Nurotag Inaugural Event Photography by Viet Dang & Frank Leon After some hurricane related postponements, the Nurotag event went off without a hitch in the Miami design district. Filling not just the convention center with 100 hand selected cars, but flooding the streets in every direction with tuned cars as far as the eye can see. Nurotag is a new breed of events. Names like Hot Import Nights and Nopi have flooded the scene with nonsense that has nothing to do with our automotive culture or little to do with the cars we build. I mean, how does it make sense to clean and detail my car for an event and then showcase it in the...
Formula D Palm Beach | Invasion ’12
posted by Frank Leon
Formula D Round 3 – Invasion is finally back at Palm Beach International Raceway! While you are there make sure you stop by our both to say hi and check out our brand new clothing colab with SWAY. If you are unable to attend you can always catch all of the action on Formula D’s Live Stream.
Formula D Irwindale Extras
posted by Frank Leon
Before we bombard you with wave after wave of awesome SEMA posts I thought it would be nice to put up some extra pictures from Formula D Irwindale. ...
Hottie Hannah Halloween Shoot
posted by Frank Leon
My friend Hannah asked if I would do a photo shoot for a Hooters Halloween contest. How could I say no? As always I never forget our readers so I wanted to share some of the photos. The first one is on Hooters website, but the other two are State of Stance exclusives! I hope you enjoy them and please vote for her HERE! Expect to see more of Hannah, we have a few more shoots in the works and she might even make some appearances at our events. If you are ever in the Pembroke Pines, FL area stop by Hooters and say...
Formula D Palm Beach Video
posted by Frank Leon
When Formula D came to Florida we wanted to go all out seeing as it was on our home turf. We enlisted the help of as much media personnel as John P. would let me. I called my friend Mikey Bajer, a film student, to come shoot a great video for us. Although he has never shot an automotive event before and the last drift event he attended was 7 years ago (Falken Drift Showoff at Homestead) after seeing some of his work I felt as if he was up to the challenge and would produce an amazing video. David Atash and Brian Clementi were also more than ready to run back and forth between the pro cars right before they take off to get some astounding...
Formula D: Round 3 at PBIR – Practice/Qualif...
posted by Frank Leon
This is part 2 of our multi part coverage of the Formula Drift event in Palm Beach, FL. Day 2 was final qualifying and it was just as hot out as the day before. The course layout had been changed slightly since a few drivers made friends with the wall a few times on the original layout. However, this didn’t stop these guys from driving at an extremely high level. It’s been an action packed season and this event in Palm Beach was no different. Even in the qualifying rounds the compwttion was fierce. Enjoy the pics and keep your eyes peeled for Day 3 coverage to post in the next few...
Formula D: Round 3 at PBIR – Day 1
posted by Frank Leon
We have all been looking forward to this event for some time now and it feels like it came and went so quickly. First time Formula D comes to Florida? This is a huge deal to us! I even went out and bought a new MacBook Pro so that I could get the event pictures out to you guys sooner, but unfortunately Formula D did not have WiFi readily available (they were using the bandwidth for the live stream) and to top it off my friends house that I was staying at for the weekend did not have WiFi either. I had quite a bit of bad luck through the weekend with my car breaking down after Friday’s event (If you were driving on Beeline and PGA...
Formula D – Da...
posted by Frank Leon
While we work on some recent event coverage, we thought we’d share a little more Formula D Round 2 coverage to get you hyped up for Round 3 here in Florida. Everyone needs to come out to this event! I am being completely honest when I say Formula D hosts the best drift events I’ve...
Formula D Round 2 AT...
posted by Frank Leon
Thanks to David for being a trooper and running around slapping the GoPros on all these cars seconds before they took off. I messed up while making the video and put Taka Aono as the first car when it was really John Russakoff, please excuse my tiredness while making this...
Formula D Pro Am Rou...
posted by Frank Leon
Here’s a short compilation of some of the FC (2nd Gen RX-7) drivers in Pro Am Props to all the Florida Drivers! I wish we could have got more footage but unfortunately the GoPro battery died…should have charged the night before. Next time at PBIR we will have more Pro Am...
