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Posted: Sep 26, 2008 09:15 AM
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Omaha, NE - A Nebraska cornfield sets the stage for "The Wretched." Director Daniel Iske tells Action 3 News the horror film was shot in the summer of 2007 on a farm near Gretna. The award-winner is making the circuit at festivals around the country, but Iske admits competition is tough.

Daniel Iske: "The cons are you're away from the coasts, you're away from a lot of money, some of the talent. At the same time, I think the pros are the same as the cons."

Now, Iske is taking advantage of the pros, pushing the cornstalks aside and opening his talent to a larger audience online.

Daniel Iske: "People say 'Can't anyone put a show on the web? Won't your competition be millions of people?' Sure, that might be a little hard to get through the noise of a lot of people making a show that's not good. Any kind of good material will always reach an audience in some way."

Iske believes the future of filmmaking is online. Web series like "Little Ninjai" prove Iske's idea will work. "Little Ninjai" is only seen online. A new episode is released to a growing audience every week. Iske has two web series in the works called "Dead Hour" and "Semesters." Both shows will be shot in Omaha for the world to see.

Reported by Kerri Stowell, kstowell@action3news.com.


http://www.action3news.com/Global/story.asp?S=9079811&nav=menu550_2

Waves, perfect waves

So apparently the Ninjai Gang people are surfers. They said so themselves sometime ago. Here's an awesome picture.. scary shitz


I'm surprised to see all these Ninjai videos being posted in different sites like Doctorflash
Spike
Aol
Mixx
Connotea
Fliiby
Revver
Daily Motion

Say.. interesting.

Of Life and death

And whilst the ugly face of death shall rise, will I cry in fear? Or will I know, I have a friend so dear, so near, one call and he'll be at my side.
Cold wisps of loneliness touch me not, for the warmth of my love shall hold me tight. Leave me alone, alone, in the happiness of true life. Yet, forget me not, as I hold onto yours, so true, so naught.

I know two people who died this month. One died of lung cancer - he only found out he had cancer a couple weeks before he died.. and the other, was even more sudden- a heart attack. In just a snap... they're gone.

It's always heart wrenching for me to think of losing someone- to death. It's such a painful thing- it's like, I would rather just die myself than have to go through all that. I wouldn't know what's worse- having to leave everyone behind and being the only person, or being left behind by someone you love so much and live for. It makes me think of what is really important in life? At my death bed, what will be important to me? Will I have wished I spent more time playing? Eating? Exercising? Really tho.. it always makes me think, what should I be doing, what should I spend most of my time doing while I'm here in this world, while I'm alive, while I have the strength to do things and tell other people I care about them, and love them... there's so many things I could do.

Sometimes I wonder, how much of my time do I just use for myself, and how much do I actually use for others? Is it really such a bad thing if I were to use a few hours or a few minutes of my time to do something for other people who love me, or who need my help? Do I really have to react with such angst and ... who knows what kind of crap all the time? What the hell IS wrong with me? I live my life basically for myself. Does that make me happy? Ha, not much. I'm always happier when I get to do things for other people and make other people happy somehow. So what's the real deal? Where to go? What to do? Where will I go, and what will I do when I've died? I don't want to lie down for eternity, bored to death. (Pun unintended) There's got to be something better to live for, and die for, I'm sure of it.

Just thinking of losing my parents, my siblings and certain other people really crushes me. Now there's someone new in my life, and the thought of losing him to death is utterly heartbreaking. I don't see how other people can be so strong even when they've lost their very life already. I guess it's just like... it's so painful you can't feel anything anymore.

Zeguri deals with death...

Ninjai Gang's martial arts directory

I've been thinking of getting into some martial arts again.. I want to learn some juijutsu or something.

I didn't realize the the Ninjai Gang had a big martial arts directory there. Cool.

Karma Kula and Ninjai - a Ninjai Gang interview

Q: Is KarmaKula Flash animation like Ninjai?

A. No. It’s a unique style of storytelling which you’ll just have to see! KarmaKula is its own thing and we hope that you will judge it without reference to how great Ninjai is. We feel that Ninjai is great and we hope you feel the same. We feel that KarmaKula is great and we hope you like it as much.

Q: Is work on KarmaKula interfering with or impeding work on Ninjai in any way?

