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Visiting Designer Rebecca Turbow

Mark — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:41:31 +0000

For this month’s Fiesta Movement video blog, the theme was Style and Design. Audrey and Jesse (her band mate in Hunter/Gatherer) went up to see clothing designer Rebecca Turbow who designed a line called “SAFE” and also makes a lot of stage outfits for rockstars. Check it:

My All-Time Favorite Car

Mark — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:18:43 +0000

It’s true that I do love the Ford Fiesta I’ve been driving around for the past couple of months, but my favorite car of all time has to be a yellow Honda Civic circa 1980. Not sure why, but it’s always held a big ol’ soft spot in my heart. My neighbor had one when I was a kid and I just loved the look and sound of that machine. Ever since then, I’ve always gone for cars with crazy colors and a hatchback.

(via The New York Times – For Honda in America, 50 Years of Going Its Own Direction)

Circuit Bending!

Mark — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:43:59 +0000

For this month’s Ford Fiesta Movement mission, I grabbed my friends Sam and Katie and went searching for some music fun and innovations with old worn out gear from thrift stores.

Fiesta Mission 1: Cape May

Mark — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:30:13 +0000

Audrey and I love South Jersey and ‘down the shore’ so we were pretty thrilled with getting assigned a mission to head to the beach and go on a date. How great, right? Check out our mini adventure to Cape May in our speedy lil’ Ford Fiesta:

Be sure to check out our friends Ravens and Vultures who were kind enough to lend us their excellent music for our soundtrack.

Bel Air and Fiesta

Mark — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:53:09 +0000

This 1957 Bel Air just pulled up by my house and it was getting a lot of attention. Funny, as it was parked right next to the Ford Fiesta. I guess it just isn’t quite a fair contest.

The Ford Fiesta Movement

Mark — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:09:37 +0000

[photo thx: Bliss]

You might recall that last month I whipped together a lil’ video in order to apply for the Fiesta Movement – an innovative marketing effort by Ford that gave 100 entertaining and influential bloggers a new car to drive around for 6 months and share their thoughts and adventures with the world. Well, lucky for me, I got chosen – one of 4000+ applicants.

I spent a fantastic couple days up in New York City getting some information and training on the program. It does not suck to spend 24 hours with a group of people who are equally, if not more nerdy than me about blogging, Twitter and the Internet arts (shout out to my new friends Seth, Alexis, John, Sarah, Grace, Jody, Jill, Joe, Bliss, Eric and Alex). Here’s the first clip I just uploaded – an introduction to the car and a rainy training day at the racetrack.

There’s a bit more to it than simple videos and witty car quips. The best part of this is that Audrey and I are already planning some road trip adventures for this summer and we’ll be extra sure to make you some entertaining videos while we’re on the road.

Ford Fiesta Movement

Mark — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:16:15 +0000

A couple weeks ago, my buddy Julia invited me to make a video for the Fiesta Movement program she was helping put together. I was a bit reticent at first, being the busy fella that I am. But after she told me that they’d hook me up with the totally sweet 2011 Ford Fiesta for 6 months in exchange for sending me on little adventures that’d I’d twitter and vlog about, I came around to the idea. Fun!

Today I found myself with an empty Sunday afternoon I thought, “what the hell?” So here it is, in all it’s nerdy glory. I know I’m rather shameless y’all. Please forgive in advance.