http://www.crapbotproductions.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:43:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey! You’ve seen those Coors Light commercials where regular dudes crash a press conference and ask NFL coaches questions about Coors Light, right? Well Coors wanted more of those commercials to play on the “Coors Light Channel” on Tivo so they posted some footage of some NFL coaches ... http://www.crapbotproductions.com/2010/02/28/coors-light-buys-our-spec-commercial/ [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Qs6xQL04I] 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 ... http://www.crapbotproductions.com/2009/12/16/haunts-against-hunger-mini-doc/ 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 ... http://www.crapbotproductions.com/2009/10/02/harley-davidson-buys-our-promo/ 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 ... http://www.crapbotproductions.com/2009/08/15/it-is-on-like-a-tevatron/ 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 ... http://www.crapbotproductions.com/2009/07/30/nerdcore-for-life-takes-on-the-world/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHMYDNm5h-4[/youtube] 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 ... http://www.crapbotproductions.com/2009/07/12/lolcats-musik-video-unleeshed-on-teh-internetz/ 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 ... http://www.crapbotproductions.com/2009/07/11/end-of-the-road/ 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 ... http://www.crapbotproductions.com/2009/07/09/new-news-about-impending-news/ 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 ... http://www.crapbotproductions.com/2009/06/14/nc4l-finally-on-the-facey-space/ Buggin' Out by MC Router. Created for Axo-soft's "Geek to Geek" marketing campaign in summer of 2007. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4LC0yTlR74[/youtube] Current view count on youtube:  300,000+! http://www.crapbotproductions.com/2009/06/13/buggin-out-music-mideo/