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Open Video Conference in New York
My lawyer, Anthony Falzone, Executive Director of the Fair Use Project and a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, used my trailer for The Search for Count Dante in his lecture at the Open Video Conference in New York this past Friday. He presented it as a case history for Fair Use and how […]
Karl in London, I meet another Green Dragon Student
I want to acknowledge my friend and supported Karl Kraft in England who has been going out of his way to help me find people in the UK who may have bought The World’s Deadliest Fighting Secrets. Karl is a graphic designed and games developer. He designed a great little flyer for the film that […]
A Timeline of Martial Arts in America
I have been working on a timeline of Martial Arts in America and came across this one in Emil Farkas’s wonderful book. I have added some events that are directly related to John Keehan and Chicago to the timeline. I will continue to add things as I discover them. If any of you see any […]
April 23 has Come and Gone, 39 years after the Dojo War
April 23 has come and gone. It was the day of the Dojo War between the Green Dragons and Count Dante. I did not mention it. I got a couple of emails from people remembering Jim Konsevic and wishing me luck on the film. I have talked to Konsevic’s cousin about the film recently as […]
What is a documentary?
In 1923, after the success of his film Nanook of the North, director Robert Flaherty was hired by Paramount Pictures to go to Samoa to capture the traditional life of Pacific islanders on film. His film, Moana (1926) is considered the first docufiction in the history of cinema. The word “documentary” was first applied to […]
Months Since My Last Post
Happy New Year, Y’all! I am back. The Search for Count Dante goes on as does life. We got a new president. I worked the campaign a few days, nothing serious. I am happy he won, now down to business. My research and shooting continues. Since October I have made more discoveries about Dante’s past. […]
Still Hustlin’ The film is coming.
A 3 minute version of the film is being syndicated by Cinelan.com. It was just featured in on Telegraph.co.uk on Wednesday, October 8. It was a feature right along with my man Vladamir Putin’s new judo DVD. Thinks ar moving ahead, slowly but surely. I will be bloggiong more in the next few days, I […]
With The Bunnie, After the Hutch
John Keehan/Count Danté, John Danté? Another mystery arises, maybe not. Are Count Dante and John Danté 2 people or 1 person of many personas? He was was known in the hutch, His Bunny Mother girlfriend, Patty Kobe, may have fired one of the women I spoke with. The woman above thinks John Keehan Dante was […]