We here at Nerdcore Rising love Nerdcore Rising BUT… sometimes, when you’ve spent too much time with a movie – even a movie you love, you just want to punch it in the face. When I’m feeling like this, it’s hard to remember all the good times we shared – the joyous tape-loading, the sexy graphics-building… the romantic candle-lit dinners. And today is Valentine’s day! I should be showering the film with node-based specular roll-off adjustments and caressing render files in a pool of rose pedals.

The worst part is… I’ve even been thinking of… working on other movies. Okay, before you call in the judge and jury, it’s not like I have slept with… er, I mean, "worked on" another movie… I just think about it sometimes.

But it’s silly! Nerdcore Rising is the movie I love and now that we’re near the premiere-finish line (remember from the last blog that we’re premiering at SXSW!!) – I need to strengthen the loving bond betwixt filmmaker team and film.

So, here goes: Happy Valentines Day NerdcoreRisingTheMovie, we love you.

And to show you how much we love you, here’s a jpg of us trying to fix your sound: 

And here’s one of us massaging your color-bars:

Your flowers will be arriving shortly.

For those of you who are not NerdcoreRisingTheMovie, we also wish you a happy day. But we don’t want to caress your render files in a pool of rose pedals – I don’t think any of us would be very comfortable with that.

Love,
Negin & All your Valentines at Nerdcore Rising  

Hey folks!

South By Southwest Film Festival

Today is a good day. It’s a particularly good day because the Film Powers – those nebulous forces that have given us War Games, X-Men and Teen Wolf TOO (somehow all in the same breath) – have granted us a completely awesome place in the film world. That’s right folks, it’s been a while but finally, finally, finally Nerdcore Rising will be premiering at that venerable Texan institution, the SXSW Film Festival! People like Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron and Sam Rockwell will also be there but they’ll be a little less DS-dependant and a lot more glammed-up than your average nerdcore-ite. Either way, the celeb-name-dropping just goes to show that SXSW ain’t your grandmother’s film festival.

We are full of glee and in a hot nanosecond from now,* we’ll be providing you with all sorts of information about the premiere. Stuff like: Where? When? How? No, Seriously HOW… did you get in?? But until then, we’re just going to take a moment to thank the nerdbase: a nexus of MC Frontalot fans, Penny Arcade enthusiasts, indie film geeks, and generally interested nerdcore peeps. So, here’s that moment: THANK YOU. We couldn’t do it without you. As we always say: the nerdbase is good above all things.

And, here’s some broken record business: please encourage your friends to request a screening of the film in their town – especially if their town is in that part of central Texas which is less panhandle and more hill country and rhymes with Schmaustin.

And, here’s that point where you wish the record would just fly off the player instead of repeating itself: we still need more funds to get this thing done. Premiering is an expensive business replete with a world of sound-mixing, color-correcting, teranex up-resing and Kona card-renting. Once upon a time this was all jargon but now it’s meaningful to my clicking fingers and aching wallet. So, if you have it in your heart (er, rather, your bank account) to throw a couple of bucks at a little independent film, well, that would be super and amazing and full-on fantastic.

Here are some links to articles that verify the accuracy of the claims made in this blog:

• http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117980221.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
• http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35506

Thrilled & Hearting the Nerdbase,
Negin et al @ Nerdcore Rising the movie!

PS: The trailer has some new faces in it – check it out if you’re curious. Was this post-script coy enough?

*In this instance “nanosecond” is being loosely defined as “moment, hour, or half day”