Scott Shaw Sundries Be Positive

Nice photo of someone reading one of my books Zen Kapu from Instagram. :-)

Happy B'day from Israel 2017.

Flashback 1987: Cold night in L.A. Photo taken by my sweet Singapore Airlines stewardess who I met on a flight from Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur when she came to visit me.

Back in the New Wave days.

Scott Shaw 2018.15.9

LA to Tokyo (Again).

Osaka Subway

Here's a fun review about The Roller Blade Seven from the book, The Bad Movie Bible -- which I highly recommend. Thanks! Zen Filmmaking!

On the cover of Complete Guide to Kicking and Stretching in 1993.

Flashback 1992: Here's Kenneth H. Kim and Yours Truly, Scott Shaw during the casting sessions for the Zen Film, Samurai Johnny Frankenstein, then titled, Atomic Samurai. The Casting Sessions for this film took place at the production offices of Fred Weintraub who produced the Bruce Lee film, Enter the Dragon, among many others. Ken had a working relationship with Weintraub and it was through this contact that we were allowed to use his offices. I only wish that our production budget for the film would have matched the massive suite of offices we were allowed to use for casting, located in the heart of Century City. :-)

Scott Shaw @ Bombay Beach

Flashback Photo from 1987.

Hanging with my brother in Reykjavik.

A rainy day in Tokyo.

Sunny Sunday in L.A. @ historic Watts Towers.

This art piece I created titled, Blue Wood Buddha is going to be showing at the 2019 L.A. Art Show this month. If you are gong to be there, check it out. :-)

Scott Shaw

Taking a moment @ Chakura in Asakusa.

Here's a flashback for you... When I was living in Bangkok in the 80s this is my business card from a company I operated that did consigned Asian research, Asian Studies, Ltd.

Here's a fun little piece of Scott Shaw history for you. Back when we were doing Guns of El Chupacabra, Don Jackson got all obsessed... As I had been knighted, The Reverend Doctor Saint Francis Blade, at the end of the film, he wanted to make sure that I actually would be a Reverend, Doctor by the time of the film's premiere. (My Ph.D. was already in place). So, I sent off my application and here's my Credentials of Ministry circa 1998. Hey, I can legally marry people. :-)

Scott Shaw Flashback Photo 1980 something.

Here's a piece that was put up on Facebook featuring the frequent co-stars of ny Zen Filmmaking buddy, Joe Estevez.

Someone took a passage out of one of my books, About Peace, and put it up over at Deviant Art.

Here's another passage someone took out of About Peace and put up over at Deviant Art.

Here's a fun piece of memorabilia. If you were a World Taekwondo Federation black belt back in the '70s, before there were millions and millions of them, Dr. Un Yong Kim, the President, would send you a hand signed Christmas card. Here's one of mine.

Here’s an interesting piece of history for you… As someone who is not nostalgic by nature I rarely hold onto memorabilia. Here is an exception. This Smith Victor Photo Flood Lamp is probably the last remaining anything that we used when we filmed Samurai Vampire Bikers from Hell. The sword, the leather jacket, you name it… It’s all gone. But, this lamp remained and, in fact, was used while filming a number of later Zen Films.

I was at my storage unit looking for something and I came across this illustration that an artist painted of me back in the 80s. Pretty funny...

Here's a review published by the then thriving spiritual bookstore, The Bodhi Tree, in their monthly magazine back when my book Zen O'clock: Time to Be was first published.

No, sorry, I'm not into cosplay. :-) Flashback 1991: This is a couple of shots of me on the set of MacGyver where I played a character in the episode, Good Knight MacGyver. This is also one of the two incidences where I came to realize that the Screen Actors Guild does not stand behind its members. The production had gone over budget and they took away our trailers. I complained to SAG and not only did they pull my screen credit but I did not get paid for the five days I was on the set. Though, now that you know what to look for you do see and hear me throughout the episode. Awh, life in Hollywood... Isn't it grand.

Merry Christmas

Scott Shaw 2018.11.5

Here's a flashback photo that I just came across. Here I am at my studio back in 1980. Awh... The foolish photos that we martial artists take. :-)

If you haven't edited a movie with one of these you haven't lived. Samurai Ballet.

Spring in L.A. The drought is finally over. This field was dry and barren for the past few years. Now it is overgrown with plants and flowers. Hooray!

