Bruce Lee Memorials

[GeneChing]

This is now a Tiger Claw Foundation project.

You can help by filling out the online support form at http://www.brucelee.com/site/stamp or downloading a letter there and mailing it. Do it now. In order for Bruce Lee to become a postage stamp candidate for 2012, support must be garnered as soon as possible.

In cooperation with BruceLee.com, KungFuMagazine.com and TigerClaw.com.

[enoajnin]

I saw an ad for this and thought it was the premiere. I read through this thread and found, as usual, I am way behind. But I'm the first to post a review.

This episode was about his affect on movies and entertainment. They talked a little bit about his background as a child actor in HK. It was funny because they showed the dubbed versions of those shows. This was probably the most interesting thing in the whole show. It lasted maybe forty seconds.

They briefly mentioned 'The Green Hornet' series and the cameo he did on 'Batman' They didn't mention his plans for 'Kung Fu' the series.

They cut the clips of all his movies together at a furious pace and intercut it with interviews of Action Sports stars and Hollywood stars. I couldn't catch all the Action stars names but they did have Ryan Phillipe, Michael Strathern (Giants Football), Matt Damon. They also had some of Bruce Lee's friends speak on camera.

They also had the action sport stars show clips of them doing their sports and then had them talk about how they emulate Bruce Lee in their respective sports.

I guess they want to get the kids involved by showing guys on motorcycles and skateboards and BMX bikes. It seems to me that if you want to get people interested in Bruce Lee you could just show them Bruce Lee.

There was too much information to be shared in a half hour. They spent about thirty seconds on Bruce Lee's one-inch punch with somebody else doing the punch. The clips from his films all went by way too fast. There was too much talking heads and not enough Bruce Lee. With all that said, they showed some of the same Bruce clips two times.

I don't know what the other episodes show, but all this did was make me want to go re-watch all of Bruce Lee's films. I might catch other episodes of the show just to see if it's more of the same or they actually have something to say.

[GeneChing]

I really wish I could see what this is all about. Sounds fun.

Bruce-O-Rama | Claire Hodge | 1 September – 1 October 2011
Launch: 1st September 7pm | artist talk: 7.30 pm

Bruce-O-Rama is an audiovisual interactive installation that invites the participant to engage with appropriated Bruce Lee fight footage. When you walk in the gallery space, you will initially be confronted with a darkened room, much like that of the cinema before the film begins. As you move in the gallery space, you will trigger floor pressure sensors
that will reveal looped sections of Bruce Lee films. The projection is divided in six equal parts, each assigned a spatially corresponding floor sensor. Triggering the various floor sensors will provide a rhythmic composition of sorts. When more than one person interacts with the installation, the musical and visual composition becomes more layered and complex.

Bruce-O-Rama
Get interactive with Bruce Lee in this aceartinc. exhibit
Ryan Harby
7:31 pm

You’ve seen the iconic yellow jumpsuit that Bruce Lee made famous in the ’70s, you’ve heard the familiar scream Bruce Lee unleashes just before dispatching a foe. But have you ever felt what it was like to conduct a Bruce Lee fight as if you were some sort of dance pad combat maestro?

Bruce-O-Rama, as the aceartinc. gallery describes it, is an audiovisual interactive installation that invites the participant to engage with appropriated Bruce Lee fight footage.

Imagine, then, entering a dark hall at the end of which you see a series of sensored pads on the floor. The pads are only slightly elevated above the floor; when you step on them each one individually triggers a different clip from one common Bruce Lee fight sequence. The clips are all projected on a giant screen in front of you, as if you’re playing a giant video game that allows you to remix fights from kung fu films. Myself, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the scene from the movie Big with the giant floor piano.

The more you play around with your own sequence of footsteps on the pads the more varied both the projections and their corresponding sound clips become. And as engaging as the experience as a whole can be, it is the sound of it all in particular that Bruce-O-Rama artist Claire Hodge is most interested in.

A flamenco musician herself, Hodge finds there is a certain musical quality to the fluidity and the kinetic dance of the kung fu genre of film.

“The sound score of fight scenes tend to reflect the frenetic visuals — rapid movement of the actors, quick cuts, changing angles — and become quite percussive as a result,” says Hodge. “The sounds are typically loud and short lasting — short attack, short release — akin to the sounds of a percussion instrument. As a result, they lend themselves well to reinterpretations that use alternative rhythmic structures such as flamenco music.”

