SEVEN SPIES FROM HONG KONG – not an actual movie, but a new t-shirt design from Shelf Life. If it was a movie, it would probably look something like this:
This is actually an older design that we distressed a little more and printed on the brand new Gildan 100% ringspun cotton tee - It's a great, soft tee with the American Apparel feel but a much better fit - not as long, and not as tapered. We'll be printing on these a lot more in future!
A salute to movies like Shanghai Blues, Peking Opera Blues, Private Eye Blues and Portland Street Blues, our new tee is printed with neon bright silkscreened inks to capture the bright, colorful look of Hong Kong streets like Nathan Road.
Celebrating the amusing lapses in grammar and logic and the wild, fun ride that Hong Kong subtitles give to English-speaking fans. There is no such thing as a bad subtitle if the sentiment is conveyed properly!
Check out the Hong Kong Subtitles page on Facebook, regularly posting the wrongest, funniest and most endearing subtitles that Hong Kong Cinema has to offer.
We've got a tee design that pays tribute to the coolest of oldschool kung fu movie heroes, Wong Fei Hung as portrayed by Kwan Tak Hing.
Kwan Tak Hing played Master Wong, who was a real-life Chinese doctor and kung fu hero, in at least 77 films, a record for recurring film roles as a single character. Being a doctor, Master Wong would always treat the villains after he was done whupping them in battle. Most of the old Wong Fei Hung films are lost, but if you want to check out a couple of great movies, seek out MAGNIFICENT BUTCHER and DREADNAUGHT.
One of my favorite Hong Kong movies is Sammo Hung's men on a mission flick, Eastern Condors.
In promoting the movie, the cast showed up in costume to perform a live peking opera style show during a 1987 Hong Kong beauty pageant, and it's a marvel to see how physically talented performers like Yuen Wah (don't miss his incredible entrance at 1:23 in the 1st clip) are without wires or edits:
Here's the trailer for the film, check it out if you want to see a crazy good action movie:
The guys from Podcast on Fire have recorded their own entertaining and informative audio commentary for the film, check it out:
Our friends at Podcast on Fire are having a Christmas Extravaganza Competition and giving away Shelf Life Clothing T-Shirts & Posters, as well as some Hong Kong movie magazines and DVDs!
Head over to their site and test your knowledge of Hong Kong movies in order to win! It's a pretty fun challenge for Asian Cinema fans!
Jackie Chan sent this video to members of his American fan club in 1996, when there were only a few members. It's a personal and pretty entertaining tour of his Hong Kong offices:
Here's a more recent tour of his secret Hong Kong apartment/Batcave:
I stumbled across this video on youtube the other day and I don't think you need to understand Cantonese to see how funny it is. The great Sam Hui sings about water rationing in Hong Kong and goes from bathtub to atomizer and beyond in pursuit of cleanliness:
In this update to our previous blog about Edison Chen, we have exclusively obtained the latest racy photo in Hong Kong's "Sexy Photo Gate" scandal.
Mr. Chen held a press conference today announcing his retirement from show business in order to, as he puts it, "give myself an opportunity to heal myself."
Watch his press conference below:
Previous photos leaked to the Internet by a mysterious figure called "Kira" have shown Edison cavorting with such Hong Kong luminaries as Gillian Chung, Cecilia Cheung, and Bobo Chan. Through sources that do not wish to be named, we at shelflifeclothing.com have exclusively obtained the latest photo, the most shocking and revealing of all:
The big news rocking Hong Kong for the past month has been the whopper of a blunder by HK popstar/moviestar Edison Chen, who took his cotton-candy pink, custom-made Apple laptop to get repaired – somehow forgetting that it held countless graphic photos of him having sex with most of the major starlets in the HK entertainment industry, including huge stars Gillian Chung, Cecilia Cheung, and Bobo Chan. Nearly 1,300 photos of major celebrities in various states of undress exploded across the Internet.
The bad news for Edison (besides already being cut from future movie projects and endorsement contracts) is that almost all of the ladies he is seen with in these racy photos are under contract to triad-controlled agencies (including the 16-year old niece of Albert Yeung, head of the Emperor Entertainment Group). Loss of their all-important chaste image in the HK entertainment industry means a major loss of revenue for some very tough people, and Edison's going to have a target on his head. He's currently hiding out in North America, probably living in fear for his life.
FYI: Edison Chen will be seen in a cameo in this summer's Batman movie, The Dark Knight, which is now officially a cursed production.
SHELF LIFE CLOTHING COMPANY is part of a graphic, web, audio and t-shirt design studio daringly based in glamorous Cleveland, OH. Why Cleveland? Why not? Our screenprinting is done right here, and we get to see Lebron James play all the time.
We make high-end, limited run, 100% ring-spun soft cotton shirts with a humorous underground vibe.
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Our inspirations are drawn from a wide array of pop culture imagery – particularly from classic Japanese, Hong Kong and Bollywood cinema, 60s spy movies, vintage rock album art, WWII aviation art, spaghetti westerns; eurotrash cinema, and pro sports – Shelf Life makes a point of paying eye-popping tribute to unsung B-movie classics while also satirizing commonplace ideas and delusional behaviors.
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