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Haunts Against Hunger mini-doc

Way back in October I shot a mini-documentary for an ingenious event called Haunts Against Hunger.  Basically a bunch of very committed Halloween enthusiasts dress like zombies and hold a food drive.  The drive has grown nicely since it’s inception and now “home haunters” leave boxes in their front yards all month so people can drop off food.  As the video explains, they had a really successful drive this year. (If the picture is choppy, click on the HD button... [Read more...]

Crash the Superbowl entry: Rest in Chips

Man, I love Doritos.  Not just because they are tasty but because the company has created something that has turned into a real gift for freelance video makers; the annual Doritos Crash the Superbowl commercial contest.  Basically they hold an open call for commercials and the best of the best air during the freaking Superbowl.  Not only is that great for the winners, but the contest itself has caused a mini-revolution in the marketing industry.  Last year, the winning Crash... [Read more...]

Harley Davidson buys our promo!

A few months back I found an awesome website called Poptent which hooks up filmmakers with brands that are looking for creative content.  Harley Davidson held an Open Call on Poptent for videos that promote the new Harley Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.  Milwaukee’s only a 2 hour drive for me so I figured why not take a road trip and do a little mini-documentary about the museum?  Well, I just found out that Harley bought my video for a VERY nice amount!  The plan is that... [Read more...]

It is on like a Tevatron

One of the best things about being a filmmaker is that sometimes you get to go places and see things that are off limits to the general public.  My camera has opened a lot of doors for me but of all the crazy things I’ve been allowed to shoot, the stuff I got to film this past week takes the cake.  For reasons that are still not 100% clear to me, I got to spend 2 days filming a music video at one of the most important scientific facilities in the world; FermiLab.  FermiLab... [Read more...]

Movie meets world

I’m very happy to finally announce that we’ve signed a worldwide distribution agreement for Nerdcore For Life with a fantastic company called Journeyman Pictures.  Journeyman is based in the UK and they specialize is distributing offbeat documentaries.  They do a ton of business throughout Europe which is a market that we all think will be really accepting of a crazy documentary about rapping nerds.  Journeyman has some really interesting plans for Nerdcore For... [Read more...]

OMG! LOLcats musik video unleeshed on teh internetz!

It was exactly one year ago today, on July 12th, 2008 that Nerdcore rapper/producer Doctor Popular and I spent an afternoon in a garbage filled alley in San Francisco filming a music video for his song LOLcats. Nerdcore For Life is roughly 84 minutes long.  It took about 5 months to edit.  The music video for LOLcats is under 3 minutes.  It took me 12 months to edit.  Ok…I didn’t spend all 12 months editing the thing.  It just got pushed to the back burner for... [Read more...]

End of the road?

I stopped submitting Nerdcore For Life to film festivals a good while back and now that I think about it, I don’t think the doc has had a festival screening since October!  Oh my God, that feels like it was last month.  No wait!  We screened in the Lake County Film Fest a few months back.  Well anyway, I thought we’d go for one more and as it turns out, we were accepted to what will probably be Nerdcore For Life’s final film festival.  The fest?  The Hardacre... [Read more...]

New news about impending news

Well things are really going strong behind the scenes at Crapbot Productions.  Problem is that we can’t really talk about any of those things yet.  We’ve even managed to make some decent money this summer but I want to keep that on the DL for a few more weeks since I don’t want to jinx what we’re doing! If you can think of a better name for this guy than "Crappy the Crapbot" be sure to let me know. Our big news though is Nerdcore For Life related and we... [Read more...]

NC4L finally on the Facey-space

Nerdcore For Life has had a myspace page since pretty much day one and we have a pretty healthy collection of fans over there.  But the times…they are a changing.  A lot of folks made the exodus to Facebook a long time ago so I figured we should do the same.  So Nerdcore For Life finally has a Facebook page and you can become a “fan” of us by clicking right here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nerdcore-For-Life/79341126707 So what’s the benefit of becoming... [Read more...]

Youtube, we love you

Wow, well we hit kind of a mini-milestone today.  I checked the stats for Nerdcore For Life’s youtube channel and in total, all of the videos on our channel have racked up 1,500,120 views. The first video I posted to the channel was the Nerdcore For Life trailer on December 7, 2006.  I remember the date because you know….it lives in infamy.  So it took 2 1/2 years but we finally reached the 1.5 million views mark.  Most of the views belong to the trailer which... [Read more...]

Free Colorado NC4L Screening

A nerdcore fan at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, CO contacted me about two months ago and asked what it would take to make a screening and concert happen at his school. We exchanged some ideas and the dude actually busted his ass and made the whole thing happen! He even got the school to sponsor it as an official event so the whole thing will be free and open to all. They even made up some really sweet posters: I’ll be there and so will Colorado’s favorite... [Read more...]

Talk Derby to Me

http://www.vimeo.com/4076671 Our on again, off again web series, In Your Face, Chicago is on again…at least for one more episode!  This time, host Chris Biddle rubs (and throws) elbows with the ladies of Chicago’s Roller Derby League, The Windy City Rollers.  For this episode we headed to the UIC pavilion to catch a WCR double header; The Hell’s Belles VS. The Fury and the Double Crossers VS. The Manic Attackers.  In between the action, the In Your Face, Chicago crew... [Read more...]

Neat Amp Magazine Piece

Hey so this is cool, Amp Magazine did a great story about Nerdcore For Life and you can read it by clicking right here, right now: http://www.ampmagazine.com/index.php/interviews/comments/nerdcore_for_life/ I did my interview for this so long ago I didn’t even remember what I said. I like this piece because it’s the first time a reporter included anything I had to say about craigslist. Without craigslist, I never would have been able to make the film; I found most... [Read more...]

