Dirt Scootin’ Boogie DVD Preview

Last August Charkie Huegel, Jared Bolton, and myself thought it would be a cool idea to film some off-road motocross riders and put together a DVD. Even though I should have known better, we thought we would organize a ride day in Oil City, PA with a few guys and we would have enough footage. I can’t exactly tell you what I was puffing on but that wasn’t the case. We made it around the wooded area of Venus, PA for about 8 hours and ended up with about 40 minutes of footage, edited down about 5 minutes. We still needed about 40-45 minutes worth of footage for a good off-road DVD.

I’ve been spending my time since then getting together with riders and attending races gathering footage for the project. I’m not quite done with filming but I have things in the pipeline and will be finished with filming soon.

The title of the upcoming DVD, being released through my production company Scratch N Sniff Productions, is Dirt Scootin’ Boogie. It will feature off-road riders Charkie Huegel, Mark Fortner, Chris Buzzelli, and others to be named at a later date. The release is scheduled for April 2010, hopefully for mid-April.

I put together a 3 minute preview of the DVD. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Dirt Scootin’ Boogie DVD Preview from Scratch N Sniff Productions on Vimeo.

Battle of Atlanta 8 Hour Team Race

This past weekend I headed down to Social Circle, GA to shoot video of the 8 hour team race that was being held down there. I rode down with Charkie Huegel and Mark Fortner who were going to be racing in the pro class, as Team Goon Hammer.

The race itself had some awesome obstacles you don’t see very often. Besides the cold weather, I had a great time.

Jason Hooper over at digitaloffroad.com posted the video I edited of the weekend. Check out the link or the video embedded here:

http://www.digitaloffroad.com/2010/01/05/battle-of-atlanta-race-video/

Battle of Atlanta 8 Hour Team Race from Scratch N Sniff Productions on Vimeo.

2009 AMA Endurocross – Florence, SC

Long time no update! How are you guys doing? Cool…Coool…oh my god you’re boring me. Let’s talk about something a little more interesting…like me!

It’s been quite a while since I’ve made any updates and I won’t go into filling in the blanks right now. I wanted to share with you guys a video I put together from this past weekend’s Endurocross race down in Florence, SC. The race was Round 3 of the AMA Endurocross series. I’ve been spending this summer filming motocross riders from around this area for a TV I’m putting together. One of those riders is Charkie Huegel. He invited me to join him for his first attempt at the EX series. I got some great footage and made a short little video.

Check it out!

2009 AMA Endurocross Florence, SC from Scratch N Sniff Productions on Vimeo.

Also check out the podcast I did with Charkie. Link

Whoa There

It feels like it’s been forever since the site has even crossed my mine. I was browsing around on Amazon.com just a minute ago and the SRR blog popped into my head. I thought I was brush off the dust and make a quick and pointless post.

Nothing much going on with me. I’m still trying to kickstart some things with myself and figure out my own workflow for getting things done. It’s coming along slowly but that’s better than nothing. I picked up a Moleskin and started keeping a To-Do list of the simplest things. You know like “Wipe butt after going #2″ or “Remember to pee in the shower while water is running”. Nothing is more embarassing than your wife wondering why there’s dried yellow spots in the bath tube. The list has been going awesome! Totally awesome.

What else? What else?

In early March I went to the orientation meeting for Raleigh’s public access station, RTN. I met this guy Tony there who’s in the process of trying to get some comic and animations off the ground. I told him about some of the stuff I’ve done and we hit it off. We’re now working on some projects together, one of them being a short horror film called Mary. I’ll definitely be posting more about the stuff we’re doing. But that’s pretty much it for now.

There are a few other things I want to post about but think they all deserve their own posts. I’ll get around to those soon…maybe sometime this year. Hopefully. Some of the things I want to post about: Atlanta Supercross, Jax Supercross, Canon XH-1A, Suzuki RM-250 Project, Editing, Shooting Guns, Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (Yes it is).

Something to look forward to.

Changes to the Site

You may have noticed some changes to sirrobbierob.com. It’s that time of year where I get bored of things and need to change something up.

The biggest change is the site design. I got tired of looking at the maroon vomit of the last theme. Since I’m not really in the mood to work on a theme from the ground up I decided to use one from WooThemes. I put together a simple logo and poof…finished. Nice and simple I think.

The other change was getting rid of Entrecard. For the past couple weeks my interest in the application has been dying off. As much as I like having people reading the random crap that comes out of my mind, I’m don’t want to over load the site with ads. This isn’t something I’m trying to make money at, it would be nice but still isn’t my goal. Plus I don’t think there is much money to make from ads on a diarrhea posting. Then came the recent Entrecard announcement and the stuff that played out on their forums.  Graham, founder of Entrecard, has proven time and time again the kind of person he is. To put it in the nicest words I know how, the guy is a douche bag. No matter what positive things I was getting out of Entrecard,  I’m not going to support and promote a tool (referring to Graham the tool, not the Entrecard tool) like that.  I fully intend to continue supporting the blogs and friends I’ve made through the service. Hopefully, you will continue reading this blog.

Those are the major changes with the site. I did make some other smalls things but nothing worth mentioning.