He developed the "pull-to-refresh" action, among others.
Remember that first time you encountered the "pull down to refresh" action on things like Facebook's mobile app?
The tale of an ageing warrior (here Letters from Iwo Jima's Ken Watanabe) who returns to the saddle to avenge a vicious attack on a prostitute translates fluently to the late samurai era, allowing Lee to refresh the action in pitting rusting swords against the emergent pistol.
The UI of the app now includes a "common actions" area at the top right of every screen, including the composer and refresh actions.
In barely two years, the airborne Hong Kong action-adventure antics that promised to refresh Western action-adventure movies have turned into a grating new cliche carelessly tossed into a picture (as it is here) to give it a hip kinetic gloss.
This season, Stefano Pilati at Yves Saint Laurent refreshed the action-painting look with pants, shorts and shoes smudged with practically every color in the Benjamin Moore catalog; in New York, Adam Kimmel took a complementary approach, focusing not on the Abstract Expressionist's artwork but on what the artist actually wore.
Now all we need is some auto-refreshing action on the main feed and we might just be in business.
In an age where stunt doubles, green screens, and CGI scripting have taken most of the raw talent out of a star's acrobatic technique, it's refreshing to watch Fairbanks in action as he performs his own stunts.
Truthfully, it's refreshing to finally see some action being taken on the mental health front of violence prevention seeing as it's been too long ignored by people more intent to vent their spleens at gun owners than deal with the real problem, the criminally insane perpetrator.
So the thought of closing the Academy is not based in malice; the action might prove enlightening and refreshing.
