The Karate Kid opens June 11, featuring an American boy who travels to China because of his mother’s new job. Although not a remake of the original, it does borrow elements from its predecessor in addition to the title. Despite the film’s name, the main character, Dre, ends up learning Wushu and not Karate. The [...]
For one of my personal projects, I’ve been planning to create a series of 3D renderings of various martial arts stances and techniques. One of the goals of this is to help me brush up on some 3D layout tools that I haven’t been using for awhile. Another goal is to help document various martial [...]
There are a gabillion ways to modify WordPress sites, ranging from complete customization of the CSS and PHP to simply downloading ready-made themes. With so many resources available, it didn’t make sense for me to reinvent the wheel when customizing my own WordPress-powered site. However, as a designer, I still wanted to play a more [...]
I originally posted about my martial arts background in a previous blog version, but it’s about time that I made some updates. My study of martial arts has jumped around through the years and many of the levels or belts I’ve obtained might not amount to much. This is both due to my differing levels [...]
As part of my organizational goals for the new year (we are technically still within the 2-week Chinese New Year window), I was planning to create a separate blog dedicated to my other main hobby (besides multimedia and technology): martial arts. After remembering that my main target audience is myself, I’ve decided to just keep [...]