Saying goodbye to one of the coolest LS400’s in California.
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Saying goodbye to one of the coolest LS400’s in California.
AWFILMS | Runnin’ Through the 6 With My Woes from Abbitt Wilkerson on Vimeo.

Valentines Day is spent best with significant other or in this case your two single friends who had nothing else to do that day either. In the spur of the moment me and Abbitt decided to go on a trip with Shavi to check out his clinic that he’s opening in down town LA.
Looking for cool lines to take photos of was the objective of the day.
The build out of Shavi’s clinic is looking good. If you guys need some medical cards and need it in LA, this will be the spot to go to. Maybe we’ll sell our merch out of this spot.
The previous tenant had some cool art work on the walls.
Abbitt needs an answer.
After Shavi confirmed everything with his contractor, we were off to do some #ROExplore in LA.
Things change quickly here in LA, seems like they’re always building something.
The Hundreds. Love it.
First stop, we went to go eat at Wurstkuche where they have a variety of exotic sausages.
Vegetarian smoked apple sage, lamb and many different flavors of sausages.
The restaurant had a nice place to eat with a bar.
A DJ set up at the entrance and a private dining area that you can reserve for a big party.
 The order number looked like awards to us. Shavi happily accepting his award for 3rd place hair style in the building.
Abbitt checking out the anodize work on the awards.
I got the lamb with Mediterranean spices with caramelized onions.
Shavi got the rattlesnake and rabbit with jalapenos and Belgian fries.
 Abbitt got the bratwurst.
Sausage party.
These fries with chipotle aioli and bleu cheese walnut and bacon sauce was so good. Overall, the food was good and the place had a very chill ambiance to eat at and you can get wasted while waiting for your sausages.
 We stumbled upon an ice cream truck on the way back to our car and decided to try it.
This ice cream truck ended up being amazing. The ice cream truck was Van Leeuwen and they make excellent mint chocolate chip and earl grey tea ice cream.
 Abbitt mesmerized by his ice cream.
 We did a little stroll around the neighborhood and spotted this coffee shop.
We got to this street where we shot Neel’s LS400 last year and they developed the place super quick. The area was unrecognizable at first.
While driving around LA, we looked up the top ten free things to do in LA and Vista Hermosa park was one of the spots to check out. On the way there we went through Little Tokyo and spotted a friend.
Karl was going to Jason Mark to pick up his shoes and had time to kick it with us before his Valentine’s date.
It was my first time seeing Karl’s Porsche on his new set of Work Meisters and damn did it look fresh.
Too bad the lighting was bad at the park and I didn’t bring a tripod to light paint properly.
Karl decided to join us to check out Vista Hermosa park.
We were asked by a couple to help them set up their camera settings for the perfect photo. They ended up asking us if we could help take a photo of their friend because he was going to propose to his girlfriend. Congrats to the lovely couple in this photo!
After the park, we saw this cool arcade down the street in Echo Park. It actually ended up being a parlor with old school pin ball machines. Pretty neat.
Our last visit would be to Barrio Fiesta where Jerald works. He let us check out his RC350 while he was cooking and damn this car is nice.
 Red leather for RC350s with the F Sport package.
 Touch pad mouse for navigation.
The instrument panel is what I love the most about the newer Lexuses.
 Jerald took me out for a cruise to TPumps a new boba shop that originated from San Francisco.
 Jerald’s been through a lot last year, glad he’s putting himself back together.
This was a lot better than I expected. All their milk teas was lactose free, so I can fully enjoy them without running to the restroom afterwards.
New boy band, we named ourselves the THREE PUMPS.
Today was a good day.

