Motocross « Keith Demele's Blog

Archive for the ‘Motocross’ Category

March was fun, April is meh….so far.

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Howdy folks, figured I would update the ol’ blog while I was waiting on some laundry to finish…ahh the joys of life.. So anyway, march was fun…lots of things happened, one of which was the annual vets unite stupidcross. You may not have heard of Vets Unite, an interesting bunch…yes. Heres a video I made to document the days events:

Not much else going on in the world of motox for me, have not been riding much, its expensive!

I have not been keeping you guys apprised of much on the personal side this year at all…Stuffs crazy. As far as work goes, I am still employed, I survived fifth round of layoffs Thursday/Friday, so whatever…I got moved back from spending the past 4 months in the model shop, back to the Viz lab where I am doing a bunch of rotoscoping and keying…maybe I will post about it when I am fired, after last week I am surprised I wasn’t gone in the last layoffs. Besides that, I am preparing to move into an apartment on my own…can’t wait.

The web freelance I had pretty much fell through, one just stopped talking to me, wont answer my calls, and the other one decided that he would just pay some dude on craigslist less and not bother to compensate for the 40 odd hours I had already put into the project. People…

My last post was about getting projects done, starting them and finishing them. I am getting a bit better. I made some progress on my F14, and worked on that interior a lot. I got side tracked, and did some product viz renderings also. There is one new project that I started amidst everything else though, don’t worry, its not going to be some long drawn out thing. Evermotion.org is doing a rendering competition where the supply a model and you can do whatever you want to it to produce a good rendering. I have not had time to do anything to it yet. But I can’t wait. Hopefully the deadline looming over my head will help me produce something great. Anyway here are some updates.

Anyway, figured I would update the site, gonna go finish the laundry, and hit the showers. Peace!

Posted in 3D, Life, Motocross, Techy/Work, Thoughts, Updates | No Comments »

Hey its 2009…

Friday, February 6th, 2009

So, I have not blogged lately, to busy? You bet! Can’t sleep? Not a wink…

Megadeth-Insomnia

Ahh, so anyway, in my last blog I posted about having to pass a test, well, I failed it, I should have gone out and partied instead of studied I guess, lesson learned. HAHA!

Anyway, as far as school is concerned…over the winter break I dropped out of school, decided to become an artist and go to art school, got denied for a student loan thanks to the damn economy, decided I cant afford art school, and ended up re-enrolling in some classes that I dropped out of in the first place. I am taking art classes and algebra this semester, as well as doing some community service. School sucks, enough said.

So, lets see we are already into February…What have we missed so far, President Obama was inaugurated, and the country I love is now turning into what is called a socialist democracy. Fun stuff. HOLY SHIT WE ARE SCREWED! and there is nothing I can do as a citizen. Obama has almost started a nuclear war in the middle east, he has whored out to the media, he has signed a few acts that are messed up, he has shut down Guantanamo bay (without thinking where he is going to put the fucking terrorists), and he put Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, great…Just who American needs as a political front man (woman?)..Ever see Escape from New York? That will be the US in 20 years at the current rate.

Work, hahaha work. Well since I had like 3 billable hours for the entire year of 2008, I got whored out the the model shop instead of the viz lab, for the whole year just about I have kept busy with billable work making physical models and stuff. Not a bad thing, but I am an arch viz guy, not a model maker. Its hard doing a job that you don’t do, frustrating when you cant seem to do it right. I get to play with freekin lazer beams a lot of the time though, so its not that bad…Hmm did I mention I have passed what I think is like the 4th round of layoffs? Yeah the economy sucks…Work is just a paycheck right now, nothing too exciting to report, lets see how long I can keep it…

On the home front I am up to my eyeballs freelance, in websites and 3d work…6 websites, a video, and a few 3d renderings. NO SLEEP, It sucks. I laid down for a while earlier but cant seem to rest, my mind is just going over way to much right now…I have not had ANY me time all year. I am getting burnt out…My blog popped into my head while I was laying down, so I figured I would get that off my mind for now, anyway….I am going to go try and sleep for an hour, I have to be up at work to do stuff…

Oh yeah, dirtbikes, nope, none of that this year, got 2 hours in last Saturday actually, had a blast…

Big thanks to Aaron for the photo, great colors, nice camera, make me want to get one and start shooting again…

I am going to try and start updating this blog with more technical related articles as well as work in progress posts, because most of my personal projects never get finnished due to other projects and I would like for some people to see the work, anyway, off to bed…er couch in my office….

Until next time…

Posted in Life, Motocross, Politics, Thoughts, Updates | No Comments »

July 4th weekend riding…

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Heres a little video I put together from saturday night, only had 8 min of footage, but I think I made due…

Posted in Motocross, Updates | No Comments »

Time flys #2

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Wow, so I started to update my site and was going to make another blog update, only to realize its been over a year and 3 months since I last posted! Well I am done with another year of college…Two years in and still undeclared…I keep switching my major from graphic design to business and visa versa…The schools I want to go to don’t offer graphic design and I don’t want to move and leave my job and stuff to go somewhere for two years just for that. I guess I can always go to a local college that offers it…After that I am wanting to go to Vancouver Film School for their 3d animation & visual effects program…I would do that for my Major but since the school is in Vancouver they don’t offer any real degrees. So I think for my career, I should stay here and get my BS or BFA in something. If I have the cash I will do the school in Vancouver but its almost 60K a year there…plus living expenses and what not…If that doesn’t work out I may just stay here and try and get a masters in interactive technology at SMU…If I can get it…Anyway, how did I get started on all that…got a little sidetracked. Lets see, I am still riding my dirtbike as much as possible, infact its time to get a new 2008 model and sell the 06 I posted about a while back. The first picture below is of me this weekend, haven’t raced in a while but I tried, was a bit dry, didn’t do as well as I had hoped, back to the gym I guess. I will throw up a few other pictures of me over the past year down there too. Where we we….I am still working at that Architecture firm for now, been there two years now and still haven’t gotten a raise, I asked for one or to go contract again a few weeks ago, but have not gotten any reply yet, if I don’t hear anything by the end of the week I need to start looking for something that pays better…Gas and food are so expensive I almost pay to work it feels like. Anyway, I need to get to work, Hopefully I will keep updating you all more often now that my site is opening up…

Here are some pics from the last year…

And as requested an ugly headshot for the family back west…Â Â

Posted in Life, Motocross, Updates | No Comments »

Time flys when your having fun…

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Wow, I just logged into the site and I noticed it has been over 5 months since I have written anything here…I am bored at work so I will fill y’all in I guess. My last entry was 15 days before my 18th birthday…Life has changed since then, I miss the old days. On the 25th of September I went and talked to my friends at the Yamaha dealer (Motion in Dallas) and set myself up with a brand new 06 YZ250F (see pic) Anyway, I rode it for the first time at Nocona on my birthday, the 30th. (see pic 2) That was one of the funnest days of my life…I had a blast. Anyway, school finished up, I failed my first class ever, Math, by like .2′ths of a point…that sucked bad. Then Christmas happened, I dont think we even put up a tree this year…Hmm boss is staring at me blogging, I better to do something that looks busy…Finnish this later.
IMG_1206 (Medium).JPG