JACKIE CHAN IS BORN: A cut above Street Art

After 4 Monday week nights at Pine Sts A Cut Above Street Art with stencil extraordinaire Chris Tamm, I was exposed to this underground form of expression.

Chris introduced the intimate group of 6 to stenciling, pasting, tagging and graffiti art and the various “rebellious” ways that stereotypically street kids would express themselves through.

But the gist of street art is really any form of expression done in a public space, it is pretty much a poor man’s art or art that wasn’t sanctioned by the government.

Types of Street Art

Graffiti artwork: public markings on property

Stencil graffiti: makes use of a paper, cardboard, or other media to create an image or text that is easily reproducible.

Sticker art: image or message is publicly displayed using stickers. Below is Craig's a.k.a "Bunkwaa" red balloon artwork. He also teaches at Pine St Community Arts Centre.

Others include street poster art, Video projection, Art intervention, Guerrilla art and Flash mobbing  

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Click here to have a read of “Ninjas of Dawn” Flash Mobbing social experiment I coordinated with the Rumble Pictures and 9Lives Parkour crew in August 2008.

Im not too great at creating designs but I managed to come up with this little Jackie Chan Bear design of mine during the workshop.

 

This was the original done in free hand with a black marker, then it was scanned and fixed up in photoshopped. I made a felt bear from it, then took a photo of this and cropped it out, reshaped and with the help of Marie Setiawan a more experienced graphics artist, who did some touch up work of it.

Perhaps I might have taken the long way to get this done, but Im still content to get the final product in the end.

So in conclusion, Ive got 5 shirt giveaways across Australia. Just email me in with your details and tell me creatively, where you would wear your Jackie Chan shirt.

Click on the link for the vlog - Quest for Jackie Chan - How to Print on a Shirt - Maria Tran.

STENCIL GRAFFITI: Week 4 of the course and Chris gave us the low down of what stencil graffiti was all about and this inspired me to create the 60cm x 50cm giant Jackie Chan stencil that was permanently installed on that same night at the legal wall in Darlington.

Click on this link for the vlog Quest for Jackie Chan - Stencil Graffiti - Maria Tran

Quest for Jackie Chan via street art? Yes. I think that’s one aspect I will venture down, particularly when I am a poor woo ”man” fundraising my way for my August around Australia trip to extend this project and share it with the rest of Australia. You wouldn’t believe the amount of knock backs I’ve got from the richest law firms in Australia, top investors, business owners, entrepreneurs etc…I know, I’m not Baz Luherrman, Nicole Kidman or their Hugh Jackman nor do I hold a household name.

At the end of the day, I’m just a crazy “Lil Azn grl afta Jackie CHAN!!!!!”. Apparently its more marketable. Bla! Why I can’t be me not so chopsocky!!!

Until next time my followers….

P.S - Shout out to the people from my course!

And of course, other photos!

FLASH MOBBING: Ninjas of Dawn

Written by Quoc Do

19/09/2008 RUMBLE NINJA'S SPOTTED!!

Recently we executed "The Ninja's of dawn" Project. A mediocre success, Rumble crew decided to take advantage of the newly acquired ninja suits (compliments of the Downtown Rumble Production), and stir up some controversy for the upcoming MC2 launch. RP rocked up to Martin Place, to channel 7's Sunrise show, in hopes to be televised!

Nine Lives, our fellow Le Pakour group and our crew worked together to gather crowd attention, however we were unable to get the station to come up to us, receiving a consolation prized autograph photo of one of the presenters of the show.

After wards we traveled around the City, and copped some discriminatory " get away from me" looks" ---with the occasional racial remark or two. But heh, it didn't bother me at all having preoccupied myself half the day thinking up as many ninja jokes as possible. My recurrent fav on the day-- "What? You don't like me! It's because I'm black isn't!?!". High-larity!

The day was long but extremely enjoyable. We didn't get what we wanted but we did get an experience. Shout out to 9 Lives and the RP crew for their patience and spirit.

Posted by Timothy Ly. Check out www.rumblepictures.blogspot.com for more details.

[L-R] Quoc Do, Timothy Ly, Ryan Peters, Rudge Hollis, Quoc Trinh, Maria Tran & Jack Ngu

9Lives Crew in China town!

Oh F&$%...Ali Kadhim please don't stack it.

Ninja Flash Mobbing at Sunrise Channel 7

CLASSIC: Ninja Kadhim and a bystander

Get Set for - Quest For Jackie

Source: Special thanks to Joseph Hieu Dinh for profiling this.

Hello everyone my name is Maria Tran and I’m on a nation-wide search for quirky Jackie Chan fans from Australia, individuals and/or groups who have pursued “Jackie Chan” inspired projects (made a film? wrote a song?).I want to hear from you (and perhaps…Jackie? You never know :p)Cut and paste the following details, Email me at maria.tran85@gmail.com.

P.S - Individuals outside Australia are also invited to submit their details.

CLICK FOR SURVEY

Downtown Rumble 2 - In Working Progress...

On to other news, “Downtown Rumble 2” Australian kung fu series has plans to be made in late November, 2009. So far, Marie Setiwan has been the leading developer in the writing process of this series. I think Rumble Pictures have a lot going for them this year. A youth based group gaining opportunities to develop concepts from the beginning to end is very rare. For me, I really want to explore myself as a action film performing artist and really improve on this. What is the point of "ActionFilmGirl" tagline if I don't pursue the "action". But everything is a working progress and I really believe in the projects that I've been involved in so far.

Here is a trip back down memory lane and a thank you to all that was involved in the first TV series.

Website:

http://www.rumblepictures.com.au
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/tv/dr/

Starring:

Tim Ly, Maria Tran, Craig Anderson, Ali Kadhim

Written By:

Rumble Pictures

Directed By:

Ryan Peters

Plot Outline:

Australia's first electrically charged Action Kung Fu TV series!

Screening nation wide, 'Downtown Rumble' is a 6 Part short TV series on the ABC 1 - Triple J TV programme, starting Saturday 9.00am on the 25th of October.

Rebellious student (Timothy Ly) has robbed The great Master (Craig Anderson) of the sacred orbs of strength and speed. With the Master injured, his new apprentice (Maria Tran) goes on the mission to track the assailant downtown to bring back the orbs ---- Let the mayhem begin.

The team that brought you Australia's First Kung Fu urban action Kung Fu film - Maximum Choppage: Round 2.
Featuring the talents of Lapakour/Stunt team - 9 Lives and also starring ABC's Actor/Director of the AFI award winning Comedy Series - "Double The Fist" --- Craig Anderson.

'Downtown Rumble' is Western Sydney's community Youth Film production group --- Rumble Pictures first foray on national television!

Plot Outline:
Úc tính tiền điện tử đầu tiên của loạt phim truyền hình hành động Kung Fu!

Chiếu trên toàn quốc, 'Downtown Rumble' là một phần 6 loạt phim truyền hình ngắn trên ABC 1 - Triple J chương trình truyền hình, bắt đầu từ thứ bảy 09:00 trên 25 Tháng Mười.

Nổi loạn sinh viên (Timothy Lý) đã bị cướp The Master lớn (Craig Anderson) của orbs thiêng liêng của sức mạnh và tốc độ. Với Thạc sĩ bị thương, người học việc mới của mình (Maria Trần) đi trên các nhiệm vụ theo dõi các trung tâm thành phố assailant mang lại orbs ---- Hãy để mayhem bắt đầu.

Nhóm mà đưa bạn của Úc đầu hành động Kung Fu đô thị Kung Fu phim - Maximum Choppage: Round 2.
Với đặc trưng của các tài năng Lapakour / Stunt đội - 9 Lives và cũng với các diễn viên nam diễn viên của ABC / Giám đốc đoạt giải thưởng AFI Comedy Series - "Double The Fist" --- Craig Anderson.

'Downtown Rumble' là Tây Sydney của cộng đồng thanh niên phim sản xuất nhóm --- Rumble Pictures xâm lược đầu tiên trên truyền hình quốc gia!

剧情大纲：
澳大利亚第一个带电行动功夫电视连续剧！

全国的筛选，'市中心迷糊大王'是6部在美国广播公司1 -三ĵ电视节目的电视系列，开始对10月25日星期六上午09点00分。

反叛的学生（蒂莫黎）夺去了伟大的法师（克雷格安德森）的力量和速度的神圣球体。与主受伤，他的新学徒（玛丽亚陈德良）对任务去追踪袭击者市中心带回的球体----让混乱的开始。

该小组是你带到澳大利亚的第一个城市行动功夫功夫电影-最大Choppage：第二轮。
配备了人才的Lapakour /特技队- 9生命并主演的ABC的演员/的美国电影学院奖获奖喜剧系列总监- “双拳头”---克雷格安德森。

'市中心迷糊大王'是西悉尼的社会青年电影制作组---迷糊大王图片首次尝试在全国电视！

Directed by Ryan Peters
Cinematography By Rudge Hollis
Produced by Maria Tran
Action Director Timothy ly

CAST

Maria Tran
Timothy Ly
Craig Anderson
Ali Kadhim
Maggie
NINE LIVES

CREW

Eleanor Winkler (producer)
Julian Chung (1st ad)
Stephen Ta (camera op)
Tan Nguyen (carmera op)
Beverly Wong (sound Rec)
Michelle Le (make up)
Jessica Ongley (make up)
Natalie Biller (make up)
Jak Ngu (pro asst)
Quoc Do (pro asst)
Alex Trofin (pro asst)
Jordan Rys Jeans (pro asst)
Laurent Boiteux (doco)
Bill Giang (doco)

Mini tour of Blue Mountains

Date: 28th August, 2009.
Location: Blue Mountains

It was an early start of 8am (we were suppose to start at 6am) after a nice quick breakfast at my mum’s bakery.

Myself, Wushu Wang Fei & driver Joseph Hieu began our road trip to Blue Mountains. This destination is 90 kilometres away from home and it took us about 1 hour 41 mins but I think it would is good to take Wang Fei to view a different scenery compared to China’s hustle and bustle and cramp spaces.

Unfortunately, the weather did hold up and it was super windy. There was a thick blanket of mist that overshadowed the mountain so there wasn’t much of a view.

日期：2009年8月28日。
位置：蓝山

这是一个早期的上午8时开始（我们假设在早上6时开始）后，我的好妈妈的快速早餐面包。

我自己，武术汪费及司机约瑟夫总管Hieu开始我们对蓝山的客场之旅。这个目标是90公里，从家里走，大约花了1小时41分钟我们，但我认为，最好还是采取汪绯，以查看不同的风景相比，中国的嘈杂和痉挛空间。

不幸的是，天气并举行，并获得超级风。有一个厚厚的毯子薄雾笼罩的山区，因此有没有太多的看法。

一般情况下设置看起来就像下图，
Normally the setting would look like picture below,


But today it look like this.

Wushu Wang Fei & Maria Tran 武术汪菲和玛丽亚陈德良

Wushu Wang Fei, Maria Tran & Joseph Hieu Dinh

Joseph Hieu Dinh struggling against the wind 约瑟夫总管Hieu炬逆风斗争

Wushu Wang Fei & Maria Tran and broken umbrella 武术汪菲和玛丽亚陈德良和破伞

We retreated at the visitor centre where we had some fun mucking around with some touristy memorabilia.

Wushu Wang Fei is Crocodile Dundee.

武术汪菲是鳄鱼邓迪。

Maria Tran about to kiss wombat. 玛丽亚陈德良即将吻袋熊。
Wushu Wang Fei and a boxing kangaroo.武术汪菲和拳击袋鼠。

Wang Fei’s chance to hug a gigantic koala!

