Actress Madison McLaughlin joined the cast of ‘Arrow’ as Evelyn Sharp at the end of the fourth season and returned this year to join Team Arrow as Artemis; she turned evil and revealed that she was working undercover for bad guy Prometheus a few episodes back and has not been seen since. Producer Marc Guggenheim tweeted that Artemis returns to the show this week. I had the opportunity to ask her a few questions about her career.
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First off, it’s never about the sport. At least not for me. It’s about the athletes; where they are, where they want to go, and what they need to get there.
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This very cool “Superhero Fight Club” promo for ‘Arrow’ and ‘The Flash’ was just released by the CW this morning. Let me tell you about the GeekDad connection….
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Everyone in the archery class was complaining about the poor quality of the arrows’ fletchings…
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The latest round of posters and promotional images for ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ have been released, and as usual, the question I’m asked whenever Hawkeye shows up is “what about the archery?” So let’s take a look.
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YouTube channel Smarter Every Day has posted a video of Alabama archer Byron Ferguson demonstrating his skills. In contrast to some other archers, he doesn’t spend any time making grandiose claims about his own skills or offering insulting assertions about modern target archers; he just steps up and shows what good instinctive archery looks like.
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You know that video making the rounds, supposedly demonstrating amazing “lost” archery skills? Our archery expert shoots it full of holes.
Continue ReadingYou know that video making the rounds, supposedly demonstrating amazing “lost” archery skills? Our archery expert shoots it full of holes.
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Hawkeye’s bad archery is not Jeremy Renner’s fault. The latest photos from the set show director Joss Whedon demonstrating an alleged “archery pose” for actor Jermey Renner, and suddenly it all becomes clear; Renner’s archery mistakes in the first film can be laid squarely at Joss Whedon’s door.
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Back in March of 2012, when GeekDad was still part of Wired, I wrote an article about Hawkeye’s actual archery ability as seen in the trailers and publicity photos for the Avengers. The article got a lot of page-views, and I heard from some readers; I got some nice emails from people who liked it, a few from people who wanted to argue some of my points, and one hilarious message full of invective and profanity from somebody who was outraged that I would malign his favorite superhero. Recently I got an email from somebody who read it and had a different reaction. Since it is the nicest response I’ve ever received from anything I’ve ever written, I thought I would share it with you (with the author’s permission, of course).
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As an archery instructor, I am often asked about archery safety, usually by parents whose children have expressed interest in the sport. After the release of The Hunger Games and Brave, the popularity of archery soared, particularly among girls and women.
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Ever since I wrote those articles about the archery in Brave, The Hunger Games and Avengers , I get random email, Twitter and Facebook messages from people pointing out archery in other movies, TV shows, comics, cartoons and videogames and asking what I think, and the latest to cross my screen is a note inquiring about the new elf character played by Evangeline Lily in the second installment of the Hobbit saga.
Continue ReadingZing’s Z-Tek Cross Bow and Z-Curve Bow pack a powerful punch in the soft foam weapons race.
Continue ReadingThis week’s puzzle asked how to shoot an arrow as far as possible from the walls of Troy. Ah yeah, projectile motion, baby! (Or as Laurion wrote, “Oooh, trajectory calculations!” Thank you, Laurion….me too!) And if you ever took physics …
Continue ReadingThere was a little kerfuffle this week over “the g-word.” Somebody described an activity as “geeky” in public, and people took offense, which led to an apology, along with an explanation that the word was meant in the “modern, positive …
Continue ReadingThat darn Achilles has been joyriding around the walls of Troy again, and with Hector stuck to his bumper, no less! The city’s best archers have hit Achilles with a thousand errors, but cocky Achilles doesn’t seem to get wet …
Continue ReadingI suppose I had it coming. Ever since I wrote those critiques of the archery in Brave, Hunger Games, and most infamously, the two about Hawkeye in The Avengers, I’ve had lots of people ask me my opinion of the …
Continue ReadingBrave: The Video Game will be released this Summer alongside the film. Interestingly it’s currently slated for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS and Windows PC/MAC — nothing mentioned about 3DS or Vita at this stage.
Continue ReadingI got to see a preview screening of The Avengers last night, and I need to amend my earlier comments regarding Hawkeye’s archery technique a little bit. I can’t give you a review of the film, at least not yet, …
Continue ReadingI got to see a preview screening of The Avengers last night, and I need to amend my earlier comments regarding Hawkeye’s archery technique a little bit. I can’t give you a review of the film, at least not yet, …
Continue ReadingI got to see a preview screening of The Avengers last night, and I need to amend my earlier comments regarding Hawkeye’s archery technique a little bit. I can’t give you a review of the film, at least not yet, …
Continue ReadingA while back, I wrote about having high hopes for the new Pixar film Brave. If you’re anticipating it too, you’ll be interested to know there are new trailers out. Go here to watch them, then go practice your archery!
Continue ReadingNot long ago, Marvel released a teaser poster and a trailer for The Avengers both including Hawkeye, the greatest archer in the Marvel universe. So how good is he?
Continue ReadingA new clip from The Hunger Games has been released, showcasing Katniss Everdeen’s skill with a bow, along with her unique approach to public relations. Like Merida, the protagonist in Brave, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is put in the position of …
Continue ReadingPixar’s attention to detail and accuracy shine through in the trailer for their upcoming film, where even the people doing things badly, do them badly the right way.
Continue ReadingIn our run down of the sports in Wii-Sports Resort, Archery is one of the less dramatic activities on offer. But what starts of as a very simple, if nicely honed, shooting mechanic is soon stretched beyond belief into the …
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