A. Not at all. We are still working on Ninjai Chapters 11, 12 and 13, but we’re slowed up a bit because we’re simultaneously working on the story for a Ninjai movie as well as potential television episodes. We’re doing this work on Ninjai, so that’s why it’s taking a long time. We want to thank everyone again for their patience.

Questions about the Ninjai Gang

So... Want to know how much the Ninjai Gang earns? Damn that's hardly anything. :(

Are the Ninjai Gang people still looking for artists?

The Ninjai Gang seeks experienced animators (2D, Traditional, Flash)...

Job description: The Ninjai Gang seeks experienced animators (2D, Traditional, Flash) to work on our popular animated series Ninjai: the Little Ninja.

Requirements/skills: 3-5 years working experience. Strong traditional animation and drawing background a must, preferably Flash 5 experience; ability to draw and animate Ninjai-style a must. Must be production minded, hard-working, creative, responsible, flexible, and have good communication skills.

We?re looking for animators to work on-site at any of the following 3 locations - Hawaii, Australia, and New Zealand. Applicants who don't already reside at any of these 3 locations need not apply.

To upload your resume, samples of your work, and/or a link to your website please visit http://www.ninjai.com/support/jobpre.php -- (we can only review applications made using our job page).

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Location of work: Hawaii, Australia, and New Zealand

Job starting date: June, 2003

Type of contract: Full-time

Duration of job: Permanent, contract

Wages: will be negotiated based on experience and talent.

Benefits: The opportunity to work with a fun group of individuals on a variety of unique and exciting projects.

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Company name: Ninjai Gang
Company description: Multimedia Entertainment Production Company
Web Site: http://www.ninjai.com
Contact: Shalie
fax: 501-423-1129
email: jobs@ninjai.com

Related news:
11/10/2002 @108 Chapter 10 of Ninjai is out (2)
08/02/2002 @776 Ninjai Chapter 5 and Contest (0)
06/17/2002 @142 Chapter 2 of Ninjai (2)

If I were an artist I would totally love to work for them... but... well.. I'm not. :(

Goodbyes

Goodbye's are always hard. They make me wonder if I've really done what I could for that person or that pet or stranger.. it just makes me sad, really... and I don't like being sad.

I'm really sad for all those babies affected by the whole tainted milk in China thing. It's real sad. Now even candies- my favorites- like white rabbit, are out of the market because of the chemicals found in them. Has China been making synthetic milk? What are they up to now?

Rain rain rain

I feel kinda guilty. I've been playing games all day.. different games... my latest one was this Ninjai Gang game.. wait.. did they ever really make like official games?

It's been raining and raining all day here. Nothing much interesting happened.

I'm going to talk about my pet ... or my many ones anyway. The first one was Thumper. He was a cute little gray sweetheart like this dudey, and the smartest and best pet rabbit I've ever had. My cousin gave him to me for my birthday. Wasn't much bigger than my 7 year old's hands put together. He was extremely intelligent and clean- he got his house all sectioned out, and he figured out how to escape from his house and ate all my mom's dahlia plants haha! He knew how to climb steps, never peed or bit anyone, and knew "Come", "Kiss", "sleep". He was.. awesome. :) in a way better than this fellow:


:) and so.. will continue... since I had many more rabbits..

Of pets and past

2. I had this pet Labrador once, I actually named him chucky, but chunky would probably be a better name.  He was chucky boy, I often called him. He was always smiling, like Labradors love to smile. He was the most pleasant dog I had so far. He just loved running away though. Any open door, open gate- was too tempting not to run into or out of. He would run around gleefully, me in hot pursuit, but it was oft that I would only catch him after he scratched the beautiful mahogany floors of my step dad’s house. Oo.. trouble. Or, he’d run out the gate, bolting here and there, peeing on neighbor’s bushes or relieving himself in bigger ways. Sometimes it would just be my rabbit that would be able to coax him back.
Chucky had a strange love for my other pets. Even cats he liked. (Oh how I wish some of my pets now had the same pleasant disposition for their co-pets) I could leave him with my bunnies and not worry that I’d find them in his stomach when I’d get back. He’d let them sleep on him or snuggle in his armpits. One of my cats even attempted sleeping on his head and he was cool with it and just slept too. Of course, Chucky, being true to his breed, was not a good guard dog at all. Friend or foe he couldn’t distinguish. Anyone who took attention of him was worth a wiggle butt.
We played hours and hours on the beach, in our garden, and at the parks. The problem was that nobody told him that after retrieving things, he was meant to give them back. He’d just retrieve them, but he wouldn’t deposit. I guess that is just part of the wiring in the heads of many Labradors – like that Marley doggy.

