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Friday, October 10, 2008

AKA Rally 2008 Teaser Trailer

The production for AKA Rally is in full force. Here is a sneak peak:

AKA Rally 2008 Teaser Trailer

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Cirque Du Soleil

Went to see Ka, the Cirque Du Soleil Show at the MGM. Fantastic,
astounding... unbelievable. Ian would have loved it... "YOU WON'T"
LOL

Monday, August 25, 2008

Saturday, August 23, 2008

The Road to Red Cliffs Lodge Moab

The Road to Red Cliffs Lodge from Matt Clower on Vimeo.

Red Cliffs Lodge Moab

We just shared a wonderful mountain style dinner along the river.
This place is so beautiful, images don't do it justice.

Had a blast today. Rolled from Denver to Moab and went Whitewater rafting near the Red Cliffs Lodge. It was a good time, and a much needed relaxing time enjoying a place rather than blazing through it. We found out that there are 300+ cops, helicopters and airplanes patrolling the area we are going through tomorrow, due to a biker rally. Apparently it's huge, and there was a murder and a lot of fights and shenanigans last year surrounding it. Anyone who didn't get a ticket yet on this rally is probably going to get one tomorrow.

AKA Rally Rolls into Moab Utah

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Friday, August 22, 2008

AKA Rally on the cover of Hastings Tribune

Http://www.Hastingstribune.com/news.html

Sent from my iPhone

Rolling in the Team Vigilante M5

Today I am cruising in the M5 videoing and blogging at about 120 mph
through Nebraska, lol. Beef and Savannah are hilarious. Check out
Beef's fake Mullet wig...

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Motorsports Park Hastings, Nebraska

Today we were at this rad track called Motorsports Park Hastings they're building these rad party house condos right on the track these guys just got together and decided to build the place... it was so fun! After dinner they took us on Drunk Bus rides
on the track they took this school bus and gutted it out and bolted like couches and stuff in the back put everyone on board and then drove crazy. Country entertainment you couldn't buy in the city!!!

We had a blast. The people here are so nice and they treated us to a phenominal dinner of Omaha Steaks, corn on the cobb, this great potato and onion dish and home made coleslaw salad.

The police visit us at Hastings motorsports

In the news: Cedar Rapids

Status Update

The rally is going well. It's been a lot of work but we're starting to see everyone making friends and start to loosen up and really have a good time. This is Day 7 for Jason and I... Getting a little bit tired. Day 7 of getting 5 hours of sleep, driving all day... Dodging cops, coordinating hotels, printed materials, badges, restaurants, videoing, running the blog www.verveakarally.com and this blog you're reading.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Time Lapse Video

These files are massive so I only had a chance to load this one from my hotel room but it truly is enjoyable... notice our off-road excursion, lol

Untitled from Matt Clower on Vimeo.

Dirty Cayenne after our off-road adventure

Our Hilarious off-road expedition after our GPS told us to take a
closed highway detour and then dumped us on a dirt road, good job
Magellan. Dirty!!!

First in to Cedar Rapids: Team Tumescence

First Car in! Vince and Vinh in their Ferarri 360 Modena, followed
by the Team Krazy House Customs boys.

Time lapse camera mount

I've got this great digital camera mount and I've been shooting some really rad time-lapse videos. I will post soon!

Blog Status Update

Hey Just so y'all know... I am focused on publishing the official AKA Rally blog at www.verveakarally.com and so I'll only be posting some of my personal entertaining stuff from inside the Pace car and along the way.

Pace Car Chilling in Columbus

Ferarri "crushed" by the Krazy House Customs Truck

Crossing the George Washington Bridge

Rolling into New York

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Columbus to Cedar Rapids

On the road again. Got the time lapse rolling and it looks amazing.
Will post some video tonight.
Kind of crazy though, I was online co-piloting, editing video, blogging, running our time lapse camera, shooting b-roll footage, navigating, and Instant messaging a friend who is in Kenya all from in the car... at 80 miles per hour!!! All thanks to Slingshot Mobile Broadband www.slingshot.com.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

First to roll in

Pace has arrived

And we're off!

Just rolled over the Hudson and we are on our way a good 45 miles ahead

Dubois

Monday, August 18, 2008

Night before the storm

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Looks like a pre-party to me

Alicia is so hot

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Shouting Fireworks

Every time we drive by a fireworks store I point out the fact that
fireworks would be really fun on the rally

People can't drive in Indiana

Sitting in traffic again. People take all the lanes and go 55.

Another Cross

God Speaking, "So what I want you do to is spend a lot of money and build a giant aluminum siding cross along the freeway" It must have been God speaking, because he asked someone to do it just another 45 miles away.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Mullets

Stopped off for some eats in Tulsa. WOW. This was the most glorious mullet I've personally ever seen, but the photo doesn't show the full glory.

Leaning tower of Texas

Leaning tower of... Texas.

Off to a good start

Our transit goal is to make it to the other side of St Louis today. A little bit of rain, but the clouds looked worse than they delivered. The blogging process is going well, and the Slingshot is working great.