Making Moves... My Martial Move of the Day

Outside parry the jab - slip the cross - grab hair - elbow face... The magic is in how quickly I put on my gloves, halfway through the demo.

Bolowhip Presents: Maluca - Loca - Shoot DONE

Finished shooting with Danny Neiba and Kontraban this morning at 9AM.  Some things did not go as planned. But. Video will feature tunnel views, a parakeet and feverish footwork. And. Now. I'm a HDSLR devotee.
Next comes editing time.  
And in a month, the music video. 

Reminds me of my old Trapper Keeprs

Free Webinar: 25 Things You Might Have Missed at NAB Show

TV Technology will review the most interesting new products, technology developments, demonstrations and more in their third annual "25 Things You Might Have Missed at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show" webinar. This free hour-long event will be streamed on Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 at 9:00 AM PDT. Register for it here.

Dope Video: Frank Ocean "Novacane"

frank ocean [novacane] from christopher francis ocean on Vimeo.

STRIKEFORCE: OVEREEM vs. WERDUM Open Workout Highlights

Sat. June 18 - Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum

Overeem: I Trained 4 Months for This - Props to Sherdog

Chilly Willy Gumdrops tumblr

My nephew, Chilly Willy Gumdrops, artist extraordinaire, has a new tumblr. 

Bolowhip Presents: Danny Neiba, photographer

Check out the work of Danny Neiba, Bolowhip filmmaker and photograher: 

Which one you like more, Jose?

Shoots on the Street

 

Craig Allen, photographer

Heidi Jones, assistsnt

unknown model

Battles - Wall Street - A Take Away Show

Battles | Wall Street | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Vegan Black Metal Chef

VeganBlackMetalChef

www.VeganBlackMetalChef.com

Training Video Vault

Over all my years of training, I have come across tons of martial instructional  video tapes and books.  They are helpful as a supplement to your training IF you are training in an actual school with an actual instructor and actual students (so that you can apply what you learned).  They explain things that maybe you did not understand clearly in school, provide another perspective and give you an opportunity to watch how a move is done again and again.  On a lighter note, they are relics of the past that are fun to watch and laugh at with.

Spike Jonze’s New Animated Short Premieres Friday at IFC Center

Spike Jonze’s new animated short, MOURIR AUPRES DE TOI (To Die by Your Side) has its U.S. theatrical premiere at IFC Center.  The short will play before IFC Center’s regular features starting June 10 as part of IFC's ongoing “Short Attention Span Cinema” Program.

Directed by Spike Jonze with Simon Cahn and inspired by French Designer Olympia Le-Tan.  The short is set in Paris’s storied Shakespeare and Co. bookstore and concerns the adventures of a skeleton (voiced by Jonze) who springs off the cover of “Macbeth” and falls for a damsel from “Dracula.” Filmed in painstaking stop-motion animation, the film required a new stitched felt character for each shot-some 3,000 felt parts in total. “Felt is not the easiest thing to animate,” Mr. Jonze noted. “It’s very flimsy.”  A “making-of” video is below:

Streaming for MLG - June 3-5, 2011

All about encoding and transcoding video streams this weekend with Liette the Editor and Streamworks Int.  The partnership between Streamworks and Major League Gaming (MLG) was an effort to improve viewer spectatorship.  The  video stream was for the MLG's competitions (Starcraft, Halo and COD) that took place this weekend (June 3-5) in Columbus, Ohio.  Aside from learning more about broadcast technologies, I picked up alot of good COD tips... Multiplayer, here I come!

Chris Abbas - "Cassini Mission"

CASSINI MISSION from Chris Abbas on Vimeo.

Plus an interview with Chris Abbas about the short film.

Shooting with Haffe, Memorial Day Weekend

Was with Haffe the DP in Brooklyn shooting a documentary at the Fort Greene Fair Festival, Memorial Day Weekend 2011.