Study the Tape

Compare and contrast.  

Imagine what this fight could be.

Hope it happens.

10 Classic Hollywood Screentests

Emily Temple makes a list of 10 Classic Hollywood Screentests and I have to wonder, do these screentests shine because we are so familiar with the actors and actresses OR because they are just that good?!?

The Story of a Streetfighter Gamer

FOCUS is a riveting documentary presented by G4 Films and directed by Steve Hwang. Follow a year in the life of pro gamer Mike Ross as he prepares to do battle at EVO 2010 in Las Vegas.

Props to: Beautiful/Decay and G4

Xbox 360 Games - E3 2012 - Mortal Kombat

World Class Driver

Tales in Production: Videos Galore!!!

What a week! 

Worked on everything from a fitness music video during the week. Then shot a dope music video for Undeniable with Danny Neiba from Friday to Saturday.  And then another music video on Sunday (also with Danny Neiba) for Verbz, Guestos & Anonymous MC who spit lyrics on Kontraban's track at Melodream Entertainment studios.  Plus found time to squeeze in a taping of the NALIP-NY & NYILFF panel on Webisodes.  
Averaged about 8 hours of sleep from Friday to Sunday but was running on a creative high the whole time.  
I am definitely getting used to this. 

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Koyaanisquatsi 

directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke

Knockout Statistics for 2011

from Blackbelt:

Analyst James LaFond studied 1,675 acts of violence that took place between June 1996 and May 2000. At the request of the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, he then analyzed the incidents in his study that led to a knockout.

Some interesting observations:

What are the most effective one-strike-knockout methods?

·  100-percent success with a sucker punch by a competition-level boxer, delivered to the jaw of an individual male who is usually taller and talking.

·  98-percent success with a surprise come-from-behind strike executed with a heavy blunt weapon to the head of an intoxicated male.

·  95-percent success with a poor-leverage throw effected by a larger male against a smaller member of an aggressive group or against an individual participant in a match fight.

·  90-percent success with a punch thrown by an average-size athletic man against an unprepared member of a poorly organized aggressive group.

·  90-percent success with a kick thrown by a competition-level kickboxer against an unprepared person.

·  80-percent success with an elbow strike to the head or face executed by a male wrestler, boxer or kickboxer.

·  75-percent success with an attack effected with a moving vehicle on a pedestrian.

Note that 73 percent is the typical rate of success for aggressors, with the vast majority of the incapacitations stemming from multiple strikes.

AND:

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How do specific fighting arts rate?

·  19 percent of karate stylists who hadn’t kickboxed knocked out their opponents in violent situations. This is identical to the worldwide kickboxing KO rate of 19 percent.

·  20 percent of boxers knocked out their antagonists, compared to the 34-percent worldwide boxing KO rate. These fights were often urban street encounters that featured groups, weapons and indecisive resolutions.

·  90 percent of boxers involved in drunken brawls knocked out their opponents, with 10 percent sustaining hand injuries. Not one of those boxers jabbed.

·  36 percent of martial artists who had kickboxed knocked out their antagonists. These encounters reflect a wide variety of circumstances and correspond to the worldwide boxing KO rate. The side kick was the dominant KO strike.

·  47 percent of identified noncombat athletes scored KOs in brawls and self-defense situations. They were primarily large throwers (football players) and small punchers (rugby, softball and soccer players) taking the fight to low-cohesion groups of smaller males.

AND: 

How did the various weapons perform with respect to knockouts?

The incapacitation rates were as follows:

·  Folding knife: 19%

·  Fixed-blade knife: 38%

·  Pencil: 13%

·  Pointed tool: 44%

·  Prison-made shank: 64%

·  Razor: 5%

·  Sword: 33%

·  Stick/baton: 37% (for law-enforcement officers), 20% (for escrimadors), 28% (for untrained persons), 27% (for groups)

·  Bat: 58%

·  Board/club: 70%

·  Sap/blackjack: 47%

·  Stone/brick/trophy: 56%

·  Blunt tool: 42%

·  Machinery/furniture: 42%

·  Everyday item (bottle, etc.): 20% (used by the defender), 7% (used by the aggressor)

Dutch Wife

Dutch Wife from Jesse Kanda on Vimeo.

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