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Overall Rank: 558
Overall Score: 4 points
URL: /archidude
Member since: 09/04/2007
Number of hits: 1959
Location: Brevard, NC
Quote/Motto: I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. -Bilbo Baggins
Favorite Driver: Mark Martin
Who Am I:
I am a self-employed architect, and thanks to my daddy I have been a race fan for about 47 years.
Favorite Track:
Richmond International Raceway
Favorite Racing Moment:
Sonoma 1989: Mark Martin rolling his car on its roof, climbing out, running to the pits to wait for his car to get towed back, climbing back in the car and continuing racing.
How I discovered Rowdy, and why I Listen:
I do not remember how I found Rowdy, but somehow found Rowdy about 2 years ago.
Why I'm a race fan:
Became a racing fan as a kid in Indiana in the early 1960s. Roger Ward was my favorite driver after I got a mug with his image on it from a gas station in 1960. Roger Ward proved to be a good favorite driver. I got into NASCAR in 1989 at Richmond. At Richmond, I didn't want to or expect to get hooked, but couldn't help myself.
What car/truck I drive now:
2008 Honda Civic LX
My dream car:
Subaru SVX, manual (non existent)
Favorite Music:
Dire Straits; The Beatles; Sousa marches; Charles Ives; Aaron Copland; Stravinsky; Holst; Taizé music; Percy Grainger - "Lincolnshire Posy"; Mozart - "Requiem in D Minor"; James Gang; Steep Canyon Rangers
Favorite Movies:
Lord of the Rings Trilogy; Bourne (Identity, Supremacy, Ultimatum); Dr. Strangelove; In-Laws (original); Young Einstein; Raising Arizona
Favorite TV Shows:
The Office, American Experience, North Carolina People
Favorite Books:
I do not read much, but nevertheless I purchase many books with excellent pictures in them
Interests:
family, architecture, design, the United Methodist Church, day hiking; Apple (computer) related innovation, beer, wine, these mountains where I get to live
Dislikes:
Phoniness, fakeness, fauxness
Hobbies:
architecture, racing, grilling
Vices:
absolutely none, except lying about vices
Heroes:
my father-in-law (WWII veteran, all-around fine fellow)
Stewart Haas Racing logo
Last year when Dale Jr. announced that he would be driving for Hendrick Motorsports, the Rowdy Nation considered it fair game to critique Jr's new car graphics. With that precedent, it's fair game to critique the Stewart-Haas Racing logo.
In the aftermath of the press conference it was said that the logo appears to have been designed by a 5th grader. 5th graders should be offended. The logo is a primitive thing. It appears to be the effort of about one hour of work, done the morning of the press conference after someone suddenly realized that they needed a logo for a prop in the afternoon.
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I'm with you on this one 'dude. It reflects the unfortunate, but common attitude toward graphic design of, "Hey, my nephew is real good at 'drawling' horses, let me ask him to whip one up."
- ZAP!
- 21:17:32 07-10-2008
Haha!! So true I totaly agree with you on this one!! It is almost as bad as the morale posters the military has for its personel!! Haha!! Lets hope something better comes about!
- LisaRose312
- 02:18:54 07-11-2008
I assume, at least I hope, that it is simply a place holder until the real logo is designed.
- Buzz Cutler
- 08:43:10 07-11-2008
To me, part of the problem is the names are getting so long. You don't just have Rousch Racing, or Hendrick Motorsports. Now it's "Gillette Evernham Motorsports", or remember we almost had "Newman Haas Lanigan Yates Motorsports". Now how you going to fit that on a hat?
- Keith
- 08:53:50 07-11-2008
I think they mis-spelled Haas! i Think you need to drop and a and add an s. LOL
- Todd
- 08:59:32 07-11-2008
Todd, I caught that. Ha! Yeah it does look like it was whipped up in a hurry, but hell wasn't it just last week he was saying he was interested in the # 5 at Hendricks? I don't think he really knew what he was gonna do until Martin took the #5. I think they'll come up with a more permanent logo. Lets hope so.
- 88craig
- 09:46:08 07-11-2008
A friend of mine told me that he heard on Tony's radio show that the logo was temporary and they are working on a "new and improved" team logo. I sure hope so, that is one ugly and poorly designed logo.
- Greg
- 10:19:55 07-11-2008
That design is near embarrassing. There is no flow to it at all. I'm hoping that they are investing a little more time into an improved logo cause I wouldn't want to sport that on a shirt.
It's funny, cause I'm sure they think that people won't care and that it looks fine, but even the untrained eye can see that the effort put into their logo was lame at best.
- wdogg40
- 11:16:19 07-11-2008
I was more interested in admiring Tony....
He's all clean-shaven and so professional lookin'.
- Sweet Seventeen
- 12:29:58 07-11-2008
Maybe it was designed by the same insane asylum patients that David Poole says designs the traffic patterns at the speedway.
- George
- 13:07:53 07-11-2008
Nate, those are significantly better than what they brought out yesterday.
The more I look at the logo that flanked Tony at the press conference, the more the word "WART" pops out at me.
- archidude
- 14:40:16 07-11-2008
Yeah, the "WART" kind of jumps out at you ... Nate, great job, I like the bottom one :)
- Becky
- 18:41:52 07-11-2008
My understanding is that this was their first attempt.
But lawyers explained to Tony that there might be a problem.
- ZAP!
- 19:17:41 07-11-2008
Who ever said that Tony said on his radio show that the logo is temporary is wrong. His radio show airs on Monday, the announcement was made on Thursday. I'm more intereseting in see the cars and who the other driver is than worrying about the logo
- OFxMole
- 23:07:37 07-12-2008
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