Karma's Riv

.. yeah, I know, I'm sorry. Been here so long, and not one picture.
*hangs head in shame*

.. Ill make it up. Honest!

anyway, here are a few exterior shots. Expect some "interesting" mods this comming month as I finally won't be working 64hr work weeks anymore.










^^ (I'm really tall, thats how I took that pic )

looks good man

I want an aurora borealis on my riv too!

I like how you found a place to take pictures where the background matches the color of your exterior.

I should take my pictures at night so I can do that too! (my car's black) then nobody will see my crappy paint

edit: Oh yeah, nice looking car too!

yeah that is a good idea

Did you climb a tree to get the overhead shot!? Looks very nice...

got to get that good shot

Great pics!

ewolfe0050 wrote:

Did you climb a tree to get the overhead shot!? Looks very nice...

you might notice in the side shot, in the reflection of the car, there is a small building. I *might* have been on its roof.

Looks like mine, except for the rims, which means it looks good

so, the following media is not actually of my riv. But its what my Riv sees on a cruise. From its perspective. Quick vid I made with my licence plate cam. Its just a small notebook webcam that I've made to peek through one of the holes of my front licence plate. Can't be seen from the front. The vids i took i did at 640X480, and im wishing I didn't cause its kind of jittery. Anyway, from the vid you will see that eventually i just got sick of trying to mix the audio and started leaving it out. and also got sick of the jitters and sped up the footage to remove it. Then my choice of music got to me, and the end is kind of trippy. Anyway, just a quick little render here, enjoy!:
file size: 30mb

@ 1:23 remaining, there's another Riviera on the right!!!


Also, I wanna do this now!!! What camera/mic did you use, and can you show a pic of where/how it's mounted??

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Drew I fucking LOVE this!!!! Great sound track too!!!! The mix of the blower whine, tires screeching and music are awesome!!

I'm just rolling here!!!!

Next time make an "R" rated one where you run over old ladies, cats and young punks!!

That made my day! Well done!

IBx1 wrote:

@ 1:23 remaining, there's another Riviera on the right!!!


Also, I wanna do this now!!! What camera/mic did you use, and can you show a pic of where/how it's mounted??

ya, i started following the other riv, but then it was just an old couple in it, so I didn't feel as cool following it. I'll take a pic of the bracket torm, its pissing rain right now.

I'm glad everyone liked it. Maybe I'll do a better quality one later.

Was that Aaron's trailer hitch at the end?

...for those interested, the song is called Disco Science, from the movie Snatch.

I knew I recognized that!

Nice pics, movie, and riv to !

Nice job mixing the music with the squealing and whine, I agree well done!!

Chicken wrote:

Next time make an "R" rated one where you run over old ladies, cats and young punks!!

HAHAHAHA MORBID & HYSTERICAL!!!!

I LOVE IT

Man that was so cool. I gotta mount a cam up there..great to see what your town looks like too. Very nice!

And since people asked what the bracket looked like:

Below is a pic of the front licence plate with the cam peeking out the lower left hole. (Yeah, I know the licence plate is really beat up, but I've had it since my first car)

And another pic from the side:

note the white sticky tack, just holding the focus knob still. also the microphone hole is plugged with the stuff to make the sound semi useful.

And with the bracket twisted down so you can see how it works. (its kind of bent up, i had to mangle it so it match my mangled licence plate)


The cam is connected to a nice 5' USB extension cable that runs into the engine bay and up through the passenger door-jam. I usually only have it connected up when I want to shoot a vid though.

Sometime Ill have to try another vid at 320X240, since thats what i would shrink it down to for the web anyway.. then maybe It wont be jittering as much in realtime. Another "issue" with the web cam thing is since its peaking from behind the licence plate the lens is always in a shadow, and the internal light sensor thinks its really dark and tries to adapt. The result is the image is really washed out in normal sunlight. On a side note its perfect in the evening under streetlight!

also i keep having this urge to slouch down in the drivers seat so no one can see me and just drive by the video image on the laptop ...

Straight up James Bond. I love it I like the way you edited it, too. The music, speeding it up, the effects. People don't realize how boring it would be to watch if you didn't do that stuff.

oldsman105 wrote:

Great pics!

AA wrote:

That made my day! Well done!

1wickedninja wrote:

Nice pics, movie, and riv to !

deekster_caddy wrote:

Nice job mixing the music with the squealing and whine, I agree well done!!