Day 4 - Saturday May 19 Today was much more relaxed. I slept in until 7:10am for a change and spent the first two hours writing. Rebecca and I ate some of the fine, bagged 2€ madelines from the supermarket and set off to catch all the booths we may have missed. What we found [...]
Thailand
High-octane action videos you probably haven’t seen
onTired of stunts done with computer graphics? Wires that gently float actors down after a dangerous 4-foot jump? Still imagining the pads off camera? Here is some much-needed medicine for your ailment. Let's start early on, just at the peak of the Hong Kong "old school" kung fu film. "Shapes", or succinct, posing movements that [...]
Panna Rittikrai and the origins of Thai “real contact”
onIf you've watched Tony Jaa, you understand the term "real contact." Though Sammo Hung had been doing it in the early 80s, Thailand was hardly slow to the plate. Panna Rittikrai, the choreographer behind Ong Bak, directed/produced/actionized (just pretend it's a word, you know what I mean) 15 or so ultra low-budget martial art films [...]