2011 a year of ups and downs

Well 2011 is nearly over and what a year its been with it up and downs,

I guess i have to start this with the start of the Blacktop TV blog,
before i started Blacktop tv i used to make films under a youtube username of Cambcarvideo
and at the beginning of the year i decided i would try and take it a bit seriously,
so on April 5th 2011 i started the blog, My first item made under blacktop tv was an single car feature on a friends of mines eunos roadster which i always promised i would re-shoot as
it came out rather poor, but unfortantly he has now sold up and driving a dirty derv golf.



I then moved on to my next project which was the first South mimms Honda meet,
of 2011 again with my samsung camera i headed down to the south mimms meet to get some footage and catch up with a few friends and check there cars after winter overhaul



I then had my first drift video of the year with a few of the cabletieracing drifters down santa pod



and continuing with the drift theme i shot two film for the first 2 rounds of the BDC as i went to give support to semi-pro driver Lewis Cracknell




Then in June i headed off to japshow at santa pod but stupidly forgot the camcorder
but ended up with a DSLR to get a few check snaps. and then i got myself a new camcorder which ona few little tests provided alot better footage of which i used for my second south mimms honda film



Its now that when the bad came into play on the 15th of June my (ex)Girlfriend of the last 2 years left me for one of the founders of my local car club at which point you might have seen a post about me shutting down blacktop for good, well after loosing alot of friend and then to actually lose a friend, Richard Leadon of WSC and CTR passed away after a motorbike accident
i decided to reopen the blog for one post a little tribute to him



RIP Richard

After this i kind of abandoned blacktop tv as i had kinda lost all interest in car at all i sold up my Honda civic and bought a is200 and just lived life like cars were well just cars,

After a few small chats with a few People i kinda got my act together and started to build up my car life again, i now joined JDM-register and got to no some of the main guys rob,liam and shorty(rob) of which i must thank them for being so welcoming i have no been to 3 of there meets this year and are very enjoyable.

It was now time for the final mimms meet of the year so i head down with the civic life convoy from east anglia where i then made this



Coming towards the final months of the year i got a text from an old friend from Cabletieracing
saying there going down to a dwyb at Santa pod and would i like to come, so i headed down with my camcorder of which broke on the day so thankfully Dan Timpson happened to have a very nice Panasonic sd900 with him which is alot more than the little cheep things i had been using and this time i had remembered to take a high viz so i could get out on track and well this was the result

Blacktop TV DWYB 19-11-11 from Blacktop TV on Vimeo.

And i was amazed by the quality of this camera and i produced my best film yet and if you spent some time reading this you will have noticed i hope that the progression in my films has been alot over the few months of this year.

So i thankyou for watching as im now heading for 3k page views and my stats page shows views from all over the world be it Canada, Australia, norway or anywere else i wish you a good New Year and hopefully you will tune in over the next 12 months as things are getting better

im looking to expand blacktop tv next year it would be nice to get a few people from around the uk or even the world that wants to make films for blacktop tv as my line of work often taken me away for long period of time it would be nice to get some dedicated people to keep the posts coming.

And anyone of you who knows me will no im mad about drifting so i have purchased a red 200sx s13
so keep and eye for updates on my hooligan activities across the next year

and one final personal thank you to the guys below for helping me in bad times:

Simon Parr


Matt cole


Gareth 'Gash' Ascroft


Martyn Carter and Dan Timpson


Steve Webb


Carl Fincham


Sam Wales


and there are many more but i real must end

Make sure you keep checking back in 2012 and if you see the blacktop is200 or s13 come over and say hellp

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Blacktop goes to the Skidema

right with out sounding full of myself this is personally my favorite film i have produced, but after spending 3 hours on track and recording my camera went stupid and stopped working then deleted everything. Thankfully i'd had use of an even better camera for this, the film was edited in windows movie maker as im yet to invest in some new software for the new laptop and my editing is well pretty poor but any how enjoy.

THE BLACKTOP IS BACK

Right Guys after a few shakey months after a horrible ending of a relationship and loosing all intrested in my video and well my hobbies in general, Im back but this time im going to hit it hardcore expect video often from all sorts of meet, show and events and expect a few cheeky single car features and maybe who knows what else but if i hear of it, attened it, i will shoot it and i will make a film out of it

So i propose you get your self over to these site to get settled in for some up and coming videos

www.jdm-Register.co.uk

www.272heroes.co.uk



and to kick things off hear is South Mimms : The Third


Video is live as off midnight tonight

RIP richard leadon

Well i dunno how to start this but i have re-opened Blacktop TV to share this video i have no credit for the video but a member of several local Cambridge car club past away last night.
as part of Cabletie racing i had not meet Richard Leadon on many occasions as he had only recently joined the club but Im fully aware he was a big part of the west Suffolk cruisers and will be very missed.

are thoughts are with the family and friends

RIP RICHIERICH

thank you and good night

as off tonight blacktop tv will no long be posting

BDC ROUND 3 BY BROOKIES

right well due to my line of work i had to go away to romania whilst the BDC rd3 took place so i will not be producing a video by the amazing brookies has done another mater piece enjoy

RETURN TO THE THUNDERDROME - Maxxis Tyres British Drift Championship Round 3 from Stephen Brooks on Vimeo.