Napowrimo = samproofbreako

Hey Folks,

I know, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here. If you’ve paid attention to my life you know I’m cyclical in my projects. So I’ll be back here posting writing tips and tricks and my own progress asap.

Actually here’s a quick life update. I just finished Upright Citizens brigade’s Sketch 201 class.
We have a class show, I was in 4 sketches – twice as girls. And I had one sketch up on stage. Video clips are coming. I’ll probably put them on http://samproof.ning.com

So what am I spending all my time on? Napowrimo (and dash30dash)

It’s April,which is national poetry month – it’s also the time when poets from around the world challenge themselves to write a poem everyday for 30 days.

Dash30dash is featuring 5 poems everyday, as well as posting a new poetry challenge everyday.
It’s great, cause there’s a whole community of people doing it and we’ve just launched our own community for poets and artists alike at http://www.dash30dash.ning.com/ it’s growing pretty fast 2 or 3 new faces a day! (btw there’s also people from Script Frenzy in the community)

Visit -30- Community : A Napowrimo host

So thats what I’m up to right now, as well as trying to organize sketches for a one time spank show at Upright Citizes Brigade and writing a new web series.

Stay Strong

-SamProof

Some Sketchy News

I recently put together a writing group for sketch comedy; live and video.

This Friday I’ll be putting up my 2nd sketch at Upright Citizen’s Brigade’s ‘Not Too Shabby’.
Shabby is a chance for anyone to try out a sketch on stage, it’s free to the audience and the artists.

Tuesday I’ll be having rehersals with my actors. I can’t wait this is the first real rehersal I’ll have organized for a sketch of my own. That’s new and different.

Friday at midnight the sketch goes up – provided I get picked from the lottery system.

Assuming the sketch goes up and the aduience laughs, I’ll take the sketch to video. If they chuckle a little I’ll try to rewrite it. If they boo, then it goes away.

My Connection to MadTV

So this just in. I just signed up for a sketch writing class (also at UCB) with Colton Dunn

Colton was a writer on the last season of MadTV and was on one of the longest running cagematch champions at UCB called by several names though ‘Kaploosh’ and ‘Kadammit’ were the two longest running incarnations.

I also consider him a friend, though probably heavy on the acquaintance side of things.

So the class starts in 2 weeks, and will make Saturdays’ a 6 hr class day for me. 3 Hours of improv, then 3 hours of sketch writing. The beauty of this of course being, anything that worked in the improv class I may be able to bring over to the sketch class to make better. So this works out brilliantly.

My main goal here is:
A) put together a sketch packet to attract an agent
B) write at least 1 sketch I can film per month
C) create enough stuff that I can do a 20 minute show at UCB

so that’s what’s new with me

Video Submissions!

It’s been a while since I’ve sent a letter too anyone let alone a submission. I know what you’re thinking “Um Sam, it’s the holidays”, yea yea I suck or I do virtually. It’s the path I’ve chosen as a starving artist. Good times.

However today I would like to announce I’ve gotten off my lazy ass (so to speak) and sent off a submission. Now technically I did this via email, so I did all this while on my lazy ass but it still got sent.

It’s nothing big, it’s actually a video submission, and though not a video jam packed with mouth watering fluid prose, or dialogue at all so much, I did write something. “Make video of snowman”. So anyway that’s off to Upright Citizens Brigade and Tomorrow I’m dropping off a DVD of this video and a few others at IO West.

Here’s the video in question

Happy Holidays!

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!

and now I’ve made a shirt See my gallery at Zazzle