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Washington Part Three | RO Explore

Another morning, another adventure, this time we were going to explore the nature side of Washington and get in touch with the beauty of mother nature. We wanted to check out the ice caves today and go for a small hike.

So many greens.

Shooting some HOODRATstuff promotion.

The Baeton in the HOODRATstuff beanie V2.
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OO Long Sleeve in black.
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Fancy metal bridge.

These natural sun flares were so awesome. I couldn’t stop taking photos.

AW Films brought out his gear to film our hike.

Vinh rocking the Bad Things Seal tee.
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We finally arrived at the ice caves and we were in shock and awe of how huge this cave was.

This little kid wanted to go inside the caves so bad, but his mom didn’t let him. Apparently some one died here a week before when the ice came loose and hit him in the head.

Clinton holding onto his head.

After getting some cool photos (pun intended), I got out of there asap.

The walk back was surprisingly fast and with the sun coming down more, it was less harsh for photos.

Abbitt is crazy.

Met up with Henderson and he took us to Alki to try Marination Makai. They had lots of interesting food like this kimchi fried rice with pork. It was delicious.

Spam and kalua sliders.

Vinh and Clinton’s large order.

Nice ocean view from Alki beach.

Missing you comes in waves, tonight I’m drowning.

Mellow beach.

Clean NSX in front of a nice house near Alki.

Yoshi is pretty down to drift anywhere.

Fainting Goat, a spot that was recommended by @fortheloveoficecream.

Interesting flavors and everything was super creamy. This place made it up for yesterday’s disappointments.

Hendercupping.

When bae ignores the kiss.

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More sunset views.

“I once did gay porn”

The next morning, we met up with Vickie and Long to check out Pike Public Market. Lots of energy going on in this market for how early it was.

Find us at the gum wall.

So much bacteria in one spot.

Shout out to Vickie for these tasty macaroons.

Macaroon porn.

Free stickers courtesy of AWStickers.

Finally got to try some Seattle’s best seafood and it did not disappoint! This is the seafood bisque and the captain’s roll.

Long enjoying his sea food bisque and Vickie is on a diet.

Next spot would be Bleecher’s cheese shop.

Vickie ready to give some food to the needy.

Delicious mac and cheese, too bad I was full from eating all of that seafood bisque.

The first Starbucks and it was too crowded to order anything.

A visit to the friendly neighborhood troll.

Gelatiamo would be the last dessert shop we visited, also very delicious. Water based too, so I didn’t get the shits afterwards.

Thank you to everyone from Super Kawaii for the hospitality especially Justin, Vickie and Long! Also a big thanks to Henderson for driving us to cool food spots and to see amazing sun sets. Yoshi aka Mike for keeping us company and always having a car there to shoot. We’ll see you guys in April!!

March 22, 2015

Enjoy Sin | Dreamer77 Coverage

Photo coverage by our good friends over at Dreamer77. Enjoy!

March 11, 2015

Enjoy Sin Video Coverage

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It’s that time of the year where we make the journey from SoCal to Las Vegas to enjoy a weekend of fun and sin. This time around we collaborated with HNRS LV clothing store to bring ENJOY SIN. We had food provided by Fuku Burger to supply their awesome burgers, and raffles provided by our sponsors to anyone that attended this free event.

Thank you to everyone that came out and enjoyed themselves. Hope to see everyone again next year to enjoy some more sin!

Special thanks to our sponsors:

HOODRATstuff

HNRS

Avant Garde Wheels

AIR RUNNER SYSTEMS

I Love Racing Shop

Video By:
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Vu Pham
Randy Phat

March 9, 2015

OMWTFYB | Enjoy Sin

It was finally here, the weekend of the Enjoy Sin car meet with HNRS. We’ve been counting the days, minutes and seconds to finally spend some good quality time with friends and family. One of my favorite things to take photos of during this event is the caravan to Vegas, it’s just such a thrill to see a bunch of modified cars cruising together on the freeway. This post will be mostly rolling shots of the caravan.

Jeff looking mighty dapper this early.

Erik and Nimo trying to get dabber themselves.

UNDERWATER SQUAD.

Ryo’s Q45 rolling static on Koenig Monsters.

New member Aron’s M35 on Weds Bazerias.

Jaycray’s brand spanking new RC350 with it’s first road trip. Glad that we were apart of it.

The biggest surprise on the trip was Adam taking his S13. Glad to see it made the trip without any problems.

Kentaro rolling through with the most reliable car here.

Marq was hesitant about taking his 7 series to Vegas because of some transmission problems, but he ended up making it there with no problems and he only used half a tank to get from Cali to Vegas. Quite impressive for a big body BMW.

Ryan Gold’s bright ass EVO was fun to shoot for rolling shots. Ryan made the trek with us all the way from Santa Barbara.

This year we had faster cars in this caravan, but we paced it pretty well so Vu and I could get some good rolling shots of the caravan. Thanks Ashton for not going 0 to 130 real quick.

Another speed demon, Phat and his Cayman S.

Jeff’s WRX was my camera car and he did a great job catching up to everyone and pacing the car so I could get the best shots.

Robros Customs let Vinh drive the STI to the meet. The wrap looked great in the sun.

Derek pulled an all nighter to get his car ready for this trip. He spent the whole night wrapping his front end just to look decent for the meet.

Kevin’s S2000 was looking great now that it looks pretty much complete with his hardtop.

One of the lowest cars in the caravan was boss man, Jimmy’s Civic. He was literally scraping his diffuser all the way to Vegas.

Jimmy did a public service and picked up all the trash on the freeway.

The second camera car with Vu in the passenger seat.

This year Erik and his EP3 joined us in the caravan to Vegas. His car looks freaking ridiculous when it’s rolling

Gas station stop.

Jimmy couldn’t make it up the drive way, so he parked in the streets.

We finally made it to our first destination, the M Resort where they have a good deal for lunch at the Studio B buffet. It’s been a tradition that we hit this buffet first before doing anything else in Vegas.

Sparkle’s M3 our Taiwan dealer of Royal Origin and HOODRATstuff also joined us in the caravan. Sucks, we missed his car for a rolling shot.

EVO booty.

Jesus, we made it.

Shavi leading the squad.

For the first time, we beat the rush for the buffet. Vinh and John excited to stuff their faces.

Looks like heaven.

Japan x Taiwan x Vietnam.

After the buffet, we went to check in at the house we rented. The driveway was so large that it could have fit all of our cars, too bad some of us couldn’t make it up the driveway.

Neel is now a Vegas local and met up with us as soon as we arrived.

Safe and sound.

The house was pretty awesome, large enough for all of us and it had so many activities like this gaming room.

Tina excited for some pool.

Ryan sucks at shuffle board.

This will be empty by tomorrow.

Current events meeting aka deciding where we’re going to go eat.

Angelo, the leader of the RO offroad edition.

That’s it for today, the next post will be coverage of the meet!

March 5, 2015

Vegas Prep | Enjoy Sin

It’s insane how much sleep you lose when preparing your car for an event, whether it’s a track day or just a car meet. Making your car up to your expectations takes quite a bit of time and effort. Most of the crew had to get their car ready for our annual Royal Origin meet in Las Vegas. Not only did they have to get the car ready to floss, but they had to get it ready for a four hour trek into the desert.

Ryo, one of the crazier guys in our group had to get his fenders pulled and space our his rear wheels, so it doesn’t rub against the frame anymore.

Crazy, how he’s planning to drive this car to Vegas.

Meanwhile, I was just playing around putting my Work CR-Kai’s on my SC. Doesn’t look that bad in my opinion.

Air master Vinh was trying to put together his air suspension for his STI.

The pieces to a very complicated puzzle.

Vinh’s garage buddy, Bryan’s M5 on DPE wheels.

Since the SC got some wheels now, I decided to put the Meisters back on my IS for the meet.

Damn, I miss driving around like a boss.

Speaking of bosses, Kevin from Boss Company came by to hang out with his LS400.

Sadly, this car will be sold soon..

More of Ryo’s Q45.

Dem camber specs tho..

The master teaching the student.

Decided to practice light painting again and well it didn’t come out that great. It was most likely because it wasn’t dark enough and the amber lights didn’t help either.

I wasn’t trying to be artistic and deep with the black and white. The only way this photos would come out decent if it were in black and white…

More behind the scenes coming soon… Probably tomorrow.

March 2, 2015

Boss Company LS400 | AWFILMS

Saying goodbye to one of the coolest LS400’s in California.

AWFILMS | Runnin’ Through the 6 With My Woes from Abbitt Wilkerson on Vimeo.

February 26, 2015

Food Truck Meets | Food Adventures

On today’s food adventures, we took out your woman crush Wednesdays, Sara and Hayle to eat some delicious wieners.

The ladies getting mesmerized by the wieners.

First time Sara wasn’t ready for a photo and Vinh was.

Hayle also always alert for a photo op.

Dogzilla one of my favorite food trucks of all time. I’ve been eating here since 2010 when they would be stationed in front of Sam Ash on Beach blvd. Crazy how fast time passes, but their food is still amazing.

Sara telling us about her patients who get worms in their vagina’s right before our food came out.

I got the spicy dogzilla combo with an egg on top.

How it looks with no egg.

I hope when you google image search Sara Choi this photo pops up.

Some more shots of the deliciousness.

It’s a wiener party.

The next stop would be Porko Rico BBQ. Get it? Puerto Rico – Porko Rico.

When bae is about to buy you food.

I got the pillager pulled pork. The center was flavorful, but the bun was over bearing and dry. It made it hard to consume after a while and I just ended up eating the center only.

Vinh got the captain porko fries which was the better option among our two orders. They really mastered slow smoked pork here at Porko Rico BBQ.

Last on the list was Meow Meow Cafe, we’ve been here a couple times in the past and it was amazing, but I heard from Alyssa who lives down the street that this place changed ownership and is not as great anymore. Well, she was right…

Anyways, it was cool to put our phones down and just update each other on our lives.

Hayle trying to live in the moment.