Formula D ATL Round 2 – Day 1 Highlights
posted by Frank Leon
Here are some shots from Day 1 (Friday) of Formula Drift Round 2 in Atlanta. Friday was the day for Pro Am Practice, Qualifying and Competition with some Pro practice and Qualifying mixed in. It was great to see all of the Florida drivers out there kicking butt…hell, 10 out of the 16 drivers that qualified in Pro Am and 2 of the 3 winners of the competition were Florida drivers. Really goes to show that Florida is making a name for itself and I can’t wait to see what happens next round on our own turf. See you at Palm Beach International Raceway guys! (Click images or check out the gallery for better quality. For some reason the...
VIP Royalty
posted by Leo Diaz
This entire royal wedding buzz has me going crazy. Royalty this, royalty that, but what is royalty if you are not rolling around in true VIP fashion? This stunning build by Nax Whitmore is the answer. This is VIP! This is royalty! This is how I’d roll if the world was looking at me. We arrived at the shoot and set up, then Nax told me he was going to air down the car. I was like what? I though he was already aired out… Then he procedded to say, “but just a little cause my lip touches the floor if I go all the way down…” SIK! No stone has been unturned on this most gorgeous peice of art. From 20×10...
AWOL visits iwanttod...
posted by Leo Diaz
Today I get an email form a good friend Juan Henao. Juan is not only one of our original Stanced40 guys, but a fan of State of Stance, a Pro Drifter, Master of the Slide and one of the drift instructors in Miami’s own drift school iwanttodrift.com. He sent me a link to a video put...
FormulaD – Rou...
posted by Frank Leon
I would have never imagined my first trip to California would be this insane! It started off on the right foot with Formula D Round 1 – Streets of Long Beach. But when the smoke cleared and all the cars were stowed away in their trailers I decided to spend a couple days in Los Angeles...
Tandemonium
posted by Frank Leon
State of Stance Presents: Tandemonium Hosted by Drift Sessions We took a few Hero HDs that GoPro provided us at SEMA to Drift Session’s Tandemonium on December 5th to really test them out. This was our first attempt at using the GoPros to film an actual automotive event and it...
The New StateofSTANC...
posted by Frank Leon
Welcome to the new StateofSTANCE.com! Besides having a completely new graphic user interface, we have added and changed a lot of other features of the site. We will continue to add new things and reviving old options that might have been lost with the update. Here’s what’s...
The Rolex 24 at Dayt...
posted by Frank Leon
Words and Photos by: Frank Leon While hanging out with a few friends at my buddy Alberto’s (White Mugen’d Fit, sticker bombed rear windsheild) house one night they informed me that they were going to go the Rolex 24 hour race at Daytona International Speedway…..and they...
Hooters Winter Bikin...
posted by Frank Leon
Hooters hosted a Winter Bikini Contest Tour all over south Florida, from Boca to Miami. I caught the Pines (Pembroke Pines, FL) Hooters bikini show just to cheer on a friend (Heather, Contestant #5) but decided to shoot the next one for State of Stance that was held at HardRock….I knew...
SoS Run to SC2 video...
posted by Leo Diaz
Big thanks to GoPro for supplying us with HD Hero Cameras for us to be able to record all the footage and to Frank for editing the footage and putting together this nice video. Without further adieux here are some memorable moments from the State of Stance run to Simply Clean...
Berrywise / Pre-SC2 ...
posted by Frank Leon
At the end of the State of Stance Tour we ended up at the Berrywise meet which was also used to pre game for SC2. Best part? All you can eat BBQ and $0.99 Beers at Kellers! Here are some shots from that...
SoS Tour to SC2 R...
posted by Frank Leon
The State of Stance Tour to Simply Clean 2, our first tour and it was a great success! WheelOutlet was our first meeting spot and they provided breakfast. Our next stop was Velocity Shop for some lunch. These were great opportunities to check out what each vendor had to offer. WheelOutlet has...
