Up To Speed

The latest episode of the IRL’s official Up To Speed show is using a bunch of the footage that I shot at Infineon Raceway last week.  Kinda cool, and glad to see my footage find new uses Here’s the Youtube version.

One of the things that I like about the Indy Racing League is that it’s really embracing new media to promote their series. Some of that might come out of necessity – TV coverage and promotion is lacking a bit right now and the league is looking for additional ways to bring coverage to the fans. But in general they are going in the right direction – weekly update shows, streaming qualifying and races, lots of interaction opportunities on the webpage. Other racing leagues are a bit behind this, or overly driven by corporate and outside interests (NASCAR contracts out its own webpage to Turner, for example).

Snapshot

Cyber-stalking help, August 2008:

Reading… Cyberfilms
Watching… Spaced – Season 2. The Olympics
Playing… Etrian Odyssey
Listening To… Star Trek – First Contact (iPod shuffle)
Expecting… IndyCar race. Parents visit
Lacking… Sleep

R.I.P. Squall

Another one of the original four budgies is gone. I’ve had parakeets all my life, and they die. I can deal with it. But moments like these still make me reflect on life – I’d known Squall longer than my wife! Good times… he will be missed.

IndyCar Test Session

The Indy Racing League allowed teams another test session at Infineon Raceway yesterday and today, in preparation for next weekend’s race. I had the day off, so I headed down the racetrack to shoot the press conference and some b-roll. Here’s the video I quickly edited together tonight.

Clone Wars IndyCar

This goes out to all the people I know working at the Ranch right now. Taken at Infineon Raceway today, very nice looking car!

Server Move Complete

If you’re reading this post, you have found the new home of the my webpage. My old webserver is running Windows IIS servers, which make WordPress and other PHP apps much more complicated. So I moved to my friend Steve’s local server instead. The new server is running Apache, and now I can use Permalinks and a whole bunch of plugins that I couldn’t run before. There might be a few hitches here and there, if you find one, let me know!