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Neel’s LS400

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. 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

June 30, 2014

Family Time

After a morning of taking over the 15 freeway, we finally made it to Sin City. Of course we had a lot of preparations to be done and things to do before the meet so, we met up with Chivas and LV Racing Scene to plan out the venue.

When we arrived we were pretty impressed on how much space there was.

The hittas.

Wonderful Vinh approved.

Josh’s MK5 on Racing Harts.

After scouting the spot, we went back to the house and did some old fashion bonding time. Smores over a camp fire and sang kumbaya. Just kidding, we got hella hammered.

Bonnie and Angelo doing some couple’s shots.

Angelo doesn’t need a reason to drink tho.

Finding his bae.

Smell Randy’s finger.. it’s the smell of your mom’s vagina.

Shavi approved. Faded version.

Mr. Colonel of Stance x Weed Guru.

Bitchassvinh.

Thirsty.

Cimon passing the vape pen. Just kidding there were a lot of drugs in that pen.

Angelo showing Shavi how big his dick is.

Ryo the Japanese Rock God.

Ashton and Phat the best at giving blow jobs. Check out that mouth action.

Regina not impressed.

Phat looking at Vinh to test his skills.

Angelo already gone. How are we going to take you to the strip club?

Regina always knows when I’m about to take a photo of her.

John drinking pure vodka.

We’re doing bad things.

The biggest freeloader.

Give us our food back!

A weird version of the trust game.

I got chu bro.

Mr. Rootbeer.

Fuck Miguel.

lol…..

Team Vietnam.

Vinh trying to sober up?

Time for some pillow talk.

Photos that you actually want to see will be posted on Saturday.

– NGUASS

Photos by Minh Nguyen and Celso Nimo

April 3, 2014

New Year. New Ass.

It was the first day of the new year, and I wanted to get a move on with recording anything. Here is a few clips I recorded while Minh was washing his car for the Lowballer Japan guys, who are currently in town visiting till Sunday. Made this strictly to share on Instagram.

Filmed & Edited By: Shavi Wijegunaratne

Instagram:
@ShaviW
@RoyalOrigin

January 1, 2014

Wheel Wednesday

Finally had a day off work and it was spent putting in work on cars. Shavi met up with me early in the morning because we both had to go to Rotiform. I was going to be dropping off my Junction Produce Scaras to get the faces milled down to fit an aftermarket lip and Shavi was going to order some Air Lift products through Jason.

Weird seeing this car more often now, Shavi’s MS3 use to be the rarest unicorn.

As soon as we reach Rotiform, Orbit was there to greet us.

You can always expect some cool rides over at the Rotiform parking lot like Brian’s S4 on Rotiform INDs.

Rotiform INDs look perfect on any big body cars.

Right next to the S4 is Jason’s Mercedes CLS 55 AMG on their new Rotiform WRW.

Very cool design by Rotiform.

After our trip to Rotiform, I drove by the Boss Company garage to see what they were up to.

Jimmy was taking out his Work VS Mesh face and replacing it with a Work Equip face.

Adam had Vinh’s S13 in the garage for a full detail job.

Kevin and Vinh were working on putting in some KW suspension for Kevin’s S2000.

So many parts laying around..

In the midst of it, an ice cream truck was chased down by three grown ass adults.

I regret nothing.

Adam’s lipless Subie.

For the past month, while I wait for my Scara’s to be rebuilt, Vinh has been kind enough to let me rock his Weds Bazerias. 20’s don’t look too bad on my car, but it only fits my rears.

Installing the Mugen front lip.

That mirror finish..

Adam made it look like it just came fresh out of the paint shop.

You can see the details of Vinh’s shelf through his paint. If anyone needs a detail job from Adam you can contact him at Adametayeb@gmail.com.

Thanks to JDM Chemicals for their awesome products!

I love bokeh even if there isn’t a subject to focus on.

Jimmy’s final product.

September 9, 2013

Fast Autoworks

The last stop on this all-day car meet was Fast Autoworks, where they had a BBQ full of bomb Asian food. If there’s free food, you’ll know where I’ll be. We took a caravan of 10 cars to Fast Autoworks, so the street was filled with modified cars, just like the one scene in Fast and Furious where they had lunch at Dom’s house and the white guy gave thanks for turbos, etc. Anyways, on to the photos…

Pat’s IS-F. He lives near me but I only see him when I go to farass places.

Alec’s S2000.

Swerve crew’s IS250 on HRE wheels.

Daniel’s STI on some temp wheels.

Fast car line up.