State of Stance SEMA...
posted by Frank Leon
After a great week in Vegas we are finally back and working hard on our coverage of SEMA for you guys. While you wait we just wanted to make a single post with all the live mobile updates we made to our FaceBook fan page in case you missed them. Hope you enjoy and stay tuned for more great...
StateofSTANCE Run to...
posted by Leo Diaz
Its here! The Official State of Stance Run To Simply Clean 2!!! All the T’s have been crossed and all the I’s dotted in order to bring you the Official State of Stance Run To SC2. With three legs each coming from a different part of the state, there is no excuse to miss this! Here are all...
SoS Simply Clean Tou...
posted by Leo Diaz
We keep getting closer to the State of Stance Run to Simply Clean 2 and I though it was about time to leak some info on the Official Tour shirts. Participation on the Tour from any leg (North, West and South) is compeltely free, however if you register and pay you will not only get the swag...
Summing up five week...
posted by Leo Diaz
The last five weeks of my life have been hectic, exhausting, exciting, hilarious, and overall awesome. Afterhours laugh session over food and drink, 6am flights, multi-city connections, forging of new friendships and catching up on some old ones. I’ve meet some very passionate people,...
Scion tCruise –...
posted by Leo Diaz
Words by: Leo Diaz Photos by: Frank Leon Some of the State of Stance staff was on hand to help Jackie Ling and Preston Li of Urbanracer.com put together the opening event of the Scion tCruise. Mike Kennedy and Sue Swanson of Toyota’s Scion division conceived this tCruise Tour to...
Formula D – Las Vega...
posted by Frank Leon
Here is the final and much anticipated part to the Formula D – Las Vegas series…Part 3 – The Goods / Action Shots. Hope that you enjoy them! I would like to thank: Josh S. (HellaCaliJosh) Geoff Pitts from Thunder Drift in Nor Cal (www.thunderdrift.com) Andrew Bohan from...
Formula D – Las Vega...
posted by Frank Leon
Events | Formula D – Las Vegas :: In The Pits Words and Photos by: Frank Leon Although I had a media pass and had access to any location that I could wander into, the great thing about this event is that you didn’t need a special pass to get into the pit area. The layout was awesome,...
Formula D – La...
posted by Frank Leon
Words & Photos: Frank Leon – FAL Photo I had the great pleasure of flying out to Las Vegas this past weekend to cover the Formula D event they were holding at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. I met a lot of great people, bumped into some familiars from Florida (randomly), and had a...
One SUPRA-sized Build
posted by Leo Diaz
JDM Styles | One SUPRA-sized Build Words by: Leo Diaz Photos by: FAL Photography & Squeek Studios As State of Stance continues to grow you will start to see more and more features on the site. These features will range from full race cars with sik track stance all the way to complete street cars with sik hardpark’d stance. Rest assured that we will only bring you features of cars that will make you want to just stare at the pictures over and over again. This car is one of those cars; sitting right in the middle of the spectrum. Not quite a full race car, but far from a daily driver. This 1997 15th Anniversary Edition Toyota Supra is a...
HIN / Nopi – M...
posted by Frank Leon
Photos by: FAL Photography Words by: Leo Gets I few weeks before SOSv1.0 I received a phone call from NOPI owner, Mark Meyers. He was inquiring about State of Stance and our reach within the community. We talked about the HIN/Nopi Tour and their stop here in Miami. From that conversation it...
FLAT6 Motoworks
posted by Frank Leon
Photos: Frank Leon – FAL Photography Words: Leo Gets Flat6 Motorworks is one of those places that when you hang out there just inspires you to build something. These guys are a full track support company that will take your car to the next level of competition; offering a full range of...
Remix / HellaFlush V...
posted by Frank Leon
Photos and Words by: Frank Leon – FAL Photography What an amazing event! What do you expect when the best car show venue, Remix Events, hooks up with one of the most popular companies in the automotive industry, HellaFlush, and comes to the hottest city in the World (in more ways than...
State of Stance x Fl...
posted by Frank Leon
Leo called me out to Flat 6 Motor Works where they were detailing some of the State of Stance cars for the much anticipated Remix x HellaFlush VI show. Simply Clean was out there too with their xB and S2k. Flat 6 is an amazing shop that does both track support and tuning, look out for...
