Pop Culture Sketching

I have been sketching lots of cool figures, animals and fun character themes for dog toys recently. I decided I wanted to transition that into some pop culture drawings. I have always been a huge comic book, video game and sci-fi fan. Much of this inspiration is why I went into a creative field. I took some of the drawing styles I have been using for toy sketches and I have translated them into my own versions of famous pop culture icons. I will post some that work in several posts.

Porsche Lamp featured in DZGN magazine

I have been featured again:

http://www.dzgn.co/porsche-911-desk-lamp-by-peter-ragonetti/

Thanks DZGN

Petville Wire Cage Designs

Petville Wire Cages 2012 by Peter Ragonetti at Coroflot.com http://www.coroflot.com/RagonettiDesigns/Petville-Wire-Cages-2012

Videos from the US Vintage Grand Prix at WGI

My Qualifying lap and the fastest lap I have ever run at WGI, to put me 5th on the grid and first in class:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI2v8kpG4h0&list=UU8mLhhaHHRFiFnD5BpJtlFQ&index=4&feature=plcp

Then the first Qualifying race in which I started 4th for, I made 2 mistakes one on the start where I tried the outside and one in the S's where I missed 5th gear, but I fought back very hard and ended up 8th:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pzxfQUtDmg&list=UU8mLhhaHHRFiFnD5BpJtlFQ&index=3&feature=plcp

Feature Race 1 was uneventful on semi-wet track early in the morning and I was under the weather, I finished 8th overall and first in class:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BOOR2PC0t4&list=UU8mLhhaHHRFiFnD5BpJtlFQ&index=2&feature=plcp

Feature Race 2 was delayed due to a wet and oiled track. My GoPro ran out of space. But I ended up finishing 5th overall and winning my class:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzn1LbXeD2Y&list=UU8mLhhaHHRFiFnD5BpJtlFQ&index=1&feature=plcp

For some rason I can not embed videos here because YouTube is all sorts of messed up

Lotus Super 7 Battle 2012_BFDracing

The LEGO® Story

I am first a LEGO lover and I often credit LEGO for my love of toys and toy design. As a product designer and toy designer this in one of the most incredible films I have ever seen. The video is beautifully animated and fun to watch but the content is also amazing. It first shows many different manufacturing techniques from early wood manufacturing to the birth of plastic injection molding (what almost everything is made out of now). And last it shows how through entrepreneurship a small family business can become one of the greatest toys ever invented.

The Hawk Group 2 Qualifying race, BFDracing Alfa Romeo #88

Group 2, Qualifying 3, The Hawk Road America, BFDracing 2012

T-Rex Rules

Everyone is always telling the T-Rex he cant clap and he cant do push-ups well the T-Rex and I put together a series of stills to show what the T-Rex can do. It did not work out quite like T-Rex would have liked as you can see. But then he remembered that he is the King.

Summer 2012

It has been fun and busy summer. The lack of posts is due to travel. When I am not traveling I am working and what I am working I can not share with the world yet. Hopefully soon, because one of the projects sits here at my office and stares at me and wants to be shared, but not yet.

As for racing posts and car posts most can be found on my other website that I run with buddies www.fastandrare.com

I will post some of the videos from the first races of the year soon. Until then enjoy my TREX cartoon series!