For a slightly more streamlined, less interactive experience, the Bruce-O-Rama installation also offers Flamenco Bruce, a sharp re-cutting of several Bruce Lee fight clips edited in such a way that the sound effects of the combat, in quick succession, mimic the sounds of a flamenco dance.

When it came down to actually pulling from her resources, Hodge says she took in any and all Bruce Lee films she could get her hands on.

“If you look closely at Flamenco Bruce, you should see at least five different sources. As for the interactive piece, my choices were mostly limited in that I had to find Bruce Lee films that had fight scenes that could be re-spatialized to create a wider cinematic space. Trust me, no easy task. So I was initially looking more at the visual aspect.”

And although the odd comparison will be made here and there, Hodge laughs at the notion that her foot sensor design was at all inspired by the popular Dance Dance Revolution video game series.

“Funny enough, I did not know about [that game] when I first came up with the idea of the floor sensors,” says Hodge.

“I initially had thought of using a punching bag as an interactive structure, where people would hit the bag and trigger video events. I was clear from the start that I wanted the interactive framework to promote physical engagement. However, I later also became interested in the idea of filmic and spectatorial/mental space and wanted to create an interactive system that made people aware of the space, the positioning of their bodies in the space, etc.. I think that's where the floor sensors basically came in.”

The Bruce-O-Rama exhibit launched Sept. 1 and will run until Oct. 1 at the aceartinc. gallery, second floor, 290 McDermot Avenue.

[GeneChing]

Bruce Lee gallery to be set up in Hong Kong
Posted: 12 October 2011 1559 hrs


File photo shows a man viewing an exhibition of the late kung fu legend and film star Bruce Lee. (AFP photo/file/Mike Clarke)

HONG KONG: A gallery in honour of Bruce Lee, who helped make martial arts mainstream with kung fu classics like "Fists of Fury" will be built in Hong Kong.

Chief Executive Donald Tsang announced in his annual policy address Wednesday that the government would set up a gallery in honour of the artist at the government-run Hong Kong Heritage Museum.

The legendary martial arts exponent and actor died in 1973 at the height of his career and his many fans have long demanded a tribute to the star.

The only memorial to the actor is in the town he was born in -- San Francisco -- and not Hong Kong where he grew up and brought martial arts film into the mainstream with his innovative martial arts choreography.

The actor who played Kato in the original Green Hornet TV series, fueled the Hong Kong film industry with his movies and is credited as an influence other actors such as Jacky Chan.

Fans were disappointed in June when the government said a plan to build a Bruce Lee museum in his old house was cancelled after negotiations with the property's current owner broke down.

No details were given by the Hong Kong government on the museum plans, which fans welcomed as better than nothing.

"Of course we're still hoping the government could find ways to turn his old home into a museum," Wong Yiu-keung, chairman of the Bruce Lee Fan Club in Hong Kong, told AFP.

Long after Lee's death, his old home was turned into a hotel with rooms rented by the hour at very cheap rates.

A Hong Kong auction in August sold 13 Lee items for a total US$227,000 smashing pre-sale estimates.

Wait, S.F. has the only memorial? Which memorial is that exactly?

[GeneChing]

I was also contacted about a meeting in Oakland about setting a plaque at the site of Bruce's first school. I think that meeting was last Monday, but unfortunately I was already booked.

Bruce Lee Action Museum gets a 'kick' start
Lee considered Seattle is hometown
Web Reporter Q13 FOX News Online
10:38 a.m. PDT, October 20, 2011
SEATTLE—

Martial arts legend Bruce Lee and his son Brandon are both buried in Seattle. Now a new push to honor their memories with a museum is gaining steam.

Bruce Lee went to school in Seattle, opened a martial arts school in Seattle, and considered Seattle to be his hometown. City councilman Bruce Harrell is holding a fundraiser with Bruce Lee's daughter Shannon this Friday as part of a capital campaign to raise $10 million dollars.

Harrell is also working with the city`s Office of Economic Development and its office of Arts & Cultural Affairs to try and make the project a reality.

