Happy Chinese New Year 2012 - Year of the Dragon

Happy Chinese New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Gong Xi Fa Cai or Gong Hei Fatt Choi for different dialects in the Chinese Language. Everyone have a Happy Chinese New Year, may the year of the Dragon protect us and brings us all a prosperous year.

Did you know?

Meaning Behind Jackie Chan & Bruce Lee's Chinese Names

As a tradition, Chinese Kung Fu stars have their own stage names. It's the same case for both Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. People seldom remember their real names since the stage names are so popular.

Stage Name for Jackie Chan was Cheng Long, literally translated as"Become the Dragon".

Bruce Lee's stage name was Xiao Long, meaning "Little Dragon". Somehow similar?

The Dragon - Mystical creature in Chinese folklore & Mythology, the Chinese dragons traditionally symbolize potent and auspicious powers, particularly control over water, rainfall, hurricane, and floods. The dragon is a symbol of power, strength, and good luck.

So typically you will see Chinese Family plans to give birth on the year of the dragon..........an army of babies...

I am the Warrior of the dragon!

Happy Chinese New Year 2012 everyone!

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Thousand Pounds - Street Fighter 25th Birthday

What is the definition of a dislocated jaw? The picture above.

Keeping up with the spirit of Street Fighter 25th Birthday, here's a group of stuntman/Martial Artist doing their own rendition of Ultra Combos from courtesy of Street Fighter 4. We've all seen how martial art fight scenes in movies have evolved throughout the years now even Video Games is taking up a notch into making the illusion of hitting hard to REALLY hurts.

Courtesy of the group from "Thousand Pounds" 

I'm telling you guys, video games makes action sequences so much more awesome simply by manipulating the traditional camera angles into hyper realism camera angles to achieve the greatest effect. Aside from Japanese film maker Ryuhei Kitamura, I have yet to see Hollywood attempt to mimic the camera angles of a video game to achieve for maximum impact. 

I wonder why Capcom have yet to create a drunken master character in their fighting games. 

As Jackie Chan would (probably) say, "Comedy is all about timing & pauses, Martial Arts comedy is all about high impact timing and fancy pauses" not to mention the help of camera angles and exaggerated sound design.
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