Here's a flashback photo for you... This is my Sony VX-2000. ...Probably the greatest Indie Film Camera that was ever made. I shot Zen Films like Undercover X, Hitman City, Super Hero Central, Blood on the Guitar, Killer: Dead or Alive, Vampire Noir, and Vampire Abstracta with it. Then came the world of Digital HD and now this camera is virtually completely antiquated.

Tokyo. I take the worst selfies. :-)

Lhasa, Tibet. That's my shadow taking a photograph in the center circa 1986. :-)

Flashback: I was going through some stuff the other day and I came across this plaque they gave me back in '99 when they listed me in the 3rd Edition of Who's Who in Entertainment.

A lot of people quote my books (in various languages) on Twitter. Thanks! I'm glad you find my words inspirational. I personally don't Tweet but Quote Delight took it to a new level with this nice photograph. :-) This quote is from the book, Zen O'clock: Time to Be.

NRT to LAX. "Please put your seat in full upright position." Just woke up as the plane is landing. Need to brush my hair. :-)

Here is a piece of history that some of you may find interesting. One of the things that I do is to read historically-based submitted manuscripts for publishers when they are in the final stages of deciding whether to publish the work or not and want someone to give the book a final appraisal as to its factuality. Major publishers also send me advanced copies of books they are about to publish when they feel I have knowledge about the subject and want me to write a review about the book. Here is the letter Random House sent me in 1991 in association with the book, Hank. This book remains the best biography written about Charles Bukowski.

Scott Shaw Max Hell in the Wheelzone

Flashback 1983 when I was living in Paris.

I was kicking around a library last week and I noticed one of my books on the shelf. Here's a bad selfie. :-) Every now and then I wonder just how many libraries around the world offer my books to their members?

Bumped into my Roller Blade Seven Co-Star Frank Stallone at the 2017 NAMM Show. The Roller Blade Seven Lives!

Here's Hawk Goodman AKA Scott Shaw twenty-five years after one of the key opening scenes for the Roller Blade Seven was filmed here at, the Mission San Fernando Rey de España. Now, the corridor is barred up and forbidden.

Greetings from the Tokyo Subways System.

In Harajuku between filming scenes for the next Zen Film.

Here I am at Sanrio Puroland in Japan with Hello Kitty on my birthday 2016. Yes, yes, I know it's weird. :-)

Flashback 1989. Time flys when your've having fun.

@ the Broad

On the set.

Flasback: Scott Shaw in Nepal in 1984.

Looking down the wishing well in Macau. 1.2019.

I finally gave in and purchased one of the Hollywood Isn't The Same Without Scott Shaw tee-shirts. Though the company probably should have given me one for free. :-)

As most of you know I've written a bunch of magazine articles. Here's one row of the mags. There are more... Pretty scary. :-)

The Swami Satchidanada Microphone. Here's an interesting piece of history for you. This is the microphone I used when I did the sound for my teacher Swami Satchidananda in the 1970s. He gave so many lectures through this microphone. It probably still has his DNA on it. The interesting thing is that by my nature I am not a nostalgic person—I throw or give pretty much everything away. Somehow I still have this microphone. :-)

Opening night @ the 2016 L.A. Art Show.

Welcome to my abode. 2019.18.2

Selfie from the abyss.

Here's a fun little article about Scott Shaw published in Publishers Weekly.

Here's an interesting piece of history for you... After having just watched the Netflix documentary, Wild Wild Country, about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, I wrote a blog that referenced it. More interestingly... Here is the signed paper that Bhagwan gave to me, with my new name on it, after he initiated me into Sanyass in India in 1978. Jai Bhagwan!

Flashback: Mid-1980s something

Here’s a fun flashback from the past. This is the ad for a class I taught on Ki development in San Francisco back in '97 when my book, The Ki Process was first published.

Here's the ad for one of the classes I taught on filmmaking at Santa Monica College.

Here's the ad for one of the classes I taught on filmmaking.

Here I am in the early 1980s with Bruce Lee friend and Yip Man Senior Student, William Cheung. Though my primary focus is obviously on the Korean martial arts, I did also dabble in Wing Chun. Here I am receiving my certificate.

This is the first video tape I ever purchased back when they were like $89.00 and you could only get them from the video tape rental stores.

Here's the ad for one of the classes I taught on filmmaking at U.C.L.A.

