Walking for Autism with TeamLoveHATE.com

We headed out to San Jose, CA early in the morning to participate in, The Walk for Autism. We arrived to thousands of people all there for the same reason. Help support friends, families and kids who have been stricken with this disability.

With the weather blessing us with a breeze we took pictures, enjoyed the music and waited for all of Team Mac Attack to show up.

My nephew, Mac, was diagnosed with Autism at an early age and being a part of someones life with Autism if not anything teaches you patience.  I have learned that there are several degrees of Autism and like a unopened box, you never know what you get. We also have a member on the team whos son is Autistic. Josh's son Alex is older than Mac and his development seems to be coming along great. I didn't know Josh during Alex's early years but i'm sure it wasn't easy. I was surprised at the number of people who came out to attend this event and the energy was amazing!!!

As soon as everyone showed up, we got our shirts, filed into the parade line and made several laps around the park. All in all it was a fun and memorable event.  Next year, we hope to be more involved with this event and possibly have a booth at the so the kids can enjoy the cars we bring out for display. For more information on Autism please check out these sites:
http://www.walknowforautismspeaks.org/site/c.igIRL6PIJrH/b.4356939/k.BF85/Home.htm
http://www.autismspeaks.org/

Team LoveHATE x FMAA eWaste Benefit

Saturday the 10^th we came out to help support our friends over at the Filipino Martial Arts Academy promote their eWaste benefit at their school in Natomas, California. The weather was pretty nice that day when we rolled in and a huge container was full of electronics all to help the non-profit organization, Eskrimador Samahan, an organization that helps kids learn the Filipino style of martial arts. The money raised will go toward the school and allow them to buy supplies and equipment needed to keep the school running.

We believe that fulfilling the needs of our youth in anyway to help them better themselves and build solid morals and sense of responsibility which will prepare them for big life decisions in the future is worth our time. 

The smell of BBQ and food set the tone for a nice relaxing afternoon. We backed up the G35 partially into the school and popped the trunk and fired up the Kinect sponsored and installed by Al & Ed's Autosound E. Pasadena for the kids to play Fruit Ninja. We enjoyed some throwing around the football, playing basketball and the company of our friends. I hope that we can come out again for their next event and share another afternoon while helping raise money for the school. Here are some pictures from the event and if you are interested in having you child or even you in learning Eskrima and you live in the area click here.

 To see the full album click here!!!

Team LoveHATE invades ALL OF CALIFORNIA... in 3 days.

Come and find us on the weekend of the 17th!!! Team LoveHATE is once again maintaining the balance between community work and showing the cars as we spread our wings and cover a few events this weekend across California. With as many places we will be, there's no reason why you shouldn't come out and play!

"A" This Friday the 17th, we will be attending and lending our support for "Art for XP" in Sacramento. A charity event put on by Krystal Matta to help raise money and awareness for XP Family Support Group. The event will be held at 7pm at the River Rock Taphouse on 2326 J St. Come to our Silent Auction of Art, Raffle Goodies, Libations and Fodder!Make sure you check out the Vocaloid 350Z, Panda Days Lancer and retro build 2006 Mustang GT as they "display for a cause".
Proceeds made, will go to XP Family Support Group.

AUCTION BEGINS @ 7pm!


Xeroderma Pigmentosum is a Genetic Disease.Unfortunately this is discovered in infancy when children go into the sun. It causes burns within minutes and if untreated develops into skin cancer. Come support!



For more information about XP please visit:
www.xpfamilysupport.org

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"A" February 17th-19th come out and support one of our FNG's, Robby Grey, as he displays his first solo build of his 2000 Ford Focus at the Advanced Restorations booth located in building A at the 2012 62nd Annual Sacramento Autorama. Come out and see all of his hard work and enjoy all the pre 73 vehicles and check him out at the soundoff on Saturday and Sunday. Good Luck Robby!!!

For more information about AutoRama click here!!!

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"B" Also this Friday Team LoveHATE will be displaying at the Shifted2U Sony Vita PreLaunch Party at the Santa Monica Vita Social Club. This event starts at 8pm. Here's the details:

Time: Feb 17 at 20:00 - Feb 17 at 22:30

(UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Location

2803 Main St., Santa Monica, CA 90405

And an excerpt from the event info sent to me!!!

The PS Vita is the new handheld gaming system that comes to stores Feb 22nd, 2012 and 5 days before the release, Shifted2u and PlayStation are giving you a chance to jam on it at this exclusive prelaunch session.

At the event everyone is encouraged to compete in the playable games for a rare exclusive gift and throughout the event gifts like, a PlayStation 3D Display, Playstation 3 System, $100 gift cards and other items will randomly be given out to the attended guests through raffles.

