CSSMELO.com is LiVe-N-DiReCt

This is Carmelo Di Bella's CSS site, it was designed with no tables inside of tables and photoshop slicing exported to premade pages. The whole site was created by me and I decided to get the URL of CSSMELO.com to represent what the site is a display of my CSS skills combined with my design skills and who I am as a person and what i do.

Visit the site at:
CSSMELO.com

I beat the Police on the bike path!

I was on my mission to the westside when I came across these police on the bike path. We all know you can't cut the police car off but you can cut off bicycle police with your bicycle. I shot this photo then rolled around them just before the light turned green. Right as it turned green I launched off the curb and flew across the street and bunny hopped over the other sides curb and just kept pumping it to the bus stop. It took the police 15 minutes to catch up to where I was at, as they passed by I just smiled thinking "hahahaha!!!! I smoked you guys on my awesome BMX bike". I also smoked some speed geek later on my way to work, up a hill. My He-Man thighs are ready for battle!

True Bellflower Story : The dredloc homie

A long time ago these two best friends went to visit their drug dealing dredloc homie in his hotel room. When they got there the dredloc homie had enough stress and hash to party for a month all bagged up and ready to go. The friend bought a bag and were gonna leave when the dredloc homie says "GO pick up a cigar so I can roll a big ass blunt of mine" the friends say "HELL YEAH we'll be right back then". Before the friends left the hotel room the one friend tells the other "hey put that bag in you shoe. COPS never check the shoes if you don't look like a tweaker" the other friend does then they walk out. Much to their surprize there was 6 cop cars and alot of cops all getting suited up with bullet proof vest and loading shot guns. The one friend tells the other "OH shit, their gonna bust somebody lets watch, then go get the blunt!". Right as he finishes saying that the friends hear one of the cops yell "there they are" next guns coming flying up and aiming at the friends as the cops are yelling "FREEZE, PUT YOUR FUCKING HANDS UP!". The friend tells the other friend "OH FUCK IT'S FOR US!". The cops make the friends walk backwards with their hands on the heads away from the hotel door then rushed the two friends slamming their knees into their backs as they smashed to the hard concrete and got handcuffed. As they were being cuffed there was 5 helicopters with spot lights flying over. One of the friends asked the cop on his back "are those for us too?" the cop said "NO, there is a freeway chase happening right now" The cops check the friends for weapons and drugs and find none. They never find the one friends knife and the others bag. The two friends are put into the same cop car and interagated on who is in the room and if they have any guns. The friends say "it's our dredloc homie we were just chilling out and gonna make a quick trip to the liquir store and come back, officer" The cop says "OK" leaves the friends in the car. All the cops talk for 5 minutes then rush the hotel room finding the dredloc homie and his huge stack of stress and hash. They put the dredloc homie into the cop car and talk to him for 25 minutes are so. Then the cops come back to the car and tell the two friends "You guys are free to go, You can wait in the hotel room for your dredloc homie he'll be done in 5 minutes" The friends say "no thanks its getting late". The friends leave the hotel and as soon as they make the corner run home to smoke that bag. They call the dredloc homie to see what happened. It turns out the dredloc homie had a arguement with his ex girlfriend and she called the cops and said he was one of the biggest speed dealers in the city. SO the cops came to the hotel ready to bust a big speed dealer and were very disappointed to find a small time pot smoker and his friends. They had searched the whole room and found the packed bags of stress and hash and just closed the dresser doors and walked out. It was one of the most exciting ghetto nights of the two best friends lifes.

Another True Bellflower story!

Once upon a time a young dude was living in a hotel and run into alot of interesting people in this hotel where his whole family stayed for a few years thanks to vouchers, But that's another story. Anyways.

One time this dude was hanging out with a 4 and half foot Goods dealer named Weasel . So the dude bought a nick and hanged with Weasel who offered him a chance to make money selling the rock for him. Weasel explained the whole rock game to this dude while rolling a big Christmas tree blunt to smoke with the dude. Weasel kept switching hands to show the different sizes of rock and how much each rock was worth while rolling with the other hand. The dude kept saying "man don't get none of that rock on there!" Weasel didn't get any rock in the blunt. The dude watched very carefully to make sure of that. They continued to talk business as they burned down that Christmas tree. Once the blunt was killed Weasel hit the dude up for a ride to the grocery store 3 blocks away. The now high dude said "OK" the dude thought maybe he is gonna get some munchies. So the dude proceeds to give Weasel the 4 and half foot goods dealer a ride to the grocery store on the handle bars of his BMX bike. Weasel went in for 10 minutes and came out with 6 gallons of chocolate milk each in a bag(double bagged of course). Dude said "What the hell is that for?" Weasel said "me and my babys momma are gonna take a bath in it how you think we keep are color!". The dude lost it laughing his high ass off and laughed the whole ride back to the hotel with Weasel on the handle bars and 3 gallons of chocolate milk on each side of his handle bars. Once back at the hotel Weasel poured the chocolate milk in the tub with some warm water. Dude left quickly before the babys momma got there, laughing his still high ass off all the way back to his familys hotel room.

