Dear Winter snow,I miss you.

Finished?

The other night I was just sitting around the condo and looking at some cool art work using type and it made me remember I never finished making my typography. I created my own type for a previous project based on making Urban Outfitters more green by using recycled paper and getting rid of their plastic bags and gift cards. So I finished it up last night and also gave it a few more tweaks, now to create it as a ttf for everyday use. I am actually hoping to use the solid color version of this font for a future vector art piece as well.

So here is the revised version of the type. (colors are not web friendly)

and this is the original work the font was created for. (before revision)

Flavors&Me

Just finished up getting my social network on over at flavors. Got my invite the other day and so far it seems to be a pretty cool site. Flavors allows you to link all your accounts in to one page. So if you post an image on Flickr or a blog on Tumblr it will grab that data a you can view it. As for now it is in the Beta test stage, but I'm pretty sure once it goes full out you will see a lot more from this site. Till then you can go check out my page and see how everything works. http://flavors.me/nendel

I Has A Blog 2

So I decided last night in my lack of sleeping to go and create a Tumblr blog just for my art work and crafty ideas. I hope that I actually use it and don't ignore this one too much. So except to still see all the same randomness bringing that different flavor.
If you are interested and want to follow me on my creative journeys.
Go here http://www.nendel.tumblr.com

Just Amazing

*HELLA FLUSH*

Not a big car show person, but hella flush car events are now on my radar.

Oh Snap!

I may have lost some hipster points but DM says I gained cool points ten fold.

Keep forgetting to post that I finally caved in after two years of devoted Marta use and got myself a car. 1994 BMW 325is, should be a fun car to build and drive.

So I guess this is my official first build pictures.





Already got a few parts on it, but it still needs a few things before I can take it to a track day.
Thank goodness for winter downtime.

The Fork In The Road

So lately I have been feeling sort of lost, split into multiple directions. I feel like I have some many things I want to pursue in life that I keep limiting myself by just picking one road to travel. I have always been a person that wants to know how to do everything that might interest me and that probably doesn't help things. I just wish that there was a way to do everything that spins around in my head as I think of it with no regret. Maybe one day I will find a way to make time for everything that I would like to accomplish. Guess I will just have to stay on my path traveled for now and maybe it will lead me in the right direction. I'm hoping by writing this down I will spark some type of inspiration one way or another.

And on that note I will leave cheerful with a great song from Vampire Weekend off their new album Contra.

Stay Classy

XOXO
Gossip Photographer

Macaframa : Joel Weston

This shit still gets me everytime.

Art Pants

A Will Roegge and Linhbergh year long daily photo challenge.



One of the newest internet finds to join my bookmarks thanks to Mr. Roegge and his always interesting status updates.
After browsing the site I think this is totally one of the coolest projects I have seen of late when it come to my friends and their creative abilities. The site is filled with tons inspiring photos and jam packed with super cool portraits from this duo. I will be checking in from time to time to see who I think the winner might be at the end of the year and you guys should check it out as well.

Here is a link to the site so you can judge the battle for yourself.
http://www.artpants.com/

Say HELLO!

Now I'm on Twitter. Drop me a line or some instruction while I figure the site out.

@andrewnendel

New Hood Mixtape

The Hood Internet is at it again with the release of their fourth mixtape dropping TODAY.
Volume Four is filled with some of my favorite mixes by The Hood Internet thus far.
As Always I suggest you go download their latest installment and then host a house party.



THE HOOD INTERNET: MIXTAPE VOLUME FOUR

Two Much Drama

Let the gossip begin. . . .
http://vimeo.com/7178319

Biking The Hoosier State

I'm back home again in Indiana, hahaha see what I did there? Anyways, while spending some time here I decided to bring my bike and do some riding in a different atmosphere from the big city buildings. Here are some pictures from my phone on my trip around the neighborhood testing out my new DP18 track wheel with Origin8 fixed hub and euro-asia cog set-up. (also pictured is my new Kazane crank set)
One thing I realized about my ride today is that I never noticed how steep the hills are in southern Indiana.