Flashback 1970 something.

Flashback for one of the classes I taught on filmmaking at U.C.L.A.

Here's an old Press Release that I just came upon, sent out by my publicist of way back when, preceding one of my trips to Hong Kong. And yes, I too find it amusingly ridiculous. But, that's Hollywood. :-)

Here's a fun little flashback from the past, the Scott Shaw Gap ad from the early 90s.

Here's a fun flashback for you. Hawk Goodman and Stella Speed photo still from the Roller Blade Seven Wedding Ceremony.

Here's a little something someone posted on Twitter.

Flashback: With my '56 Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster back in the days when I was playing the Blues.

Flashback: Magazine Cover 2005.

Here's the ad from one of the classes I taught at Santa Monica College.

Promo Photo from my vinyl record radio show.

Here's one of the Big Bank SAG/Aftra residual payments I received for my particiaption in Bonfire of the Vanities and The Player. :-)

As I bumped in Frank Stallone at the 2017 NAMM Show. You can see the photo on this page. Here's a flashback photo of Frank and I on the set of RB7. We were a lot younger back then. :-)

Here's a Production Still of Scott Shaw and Julie Strain from the unreleased film, Hug the Dragon.

Here's the South Park character based on Scott Shaw. :-)

Here I am in wardrobe on the set of the film, Sandy Wexler.

Flashback: Here's an ad I did for Body Glove way back in the way back when.

Flashback: Music Publicity Still early 1980s.

Here's a fun one... Scott Shaw @ Three Years Old.

Production Still from the never completed Zen Film, Surf Samurai from Atlantis.

Meet my Director of Photography.

Lunch in my tralier (in costume) for the film Sandy Wexler.

Here's a photo ad I did for Gillette in Japan circa 1987.

Here's the Video Tape box for one of the Latin American releases of Roller Blade Seven, Filo Letal.

Here's the 8X10 that somebody sent Donald G. Jackson which caused him to call me that resulted in the creation of Zen Filmmaking.

Hello from the Land of Buddha: Hong Kong.

My 9th Grade Virgil Junior High School Class Photo.

Flashback 1999

The page from the Martial Arts Encyclopedia where my Martial Arts Biography is presented.

Here's a rare one... On the cover of Martial Arts Combat Sports

Scott Shaw Cinema of the Absurd. This is the poster from a gallery show featuring photographs from the Zen Films. It's also the cover for an upcoming book.

Scott Shaw Beggar's Grave LP Cover.

Here's the poster for a very rare, hard to find movie starring Scott Shaw, Shadows of Hong Kong. It was also theatrically released as Pop Beat Killers in Hong Kong.

Hello Kitty Town. Puteri Harbour, Malaysia 2019

Flasback: School Picture 7th Grade.

Here's the poster for a rare Scott Shaw film, Hug the Dragon.

Here's the ad for a class on Ki Energy I taught many yeats ago.

Photo Booth Flashback: 1974

Here's a PR piece that went out about me in the late 90s.

Seventeen hours to Singapore.

Here's a fun one. This is the ad for one of the first classes I ever taught at a university. I was using my spiritual name. Click the + sign up in the left to super enlarge.

Here's a fun photo I found on the Swami Satchidananda account on Instagram. If you look to the upper center there I am circa 1970 something. Jai Gurudev.

Here's the ad for one of the seminars I taught on filmmaking.

Here's the theater card I had Don Stroud sign for me during the filming of Roller Blade Seven. From the 1960s forward I was always a big fan of Don. When I met him on the set of one of my first films Divine Enforcer and then got to work with him on RB7 it was like a dream come true. We both lived in the South Bay of L.A. and whenever I would run into him or he would invite me over to his place it was just too weird as I was such a fan but I always am thankful I got to work with him.

Here's a Taekwondo Promo Photo used in some magazine in the early 1990s.

Here's a photo of my father circa late 50s early 60s behind the bar at the restaurant he owned. He used to love to hang out behind the bar and talk to the customers.

Back before the Internet ruled the world this is the postcard I would send out to Industry People to let them know I existed.

Here's the obligatory selfie at the Eiffel Tower. 11.2021

Here's what my bedroom in my apartment in Hermosa Beach looked like in the '80s.

Hangin' with the Big Buddha in Bangkok.

With my Zen Filmmaking Brother Joe Estevez 2023.