VECTOR art meets Photography COMING SOON...

I am currently working on a collection of vector art meets photography. This is my first of the collection. Created using a stock photo. I have started shooting photos myself and working with a photographer to stage some photos for the other pieces. The print will be available in 11x17s at first, once I get noticed I will start making bigger prints. I dont know how much to charge yet for the prints and weather or not to sale them in a frame or no frame, Any ideas?

To see some of my other vector art click here!

CD Logo development by madMELO

Project:
CD LOGO

Designer:
Carmelo “madMELO” Di Bella

Goal:
To create a logo that had the letters “C” and “D” from my name that represented me. I chose to lay it out as a pill shape because that is the shape a “C” & “D” back to back look like. Also because I am the right prescription for a solution to good design work. My logo is black and white and sliver gradients because I like the cleanness of the lack of color. I didn’t want to have too many colors to confuse people. I also believe that if the logo don’t look good in black and white then it is not going to look good in a bunch of colors.

My CD logo has grown over the years. It was a ruff psd file in the beginning of my design career(1998). It is now a powerful and all vector logo created using Illustrator.

Medical Brownies = BAD IDEA!!!

Medical Brownies = BAD IDEA!!! That's what I was told by a friend "Never again" he said. I was like "Pho Shou, screw that"!!!!

madMELO says "Say NO to drugs!"

madMELO new Chicken bowl Place

On Santa monica blvd and Yale is a awesome japanese place wear mexakin dudes work and cook it, LOL!! I get chicken bowl with chicken and rice only NO SAUCE!!! Because that's how I roll plain. The chicken bowl was awesome I killed it fast! Six bucks not a bad price. Maya Restaurant gets a thumbs up from madMELO!

One of a handful of great growing up in Bellflower TRUE stories

This picture was drawn to remember my day at luckys(grocery store) which I lived right behind in a apartment. One day in mid 1999 my friend Tommy had come over we picked up some trees and burned a few down. So we were feeling nice and ready for some munchies plus tommy needed visine cause he had to work. So we decided to go to luckys. I was on my BMX bike and he was walking. I realized I didn't show him my new knife yet. So I pull out my smith and wesson knife to show him in front of my apartment. He was like "dam that's huge!" I said "I know huh!" So we keep walking and bam were there, he goes inside and I wait outside by a little parking lot island. I see the Ghetto bird fly over me and think nothing of it, then I look up again and notice he is hovering over me. I think to myself "dam I smo ke to much I'm getting paranoid". So I ride to another island just to see and sure enough the ghetto bird follows me. I was like what the hell is going on so I ride back to where I was to wait for tommy. When I get this feeling I'm being watched from the ground. I turn and a cop is rolling by trying to act like he wasn't just watching me. I watch him roll though the parking lot and turn around and as he gets with in 10 feet from me all the sudden I hear "FREEZE put your Fucking hands up" and I was like "what the fuck!" The cops are yelling at me with guns drawn to get off my bike and I say "NO these ghetto ass people are gonna steal it"

I get off my bike cause they did have guns on me and their padding me down and cuffing me and yelling at me about where my partner is, I tell them my friend is inside luckys buying visine. so they throw me in the cop car now there is 4 cop cars and the cop are getting all padded up and ready for war. Im in the back of the cop car all HAPPY and seeing the neighbors checking me out. Finally tommy comes out and I have to bang on the windows to get the cops attention and point out tommy to them. Four cops rush tommy and slam him to the ground and drag him to another cop car to search him. The cops didn't do a very good job of searching me cause they didn't find my knife. After 10 minutes with tommy they come back to the cop car and ask me if I have my knife with me today. I say "yeah" and hand it over to the officer he then laughs and pulls out his knife it's the same one and he wants to trade me, I say no of course. He then tells me why the detained us. A asshole neighbor called in a report of two guys one on a bike and one walking were gonna Rob luckys. He said the knife handle could be mistaking for a gun. Then the officer says to me and tommy " We are gonna forget about the two bags of oregano in your pocket, you two have a good day" Turns out tommy had 2 nicks in his pocket at the time. They searched him better then me, LOL! Me and tommy went back to my apartment and smoked one of those nicks!

I don't smoke anymore but still carry a nice sized knife everywhere I
go cause you never know!

101mph on the 101 freeway!!

This was two years ago. When I was driving my stock Honda accord LX catching stunts like no tommorrow! I use to push that thing to the limit flying everywhere. I thought I was batman still do but now I roll my BMX like batman! This shot is from my iPhone I did 101mph on the 101 freeway for at least 5 miles. The accord is now gone after jumping a drive way and busting both front axles and running it to the rotor no brake style. I gave it away and now ride my BMX bike and public tranportation, GO METRO!!

madMELO money!!!

madMELO money is here! Send me a dollar via paypal(c@madmelo.com) and I will send you a jpg of madMELO money and you can print as much as you want or you can ask me and i will send you some madMELO money for free.

