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
