main reason for having one of these up.
However, today was different... I came home from a long day of school and work to login on to facebook and I have a friend request. I'm usually excited to see a friend request - maybe it's someone that saw me driving on the road, or one of my old friends that have decided to get facebook. Instead, a Michael Arseniu was my request, a name that may not have any meaning to you, just as it didn't to me. Maybe he thought I was another Jason Hoang. Plus, I don't know anybody from State College, PA.

Not too long after accepting the request, I get a message in my inbox saying

"hey man, my name is Michael Arseniu, I own a company called Drift.Tough. selling drift/touge related car parts. Site isn't launched just yet, but will be soon. Any way, I found your blog through fatlace I believe and I saw your poem about promise rings. I immediately called my gf of almost 3 years that I bought a promise ring for at our 1 year anniversary and read it to her. We thought it was amazing, dude. Seriously, that is amazing work, I copied and pasted it into a word doc. with your name and saved it to my desktop. Just thought I would let you know how much we appreciated it.
-Michael"

So now, Micahel Arseniu is no longer a stranger to me rather a person I think I helped. I know, it sounds corny but I never thought in a million years that what I had written years ago would make someone else, whom it wasn't intended for, happy today.
I know this is pretty different than my usual blogs, but I thought this was pretty cool in its own way. Next blog will be more on topic... haha

My Worst Nightmare

Yeah, winter is coming.. Unfortunately.
I wanted to be able to hold off on changing to winter tires until after the year end Honda meet, but at this rate, I don't wanna chance it. Every year I'm caught waking up one morning and its like the damn north pole outside and I have no time to quickly change over to winters and I have to drive to school in my summers - not cool when you have no traction when driving in slurpee.
So, this year I decided I'm not gonna take my chances. Even if we happen to get a whole October full of nice weather and no snow, I'll be ready. Calgary weather sucks balls.
With my day off today (the first time in a long time) I decided to change my wheels over... Saddest day of my life.


The last picture you'll ever see with the TE's on and snow outside. =(

Getting ready to take the bad boys off..

Done. NOOOOOOOOO

Clean TE's are happy TE's.. They are officially my track wheel for next year. Wonder what's next? ;)

It's like Christmas

...On my laptop hahaha
I was bored so I decided to take a picture of it. It may or may not be interesting to you, but it gives you something to waste some time on in the case that you're bored.
Thanks to JC for giving me the extra green fatlace one. I guess it's just coincidence that I got a red and green one.

Who's in a Christmas-y mood?

Getting Ready for Winter

Unfortunately, it's that time of year again and being in Calgary isn't the best place to be at this time. The temperature is going down, lately the temperature has been hovering around the 0 mark in the mornings and only reaches a high of 12C or 13C if we're lucky and we've got a forecast that includes snow this weekend. Shitty.
So on tuesday I took out my coilovers and tossed em out and put in my sportlines so that I'm not shovelling the road for people this year. This means new coilovers next year, which I think is a good things since three of the four are blown. The only sad part now is my ride height..
As shown here :(




Actually.. even sadder is that I have to take my wheels off soon and replace 'em with shitty, high profile, skinny ass winter tires. Lamesauce. I hope I make it to the annual Honda meet without having to change over.