As Iglesia Production’s official photographer for their upcoming show, George F. Walker’s Problem Child, it was both a delightful and disturbing adventure to shoot the promotional images for them recently.  The location?  The American Plaza Motel on Dundas St., a seedy motel in London’s East end.

John Iglesias and I met early in the morning to get the room rented for a few hours and we got quite the look from the desk clerk.  And we got even more looks when we started loading the room with camera equipement and people.  I’m sure they thought some sort of “Movie” was being filmed.  lol.  In actuality, there was, but not the kind they were thinking.  John had brought John Howlett and Brett Jansen (pronounced Britt, with a Kiwi accent) to shoot a video trailer for the show, a fresh and interesting new idea for theatre promotion, I think.  It was a great day and the cast and crew had a ton of laughs as the day went on.  I can’t wait to see the trailer, when in launches sometime in the beginning of May, and share the images of the shoot closer to the opening of the show.  For now, here are some behind the scenes shots on the day.

Check out Billy’s report on Directmotocross.com to get a glimpse of how the day went down.

This year, things were run a little differently.  I guess you can blame the economy, but the budgets just weren’t there for a full nine round program.  It was decided to run a three rider program.  One at Gopher Dunes, notorious for being Canada’s roughest track, one at San Del Lee in Canada’s capitol region, and one at Walton, the grand finale for the season.  Visitors were asked to nominate themselves or a rider they felt deserved a spot on the FRFAD Team on DirectMotocross.com.  From there the list was dwindled down to three riders.  Kyle Ward would race his local track of Gopher Dunes for FRFAD, Nick May would race his home track of San Del Lee for FRFAD, and westerner Jared Stock would race the Walton round for FRFAD in his first ever visit to Ontario.  Where do I come into this equasion?  Well, the folks at DirectMotocross.com needed someone who could be in the pit to help out.  Someone who was comfortable with being around bikes.  Someone who could friend these rider’s and make sure they were comfortable on race day.  Someone who could make sandwiches, clean goggles, helmets and boots, prep the riding gear, put up the pit tent, make funny jokes, make dumb jokes, and just about anything else that needs doing on race day.  You see, that’s what a manfriend is.  A friend who is willing to do what it takes to make his rider ready for the race.  A-ny-thing.  I really had a blast doing this and really enjoyed meeting all the riders and their families over the summer.  I definitely got some new buddies out of this that I’ll be able to share a laugh with at future races.  I’ve put together some photos from each round to share some of the good times that were had.

A special thanks should go out to the sponsors behind the program.  Ignition Racing, Roost Clothing, FXR Racing, CTi, Maxima, IMX, Podium Graphix & Dunlop.  Thanks for reading.

]]> http://www.danstenning.com/2009/10/you-know-what-i-did-last-summer-brap/feed/ 1 http://www.danstenning.com/2009/10/surprise/ http://www.danstenning.com/2009/10/surprise/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:38:20 +0000 MajorDanage http://www.danstenning.com/?p=98 Had a great time with my Franco Behring teammates at the surprise party for Professors Marco and Shah that was held at the dojo on Laird in Toronto.

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