nimo – Royal Origin

Zion | RO Explore

My favorite thing to do is be out in the wilderness where mass murderers and bears can come out to kill you without any way of calling for help because you know in all movies police or any government aid in the wilderness are pretty much useless. But for my wife’s happiness, I risked my safety and we planned a trip out to Zion National Park with Chivas, Shavi, Nimo, Derek, Polly, Angelo and Bonnie. Most of my photos will be covering the second day of the trip, since I wasn’t able to make it to the first day where everyone went off-roading.

429 miles, 6 hours and going 110 MPH thanks to my wife’s driving.

Crazy how they were able to build these roads through the mountains.

We made it to Zion late, but everyone still had a lot of energy to cook dinner.

Here we have Chivas over cooking a marshmallow.

Omelette.

Julia is the crazy hiker, who hears something scary and goes and check its out.

Me and my wife Julia.

Beautiful waterfalls all over the park.

Shavi getting one for the snappy snaps.

Chivas at peace with himself.

Everywhere is a toilet in the wilderness.

Shout out to Julia for carrying the heaviest backpack known to mankind.

Secret photo shoots with Polly.

Taking it all in.

It literally said “Danger Beyond This Point”, but she wanted to go further out for a better picture..

Couple stuff.

Threesome stuff.

Chasing waterfalls.

The people who didn’t bail.

It was suppose to rain all weekend, but lucky for us the rain cleared and the sun came out.

Just beautiful..

Homeless Instagram photos with Nimo.

Homeless Instagram photo with Angelo.

The 4runner did some work yesterday.

How do I even coffee?

Bacon and Eggs burger at MeMe’s Cafe.

Chicken crepe.

BBQ pulled pork and onion rings.

At night, you could really see the stars so clear, so we decided to venture around the park for some star photos.

Ending the night with some smores.

Shavi looking good for a person who slept in the car all night.

Chivas ready for his close up.

Shout out to this crew for cooking, being fun and not bailing. It was a fun time!

Chivas with the photo bomb.

Man this place is beautiful..

Shavi smooth.

Angelo’s face when he sees a nice ass.

Champion.

Nimo all HOODRATstuff out.

Amazing jumping abilities by Nimo and Chivas.

Chivas took us to this mountain where there was a huge crack in it.

RO OFF-ROAD.

We ended this trip on a good note with Baby Stacks!

Definitely one of the most memorable camping trips I’ve been on. Thanks Chivas for planning it and everyone else for the good times. We definitely need to plan the next one soon!

-NGUMINH

July 13, 2016

Zion | RO Offroad

It hasn’t been long since some of us have fallen in love with off-roading, which really compliments our love of all things car, and exploring the world we live in. So, we decided to plan a Friday to Sunday camping and off-roading trip to Zion National Park in Utah. With Zion National Park only 2-3 hours away from Las Vegas, Nevada, and 6-7 hours away from Southern California; it was far enough to change the scenery dramatically. The first day was just filled with getting there, and setting up camp so we could off-road till the sunsets.

The primary off-roading vehicle; Chivas with his Toyota 4Runner overland build.

The secondary off-roading vehicle; Derek with his Jeep Wrangler Sport.

There was a light rain fall earlier, but cleared up perfectly in time for first day.

It felt like the cartoon movie “Cars” out here. The beautiful iron-filled surroundings gave the awesome rich red color to this area.

Just taking a dip.

Chivas leading the way on the off-roading trails.

It was the most fun I have had in the longest time being in this car and ripping through the creeks and streams.

Derek, Angelo, and Nimo were about to do some shenanigans.

Ripping through the stream with Angelo as a hood ornament.

These cows eventually blocked our path at one point. Until Angelo told them to “mooooooo-ve.”

You can just imagine a bunch of dinosaurs running across this area like Jurassic Park.

This ain’t a study area no more.

YOTA BOYZ.

So photogenic out here.

Here is a video of Chivas ripping through this area and hitting the rev-limiter:

That was pretty much day one of exploring and enjoying Zion National Park. Check to see what we did on our second day there.

Shavi Wijegunaratne
Instagram: shaviw
shavi@royal-origin.com

July 11, 2016

The Big Day | Enjoy Sin

The big day was here, all the planning we’ve been doing for the past three months has led to this day. Even if the event wasn’t going to be successful, we were just happy to reunite with our friends in Vegas. It’s been a long time since those days we use to take turns on who visited who each weekend and that was the honeymoon stage of our friendship. Even though the honeymoon phase is over, we still have mad love for each other.

We spent most of the morning getting over our hangovers and trying to get a quick power nap before the meet. That is why we like our car meets late in the afternoon. Check out the crew in all black everything, Jeff didn’t get the memo.

The Lowballers posted up in front of HNRS store.

Miguel brought out the eye sore of a car his minty wide body M35.

Vinh and his new bae Sara laughing about their Starbucks drinks.

Lance brought out his newly acquired NSX on TE37s.

Sparkle caught me trying out the Lowballer’s drift cart.

Sara and Hayle excited to meet and interview everybody.

Aron, the newest member of Royal Origin. He’s always been a nice guy and let’s us get it in whenever we want, so it was a no brainer when adding him.

Sara living in the moment.

This guy went cruised through our meet on hydraulics, it looked pretty cool jumping up and down.

Fuku Burger sliding through with some sliders for everyone at the meet.

