Watching this really well done Dakar highlights package reminded me of how far the media landscape has changed – especially amongst the current insurrection crisis. Back in 2006, the ASO did not allow the teams to ‘broadcast’ themselves. Every aspect of producing a video of the Dakar Rally back in those days was unheard of for a team. Any attempt was basically met with extortion. We cleared those hurdles…
Category: Robby Gordon
In just three weeks, three race cars were built. Here’s the timelapse. Doing time-lapses over extended periods of time can be challenging. One solution I’ve found is through old android phones using the ipwebcam app. If the phone has connectivity you can upload images as they are taken to a dropbox. It’s worthwhile to get the paid version.
We had the opportunity to shoot the maiden race of the freshly configured 4×4 Trophy Truck of Robby Gordon. While an early driveshaft yolk setback took them out of contention for the day, the Unicorn made it to the finish without any other challenges. On-board the Unicorn
This collection is from a youtube playlist that only contains Dakar Rally from Africa (and the Central Europe Rally.) I’ll add South America Dakar later. The pic to the left was taken in Néma, Mauritania, back in 2006. Two years later the organizers would relocate the Dakar Rally to South America. Currently the Rally is been run in Saudi Arabia Perhaps one day it can come to the United…
Qualifying is about to go down for the Best in the Desert Vegas to Reno off-road race. Gordon is breaking out the unicorn with its very own mask.
If you watch to the end you’ll see the old Robby’s Uprising logo. I’m pretty sure we were doing social media before social media. Thanks, ning.