{"id":42416,"date":"2015-10-15T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=42416"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T14:25:37","slug":"california-instagram-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/california-instagram-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"California Instagram Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Life used to be simple.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had, after years of yearn, found an almost buddhist calm. Be clear, I wasn\u2019t living a monastic existence: I\u2019d acquired good stuff and plenty of it; got married; co-created a couple of smiley kids; bought a house, albeit in an unfashionable area of rural England; carved out a career I enjoyed; had my health, and I\u2019d proudly reached a state of contentment with my lot.<\/p>\n<p>Not for me was the increasingly loud chorus of \u2018Want!\u2019 screamed at a photo of the latest shiny crafted lifestyle accessory and dreamy motor. That was for the sheep and consumerist popinjays. The gullible mugs.<\/p>\n<p>Then came Instagram (Oh yeah, I had a smartphone too, but not the latest one. I\u2019m not that shallow.) If you don\u2019t know, this app is like Twitter, but for photos and captions. I never got into Twitter, and I know they also do photos now, but Instagram was my social media crack cocaine. And it fed me images of Ventura vibes, San Diego shindigs and Huntingdon Beach happenings on an hourly basis.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Yamaha-SR500-Venice-by-Deus-Ex-Machina-USA-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Yamaha-SR500-Venice-by-Deus-Ex-Machina-USA-5.jpg\" alt=\"Yamaha-SR500-Venice-by-Deus-Ex-Machina-USA-5\" \/><\/a><strong><em>Nobody does SoCal FOMO better than Deus Venice (image:Deus Ex Machina)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve visited Southern California (because that\u2019s what 99 per cent of people envisage when someone says California) a dozen times or more and Pacific coast beach-front living had been an occasionally considered dream in my late-20s, especially when I was offered a job out there. In California, in my game at least, work was interchangeable with pleasure. I flew out to feature the cars that would turn up in the as yet unreleased, original, franchise-spawning, The Fast and the Furious. I\u2019d visit custom bike-building ace face Roland Sands, then head out to Joshua Tree on the latest Suzuki GSX-R1000. I rode Harleys in the Sierra Nevadas and was fed okonomiyaki in Santa Monica before watching Ridley Scott\u2019s production company make chase scenes to advertise upcoming PlayStation games. I would stay in a five-star hotel on one visit, the next I\u2019d check into a polyester motel room someone had recently been murdered in. I saw shoes hung from telegraph lines signifying the otherwise invisible border of a Venice Beach street gang that Big Audio Dynamite sung about and drank cocktails at the Rainbow Bar and Grill while keeping an eye out for Lemmy. To me California was an all you can eat breakfast buffet &#8211; what wasn\u2019t flakes, was nuts &#8211; and I gobbled it up like it was my last meal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nu8t3yHujl1qzxlc9o1_500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nu8t3yHujl1qzxlc9o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"tumblr_nu8t3yHujl1qzxlc9o1_500\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>So I knew what was there, a 12-hour flight from home, and what made California California, but the desire to relocate had evaporated. I was a state of serenity, remember? Then I invited an endless roll of 50 x 60mm photos into my life and boarded the Greyhound bus out of Contentmentville.<\/p>\n<p>The crucial difference is Instagram is so damn real-time. It isn\u2019t like watching CHiPs as a kid or even visiting the place on assignment or holiday and being \u2018in the moment\u2019. The images turning up on my phone, as I idly scrolled during the Ten o\u2019 Clock News, weren\u2019t pre-recorded, edited or primped, and they weren\u2019t the same as being there. Rain battered my double-glazing as friends and acquaintances hid from the debilitating sun ready for qualifying at Willow Springs or Del Mar. Others stopped for a snack at a diner shaped like a donut. And they rode everywhere without the need for waterproofs. They thought Gore-Tex was a genre of Lone Star state slasher movies.<\/p>\n<p>These \u2019grams were so damn insta. I\u2019m here checking online reviews of electric blankets on argos.com, and they\u2019re there inconspicuously pulling sweaty Calvins out of their crevices. I follow people\u2019s feeds from all over the world, but nothing gets to me like those from California. I know I am afflicted with a classic case of FOMO \u2013 fear of missing out, but made ten times worse because California has no lull. Virtually everywhere else has a riding, or driving, season, then a forced period of contemplation, regrouping and planning. So my friends in Japan, Copenhagen or Vancouver were having fun now, but they had a winter on the horizon, just like I did. An army of unpaid PR people were reminding me, every damn 15 minutes, that the Sunshine State doesn\u2019t ever pause.