New Media: From “E-lebrity” to Financial Independence. Is it really possible?
by Antonio Graceffo Justin Halpern made a move from Twitter to network television, when his rants, entitled “Shit My Dad Says”, was picked up as a TV series. According to a recent report out of Japan, five out of the top ten Japanese best sellers in 2007 were novels written by texting on a cell phone. “The Last Messages”, a hit novel in Finland, is composed exclusively of roughly 1,000...
Read MoreMovie Stunt Fighting in 3D: Parts 1 through 3
Learning to fight in the movies! In Bangkok, Thailand, Antonio Graceffo finds John Ledalski, a veteran of more than 50 films. Sifu Ledalski is a martial arts master, an experienced stuntman, and a respected stuntman trainer. Antonio asks John to help him prepare for his upcoming work in TV and films. This episode of Martial Arts Odyssey is...
Read MoreMuay Thai Goes 3D
The punches came right off the screen and someone all the way back in the cheap seats got a nose bleed from a kick in the face. The only thing more exciting than a martial arts fight is a martial arts fight in 3D. Al Caudullo, of 3DGuy.tv and Exploreworldtv, and Ric Lawes, of Location Thailand, teamed up with Black Belt columnist and Martial Arts Odyssey host, Antonio Graceffo, to produce one of...
Read MoreMartial Arts 3D video Filming: It’s a whole new art for both fighting and filming.
by Antonio Graceffo Watching the proof of our 3D martial arts fight on a video monitor was incredible. The spinning, dancing, battling images popped off the screen like holograms in some advanced video game, but it wasn’t a random CGI image, it was me. And it was one of the coolest projects I had ever been involved with. My greatest aspiration is to one day become an action figure. The video...
Read MoreTraveling, Doing TV and Still Broke (Living the Dream, hoping I’ll wake up.)
By Antonio Graceffo A friend of mine told me he was on his way to Ohio and that he hated going. He wanted sympathy from me. Telling a New Yorker that you are going anywhere, except back to your own apartment in New York, will normally evoke sympathy. But in this mixed up, upside down world where the cop is the perp, and the perp is the victim, I envied my friend going to Ohio. I told him: Ohio,...
Read MoreThe Karate Kid, Then and Now
By Antonio Graceffo I just saw “The Karate Kid 2010” tonight in Bangkok, and I feel like I am 43 going on 16. I have one of those feel-great movie highs that prompts you to make life altering decisions, which you will never follow through on when you wake up with a hangover. But for those brief moments of illusion, you feel like a million bucks. In short, the new version of “The Karate...
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