If you’re building a car or saving up for that next louboutin heels, you have to figure out some easy ways to save up money. One of my ways is to go out with a girl only once a year and that one time is on National Museum Day, where museums are free all over the United States. This year I thought the more the merrier so, I took out three guys that I really like and then these two girls just kinda tagged along.
Hayle ready for some cool photos today.
Introducing Becky Hoang, who I went to high school with and will be our creative director, make up artist, hula hooper and etc…
Beautiful AW films/AW Stickers/AWDEM.
Hayle said it was going to be cool to see the 405 from a birds eye view. #notimpressed.
Maybe a little now.
House ceiling goals.
Backyard goals. It sucks that they were renovating the garden and we weren’t allowed to be in the garden.
“What chu talking about, Willis?”
The infamous meme!! Sad how bad my culture is when I recognize a piece of art from a internet meme.
Shmurda dance.
Victory Cup.
Welcome to my crib, MTV Cribs.
Finding lines and such.
I want to feel this free and let it all hang out.
Ryo! I missed him a lot and this was our first day of hanging since he came back from Tokyo Auto Salon.
 Abbitt looking to make some profile photos for people.
There’s a Harry Potter reference in this chimney and Derek was looking for it.
Lines baby.
Another boy band cover with Hayle in the middle.
“Look at all these fucks I give”
Becky happened to recognize this building and said she never got to visit this museum before. Lucky for her she was with me and I love being able to experience the first of something with someone.
It was a Bullwinke Show art exhibition!
Lots of very cool drawings of some of the characters in the show.
Live in the moment Becky.
We’re not really friends if I haven’t taken you to a good ice cream spot to eat for the first time.
Blue velvet ice cream.
The tag a longs or if Hayle would say it the “tagalogs”.
People who wear glasses stick together, they know each other feels..
Describing to each other their flavors.
 “Damn this spoon taste good”
Whoa, a decent photo of Ms. Glaiza.
It’s like one saw something coming and the other one got hit by it.
Vogue Hayle.
What a beautiful day to go skipping in the grass on Rodeo.
This family took notice of Hayle’s professional Instagram skills and wanted her to take their family photo.
The group got split up after this, some went straight to Flask Mob and the rest went to LACMA.
Becky and I were the lucky ones that got to go to LACMA.
A ton of cool stuff in the contemporary art building. I want to use all of them as a piece in my house.
A giant ass elevator.
It would suck if they all got stuck in this elevator with a guy who is lactose intolerant and just ate ice cream half an hour ago.
I miss the American flag television installation they had here last year.
Richard Serra’s Band. I only know of this sculpture because I took an art class for fun in the summer and he was one of the guys I hard to research about.
The classic “why the fuck are you taking a photo of me?” look.
She got use to me though.
Seriously, hanging around me you get some good Facebook profile photos that you can use on Tindr and maybe it will get you  laid or a free meal. Thank me later.
Shout out to Shavi, Derek, Glaiza, Becky, Abbitt and Ryo for making this day so fun. We need to have more adventures like these.

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!

A couple weeks back, I posted on my Instagram that I wanted more practice shooting models and was looking for anyone who would be down to model for me. Surprisingly, Sarah hit me up to shoot as she was based in LA and wanted to get some cool photos.
Sarah said she has never been to the LA river, so we decided that would be our first location.
The water was low enough for us to walk in the river and made for some cool shots.
Random spider hanging from the bridge.
A cool little background story of Sarah, she’s originally from Massachusetts worked and lived in New York for a couple of years and then recently just moved out here to California hustling her way to success. Gotta admire someone who’s willing to go to unknown places for their career.
I think one of my problems with editing photos is that everything isn’t uniformed.
But Sarah looked great in these photos and compensated for my lack of photography skills.
I thought this photo was pretty funny because I immediately pictured Sarah saying, “I aint got no more time for this bull shit”.
That look.
It’s cool that she’s also a photographer and has some cool creative stuff on her Instagram.
This quote.
Afterwards we went exploring around Little Tokyo and went through a bunch of pipe shops and medical clinics.
Found this crazy Alice in Wonderland street art at this clinic. It made for some cool street photos.
“Stair stuff”
Live and die in LA.
Thanks Sarah for shooting with me today, I will definitely hit you up for upcoming projects for HOODRATstuff.
Follow Sarah on Instagram @notlehsharas

Spent the day in down town LA, we planned to do a photo shoot of Neel’s LS400 before he leaves us to Las Vegas for work. We had a pretty good team with Vu, Shavi and Nimo doing video work and Rocky and I shooting photos. Â The main photographer was Rocky, I was just hanging out and trying to do some behind the scenes photos.
Rocky’s Photo Set: http://royal-origin.com/2014/06/30/plunk-plunk-done/
Vu with his limited editiong HKS x Jansport backpack.
That lens filter..
Tried to do a hipster in the middle of the street photo.
Shavi sliding on some videos.
Neel’s LS400.
Neel is rocking a set of Advan Racing RS wheels.
Bagged with a set of racing wheels on a VIP car looks perfect to me.
One legged squat for the perfect shot.
Rocky directing the shoot, he’s one of my favorite photographers.
BTS.
Some shots I got out of this location..
The man of the hour, Neel Nana.
The next location was under the historic LA bridge. Many movies and photo shoots have been shot under this bridge.
Our next location was another famous location, but I guess there was a movie being filmed, so it was closed off with police surrounding the area. We decided to just find an empty parking structure to shoot.
The lighting was a bit hard to work with, but we had a bunch of fun light painting which none of my photos show. I was the one holding a piece of cardboard to cover the lights when they were light painting.
Hope you enjoyed the photos and I hope Neel does too. Good luck in Vegas and watch out for some spectacular photos by Rocky.
Rocky’s Photo Set: http://royal-origin.com/2014/06/30/plunk-plunk-done/
– NGU ASS

Recently we spent some time in downtown Los Angeles to take pictures and video of Neel’s Lexus LS400 before he moves away to start his new life journey in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The simple and clean things on this LS400 go a long way.

Neel has been through a few shoes already, but this time around is on a set of Advan Racing RS wheels.

Sitting pretty on Universal Air Suspension air bags on BC Racing coilovers all around with Airlift V2 digital management.

The big body beauty side profile; gotta love it.

The Airlift V2 digital controller.

Location number two and three coming soon. Look out for another photo set.
Photo set by Rocky Wong (@rockytwong)