SEMA 2012 Re-Kindled Enthusiasm Photography by Frank Leon & Michael Alvarado Specialty Equipment Market Association, or SEMA as the rest of the world knows it. Once again we attended SEMA and much to our surprise there was a resurgence of enthusiasm in the air. The past couple years at SEMA had been good, but it did not have that “WOW” factor, maybe it had something to do with a harsh economy or whatever. This year there were so many manufacture builds that they overflowed into the outside parking and show areas, and not just slapped together garage builds, we saw a lot of quality built vehicles. There was also a continued growth...

FFP Video Shoot Behind the Scenes at the Shoot Photography by Oliver Ledesma As many of you know, this week was Art Basel Miami and our friends over at FFP [Fuck Fake Parts] were having a video shoot in the graffiti covered streets of downtown. They invited State of Stance down to take a peek so State of Stance photographer Oliver Ledesma jumped in his S2000 and headed down to grab some behind the scenes snaps. The location and timing of this shoot did a great job of engulfing the Miami underground style. The art filled walls, the rattle cans littering the sidewalks, and the beautiful ladies [Stephanie Suarez and Devin Navarro] that added...

Back to Work Tony’s Slammed S2000 Photos by Viet Dang of Wreckless Productions It has been a crazy 3 months. Since Sept rolled around we got slammed with event preperations, car builds and various projects. While we have been hard on bringing you coverage from events all over the globe, we have been a bit backed up on car features. Now that the holidays are starting to near their end and the beginning of a new year reigns close; its time we get back to some serious work. We are hunting down cars near and far for State of Stance features. Let this be a sweet teaser as we get ready to rock you with the hottest the scene has to...

Have a great weekend!

Photos by: Hector Chacon Words by: Leo Diaz Car owner: John Power As I sit here looking at this feature, I’m cursing the Florida weather that didn’t allow me to publish this until now, this late in the afternoon. This was supposed to be a “morning wood” feature.. Oh well, ish happens and it happened this morning. But not even the worst weather was going to stop me from bringing all of you this eyegasmic S2000, creatively shot by our good friend Hector Chacon. Hector was kind enough to give us two sets, I was planning on releasing the sets separately, but since I delayed enough, I thought it would be nice to just...

While writing this up I can’t help to think about the first time I met Huey. It was at the Simply Clean 2 event. As I stood there watching everybody stare at his Civic in astonishment, I couldn’t help to think as beautiful as this car was, can he do it again? Well…Huey defiantly delivers. Huey known for changing rims like some of us change clothes, has also had people waiting for the next event to see what he’ll do next. Kind of like a band releasing new hits, Huey is not a one hit wonder. After sitting down and talking to him during a previous photo shoot I learned that he shared the same goal as me. Which was...