Staticnomore

Belgian Malinois Pups For Sale

2008-05-20T14:03:00.000+08:00

Posting for a friend. More details can be found by clicking HERE

This is so wrong

2008-03-01T11:11:00.003+08:00

Read the entire story here

Meeting Ramon Bautista

2008-02-11T08:15:00.000+08:00

For once, I finally know how being starstruck feels like. Haha. Ramon Bautista is my homeboy. Winner talaga lahat ng videos nya sa TV, YouTube and Multiply kaya ko sya IDOL. Haha

Ramon Bautista for President!

Noel and Imee's Wedding

2008-01-29T12:05:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, the 2elev8 boys covered their first wedding for 2008. It was held at Intramuros, Manila, specifically at Baluarte de San Diego Gardens. It was very awesome afternoon for all of us.

The invitation and the rings

A closer look.

The rings

Can you guess what this is?

Last call to check if everything is fine. Based on Imee's smile it must be running according to plan.

Who says you can't see your bride before the wedding? Heck you can even take a photo of her.

You see, this is their third wedding, so we can't blame Noel to have his own slice of the photo op of his wife now do we?

Here they are goofing around, telling us that they once caught a fish that big. LOL.

The groom

The bride

Together now. Look how happy they are. Its like they just met each other.

uhmm... guys, you gotta wait for the pastor's go signal.

Look at the big smile on Noel's face. You can see it even through the blur.

Now we are rolling.

The reception area.

Awww.. there she is.

There was no time I saw them not smiling or giggling all throughout the ceremony. Such a happy couple.

The order and safety of the event was brought to us by the Katipuneros of Baluarte de San Diego.....

and the 2elev8 sniper team. hehe.

Closer look at the bouquet.

The altar.

Noel and Imee, thanks for having us on your very special day.
Congratulation guys!

Twitter

2008-01-24T01:53:00.000+08:00

Hey Guys,

My friend Marlon introduced me to this online service with an unusual name, twitter.com. After signing up, i thought this would be a faster way to get in touch with your friends whose always online (or even those who couldn't live without their celfones close to them.).

Its simple, all you need to do after signing up is to answer the question "What are you doing?" Whatever your answer is will be posted and seen by the public and your friends. It's like a mini-blog. Your friend can now send a message or reply to your post. You can answer this question every minute or whenever you feel like.

In case you'll sign up, please add/follow me, I'd like to get in touch with you guys:

http://twitter.com/staticnomore

Peace out!

New Year's Resolution No. 1

2008-01-07T03:06:00.000+08:00

Update Social Network Accounts.

After a couple of hours, I was able to finally renovate my Multiply page to match the look and feel of one I have in MySpace. This could've been easier if only I finished my self-paced CSS training. The theme I used is actually 90% Newspaper theme. I just changed the background image and the header.

Hey Trish, check this out!

New Year, New Life

2008-01-04T15:49:00.000+08:00

Happy New Year Everybody! I hope 2007 was a hell of a ride for you guys, it sure is mine. Thanks to all my old and new friends for a good year. Now, let's see what 2008 is in store for us...

First Photo of the Year
Tagaytay @9900 Kelvin

The Shot

2007-11-07T15:37:00.000+08:00

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

2007-10-10T12:12:00.000+08:00

My Lakbayan grade is C-!

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

Created by Eugene Villar.

WeeWillDoodle attacked IPO

2007-10-06T19:29:00.000+08:00

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

2007-10-04T14:19:00.000+08:00

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!

2007-09-21T13:59:00.000+08:00

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

eat some food

2007-08-19T13:53:00.000+08:00

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?

2007-08-17T03:13:00.000+08:00

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

I AM
67%
STARSCREAM Take 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

2007-08-16T14:58:00.000+08:00

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

2007-08-09T16:07:00.000+08:00

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

2007-08-03T14:28:00.000+08:00

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

2007-07-24T17:55:00.000+08:00

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

2007-07-17T15:09:00.000+08:00

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

2007-07-13T03:50:00.000+08:00

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

2007-07-11T14:17:00.000+08:00

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

2007-07-01T14:34:00.000+08:00

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.

