LA AUTO SHOW

Clocked out early last Friday and headed to DTLA.

My boy Rick and I walked the Auto Show. Was actually my first time at the show - they had a ton of like normal everyday cars and handful of cool ones.

Lexus always has some interesting concepts.

Gotta love Audi right?

Crazy headlights on a new Acura. Actually wasn't too big of a fan of these. Worst concept was from Infiniti though - they had a car with a grill that looked like a crystal bowl - had a picture but couldn't bring myself to post it.

New Mercedes G Wagon concept. This thing was huge, nothing beats G-shaped headlights.

Bimmer of the future.

And a couple Bentleys.

Ran into the 2011 Slam Dunk Champion in the Kia booth on our way out. Nice guy, humble, claimed he actually drives a couple Optimas in his garage. This is the kid who actually made the Clippers relevant for once - no easy task. Love the way this guy plays - reminds me of when Amare was young.

Saw Levi Maestro there hanging out filming too - small world.

WE'RE BACK

It's been a busy couple months.

There was a time when I updated this blog a few times a week. Recently we got sort of busy and the blogging fell off a bit. Don't panic. Nobizplan is back. Trust me.

Alright, so, some stuff we've been up to... We bought a waterproof housing for one of our 7D's. It was pretty insanely expensive and we'll most likely hardly ever use it but you never know - maybe we'll do some scuba vids soon.

Here's a sample test shot - Matt and Ryan took it out up at Jalama Beach recently.

Shot a few videos for Magellan along with the ID Agency. This was from a shoot for one of their GPS Fitness watches.

We filmed a guy from their product team doing everything from trail and track running to mountain biking. Matt threw some cool motion graphics over the top of this video and it came out pretty nicely - I'm sure I'll post it up here someday soon.

Then we shot another spot for one of Magellan's trucking GPS navigation units. We cast our boy Jordan Warren as the driver and got to film in this 18-wheel semi truck all over Long Beach.

Just filmed an interview and some concert stuff down in San Diego with this band Milo Greene. They were cool, very laid back. They actually just performed on The Tonight Show last week and said that Jay was really humble and cool with them. They sing stuff like this and a lot of their songs pop up on TV on Gray's Anatomy and places like that.

Most importantly, these showed up last week - courtesy of Undefeated's Cyber Monday sale. Missoni x Converse Chuck Taylor collabs.

Anyway, like I said, Nobizplan is back so check back soon. In fact, to celebrate, Kanye just dropped the best remix of the year. Download the 'Ye and Rihanna "Diamonds" remix here. Enjoy.

CRASH

Some flicks from our trip to Dallas.

A few weeks back, Matt and I flew to Texas along with The ID Agency and filmed a short piece about motorsports safety.

The video focuses on a particularly epic crash from a few months ago. Not really supposed to disclose details until after the piece launches, but in the meantime here are a few snapshot previews.

This car flew off of a cliff and flipped about a dozen times on it's way down. We filmed what was left of the car as well as an hour long interview with the driver about what it was like inside the crash.

Definitely a challenging piece to put together. We actually had to get on YouTube and track down some users to negotiate rights to some of the crash footage that we found.

Anyway, our recap will premiere at the end of this month at the LA Auto Show. Will definitely post it up here as soon as it's live.

JUSTIFIED

Few flicks from our week out in Vegas earlier this month.

This was our second year filming The Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. The weather this year was actually less scorching and we won more money at the Craps tables - so it was a much better trip overall.

Tuesday night we filmed the Pairings Party for the Pro-Am at 1OAK inside The Mirage. Katherine Heigl was randomly at this event - her husband is some type of singer and he came out to golf in the Pro-Am. We actually didn't really recognize her - but we did talk to him for awhile. He came up and chatted with us about DSLR cameras for awhile and we sort of just thought he was one of the many regular camera nerds that typically accosts us everywhere we go.

JT played with George Lopez and Nick Watney. He actually outdrove Watney on a couple holes - the kid has got some game.

The homie George Lopez - great guy. Interesting golf swing but definitely nice, and funny too.

One of these guys just got married to Jessica Biel.

Nick handling some interviews over the weekend. Really good turnout this year, Davis Love III, John Daly, Vijay Singh, a lot of big names came out. Next year the tourney will be part of the FedEx Cup which will be a nice boost. We're stoked to see it grow - all the people at the tournament are super nice and professional and really chill to work with.

Roy, from the Hawaiian Fusion restaurants, came out to one of the charity events thrown at the tourney. He made some food for everyone and then Matt and Ryan interviewed him. We probably should've tried to get a Roy's gift card out of the whole deal - we sort of blew it.

Got up at dawn to film some b-roll around the course on Sunday.

Justin at the trophy presentation on the 18th green. Ryan Moore, who won the tourney, was actually a UNLV alumni so he had a ton of local support - people were chanting Rebel cheers for him as he walked the course Sunday which was kind of cool.

In the end, of course, it's all about the kids. This is Hunter, one of the hospital's patient ambassadors. Really nice kid - we interviewed him and his mom. Always a pleasure to work for the Shriners.

PHOTOSHOOT SNEAK

We spent Wednesday in Long Beach filming some behind-the-scenes stuff.

Our boy Tim Cadiente was shooting some stills of a rock band from LA and brought us along for the ride.

One of band members' shoes. Game recognize game.

We shot down at South Bay Studios all day - ton of stuff going on down there. They were shooting Fiat 500's on the soundstage nextdoor to us and had a ton of them parked out in the hallways and stuff. Also, randomly, Kareem Abdul Jabbar was roaming around - apparently he keeps an office for one of his companies inside the Southbay compound.

Buster - photoshoot security.

Anyway, more photos and the video coming soon once we're finally allowed to post everything.

RETNA

Stopped by the Michael Kohn Gallery over in Beverly Hills this weekend to check out the Retna show.

Retna covered the outside of the building with his signature handstyle in reflective metallic paint. Really glows in the sunlight, very cool.

The show featured a variety of his stuff - several different styles, which was nice.

There were a couple of watercolors, I really liked this one.

The detail, up close.

There was some new fancy pieces with glitter paint in this show but I'm more of a fan of his older style stuff, pieces like this one. Dude has such a unique and iconic style - curious to see what he does next.

THE MUSTANG FACTORY

Got to go out to Detroit recently and film at the Ford Mustang factory for a day.

The schedule was a bit hectic (what's new?) - we filmed for another project, also with The ID Agency, on a Monday, here in Irvine. Then we packed everything up and got on a red-eye and landed in Detroit Tuesday morning. Drove straight from the airport to the factory and got to work. #moneyneversleeps

Anyway, the factory was an amazing place to shoot. They gave us free reign, which was nice, and let us wander the whole place and capture whatever we needed.

Filming the cars as they pass through inspection and come off the assembly line.

One of the 2 Mustangs we rented for the trip - 6-speed, it was fun to drive.

Went out to a local racetrack the next day to snag a few action shots. Ryan shown here doing the tripod workout.

That's our boy Tanner Foust behind the wheel. We had a blast filming him all afternoon on the track. Anyway, excited to edit this stuff - should be fun.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE SHRINERS PGA 2K12

We're out here in Vegas filming, (and bringing sexy back), all week.

As you can see here, Justin was rocking what looked to be a Russell Westbrook-esque polo today for the Celebrity Pro-Am.

We're actually flying our whole squad out here this week - a little filming, some editing, a little gambling, some PF Chang's - a real 0484 Company Retreat.

More photos to come - someday...