Hayle missing bae.

Back on their phones..

Then Shavi arrived and everyone won the lotto. Yay!

February 11, 2015

Beanie Shoots | HOODRATstuff with Becky

It’s never a dull moment when we’re out and about even when it’s just for an ice cream run. Becky tagged along with us and even though she think she’s not model material we thought it would be cool to shoot her in the alley of down town Orange.

We haven’t really brought our cars out to play lately, so it was cool to have a car to shoot in this area.

This would be our background for the night.

Becky trying to break out of her robot personality.

She said she was internally screaming every time I asked her to get in front of the camera.

I think she did pretty well even with a crowd of people watching us shoot her.

The HOODRATstuff version 2 beanie.
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Best facial expression.

Becky also rocking the OO hoodie.
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Vu with that BTS.

The tones in this photo. So good…

On the way here we saw this cool market with a nice big green neon sign and thought it would be a sick place to shoot for some profile photos.

Praying to base god.

Shavi the green doctor.

Meet me at the south side market girl.

Some car photos since I haven’t been providing much of this content lately.

Every late night adventure should end at the fast food drive thru.

February 11, 2015

99 Problems

Vinh’s garage is where most of our cars have been worked on or fixed and usually we come back the next day because we messed up on something. We’re not perfect, maybe Instagram makes it look like we have perfect cars, but we don’t. It actually takes a lot of work to build a car that we would be happy with. A suspension drop, wheels and a lip kit doesn’t really count as a build for us. It’s definitely a start, but what separates the car scene kids to the true enthusiast is the attention to detail and the never ending thirst to build a complete all around car.

From Lexus to Nissan now Subaru, Vinh is trying to catch them all. He has always been able to build some unique cars with his simplistic style, every car he has built had it’s own way of grabbing your attention without it having something crazy to it.

Vinh’s room mate, Bryan’s M5. Shit’s packing heat with 500hp.

Henry’s freshly bagged GS on Loc’s Work CR Kais. They’re for sale for $1,900.

Today’s project is Abbitt’s Subaru, we were getting it prepped for a tune. Abbitt is not about the details of his car, if it works and looks good, it’s fine for him. He still builds some pretty cool cars though.

Love/hate relationship for Vinh and building cars. He likes building cars, but he hates being broke from buying the parts.

Henry was trying to fix his air leaks all day. #airproblems

John’s been a rut trying to sell his Work VS-TX. Seems like people now a days don’t want to be a gangster.

Holy camber, Batman!

Sunsets and slammed cars. Even though cars can be a headache, nothing beats seeing your hard work put into a car with the sun setting in the background. Do it for the love of the build instead of Instagram likes.

February 5, 2015

Flask Mob LA | January

You can come up with some cool shit with just a tripod and some long exposures.The latest trend on Instagram right now is the late night city photography with a sick emo caption which has always been my favorite thing to shoot. I live in the suburbs where there are no city lights to take photos of and when there are lights at nights it’s usually because of traffic. Luckily for me Flask Mob has monthly meets where they show you around the city and make it so cool shit happens for photo opportunities. I saw last month’s photos and made it a priority for me to go to the next meet up.

There was already a large crowd of people when we got there. Amazing to see so many photographers and people who love to capture cool shit come together.

People already started staging out some cool shots.

Flask Mob was like Halloween all over again, but a lot more acceptable to take photos of people.

There was also this dude who was a professional fire breather. First time seeing something like this and it had me in shock and awe.

I wish I had a better angle for a cool shot.

He was like a Charmander all night.

Holy crap.

He who dances with fire.

This guy is epic.

Next to him was a dude that spun burnt wool and it makes this cool effect.

Right when all the cool shit was about to happen, the fun police came and through the down the biggest “TFTI” on us and proceeded to kick us out.

Good thing no one invited them because they would’ve known we were just going to move anyways.

Straight thug.

This guy is a bad ass. Right when he got on the bridge he gunned it and got chased after the police.

Hayle really confused on where we’re going.

It got a little rowdy.

Look at all of these people!

Some low lows. Check out that rim tuck.

Fire wool spinning on the bridge.

These ladies lit some sparklers to guide us.

I think I want to pick up this hobby.

This is so down.

We were slapping these new HOODRATstuff stickers wherever we went.

The guide.

The DJ.

It was a fucking party.

Not amused.

Smoke bombs is another thing on my list to buy.

Our friends eventually caught up to us.

But them being here won’t stop this party.

Even Van Styles was present.

LAPD eventually blocked us in and didn’t let anyone pass.

It still didn’t stop the FLASK MOB.

Wildest rager ever.

Seriously, no rules at this party. It was like we were at a photography competition where everyone was fighting to get a good photo.

She would win.

Insert poetic caption or alternative rock song.

Be the light at the end of a tunnel.

Eventually LAPD let us out four people at a time. This shit took fucking forever.

We thought this was David Vu’s old car.

LA is a crazy place. It was a fun experience thank you Flask Mob for the good times. I know how tough it is to throw events, so I hope you guys keep at it!

February 3, 2015

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