Thanks Ford Fiesta Movement
www.fiestamovement.com
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Featured on Ford Fiesta Movement main page
Check it out I'm currently featured on Fords website. Wow!!!
Thanks Ford Fiesta Movement
www.fiestamovement.com
Thanks Ford Fiesta Movement
www.fiestamovement.com
Here are photos from after our Ford Fiesta big day.
After we received the keys I drove out to Las Vegas where I am currently at now.
As soon as I drove away from the Willow Speedway meadows I notices allot of people looking and pointing. Even one guy tail gated me and popped his head out the window smiling and asking "What kind of Ford Focus is that? Is it out yet?" I responded yelling out the window "No it is a 2011 Ford Fiesta and I came from the future! I came on a time machine and you wont see this car out until 2010 summer!"
The best part on the road I grabbed my Sony Webbie to film a guy driving an awesome yellow custom Mustang. It was bad! real bad looking and were driving side by side like Fast And the Furious as I had the camera on him. He was looking at me and trying to figure out what I was driving. I continued to pass him by.
I let the sun follow me to let me know when is the right to to pull over on the long stretch of road on HWY 15 in the Mojave dessert to Las Vegas and finally an exit comes up as the sun was about to drop behind the mountain. I quickly set up my cameras and started doing video and taking photos. I will have the videos up sometime this week. I had to ignore the group of young people (Early 20s) who were asking about what I was doing and what kind of car was it. They were not close enough to see it was a Ford. Then a truck driver from Ohio asked the same questions. After I had taken my last photo and video shots of the car as the sun drops behind the desert mountains I finally answered their questions as they had realized I was trying to beat the sun.
Filming on HD for youtube and broadcasting live for the hundreds of viewers on http:www.justin.tv/mooncricket
I explained to them how I got the car with the Fiesta Movement and I gave them all my business cards that has the fiesta movements website on it. I told them they can get allot of info on the car there as well. I told them they can follow me on twitter and youtube to see new videos about he car. It is interesting to see other people who are complete strangers get so excited as well. It is like they are already showing they want to be apart of this movement. So I told them that they can go to the Fiesta website and look up what city they will be doing test drives so they can get a chance to experience this movement. The truck driver travels a lot so he said he will for sure find a test driving location.
After the sun dropped and 500 plus viewers watching me broadcast the entire trip to Las Vegas I glanced in the chat room and saw they were loving the lighting in the car as it was getting dark. Some said it look like a space craft as I responded saying the dash looks like an alien. UFO driving through the Mojave right? lol. Well What caught my eye while it was getting darker was the nice ambient light. Tiny little orange lights above point down to add light where your ipod is located. Under the radio more of this ambient orange redish light where your cell phone or business cards go. It changed my mood from the classic hip-hop songs I was playing to switch my ipod playlist to "Hackers" movie soundtrack. The soundtrack has allot of ambient feeling lounge feeling to it with a little bit of dance beat for that Fiesta feeling. I just went in deep thought the entire way to Las Vegas feeling relaxed after all the excitement from the entire Fiesta Movement trip.
I finally made it to Las Vegas and I still had plenty of gas as it beeped with the gas light on and it says I still can drive another 50 miles before going empty. I like the 50 mile heads up on the gas, especially when driving through the mojave desert it was useful. I am currently preparing the youtube video and more photos for flckr.
After we received the keys I drove out to Las Vegas where I am currently at now.
As soon as I drove away from the Willow Speedway meadows I notices allot of people looking and pointing. Even one guy tail gated me and popped his head out the window smiling and asking "What kind of Ford Focus is that? Is it out yet?" I responded yelling out the window "No it is a 2011 Ford Fiesta and I came from the future! I came on a time machine and you wont see this car out until 2010 summer!"
The best part on the road I grabbed my Sony Webbie to film a guy driving an awesome yellow custom Mustang. It was bad! real bad looking and were driving side by side like Fast And the Furious as I had the camera on him. He was looking at me and trying to figure out what I was driving. I continued to pass him by.
I let the sun follow me to let me know when is the right to to pull over on the long stretch of road on HWY 15 in the Mojave dessert to Las Vegas and finally an exit comes up as the sun was about to drop behind the mountain. I quickly set up my cameras and started doing video and taking photos. I will have the videos up sometime this week. I had to ignore the group of young people (Early 20s) who were asking about what I was doing and what kind of car was it. They were not close enough to see it was a Ford. Then a truck driver from Ohio asked the same questions. After I had taken my last photo and video shots of the car as the sun drops behind the desert mountains I finally answered their questions as they had realized I was trying to beat the sun.
Filming on HD for youtube and broadcasting live for the hundreds of viewers on http:www.justin.tv/mooncricket
I explained to them how I got the car with the Fiesta Movement and I gave them all my business cards that has the fiesta movements website on it. I told them they can get allot of info on the car there as well. I told them they can follow me on twitter and youtube to see new videos about he car. It is interesting to see other people who are complete strangers get so excited as well. It is like they are already showing they want to be apart of this movement. So I told them that they can go to the Fiesta website and look up what city they will be doing test drives so they can get a chance to experience this movement. The truck driver travels a lot so he said he will for sure find a test driving location.
