With Dynamo’s main trick of the night requiring darkness, we shifted the event’s start time to 2:00pm, in the process giving it even more of a chilled vibe.Īs I’d be on the mic all day, I’d had to come up with a plan for photography. On the morning of the show the power at Longwood Station had been restored and we were ready to go.
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With so much against us we decided to keep our fingers crossed, while making it a completely free event in order to support the local car community who hadn’t had the best few days. And it was.įast forward to a few days before the actual event, and Longwood Station – the venue for our show – was hit by a very strong typhoon with winds toppling over trees all around the Chiba region and causing a blackout. But I like thinking outside the box, and with the theme staying very central to cars, I thought that spicing up a static car event with a little bit of magic would be something totally unique. Well, imagine what I was thinking when the guys behind Dynamo’s television show reached out and threw the idea on the table. ‘That’s a strange partnership’, I hear you say. You may notice a slight delay in some of my stories for the next month or so, but I’ll do my best to keep them coming.įirst up, it’s our 2019 Speedhunters Live Japan event, which we ran back in September with world-famous magician Dynamo. It’s been a tough month since Typhoon Hagibis, and I’ll be living with my in laws for sometime yet while my house undergoes some major repairs, but I’m finally getting back into my Speedhunting stride. Just days after publishing my editorial piece, one of the many typhoons that hit Japan during the late summer/early autumn months completely flooded the lower floor of my house.
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