New Music Video From David "The Hoff" Hasselhoff - "Jump In My Car"

That's right, it's Hofficial... your favourite cult icon wants to take you home! The one and only David Hasselhoff of "Bay Watch" and "Knight Rider" fame returns with a cover of the 1975 classic 'Jump In My Car' and its a doozy. Recorded in Sydney last year with the legendary Harry Vanda (AC/DC, The Angels), the Ted Mulry Gang tune has been re-vamped with full Hoff gusto and this music video promises to rock the socks off all his Hofficial fans. Watch it, enjoy it, share it on Google Video, courtesy of Sony BMG Australia. Want more? Buy the buy the track on iTunes Australia by clicking here: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=155871591&s=143460

Knock Off

with a rating of 3.8 out of 10 Hark Tsui's "Knock Off" is the tale of Marcus Ray (Jean-Claude Van Damme) the self proclaimed knock off king of Hong Kong in his adventure of a lifetime. Marcus and his partner Tommy Hendricks (Rob Schnider) discover that their knock off products are being fitted with micro-explosives turning their small time business into big time trouble!

Jean Claude Van Damme kicks a guy in the head

The clip i chose reflects the style of the entire movie. There are several quick cuts during scenes to people and to actions pertaining to the duologue. A lot of action to action cuts are used as well to show a series of events or movements. The camera also pans around alot to give you a feeling of the environment as well as follow characters as they move through the space. Less often slow motion is utilized so the viewer can better understand what is going on by slowing it down. This is an action movie and so it obviously has a lot of quick cuts and...well, action :-).

(Rob Schnider and Lela Rochon are bound in a shipping yard)

Tsui Hark:
He has recently became the fourth Chinese film director to join the board of judges for the 57th Cannes Film Festival in the feature films category this year. Hark started making experimental movies with 8mm film when he was only 13. After graduating from the University of Texas in Austin, majoring in film, he returned to Hong Kong in 1977 and landed a job working in television. In 1979 he directed his film debut, die bian (1979). It raised a lot of attention, and was hailed by many as the start of a new wave in Hong Kong cinema. After making numerous critically and successful films, he co-founded his own production house, Film Workshop, with his wife, Nansun Shi, in 1984. Although the company was intended to be contemporary, it went on to become one of the most successful production companies in Hong Kong, having produced such classics of Hong Kong cinema as Sinnui yauwan (1987) and Ying hung boon sik (1986), which was directed by John Woo and starred the amazing Yun-Fat Chow.

Visit to the ICA

My first impressions of the ICA after walking through the main gallery space were pretty average. It was cool stuff, but as my friend Allie Cohen (who went with me) mentioned it could have been so much better. Alot of the art seemed to be a bit pretentious and nothing really stood out as being unique. However this changed upon entering the next section of the museum entitled "Super Vision"

This was a collection of sculpture that played with your perception of it. This is also where James Turrel's peice was. Turrels work seemed at first to be very disappointing. When we first entered the darkened room we discovered an illuminated red rectangle on the wall, about three feet raised off the ground. We stood there staring at it for about three minutes waiting for whatever was going to happen to happen, but avast, nothing. Our eyes hurt a bit, and it was kind of a nice rectangle, but I personally don't think a rectangle of color is too impressive. We ventured outside the room to read the wall mounted description. It revealed no additional information. We went back in anyway and approached the square. It wasn't projected... We didn't notice this the first time. if it wasn't projected than how was it so illuminated? We moved closer, and upon asking Allie how she thought this was possible I heard an eccho. Not from the room we were in, but from the red rectangle. This surprised me, that a shape could have an echo. Allie cautiously reached out her hand and moved straight through the rectangle! This was when the peice became very interesting.

It wasn't a rectangle projected onto the wall, or even a rectangle lit up. It was an entire seperate room all illuminated to be the same color! I couldn't tell how big the room was but I was impressed. Turrel's illusion may not even have been intended as an illusion but that is how I was effected by it, and it recovered the ICA for me. It was a beautiful building though.