Im just fucking around im not selling madMELO money. Just wanted to make my own money for the hell of it like disneyland. madMELO money is only good for buying illegal items from a select few of backyard and trunk dealerships around the compton, bellflower and long beach area. The dealers has the right to refuse your business and request real cash or and even beat your ass for trying to buy these items with madMELO money.

The intersection I crashed at!

This is where I crashed and burned at. Just looking and the picture brought back the thoughts before I ate it! "Dam I should really wear my pads and helmet, this is so gonna hurt!" What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger! But avoiding danger all together is safer!

iPhoneNUTz.com : WEAPON ICONs

iPhoneNUTz.com has a nice selection of violent weapon icons you can save to your iPhone's home pages. As well as iPhone wallpapers you can now download directly to your iPhone thanks to 2.0! If you got any ideas on more weapons I can add email me at LORDofWAR@iphonenutz.com.

GO TO:
http://www.iphonenutz.com/weapons/

Still life drawing at work

We had a still life drawing contest at work. They had everyone in the company vote on the best one. Mine won but I didn't even draw a still life of the toy robot thing. I just played around and created what I want using elements from the model to make my own little drawing robot. See you don't gotta follow the rules to win! At least madMELO doesn't!

BMX roadBURN

I was flying doing like 35 mph when I went to pedal faster and my heavy duty chain failed me and snapped from the heat created be my He-Man thighs and i was sent flying indo style across the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd and broxton during rush hour. I flew a good 7 feet from the middle of the intersection to the corner when i slammed hard and powerslide 10 feet in the dried gutter with glasss and lil rocks. Lucky for me my camel pack cap ripped off and provided and instant slip and slide effect as i slide across the ground. IT FUCKING HURT SO BAD!!! I busted up my knee and hurt my shoulder and got mean roadBURN on both forearms and scratched up my wedding ring. The people in the liquir store thought i get hit by a car cause all they saw was me yelling as a I flew by. They said to me "dude who hit you are you okay that look like it hurt" I was like fuck yeah it hurt" as i hopped around trying to walk off the pain. With in a minute of the crash I saw the bus coming so i had to pick up my bike out the street and busted chain off the floor and hop to the bus all bloody and in pain. It was the fastest and hardest crash i have ever had. It hurt more then the two cars I was hit by. The next day my body felt like i was hit by a truck.

What I learned from this adventure is that I will now be wearing my helmet and pads everytime i ride my bike.

madMELO iPhone to Blogger

This is a test to see if I can blog a photo and text to my blog! I hope it works, let's see. sending now! crossing my fingers!

send the fucking thing already!

GHETTO CHINA

My lil Sisters idea of a bowl.
The pasta was good thou.
PHO SHOU

BUS RIDING!!!!

The bus is fun, MOST OF THE TIME!!
The parts of riding the bus that suck are:
- It being late
- The smoking bus driver who has to light up before we bounce.
- Drunk dudes that smell like piss!
- Homeless dudes that smell like piss!!
ARE THEY THE SAME DUDES?

Fun parts:
- no sitting in traffic doing nothing
- save money on gas
- meet interesting people, not counting the piss dudes!
- cool bus drivers
- Bumping your beats on headphones and not having to worry about being pulled over for it.
- drunk riding(if I drank still)
- Taking pictures of yourself!
- facebook time
- watching the bus driver drive so you can learn how to roll the big ass bus just in case you need to take over the wheel for any reason!

-
madMELO

COOLHOMEPAGES.com design AWARDs

Hey PEOPLEs

I just got a coolhomepages.com design award for madmelo.com new design.
check it out and vote please.
They used my 2008 CD LOGO as the screen shot.
LOOKS COOL
Thanks Guys!!!!!!
No cash reward just coolness.

http://www.coolhomepages.com/sort/?catName=All+Categories&sortType=DATE&sortDir=DESC&nRPP=16&setLarge=Yes&pageNo=1


carmelodibella.com is also still on the second page under non-flash.

http://www.coolhomepages.com/sort/index.php?catName=Non-Flash&sortType=DATE&sortDir=DESC&pageNo=2&nRPP=12

later,
madMELO
c@madmelo.com

Telling the Gs about the Internet

In bellflower some ghetto "G" walks up to me in a liquor store and tells me "you know I got them DVDs" and I looked at him and said "You know I gots that internet" then I educated the "G" about bit torrents! He was like "word, how them movies look on the internet" I said "good man" he said "I got to get me some internets"!

I love spreading the digital life to my bellflower peeps.

Family day at the movies

Me and the D-mob saw WALL-E.
Awesome Movie great message now get out there and live life and take care of our planet, Pick up your trash fuckers. Also be nice to one another communication is good for all.

adding APPs

Been adding APPS to my iPhone3G