Fight Clip Club: Random Movement Pic
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As a writer who uses zero AI in my work (other than whatever’s embedded in my Google searches as I research), and as a humanities professor and performing artist, I am finding that creating three fresh new essays per week is beginning to feel like a bit much. As such, I thought I’d bring back a wee habit I’d done frequently over on my old blog: the Random Movement Pic. How it works is this: I go through my pictorial archives from all my myriad theatrical movement endeavors, whether classes or other professional projects, choose one at random,1 post it, and describe what the context is. This encouraged commentary when I did it over on the ol’ blog, and I heard from regular readers that they found it fascinating and pleasing to see what I’d post next.
So here I go—this is the first iteration of the Random Movement Pic, here on Fight Clip Club Wednesday. I won’t schedule or predict when I’ll be posting a fight analysis and when it’ll be RMP instead: I maintain the right to decide if I can write a whole thing or only have enough wherewithal for a couple paragraphs, but I do hope you enjoy either way. One more thing: though Fight Clip Club proper is (usually) paywalled, I will not be paywalling these pics & descrips. Hopefully you paying peeps still feel like you’re getting your money’s worth by supporting me financially.
And now, let’s spin the Random Wheel O’Pics and see what turns up……
This is a wild record of a very cool project: my old friend from Acting school is co-head of a filmmaking company across the country from me, and she contacted me to be their stunt coordinator for a Dark Fantasy movie they were making, called Suffer.
Thing is, we were all trapped deep mid-pandemic lockdown, and so instead of taking a trip down to their location or set to train and rehearse with the actors, instead we got on a Zoom call. I showed the actors how to wield a sword and taught them my choreography. In the very rough draft of the film I did see, it actually turned out looking great! Who knew that that was even possible?
This isn’t exactly random, I admit, as the first trailer for the finished product dropped the other day. Here it is—looks pretty cool, eh?
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Thanks for watching and reading! Let me know what you think of the RMP idea and this particular image in the comments.
I’ll be honest: sometimes it’s not totally random, as something that happens in my world will remind me of a thing and so I’ll pick a pic out that relates. But still. You get the idea.