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  • Neel’s LS400

    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/

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    Vu with his limited editiong HKS x Jansport backpack.

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    That lens filter..

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    Tried to do a hipster in the middle of the street photo.

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    Shavi sliding on some videos.

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    Neel’s LS400.

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    Neel is rocking a set of Advan Racing RS wheels.

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    Bagged with a set of racing wheels on a VIP car looks perfect to me.

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    One legged squat for the perfect shot.

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    Rocky directing the shoot, he’s one of my favorite photographers.

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    BTS.

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    Some shots I got out of this location..

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    The man of the hour, Neel Nana.

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    The next location was under the historic LA bridge. Many movies and photo shoots have been shot under this bridge.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

     

     

     

     

  • Plunk Plunk Done

    Plunk Plunk Done

    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.


    Neel and his big body beauty.


    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)

  • A Weekend in Sin City

    A Weekend in Sin City

    It was that time of the year again where Royal Origin invades Las Vegas to have our 3rd annual meet and greet in the city of sin. As the years passed, nothing has changed for the most part. We do it to have fun with our friends and family, and love making new friends with each passing year.


    Some of you might know this by now, but I recently went Universal Air bags over BC Racing coilovers with Accuair analog management. Thanks to Bag Riders and Unlimited Auto Craft for helping me get it all together. Because of this, I was constantly working on getting everything fine tuned and safe to make the journey to Las Vegas. In the end, I made it to the meet with only one hour left before the meet ended. Regardless, I was happy to see everyone who made it out.

    The top two pictures you see above is my car aired up at 80 PSI, which is also my drive height. Here I am cruising to Red Rock Canyon, which is in the North-West corner of Las Vegas.

    With Red Rock Canyon as our back drop we have Chivas’ Civic, Ashton’s IS350, Neel’s Accord, Alex’s E36, and my Mazdaspeed 3.

    My car aired out on 18×10 +25 Cosmis Racing MR7, which were powder coated Gloss White.

    Overall I am super satisfied with the Cosmis Racing MR7. The concave is extremely aggressive, and the wheels feel a bit lighter than most cast wheels these days.

    You can see more of my build items over at MazdaFitment.com.

    Gassed up and ready for some Las Vegas night shots with Goco Photography. Look out for more LV weekend coverage.

    Thanks

    shaviw
    -Shavi W.
    IG @ShaviW

  • A Night to Remember

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!!

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

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    5 spoke swerve.

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    Mr. Shumai poppin in for a visit.


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

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

    angelo

    -Anglelow

    Photos by Angelo and Minh

    Instagram : angelocalderon

     

     

  • Royal Origin Summer

    Royal Origin Summer

    School is out and summer is here, so we got our short shorts, rounded up the homies, and went to the park for a BBQ. David, being as generous as he is, planned the event and bought all the food for us. He grilled some delicious burgers and Korean BBQ for us. We had a good time and there were good vibes. Some of us got friendly rounds of basketball in and even played tag. We haven’t seen each other as often as before because of our busy lives, so it was nice that everyone came out. A meet up with Royal Origin also means a car meet, so the parking lot at the park looked like a full blown car meet.
    Here is Jimmy’s fresh-to-death Civic…

    Charles took out the Q45 for a tan along with Nick’s SC400. Nick’s SC was lowered the next day, so watch out for that! Should look sick.

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  • Sunday Fun

    Sunday Fun

    Just another Sunday with the friends before the work week. Cruised around with goodfeeling in the morning and ran some errands with them.

    Big Vinh and Ky from goodfeeling.

    That camber!

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  • Journey to Vegas

    Journey to Vegas

    For the Low Ballers x Royal Origin 2 Year Anniversary, the Royal Origin gang made a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada to hang out with our lovers, the Lowballers. We basically had three separate caravans going on. Some of us left Thursday evening, some left Friday morning (including myself), and the rest left Friday afternoon. I was pretty bummed out that I wasn’t able to bring my car; I had just gotten it back from the shop after some expensiveass electrical issues. I was trying to get it ready, but there wasn’t enough time to prepare. Oh well, enough of my venting and onto some pictures…

    Instagram noob. Follow him @jimmylieu.

    Just chillen on the side of the freeway.

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  • The Night Ends.

    The Night Ends.

    It has been awhile since some of us have seen each other and been able to hangout. So, we decided to go to our old familiar hang out spots to just hang out like the good old days. This familiar place is called “The Lair.” Why? Because this is the place we would always end our night of doing hoodrat stuff together. It is an awesome place to be and the lighting there is quite interesting; always get some memorable shots.

    A quick video filmed and edited by Shavi W. of what the Lair is about. Friends and good times.

    Three perfect examples of the good-side of the Honda community, which we all hear negative things all the times, whether it is the driver or the car itself.
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  • Halloween

    Halloween

    Getting into the spirit of Halloween, David, Neel, and myself decided to visit our local pumpkin patch and carve some pumpkins. This is pretty much our first time carving a pumpkin, which turned out easier than we thought. We ended up getting two pumpkins; one small and one large one. We decided to trace Royal Origin onto both by David making some vinyl templates so we can trace and carve in quite precise lettering onto the pumpkins. Nevertheless, here is some photos and video of how we had a blast carving up two pumpkins with friends.

    David scooping out the inside seeds, which were later used to make baked pumpkin seeds. Delicious.

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