Halloween Costumes

While at my job last Friday night I got to see many Freshman students all dressed up in their costumes to go out to celebrate halloween. My favorite one that I think was simple and creative using everyday products was two girls that dressed up as "fire" and "mild" taco bell sauce packets. The dresses were made out of colored duct tape only. They said it took them six hours total to make them and they had 15$ into the dresses combined.

Cool way to find other uses for everyday products.

Creative Way To Save Porsche From Flood

Hurricane Sandy came and hit the eastern coast of the United Stated this week. Its destruction has left many people without powers or homes, it has ruined billions of dollars worth of property and even taken the life of some people. For that, I would like to send my condolences to all those families who felt the storms rath.

But when I saw this image, being a "car guy" I had to post it.

This person was so worried about his Porsche Carrera that the owner drove it onto an inflateable blob and floated his car so that the flooding could not ruin the owners prized car.

Its awesome!

I love taking photos

Recently I have had a rather serious obsession with taking pictures, so I bought an entry level DSLR Nikon camera. I have been experiment with different settings and trying to pretend that I know what I am doing. But instead of typing a huge explanation ill just share some photos. A mix between landscape from my home town and my passion of cars.

Getting Put in Your Place

This post is not a typical break from my creative topic. This post will focus on the my thoughts and feelings I'm experiencing right now. Two weeks ago I had a very busy week, between visiting my sick grandfather dying with cancer, trying to make a get together I have gone to for years, and school, I slipped. I let other things in life take over the most important thing I have going for me, my college, which is my ticket out of the small town where I grew up.
Well the same week I had all those distractions I had two major test and one major paper due. Between earlier this week and today it is clear, school needs to be my number one priority all the time. I had two teachers explain to the classes I am in how the work being done is not college level work. My important  note was my teacher flat telling us, the people who failed, that we had no future. I believe he was saying this to scare us and to get motivated.
One can take feedback like this in two ways. The first is to admit defeat and think that teacher's right. The second is to prove to the teacher that he is wrong, take those harsh words as motivation to better yourself and your future.
Ill be damned if I let some discouraging words take me down.
It's on.

Photography

I recently purchased a nikon DSLR camera and a go pro video camera. I love them both and have been exploring with photography for a long time. Most picutres I take have to do with cars. But recently I have been wanting to buy a fish eye lense. A fish eye lense uses a curved lense to spread out the viewing area, distoring much of the picture. I really have learned to love the effect. However I do not have the money to buy the $890 dollar lense for my Nikon camera. So I read up on the internet, made a trip to the hardware store and bought a door peep hole.

Strange I know but it works with my cellphone as a cheap fisheye lense.

Plasti-Dip

If you have ever used a pair of old metal tools you prolly wished that the handles could be more comfortable or have better grip. The product Plasti-Dip does just that, you dip your tool handles in this liquid rubber and when it dries it creates a rubber hanlde.


Well that product has been out for years! I remember doing it as a kid. But as of recent it has come in a spray can. This has opened up a whole new craze. Plasti-Dip only bonds with itself, meaning no matter what you spray it on it will form a cured bond with itself not what it is sprayed on. So people have been coming up with very creative ways to use such awesome stuff. They sell it in a variety of colors with the original being matte black.

I have seen people paint entire cars with it, seen it used as a screen protector for phones, and have also seen it used as a place to set stuff on a car dash so it doesnt slide. The best part is that the product is cheap, durable and totally removable.

I have used it to paint my friends truck. Everything you see used to be chrome, and when he wants it to be chrome again he can peel it off. But if he wants it to stay it will not come off easy.

 

A picture of it being removed.

 

 

It may seem as though it is to good to be true but I have yet to see and example of when it fails to be exactly as I described.

 

Most recently I used it for my new cell phone, I removed the back and sprayed 4 coats of plasti dip, this did two things for me: 1. It gave my slim phone a nice grip feeling while not being thick and bulcky like a case. 2. It preserves the look of the phone and protects it from damage, and when I want it gone I can just pick a corner and work it back.

 

It has so many more amazing uses. It self levels and fills in scratches, it allows easy work for stuff that is raised (you can paint all over without taping and just peel off what you dont like and since it self levels anywhere there is a gap is cuts itself perfectly.), and so many more.

 

I love the stuff!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Car Engine Fabrication

I think most will agree that cars can be works of art. Especially when it comes to paint, from the wildest and craziest paint schemes to the simple clean paint jobs when someone puts a custom touch on a vehicle I think many would say that is art. But what about what you do not see? What about whats "under the hood", the engine.

To me there are many fabricators in the performance car world that are creating amazing pieces of creative art work. From finding new ways to mount different parts or alter existing parts all the way to creating a fully custom engine dress. To me, it takes insane creativity to realize, "i can make that work!".

I have done my fair share of beating, banging, and welding of parts to make stuff work but no where near the level of the man I want to talk about today, Tom Nelson. He is the owner and operator of Nelson Supercars Inc. and Nelson Racing Engines  Since he was 18 he has been swapping engines and full-filling his sickening passion for speed. From crude fabrication to some of the most elegant clean and symmetrical engine bays you could ever see. He combines his world class knowledge of cars and engine science with his creative mind to develop some of the performance car industries most impressive developments.

See what I mean:

 ^ Looks pure evil and means busines

 Its amazing what a man with an imagination and a CNC machine can do

Here is David F., the editor and chief of Hot Rod magazine car that was built by Nelson Racing.

A little video clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA6am0rCwAk&list=UUHYi8icg8EC6DvMJD5OcTOg&index=5&feature=plcp