Archive for March, 2008

Mar200815

SirRobbieRob

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The New Hotness v.2008

In 2006, I made a post about the arrival of the new to me 2004 Honda CRF250R. It made a huge difference in my riding. I was progressing quicker than being on the 2004 Kawasaki KX250. Cut to April 12, 2007, I tore my ACL riding at the Austin-Del Valle track. A few months after surgery I was back on the bike and 5 minutes into riding I had a set back in my injury. Out of frustration and not wanting to ride the cursed bike again, I sold it. Now almost a year after getting hurt I’m ready to start riding again. After posting a few wanted ads around the net I found a beautiful 2005 Honda CRF250R. Alev and I went to go pick it up from the owner today. It’s definitely the nicest bike I have owned to date. The most powerful too. Here are some of the pluses with the bike:

- New complete 2006 CRF250R topend installed less than 8 hours ago by a professional mechanic. (Used the 2006 head because it has replaceable valve seats unlike the stock 2005 cylinder head.)

- Forks were serviced at the same time as the engine with Genuine Honda parts used.

- TAG privateer triple clamp kit

- ASV F1 Levers

- FMF Factory 4 full exhaust

- Devol Racing skid plate

- Moose wide foot pegs

- New Accerbis plastics all around

- New Troy Lee Designs graphics

- New Uni air filter

- Braking rear wave rotor

- Polished frame

After picking up the bike we came home and took some pictures. Then I took it over to Georgetown Honda to put on a new tire, tube, fix the jetting on the bike, and just look it over. We should get it back next Saturday in time to head out to Cross Creek for some riding. Check out some pictures.


Check out more pictures of the new bike in the gallery.

Mindblowing! Moving on!

Mar200813

SirRobbieRob

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Mindblowing


Mindblowing! That’s my new thing. We watched a documentary at SXSW called ‘Shot in Bombay‘. The jist about it, is it follows the making of a Bollywood movie with a bunch of other crap going on. Doesn’t make sense? Perfect, it’s like you have already seen it. The best thing about the movie was the director of the film, not the documentary. Every time he yelled cut he would follow it up with “Mindblowing!” or “Mindblasting”. I can’t wait to direct again because I have adopted this as my new “thing”. Cut. Mindblowing.

Moving on. I took some footage from the Socially short and put together a quick edit. I posted it on YouTube for everyones viewing pleasure. Take in mind that no color correction has been done. So things a little dark and what not.

Have a great day! I should be picking up my new (to me) dirt bike tomorrow. I will post some pictures when I get them.

Mindblowing.

Mar200811

SirRobbieRob

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Writing

Writing. blah. It is something I’m not very good at doing. For the past couple of years (probably since I started this blog) I have been wanting to work on building up the skills. Much like everything else it, I never have gotten around to actually doing it. I’m hoping that is in the process of changing. Since Andrea and I started this Script to Screen class I feel like my brain has been given a jolt. I wrote my first script for the short film called, SNAFU, and I have more ideas I want to get down on paper. To help me keep moving things along I bought The Write-Brain Workshop. It’s a creative writing workshop in a book that is supposed to help “liberate your writing”. Andrea is already going through this workbook and posting her entries, not something I think I will be doing. But I hope it will translate to other writings that will be posted here. blah.

Mar200804

SirRobbieRob

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Socially

So for the time being I have given up on producing the SNAFU script. In turn I am directing Socially, the script Andrea wrote for Kat Candler’s From Script to Screen workshop. I thought not producing my own script would take some of the stress away. Boy, was I wrong! This past weekend marked the beginning of shooting and it went good, I think. Directing felt like a natural thing for me. Problem is, I let stress kind of blind me the first time doing something like this. So it ends up taking away from the experience. After this wraps I will start studying up a little more on the art of direction and maybe get my own style going on.

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