Life Moves On

Hey Folks,

So crazy big changes in my life.

For starters I'm back working in reality TV - I'll get to that in the future...

I've been dating this girl. If that's what you want to call it. I mean I suppose it fits. Thing is. there's a deadline. Come July we're splitzville. and honestly, for some reason, having that knowledge seems to have made this the best relationship I've ever had. Give or take, top 3 for sure.. I mean in order for it to really be the best I suppose it wouldn't end.

Anyway, that's neither here nor there. I just wanted to put it down for posterity sake.

My improv team Donut Video has been performing a lot and we recently got accepted in to the Del Close Marathon (which is a big deal in the community, I know people that didn't get in that are pissed). So end of July (after being really depressed from losing the best girl i've ever dated) something awesome happens and I go to New York with my team. that'll be amazing.

Also come End of July I think we turn over the keys for a Ford fiesta (which I've driven like 6 times)... I don't know, the whole thing barely existed for me except as stress and disappointments... I honestly had to fight for every ounce of fun I wanted to have. And I wish it had been a different event all together. I still love the things I actually got to do. but I just wanted so much more out of it.

Anyway Thursday our short film plays on the big screen in Burbank... but you can get the small screen version right here.



Finally I'm executive producing two shows. one with my fiesta partner Jen Friel (which I've talked about)...

but Also - and now introducing 'The AFK Show' - AFK will take you away from the keyboard and on location to some of the coolest new web shows being shot in Hollywood, by professionals, indies and even youtubers!

Stay Strong,
-SamProof

My Eyes Are Opened

Hey Folks,

I really hope this doesn't come off pompous, but I've suddenly become very aware of my own potential.

You know all those High School reports that said you weren't living up to your potential? I always thought those were BS lies, something they had to say. Like a father has to tell his daughter she's a beautiful princess, or tell his son he could be president.

It's all just a habitual lie we've learned to tell.

And not to doubt my own abilities, I've always know I had my own one man creative abilities. I've always had a "if you want something done right you've got to do it yourself" kind of attitude, which is why I've learned to do just about everything.

But now, with a focus (and let's not lie, a decent budget and the Ford name) behind me - I've come to see just how many things I could have been doing.

I think I want to create myself a new title 'Social Media Cross Promotion King' (still not pompous, right? sweet.)

I'd go in to details about this, but until I have things completed I'm going to fall back on my superstition of not jinxing things and keep quiet on the details.

But oh man - cool things are coming!

Stay Strong,

-SamProof

Light, Camera, Actions Items List

Hey Folks,

First off what an amazing weekend.
What amazing people (both behind the scenes and behind the cars).

I'm super excited to see what the other agents do, but I'm even more excited to see the ideas I've already started plotting out come to fruition.

Speaking of seeing things.

7 hours ago, I'm behind the wheel of a car speeding along the private Ford racetrack - The Proving Grounds... and then I'm touching down in LAX and racing off to see my first sketch that is being performed at IO West (formerly the improv olympic- which is ironically playing the winter olympics in their bar even though they were forced to change their name to IO by said program)

Back track - racing to watch 1st sketch in IO's top Story Weekly, a Weekend Update/Onion style news sketch show.

I just started writing for them, this is merely the 2nd sketch I turn in - and it's one of 3 that appear as headlines on the program cover for the show. (Pumped? yes, yes I am).

The Sketch "Lady Navy" is about the lift on the ban of women in Submarines.

My amazing cast is:
Artemis Pebdani
Derek Reid
Baille Des Rocher
Jimmy Guidish
Matt Moore

Yes, that's right the same Artemis from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Now that's a great capper to the caper that was this weekend.

I gotta crank out some things

here's my action items list:

• upload pics to flickr (from the weekend)
• tag stuff #fiestaLA or #fiestamovement (talk about, "check, done" (just then, see what I did(I like Parenthesis!)))
• Showering
• go unconscious
• start again
• pow wow with Jen - kick ass, take names, write apologies to families of those who's asses have been kicked.
  

Stay Strong,

-SamProof

Ford Race Track?

Hey Folks,

I can't be 100% sure, but I do believe come Saturday morning, I'll be whipping around this sucker.

Stay Strong,

-SamProof

Holding Pattern

Hey Folks,

God I'm kind of just going through the motions this week. I'm like sleepwalking through the days until Friday rolls around.

I almost called off Video Fight Club for the week, because the actress was running late.
Now I'm sitting on some videos I could be editing. I could be setting things up for future projects. Hell I could be doing laundry.

But man I just want to float along until Friday, until I'm in Detroit.