*bike in the corn fields

*worst hill climb EVER! that 1st picture was taken at that treeline in the distance

*top of hill before heading into the north part of the park

*the park trees were awesome colors

*Burdette BMX course; use to race here when I was 7

*waterfall exiting park to bomb the backside of the big hill


*last climb of the day, had a great downhill

BikeMechaniks

A random post of good times riding late night around downtown Atlanta with the DriftMechaniks crew. (via andriod phone)

The Feed Shop

I never write up about places I eat at but this place was just to good to not talk about.
This previous weekend I celebrated my 28th birthday and like every year I decided to go have a nice meal at a new place. I heard some good things about a restaurant in College Park called The Feed Shop, so I decided to go try it out.Seriously the best meal I have had in a long time. They didn't have a huge menu but they did have something for everyone.
I choose to get the calamari to start with a surprise guest appearance of baby octopi and it was amazing, really sweet and not too tough. (enough food for a table of 5)For my main course I choose to have the chicken and duck covered in local bbq sauce with white cheese macaroni and coca-cola can baked beans. The chicken was nicely breaded and moist. The duck was sweet and fell right off the bone, the bbq sauce was a very nice touch on top. The mac-n-cheese was amazing and the baked beans had a nice spice to them but not to off from the rest of the meal.
(sorry no photo of this cause I was to busy enjoying my meal)
And all of this great meal was washed down with a nice red wine.

The one thing I did think was weird about the place was that it seemed completely empty, besides my table there were maybe 3 others in the whole place on a Saturday night. I would hope that the next time I go it will be packed cause the food there deserves it.
On a side note they also have a bar, it had nobody in it, but it looked rad. Plus they have PBR on tap.

Graveyard Confessions

I was sifting around my mobile phone picture gallery and notice I still had some picture I took from the SpeedHunters photoshoot for Andy Sapp's slide machine. So here is a backstage view of the day.


Full article on Andy's car can be found here:
SpeedHunters Guest Blog

and some pics of the beginning stages of my vintage road bike build.

Drift Mechaniks Water Park Demo

This past weekend the local Atlanta drift crew, Drift Mechaniks, hosted a demo during the Motorsport Nationals at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It was a crazy weekend with tons of unwanted rain, but that did not stop the Drift Mechaniks from putting on a show for the crowd of people that stuck it out in the not so great conditions. The event turnout was kind of small due to the weather and late preparations, but hopefully after the great show and energy by the group of people who attended this next year will bring out a bigger crowd of enthusiasts.

So during the weekend I decided to do my part to support my Drift Mechaniks family and went to play in the AMS water park as well.

So here is a quick gallery put together of the weekends events, enjoy.
DriftMechaniks Drift Demo Gallery






I would also like to give a BIG shout out to all the people that made that weekend killer.
Byron - DriftMechaniks
Kieran - Grand Turismo East
Chet - Yokohama/Advan
Andy Sapp - SlideStyle/DriftMechaniks/Motor Mavens
Dr. Jones - DriftMechaniks
Erin - DriftMechaniks
Dan - Batlground

Drift Mechaniks Demo

BE THERE!!!!

OR BE KILL!!!!!

I Love Slang

Been Busy

Inspirational imagery

Just felt like making a post to share so cool images that might motivate your creativity.

Air Novikov

Such an amazing amount air air off a jump for this Finland rally driver.

The Hood Nendernet

If you know me well at all you know that I am a huge fan of the DJ duo The Hood Internet.
Well I was browsing their site today, click here , and was so geeked out over the new mixes I got today that I just feel the need to share a few with you.

Bibio x Dorrough - Fire Ant Paint Job
(I know a few DM members that will LOVE this one)

Lil Wayne x Röyksopp - Comfortable Up Here
(THIS mix is soooo Dylan cause it spit hot fire)

Beastie Boys x Matt and Kim - Good Ol' Fashion Rump Shaker
(The title of the song says it all)

Music Is Reactable

So I was browsing the nets one day looking for new mixtapes to add to my collection and came across this amazing new piece of technology. It is called the "Reactable" and what it does is amazing. Here is a quick break down on the technology and function of the product.
The Reactable hardware and software delivers a robust object and finger tracking platform for the creation of tangible multi-touch interactive surfaces. The platform is based on computer vision using high quality industrial cameras which can track numerous tagged objects and finger touches on the interactive table surface. This surface is made of a specially engineered acrylic material, where the visual feedback is displayed using a short-throw projector inside the table. The full system is completely self-contained and only needs a single external 110/220V power-supply.

So pretty much this is the coolest thing ever and I can't wait to see what people will do with this thing, maybe someday I will see a live mash-up performed on one Reactable.

Video sample of the mixing.



Also other cool music tech stuff out right now is the Major Laser app for iPhone.