Love Fest in the Land of the Dead

This week, In Your Face Chicago host and hardcore horror fan, Deneen Melody leaves the safety of the city and heads out into the forbidden zone (the suburbs!) to delve deep into the dark and twisted world that is the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors.  More than just a horror movie convention, Fangoria has grown to be an annual gathering of fans, filmmakers, actors, models, artists, vendors and craftsmen. http://www.vimeo.com/3579385 These folks may be peddling films with names like... [Read more...]

We Heart Amsterdam

We’re back! After some genuine concern and worry about one member of our party, I’m happy to say that all of us (Beefy, MC Router, MC Lars, Ytcracker and me, Dan) survived our trip to Amsterdam for Glitched: The Dutch Nerdcore event. I think all of us would agree that it was one of the best, coolest, most special things we’ve ever done in our lives. It’s not just that it was a fun trip (which it was) it was because the guys that brought us out there (4Worx) were... [Read more...]

Beads! Boobies! Burlesque!

Just because Chicago is about a thousand miles north of New Orleans that doesn’t mean that we can’t indulge in some pre-Lent revelry! Beads! Boobies! Burlesque! is a mini-documentary about Vaudezilla Production’s Mardi Gras-themed show of the same name,  which took place at The Blue Bayou Bar and Grill every Thursday in February 09.  Check out the short to see Chicago’s finest Burlesque performers strut their stuff on the city’s only bar top stage. Please note: ... [Read more...]

Recent Visitors

I use a program to track where visitors to Nerdcoreforlife.com are from and shows their location on a map.  I’m heading to the airport in an hour and I thought I’d check and see how NC4L website’s traffic is doing one more time.  Check out this section from the Recent Visitor map: The Netherlands: Nerd Central I’m going to take this as a sign that Amsterdam screening and concert are going to go well.  Read More →

Two new Chicagoland screenings

Ah-ha.  We’ve got two screenings coming up that I don’t need to get on a plane to attend.  Both will be for the Lake County Film Fest in early March.  Here are the deets…. Friday, March 6th @ 6PM College of Lake County, Room B270 19351 W Washington St.  Grayslake, IL Sunday, March 8th @ 4PM College of Lake County, Room B270 19351 W Washington St.  Grayslake, IL It’s just a 90 minute drive to Grayslake so chances are good that I’ll be at both... [Read more...]

Greatest NC4L plug…ever

I subscribe to the RSS feed for the web show Geek Entertainment TV and the newest episode just made my day.  Rather than try and explain why, I encourage you to check it out for yourself.  Be aware:  This video is not safe for work!  Unless you work someplace where they don’t care if you watch videos of porn stars.  And if you do work at a place like that, let me know if they’re hiring. Click to witness the awesomeness  Read More →

New Year’s Resolutions

Mercifully, 2008 is over and the new year is here.  2008 might have been kind of tough for the world in general but it was actually a really good year for Nerdcore For Life; we played in lots of great festivals, had sold out screenings, got lots of good press, got some sweet reviews and held some really awesome parties and concerts.  But all that was a warm up for 2009.  I get a lot of questions about where and when people can see the film and those questions can be answered... [Read more...]

‘Chicago = Awesome’ = a winner!

Hey now!  Did you vote for my entry in the Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid video contest?  If you did, THANKS!!!  I placed second which is actually kind of just what I hoped for.  Second prize is $5,000 worth of video production gear!!  I’m a glory hog and wouldn’t have minded winning the whole thing but man oh man can I use that equipment.  I even get to pick my own stuff so Crapbot Productions will soon be getting a full gear upgrade!  Looks like my call to Rod... [Read more...]

Glitched: The Dutch Nerdcore Event

After waiting to talk about this for about 2 months I think planning is far enough along that we can announce this: Nerdcore For Life and the Dutch web company, 4Worx are teaming up to present the first European Nerdcore Extravaganza-  GLITCHED:  THE DUTCH NERDCORE EVENT. The date is set for Thursday Feb 26, 2009. The venue has been booked but 4Worx hasn’t announced it yet so I’ll hold off on mentioning it. Let me just say, the place is awesome and it’s featured a lot... [Read more...]

New Orleans Film Fest Mini-Recap

You can tell I’m starting to get a little worn out just by the fact that blog recaps of each of our screenings get shorter and shorter as time goes on.  For the premiere I wrote a small book of a re-cap, took a few thousand photos and filmed everything.  Six months later I return from a film fest with less than a dozen pictures in my camera, no video and zero hilarious stories of drunken, celebratory exuberance. I just didn’t have it in me to go full bore this time... [Read more...]

Sweet pwn Chicago

What was really amazing about the Chicago screening was the local press it generated for us.  I got to do my second public radio interview and this time it was for the Chicago Public Radio show, Eight Forty-Eight.  It went great and the producer mixed some music and quotes from the film into the final segment.  It turned out awesome.  The podcasted version of the piece is on-line and you can hear it by clicking RIGHT HERE. After the show aired I heard from a writer at the... [Read more...]

The Closer!

Hot damn.  Not only has the documentary been accepted to the Tucson Film & Music Fest but we’ve been selected as the Festival’s “Closing Night Film!”  (That’s good BTW)  And perhaps even better, the festival is throwing a closing night party right after the screening that will feature performances by some of the starts of Nerdcore For Life.  What stars exactly?  Can’t tell you let.  All I can say is that if it goes off as planned... [Read more...]

NC4L and PAX: A Plan of Attack

The Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle is just 2 weeks away now and the full schedule for the weekend was finally posted on-line the other day.  I was very happy to see Nerdcore For Life right there in the middle of the whole thing.  I don’t know why but our screening at the Expo almost felt to good to be true.  I’ve been worrying that the PAX people would come to their senses and pull us or maybe bump us for a real movie or something.  But here’s the schedule... [Read more...]

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