The first Slide Style™ deck came in today! It’s awesome to see something go from screen, to printed wood. This was really just a test run, to see how it would turn out… which was a bit darker than I designed. Overall, the quality is great!

I finished designing the first lineup of Slide Style™ decks!

I managed a top-8 finish in Cordele, GA this weekend for round 2 of the SCCA Drift Series at Watermelon Speedway! There was a questionable call made in regard to my opponent’s advancement, but a great event for sure!

We got the proof back for the Slide America disc art today. We are going to run the discs using both matte and gloss black inks. It will look like a spot UV, but with actual inks. I’m super excited to see how these turn out!

The magenta represents where the matte black will be screened.

After a year in the making – Slide America is finally complete!

I won’t lie… after completing the final author of the DVD, I watched the documentary the whole way through. Once the credits ended… something came over me, and I couldn’t help but cry. This project means the world to me. The fact that I had this crazy idea in my head to begin with… then to see it come to fruition, and transformed into the final product is simply amazing. Words can’t really describe the feeling of accomplishment now that it is complete. I feel like this documentary is really really different… and I think people will be surprised – this isn’t your stereotypical “import racing” DVD. I really feel like I am giving something back to the drift community… and that is a priceless feeling

I finished up the final cover for Slide America! This is the final artwork to appear on the DVD that drops in next month.

This is quite possibly the best 30 seconds I have EVER edited, and the raddest trailer ever made.
www.slideamerica.com

Slide America Trailer. from Andy Sapp on Vimeo.

In preparation for SEMA, we released the Slide America Teaser today! Be warned, it is definitely a teaser! Joey Redmond and I will have full press-kits with the teaser available on DVD at SEMA next week, so keep an eye out for us!

Preliminary shooting of Slide America is officially complete. The past 30 days traveling the nation was BEYOND INSANE. Over 16,000 miles exposing the very core of North American drifting. I feel so lucky to have experienced American drifting the way we did. Everyone was so receptive to what we were trying to accomplish. It was simply amazing. Now that we’re back, I have over 120 hours of footage to log and capture… then the editing process begins. Wish me luck.

Joey Redmond and I set forth today on our 19 city/30 day tour of America for preliminary shooting of Slide America. The project’s focus is to document drifting in America on a grassroots level. This project will expose the very core of American drifting.

For more information check out the website:
www.slideamerica.us

or on MySpace:
myspace.com/slideamerica

I’ve been working on a nice flyer illustration for Drift Fury. I’m really pleased with the progress… I definitely want to run some shirts with this design.