And as always, tributes to my heros, the Ninjai Gang. And more on Ninjai on "Interviews About Ninjai".


Oh My God. How can I resist??

Stormin

It's storming, storming inside of me,
Fear, anger, frustration
When shall you all flee?
You leave me with so much confusion.

I suck at writing or poetry. What I like is math and science.
I realized I haven't written about my pets yet, so I'm going to dedicate this post to my many, many past and present pets.

I've said before.. my family is quite a mess. Throughout it all I've managed to keep some pets who kinda help me get through all the arguments, pain, etc... that having stupid parents can inflict. I've had tons of rabbits, birds, dogs, cats, turtles, fish, hamsters, chinchillas, ducks, geese, chickens, and well... I'm still dreaming about a horse and a cow.

Anyway... the past 8 years I've had only german shepherd dogs and one crazy, crazy, toothless boxer from South Africa. I'm not kidding either. His name is Spencer. My other dogs- Rocky, Sharky, and Dummy are German Shepherds. Sharky and Rocky are mates- Sharky'll be giving birth in November! Late last year she gave birth to 3 wee puppies, one died at birth, the other died on Shristmas eve, and the last one died on Christmas morning. I was devastated. I will do everything to make sure they won't die this time.

I love all kinds of dogs. The small breeds I don't really fancy- pugs are fine- but everything else I'm not really into. I like medium/large dogs like Labradors, golden retrievers, st. bernards, newfoundlands, huskies, shepherds- etc.

I've had only german shepherds and my toothless dear spencer for a while... it's a real blessing that spencer is toothless because he loves to attack other animals. I've nearly gotten sued because of him :(. As for german shepherds- they stink, they're not too clean, but they are one of the if not the smartest breed of dogs I know.

:) Oh, and of course, the daily Ninjai Chapter, Kudos to the Ninjai Gang as always.

Ninja Dog

I am feeling a lot better today. I'm pretty over my depressive slump.

It's been raining almost all day.. it's all right, I like the rain. I got a bit
of a chance to think today so I actually feel better. It really cracked me up to watch the boxer dog on the trampoline too, and the ninja cat sneaking around like one of Takagawa's men.

I did a lot of studying today too. Nothing much interesting. I read this interesting article about how sweet potato tops corn in ethanol study. Schweet.

I don't know what I've got with sweet potatoes, but they sure are yum, especially when they're baked with butter and maple syrup.

A bit more later... I'm going to make my brother some food.

Ninjai babies

Here's the Ninja baby.. speaking of babies.. that Ninjai Gang girl had a baby!! A cute one too. I love Asian babies like these ones:

Check out the drool tho:... anyway.. I'm still pretty depressed. These kids kinda remind me of how my now monsterish younger brother was when he was still a week baby not too long ago.

Ninjai .. boohoo

I hate being such an emotional wreck. I had quite a day. boohoo.
I just want a big bowl of saimin to drown my sorrows in.

That Ninjai Gang person who joined kill bill.. I say.. it's totally awesome. I wonder if they ever joined any other movies yet. Probably did yeah. ... I so wish they were less secretive.

I'm just really down right now. One of those days I want to just cry my heart out. It's like.. I can't hold it anymore, I can't.. I can't stand on my own and pretend I've got it all together. I need help.. I need someone.. but no matter how many people are around.. it just doesn't seem to fill out the void. I hate it. I hate not being able to stop crying either...

Oh... for beautiful Tahoe..how I miss your beautiful shores... how I miss those days when life was so simple, and there was little pain in everyday life.

Oh... how I love thee

Ninjai.. Oh.. and here's a link to Ninjai chapter 1. It's amazing to see how the Ninjai Gang's skill level progressed with each chapter. My favorite chapter is chapter 5 and 12. I'll go through them here.. chapter by chapter.

I had a good day today. It wasn't too bad. I babysat my brother after school then we went to play at the park for a while. He's grown a lot. It's pretty .. nice watching him grow. I'm over a lot of my angst now so I guess I'm better off towards my parents and the step parents inbetween.

