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The best thing to do in a walled medeival city is get some plastic swords and have sword fights up and down the many stone stairways. Very Basil Rathbone/Erol Flynn. Fletcher independently said he had to lose because he had the black sword, and black is for bad guys, and bad guys always lose.
Check out the video (it's short.)
Do any of you like co-operative boardgames with a dungeon-crawl theme?
Check out the latest game I've been involved with at Lynnvander Studios on Kickstarter:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lynnvander/gasconys-legacy-t...
Taken yesterdayat the Herstmonceaux Medieval Festival, in pouring rain, this shows two of the re-enactors demonstrating a Broadsword training session. Unfortunately, the scheduled skirmish in front of th castle was cancelled due to the weather, but the demonstrations held instead were still great fun to watch...
Mercutio takes on Tybalt. That's me in the background watching. One of the coolest things about this production was getting to play with swords.
Greenwood, 1981
Scene from the Young People's Theatre production of " All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play". photo by john davis taken 11/1/2011
This Christmas the prize for the most thoughtful and simultaneously the most disturbing gift I received was this fabulous card from the amazing iJVC (more about J if you search out his writing for BBC Focus magazine - for example, the Science of Internet Dating! sciencefocus.com/feature/psychology/science-online-dating)
J is one of the many wonderful people I met through the anime community many a moon ago, and in my head he is perpetually a ninja - I think this is a confused mixture of a tale he told me of climbing on windowsills of the Hotel Ibis one Minamicon mixed with my awareness of his Kendo skills. Elsewhere on my Flickr I've chronicled the amazingness of his house at Skynet, so he probably IS a ninja.
However, in recent times I've seen very little of him. Given this, I wasn't expecting to get one of the most thoughtful Christmas cards ever from him - and consequently when I opened it I thought it was a death threat! The inside of the card reads:
'Merry Christmas to Laura & Tom! Hope you find something long and sharp under the tree.'
When coupled with an unintelligible signature, you've got to admit that's a bit unnerving? Just a bit?
Imagine my relief and joy on turning the card over to see a post-it from J explaining that the card was from Neal Stephenson, cyberpunk literary legend and the hero behind the hilarious Kickstarter video designed to fund a realistic swordfighting game! www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang (ah, the card message not only makes sense - it's the kindest wish one could make me! How I would love to unwrap a sword on Christmas day! When I said that to Tom he said he'd already looked at swords for me but hadn't found an affordable one, so he clearly knows me very well - but so does J!)
It was such a lovely and personal and unexpected surprise, and such a fantastic reminder that out of sight certainly doesn't have to mean out of mind; I've had such a disconnected year in many respects that sometimes I do wonder how reachable my friends are any more. A surprise like this is the sort of thing that just floods the system with joy and hope and optimism and trust, whether J considered that or not. I've always been very conscious of how fortunate I've been in life in the people I have met, and it's easy to feel when you meet really brilliant people that actually, they'd be well within their rights to drift away with time, because even a tiny sample of their awesomeness is enough to keep you going for a lifetime! But it's so much better when you look for them and find them just where you left them.
Of course, when someone makes such a kind and personal effort, it also makes me feel significantly more motivated to be that person myself, though I really do try to be all the time. But it's nice when something really kicks you into gear and reminds you what you value in people so you can remember to integrate it. Getting this card was like I'd been casting Blizzard for months and then suddenly I levelled straight up to being able to cast Blizzaga without even having to learn Blizzara! Only I was an ice fiend and could gain energy by casting it on myself so I could just keep getting better!
It's a tortured comparison but that's why it works.
Thanks JVC! The card was from Christmas, but the theme is revelant to today because I've been talking online with other iCrew friends and enjoying some old photos with them and remembering little us, as well as using those happy memories to spread a bit of cheer where needed! Friends are the best.
In other news, I made a good start on my resolutions today by investing in a whole slew of skincare products including scar oil! I used to be good at looking after my scars when I was a teen, but somewhere along the way I just gave up bothering at all. I'm sure my poor skin will thank me if I make a bit of an effort, and psychologically I can't help but think it must send the right messages to your brain about self-worth and value if you make an effort to look after yourself, even if it's just superficial small things. I even bought a discounted set of Benefit miniature perfumes that were on offer after Christmas, and they are pleasingly pretty things! Maybe I will even SMELL nice this year!
The girl is good but without the sword that can cut thru anything she would have been easily defeated.Lee mu bi disarms her in the next scenes with a twig in seconds lol.
Movie identity for Swordfights, a B&W film that screened at the Competitive Part of the Short Movie Films at the 19th Athens International Film Festival.
— By The Birthdays™.
— Collaboration with Konstantina Yiannakopoulou.
Check the whole project here: bit.ly/17R2lC2
On The set of "Darkness to Light", Film ,acting website www.irishfilmactress.com/
Dr. Mike has been wounded in his left leg, so he's gotta drag himself around on one knee to be at a disadvantage. One more limb lost and he "dies"!
Swashbuckling penny dreadful, The Bravos of Alsatia wrapper, 1885, anonymous (R.J. Lambe). Lambe is also credited with writing The Hunchback of St. Pauls. The wrapper contains issues Nos. 1-2 bound together with usual illustrated plate premium.
Movie identity for Swordfights, a B&W film that screened at the Competitive Part of the Short Movie Films at the 19th Athens International Film Festival.
— By The Birthdays™.
— Collaboration with Konstantina Yiannakopoulou.
Check the whole project here: bit.ly/17R2lC2
Originally took this as a "filler" between the "sure shots" and guess how it turned out.
Made b&w since it was almost a two-tone picture anyway. I like the texture on the snow, not sure if it can be seen properly on Flickr (especially since it's way smaller than I intended, sorry about that. Will update when I go Pro)
Movie identity for Swordfights, a B&W film that screened at the Competitive Part of the Short Movie Films at the 19th Athens International Film Festival.
— By The Birthdays™.
— Collaboration with Konstantina Yiannakopoulou.
Check the whole project here: bit.ly/17R2lC2
Mikko Lehto of Helsinki, Finland, travelled to Plymouth, Michigan, for a sword fighting tournament organized by Ars Gladii, a school that teaches historical European martial arts, aka HEMA. He taught workshops in the martial art and also competed.
On the set of "darkness to light ", film,acting website www.irishfilmactress.com/
Movie identity for Swordfights, a B&W film that screened at the Competitive Part of the Short Movie Films at the 19th Athens International Film Festival.
— By The Birthdays™.
— Collaboration with Konstantina Yiannakopoulou.
Check the whole project here: bit.ly/17R2lC2
On Set of "Up and Down", Film , acting website www.irishfilmactress.com/