How This Film Got Started:

Thanks for checking out the blog for the film It's a Hardcore Life (working title).  I thought I would start this blog because as the film is getting closer and closer to being done, I now, more than ever, want to open the film up as a community effort.  I think the best way to do that is to keep people updated on what is going on with the film.  I will be posting pictures, video, screen grabs, etc having to do with our progress with hopes that I can get some feedback on it.  

I guess I should start out by discussing how the idea to make this film even came about.  I have read every comment on the youtube "trailer" and am overwhelmed by the response.  I HONESTLY did not know before shooting this film that hardcore dancing stirred this much controversy!  The whole reason this film came about was because I knew NOTHING about this scene, or scenes I should say.  I was at a show in the summer of 2007 and saw a bunch of kids clear a huge pit in the middle of a crowd and start to punch the air, pick up change and two-step like it was 1997 and they were at a Reel Big Fish concert.  I looked over at my cousin Ike and said, man we have to learn more about this.  The next weekend we went to a show and interviewed  a bunch of kids on the street asking them what hardcore dancing was.  We didn't even know!  All we knew, is that it looked like a TON of fun!  Oh, by the way, that show was here: