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  Asylum Stunts
We are a company of stunt professionals based in Chicago, and we specialize in serving the Midwest.
In order to be in peak shape to perform, we run the Asylum Stunts Stunt School, with stunt training 2-4 days a week covering everything from high-falls and fire-burns to fight choreography and cable-work.
Asylum Stunts was started by Brian Connelly, Jeff "What about me" Kehoe, Laurie McNeilly, and Domingo Rodriguez (all originally of "The Chicago Stunt Team", run by John Hicks Pearce) with an eye towards focusing on the needs of independent and union film market in the Midwest.
asylumstunts.com   (218 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Stunt work
A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat, or any act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes in theatre or cinema.
Stunts are a big part of many action movies.
Before computer generated imagery special effects, there was no way of achieving these effects, except by using stunt performers who really would jump from car to car or hang from the edge of a skyscraper.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stunt-work   (122 words)

  
 Stunt
Before CGI effects there was no way of achieving these effects, except by using stunt performers who really would jump from car to car or hang from the edge of a skyscraper.
Some actors such as Buster Keaton did their own stunts.
In the late 20th century, though, stunt men were placed in dangerous situations less and less as filmmakers turned to relatively inexpensive (and safer) CG effects using harnesses, fans, green screenss, and a huge array of other devices and digital effects.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stunt.html   (173 words)

  
 Stuka Stunt Works
(revised and rescanned November 28, 1997) A printed sheet showing a flat drawing of each of the maneuvers in the modern stunt pattern, with multiple drawings when two or three identical maneuvers are to be flown one on top of the other.
This sheet can be used by your stunt coach to mark the errors you make on the drawing of the maneuver itself as you fly the pattern.
This third poem was not really about Jaybee, but about his nephew, and in reality, a whole bunch of us out there who are never quite satisfied with what it is that we are presently flying and always trying to push the envelope just a little bit farther.
www.clstunt.com   (2335 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Actor Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
works which give detailed account, in alphabetical order, of whole field of human knowledge, or of some particular section in it.
The term commonly refers to someone working in movies, television, live theatre, or radio, and can occasionally denote a street entertainer.
A female actor is an actress, although a minority feel that the term "actor" is gender-neutral and prefer to use it for both men and women.
www.ipedia.com /actor.html   (710 words)

  
 Cowgirlin Up - Niki Cammaert, Professional Trick Rider, Stuntwoman & Entertainer
Experienced as well in special effects, pyrotechnics for film/live events and movie stunt work, Niki is an accomplished, versatile individual.
Niki also boasts Movie Stunt credits in Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The Investigation, Another Country, tom Stone, Burn, Little House on the Prairie, Family Values, A Friend of the Family and Karroll's Christmas.
Commercial Stunt Doubling appearances saw Niki in a 2001 Superbowl Bud-Lite Beer Commercial where she incorporated horse rearing, horse drags and trick riding.
www.cowgirlinup.com /stuntwoman.htm   (139 words)

  
 Chan: Hollywood Rules Impede Stunt Work - International Business Times -
I use my own stunt team because they have experience and I trust them to make the action and stunts safe," he said.
Of course I understand there can be security measures for dangerous stunts, and that is normal.
If they don't let Jackie choose the way he does his stunts, it is not a Jackie Chan's film anymore.
www.ibtimes.com /articles/20061016/hollywood-stunts.htm   (578 words)

  
 Amtrek Store
The subsequent train ride, featuring good special effects and outstanding stunt work, is great fun and very suspenseful...
Published here for the first time are photographs he made in daylight, as well as at night and on the branches of the railroad not covered in his first book, Steam, Steel & Stars.
Tracing the system from the first short IRT loop to the extensive net work of today, with information about such fascinating sidelights as the city's tram systems and the PATH trains linking New York and New Jersey, Cudahy has produced a complete, thoroughly researched and annotated, and fully illustrated history that will delight subway buffs...
amtrek.net /store/index.html   (1682 words)

  
 Insider secrets for getting stunt work   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
My name is Dave Stinson and I've been doing stunt work since 1997.
If you have an interest in this fun and exciting kind of work, but don't have an "in" or a contact to the stunt business to get you started, don't worry.
Many people give up on their dream of becoming a stunt performer because they don't have the inside scoop and they miss out on (or horribly mess up) important opportunities.
www.stuntworksecrets.com   (209 words)

  
 edpic - we make content work
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I love working with Steven (Spielberg) and George (Lucas), and it goes without saying that it is an honour to have Harrison as my son.
'Demand that the critters be digital, the cliffs be low, and for goodness sake keep that whip by your side at all times in case you need to escape from the stunt coordinator!
www.edpic.com   (413 words)

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