I’d to tell you a little bit about something we’ve been working on for a while here at What’s Good?

For most of our events and happenings we always try to provide comprehensive photo coverage through my photo studio The Pixel Pimps. Photographs are great and Ed and I love what we do in this respect but lately I’ve been wanting to push the limits a little further by experimenting with video.

For our recent Kart Day 002 I took it upon myself (with the help of a few mates) to film our kart day and try to make a short video about it. The reason for this was pretty simple – sometimes photographs are limited in that you can’t “show” people engine sounds and other things. With video we can give you a better idea of how the event actually transpired with “moving pictures.”

Armed with nothing more than the video functions on our digital cameras, we tried to film whatever footage we could so that Yuki and I could put the clip together in the studio. The 2 of us had a blast doing it and I have to say I really enjoyed the entire creative process of making this video.

We’ve set up a What’s Good? Channel on YouTube, and this is where we will provide you with videos from stuff that is happening in our part of the world. We’re not going to limit the content to anything in particular – just stuff that happens and we think is interesting enough to commit to film.

We will be releasing video content periodically and hope you will enjoy what we have to share with you.

Here is our first video, entitled Kart Day 002:

P.S. I apologize for the crappy video quality but we only used our digital cameras to film this but it was a No Budget Production!

P.P.S. Special thanks to DC Shoes for providing us with awesome performance footwear and Tommax Stickers for making us all look so good.

Posted on February 7th, 2010 by BadBoyBen
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Yuki really loved the 3M carbon fiber MacBook protector that Tommy from Tommax Stickers made for me so he asked Tommy to make a special one for him also.

Tommy decided to take things up a level and really pimp up Yuki’s laptop.

Damn that shit is tight!

Posted on February 6th, 2010 by BadBoyBen
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Posted on February 4th, 2010 by BadBoyBen
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I just had to share this with you – Travis Pastrana won the Rally America Sno*Drift 2010 competition last weekend.

This is the fourth time Travis has won the event, and this time he won it WITH A BROKEN COLLARBONE HELD TOGETHER BY A METAL PLATE. “It’s just pain,” said Pastrana at the podium ceremony on Saturday. “Once they put the plate on the bone isn’t healed but it ain’t going anywhere.”

Respect points x1,000,000 for Mr. Pastrana from me.

And guess what car he won Sno*Drift in?

In other DC motorsport related news – also competing at the event was Mr. Ken Block, in his first rally outing since defecting to Ford. He debuted his new Monster World Rally Team Ford Fiesta, but failed to finish due to a suspension failure on Stage Seven. FORD = Fix Or Repair Daily *ahem* *ahem*

Monster filmed a video of Mr. Block’s shakedown run, which I have conveniently included here for you to check out.

Just cover your eyes when you see the Ford logo and pretend it’s a Version 10 STi.

Many thanks to Christopher Smith for the awesome coverage of Sno*Drift 2010.

Posted on February 4th, 2010 by BadBoyBen
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Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by BadBoyBen
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I just received a package from FedEx today.

Holy shit! In it were some sexy items from the upcoming DC X Royalefam “Circus of Mutants” collection!

I have to say, the Ts look pretty fly (hehe)

Well done Mark (as usual)

2010 is going to be a great year for DC and SBTG.

Thanks to Jeremy and Cherice for hooking me up!

Posted on February 1st, 2010 by BadBoyBen
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Holy shit! Avatar has just pipped Titanic as the HIGHEST GROSSING MOVIE OF ALL TIME, taking in over USD2 billion worldwide.

James Cameron (L) is now officially the director of the 2 highest grossing movies of all time.

But my favorite James Cameron movies are still Terminator 2: Judgement Day and True Lies.

I’ll be back.

Posted on February 1st, 2010 by BadBoyBen
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Kart Day 002 was 10x better than our first one, if simply for the fact that we were much better organized this time round. Not that we were disorganized at the first one, but this time we could better prepare newcomers for what was in store since we had already experienced it once before at UUM.

And amazingly enough (for Malaysia) everyone turned up to the rendezvous point earlier than scheduled – I know I was itching to get back into a kart and I’m pretty sure the others felt the same way. In fact, I was so psyched that I didn’t really sleep the night before. Hahaha

The best thing about the day was probably the weather. Yes, it was scorching hot and I got sunburnt, but the sun shone so brightly that everything looked so crisp and sharp like it was out of a video game.

But I was kinda worried this time because not only were we going to shoot photos – I was going to attempt to shoot video aswell. And I was not going to shoot any old video footage, I wanted to produce a video clip that would show people just how awesome karting was.

Well, the video is currently being edited by Yuki and I have to say it IS pretty fucking awesome for a No Budget Production. Hahaha

Before we get onto the photos, I have to give a MEGA HUGE shoutout to DC Shoes, who hooked our crew up with some amazing kicks for the event (as you will see) – DC is THE BOMB!

I also want to give props to UUM Promax Karting, who supported our event to the max and accomodated all our requests with a super friendly smile. Wan, you guys run the best karting facility in Malaysia and I’m glad it’s only an hour away from Penang.

I must also give thanks to my buddy Tommy from Tommax Stickers for so graciously providing all the stickers for our helmets and 125cc karts. It might look really simple, but Tommy traced/drew EVERY single logo/graphic you see onto his computer before cutting them out onto vinyl.

However, I do want to mention that karting is NOT all fun and games. One of our friends, Allen, had a shunt that resulted in him breaking one of the bones in his left forearm. Karts ARE fun and will give you an awesome thrill, but always remember to drive within your limits and be aware of what is happening around you on the track.

Now that I’ve said all that, onto the photos!

Read more…

Posted on January 29th, 2010 by BadBoyBen
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Apple really can’t stop making shit I really want. Hahaha

iPad … mmmmmm

Posted on January 28th, 2010 by BadBoyBen
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I dropped by Sushi Kappo Miyasaka for a quick lunch meeting the other day with Dorifto Neko to discuss some upcoming projects of ours.

Miyasaka-san knows I’m crazy about his Hamaguri w/ White Sauce so he made me a special dish – Hamaguri w/ White Sauce UDON.

I am more and more convinced that Miyasaka-san puts cocaine into his white sauce because I am totally addicted to it. Hahaha

Honto ni cho oishii desu!

Posted on January 28th, 2010 by BadBoyBen
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