Coors Light buys our spec commercial

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 giving answers and they invited filmmakers to use the clips in their own, original ads. I went for it and they bought and used my commercial! Here it is…..

It was apparently available on Tivo for a while but I never got to see it. The goal for 2010 is to have a company actually air something I made on TV but Tivo is a good start.

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 should be able to announce it this month I hope.  (we’re very excited)  But other cool stuff is in the works too.  I found out that I’m going to get to shoot a music video this summer at one of THE most important scientific research facilities in the entire world.   I don’t even want to talk about that one until the shoots are done lest homeland security find and put the kibosh on the whole thing.  In other video news, any day now we should be posting an epic music video that took over one year to make!  Ok….it didn’t exactly take a year to make.  It took me a year to make it.  It was something we shot in San Francisco last summer and there were always more pressing things to tend to.  But I finally dusted off the footage and now it’s almost ready to go.  Again, we are excited.  Oh, we also have two Nerdcore For Life screenings happening later this summer but again, I have to wait to give out the details.  One screening will be in the Midwest and the other will be somewhere in Europe.  Can you guess where?  I’ll give you a hint:  Vienna sausages don’t actually come from there!

In self-reflexive news, this very website you’re looking at is brand new!  Currently I’ve got like a dozen blogs, facebook pages, myspace pages and websites dedicated to our various projects but Crapbot Productions itself didn’t have a home on the web.  I think the site turned out very nice but I especially like our new mascot.  Un-officially I have named him “Crappy.”  But officially he’s just the Crapbot of Crapbot Productions.  I paid some dude from craigslist 50 bucks to whip that up for me.  I like him.  Crappy, not the craigslist dude, I mean.  I’ve already got him on my new Crapbot Productions business cards

Finally, in what may be the hugest news of all we are one week away from starting production on a brand new, feature-length documentary project.  This one I can really not talk about though.  We might keep this one under wraps all the way until we start post-production.  Shooting should last about 6 months and I’m hoping the final film will be ready to screen after the start of the new year.

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 of our camera operators there and I even found our editors there! So I’m glad Craigslist finally got a little credit.

‘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 Blagojevich to ask him to pull some strings for me in exchange for a piece of the prize really paid off.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about you probably aren’t from around these parts.  The Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid Committee sponsored a video contest and they promoted the thing like crazy.  Everyday as I walk through the loop I pass at least three advertisements encouraging people to enter.  So it’s hella exciting to win something that’s so high profile.  More details about the contest can be found here: http://www.nbcchicago.com/station/as_seen_on/Finalists-Named-in-Why-Chicago-Video-Contest.html

And you can watch my entry “Chicago = Awesome” here:  http://www.nbcchicago.com/station/as_seen_on/Chicago_Awesome_Chicago.html

If you’re in the Chicagoland viewing area on Thursday be sure to set your alarm for 6:40am to see me and the other winner on channel 5 be introduced by an “Olympian.”  I’m hoping it’s Aphrodite.

Thanks for hooking me up....douche.

Interested in entering some video contests?  Check out this website for contest listings and this site for general video contest news:  http://videocontestnews.com