The Shot

Kudos to my TV junkie girlfriend for letting me know about this show (hindi na kasi ako nakakanood ng TV dahil sa trabaho, except for Wowowee by default.. hehe). This is supposedly the first reality TV show about fashion photographers. The closest thing na napanood ko before this is yung mga shoot part ng ANTM. Buti na lang episode 1 is available for our viewing pleasure on their site, hindi ata avail VH1 sa local cable TV service natin.

Eto yung 10 hand-picked photographers

I just finished watching the whole episode and na-amazed ako sa comments nung mga judges nila. Grabe, I thought oks na yung mga pictures nila pero nasabon pa ren sila. hehe.

Lakbayan

My Lakbayan grade is C-!

How much of the Philippines have you visited? Find out at Lakbayan!

Created by Eugene Villar.

WeeWillDoodle attacked IPO

Doogie and I went ahead to Makati to help Marlon finish his collateral for Intellectual Property Office. Good thing the WeeWillDoodle event was moved today as we were able to watch them give the IPO wall a facelift.


The WeeWillDoodle Troopers


This surely beats MMDA Art. hehe

Their Weapon of Choice:

Jumbo Chalks


Paint Brushes and Loads of Newspaper


Sidewalk Floor Drawings

Some tight shots of their work:










See more bigger photos at my Flickr site.

Grabe! Ang galeng. I wonder when will WeeWillDoodle doodle the MRT from Taft to North Ave. station... ???

Old Boy

Lately, I found myself searching the net for some kick-ass Korean wire-fu movies (wala pa kasi bago si axxo) and eventually found a couple, Shadowless Sword and The Restless. After reading tons of Korean film forums, Old Boy was always mentioned. They said its good so I watched it. Man, they were right... errr.. no, they're wrong... it's awesome!

It's actually the second one in Park Chan-wook's "vengeance trilogy". The first one is Symphathy for Mr. Vengeance but it doesn't come close to Old Boy and the last one is Symphathy for Lady Vengeance which I have yet to see because I still can't find it's freaking subtitle file. Anyways, the best parts for me was the corridor fight (weapon of choice = hammer) and the one where he ate a live octopus. Haha. If you want to know what can be worse than death then you gotta see this.



Nice noh?

simpsonized!

This is Jean's idea. I think my simpsonized self looked like one of the Beastie Boys.

eat some food

This is the first time we tried food photography. Usually kasi, nauubos na namin agad before namin maisip na picturan. Masarap yung kinain namin, no doubt about it, pero ang tanong is masarap ba tingnan? What do you think?


Lemon Chicken


Stringbeans and Bacon


Asian Noodles

Food and styling by Anthony Dugenia

Which Transformer Are You?

Cool! I'm 67% included in Transformers 2. Haha.

I AM
67%
STARSCREAMTake the Transformers Quiz

Starscream

Starscream has delusions of grandeur. He chose to resemble an F-22 jet because it’s the pinnacle of human technical achievement. He serves Megatron but longs to fill his shoes.

Like Starscream, you are not compassionate and harbor evil thoughts. You want to be a leader and show some promise, but you have much to learn. In addition, you enjoy being one step ahead of your friends as far as trends and technology.

Girls of Reggae Fever

Thanks to Leoby and Jaime, better known as Direk J, I had the chance to shoot some of the girls that were in the Brownman Revival's music vid, Reggae Fever. Jen, Kiks, Summer and Tere were fun models to work with. It was a blast. If only I could stay till the end of the shoot. Below are the behind the scenes photos:

From L-R: Leoby, Helen, Jen, Jaime, Hershey, Hazel, Summer and Kiks

Hazel prepping Summer for the Pin-up girl look

Hershey blow-drying Kiks' braids, they'll un-braid that after to add some hair texture

Jen seriously fixing her own hair... or Is she posing for the camera... hmm..

One of the location we found at the back of the studio. Dito ata si Kiks nakagat ng insekto... pero it's worth it naman di ba? hehe

Last but not the least, the only model that posed nude for us, outdoors... hehe

the end

i got time to waste, but im not sorry

oh what fun it is to go off the usual way and try something senseless and spontaneous without giving shit about what others think.

the end

Captivate Me

Click to see larger version

Ha! Just found out that my name was added to the credits page of the recently released Adobe e-learning software, Captivate 3. How cool is that? This is not the first time though but it's been a while since we were credited in an industry standard program.

