End of third week of prep today, Thursday, since Gregg and his family, Matt and me and my family are headed to Beijing tomorrow for the weekend. We come back Sunday night. Should be a fun weekend. We’re visiting the Great Wall, the Summer Palace and Forbidden City, among other things. Bianca and the Duke [...]
This is Rob Cowie here testing this blog thing out. I’m still back here in good old US of A talking to all of the wonderful investors we have in this project. Couple more people to bring on board and I’ll be headed out to join the rest of the gang. It is crazy to [...]
Started the third week of prep today. Nice day. Met with Lau about the temple set. She’s coming up with some great ideas for that thing and it’s really going to be crazy once we get it built. It’s literally going to be a bunch of cramp-ass tunnels in the middle of a field. And [...]
I now have a Chinese name! Our Production Manager gave Gregg, Ed and I names in Cantonese. I’m Hung Lo (Red Man), Ed is Go Lo (Tall Man) and Gregg is Bak Sing Sing (White Ape). We had another good week here in ol’ Hong Kong. A big thing that has been concerning Gregg and [...]
Headed over to Larry’s apartment at 10 am to check on the new contact lenses. Jasman was cool enough to let us use his eyes and they look pretty good. They still give glimpses of the edges of the pupils but they’ll work. Maybe not for super close-up stuff but for any moving shots or [...]
Right now in Hong Kong (and other parts of Asia) it is Ghost Month. All month, ghosts roam throughout the “living” world. To celebrate the beginning of Ghost Month, the Chinese do a festival called Ghost Festival, also sometimes referred to as the Hungry Ghost Festival. Wikipedia has a pretty good article that explains it, [...]
