Putting together a Rally Cookbook with Justin Storie. It will be a collection of recipes from rally teams and their crews from all over the country.
Submit your recipes! We are looking for anything from beanie weenies, to fluffernutter sandwiches, to gourmet meals. Include your favorite beverages too!
DM me for details.
Going to try and do a poster a day design exercise. I have had this two-headed cat design for a while and try to incorporate it into different designs. Thought this would be a fun one since I do love tinned fish. Wanting to do a book on tinned fish package design too.
Here is my collection of interviews and tidbits from my trip to Olympus for the ARA National event back in April.
Going to start off with the main reason I was there and that was to hang out with and observe the crew of Screech Owl Garage.
I was invited by Screech Owl founder Daniel Quarto to come out to Olympus back in March. Daniel offered to cover my room and board for the weekend. Little did I know it would involve some fantastic food and being woken up in the middle of the night by some very tired, sleep deprived mechanics.
Screech Owl helped maintain the vehicles of four different rally teams throughout the weekend. I was impressed as to how Daniel handles his crew. He has a background in youth leadership and martial arts. Those experiences lend themselves in keeping a great chemistry going, especially through such a long, tiring weekend at a rally.
The crew comes from many backgrounds as you will hear in the interviews and despite the stress of maintaining four different cars, they all worked together very well. As a result, the teams they support, feel more at ease and feel more confident with their cars.
Screech Owl Garage is more than just a crew but a family.
Perhaps the best story to come out of my experience was the fact that the crew swapped the engine out of Josh Gierman and Gavin Bowen’s 2000 Subaru Impreza in the middle of Saturday night with an engine that came from about 2 hours away. Josh and Gavin then went on through Sunday’s stages to bring home 8th overall and a podium finish in the regional 4WD class.
Screech Owl’s story deserves so much more than just a bunch of sound bites edited together. Their story is truly amazing. Hope to have several of the teams they supported as well as Daniel himself on the podcast soon and work on an article about the crew as well.
I not only want to thank Daniel and the Screech Owl Garage family for their support, I also want to thank Mitch Meadows of MeLe Design Firm and MeLe Media, Gregory Wilcox, Lorne of Frozen Motion Pictures, and all the other wonderful people that helped support my trip to this year’s Olympus Rally.
Listen to the episode here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2423961
Post your pics and stories here!
Audi Quattro poster I designed from the Quattro in the Rimmer/FirtFish collection. Picture taken at this year’s Olympus Rally.
Does anyone have spectator info for OTR this year? I’ve never been and I’ve been looking on the official website, reddit, and YouTube but can’t find any real info
Hoping to find out about official spectator areas if there are any, as well as places people recommend spectating from outside of official areas. I found some vague info online but nothing concrete. Any help appreciated!
Is there public info related to the stages themselves?
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