The Bruce Lee Action Museum would include a place where people could do martial arts, as well as a theater, gift store and research library.

Bruce Lee moved to Seattle in the early 1960s where a family friend, Ruby Chow, had a restaurant and had promised Bruce a job and living quarters above the restaurant. He enrolled at Edison Technical School and later the University of Washington where he majored in philosophy and met his future wife.

The fundraiser is this Friday at the Imperial Garden restaurant.

[GeneChing]

Orange Caramel Comeback as Cute Bruce Lee
by: sOo JjI on Oct 16, 2011



Group Orange Caramel made their comeback performance October 16 on SBS "Inkigayo" with their new song "Shanghai Romance."

In the past, through songs such as "Magic Girl" and "A-ing," Orange Caramel has gained popularity through their unique concepts. After their most recent release "Bangkok City," they have changed their geographic location to Shanghai. This song has gained attention before its release due to the fact that Super Junior's Kim Hee Chul, who has recently started his military service, wrote this song.

All three members now sport brown hair styled and styled as bobs to fit the concept. With Chinese martial arts style "kung fu dance" and modernized versions of the Chinese traditional qi pao, Orange Caramel has already begun to make waves in gaining popularity and attention with their international feel.

On the day of their comeback Orange Caramel wore Bruce Lee imitation bright yellow training suits transformed into mini dresses, exuding their nonstop cuteness.

On this episode of "Inkigayo" Wheesung, FT Island and Orange Caramel all made comebacks while Super Junior held their goodbye stage. Groups such as Brown Eyed Girls, Infinite and Davichi were also present.

Orange Caramel - Shanghai Romance (Oct 16, 2011) watch at your own risk.

[GeneChing]

Bruce Lee museum in Seattle gets consideration

Amid the wonky hashing of budgetary items in the Seattle City Council this week was a little glimmer of fun: a proposal to consider a Bruce Lee museum in Seattle.

Actually, it was a proposal (pdf) for a study on the feasibility of such a museum using city resources. But for martial arts fans, that’s progress, considering the idea has been in the works for years.

A 1970s icon, Lee lived in Seattle from 1959 to 1964, and is buried in Lake View Cemetery in Capitol Hill. He died in his prime in 1973, days after his movie “Enter the Dragon” was released.

His surviving family members have been developing a museum in his name through the California-based Bruce Lee Foundation. In June, the family ditched the idea of locating the museum in Hong Kong, where Lee had lived, and expressed interest in opening it in Seattle – preferably in Chinatown or the International District, the city said.

“It’s amazing how popular Bruce Lee is when you go to other countries,” Council president Richard Conlin said in a budget discussion Tuesday. “This is an astonishing opportunity for a great tourist attraction.”

The proposed study would be due next year. It would look at site availability and funding strategies. Says the proposal:

Council sees this as a unique opportunity for the City, one that could provide both a new cultural facility showcasing a figure in Seattle’s recent history, as well as a means for providing economic development opportunities for the Chinatown-International District.

If it happens, can they get Orange Caramel to play for the opening?

[GeneChing]

Hyderabad | Posted on Nov 21, 2011 at 11:08am IST
Of made in India puns
indianexpress Express News Service , The New Indian Express

ONE of the greatest contributions of Shah Rukh Khan to this joke-starved world has been his extravagant 150 crore initiative to revive interest in that old campus art form called ‘Bruce Lee’ jokes. Couched as a science fiction superhero movie - SRK’s Ra.One is well and truly an elaborate 154- minute surrogate commercial to peddle the infectious cheesiness of the Iski Lee, Uski Lee and Sabki Lee sub genre of Made-in-India puns. For the dim-bulbs who still don’t know what I am alluding to, the Bruce Lee Joke (BLJ) is the rite of passage for any Groucho who wants to be a Marx. It’s the adolescent brand of DIY drollery that’s about creating a Chinese character by playing on the word LEE. To put it in a Tamil context, it’s about inventing the mother of all mokkais. A BLJ is very much like a sneeze. It happens effortlessly. And when it happens, at least one person in the room will be able to see the humour in the hatchoo.