Everyone will have a chance to compete against each other in the wipEout time trials, where the best time gets some sweet swag.

While there make sure to enjoy the hottest gaming art provided by 8bitcubist.com.

Alcohol provided by Status Vodka
Snacks provided by GamerGrub.com
Food provided by Wildflower Pizza (2807 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 310-392-3300)
Energy Drinks provided by Street King
Also get to see the upcoming pimped out ride from Team LoveHATE that is soon to be featured featured in Performance Auto and Sound Magazine (PASmag.com) out front on display!

This is the first stop on the Fanatically Shifted tour and will be one you do not want to miss. The Fanatically Shifted PS Vita session party is being put together by two of the fastest growing sites in the entertainment industry: TheGameFanatics.com and Shifted2u.com

Swag bags will include products from our sponsors, including:
Nyko's Playstation 3 Charge Base 

For more information about this event click here!!!
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"D" Friday the 17th, Team LoveHATE's 2011 SEMA Signs By Tomorrow x JDM Sport x Al & Ed's Autosound x Rockford Fosgate / Lightning Audio x NRG x Extreme Lighting x Arden Custom Interiors x Vis Racing x Cars4Cancer Panty and Stocking G35 will be in Anaheim Hills, CA for its first major photoshoot with PASMAG at the Icon Media office. Thank you all who support TLH and our causes and Keep an eye out for the issue in a few months!!!

 If you live in a box and don't know what Performance Auto & Sound is click here.
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"C" If your chillin' in the bay, there's a Cars x Hype meet in San Bruno Saturday the 18th. Hopefully some of our team will be out there at 8pm to meet up with some of the hottest cars heading to Wekfest the following day!  Make sure you stop by and check it out!

 Need more infor on this event? Click here!!!
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"D" Saturday the 18th in the G35 will be at Dodger Stadium along with JDM Sport for a day filled with sick rides, loud ass trucks and great people at: Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam!!!  If you're in the area this is where you need to be. Come out and have your mind blown!!! We hope to see you somewhere this weekend, wether it's for charity, gaming, old muscle cars, tuners, exotics or just good old fashioned monster trucks smashing. I think it's safe to say we got it covered.


Need more info on this event? Click right here!

Team LoveHATE's December Charity Run!!!

Written by Tracy Arnett / photography by Munpreet Randhawa

December is our busiest month when it comes to charity. From Toys to Tots to Operation Christmas. We are proud to set our trophies aside and pick up our Santa hats to bring joy to those who don't have it like we do. Every day we take for granted those gifts and blessings we experience with our lives so filled with shows, meets, work, and family. Rarely taking the time to actually stop and reflect on who we are.

Team LoveHATE has made it a point to freeze everything in December. Walk away from the gogo dancers, the smoke machines, industry parties, and our long anime / car show schedule to make time for THE KIDS!!!

Our first charity event actually was right before HIN. It was at Tapioca Express in Natomas and it was put on by Lazandro Sapinoso. The Charity: The Sacramento Children's Home. It was a small meet filled with people with big hearts. During a time when everyone is out shopping, several cars from various groups appeared for a common cause. Every car that came had to pay five dollars to display with the proceeds going to the Children's Home. Big props to all who attended. 

After our return from HIN "The Return", we geared up for MOAR CHARITY!!! SacCon, put on by Dan Houck and his SacAnime Family. Every year he puts on a show at the Scottish Rite Temple and uses the huge Anime fan base to help raise toys for the Marine's Toys for Tots. We spent a few hours there, dropped off some toys, met a few of our favorite cosplayers, and played catchup with a few of our friends who are usually on the road touring. 

 Our next event was "Drawing for the Kids" put on by Jason Dube's SCCG and friends at Empire Comics Vault. The event consisted of many artists coming together to create art and auction off with all the proceeds going to the kids and to receive donated canned goods to raise money for the Children's Receiving Home. We even did a special itasha-mobile for the kids and Charlo dressed up as Santa (he wore sunglasses so no one could see his almond eyes). The event was very successful and they were able to raise 700.00 for the Home.

The next day we headed out to Sacramento's Toys r Us to help Rodney Stanhope, (who camps out there for 3 weeks!!!) raise money for Yellow Ribbon America. We came in full force and DJ RSkee setup his system to help draw attention to the fundraiser. With such a prime location and with Christmas only days away, many onlookers couldn't help but stop by and drop something off to help the kids and families who have loved one fighting the war overseas. While we spend the year enjoying the freedoms we have, we can sometimes forget the soldiers fighting for it. I'm not sure how much they raised during that time but it was a ton of stuff!!! Expect us to be very involved with Rodney this year as we plan the 2st annual Team LoveHATE Holiday Car Show.

