MORTAL COMBAT
This weekend I went to the World Combat League tournament at the Expo Square Pavillion. Winnercomm is involved in the production side of the events & Jason- the producer I worked with on the poker tournament at Sundance is the producer & director of these WCL events, so he hooked me up with some press passes. I didn't think I'd dig it that much, but it was actually pretty cool. Joseph & I went in the afternoon & then Paule & I went back that night. The WCL was created by Chuck Norris & it's a much better format than any kind of fighting sport I've tried to watch. The fights are only 3 minutes long & there are penalties for "holding" & "passivity" - (backing up or basically being wimpy) that encourage pretty continuous action. So it's not like boxing, where guys are just dancing around saving their energy. I took some pics & video on my digital camera, so I thought I'd try to edit something together on the new version of iMovie '08 that I've never used (& read so many terrible consumer reviews about).
Turns out I don't like it either- they took away the standard linear/timeline look that people who edit on normal digital editing systems might be used to. I think it was created for regular people who never edit video & somehow the interface is designed to be simpler for those kind of people. Regardless, I didn't like it & didn't want to try to figure it out- so luckly, Apple provides a free download of iMovie HD '06 for people who bought a Mac after iLife '08 was released with iMovie '08. So I downloaded it & threw together this little piece for you all.
Sidenote: I was standing backstage after the fights were over talking to some friends, when security started clearing a path through the small crowd of people. I stepped aside thinking that the last team to finish was coming through- when lo & behold, in all his glory, Mr. Chuck Norris was walking by. The guy standing in front of me stuck out his hand & shook Chuck's hand, then Chuck offered his hand to me. Terrified for my life, I did shake it. I can't believe I lived, I consider myself very lucky & strangely, I feel a little more powerful.
Oh, & my camera battery died halfway through the fights in the evening & Paule had already left- so I have no evidence of my Chuck Norris encounter.
This weekend I went to the World Combat League tournament at the Expo Square Pavillion. Winnercomm is involved in the production side of the events & Jason- the producer I worked with on the poker tournament at Sundance is the producer & director of these WCL events, so he hooked me up with some press passes. I didn't think I'd dig it that much, but it was actually pretty cool. Joseph & I went in the afternoon & then Paule & I went back that night. The WCL was created by Chuck Norris & it's a much better format than any kind of fighting sport I've tried to watch. The fights are only 3 minutes long & there are penalties for "holding" & "passivity" - (backing up or basically being wimpy) that encourage pretty continuous action. So it's not like boxing, where guys are just dancing around saving their energy. I took some pics & video on my digital camera, so I thought I'd try to edit something together on the new version of iMovie '08 that I've never used (& read so many terrible consumer reviews about).
Turns out I don't like it either- they took away the standard linear/timeline look that people who edit on normal digital editing systems might be used to. I think it was created for regular people who never edit video & somehow the interface is designed to be simpler for those kind of people. Regardless, I didn't like it & didn't want to try to figure it out- so luckly, Apple provides a free download of iMovie HD '06 for people who bought a Mac after iLife '08 was released with iMovie '08. So I downloaded it & threw together this little piece for you all.
Sidenote: I was standing backstage after the fights were over talking to some friends, when security started clearing a path through the small crowd of people. I stepped aside thinking that the last team to finish was coming through- when lo & behold, in all his glory, Mr. Chuck Norris was walking by. The guy standing in front of me stuck out his hand & shook Chuck's hand, then Chuck offered his hand to me. Terrified for my life, I did shake it. I can't believe I lived, I consider myself very lucky & strangely, I feel a little more powerful.
Oh, & my camera battery died halfway through the fights in the evening & Paule had already left- so I have no evidence of my Chuck Norris encounter.
posted by Angelene and Jonny at 12:55 AM
1 Comments:
You know what happens when you shake Chuck Norris' hand don't you... oh yeah you did... was it the one that comes out of his beard? :-)
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