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Welcome to Stanmer House, location of the Black Rock Studio Split Second release party. According to Wikipedia:
Although I suppose we still don't know who this Stanmer fellow was. He has a park, a church, a bus stop, and apparently a manor house. It was a really fancy party with lots of stuff to do. The party went from 7:00 until midnight, and I was even entertained until about 9:30 or 10:00 before I retreated to my book. And for those of you who know how much I like parties, it means it must have been quite a good party.
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The people here were very friendly. This is one of the artists who worked on Split Second. I don't know his name, he was just nice enough to pose for a picture showing the front room.
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Of course, every party has to have food, and this one was no exception. However, the room they served it in was exceptionally fancy.
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This party didn't only have food, it had race cars. I'm can't believe there exists a man who actually packs around a race car track for parties. But apparently he does exist, and they found and got him here. Fits very well with a party for a video game about car racing don't you think? I was 4th in my heat, but didn't win any fastest times. Doesn't really matter, since all the prizes were bottles of red wine.
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The really picturesque thing at the part were the fire jugglers. There were two of them, a young guy and girl. While the light was on it wasn't too hard to get a picture of them. But once it got dark things became more difficult.
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And due to the shiny flames on their vests and pants using a flash wasn't going to help. Luckily I noticed that my camera had a setting for fireworks. And if I held really, really still I could get some very interesting shots of their fire apparatuses!
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Here's the girl wearing a skirt of fire.
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The girl had a hula hoop that had six points of fire on it. It made a nice pattern.
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Here's the guy swinging his flaming nun-chucks around.
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More firey nun-chuck action from the young lady.
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And this is why you don't want to fight a guy wielding firey nunchukku.
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