Well, that concludes our December charity run. I hope you enjoyed it.

San Mateo Back2Back HyperCon and Extreme AutoFest

During September we traveled two weeks in a row to San Mateo. On our first visit it was to help our friend, Mr. HyperBooster and his 2nd year convention, HyperCon. Here's the rundown!!!

As we arrived Saturday morning we were greeted by an unusually sunny day for the bay and lots of wind. We setup our cars, the DJ's setup their booth inside and we started to fill up the little pool for our goldfish scooping game. We enjoyed the bay area crowd and the cosplay there was amazing. We also ran into several of our friends. Oscar Benjamin, the "everywhere at once" photographer and writer for examiner.com, Anthony Leano and his bevy of DVD's, Carlyfornia with her always cute attire was selling her wares, and good friend and artist Jason Dube.

We had many people come out and enjoy the games we provided by the goldfish scooping was by far the most popular. All the money from the games went toward Red Cross Japan Tsunami Relief. Mark (Mr. Hyperbooster) also introduced a new type of redemption game that allowed attendees to earn HyperPins throughout the event by purchasing items, playing games, and initiating "challenges" to other attendees in certain areas. I think it was a great way to stimulate the e"Con"emy. We hope to bring more games next year.

Big thanks to some of our affiliates that came out to help provide "color" to the convention.1TenDrift held a drift competition on Saturday. James Solis and his Tricking group "Soulistics" gave an amazing performance which was a mixture of martial arts and dance. Lauren and her band sweet cover band, Kurenai came in at the last minute to totally save the day. And finally, our official DJ's, RSkee and DubDeuce spun lics, did interviews, held panels, and provided PA for the bands.

Overall, good people, great guests, happy vendors and great music make for an memorable event. We would love to come back. TLH highly recommends this con to anyone within driving distance. To view all the images click here. Hope to see you next year!!!

AnimeiCon, Central Coast's New Upstart

It's been awhile since I've had a chance to get on here and I have a lot to say. We were invited to come down to this first year and check out the sites. Half the team arrived Thursday night and got to crash out in the condo provided by AnimeIcon a couple of miles from the beautiful Monterey State Beach. After they crashed out, they headed out to the Monterey County Fairgrounds to set up shop for the weekend.

The DJ RSkee and DJ DubDeuce spun music,  met the oh so kind staff lead by Elyjah Mercurio, and drank How ya Bean's "Volcano Drinks" with a TLH twist.  Myself and the other half of the Team didn't arrive till late friday night. We all piled into the condo after grabbing up some groceries and got ready for the weekend ahead of us.  

The convention had a lot potential with their many food vendors and good sized vendors hall. AnimeiCon's plus's were the the amazing staff and welcoming vendors. Although we didn't see tons of people gathered in one place, the fairgrounds huge layout had cosplayers and otaku scattered about. If they do a second year, hopefully they will have a smaller venue to keep everyone together. 

 On the third day we able to setup next to each other and hangout. We held a silent charity auction and raised some money for American Red Cross Japan Earthquake and Pacific Relief . We took some great photos with the  Funimation guests, Jamie Marchi, Trina Nishimura, and Chris Cassen. Enjoyed some Tako drumming, martial arts demonstrations and various other panels and events. As the convention slowly ended, we were asked to give the guests of honor a sort of escort through Carmel and down Cannary Row. We had a blast!!! Finally we pulled away and took some time to ourselves on the beach and even had a chance to do a mass owling. Too much fun. To see all the pictures Click here for album one and here for album two.

We all agreed that we would attend and participate in AnimeiCon 2.0 next year so keep an eye out for updates from TLH.

Next up on our tour... San Mateo's HyperCon. 

AnimeiCon, Undead Cosplayers and Guinness Book of World Records

Hello everybody! As you know, Team LoveHATE will be showing at AnimeiCon located at the Monterey Bay Fairgrounds this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.


We hope to see you all out there.
We will be attempting the first ever Guinness book world record for largest number of undead cosplayers in one area. We will have a booth setup outside where you can sit down and get your face painted for five bones to transform your cosplay into zombie and become part of history.


Plus


Saturday night, DJ RSkee and DJ DubDeuce will be spinning at Club iCon so you dance freaks better come through!



We'll be holding a charity fundraiser for Japan Relief and hosting a panel on Sunday at 1 PM on the "Western Revolution of Itasha" so keep an eye out for us... all weekend.



We hope to see you there. So when you come out, drive safe and have a great time. Talk to you later!


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1up Car Show... A Beginning of Something Big

Hello everybody. So last weekend we had our first annual 1up Car Show . We had some cars show up as well as few vendors and lots of people and lots of our friends. 

