Journal entries with drawings in them! (And sometimes real pictures) When I find something remotely interesting in my daily life, I report it and draw it out for your entertainment here.
The Official blog of Rotten Sandwich co-founder Dan Lam, his drawings, doodles, pictures and mindless jabber as you like. This may be the only thing keeping his sanity in check and his mind off of smoking, at least till his fingers leave the keyboard.
Leslie Feist's long awaited third album is to be released in October 6th in North America, she recently released a paint by numbers album cover on her facebook. This is my take on what the cover could look like. Hope you all like it!
You can also catch snippets of her new music at her official website @ www.listentofeist.com. There is a great piece about the new album which gives a more information on the songs that may be included in the album, you can find there here.
Plus, don't forget to catch the amazing documentary on Feist and her creative process called "Look at What the Light Did Now"
I don't know about you but something about listening to Feist's music makes me feel like I want to put on a nice wool sweater, drink some hot chocolate and feelin' chilly (gonzales). And since I'm on a Feist fix right now, here is my playlist of her music that I will be listening to all week:
So, I've been away from blogger world for a bit and now I've come back with some stuff to share.
I've recently made a short playlist of videos that culminates the best work of Hong Kong action film director Tsui Hark. Considered to be the Steven Spielberg of Hong Kong cinema, he brought action, comedy and dazzling visual effects to the films of the 1980s. He has produced and directed many staple Hong Kong films such as A Chinese Ghost Story, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and Iron Monkey. He's produced for "Gun-Fu" Director John Woo (both of which famously had a falling out) and famed Action coordinator Yuen Woo-Ping.
His directing efforts has been few compared to other prolific Hong Kong filmmakers. He's best known for the Once Upon a Time in China series with Jet Li, based on an actual historical Chinese figure Wong Fei Hung (a physician/martial artist). They were made in a time where Hong Kong was still occupied by the British and national identity seemed to be at a crisis. Peking Opera Blues is a kind of Charlie's Angels set in early 20th century China, Twin Dragons was his first project with Jackie Chan and Seven Swords was Tsui Hark's 'Lord of the Rings' big adaptation.
The playlist was inspired by a recent Facebook posting by a friend who posted the trailer of Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Tsui Hark's latest film starring Andy Lau (Infernal Affairs I, II & III), Tony Leung Kar-Fai (Election I & II) and Carina Lau (Days of Being Wild, 2046). I felt that Detective Dee was not Tsui Hark's strongest film, it had the well intention of being a period mystery thriller, but bad screenwriting, sloppy cinematography and underwhelming CGI made the film campy. The film will be released on September 2nd in select theaters around the nation.
So I put together a short list of films that I think best represents Tsui Hark's body of work.
Watch my playlist here:
Coming out at the end of the year is Tsui Hark's second attempt at the Dragon Inn story, working with Jet Li again but this time in 3D. Here is the teaser trailer of their latest effort.
Update (7/31):
Catch the chance to see one of Tsui Hark's early special effects heavy film, Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain on the big screen at BAM in Brooklyn, NY on August 8th. The film stars Bridgette Lin (Ashes of Time), Yuen Biao (Once Upon a Time in China) and Sammo Hung (Project A).
There has been an unexpected hiatus of entries that I will have to write for another day. In the meantime, here are some photos I took on my little Nikon camera and beautified with the iPod Touch app, Instagram. Click on the photos to enlarge.
