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It’s all about LOVE.
( 繁 | 简 | 日 )Tuesday, Mar 24, 2009 1:18AM / Members only
Superfriends at work!
As some might have read, I was recently given the opportunity to direct my first non-martial-arts-action commercial short film for my good friend, Race Wong, to be released as part of a DVD/CD package with her upcoming album.
Race was given the tremendous task of producing and performing both her own music video as well as a 20-30minute short film that is to be released along with her upcoming album. While she was able to do the near-impossible of gathering together every necessary component together to perform such as task, she would need help in areas that she might not be as familiar with. Having came up with a very romantic love story about two lost souls needing to be found by each other, Race needed someone to direct it as she would have multiple difficult tasks to handle as the film’s producer and lead actress. Gratefully, I had enough of her trust to have been asked to handle the task of directing her story.
Lucky for me, after having worked a number of years as both an actor and martial arts director I had gained some confidence in my own ability to tell a story through movement and images. So I took that approach while telling this story, using very little dialogue, relatively slow camera movements, and letting the actors do their jobs in midst of long takes. This gave the actors the luxury of going thru the different stages of an emotion in real time rather than doing the performance out of sequence.
This is the first time that I have really worked with Race on a commercial project, but our super friendship made working together a great joy. Now I know why she’s so popular with directors, she is a super actress. She thinks through her actions and then uses the moment to makes it happen into reality, and the exact same can be said about my buddy, Vanness Wu. Vanness and I have worked together since our first film (with him as an actor, and me as a fight choreographer), and directing him has made me realize how much he has grown as an artiste. It was a joy to witness him juicing his past experiences and distilling them into every scene. Not only was I fortunate to have such wonderful actors (and friends) to work with, but I had the opportunity to work with a great DP (Jam Yau) who took the shots that I wanted to a new level with his great framing and fantastically controlled camera movements. The list of wonderful people involved with this project goes on.
This project is also a testament to the power of honesty in friendship and business that has developed alivenotdead.com into a place of trust that can bear a fruit such as this. If not for alivenotdead.com, I would not have met Race or Rosanne, and would not have had the opportunity to introduce them to my buddy Van, and then the likelihood of this project coming to fruition would have been much slimmer. Also, it was through Patrick that Race had connected with the representatives of the W Hotel, whom generously let us run amok for several days through their entire facility with great cooperation from their wonderful staff.
It was a tough and difficult two-day shoot, with everyone’s incentive for making this film mainly being our love for each other and our love for making film. After we wrapped the shoot on the second day, Vanness, Race, and I bowed our heads while Vanness led a prayer that thanked God for His love, and His blessing us with the opportunity for being there for each other through a rather meaningful experience that was worth every ounce of each person’s effort.
Please support our collective effort by picking up Race's new album when its released to take a look at our happy little project.
Some press photos from the press-con at the W Hotel
"Superfriends powers, ACTIVATE!"
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Have a Super Merry Christmas and an Awesomely Happy New Year!
( 繁 | 简 | 日 )Wednesday, Dec 24, 2008 4:40PM / Members only
Hello everyone and thank you for all of your warm holiday well-wishes. I'm currently in the good ol' US of A enjoying the holiday season with my family for the first time in over 5 years. I've been back to visit within those 5 years, but never during the winter. So this will be the first white Christmas that I'll be celebrating since a long while ago.
Cool Stuff 01 – Going to da Bears game with my pops.
Herding towards Soldier Field...
The winning field goal!!! Go Bears!!!
Cool Stuff 02 – Going the da Bulls game with my pops.
Greats seats, woohoo!!
Cool Stuff 03 – Kicking face with the boys.
And no visit back to Chi-town would be complete if I didn't spend half my time at my family's martial arts studio. Check out the following clip of one my boys, Big Al working the mitts during one of our workouts. I've been training this kung fu brother since he was in high-school, now he’s whooping face in the ring along with the rest of the NFCMAA full-contact fighters (more clips online). Represent!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uos7SLd_ZI&feature=channel_page
Have a super Merry Christmas, an awesomely Happy New Year, and God bless everybody!!!
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Hurray for motion pictures!
( 繁 | 简 | 日 )Sunday, Dec 7, 2008 3:57AM / Members only
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there's no time like tea time...
( 繁 | 简 | 日 )Thursday, Nov 27, 2008 12:59AM / Members only
Rarely are we afforded a day of complete chillness. But one fine day we found ourselves blessed with that exact chillness!
"Gimme a break, a six-year-old shaolin disciple child could've caught this!"
