When: November 30, 2005

Where: Lake View Cemetery, 1554 15th. Ave. E, Seattle, WA, (about two miles northeast of downtown Seattle), Plot: Lot 276.

What: The graves of Bruce Lee and his son, Brandon Lee. Accompanying audio is courtesy of Raj Bandyopadhyay.

Bruce Lee’s Gravestone reads:
Nov. 27, 1940 - July 20, 1973
Founder of Jeet Kune Do
Your Inspiration Continues To Guide Us Toward Our Personal Liberation

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Brandon Lee’s Gravestone reads:
Feb. 1, 1965 - Mar. 31, 1993
"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five time more. Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
For Brandon and Eliza
Ever Joined in True Love's Beauty

Why: “This image was an assignment for MediaStorm and MSNBC”, says Thomas. “I was assigned to shoot ‘quirky’ places throughout America. Within this assignment, I also shot 360s and recorded audio of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, Timberline Lodge in MT Hood Oregon, Katz's Deli in NY and ‘The Exorcist Steps’ in GeorgeTown Washington DC.

Bruce Lee was an actor, film director and the most recognized and acclaimed martial artist of the 20th century. Born in San Francisco, Lee moved to Hong Kong with his family as a young child, where he studied Wing Chun Kung Fu, a style emphasizing economy of movement. He rapidly rose to become one of the most feared street fighters in Hong Kong; he also excelled at dance and won the Crown Colony Cha-Cha dance championship in 1958, one year before he returned to America where he earned a degree in philosophy.

In America, his reputation as a martial artist grew, and in 1964 he was invited by Kenpo Karate pioneer Ed Parker to do a demonstration at the Long Beach International Karate Championships. His performance became the sensation of the martial arts world, and Lee opened his first formal school in Oakland, California later that year. Lee eventually devised a new style called Jeet Kune Do (The Way of Intercepting Fist), which incorporated techniques from boxing, wrestling, jiu-jitsu and fencing, among others.

In 1966, Lee starred as Kato in the television series "The Green Hornet", which became a huge success in Hong Kong and led to a series of martial arts films including “Fists of Fury”, “The Chinese Connection”, and later “Enter the Dragon” and “Return of the Dragon”, both worldwide successes. In 1973, after experiencing a series of headaches, Bruce Lee died of a cerebral edema.

How: Thomas used a Canon 10D, 15 mm Sigma, Manfrotto 303SPH, Manfrotto Mdeve 756B Tripod, RealViz Stitcher 5. You can buy most of these product on his website, Channel360.com.
Email Georg H. Thomas: sales[at]channel360[dot]com