{"id":1779,"date":"2011-03-30T09:36:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T22:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/domain.com.s180574.gridserver.com\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2014-03-17T22:01:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T11:01:30","slug":"deus-jockey-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/deus-jockey-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Deus Jockey Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/21471937\" height=\"388\" width=\"690\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.au\/?ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;t=h&amp;ll=-33.87813,151.178205&amp;spn=0.013913,0.027337&amp;z=16\">Harold Park Paceway<\/a> is a harness horse racing track in Sydney. Or it used to be. It was sold a few years back to a developer who is trying to turn it into a billion dollar housing development. As the project is on hold until it gets the final approvals, Deus had a brilliant idea. To hire the track for a day, find some &#8216;jockeys&#8217; to do a few laps, shoot some film and create some serious dust clouds for the locals to whine about. Here&#8217;s a nice little back story about the film by Carby Tuckwell, the creative force behind Deus:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been sneaking in for a quick lap for ages, you get two at best before the caretaker wanders out and gives us a gentle wave on. No aggro, they know we are just having fun. What we really wanted was a good session on the banked gravel without interruption, so we asked to rent it for the day for a photo shoot and called around for willing jockeys. It was bumpy and ungroomed after years of neglect and the developer had drilled core samples at 50m intervals for extra danger. We got some good laps in, some of the dirt virgins pop squirting around with smiles like 10 year olds and a real 10 year old (Tom) who races speedway who trickled out from the pits and proceeded to ride wide open for 7 laps sideways the whole way. This kid will be a star.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While they were at the horse track, the Deus boys also managed to shoot&#8230; um, rustle up a selection of stunning photos which can be viewed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deuscustoms\/sets\/72157626338458152\/with\/5554794389\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/21471937\" height=\"388\" width=\"690\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.au\/?ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;t=h&amp;ll=-33.87813,151.178205&amp;spn=0.013913,0.027337&amp;z=16\">Harold Park Paceway<\/a> is a harness horse racing track in Sydney. Or it used to be. It was sold a few years back to a developer who is trying to turn it into a billion dollar housing development. As the project is on hold until it gets the final approvals, Deus had a brilliant idea. To hire the track for a day, find some &#8216;jockeys&#8217; to do a few laps, shoot some film and create some serious dust clouds for the locals to whine about. Here&#8217;s a nice little back story about the film by Carby Tuckwell, the creative force behind Deus:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been sneaking in for a quick lap for ages, you get two at best before the caretaker wanders out and gives us a gentle wave on. No aggro, they know we are just having fun. What we really wanted was a good session on the banked gravel without interruption, so we asked to rent it for the day for a photo shoot and called around for willing jockeys. It was bumpy and ungroomed after years of neglect and the developer had drilled core samples at 50m intervals for extra danger. We got some good laps in, some of the dirt virgins pop squirting around with smiles like 10 year olds and a real 10 year old (Tom) who races speedway who trickled out from the pits and proceeded to ride wide open for 7 laps sideways the whole way. This kid will be a star.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While they were at the horse track, the Deus boys also managed to shoot&#8230; um, rustle up a selection of stunning photos which can be viewed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deuscustoms\/sets\/72157626338458152\/with\/5554794389\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[180,1274],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8321,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/8321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}