Bardot Birthday

Los Angeles • 26 Oct 2008 • 34 PHOTOS

Antonia's birthday party at Bardot. And the obligatory Peasants' Manor after party and after after party.

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Delusions of Grandeur

Houston, TX • 18 Oct 2008 • H.264 video / 768kbps

After a couple of hours practice behind the wheel and almost a real night's sleep, Team VIP hits the track racing with 76 other cars each with their own hack amateur drivers. We manage to keep the wheels more or less pointing in the right direction and climb our way to our best position of 5th place without attracting major penalties. But Sunday holds some surprises. Part 4 coming soon. Duration: 13:14.

http://www.ianwood.com/videos/shwvid.asp?vid=26

Virgin Lemonade

Houston, TX • 17 Oct 2008 • H.264 video / 768kbps

Team VIP has arrived at MSR Houston just in time to get on the track and get inspected. Weary from their 26 hour road trip, they slowly wake up to the smell of uncatalyzed exhaust and burnt tires. For all of Team VIP, it is their first time on a track let alone their first wheel to wheel race. Part 3, due next week, covers Team VIP in the racing action. Duration: 10:09.

http://www.ianwood.com/videos/shwvid.asp?vid=25

The Road to Lemons

Los Angeles • 16 Oct 2008 • H.264 video / 768kbps

Team VIP wait to the very last minute to get organized. They spend their last week before the Houston race hastily getting the Land Shark ready and making their way to Texas. The first of two parts covering Team VIP's race in Houston. Stay tuned for part two covering Team VIP at MSR Houston in the Yee Haw, It's LeMons Texas race. Duration: 10:50.

http://www.ianwood.com/videos/shwvid.asp?vid=24

The Future of Social Networking

N/A • 14 Aug 2008 • EDITORIAL, ET CETERA

My experience in social networking is predominantly as a user. I have recently worked on two social networking projects but I am still a user first. I actively maintain profiles on at least three major social networks. One is for business, LinkedIn. Two are predominantly personal, Facebook and ASmallWorld. I am also often on MySpace looking up profiles but I don't ...

http://www.ianwood.com/news/story.asp?sid=34

Hot Hot Heat

Los Angeles • 21 Jun 2008 • 33 PHOTOS

Ralph has good reason to be scared of the Santa Anna winds. It's 110 in the shade. No one can sleep and the heat is making everyone act rather strange. The neighbour has taken himself hostage. The only solution is to stay in the pool all weekend long.

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Dinner Gone Wild

Los Angeles • 14 Jun 2008 • 44 PHOTOS

Peasants' Manor opens for business once more. Shrimp risotto and PYTs. A number of guests insist on maintaining their anonymity with their special edition Girls Gone Wild sunglasses.

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The iPhone Is Out - Again

N/A • 09 Jun 2008 • EDITORIAL, ET CETERA

Apple fans are high fiving each other yet again over the second coming of iPhone. Be warned, you may feel compelled to join them in celebrating it as if it were the second coming of the messiah! Today, Mr. Bill Gates announced the new iPhone at the Apple Dev.... Wait! Sorry! I mean Steve Jobs. It is getting harder to tell those two apart these days. I’m pretty ...

http://www.ianwood.com/news/story.asp?sid=28

We Get A Lemon

Los Angeles • 17 May 2008 • EDITORIAL, ET CETERA

It's early morning and Clay doesn't want to be awake quite just yet. Fortunately, I had an early night. I convince him that I've found the car but we have to move on it immediately. I lost a 635CSI the day before because someone else had pounced on it before I even got a call back. Clay reluctantly agrees.Compression tools in hand, we head out to Long Beach to ...

http://www.ianwood.com/news/story.asp?sid=27

GPS Experiments at Coachella

Palm Springs • 27 Apr 2008 • H.264 video / 768kbps

At the 2006 Coachella event, I repeatedly lost everyone in my group amongst the crowd of 50,000. Sensitive boy that I am, I took offence thinking my friends were intentionally drifting off. They later convinced me they too had been seperated from the herd. At this year's Coachella, I didn't want to suffer the same fate but wasn't sure how to prevent it. The train of thought got me thinking about GPS enabled mobile phones and the ill-suited "friend finder" applications that are out there. I didn't come up with anything that would solve the immediate problem. However, I did make my Blackberry trackable to friends on Facebook. Afterwards, I was able to see where I'd been in minute detail. Scary! From there, I just got carried away -- taking all the tracking data and putting it into Google Earth and Premiere, creating the animation you see here. Requires the latest Flash 9 player with H.264 support. Duration: 02:00.

http://www.ianwood.com/videos/shwvid.asp?vid=20