Hot girls and Fast rides...

Last weekend Ducati in Phoenix hosted their second annual Ducati Fashion Show, which has made it's way into the United States in almost 30 states hosting their own Fashion Shows, each having its own creative twist. TRP was lucky enough to be the sole photographer for the Arizona event.

Quoting SuperBikePlanet.com..."The 2009 line is Ducati's most cutting edge yet, and it will steal the show on runways nationwide. Ducati is an icon that embraces Italian design, and the fashion weekend will bring out the new apparel in style." - George Colvin, Ducati Apparel Manager.

With DJ Noah Wylie spinning live, hot models strutting their stuff in Italian designed motor and lifestyle gear, The Ducati Superstore in Phoenix did just that.

So what did this Italian think? Molto piacevole! (Delightful!)

Ciao!

Smoke THIS

TRP got our first taste of "corporate sponsorship", meaning, what it means to work on location with corporate drones running around telling you what you can't and can't do, in this case C*mel C*garettes.

CC: Your not allowed here.
TRP: I've been contracted to be here for over a month.

CC: You can't take any photos anyside with our logo in the background.
TRP: You've decorated every wall and TV in here with ads, but no problem.

CC: We're kicking you out again.
TRP: I'm not leaving, I'm suppossed to be here. (sulking off to another part of the bar).

CC: You're not using your camera are you?
TRP: I'm a photographer, why would I do something silly like that?

CC: We don't want pictures of people here with our logo in the background.
TRP: So, every person in here with a digital camera thats been taking pictures all night that will (gasp) be posting them on myspace? What about them?
CC: Well.....we do what we can.
TRP: (Shaking head).

CC: Hey you're still here.
TRP: Yep, doing my job, just like you.

CC: Can you take a picture of me with Carey Hart?
TRP: As long as it doesn't hurt his corporate branding.

You paid a grip to sponsor an event and don't want pictures to be taken, because of corporate branding? What about corporate brain washing? This has Michael Moore stalk-u-mentary written all over it.

Trust me, the TRP logo is a tree...meaning, grassroots, healthy, progressive, strong, and grounded.....like I would ever want to support a multi-billion dollar suicidal conglomerate that whores a carcinogenic lifestyle. As if.

TRP shout out to PJZ

I think my ears are still ringing a bit from the hymnn of "Phunk-e Phuunky, I am a JUNk-ee". To all you desert dwellers that probably rings a bell from locally grown, gone international band Phunk Junkeez. These guys are still throwing out sick tracks with lead singer DJ SOULMAN at the helm.

Joe and the crew were cool enough to help me battle with corporate spies (more of this to follow in another blog) and let me hop up on stage to capture a west-side crowd go insane (as always) to their well-known song "Going down to Buckeye." (Buck-eye, Buck-eye, goin down to Buck-eye) See how catchy it is? Awh man these guys always know how to rip it up and show the crowd a good time.

Thanks for watching out for me guys, goes to show I don't take "no" for answer, especially not from corporate drones. Can't wait to get my Junkee fix again soon!

Shot to the Hart

Well, kinof. Dodging gouls and goblins, naught nurses and painted women, I got the chance to shoot a well-known Carey Hart. For those of you who don't know, Carey is the first moto-cross rider to every pull and land a full back-flip, bringing the industry standard of freestyle motorcross to insane new heights.

And although I didn't see Carey pulling any sick tail whips or gnarly superman seat grabs, he does have another talent for causing women to scale couches, use their friends (or any surrounding male) to inch towards him. But hey Carey, if I was defying gravity and getting paid to show up at parties to make out with costumed hotties... (Visualizing something opposite of my life here...), well, let's just say, I'm not mad atchya.