The flying chopstick was apparently a distraction... in the attosecond (or the approximate time that it takes for light to travel the length of three hydrogen atoms) it took for my fingers to scissor the airborne chopstick, the lightning that was Vanness had already managed to liberate the final cha-siu-baau from its steamer-basket prison. Witness his glee.
Soon after the food and tea was cleared from the table and transferred into our guts, we took our time in traversing back to the Hotel Philifornia for a screening of the latest DVD copy of Kung Fu Panda.
Lesson of the Day
Peace, quiet, and the temporary lack of all discernible responsibility are all great concepts in and of itself, but every once in a while these concepts will merge together and form something called, "pure awesomeness".
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a few days in the life of yours truly...
( 繁 | 简 | 日 )Sunday, Nov 9, 2008 4:36PM / Members only
Thank you everyone for the love and patience, it’s been pretty hectic around here. But if hectic means working, and working means paycheck, and paycheck means Gears of War 2, then being hectic sure is good.
In addition to the non-stop statically-progressive background preparation for a certain upcoming project, I have also been occupied with a few outside endeavors as well. I’ll let the following images and words acquaint everyone with the current happenings in the life of yours truly.
Nike Sportswear Store Grand Opening
A press-photo of me and my super-friends at the Nike Sportswear Store Grand Opening celebration.
A photograph of us after the Onimal and I found and ravaged the open bar...
Miss Asia 2008
A press-photo of our attendance at the 2008 Miss Asia pageant to support V.Dubb’s little sister who’s competing this year.
(left 2 rite) Daphinator, Gabster, V.Mommy, V. Dubb, and Yours Truly.
There’s Van’s little sis, standing on stage. Last time I saw her she was only a few feet tall, now she’s taller than me with heels on.
After the show, we left the TV station with this paparazzi car tailing us all the way back to the Hotel Philafornia. They even drove into the residential parking lot to point a handy-cam in our direction as we exited our vehicle.
Here, I'll save the paparazzi the trouble of fabricating a story. This is exactly what happened after we entered the building. Van gave me a book that he wrote (I think it's about some guy named Vanness Wu), then we watched several episodes of "Married With Children" before we all decided to take a nap. We woke up a short time later and headed out to dinner. Very news-worthy indeed.
A New Cure For Momentary Insanity
This particular issue of "Beauty Pro" drove Sammy to the brink. Since I still need his wits intact for my upcoming project, I decide to save his sanity.
Faster than Billy Batson can utter the word "SHAZAM", putting on the Ng Family Chinese Martial Arts tee-shirt immediately punted Sammy's mind back to reality.
Having discovered Sammy's new found tee-shirt-given-ability to repeatedly execute the Dempsey Roll, the Onimal found it fit to challenge Sammy to a friendly sparring match that wasn't so friendly to my living room...
Philip Ng x jhde
I was recently asked to model some clothes for my good friend, Bill Tam (who just so happens to be the designer behind jhde). I was very happy to lend my support. The following are a few of the pictures we took for this endeavor (photographs by
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Kicking.
Sitting (read it again and notice the lack of the letter "h").
Jumping.
and "posing" with the designer, Bill Tam.
Somebody To Love (and to kick in the face)
Just wrapped on an independent-romantic-kungfu-comedic-film (tentatively titled, "Somebody To Love") by the up and coming Irish director Seamus Walsh. Working on this film had me engulfed by the professionalism I had come to expect from having work on larger-scale projects, while simultaneously, the independent nature of this production gave the cast and crew very little restriction to create freely.
It was a tough shoot, but it was one of the most enjoyable projects that I had been involved with in quite a while. Seamus came up with a very clever scrīpt that drove the action quite well, and his unique sense of humor shines through in his direction. Our award-winning DP, Henry Chung pointed his new RED camera in all the right places and the image on the screen is pretty awesome. The fight sequences were placed together very well by action-director, Jude Poyer (who has done quite a bit of stunt work in
Kicking someone in the face. (photograph by Lucas Griego)
Doing a 540 over a chair... (photograph courtesy of Jude Poyer)
..then running outta frame. (photograph courtesy of Jude Poyer)
Once again, thanks for all the love and support! In the meantime, I'll be busy fighting off the Locust Horde for next couple of days ;)
Until next time!
Stats
- Philip Ng is a Hong Kong actor who is also a master in the martial arts. Trained in Ving Tsun Kung Fu under the late Sifu Wong Shun-Leung...
- Occupation: Actor , Action Director , Martial arts
- Gender: Male
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- Translators: applenic, radwynn
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