Fete de la Musique 2007

2007-06-25T10:30:00.001+08:00

Yeah! It's the time of the year again where all local bands gather up for one night of celebration.

Marlon and I came all the way from our shoot in SM Southmall to Malate to experience the festival. Grabe and tagal ng byahe namin dahil sa trapik, almost 2.5 hrs. It also rained, but not that heavy, still we couldn't use our camera out without covering it. But all the hassle was worth it.

We were given backstage passes from 2elev8's generous client, Donna (she owns Soap Opera Bath Shop)

Sinag at the Hip-Hop Stage (Adriatico cor. Nakpil St.)

4 and H at the World stage (Nakpil cor. Maria Orosa St.)

I was not able to get the name of the band. This is the Rock stage (Remedios cor. Adriatico St.)

If not for the rain, we could get more shots of the crowd.

Below are photos from the main stage. This is where we stayed till the end of the festival.

Kadangyan playing their own blend of rock/tribal music. Hanep to. One of their song reminds me of a tune from Tool.

Mojofly

Giniling Festival

Maryzark

The Vince Noir Project

Fellow photogs at the stage

Still rockin despite of the rain.
It's officially 27 hours that I am wide awake when I took this.

Sizzlinnn!

2007-06-21T02:33:00.000+08:00

Ace, Alcy, Coo2x and I were supposed to have breakfast at Something Fishy and to talk about things for Overbreak (our band). At the last minute, Ace called it off. Nak ng teteng, na-set na mind ko to eat all I can. Alcy and I still need to meet though so I could give her Zach's bday photos. And so we did. I met up with her at Trinoma and the first thing we did was to look for somewhere to eat because I'm starving to death (nag fasting kasi ako dahil akala ko lalamon ako eh, amf!). I remembered this new Japanese resto that serves sizzling steak. I know it's bad idea to order food served in hot metal plates when you are really hungry cause you still to wait for it to cool down. But the place and food looks nice.

Sizzling Pepper Steak
It's how the Japanese do it!

Tamago Soup Appetizer

Mas masarap daw pag rekta sa bowl.

Kahit ano, pare-pareho lang yan pag gutom.

Ang bilis dumating ng order.

Kalimutan ko kung ano tawag sa order ni Alcy.

Eto sa ken, Hamburg and Karaage Chicken with steamed vegetables and bean sprouts.

Sunnogggg!

Si Ate to the rescue.... sya na lang daw mag hahalo nung food ko kasi nasusunog na. Hehe.

All photos taken using Alcy's phone.

Marc Ecko @ Embassy

2007-06-14T14:44:00.000+08:00

Marlon and I were commissioned to shoot the Marc Ecko, Ecko Red special event at Embassy, The Fort. It was one crazy night filled with alchohol, loud music and of course the beautiful people who supported the event.

The Fort.

Taken by Marlon. This is the photo wall to shoot random people. I look lost here.

Hindi naman ako mukahng antok noh?

Cool ice bucket. I would like to have one.

Trisha's cousin and friend.

The Ecko Girls

The Bacardi School Girls

Jampacked!

The Bacardi school girls in the club.

I liked this shot even if its kinda blurry.

This is the girl that got the free Ecko cap.

This guy somehow reminds me of Ludacris. He also got a cool Pilipinas beads.

Yep, the flash didn't fire here. I still like the effect though.

Birthday Mall Fountain

2007-06-11T16:00:00.000+08:00

The Birthday

Anna celebrated her "18th" birthday at Jay-J's Ortigas. Lot of her college and work friends came. Of course, Ace and I were "fashionably" late so everyone were already loose. My highlight for me was when I realized na masarap palang pulutan and brownies.

This maybe the longest drinking session table I ever joined in.

After that, we went to Starbucks Metrowalk.

Boy band pose.

One thing you need to do after heavy inuman is never fall asleep.

Group hug.

Ace: Sniff my finger then guess what I did in the men's room.