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Iron-Resin.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Iron-Resin.png\" alt=\"Iron-Resin\" \/><\/a><strong><em>The California Light that drew the likes of Hockney in the fifties now rebounds across insta feeds and beckons us all&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And while that incessant solar assault leads to a serious drought problem, it also has a hand in creating a primordial soup out of which automotive culture continually wheel-spins.<\/p>\n<p>That state, of all states, is made to enjoy vehicles in. Virtually every predilection of internally combusted perversion that forms your peccadillo, can be found there. Drawling mid-Atlantic dread-heads in outlaw Porsches; Japanese underwear models on Harley choppers; nitrous-injected sand dragsters; Chevrolet Impalas that could jump Becher\u2019s Brook. All driven, not hidden, on the be-seen scene. Additionally, so many people seem to be able to make a living out of their hobbies in this most rabid of economies.<\/p>\n<p>To try to regain my rapidly evaporating Zen balance I weigh up California\u2019s pros and cons.<\/p>\n<p>In the plus column is the climate. Nothing kicks automotive culture squarely between its legs more than inclement weather. If you live in a country that is forced to salt its roads you\u2019ve been dealt a hand that looks like a foot. Enjoy summer, sucker. Both weeks of it. But shed-time is good time, creative time, plus dirt bikes can offer kicks in winter, so it\u2019s not all bad news.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also the scale of the place. California is a massive state. Turn your back to the ocean, step on the accelerator and wilderness awaits, real wilderness, break-a-leg-crashing-your-off-road-bike-and-become-a-coyote\u2019s-breakfast wilderness. They even have decent driving roads within an hour of Los Angeles\u2019 centre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/PCH.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/PCH.jpg\" alt=\"PCH\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Nothing screams envy more than an image of the Pacific Coast Highway<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Automotive creativity, enthusiasm and optimism is evident in every nook of the world, but not in the abundance it is in Southern California. That could be because it is so populated. Everyone in the whole world wants to live in California, or most of them do, and this bipedal herd cause life-ruining congestion, smog and stress\u2026 The overwhelming motoring feel good factor could also be down to the fact that so many of the world\u2019s over-achieving gear heads continually suffer from an ever greater level of FOMO than that afflicting me, and eventually up sticks and relocate in search of their own Californian dream.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I\u2019ve come to the conclusion I couldn\u2019t live with being continually asked if my accent is Australian. I\u2019ll stay here, hunker down for a dank winter and fantasise about Land Rover Defenders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contentment is over-rated.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life used to be simple.<\/p>\n<p>I had, after years of yearn, found an almost buddhist calm. Be clear, I wasn\u2019t living a monastic existence: I\u2019d acquired good stuff and plenty of it; got married; co-created a couple of smiley kids; bought a house, albeit in an unfashionable area of rural England; carved out a career I enjoyed; had my health, and I\u2019d proudly reached a state of contentment with my lot.<\/p>\n<p>Not for me was the increasingly loud chorus of \u2018Want!\u2019 screamed at a photo of the latest shiny crafted lifestyle accessory and dreamy motor. That was for the sheep and consumerist popinjays. The gullible mugs.<\/p>\n<p>Then came Instagram (Oh yeah, I had a smartphone too, but not the latest one. I\u2019m not that shallow.) If you don\u2019t know, this app is like Twitter, but for photos and captions. I never got into Twitter, and I know they also do photos now, but Instagram was my social media crack cocaine. And it fed me images of Ventura vibes, San Diego shindigs and Huntingdon Beach happenings on an hourly basis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Yamaha-SR500-Venice-by-Deus-Ex-Machina-USA-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Yamaha-SR500-Venice-by-Deus-Ex-Machina-USA-5.jpg\" alt=\"Yamaha-SR500-Venice-by-Deus-Ex-Machina-USA-5\" \/><\/a><strong><em>Nobody does SoCal FOMO better than Deus Venice (image:Deus Ex Machina)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[332,1779,1781,1928,6],"tags":[816],"class_list":["post-42416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-cars","category-culture","category-edition","category-features","tag-deus-ex-machina"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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