New Filmmakers LA wants you to Dig Comics
Dig Comics has been selected to screen as part of New Filmmakers LA at the historic Sunset Gower Studios! This is a pretty big honor, so needless to say, we’re pretty excited!
Tickets cost only $5.00 and go on-sale Friday, March 19th. The screening is 6:00 PM, Thursday, April 8th. Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with director Miguel Cima and an after-party. If you live in the LA area and have yet to see Dig Comics, here is a chance I would not pass up!
Congratulations, You’re Alive!
Yay, you made it!
If you observe Daylight Savings Time, you were more likely to have a heart attack Monday morning than any other Monday of the year. According to an LAist article yesterday:
So the natural increases in heart rate and blood pressure will be even further behind [Monday morning] than after any other weekend – in fact, it will be 80 minutes behind. So the stress of the alarm [clock] will be greater, and the immediate stress-related rise in blood pressure and heart rate will be even faster and bigger than any other weekend. So if your heart is already damaged in some way, you stand a greater chance of experiencing a heart attack on the Monday following the spring-forward time change than any other Monday of the year.
Phwew! I was so relieved to make it through the day!
For the whole scientific explanation, check out the full LAist article.
WalkMS – over $1K raised so far!
For a second time, I have just broken past my fund raising goal for the Greater LA Walk MS!
My original goal of $500 was quickly surpassed within four days of my announcement, in tribute to my wife Nahleen who inspires me in her battle with MS every day and the 84-year-old woman from New Jersey who rides her single-speed bike 150 miles every year to raise money for MS. It is slightly over two weeks later and my increased goal of $1,000 was just met!
Tremendous thank yous to everyone who has donated and emailed or messaged me with enthusiastic support!
What should my next goal be? How much would you pay to see me in a heels and dress? Yes, that’s right. In case you forgot, I’ll be dressing as the lady pictured above. Click the image to read the original CNN article, which helped me come up with this goofy idea.
Here’s my updated and spruced up Walk MS Page. And here’s our team page (we’d love to have you join our team! Don’t worry, you don’t have to dress up like me.).
About Corey
Corey Blake is a comic book pundit/advocate/educator and comedic actor/performer.
His blog CoreyBlake.com covers the sequential art form and its place in our culture, both locally and internationally. It exists as a gateway to curious non-readers or new comics readers interested in the full spectrum of comics, as well as a place for longtime readers looking for a new perspective. He advises for the award-winning documentary and comics advocacy movement Dig Comics.
As a comedic performer, he specializes in being a goofball.
Corey is an active member of the Los Angeles-based improv comedy ensemble The Magic Meathands. He helped form the sketch comedy group Foe Pa following a memorable stint with The 3rd Floor: LA. Corey has been seen in online videos from The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour (Best Web Comedy-Episodic, Clicker.com) and Poopdog Entertainment, short films Tough Love (Official Selection, Festival de Cannes’ Short Film Corner) and Hattie Needs Rehab (Excellence in Performance, Extreme Filmmaker 48 Hour Film Festival), the feature film Chasing Happiness, and the pilot for the children’s show “Imagination Station”, as well as on stage in an award-winning Los Angeles production of Chekov’s Three Sisters and Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Corey Blake also has experience behind the camera. He writes comedy sketches and directs and produces videos for the Magic Meathands Originals sketch web-series. He wrote for the sketch comedy groups Foe Pa and The 3rd Floor: LA. He was a writer for the musical comedy Mission: Improbable, which he also helped produce. Additionally, he served as associate producer for the award-winning documentary Dig Comics (Best Documentary, Comic-Con Int’l: Independent Film Festival; Official Selection, Festival de Cannes’ Short Film Corner) and demo trailer for Voices From Chornobyl.
Comics News & Nonsense (Tumblr)- Yay, Tumblr is back (for me)! January 16, 2012
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- Stan Lee: Real vs. Fake November 24, 2011
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