Hell I've still got the spare tire on my car. Not that I've been driving it anywhere, but I wanted to take care of that already.

It's not that I'm not doing things, I'm actually still just as busy as always but I can feel "it" inside me. I want to be a sloth. I want to Sleep the days away and wake up on an East bound plane.

You know something big is coming and it's like "Can I just stop doing this crap already?"

Not that I do crap, I mean sometimes, but don't judge! :)

So here I sit in a holding pattern, waiting to taxi to my destination (both literally and figuratively.) In the meantime I best be running off so I can scarf food and head over to the top story weekly writers meeting.

Stay Strong,

-SamProof

Nerd Proof Team Logo

Hey Folks,

Just whipped this up. To be clear Eddie Coleman did the SamProof stencil and I did Jen (and the text, layout, etc).

Also for those interested I created a fiesta portal on the SamProof Ning here.


Stay Strong,

-SamProof

Onward Ho! Team NerdProof Plans in action

Hey Folks,

This snowball is rolling along! Everyday seems to be a new barrage of emails and things to fill out, and send back to Ford - And I like it that way.

The moments after I've filled out the paperwork, sent in the pictures, replied to the emails... I'm just sitting there (unless some one steals a wheel off my car, then I'm thinking up creative curses to enchant the thief like "May you find yourself the recipient of an itchy distended spleen" OR "I hope you get Super AIDS" - I learned this from my dear friend Jim Tucker, who has all but disappeared from life.) So I like the momentum of things to do and be done and sent away in to the ether.

Today my inbox looks like this:


Today "this shit, just got real yo"

To start with we got our NDA's which I'll have to sit down with later, print out, skim over, pretend I comprehend, and then sign away my life. I find it pretty ironic to have an NDA for what is essentially a gigantic PR/Social Media campaign.

I think they should probably have a MDA (Mandatory Disclosure Agreement)
I could only guess what those stipulations would be like

• Please disclose the awesomeness of the product (in a postive light)
• Tweet often about the fun the product brings to you
• Dailybooth at least every two days for 4 months pictures of you enjoying the product
• Blog at least once a month how sexually arousing the product makes you feel.

And now here's a picture.

Click here to add a description

I'm still futzing around with the text (fonts, colors, layer styles...) so if you have opinions let me know!


Stay Strong,

-SamProof

My New Car

Hey Folks,

In theory this is what my car will look like. I really wish it had a neon green Godzilla, or the monsters from Rampage romping about. But it's pretty fat looking anyway!

Stay Strong,

-SamProof

Something Amazing Happened to me on the Way to the Forum...

Hey Folks,

This is a story about dichotomy, cosmic balance and the old axiom "You can't be truly happy without having suffered" - well maybe. Mostly this is a blog, that I hope doesn't make you too jealous. :D

So yesterday was suck.

I dragged on through unmotivated to do much of anything.
I tried to treat myself to Sushi, tried to make myself feel "up" but it just wasn't in the cards.

I tried editing videos, tried blogging, tried organizing some photo shoots (which I actually did get accomplished). And then in the wee hours of the night, a few fingers of whiskey and the haze of depression looming I tried to do something instantly creative and gratifying, I took self portraits.

Then I watched LOST one Hulu and went to sleep. Somewhere in the middle of the night my phone, drained of it's battery - shut off. My alarm clock now docile I slept in, I slept till about 1pm at which point in my half awake haze I looked on to my facebook and twitter confounded.

Tons of tweets congratulating myself and @JenFriel and so on... except that last one (technically top one). I just included that because the implication of Pearl in this bikini - too hot.

I immediately found my dead phone and plugged it in, opened gmail and sat in wonder as an email from Ford was congratulating me.

Then I freaked out.

I Pumped my fist in the air, I yelled Attah!, I moshed around the apartment (which was particularly hard because I was still putting clothes on).

Then I texted Jen, called the Ford guy, emailed him, and lost my mind.

I can't help but think some giant door has opened, some weight has been lifted, some unexplained cosmic alignment has found it's way in to my 9th house of.. whatever it is...

Last year was the worst year of my life, and I've been determined to make 2010 the best year of my life to counter it. - This helps, alot.

I want to do something amazing this year not just on a personal level - put on an entertainment level. If it's not publish my novel it's going to me something video oriented. And it's probably going to come out of this.

So the main question that's on my mind is... Jen Friel (Queen of Nerds) & I are now a team so what the hell do you name such a team of awesomeness? Suggestions?

Stay Strong,

-SamProof

PS - nobody tell my Camry about this... she's old and fragile