Archive for March, 2006

Nürburgring: Lap 2

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Lap 2
Same car, second lap.  I re-encoded Lap 1 from .wmv to .mp4.  View Lap 1 in .mp4 format here.

A relaxing drive on the Nürburgring

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Lap 1
This is a RUF “Yellow bird” on the Nürburgring. I found this clip linked on the Hill Country Region Porshce Club website. If you’re on a Mac try the free Flip4Mac plugin for Quicktime. It allows you to view Windows Media files with the Quicktime Player.

Technical Difficulties

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

TD
Here at elgringoloco.com we’re not technical, just difficult.

Wine anyone?

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Wine Anyone?
This video has been passed around the station for years.  It’s a shot of Gilbert standing in for lighting on a Clark Wilson Homes campaign shot by Vance Holmes circa 1996.  Notice the graphic created by a Dubner 30k in our old Grass Valley Super Edit Suite.  For all you youngsters out there, that means editing with four beta decks and an edit controller on actual video tape using an E.D.L.

New Orleans Social Club

Monday, March 20th, 2006

New Orleans Social Club
Bonita Sarita and I went to the Austin City Limits taping of the New Orleans Social Club last night. There was hardly a line.  The show was awesome.