Drawing an STi (Direct Download)

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Unbelievable video. A video by computer artist Raffaele Picca, it starts with a completely blank canvas in Microsoft Paint and turns into a near photo-realistic painting of a Subaru WRX STi. I'm sure Raffaele is working with a tablet off a photo, but that doesn't diminish the fact he's working in paint. This just goes to show it's all about the talent of the artist, not the sophistication of the tool.

I've made a higher quality version of this video available for download on our iTunes feed as well if you would like to put it on your AppleTV or iPod.

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DAX Rush on the BOS, Download it!

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This video was too cool so we decided to go ahead and put it into our best of StreetFire podcast, which of course means a higher quality direct download is now available. As always, click the iTunes link, hint if you click the "" button in iTunes, you don't have to wait for me to make a blog post about it ;-)

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Direct Download of the Day, StreetFire Tribute to the 2007 F1 Season

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Okay I was a bit lax making blog posts last week, but we did a couple of releases on the podcast. If you were subscribed to the feed you got `em! This little video montage is something we just threw together. Its based on some footage given to us by Bridgestone and with Music provided by Ray. If you're not aware of Ray's story, Then ZeFrank can show you how the remixes started. Sort of a funny story, but there are 200 remixes of this song out on the Interent, here is Ze's explanation.

So this is the mother of all race weekends with openers of F1 and ALMS with a whole mess of Atlanta stock car racing thrown int he middle to spice things up. Know what that means? It means I'm taking a break and drinking beer and watching TV all weekend so forgive me if you don't see any more blog or forum posts till Monday. Have a great weekend!

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Audi S5 in motion

While somewhat sad the new S5 isn't sporting the RS4 motor, I have to admit Audi got it right with the lines of this car, and I'm sure an "R" isn't too far off in this car's future. I particularly dig the LEDs under the front headlights, we first saw those on the R8, but I think think we can assume this will new design accent will be to Audi what "angel eyes" are to BMW. Anyhow I added this to our direct download folder, so if you would like a higher quality version, feel free to get it off iTunes. As always, videos in the iTunes library are from all artist that use StreetFire for their video sharing, so if you have a video you would like for us to feature drop me a line and we may include it on a release.

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KTM X-Bow in motion

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cool! Cool! COOL CAR! Love this thing, but then I absolutely love this new category of lightweight hyper-sports like the Elise/Exige, Atom, Caparo and now the X-Bow. In many ways I think these all pay homage to the famed Lotus 7, but as a modern rethink of a classic, each is different.. From an F1 car for the street with the Caparo to a Motorcycle with 4 wheels on the KTM. Another great upload by Slick, check it out.

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Direct Download of the Day: autocross by TunerVlog.com

Today's direct download comes from the Tunervlog.com team. Doing some video editing myself I really appreciate how much time goes into creating a properly synced three camera video. Matching the cuts with the audio can be tricky, and here it makes for a great inside/outside view of an autocross. Very good stuff.

If you dig this, you may also want to check out the stuff uploaded by TennesseeOutlaw that we featured earlier today. I guess as things start to warm up we'll start seeing more and more vids, keep em coming!

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Awesome NSX compilation

Arguably the coolest thing Honda makes is Nicky Haden's 2006 Championship MotoGP RC-211v, but what if you like your Hondas with 4 wheels? Well, over 15 years ago Honda tapped one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers, Aryton Senna, to help create their max effort halo car, the Acura NSX. All these years later and it's still an awesome piece of machinery and part of the pantheon of Japanese exotics. To celebrate, here is a great tribute video put together by user "5f2438e5"...(obviously someone who hasn't changed their user name yet...).... fantastic compilation, thanks for the submission, and we've added it to the Best of StreetFire section on iTunes. Keep up the good work!

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Download of the day before Yesterday, Ultima tromps a Noble M12

Well, if you were subscribed to our iTunes feed then you saw this one come across the wire on Friday, for some reason the encoders took a while getting this one through the system so I apologize for making the blog post so late. Anyhow, here is a Cockpit view of the Ultima GTR tearing up the track at Millennium Falcon speed. About mid way through the guy bags a 911, followed by a Noble M12 at the end. Most impressive :-)

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Direct Download of the Day, Ultima GTR pulls 9s and tromps a Veyron 0-100-0

Download on iTunesThis car is a BEAST! Okay as annoying as Jeremy Clarkson is you have admit the brits are making some damn fine machines of late. Let's take a quick look.

Ariel Atom
Lotus Exige S
Noble
Caparo

All have the same philosophy too. Take a light track ready chassis throw in as much power as you can and then go have a blast. One problem though. With the exception of the Caparo, all these motors are ...shall we say... simply not insane enough. What if we took a car the size and weight of a Lotus and cramed in a 500hp Chevy V8? Now we're talking, and that's what Ultima has done! This thing makes a Veyron look tame. Don't believe me? How many sub $100K cars do you know that will pull 9s at 140mph in the Qtr mile? That's Frick'n Hayabusa fast! Anyhow click for a high quality download, or watch it streamed.

PS if you had subscribed to the iTunes feed you would have already downloaded this by now since I actually posted it 4 hours ago, so go to iTunes, subscribe to the feed, and that way you don't have to wait for me to post int he blog to know what we're going to feature next. :-)

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Direct Download of the Day, Exotic Cars by phantomftr

Download on iTunesSpecial thanks go to phantomftr for today's direct download. This time we feature exotics cruising and racing on the street including Ford GT, Ferrari, Lambo, Porsche, & Viper.

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SubaruNorway Gives us a taste of a WRC Winter Wonderland

I can't tell you how often I lament not getting proper WRC coverage here in the United States. If we did it would probably surpass F1 as my favorite motorsport. But seeig it in person must be even better than seeing it for real, so a special thank you goes our to "SubaruNorway" for providing StreetFire coverage from a frozen Norway winter!

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Want to be a featured Artist? Sick of Being Broke?

StreetFire.net is here for one purpose, to support the automotive videographer. We do that by three methods.

1.) Highest Quality Video Streaming of any video-site. (StreetFire vs. youTube compared)
2.) Largest Automotive Video community on the Net (Stats)
3.) And new for 2007, Featured Artist downloads on iTunes

So, I'm happy to announce that we're ramping up our featured artist section to now include high-quality direct downloads of select featured artist videos. So how does this help videographers? Every day we're going to dig through submissions, find our favorites and add it to the Best of StreetFire.net iTunes podcast. That's an instant 10,000 views for your video on iTunes, and we expect that to grow as we promote the service. Do you sell DVDs? Shoot a great trailer, drop me a line, if I like it, I'll feature it and 10,000 people will get to see it too, and that's on top of the views you get here on StreetFire normally (which typically can be 100,000+ for great content).

So Shoot your video, give it a good edit, upload your video to StreetFire.net and drop me a line. If I like it, I'll feature it.

Today's Feature: Sick of Being Broke Productions DVD preview. 30 second of AHRA racing from 2005. SOBdvd has been a long time artist on our site and I'm happy to make them the first of many featured artists we put on the feed. Check them out, great stuff, great DVD.

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