Divorce is such a horrible, painful thing to go through, especially for the kids. Now I see either of my "original" parents with their new "partners" and it's just quite ridiculous how easy they adjust to everything again. I hated my parents for being so unconsiderate to me, to my brother and other sister then- and it's taken me so long to get over that.. if I'm completely over it I'm not quite sure yet. It's hard to talk about. I usually don't even talk about it at all..

Financial Crisis

My uncle works at wall street... so he's been pretty down and out. I'm real close to that uncle of mine, I don't like to see him so stressed out all the time. I keep telling him he should've just joined the military instead of that kinda market... I mean, he can't live without all the stress anyway... and in the military you'll get that kinda high from being under pressure and stress anyway, so I mean- what gives? I would so totally join the military if everyone wasn't so against me with it. :( Anyway uncle Brian- I love you! Good luck!


Mmm.. doesn't Karma Kula look like a serious epic that needs serious attention? I am so drooling waiting for it to come out. I wish the Ninjai Gang would update us on it soon. Anyway it's nearly christmas. Omg. It is nearly christmas... so I'm looking forward to the christmas cards the Ninjai Gang always sends out.

Hi. I am Ninjai's little bird, and I approve of this post.

Damn all this financial crisis going on throughout the world yeah..

Wonder wonder

Hey.. the Ninjai Gang's got a myspace account right.. so seems like they updated the site! It's pretty nifty. :) I wish they'd post more pictures of themselves though. :)

I was checking out the Ninjai boards a while ago.. got some nifty stuff on their Ninjai journal which they're sending around the world. Pretty interesting stuff. I wish I got my hands on that. What would be cooler though is if the Ninjai Gang people actually got it and signed it and etc.

I'm tired today. I guess I ate too much yesterday. It's a school day again and I'm not looking forward to it. This week we've got all these papers due. No fun. I wish I were over with school already.

Yay for Sunday!

I love Sundays. I know maybe I'm getting a bit too old for this stuff.. but.. I LOVE LEGO!!One of my little brothers just got this lego set, but I convinced him to lend it to me. Mwahaha this is the start of the end for him.

Anyway, I think it'd be great if I could make some Ninjai lego sets. That would be so awesome... I could have like.. Takagawa shitting in his pants.. the cool house of Takagawa... Zeguri and his weird animal thing... the little bird. AHH!! I think the Ninjai Gang should contact Lego land and request them to make Ninjai Lego sets. I would so totally love that. Imagine, Ninja Lego!!

I'm going downtown to the lego place.

Ninjai and Kill Bill

This is pretty old topic, but it's still interesting.

"Seeing Double"- from Martial Arts Magazine

Many of us martial artists seek out jobs in the movie industry, especially as stunt doubles. But Satya Bellord, martial arts double for Uma Thurman in the movie Kill Bill, was in a much more enviable position. Kill Bill’s action director, the legendary Yuen Wo Ping, and director Quentin Tarantino sought her out.



Black Belt: What’s the difference between a martial arts double and a stunt double?

Satya Bellord: The martial arts double specializes in martial arts, especially moves that require a higher skill and energy level. A trained martial artist develops an inner strength that isn’t there in an actor or stunt person whose martial arts training is limited.

BB: How did you get the job on Kill Bill?

Satya Bellord: I was working with my brother and sister on a couple projects of our own when we got an email from our old friends Yuen Wo Ping and Fish Fong. They told us about this movie project and how they were having a hard time finding the right martial arts doubles for the lead characters, especially Uma Thurman. We had told them in the past that we wouldn’t be interested in stunt work and that we only wanted to do our own projects unless they came up with significant co-starring roles. But it soon became clear to us that Yuen Wo Ping, Fish Fong and the "Kill Bill" production was in a tight spot.

BB: Why couldn’t they get somebody else? Didn’t they hold auditions?

Satya Bellord: By the time they contacted us they’d already been holding auditions for months in China and the United States, but they couldn’t find a really good martial arts double for Uma. The talent was there in China, but all the potential doubles were too short and Asian-looking to pass for Uma. In the U.S. they found some people who were tall enough, but Yuen Wo Ping wasn’t satisfied with their level of skill. Anyway, they asked us if we would at least come to LA to meet Tarantino and other people on the project, we agreed.

BB: What’s your martial arts background?