Due to bad weather, we retreated at Blue Mountains Chocolate Café
176 Lurline St, Katoomba, Blue Mountains, Australia. Open 7 days: 10am – 6pm Shop: (02) 4782 7071 to try out their famous real hot chocolate, enjoy free chocolate tastings and view their range of specialty chocolates. W got to make it ouself with real chocolate (dark, milk or white) in a special cup heated by a candle.
由于天气恶劣，我们在撤退蓝山咖啡巧克力
176 Lurline街，卡通巴，蓝山，澳大利亚。开放7天：上午10:00 -下午6时商店：（02）4782 7071尝试其著名的真正热巧克力，享受免费品尝巧克力，查看他们的专业巧克力范围。我们得到了使自属真正巧克力（黑，牛奶或白色蜡烛加热由一个特殊的 杯）。

Wushu Wang Fei trying the real hot chocolate.

武术汪菲尝试真正的热巧克力。

Joseph Hieu Dinh tries to give Wushu Wang Fei a chocolate heart. So silly!

约瑟夫总管Hieu亭试图给武术汪妃巧克力的心。因此，愚蠢！

After this, we went to Featherdale Wildlife Park. This is a where people can hand feed a kangaroo, wallaby or emu - or enjoy a face-to-face encounter with one of the friendly koalas - amongst one of Australia's largest private collections of Australian native animals and bird life.

Infusion Xmas Party: An informal Networking Cocktail Function

For those of you who are yet to be familiar with Infusion, in a nutshell, they are a casual Asian-Australian business networking group who run calendar events throughout the year that call upon guest speakers and professionals to share their experiences. I have connected with them via my daily rituals of what I termed “google stalking”; this is a deliberate exercise I engage in to scope what other people are doing that can connect with me and my interests. From here, I meet Judy Chueng – an Melbourne-based Infusion events director during my Melbourne University Maximum Choppage: Round 2 Screening. Finally, I connected with Sydney-based Infusion events director savvy marketer Sandra Lie through another Maximum Choppage: Round 2 screening, this time in Sydney. This has now led me to being invited to this Xmas function.

Its very difficult for a westie girl to get dolled up and travel great distances to attend a function in which she doesn’t know what to expect. I definitely didn’t want to look like that country bumpkin that was simply out of place. First things first, I rocked up 1 ½ late this time (highly unusual of me) and had difficulty finding the place. I trotted several times, up and down, down and up, bar to bar to find this “International Cultural Centre”. I envisioned a massive erected building of some sort with huge silver Times Roman Numeral signage but was met with a narrow entrance gallery type venue.

My plug on the venue:
Address: 72 Erskine – The Sydney International Cultural Centre – an events and exhibition, Centre (www72erskine.com), a minute walk from Wynyard Station, provides 4 floors of a unique location in the part of town where all you see is corporate buildings, Price Water Coopers, Macquarie Bank etc…

The more I spent time in it, the more I’d realized what a great little place it was. At the time, Ulrick Schild art collection was on displayed. These series of artworks feature bold vibrant colours splashed across huge canvasses. I fancied his use of courageous brushstrokes which adds to the boldess yet fresh approaches in life.

The food was far from fantastic. Standard finger food of spring rolls, quiches, cage, beef skewers, triangles, limited wine vouchers were the standard for the night. However, any person who goes to something like this should know the value lies in the networking

How did I feel? At first out of place, newbie about it. A little be awkward as to how to start a conversation. Usually feel in control at network but this time round, I’m in the back burner. Great learning experience though, watching people’s style of networking Chris Walker & Grant Mc Farland from Dark Blue Fire are particularly interesting and quirky characters.
Get InRhythm (http://www.inrhythm.com.au/) unique interactive entertainment proved to be quite fun and memorable and most definitely a stress reliever! I’d never thought that a series of communal drum pounding exercises can be so addictive and exciting. My hand is definitely ready to drum someone on the face If needed be! Hahaha! Jokes!

Maria Tran’s 5 Tips to Networking.
1. Don’t be afraid. Start with a smile and an introduction to your name and away you go!
2. Don’t come in too strong. Don’t ‘pitch’ yourself at any given moment as if you are trying to sell some product. It gets really annoying to those people who simply just want to chill out.
3. Keep within your space. Don’t cross over and invade people’s space cushion. It is really quite rude.
4. Never judge a book by its cover and pass them off. You might be passing off a potential opportunity
5. Listen twice as much as talking.