After the sun dropped and 500 plus viewers watching me broadcast the entire trip to Las Vegas I glanced in the chat room and saw they were loving the lighting in the car as it was getting dark. Some said it look like a space craft as I responded saying the dash looks like an alien. UFO driving through the Mojave right? lol. Well What caught my eye while it was getting darker was the nice ambient light. Tiny little orange lights above point down to add light where your ipod is located. Under the radio more of this ambient orange redish light where your cell phone or business cards go. It changed my mood from the classic hip-hop songs I was playing to switch my ipod playlist to "Hackers" movie soundtrack. The soundtrack has allot of ambient feeling lounge feeling to it with a little bit of dance beat for that Fiesta feeling. I just went in deep thought the entire way to Las Vegas feeling relaxed after all the excitement from the entire Fiesta Movement trip.
I finally made it to Las Vegas and I still had plenty of gas as it beeped with the gas light on and it says I still can drive another 50 miles before going empty. I like the 50 mile heads up on the gas, especially when driving through the mojave desert it was useful. I am currently preparing the youtube video and more photos for flckr.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Ford Fiesta Movement
This image of the 2011 Ford Fiesta is the car I will be getting on April 19th. We were able to choose our color and custom graphics. My Mooncricket Films logo is not included, lol.
Well I'm excited to tell you that I was chosen to be part of the Ford Fiesta Movement. I will keep you updated on the progress through out the missions they will be giving us starting this Sunday after training in Los Angeles. As some of you know I will be broadcasting the entire 6 months with the 2011 Ford Fiesta on http://www.justin.t/mooncricket
Here is some more information below.
Lets start off with the video I had entered to be chosen for the Ford Fiesta contest.
Watch this amazing video of the same color and car I will be driving that Top Gear made. I can watch this over and over again.
Top+Gear+-+Ford+Fiesta
Here is the article written on the home page of justin.tv by Gal_in_the_City.
http://www.justin.tv/story/5fe4289b8ccedf08
My plan is to target more than just the hip-hop culture. So far I'm already creating story ideas as i can't wait to start making video on youtube for the Fiesta Movement and so far 8 that I have already written are not even hip-hop related. You will have to subscribe to my youtube account to stay updated on my videos.
http://www.youtube.com/mooncricket
Press Release:
FORD FIESTA RIDES WITH BETO LOPEZ B-BOY STYLE
Northern California– Ford is launching the 2011 Ford Fiesta B-Boy style within the U.S. Ford chose filmmaker, Beto “Mooncricket” Lopez to become one of their 100 agents to help hype the car’s new features, such as iPod ports, driver’s knee air bag, and voice activated commands. As an agent, Beto Lopez gets the car, insurance, gas and cameras to chronicle his travels for six months. 4,000 applicants and 100 agents were chosen after entering a youtube video contest.
The Ford Fiesta Movement has given Americans an opportunity to not only see how economical this car is, but also experience it’s fuel efficiency. “It’s huge around the globe and its latest incarnation is taking Europe by storm. Now, the new Fiesta has its sight set on the rest of the world: Asia, South Africa, Australia, and the U.S. It’s the first of Ford’s new global family of small cars designed to meet the expectations of drivers internationally”, says Ford Motor Company.
Beto “Mooncricket” Lopez, also a B-Boy dancer who lives in Northern California, has spent his entire adult life traveling the country to film the lives of B-Boys (break dancers). His current film, “The B-Boy Connection, Volume I” is about B-Boys and the history of how the urban dance genre began back in the 1970's in New York as a timeline then & now.
“The B-Boy Connection” is promising to be a well-made and meaningful film. As a Ford Fiesta Agent, “Mooncricket” will take Americans on a behind the scenes tour of his documentary film. On his journey, Americans will experience some B-Boy “Breakdance” battles and learn how to dance from some of the B-Boy legends.
“Mooncricket” is excited about this opportunity because he is satisfying a life-long passion he has with his art by broadcasting his life as a life caster on www.justin.tv/mooncricket. “As I always said as a kid, I wished that people can see what I see, and now they can.” People from around the world can watch him live as he has multi cameras attached on the Ford Fiesta for the next 6 months. He'll be broadcasting with 3 to 4 different logitech webcams, using a 10-inch Sony VIO and a wireless Sprint card. He will also sometimes broadcast with a HV20 Canon HD camera. Beto “Mooncricket” Lopez will be making a Ford Fiesta youtube missions videos using some archive footage saved from live broadcast. Mostly, Beto will be shooting the youtube videos with a Sony HVR-Z1U HD camcorder & the Canon HV20. Ford has provided a new HD Sony Webbie to all of its Agents and Beto plans to utilize it to provide additional footage. “Mooncricket” is possibly the only agent representing original classic hip-hop and B-Boy dance culture that will be targeting the urban market.
Take a ride B-Boy style through the eyes of aspiring filmmaker, Beto “Mooncricket” Lopez through urban America in a Ford Fiesta; watching a culture that has been evolving for the past 3 decades and is internationally acclaimed. Ford and Beto “Mooncricket” Lopez want to take you on a ride into a part of the Hip Hop culture of B-Boy history.
For more information on the Ford Fiesta Movement, please go to www.fiestamovement.com
For more information on the Film, B-Boy Connection, please go to www.thebboyconnection.com
This image is from the Ford Fiesta website. My profile on the Ford Fiesta website along with the other Fiesta agents.
www.fiestamovenment.com
The Painting of the Ford Fiesta in graffiti design as seen in the video entry.
Beto Painted this using a sheet of cardboard using acrylics and then cut out his prop to be used in the entry video to use as an example of the Ford Fiesta in bay area locations.
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