The beauty of it is, anyone can join the fun. The template BLJ is always about coming up with punny names by posing bizarre questions. Questions like ‘If Bruce Lee were to reincarnate as a naïve Indian woman, what would you call her?’ The answer to that would be Bholee Bhalee. That didn’t amuse you eh? Okay, here’s one more. What would be the name of Bruce Lee’s married Indian sister? Sumanga Lee. His epileptic Tamil uncle? Kaka Va Lee. And his kanjoos brother? Miser Lee! The trick is to play it like ping pong. First you serve a dolly such as ‘What is Bruce Lee’s favourite delivery? Goog Lee. The moment someone hears this, they’ll think, ‘Ah, I can do better!’ And an old PJ will tumble out. That’s a signal for you to try an original Chinese chop. You should reply: “What car does he drive? Bent Lee!” Before your opponent can collect himself, you must go for the kill with “His favourite song? Trulee Madlee Deeplee!” Deed done, battle won, you must khiskofy via the patlee galee and shout: “Teri Lay Lee’!

I still don't know what they're talking about. Does that make me a dim-bulb?

[GeneChing]

I only posted Bruce. Follow the link for the rest of the art.

Here is a Marvel Super-Hero fan poster.

I had always dreamed that one day we could see a Marvel Super Hero movie.

Now we have the Spider-Man movies, the X-Men movies, Thor and now the Avengers. But they don't have my dream cast.

I hope you will enjoy this original take on these famous characters.

[GeneChing]

Bruce Lee's Temple of Kung Fu X MAD Figurine Collectibles Announced
By Pietro Filipponi
Published: February 7, 2012 - 10:01am

Round 5 announces exclusive collaboration with art toy design legend Jeremy Madl, aka MAD, on its first ever release of Round 5 X Bruce Lee X MAD figures and the debut of Bruce Lee's Temple of Kung Fu line of collectibles.

The Temple of Kung Fu launch represents the first of several planned collaborations between Round 5 and established artists from the art toy space centering on the official Bruce Lee brand.

"There are so many different things to celebrate about Bruce Lee, the martial artist, the philosopher, the actor, but here we are just celebrating Bruce Lee - the legend," said Damon Lau, President of Round 5. "Working with MAD on a brand like Bruce Lee has been incredible, his passion for the brand is so evident in the design of this collection, which is amongst the best we've ever created."

The first Temple of Kung Fu figures scheduled for global release this summer will feature a 3-inch blind box assortment of 28 characters including a variety of mystery characters, and will be available at select retailers around the world. In addition to the standard figures, Temple of Kung Fu will include hyper-limited chase figures featuring alternative colorways, costume designs, and accessories.

The Temple of Kung Fu will feature a broad variety of figures inspired by the legend and career of Bruce Lee, and those of Kung Fu history and lore.

MAD, best known for his collaborations with Kidrobot, is eager to be working on the Bruce Lee brand. "I've been a fan of Bruce Lee since watching his movies as a kid, and he's become such an icon I jumped at the opportunity to create this line," said MAD. "I think everyone will be blown away by our first release."

Bruce is right up there with Bak Mei, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, and some Shaolin monk dude.

[GeneChing]

Rocking the yellow and black in the Superbowl ad with the Kill Bill soundtrack.

The Voice - Vocal Kombat

[GeneChing]

February 23, 2012, 11:08 AM HKT
Bruce Lee: The Fragrance

Is that Bruce Lee you’re wearing?

Bruce Lee Enterprises, the business arm managing the late martial-arts star’s legacy, this week launched a line of colognes in Dubai bearing Mr. Lee’s image and name.

Shannon Lee, his daughter and the head of the company, said the collaboration came about when she met Chkoudra Paris, a French fragrance firm, at a licensing show about a year ago.

There are three fragrances under the Bruce Lee banner, with names that allude to his own unique brand of Eastern philosophy and spirituality. There’s B Water (which Ms. Lee describes it as “an elegant, casual scent”), Anger Blind (“spicy, more aggressive”) and Don’t Think Feel (“more woody and natural”).

Ms. Lee said the scents are intended for the mass market, selling for around $15 at major retailers like Carrefour as well as independent stores.

Do any of the scents replicate the colognes the late star wore in his heyday? Well, not quite, said Ms. Lee.

“My dad was quite fond of patchouli in the 1970s, as many hippies were,” she admitted. With this line, she added, “we didn’t want it to be too patchouli-heavy.”

