Guys I have one thing to say to you too

and it's not for a change

http://www.m161fhr.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/doormirror.wmv

is one of the most competent and professional pieces of motoring videos I have seen.. Subaru should use it as a promotional piece..

Oh and the driving ain't too dusty either

Excellent work both of you..

Cheers.

The Ole git

Well I had to get one in, didn't I ??

 

Hear hear!!!

You would have thought it was actually Metallica if it wasn't for the European Beardy Sounding bloke

Top effort chaps

Matt

 

The music fits it really well.

Did I see some cones on the track just before Adenau Forest?

Anyone own up to be the Sonic blue Scoob parked(?) on the track at 8mins 30?

[Edited by ChrisB - 1/16/2003 9:04:23 AM]

 

Excellent stuff.

Just wish I could drive that well, or even play more than greensleeves on the guitar. I loved the lighting on the lap, very moody and forboding.

It's a shame Subaru did'nt let you two put together the ads for the new car.

How long did it take to put together?

 

Anyone know anyone at MTV ??? LOL

That must have been a huge amount of work to get it all put together that well..

Suggested title ... Moody Blue..

Well it's catchier than "STI V RA LTD at the Nordschliefe"

the really scarey thing is the words kinda suit it being JF at the Ring

"and nothing else matters"




[Edited by rsquire - 1/16/2003 9:12:27 AM]

 

Rich

I thought doormirror was a perfect title. However I would have ended the video by a fade out rather than just stopping. But then again what do I know about these things, about as much as I know about the inner workings of an aircraft carrier.

Incidentally is there a high res version for the non bandwidth challenged?

 

Neil..

Dunno mate best speak to JF..

Fecking awesome innit..!!! the more I listen to the words the more perfect it is being JF at the Ring... Amazing bit of work

The "JF and EB" have now gone global..

AS I *cough* nicked that of the USA BBS and it now on TWO Aussie Subaru BBS's

Psst JF EB

Can I get ya autographs

 

Agreed it is an excellent version. Goes so well with the vid. If no one had mentioned it was Theos own work I would never have been any the wiser.

Simon.

 

John, is this you? I recognise that dodgy blue colour balance anywhere I dont remember this shot from your tapes
- do I have this take for the full on vid...? This shows the track position and racing line well as it has reference to the static car's wing - would look great as a split screen with an interior shot!

D

 

Thanks chaps.

Yes Diesel, this is me. It was made after i sent my tapes to you, wasnt sure it was posible to add in as it's late in the day after you digitising all the other footage, i'll get it to you tomorrow mate! I dont have an interior matched video on this one sadly, as i was in full stealth mode. Oh, your mail is knackered, i keep getting bounced!

Believe it or not that just kind of happened after Theo and I were chatting last week.

I had that lap from my last trip to the ring in November, but the audio was screwed up due to a micraphone problem. Theo sent me a 6:30 audio clip he had made a while back. He is an acomplished musician as you can tell. I thought it was outstanding so mixed the vid and sent it back to him, sort of as a surprise. LOL

Problem was i needed 9:30 to get a whole lap, plus the start at the barrier and finish, so theo remixed it to be 9:30 and sent that too me. I then recut it to mix the music and video, took me about 20 minutes. And thats what you see.

I dont know why, but the whole mood of the video works, it was very cold that day, very much a winter in the eifel mountains. leaves all over the track, patchy areas of water etc.

The Cones at the bottom of the foxhole are there because a Porsche destroyed the barriers so they were no longer safe for another impact. you can see the damaged barriers just after the bottom of the compresion. The porsche ended up at the top of the hill where all the sand is.

The stuffed Impreza is a french guy i took for a lap as a passenger with me, just the lap before, i think he probably tried to take the corner like i do and ran out of tallent. He was lucky to just damage his front right corner/bonnet.

There is a higher res version at http://www.johnfelstead.co.uk/videos/Sti5TypeRARingDoorMirrorNov2002.mpg but its a fairly slow server.

 

Clicky

[Edited by Neil Smalley - 1/16/2003 1:58:30 PM]

 

So is that Theo singing on there, and guitaring?

Feckin quality tune - get it released.

 

So is that Theo singing on there, and guitaring? <http://www.scoobynet.co.uk/bbs/images/smilies/eek.gif>



yep,thats him

he is f**king great,and even better than Metallica (well,you know,ish )

 

:blush:

Ta for the kind words.

We first tried it the other way round: me driving, and JF playing his instrument, but that video was truly mindblowingly boring LOL (and 12 minutes long )

I would probably have to check with their management to see if it can be put on the video though Remember it was 'tallica that started the Napster case

Not that I quickly "ripped" it from a website mind, it took me about 3 months to do the recording (live drums, bass, guitars, voices... only the keyboards are, well, keyboards in my garden shed "studio". But it is their song...

As a coincidence... Metallica will be playing on "Rock am Ring" this year (6/7/8th of June), found that out a few days after JF made this video.

 

Evil, dont worry mate as you are already in deep trouble with the publishing people for putting the song on the web - hope James Hetfield is not a Scoobynetter

I think in reality they have bigger fish to fry - err Russia doesn't pay any music royalties for example!

D

 

Like the video John!! it's the lap that i was sitting on the pass. seat. @Theo, love the music!

Grts. Stefan

p.s. is the video already availebale??

 

Vid is going to be later than anticipated as some Dutch have descended on me and I have to sort out a new music TV prog in Holland within 4 weeks! Bloody sales team too efficient and spoiling our Scooby vid plans I hope it will be worth the wait!

D

 

i am sure it will be...
i cant wait

 

Got me thinking that, I asked the wife if I could "Do the ring in the summer", she said no and said I was a filthy pervert......

 

John and The Evil One,

Cracking production guys, just sat through the whole lot and I must say the the music does go and go very well.

Pity the driving was $hite

Just a suggestion that next time you go John, try and get the camera a little lower, i.e. try to get the top quarter of the front wheel in, or alternatively use a shorter lens if you can, but not too much as it looked about right anyway.

Cheers

Ian

 

It's not that easy ian, to get it any lower i would need a proper external camera mount. Problem with that is filming at the ring has been banned recently, so thats going to be a bit dificult to do.

It was good to have you along for the ride stef, just leave your walkman behind next time.

 

Diesel sent me what he calls a rough cut of the intro, it's really good stuff! Pity the Dutch got in the way!

 

Filming been banned ? That makes things a bit more difficult then

Cheers

Ian

 

Just downloaded the thing in question.

Fantastic, simply fantastic - love it. The music is brilliant, and fits perfectly. Theo, you have my respect mate. The driving isn't too shabby either

Thanks for bringing my attention to this Richard, I wasn't going to bother with a 25 mb download but it really is worth it.

 

Unfortunately yes Ian. Nurburgring GMBH have now banned the use of video cameras on public days. They decided to do this after someone posted footage of a fatal crash up on the net.

I hope this decision is reversed, mainly from a safety perspective, as you can learn a great deal from your onboard videos. Videoing the lap can also stop you thinking about timing too, as if you want to see your lap times you just review the lap later, rather than having a stopwatch running and having a figure there you are aiming to beat.

It's also useful to have a video rnning in case you have an incident with someone, that way you can at least review the footage and see why that happened.

They now have marshals manning the bariers looking for video cameras.

 

Nick,

Get the full 89MB version.

How do you hide the camera John or is that why the pencil camera is now in use?

Matt