The TRRS Mall Tour

We were commissioned by my friend to cover their Mall tour for the entire month of June. The first one was at SM Manila City Hall, este Mall. It was my first time there. I find the place a bit gloomy.

The Tamiya RC School team.

This is Taka-San, he is ranked no. 3 in the world.

This is 7 yr old Alex. He started with RC racing a year ago and now he'll be competing at the Tamiya qualifying round in Taiwan.

This is John, Regine and Piolo. They never got there.

The Photoshoot with Ayenne.

After finishsing off with the TRRS mall tour. I went over to Trinoma to meet up with my old friend Ayenne. She got herself a Nikon D40 a week ago. I asked her to read the manual before she left Singapore so that I can go straight ahead teaching her photo stuff and wont waste time figuring out how to set it up. Guess what, I have to figure her camera out for her while she went into a shooting frenzy with my D80. What's with women and instruction manuals anyway? It was already dark until I figured out how to operate it.

This is Ayenne. This is not candid. She forced me to take a picture of her. hehe

I'm checking my cam to shoot some kids playing with the fountain.

A kid waiting for the jumping fountain.

Another kid who caught the fountain.

Embrace the blur.

Embrace the blur + silhouette

2 second exposure minus tripod = hirap.

Kuha ni Ayenne. Mukha akong kuba dito na isang lang paa, maikli pa. Ang werid ng kuha amf. haha

Top view of Trinoma's main entrance.

A closer look at the fountain. I liked the flare here (the greenish dots at the top of the fountain.)

Trinoma at night

Trinoma at night 2 (amf... wala na ako maisip na title)

Tawa ng tawa, gusto nang mag-asawa

2007-06-02T04:58:00.001+08:00

My friend Joy got married today to her long time lover, Bart. After 6 years of going steady, they finally decided to tie the knot. To those who doesn't know Joy, well, believe it or not, she knows something about you. She is an omniscient but chismosa being. hehe. She is the only person in the world who actually saw how the ocean floor opened up during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that triggered the tsunami across Indonesia. Anyways, below are the photos I took during and after their civil wedding.

Here they are with Ninong Ed and Ninang Ruby

The "(insert wife's name here), wear this ring as a symbol of my love..." part.

One ring to rule them all. After sinuot ni Joy yung ring kay Bart, naging invisible sya, pramis.

Congratulations! You are now husband.

Bon Bon Hapi Hapi

The First Family of San Juan with San Juan's Finest.

We had the reception at Cafe Ysabel

At the hallway.

Their precious.

Spaghetti in angry sauce, I ate that.

Orange juice better than melatonin.

The gang in front of Cafe Ysabel.

Congratulations Bart and Joy. Sana ay malasing nyo kami.

hehe.

9 waves

2007-05-29T16:15:00.000+08:00

Folks at work took advantage of the memorial day weekend and decided to do our yearly team building at 9 Waves resort in Rizal.

The pool people.

This is Rhecel, we are trying to do that hair-splash thing but she is semi-aquaphobic. So she only dipped half of her hair.

at my signal she raised her head...

and click!

This is what happens when you totally submerge your hair. The water trail is better, however the hair became twice as heavy. This kind of shot is not that easy as I've expected.

Please vote mah puto

2007-05-24T14:42:00.000+08:00

How I spent my weekend

2007-05-20T21:36:00.000+08:00

The past few weeks must have been my busiest so far. Aside from my night job, I have to do 3 consecutive photo shoot for 3 different jobs:

What: Photo shoot for START magazine
When: Saturday 5/19/07
Where: Sunnymede Bldg. Q. Ave. QC

START magazine is an annual/semi-annual lifestyle magazine funded by SYKES Asia. This publication circulates around the major colleges and universities in Metro Manila. We have to do this shoot with little planning and no production team whatsoever to meet the deadline. Everything was rushed, so quality suffered. Cleo and I were not happy with our shoot.

kunwari nagtra-trabaho

kunwari may kausap hehe

Nikki, one of the writers, brought his cute 7 yr. old daughter at the shoot. She entertained herself by putting on makeup in just 4 steps.