The colognes have already been introduced in Panama and Singapore last year, but Ms. Lee says that the Middle Eastern launch is the largest to date. The next step, she said, is bringing the colognes to Hong Kong and China later this year — the two places where he is most revered.

Now I'm remembering the great martial arts colognes. Remember Hai Karate? Ninja Colonge?

[Jimbo]

LOL! I remember those Hai Karate commercials.

[GeneChing]

Weintraub is doing a book signing next weekend in Emeryville, which is about 20 minutes north of here. Unfortunately, it's a Saturday that I've already booked.

BRUCE LEE, WOODSTOCK AND ME

Fred Weintraub is the Hollywood legend you've never heard of. This visionary showman founded the landmark club The Bitter End in Greenwich Village; started the careers of Bill Cosby, Joan Rivers, Woody Allen and Neil Diamond; championed the making of the Woodstock film (saving Warner Bros. Pictures in the process); discovered the martial arts sensation Bruce Lee and produced the classic film Enter the Dragon, along with forty other motion pictures with such stars as Steve McQueen, George C. Scott, Robert Duvall, Kirsten Dunst and dozens of others. In his insightful, funny, bawdy memoir, Weintraub bangs heads with foreign dictators; mobsters; movie executives; difficult stars; and red-baiting producers -- and bangs headboards with a lusty succession of Sexual Revolutionary women on his fifty-year journey through the entertainment business. It's a trip you won't want to miss.

Actually, why on earth would I want to read about his sexual conquests?

[GeneChing]

Mar 1, 2012 4:50 am
Mobile Leaders Facing Network Complexity Look to Bruce Lee
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News

The final keynote session of Mobile World Congress 2012 may be remembered, if it is remembered at all, as The Bruce Lee Keynote.

Both Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse and ZTE President Shi Lirong invoked the legendary kung fu master in speeches during the Thursday morning event, which took place as the world's largest mobile trade show came to a close in Barcelona. Their comments summed up some of the challenges facing vendors and operators of mobile networks, which are becoming more complex even as data demand and cost pressures grow.

This week's conference has hosted a flood of new developments for heterogeneous networks of traditional macro cells, Wi-Fi hotspots, and femtocells and other small cells. The multiple parts allow carriers to get the most out of their finite spectrum and optimize coverage and capacity in all areas, but this requires new standards for managing those systems and helping subscribers move from one to the next.

ZTE's Lirong cited Lee to compliment Sprint, calling Hesse's company the premier example of a carrier balancing multiple networks. Sprint's services run over CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access), iDEN and WiMax, and this year the company will also launch LTE (Long-Term Evolution). Likewise, Lee combined aspects of many different schools of Chinese martial arts, he said.

"A true master, like Bruce Lee, is one that can converge the skills of all kung fu systems," Lirong said. "The one that masters the converged solution for multiple networks will be kung fu master of telecom."

Earlier, Hesse had quoted the star of "Enter the Dragon" in describing Sprint's philosophy:

"Simplicity is the key to brilliance," Hesse said, quoting Lee. That sentiment may also have partly driven Sprint's decision, according to news reports earlier this week, to reject a proposed acquisition of midsize U.S. carrier MetroPCS. Sprint is already in the middle of building a multitechnology network that will carry its LTE services, and is navigating a complicated relationship with Clearwire, which supplies its current 4G network with WiMax. MetroPCS operates LTE and CDMA networks.

Juniper Networks CEO Kevin Johnson and Arm Holdings CEO Warren East discussed two other mobile network challenges in the keynote. Johnson said applications such as gaming and streaming video increasingly will demand the same speeds upstream from handsets to the Internet as they do downstream, which will force a change from the traditional asymmetric structure of most mobile and fixed networks.

Arm's East said power consumption is a major cost for carriers and one factor limiting the expansion of mobile networks. Arm can extend the type of efficient, integrated system-on-chip designs used in mobile devices, where it is dominant, into cellular base stations, cutting their power consumption by 70 percent, he said.

Stephen Lawson covers mobile, storage and networking technologies for The IDG News Service. Follow Stephen on Twitter at @sdlawsonmedia. Stephen's e-mail address is stephen_lawson@idg.com

Remember the phone article earlier in this thread?