Hello, my name is Peter Orosz

Kzamm Demolition Network

Peter Orosz — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:11:00 +0000

If you are looking for the weblog about automobile fetish, breakfast perfectionism, squids, Macs and narcissism which was published at this address between November 2004 and November 2006, it is now closed.

You may access its archives at kzdn.kzamm.com

Once a car nerd, always a car nerd

Peter Orosz — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:51:41 +0000

Five months on, an update would be rather timely.

I have to admit to a great sense of relief after my days as a professional car nerd were over. It gets a bit tiresome after a while to spend all day, every day, thinking about V12’s and R8’s and M3’s and other assorted combinations of capital letters and numbers.

You may let go of cars—but cars will not let go of you.

I bought a domain, spent an evening photographing an Iso Grifo my mom had found on a sidewalk in L.A. twenty-six years ago, then another two weeks in a CSS editor. And I came up with Hyperleggera. A car blog for people who don’t care about most cars. Only the pointless ones.

It has survived its first month now. It feels great to be writing in English again and if you care, do give it a glance.

As for videos, I have a very promising video blog in the works which should launch any day now + I’m back to hosting popular science shows in Hungarian for Index Video. Which occasionally means sprinting in size 12 high heels.

All in the name of scientific education, of course.

Brand new life

Peter Orosz — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:55:35 +0000

As of February 11, 2008, I’m no longer the editor of Belsőség, the car blog I launched in August 2006 for Totalcar and which—at the time I wrote my last post—was read by over 18,000 people a day. It was a mad, elating, insomniac, altogether deeply satisfying year and a half.

It feels rather strange to be writing in English again. After 1000+ blog posts in Hungarian, dozens of which ran deeply into feature article territory, that’s probably to be expected. Pardon the crustiness.

I am currently thinking about my future plans which may or may not include popular science, racing drivers, bacon cheeseburgers, written words and video cameras.

On a related note, I’ve recently learned that deepspace travel is indeed possible in vehicles with a seating capacity of two.

Stay tuned. Changes are a-comin’.