MY TOP 10 MOVIES OF ALL TIME
1. The Lost Boys
2. House Party
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Goodfellas
5. Conan The Barbarian
6. Chasing Amy
7. Mallrats
8. The Fast and The Furious
9. Hackers
10. Animal House
MY TOP 3 DIRECTORS OF ALL TIME
1. Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill)
3. Ridley Scott (Alien, BladeRunner, Black Hawk Down)
Here's a small synopsis of who I am, Kevin F. Pickett.
School
Comic Book Writing
Starting in 2008 I began my comic book writing career. I'm currently writing 3 titles.
Chester The Crafty Pervert - Illustrated by Tedd Miller
Artemis Strange - In Production, Illustrated by RNA Brand. Continuing Short Story Series coming soon.
Film Work
Since graduating I've decided to pursue new goals and filmmaking is one of them. Writing has become a passion of mine. I've been writing for ten years and have worked on 2 film projects. You can see my credits listed below.
Waste and Void - Director Kennet Du, Assistant Camera/Gaffer Kevin Pickett., Starring Alana Servignese - March 2004
Quagmire - Director Omar Robau, Assistant Director Kevin Pickett., Director of Photography Hesh Goldberg, Starring Raymond Turturro - Summer/Fall 2004
Martial Arts
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I'm currently practicing at Tiger Shculman's MMA School in East Hanover NJ. I'm taking courses in Kickboxing and Grappling. |
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I practiced Jow Ga Kung Fu for a year and a half and then one year of Hung Gar. Its been ten years but I do remember a lot. Not enough to teach but enough to get by. I also studied and participated in a genuine Lion Dance for Chinese New Year in January 1990. It was performed by fellow classmates and myself at Kyodai Dojo in Queens Village, NY. I managed to learn three styles, Little Crane, Northern Circular Fist, and Low Ga. I was instructed by Sifu Michael Willner. Jow Ga is an authentic, well-established Chinese Martial Arts system, widely practiced all over the world, with its origins in the legendary Shaolin temples of Ancient China. Its main founder, Jow Lung, intensively studied both Northern and Southern Shaolin systems of Kung Fu in his youth, and combined the skills and practical techniques of the two systems to create a balanced hard and soft style of Kung Fu. Strong, low stances, a distinct dexterity in footwork, ground and aerial techniques, as well as a wide range of kicking and hand techniques all point to an influence of the Hung Gar and Choy Gar styles of Kung Fu. Jow Ga is also renowned for its animal forms such as tiger, crane, leopard, cougar, eagle, dragon and phoenix. |
History - Born and Rasied Queen's Native
Here's a little history about the town I grew up in called Cambria Heights New York. It's on the border of Queens NY and Long Island NY.
Cambria Heights began life as part of the St. Albans area, which in turn was part of the Jamaica Town land grant from New Netherlands Gov. Peter Stuyvesant to English settlers in 1656. For most of its history Cambria Heights was a place of bountiful farms and forests.
Some historians say Cambria was the name of a local family; others, that the name was based on a coal company from Cambria County, Pa. In either case, there's no doubt about where the ``Heights'' came from. The area is the third highest elevation on Long Island, rising roughly 50 feet above sea level. At one time it was called Kerosene Hill, because the community did not have piped-in gas.
In the early 1920s a Brooklyn real estate and insurance dealer named Oliver B. LaFreniere began developing a 163-acre site assembled from three large farms. This started the development of Cambria Heights as a community of one- and two-family homes. Home-building grew rapidly in the '40s after the Cross Island Parkway opened at the eastern edge of the community.
Cambria Heights is known for the globe lanterns that dot the lawns of many households. These globe lanterns originate from the urban foundings of Cambria Heights. The houses in Cambria Heights were originally built as homes for soldiers after World War II.
In the Fall of 2006, it was published in the New York Times that Cambria Heights is one of few communities in New York in which African and Caribbean Americans earn more than their European-American neighbors. It was also listed in Money Magazine's Best places to live in 2006.