Twin Peaks was arguably one of the best television series of all time. Set in the small (and fictitious) town of Twin Peaks, Washington, the supernatural-serial-crime-dramedy blended the ridiculous with the sublime to deliver a clear message: in small towns, all is not what it seems. The show only lasted two seasons, and the location [...]
The marketing and driving machine that is Ken Block had another busy year in 2011. He kicked out a new Gymkhana video, raced a few WRC stages, stacked a car (hard) in Portugal, made dozens of celebrity appearances and sold a boatload of shoes and giant-billed hats. Thanks to the small-in-size-but-big-in-resolution GoPro camera, you can [...]
Photography is, mostly, a rather geeky affair. We, as photographers, constantly nerd out over numbers. And to those that aren't versed with the language of photography think, we light capturists, are talking in some alien language. Foreign terms li…
Ford’s social media campaign this month on Facebook faces two drivers off against each other for the month of December can be described as nothing short of a popularity contest. Two drivers face off and accumulate votes on a set day against another driver. On December 8th Justin Pawlak squared up against the Internet hype [...]
Love him or hate him, Ken Block is a marketing genius who, like King Midas, turns everything he touches into gold. Take the sport of Gymkhana for example: shredding tires in a parking lot used to be good for a ticket or two, but now it’s a multi-media extravaganza, complete with crowds, explosions, jumping motocross [...]
Check it out. Both Mark and I were featured along with a few notable people from SEMA for RECARO. Be sure to check out and “like” RECARO USA’s Facebook page to see more.
November 14th, 2011, Cardiff, Wales – Monster World Rally Team driver Ken Block and co-driver Alex Gelsomino ended their 2011 WRC season flying through the air at Rally GB in Wales by finishing out in the top 10 for the second time this season. Block battled not only the other drivers out in the forests during [...]
Some say that his oversized baseball cap houses a family of ferrets, and that his first words were “light ‘em up:” all we know is that he’s called… Ken Block. Shoe entrepreneur, world rally driver and professional hoon Ken Block has a good gig. He gets paid (well, we presume) to beat cars to death [...]
We’re finally home from SEMA, one of the largest automotive trade shows in the world. SEMA, which stands for Specialty Equipment Market Association, holds the annual SEMA Show once a year, allowing buyers, sellers, and exhibitors to congregate across 2 million square feet of exorbitantly extravagant booths and cars. It is the industry’s ultimate networking tool, allowing [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE::: BLOCK TEARS UP THE TARMAC OF WRC FRANCE, TAKING HOME 4 CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS WITH A PERSONAL BEST 8TH OVERALL FINISH ALONG WITH HIS FASTEST STAGE PLACING EVER. October 3rd, 2011, Strasbourg, France – Monster World Rally Team driver Ken Block and co-driver Alex Gelsomino set two personal bests at this past weekend’s Rallye de France. [...]