1. Apply

2. Check

3. Correct

4. Repeat

What: Skechers Flagship Store Launch
When: Sunday 5/20/07
Where: Trinoma, Q.C.

H and I were commissioned to cover the opening of the first Skechers store in the Philippines. A mini-concert was also held in the Trinoma Activity Center to promote the store. We split-up and I ended up shooting the concert while H manned the events at the actual store.

Took this on the way to Trinoma.

View of the Activity Center from the 3rd floor.

View from the stage.

The Skechers Flagship store at Level 2 Teen Zone.

The first staff of the first Skechers store.

Can't resist doing a mirror shot.

The wall where models and guest celebrities will pose. Never got the chance to shoot anyone of them... damn concert. Check out H's photo stream na lang.

This is Trisha, she hooked us up with this gig. She got a nice tan from Boracay.

This is the participant from the audience that claims he is Christian Bautista. Hehe.

The real Christian Bautista.

Fogee

Rachelle Ann Go, 3 feet away from me and I have my 85mm prime on at that moment.

Juris of MYMP, pointing where the store is.

Blessing of the store. My cam got hit by the holy water, so my camera is officially holy. hehe... pwede na to pang Fatal Frame.

Not really sure what her name is but I think it starts with princess and she is in an ABS-CBN show.

Asked her to look away.

Rachelle at the store.

Caught Juris checking out some sneakers.

What: Manila Gold Makeover Fashion Shoot
When: Monday 5/21/07
Where: 43rd Floor and Roof deck, OSMA Bldg. Pasig City

I was not told that this will be a full-blown fashion shoot with a production team consisting of Sher the stylist and Marge the make-up artist. Dugs asked me to help him out. I thought this will be just a regular, ID type kind of shoot, so I just brought my ever reliable Strobist setup. Honestly, I was just in it for the food. hehe. PG mode amf.

The idea of this event is to show a before and after photo of the "makeover" done to a regular male and female employee. The shoot was tiring but fun actually. May libre pang Starbuko after.

Kat and Andy before. Shempre kailangan poor lighting and sad na mga models.

Kat before the transformation

This is Marge the make-up artist. She is very patient.

Everything was taped.

Andy and Sher the stylist. Yes, stylist and not hair stylist. Pinapantay (nde pinapatay) nya yung bangs ni Andy.

Andy: Pantay na?
Sher: Perfect! ubo... ubo...

While waiting for them to finish, I'll introduce the crew.

This is me smiling... inside

This is Marlon with his new girlfriend, HOLGA.

Sher doing a tiger look

Chris Farley, este Dugs

After 5 years...

Tada.

Medyo mahiyain pa sila nyan.

Uy Blog!

2007-05-18T15:14:00.000+08:00

Uy!!!
Meron pala ako blog...

Pramis to blog, uupdate kita this weekend.

:)

Vector Wood

2007-04-30T02:42:00.000+08:00

Came across this tutorial about converting photos to vector. I checked it out and it seems pretty straightforward so I gave it a try. After 4 hours...

Tada...

This is the first time I tried this. I think the highlights needs a little tweaking. I chose to do Jean's photo to cheer her up or make her laugh. She's been feeling a bit down lately due to an incident at work.

Suggestion, before doing this, buy a Wacom Graphire (or Cintiq) unless, you want to get CTS to have an excuse to wear those cool wristguard thingy. A little more practice and lots and lots of spare time should be enough to create a high caliber vector art like this.

Update: Lyn just showed me a vector artist site, crisvector.com. Now that is real vector art.

Right time to be ashamed of as a Filipino

2007-04-23T12:55:00.000+08:00

What do Tulfo Brothers, NBI, CIDG and NPA Have in Common?

Silversun Pickups

2007-04-22T22:40:00.000+08:00

You'll know if a song is good (or interesting) if it can disrupt you from whatever it is you're doing. This song caught my attention so I had to stop work/raket to listen to it. I think they're good although Brian Aubert sounds like Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria in the first part. Btw, their drummer is a pinoy.

