International Fight Week 2016 will culminate on Saturday night at UFC 200. The fight’s site has a poster-making app that I’ve been having some fun with. While I was finishing my latest installment of the Pikes Project for WPLN, I was also misusing It’s Time by writing in expected fighting captions and then attempting to subvert assumed meanings by juxtaposing the phrases with ironic images from my recent blog posts and film reviews. This was actually a pretty fun creative exercise that helped me keep it all loose and flowy when I was trying to complete my text edits for the Dickerson Pike profile and finish writing the spoken-word piece we broadcast on Friday morning. In fighting you can’t force a finish, and the same holds true for art.
Take a look at these…
Seniors rule…
Ginsberg would’ve made an interesting fight announcer.
Kung Foucault is my preferred approach to examining the finer points of fisticuffs.
One day a real championship reign will come.
Heavyweights.
A still from John Carpenter’s Attack on Precinct 13. Also a strategy Brock Lesnar might consider.
The Byrds’ genius songwriter, Gene Clark’s lyrics are shot through with references to the inevitable, the fateful. Fighters have adopted similar mythologies for better and for worse.
Iggy Pop live in Detroit. Tap out.
This is a still from a scene of friends sharing in Midnight Cowboy, but words often trump images. In combat sports a war of words can often have a big effect on a fight with fists.
Bruce Lee: The First Mixed Martial Artist
John Cassavetes and Peter Falk in Husbands.
YouTube genius Chris Crocker in the documentary Me at the Zoo. Fighters can be found wherever there are fights.
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