Hayle trying to pose majestically with the wind blowing in her hair.

Paolo looking for parking with his slammed GS.

Thank you to everyone who came through HNRS and copped some HOODRATstuff.

DJTRADEMARQ spinning on the 1s and 2s.

Barely any parking for anyone, so we started to fill up the lanes with cars. #HOODRATstuff

Gerald worked tirelessly to get the rootbeerdc2 ready for the meet. He even made a vow that he won’t drink any Hennessy if it didn’t have the HOODRATstuff label on it. Gerald is the mother fucking man.

Slopps is always in Vegas like he has a DJ residency at a club, so we weren’t surprised to see he took the trip from SOCAL to the meet.

Throughout the meet, we were on the prowl to interview people about the meet and other random things.

Hayle interviewing Patrick from Autolifers. Thank you Patrick for covering our meet! You can check out his coverage here..

http://www.autolifers.com/event-royal-origin-enjoysin/

The Lowballers posted in the back of HNRS, love that they always come through to our meets and showing us love! Thanks guys!

Nimo working the camera and getting us some good coverage.

Peep game homie, check out that Sony Ericsson. I think Sean was trying to get connected to an operator for a phone call.

DJ Koshi providing the music for the people outdoors.

It was time for the big raffle, where we were raffling away prizes from our sponsors and everyone got a photo with their two favorite WCWs, Baeyle and Baera.

The crowd anxiously waiting for their numbers to be called.

Lucky kid! Jon isn’t impressed.

Getting rowdy for prizes.

Christian got a box!

Friends, family and Sean making a phone call.

A lot of thought in this photo.

The lesbians of the weekend.

This time of the year is always the time where I stress the most and have the craziest anxiety attacks. This year however has been the least stressed for me with so much help this year, this meet went smoothly without me having to stress too much. Thank you to Kevin and HNRS for planning this collab, Shavi for working everything, VU with the coverage and giving us amazing IG videos, Nimo for taking care of us and giving us fun moments, Aron for all of the help, I notice all the small things you do for us and I’m truly grateful for it. Hayle and Sara for being our spokes models for the event, Jay and LV Racing for help with promotion and getting us a food truck, the Lowballers for always supporting our meets, JDM CHEMICALS, AVANT GARDE WHEELS, ILOVERACING, AWSTICKERS, LEXON, AIR RUNNER SYSTEMS, KYOEI, 714 TIRES for sponsoring the event, Becky for reassuring me when I did have a small anxiety attack, everyone in Royal Origin and their girlfriends who made this trip the best time of my life and most importantly everyone who supported us and came to the meet. You guys are the reason why HNRS LV will be carrying our line in their store now. Thank you, I can’t wait to show you what’s next.

March 12, 2015

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

Widebody Snow Monsters

It was a special day here at Illest OC. Pandora One finally arrived and will be displayed at the shop.

Pandora One.

Now fitted with a double decker wing and 500hp.

Your home for next couple of months.

Kevin fitting some wheels on his car.

Vu’s new ride. Big plans for this car.

Vu and Nimo, never been so Royal Origin today.

That rear tuck doe.

Kevin’s s2000 in it’s entirety.

Decided to go to Snow Monster for some bomb ice cream on belgian waffles and on the way I got some pretty cool rolling shots of Shavi’s car.

The mother fucking prince.

Snow Monster is where I learned how to play my favorite game card game of all time. Monopoly Deals.

Will doing a ricer drive by while flicking us off. Very impressive he was able to multi task.

Nimo about to go HAM(hard as a mother fucker).

All Nimo.

Jimmy looking very jealous of Nimo’s diabetes.

Rica so focused on winning in Monopoly.

Shavi gave up and started to play connect four by himself.

Vuzoku.

The vinhnumber.

Neems.

Love bokeh.

September 17, 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

Summer in Ghetto Valley

It’s been a long time since I’ve been to this corner of California. I used to swing by every other weekend just to sleep over and make shitty fried rice. Well, things change, people grow apart, and memories are just that…memories. So, it was cool to see some of the guys that I haven’t seen because of whatever they have going on in their lives. I forgot how much fun it was when we just hung out and did random shenanigans.

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September 11, 2012

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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May 12, 2012

A Royal Adventure

Keith Cheng aka Keychain here, and this is my first post ever on Royal Origin. I am usually blogging and taking pictures for It’s JDM Yo, but I am here to share with you our Las Vegas adventure through Jeff and my eyes.

A few rolling shots on our way to Las Vegas.

Ryan Gold’s Civic Si. He drove all the way from Santa Barbara to join this adventure with us.

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April 27, 2012

BabyStacks Cafe

During our trip in Vegas, the Royal Origin and Lowballers fam wanted to gather up for some breakfast. We planned the night before that we would go BabyStacks Cafe, previously known as BabyCakes. Well actually, we had pretty much made it a plan to go to BabyStacks way before the Vegas trip. This was my first time (Vinh) in Las Vegas with everyone, so I was probably the only one who hasn’t had the opportunity to enjoy their bomb breakfast foods. Everyone always talked about how awesome their red velvet pancakes are. I had some pretty high expectations coming in for breakfast and I wasn’t disappointed one bit. It was amazingly life changing; I will never look at ordinary pancakes the same. A must-have if you’re ever in the area. Haha, sorry for my Yelp Review, now let’s see some photos.

Everyone starting to show up at BabyStacks.

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April 17, 2012

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