Simply Clean 2
posted by Leo Diaz
SimplyClean does it again! The time has come for another good car meet in Central Florida that everyone can enjoy. We are happy to announce that Route 46 Entertainment District will be holding SC2 at their location. It really is a beautiful venue with great food, great atmosphere and plenty of...
Events | remix X fat...
posted by Leo Diaz
Remix admission tickets. Flip them over and sweat your $10 coupon for hellaflush/fatlace. Only here at stateofSTANCE. Get them while they’re hot, there are only x20..! Yes, you heard right… stateofSTANCE has only x20 Remix&Hellaflush event admision tickets that are also a...
Kitty Bella
posted by Frank Leon
Kitty Bella Age: 20 Hometown: Cooper City, FL Height: 5’7″ Weight: 105lbs Stats: 34C-24-36 Tattoos: 9 Piercings: 7 Hobbies/Interests: tattoos, piercings, night life, modeling, acting I met Miss Kitty Bella through a good friend who has also modeled for me in the past. Some of you might recognize her, she’s some what of a star. By fate she wanted to do a shoot and I wanted to test out some new lighting/studio techniques so the timing couldn’t be any better. She’s beautiful, has awesome tattoos, an amazing body, luscious lips, did her own hair and make up, and knows how to work the camera…what more could you...
Thumbs Up Meet
posted by Frank Leon
Thumbs Up Meet – Pembroke Pines, FL Danh Le notified me that his group ThumbsUp was doing a local meet. Naturally, SOS was there to support the scene. Considering the meet was on Father’s Day, a good number of people still made the trek out to support Danh and ThumbsUp. SOS made a...
2nd Annual “Go...
posted by Frank Leon
I was invited to the 2nd Annual “Go Green Fashionista” fashion show by my good friend Katie Rotolo (www.katierotolo.com). This charity event, produced by Fab C Productions, was held at MIA Biscayne to promote eco-friendly fashions and styles and to benefit the Barefoot4Haiti...
Remix&Hellaflsu...
posted by Leo Diaz
I’m very glad to announce that stateofSTANCE and Simply Clean have teamed up with Remix Events to bring you the Premier Parking section at the Remix/Hellaflush Event. The stateofSTANCE & Simply Clean Premier Parking section will be setup right next to Hellaflush. Premier Parking in...
ThumbsUp Meet June 2...
posted by Leo Diaz
ThumbsUp Meet! This Sunday the 20th, time: 12pm, location: Yogurt Land in the Fountains Square Plaza in Pembroke Pines. Just off Pines Blvd and I75. stateofSTANCE will be there to rep and show their love of the ThnumbsUp! We will be selling tickets for the Remix/Hellaflush6 event and will be...
Remix Miami feat. He...
posted by Leo Diaz
Remix Events is coming to Miami and they are brining Hellaflush VI with them to the East Coast. Sautrday July 31st @ SunLife Stadium (formally known as Dolphin’s Stadium) from 1pm – 7pm If you’re flush, fitted or stanced then you need to be there! Hellaflush VI will be happening...
StateofSTANCE Event ...
posted by Leo Diaz
We are less than 3 days from the event and things are looking crazy! If you pre-registered, please read the email you received with parking information very carefully. It has all the information you need to know regarding arrival time and parking. As many of you are already aware, we have a...
StateofSTANCE event
posted by Leo Diaz
A few late night sessions wrestling with photoshop and we finally have the SoS M&G Flyer! Feel free to save it, post it, print it, share it..! Come out and see the “Stanced 40″ and the “Stance Girls”! Vendor Booth Space is still avaliable. Contact me at...
Florida State of Sta...
posted by Leo Diaz
Florida State of STANCE Meet v1.0 DATE: Sunday May 30th, 2010 TIME: 11:00am – 4:00pm LOCATION: Morikami Japanese Gardens (at the Biwa Pavilion) REGISTRATION: FREE Ok guys, it has taken a lot of late night sessions, emails, phone calls and text messages but we are getting all our...
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