La lang.

suspension is the new escape

This is the 4th of 5 suspension days I'll be serving. I did not bother to blog about first three because they were suspension days served wisely. Yeah, like the third one, it was used during my Marc Ecko shoot at the FHM 100 sexiest. This is the first time I'm suspended and left with really nothing to do but to savor all the minutes that will pass by. If you are wondering why I got suspended, It's by committing multiple instances of excessive tardiness. Ano magagawa ko?... sarap matulog eh. Tao lang ako.

Earlier, I was able to get a cool shirt at Robinson's Galleria.

disco sucks, narcissism rules!

Actually I got 3 other shirts but I'll just show you guys this one. It may not be obvious in the photo, but the print is actually covered with shiny shimmering glitters. Hehe, my first shirt with glitters.

I also created a new list on the right hand side of this blog. Its the "Latest LSS" list and it links to the song so you can have the chance to listen to it at radioblogclub.com.

Hay... what to do... what to do... a ha! sleep.

Godsmack

While scouting for a fast and heavy music for our video project, I stumbled upon this awesome exhibition between Sully Erna and Shannon Larkin of Godsmack. Man, even if you are not a fan, you gotta respect their skills:

FHM 100 Sexiest Women

To all those who knew that I'd be shooting at FHM's 100 Sexiest Women event and expecting photos from it, sad to say that I have zero photos for you guys. Yes zero, wala, nada. Hahaha. I can just imagine how your face transitions from excitement to devastation. Anyways, the reason is... I stayed at the Marc Ecko booth all night. I had to shoot dem males together with the scorching hot Marc Ecko models. When I can finally shoot the FHM babaes, those same males already gangbanged every space left that they can find in front of the stage. But wait, think of it this way, you can still see the event photos in the next issue of FHM and on their website... but what I'm gonna show will never be seen elsewhere but here. Hah!

Lets proceed then.

This is the Marc Ecko Red and Marc Ecko Unltd photobooth.


The Marc Ecko Unltd rhino up close.


err... the red team...


...with me.


the white team...


...with me.


Now there are six of them.


Trish in the middle.


All together now.


group hug. the end.
To Kristal: You wished me to have a good time tonight, does this look fun or what?
To Jean: Nothing compares 2 U (you can stop smacking my head now... hehe)

bad news, when it rains it pours

It's definitely not a good day for a web munkee like me who is highly dependent on the internet for inspiration, work and inspiration for work.

Bad news no.1
No more free internet radio starting on July 15, 2007. With the new royalty rates, with increase starting from 300% to 1200%, internet radio service providers lke real, mtv and the one i'm fond of, Yahoo LAUNCHCast have no choice but to stop it's free service and have it available for premium subscribers only (which rougly sums to 3% of the population). What does this mean? Internet music dies on July 15... Great artists were introduced to me through this medium and now they're gonna kill it? WTF were they thinking?

If you are a friend of music, show your support. Do not let them take away our music.

Bad news no.2
One of my favorite photographer is facing a 100,000$ lawsuit against an empire he previously worked for. I am talking about Philip Warner of Lithium Picnic vs Suicide Girls. If you haven't seen his works then I'm sad to say that he had to put his entire site down until this crisis is over. It's such a shame that a big company like Suicide Girl would pick on a single man just because they felt that this man's skills are a threat. He even had to sell his photo gears to put up with this as we all know lawsuits take a lot of time and money. You may still be able to find some of his masterpieces through Google but this barely justify the "awesomeness" of his collections. This news is terribly awful.

Photographed by: lithiumpicnic

Going back to art

Luke Chueh's art is awesome. He mixes cuteness with macabre. Jean showed me this and mentioned she have drawn a bear similar to luke chueh's 5 years ago.

Me likes this one

Jean likes how sad the deer is drawn here.

She wanted to go back on doing artsy stuff again. I think she got skills the only thing is, she have little energy left after work. I hope she finds time and the energy for this as, I know, this is like therapy for her. I managed to find one of her earlier drawings.

I think this piece is nice.