Although we didn't have all the cars that we wanted there, we still had an amazing day. We held a cosplay contest, we announced the winner for our Oto's Marketplace Mascot Contest (Charlie Puengpan), we had a wet T-shirt and booty bouncing contest and we awarded several trophies to the winners the vehicles that made it out.

All in all it was a great event and we want to personally thank 1TenDrift for coming out with their RC drift cars, the Sacramento Ghostbusters and Echo 1, the lovely Carlyfornia for judging the contest, Anthony Leano for bringing the DVDs and movie posters, Jack Chen who was the artist that was there, Monique from Seven Points Massage, all of the crew from Nitos T-shirts and Hats who drove all the way down from Grassvalley, Jesse from Mr.Mister, Edmund Fong for coming out with models as well as Peter with Phat Effects for bringing the rest of the girls and all the everybody who came out and participated.

I will be writing several in-depth articles in the next week about the cosplay winner, Emily, and Oto's Marketplace Mascot winner, Charlie, as well as a few other things so keep tuned in and click on this link and check out the photos from this weekend.

Oh. Did i mention THESE GUYS? Check out DJ RSkee and DJ DubDeuce. They'll be spinning this weekend at AnimeiCon... But that's an article for tomorrow.

Kintoki. Northern California's answer to Fanime.

As you might know, Team LoveHATE does conventions. If you didn't, were for hire. Seriously though, we love attending first year cons and helping them out even more. Kintoki was no exception. We were first contacted by Nicole Stockel to be Guests of Honor last September while she introduced us to an idea to create a convention in our lovely hometown Sacramento with a spin on culture.

We were very excited at the prospect of being a part of something new and fresh. As the months went by we started seeing the promotional posters and fliers around town. A couple of months ago we were contacted by Eric San Gregorio and we invited him over to Club Condesa (our base) to discuss our part in the convention and the possibility of us helping out with some special events by providing some unique performances and events with some of our affiliates as well as introducing a charity aspect to Kintoki.

After throwing a few ideas around we decided to hold the first ever dance competition, Filipino Martial Arts demonstrations, a 24 hour game lounge, and silent charity auction.

Jennifer Bambao of Capital Roots spearheaded the Shobu Showdown. Three dance competitions rolled into a two day event with prizes totaling $1600.00. A one thousand dollar 2 on 2 all styles battle for the 16 and up, five hundred dollar scholarship for the 15 and under, and a Cypher competition for a one hundred dollar cash prize. It was great to see hip hop taken to the next level without losing the essence of what hip hop means to everyone. When you walked into this event, you saw a mix of curious cosplayers and intense b-boy's. The bass rumbled throughout the room and people were bobbing their heads.

The Filipino Martial Artists Academy also was a nice addition to the convention, I wish they performed a little later in the day though. Master Nilo and his squad were there doing demonstratrions and some beautiful forms. They are really an amazing group to watch perform.

I enjoyed the amply sized vendor hall and artists alley. We got to visit with a few of our friends like Anthony Leano from the Land Beyond, Carly from Carlyfornia and our favorite photographer, Oscar Benjamin as well as many others.

Moon Stream was off the hook. Their music concert was super amazing. The lights, sound, and setup was sick and their are a super kewl group of guys on and off the stage. Their performance was smooth and for their first American show, I was blown away. They played the crowd during their whole set and even did two encores!

Loki's Planet ran a 24 hour gaming lounge on the 17th floor of the event. We provided a bunch of board games and even twister. Watching cosplayers play twister was pretty entertaining.We also held a charity silent auction for Japan with various items from the vendors that attended the convention. TLH provided the DJ's as well. DJ DubDuece & RSkee went back and forth all night.  I got down on some Kinect games around 2am on Saturday and I know DJ R Skee didn't stop spinning till 6a.m.

With some donations from Kintoki and three kegs from Hoppy Brewery as well as a bunch of hard drink from us we were able to host a Charity Chug Fundraiser for the parents of the attendees and the 21 and up where the proceeds went to the American Red Cross Japan Tsunami Relief. Room 702 was the spot for the older crowd. A nice spacious suite with tons of pillows and sitting space. We want to thank all of the people who came up for a drink. Special thanks to Trash Film Orgy, Moon Stream, Anthony, Carlyfornia and Oscar Benjamin for helping the cause.

Overall, Kintoki was an amazing first year and we hope that they come back next year. Sacramento needs a great place for Otakus and Fanboys alike. With a beautiful atmosphere abitious events and tons of great programming, we hope to be invited again for next year. Although the con had a few hiccups, issues were quickly resolved and i'm sure that next year it will be the con to be at.