Empty bottle money baby!

Rocket Bunny FRS.

Holy hell. Mikey’s wheel fitment is still impressive even after seeing it so many times.

Gautam and Mikey, playing chicken with Jerald.

Street filled with modified cars.

Marc’s car looks long as hell compared to my IS250.

Keith, getting VIP parking.

Another shot of the Swerve IS250.

Awesome midnight purple S2000 on bronze TE-37’s.

Fast Autoworks is in the business of building fast cars like these two Civics.

Tracked out 8th Gen Civics are so cool.

Mike Kim, from Motormavens, stopped by to kick it. If you spell his name backwards it’s Mike Kim again! Amazing.

Swerve.

MBN lifestyle. Vincent’s new LS430.

It was a fun day hanging out with Dat and cruising with the Fatlace FRS. Thanks Alec and Fast Autowoks for the food and hospitality! There are more photos in the gallery!

-NGU ASS

April 23, 2013

LTMW 2013 Meet

It was one of those days where all I wanted to do was check out cars all day long. I decided the night before that I would go to all the car meets on Saturday which included Cars and Coffee in Irvine, LTMW in El Monte, and Fast Autoworks in Arcadia. I met up with Dat at Cars and Coffee because he planned to drive the Fatlace FRS to all the meets. Since he planned to go to the LTMW meet after, we caravanned to Charles’ house where everyone met up before the LTMW meet.

BMW 3, 5, and 7.

Yoshi, leading the pack.

Gautam and Marc met up at Charles’ house too. Note that all three beemers have mesh wheels. It’s going to be a common theme throughout the post.

All Marc needs is a front lip to set this thing off.

LOL BOTTLE CAPS.

All static here.

Celebrity car, the Fatlace FRS.

Gautam’s M5 on dem purps.

Haven’t seen Armand in a while; he’s still riding hella fucking flush.

I wonder if that Go-Pro is there to check out the reactions of people when he drives by or to see his suspension travel when he drives.

Keith came out to play.

Bagged 5 series on Waffes. Awesome.

Dumped CRZ rolling through.

The more I see these newer Honda Accords modded, the more I want to take Jennifer’s Accord and slam it with my Scaras.

S2K with some meat fitment on Mag Blue Volk TE-37.

Time Attack EVO 8.

Prepare for a bombardment of BMWs of all series on either mesh wheels or TE-37’s.

BMW owners love their TE-37’s and mesh wheels.

Something different, Courtney’s F30 on SSR SP1’s.

5 Spoke goodness.

This guy is everywhere…Sam’s Civic, also on TE-37’s. I guess he can fit in with this crowd.

Yoshi and Sam.

Releasing the monster.

I always see this E36 on tumblr. Glad to be able to see it in person for the first time.

Fatlace FRS, posted.

Another person I haven’t seen in a while is Jose and his Audi A3.

The paint on this VW is so crazy. Brown and greenish color.

Speaking of green, Jose’s Audi A3.

LTMW E90 was displayed in the middle of the lot.

Sick blue CCW’s to fit this wide monstrosity.

Going to end it with this model, who dressed pretty skimpy. She looked pretty out of place, modeling at the Stance Wheels booth. Anyways, thanks LTMW for throwing a fun meet and for the free food! Check out the rest of the photos in the gallery.

-NGU ASS

April 22, 2013

A Night to Remember

About a week ago, Lowballers Japan came out to Cali for a little visit. We actually threw a small meet for them so they could get a feel of what the car scene is like out here. Unfortunately, I arrived to the meet on Filipino time so I wasn’t able to snap any pictures. A couple of days after the meet, we took the Lowballers out for the night. We decided on Past Memories in Garden Grove. It is a small Korean restaurant that serves bombdotcom Soju and pretty good Korean Food. This time, I had my camera with me, so I was ready to snap some pictures of the infamous Lowballers Japan, but stupid me got too buzzed to take pictures so I ended up forgetting to take my camera out (I’m sorry).

Shortly after dinner, the Lowballers went back to their hotel because they had an extremely early flight the next morning. Vince and Yogi from Fatlace/Illest decided to come out and chill with us that night, and Vince brought out his Gangster of Gangsters Honda Odyssey. Nimo also came out that night and brought out his super dumped IS300. Since we were all together and Yogi also had his camera, we decided to do a photo shoot of Vince’s car and the rest of the cars that were there.

We started the night off at a DIY car wash. Vince, looking sexy as fuck, washing his car.

Vince making sure the van is spotless.

Minh tried to be sexy like Vince, but failed.