Lazy Eye
by: Silversun Pickups

I've been waiting
I've been waiting for this moment all my life
But it's not quite right

And this 'real'
It's impossible if possible
At who's blind word
So clear but so unheard

I've been waiting
I've been waiting for this silence all night long
It's just a matter of time

To appear sad
With the same 'ol decent lazy eye
Fixed to rest on you
Aim free and so untrue

Everyone's so intimately rearranged
Everyone can focus clearly with such shine

Everyone's so intimately rearranged
Everyone can focus clearly with such shine

Lost and loaded
Still the same 'ol decent lazy eye
Straight through your gaze
That's why i said i relate
I said we relate
It's so fun to relate

It's the room the sun and the sky
It's the room the sun and the sky

I've been waiting
I've been waiting for this moment...

Back to the city

2007-04-18T15:50:00.000+08:00

It's been two days now since I came back from vacation and I can't still find the time to share the photos I took at Baguio. Work, raket and specially, the heat drains my last remaining energy to sort out those I want to upload in my Flickr page. Eto muna for starters, my smashing pamangkins:

myca

myco: wasap hip-hop?

If I'll have the time this weekend. I'll upload some especially the items I got from ukay-ukay. hehe

Haaaaaayyyyy....

2007-04-12T17:51:00.000+08:00

Kung gusto mong magpapresko?
Magpalamig ng ulo?
Magpunta lang sa baguio,
Oh anlamig-lamig dito!
Oh ang ginaaa-haw! Oh ang ginaaa-haw!
Oh ang ginaw sa baguio, naninigas ako-hoh!

Si mama ko at papa,
Sa baguio nagpunta
Ng niyaya na si mama
Ay agad na ng sumama!
Nagkalamigan!
Nagkainitan!
At pag-alis sa baguio...
Lumabas ako-hoh!
-
Elvis and James
The Living Legends

day dreaming pa ren ba ang tawag pag ginawa mo to sa gabi?

2007-04-07T13:06:00.000+08:00

I got this collection of 100 one hit wonders (1980-90) that I brought to the office a week ago. I didn't have the time to listen to it because I'm swamped with escalations (naks!) and I'm also studying our band's line-up... until now. Usually, I start my night at the office by plugging my earfones to my personal desktop MP3 player aka our Mac G5 test machine and running iTunes, then I randomly select my background music for the night. I was thinking about listening to The Ataris when I saw the Top 100 One Hit Wonders two playlist below it. Hmm... mapakinggan nga, after a few minutes, I'm off walking down on memory lane with my ex HS GF HHWWPSSP.

For the first hour I was listening to the hits of 4 Non Blondes, Chumbawamba, Vanilla Ice, Right Said Fred, etc... but you know, they're nothing compared to this:

haha... classic, hayup ng dance moves, kakabakla, syet!

bigpoppaprof (1 week ago)

It's like a car wreck. It's just so awful but I can't look away.

Bethfromwigan (2 days ago)

haha,they dont make videos like that anymore ! I wish they did though....

MissPMS (2 days ago)

Those tight pants are unforgivable.

Anyways, after this "awesome" moment that snapped me out of it, I realized I'm slacking off. So, I ~~went back~~ started to work.

You can tell when you're really working seriously (naks!) when you're at the point were you're not aware about the music anymore. right? So that's what I'm doing (naks!) until "Putting on the Ritz" was up. This song for some reason scares the shit out of me. I'm not referring to the original version that sounds like the tunes at Midway Boulevard at EK. It's the one that this Taco dude made. If you do not have any idea what I'm talking about, listen to this:

(Again, I said just listen, not watch this. Christopher Walken looks retarded here.)