Satya Bellord: My siblings and I were born in Hong Kong and spent a lot of our childhood studying in Far East convents where martial arts was a big part of every day life. So we’ve been training since childhood, specializing in taekwondo, wushu, tai chi, and yoga. Our training in the last twelve years or so has been especially intense, we’ve been training anywhere from five to seven hours a day, six days a week.

BB: I understand you guys have been really fortunate to have had as your full-time Wushu coach for the last ten years Liang Chang Xing, the former captain of the first Beijing Wushu team.

Satya Bellord: Yes. And that wushu team is still renowned as the most skilled team ever. Jet Li was one of the younger members of that team. They were champions of China ten years in a row. I’ve never seen anyone who possesses the perfection of form and spirit Chang Xing has. Even after years of training with him, I am still awestruck at how graceful yet powerful his moves are. Chang Xing has been training us in wushu for over a decade. He is also the main action director for our projects Karma Kula and Ninjai: the Little Ninja.

BB: What’s the most important factor in making a fight sequence look good?

Satya Bellord: I understand the financial reason movie studios use non-martial artist actors in the starring roles. And if you have a really good action director, director, good martial arts doubles, and good camera and editing techniques, you can make fight sequences look good. But nothing can compare to fight sequences that have really first-class martial artists. The big budget martial arts-centered movies we see nowadays can look good, but I still don’t think the action can compare to movies starring real martial artists like Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Jackie Chan and others. Qualities that develop over a lifetime of training come across on the screen and can’t be faked.

Another key is to stay away from what I call “fighting in a bubble.” That’s where a participant is just in their own little bubble doing their moves and they’re not really adjusting to or communicating with their opponents. The most frustrating situation is where all the different opponents are in their own little world focused on doing what they’re supposed to be doing and expecting the other players to adjust to them.

BB: What was the hardest part of being Uma’s martial arts double?

Satya Bellord: It was actually very easy except for one thing: keeping my head down. The martial arts double is supposed to try to keep her head down, otherwise people might recognize it’s not the star. But I had a hard time doing that in the main martial arts sequence where I was moving down a corridor killing guys left and right in. Quentin told me after the first take that it was really great, but he asked me to do a take where I’m not looking so strongly at the bad guys I was slicing because I was facing right into the camera. So on the second take I tried to lower my head and gaze, but it really threw me off. It didn’t have the same energy and power. I’ve been so used to being the strong warrior who keeps her head up and faces her opponent head on. There is a saying in Chinese, "A lowered head and a bent back mean low level of skill." I explained to Quentin that in martial arts, power comes from focus, and the more you focus on each move, the more powerful it is. In other words, your body twists to face the person you’re cutting, your arm reaches out with the sword to slice him, your hips snap to the left as that sword comes down and your eyes zoom in on your target and make sure that blade goes right through that sucker with one clean fast slice (laughs). Fortunately Quentin appreciated how much better and powerful the sequence was when my head was up and my gaze focused on the opponents. So he had me stick with that. He later told me that it all worked out great.

I mean, check that out. How much better can you get than that?
Oh.. and .. hawt.

We need more people like Bruce around.

Donuts

I played a whole bunch of Ninjai games today.. spent a lot of money in town.. got a box of donuts... I just LOVE donuts..

Then I watched some movies- mama mia, Babylon AD, and Pineapple express. I felt sick after, and really lazy for having just sat there through all those hours.

Now I'm trying to figure what to do to make myself productive. Maybe I'll just play more computer games :D

Fried ice cream

I finally had it today. It's something I've been wanting to have for AGES. Like- AGES.

It may not look too good, but it is. Crunchy- I mean, just think like,
crunchy caramel on the outside, and the creamiest, bestest ice cream inside. How much better can you get than that?

Anyway, I was feeling rather down today. I've been wishing so much for a Ninjai chapter, or an update about Karma Kula but alas, there hasn't been any. But that doesn't mean I'm losing hope or anything.

I spent a good chunk of my evening just looking through one of my favorite websites: lolcatz!!
I'm going to head back there for a few more laughs before bed.

Welcome to Ninjai bloggers

Hi. how can you not want to eat that? Actually. .. I ddn't want to eat it. I don't like ham.

But you've got to give them credit. it looks GOOD. Japanese people have the best looking food even if it doesn't taste the best all the time.

anyway.. hi and welcome. As my blog's name implies, I'm a Ninjai
fan. yep, this little bugger <-. You can watch him at Ninjai.