The method I am about to tell you is supposed to have been originated by Bruce Lee, though I don't know whether it was ever included in his Jeet Kune Do teachings. It was supposedly taught by Bruce to Joe Lewis, who became one of the fiercest Karate fighters to ever enter the ring. Joe Lewis is supposed to have relayed the method to various Kenpo schools, specifically the Tracy brothers, where it languished,...
South Korean pop star Rain says he drew inspiration from fellow Asian stars who successfully crossed over to Hollywood when he prepared for his first leading role in an American film.
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean pop star Rain says he drew inspiration from fellow Asian stars who successfully crossed over to Hollywood when he prepared for his first leading role in an American film.
Phil Hansen, known as Phil in The Circle, is a young American artist from Washington. He found his breakthrough with a time lapse video of a two-day project called Influences. He painted thirty pictures on his torso, one on top of the other, each picture representing an influence in his life. When it was completed [...]
The Internet is full of stickmen. Any half-baked newcomer to animation can create them and they are addictive. From Slinky Pictures’ Chris Shepherd , comes the viral Ax Men with stickman and axe. It aims to promote the US show Ax Men on The History Channel . Viral is an interesting word creeping into the lexicon of media folk. The aim is to create something catchy that does the rounds of the...
Have you guys seen the new in-game pets at Blizzard Store? They’re soooo cute! I can’t decide which one to get! The pets are bought with real money, so if you have a couple of dollars to spare, then you’re in for a treat! There are two (2) kinds of pets available at the Blizzard Store, [...]
Everett Bradford is, for all intents and purposes, a real-life Tony Stark/Iron Man in the making. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years we see him flying around the sky fighting supervillains with his self-made robotic suit. He recently demonstrated his "Prometheus Device", which is a hand-mounted appliance that shoots real fire, in a flame-thrower like blast, into the air. Head on over...
X had alluded to the same press day near the end of last week; where Donnie Yen cleared up any misunderstanding that led everyone to believe that he would retire soon. The set of one of the most anticipated sequels for martial art film fans was finally opened up to the press late last week. On the set of Ip Man 2 Donnie speaks frankly about the possibility of a third Ip Man film, Because Ip Man 2...
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Ed Reeser is a fantastic lawyer and a great guy. We were teammates during Professor Bill Henderson's FutureFirm 1.0 contest last April. Largely because of Ed's insights and wisdom, our team prevailed. Ed, Jeff Carr, Patrick McKenna and I recently co-authored 4 articles together, largely because Ed played the role of the rancher, sitting on his trust steed, cracking the whip to keep the rest of us...
The sphere of Martial Arts is one of the most important contributions of Asia to the world. Who will forget Bruce Lee and the fact that he was first and foremost a martial arts competitor before becoming a movie star? Martial arts pictures are a huge hit with the ever-increasing popularity of Asian cinema like 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and more recently 'The House of the Flying Daggers'.
One of my favorite films of the year and certainly one of the most interesting Hong Kong thrillers of recent years, Soi Cheang's Accident comes to DVD and Blu-Ray in Hong Kong next week. Both editions are fully English friendly and while the DVD is listed as Region 3 - meaning you would need to have a region free player to view it here in North America - the Blu-Ray , as is the case with all Hong...
For this week, we are doing something a little different with Mike Franke’s epic RamView. We are breaking it up into individual posts to run throughout the week recapping last weeks game position by position. RamView, November 1, 2009 From The Couch (Report and opinions on the game.) Game #8: RAMS 17, Lions 10 On the occasion of the Rams’ [...]
A lot of new assets have become available for the upcoming action-packed crime-drama, Dead to Rights: Retribution and it includes a little dog biting, some head fragging and some Bruce Lee pummeling action.
Michael Jackson's posthumous rehearsal documentary, This Is It, was the number one film at the box office over the weekend, putting up over $30 million. It is hardly the first movie, obviously, that featured a principal who died before the...