Photos By: Kurshid M. – Joseph Dale
This was our first trip down to the Mystery Meat held by V2Lab out of Orlando. V2lab and SF have always had a tight relationship, back when SF first started I would share a lot of their content before I even met anyone involved with the site. The content was fresh, and the quality was like what we would see in a magazine. Part of the success is from the owner Ravi Angard, a published photographer out of Orlando. In the early days of SF I would talk with Ravi about SF and get advise about photography, and about making big decisions with SF. And he always offered truthful advise about building the SF name, and continues to do so to this day.
The scene is Floria is huge compared to any of the neighboring states. Partially due to the weather and size, there is really no off season for them. Last year their event was held in downtown Orlando, and completely shut down the entire city. The event was absolutely insane so much that they had to move to a controlled area in hopes of controlling the size of the crowd. See Mystery Meat 3 Coverage here 
This year it was moved to Orlando Speedworld. And we were advised to be there at around 4am to setup because of the crowd that shows up before the gates open. I thought it would be way too early, but I set my alarm to 3:30am and planned on getting out there at 4am. But when my alarm went off, I just laid there in the bed and checked Instagram and the event page on FB to see if there was any activity.
And sure as shit, there were people posting photos in line, and parking their cars in the field as early as 3:45am. It was the craziest thing I had ever seen. The V2lab team was forced to let people in and park in spectator parking before hand because of the amount of people that had came early.
We arrived at the venue at about 4:45 and got setup. We managed to catch a few minutes of sleep before the sun came up, and the crowd started to fill up the place.