POMONA ART WALK. MARCH, 26 2011. Pomona CA

This was my first visit to the Pomona art walk and boy was I surprised. The Pomona art walk is held every 2nd Saturday and last Saturday of the month. Artists from Cal Poly Pomona and other local artists display their latest creations. There is a wide variety of arts to satisfy your likings as well as food trucks to please your belly. If you have time, take a trip to the Pomona art walk to support your local artist. I was invited by FugiRok of the "Goonies" to come check out a b-boy battle that was taking place at Vintage Renewals. Check them out on Facebook or their online shop here. I cant resist the opportunity to snap some action shots to keep me on my game. There just so happened to be a grand opening for Twenty miles East photography studio/gallery 20mileseast.com. They were having a live photo contest in their studio. Grand prize was an 8hr session in their studio. Every photographer got five minutes to shoot a provided model. I had been shooting video right before and failed to set my camera correctly. I only got one usable photo. Its all good, I don't shoot much studio so i had fun with it. Here are just a few images from my outing.

CORN HOLE. NASCAR RACING

NASCAR has gone green. I'm not talking about the huge number of green it takes to have a competitive NASCAR team. i'm talking fuel, baby. For the 2011 NASCAR season, all three NASCAR circuits have moved to running Sunoco "green" E-15 fuel. It's not the most "green fuel" but it is one of the first steps NASCAR is making to become more Eco-friendly. The E in E-15 stands for ethanol which in this case is an alcohol that is derived from corn. Corn is not the only material that can be used to produce ethanol fuels but it is one of the biggest most abundant crops in the United States. Sunoco's E-15 "green fuel " stands for ethanol 15%. E-15 is nothing more than 15% ethanol alcohol mixed with 85% gasoline. Most new cars produced today have what they call flex fuel engines. These new engines are capable of running both gasoline and highly concentrated ethanol mixes. The most popular in the United States is E-85 fuel which is 85% ethanol 15% gasoline. Green fuels come from renewable sources but the cost to make them into a usable fuel is very high compared to gasoline. To boot, most cars on the road today are not capable of running E-85 fuels. The cost to convert a gasoline engine to run on E-85 is outside most people's budgets to make it worth it. Most people who claim to be Eco friendly can't hide from the fact that people are going hungry in the world but we're using corn to make fuel. On top of that, you could expect to pay a lot more for "green fuels". Hydrogen is where its at! GO #99!