Nimo decided to dump the shit out of his car so he could shit on June Choi…lol jk.

Nimo now eats the pavement for breakfast.

Minh thinking to himself, “mehhh, that was me two years ago.”

My little sister DD for me that night, she’s awesome. Keep a look out for her STI this year. It’s going to be crazy.

Yogi about to do some magic with his camera.

Unfortunately all the pictures I took of Vince’s car came out like shit. All of them were super grainy or too dark. I messed around with one picture in Photoshop and this is what I came out with. Like I said before, this van is super gangster. I believe it is rocking a set of Work Meister’s s1R on one side and a set of SSr MS1 on the other side. Don’t quote me on it though because I am not 100 percent sure.

Yogi’s photographer stance.

Jeff came out that night as well, and brought out his RSX. This thing will always make you drool.

Nimo and Young decided to park hard as fuck at the underground parking lot.

Neel’s Honda Accord with a fresh set of Work Emitz.

Neel’s Accord has to be one of the most underrated and overlooked cars in the car scene. It definitely needs more publicity because his car is just neckbreaking!!

Vinh’s new wheel set up 3 pc Work Meisters. So glossy.

5 spoke swerve.

Mr. Shumai poppin in for a visit.

The guys talking about how Vincent’s car is so low that we could put our penis’ on the roof.

That pretty much sums up the night we had. Until next time, everyone!!

-Anglelow

Photos by Angelo and Minh

Instagram : angelocalderon

February 2, 2013

White & White

We were out in Las Vegas, Nevada for the end of the SEMA show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. After we were done with SEMA, we had some time to chill with our friends out there like usual and shoot the cars for a bit. It had been a while since I made a video and got my hands on a new crane, so it was a fun way to learn some new things while filming. Nevertheless, I especially liked this shoot because both these cars were running new setups; be it new wheels or new lip kits. Check out Minh Nguyen’s Lexus IS250 and Keith Cheng’s Honda Accord.

Royal Origin – White Power from Shavi Wijegunaratne on Vimeo.

I also had some time to take some pictures, something I rarely do, but have gotten into playing around with my photo skills these days.

Minh still rocking the Junction Produce Scara wheels, but now with a new lip kit. Looks mighty fine.

Keith recently got a much needed firmware update on his wheel setup; it’s been outdated since 2010. Now updated to Work VS-KF wheels.

PEACE BE WITH YOU.

-Shavi W.

December 7, 2012

2012 Forumla Drift/Slammed Society: Irwindale

On Saturday, October 13th, a majority of the Royal Origin guys including myself attended the 2012 Formula Drift: Title Fight event at the Irwindale Speedway. This was the last FormulaD event of the year and a Formula Drift Champion would be crowned by the end of the day. Along with the main drifting event, Fatlace hosted the Slammed Society Showcase.

The Irwindale Speedway.

First time in a while that we rolled deep to a show.

The Royal Origin window cleaner position has finally been filled. Good work Bonnie!

BMW M5 on Leon Hardiritt Orden’s. Owned by Mark of Phase2.

I’m in love…

Kirk’s STi from RoyalFlush.

Nimo rockin’ some Work VS-KF’s and his newly painted matched flares.

Allen of Low n Slow.

…More like low and fast.

Sup girl, heard you like big tips.

Angelo displaying his new wheels at the showcase.

Beautifully slammed Accord.

Ken Block.

What’s a car show without models?

FormulaD media meeting.

It was pretty damn hot out there on the track. Luckily, they gave us free water to stay hydrated.

First time shooting on the track; it was an awesome experience.

The Champ, Daigo Saito.

Alex keeping me company at the track.

Awfilms working hard or hardly working? Hmmm.

Got some behind-the-scene coverage.

Badass little Z4.

Greddy FR-S.

The awards.

Time for some crew love.

Nimo’s IS300 scraping everywhere.

Alex’s E36.

Vu’s Miata on his new Work Meister CR01.

Keychain looking sexy with his VS-KF’s.

Angelo debuting his Volk.

Ryan’s GTI.

Minh’s revitalized IS250. Came out looking hard.

Gerald aka Rootbeer from Vegas.

Jimmy’s civic on brand new Rotiform TMB’s. Ballin’… Be sure to check out the rest of the photos in the gallery!

-VINH

November 11, 2012

See Ya Later…

The part I hate most about our out-of-state friends visiting us, is saying goodbye. All good things come to an end and even though we will for sure see them in the near future, it’s always sad when they leave. We started out the day with the obligatory all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ at Cham Sut Gol.