Computers and Internet: Inspiring Us to Create

Written by Daniel Punch


Computers and Internet are not deadening our heads; they are inspiring us to create!

The Internet is sometimes criticized (usually by parents who think their kids need to be outdoors more often) as leading people to be sitting in front of their computers all day growing bulbous, lethargic and (depending on who you talk to) stupid. I think thatrepparttar opposite can often be true. My friends and I have recently been inspired to new creative ventures throughrepparttar 105590 time spent online.

I have long been a fan of movies, martial arts movies in particular. It has been said that they’re kind of likerepparttar 105591 modern musical with finely choreographed dances (although in this caserepparttar 105592 ‘dance’ is a fight) showing fantastic physical ability, timing, and grace. Recently I have found that there are many online groups of people dedicated to making their own martial arts films. Most of these guys are really talented and I’ve seen film fight scenes that are better thanrepparttar 105593 majority ofrepparttar 105594 American made ‘martial arts’ movies. Whererepparttar 105595 commercial films focus on special effects, from wirework (attaching wires to an actor in order to allow them to do extraordinary feats) to computer rendered effects (sometimes even using a computer animated actor in fights as seen in ‘The Matrix Reloaded’), these independent groups get out there and make impressive films through sheer physical exertion and amazing ability.

It’s amazing what a bit (well, a lot really) of hard work can do for you. These independent action crews perform wall runs, flips, falls, tumbles, and flying kicks withoutrepparttar 105596 use of wires or special effects. There’s no insurance to worry about or studios to get sued so they try some pretty incredible and dangerous things. My favorite stunt crews are ‘The Stunt People’ who can be visited at http://www.thestuntpeople.com, and Zero Gravity Stunts who have their homepage at http://www.zgstunts.com. There are also Jabronie Pictures (http://www.jabroniepictures.com) and VJ Films (some of whose videos can be found at http://www.my5minutes.com/thumbnails.php?album=1115) that are both worth a mention. These sites also provide many links to other similar websites, so your collection of independent short films can be built up to a fearsome size quite quickly.

So, I’ll now get back torepparttar 105597 original topic of this article, that beingrepparttar 105598 Internet as a medium to inspire people to become active and creative. These films got me pretty excited. I’d never really thought about just trying to make my own short martial arts film. The world’s largest short film festival held in Australia called ‘Tropfest’ provided a group of friends and I with a valid excuse to behave silly in front of a video camera. I’m not going to lie;repparttar 105599 film we produced was relatively low quality. One ofrepparttar 105600 fights we filmed was, well, not bad! There was a decent amount of good mixed in withrepparttar 105601 not so good, and I have great memories of spraying false blood out of a hose that was wound around a friend’s chest all over my parent’s house when simulating a gunshot. We had no flips and very few tumbles (I myself havingrepparttar 105602 gymnastic ability of a dead walrus) butrepparttar 105603 point is we got in there and had a great time with an entertaining outcome. We have plans to make more movies and a few other film festivals onrepparttar 105604 horizon that we may enter. Maybe one day our films will be good…

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