For me, this version sounds so sinister. This is what I think I feel. Imagine this, you are alone at a cheap, dirty, poorly-lit abandoned motel and you'll be riding the elevator up. As it goes, you hear weird mechanical noises, like someone is wailing and screaming, and then this song plays through a busted mono elevator speakers with static and other ringu-like sound effects. You then started to feel more uneasy, like something seriously bad will happen before this song is over. The elevator started to shake more, the noise gets louder and more frequent, this time it sounds like a group of people whispering and scratching the walls to get in. It's also getting unusually cold as it continues to go up. In your head, you're desperately wishing that the song does not end, because you know the door will open after. With all those noises outside, you've become very afraid to go out now. A few seconds after, lights started to flicker, the whispers turn to high-pitched screams, the mild shakes turn to tremors.... you feel the elevator broke down and will fall any time now forcing you to hold on to the railings as tight as you can...... but suddenly the screaming and shaking stopped and the music reached the end. Before you catch your breath, the lights went out.... It's completely calm and silent now.... then... you hear a very low, resonating voice, telling you to come out now...... The door slowly opened...... scent of incense and rotten flesh fills the air.... and......... my phone rang, got a client on the line. to be continued...

After I got off the phone, I lost my train of thought... So, it's up to if you want to continue the story. What would be a great ending to this?

fuck ups and thumbs up

2007-04-02T13:43:00.000+08:00

FUCK UPS

1. Kept referring yesterday as Easter Sunday.
2. 400 / 4 = 50
3. Brought camera with no SD card.

Kung si Confucius meron golden rule na "do to others what you would have them do to you." ang mga paparazzi naman eh merong "bring your camera anywhere anytime". I learned the hard way that this also applies to memory cards. Pakinshet, of all the time and place to forget bringing a card, baket pa sa gig ng The Dawn? gaddemet. The place was nice, lighting was great, the crowd was not that big, as in tamang-tama makakuha ng bagong pictures pang blog at pang prendster without blinding the person next to you with your ala-neuralizer-flash.The moment we got off the car till we got seated in the bar, I was praying real hard, in my head, that somehow, I'll come across with a friend who happens to have a spare SD card in his pocket. Well that didn't work. Good thing Jegs was nice enough to let me borrow her card for a while. At least, it was a good decision to bring the camera to the bar anyway.

The Dawn live at Aruba Bar M.O.A.
Used a cam phone, pathetic (pero maganda tong phone mo alcy ah.. hehe)

THUMBS UP

1. Alcy got a ~~orange Aruba ashtray~~ frosted eccentric orange jagermeifter ashtray (happy now?)

2. Ace got a new prendster picture

3. We got our picture taken with Francis Brew as the amazing human light stand. heehee. Kahit overexposed, meron naman kwento.
(Photo was taken by Aruba bar owner, Mr. Allan. Great guy.)

Saturday Sunday

2007-03-25T12:03:00.001+08:00

8:20 pm

Met up with Alcy and Jasper at Starbucks West Ave. Still a bit groggy from a 4 hour sleep.

9:05 pm

Met up with the rest of the crew, Ace and Anna, at Bellini's, Cubao X. We had four cheese and Bellini's special pizza, ravioli and spaghetti (supposed to be penne) with meat sauce for dinner. Sarrrappp.

sweet wine - served after meal

satisfied customers

Cubao X shop owner and the tambay

11:15 pm

Arrived at Saguijo. Before that we went to Purple Haze to check the line-up. It was an emocore night but no one is up for it. I wish I was able to see at least Typecast perform. Anyway, it was Pinoy Soul Movement's anniversary that night at Saguijo. A lot of rock/funk/soul bands played including Radioactive Sago Project and Sino Sikat?.

Kat of Sino Sikat?

It's already like 10+ times i've been there and still I haven't checked out the art gallery upstairs. Alcy and I were goin to check it out but it was already closed . Well, there is more interesting art in the bathroom anyway... hehe. I think I read somewhere that sometimes artists encounter a moment of epiphany while taking a dump. In addition, the principles of volume displacement was said to be discovered by Archimedes in a bathroom.... O ha!

Saguijo Bathroom Art - more superior than MMDA art
For details go to my Flickr page

Alcy requested a picture of her with the Radiohead poster before we go.

4:25 am

Next stop was Tiananmen Bar and Restaurant along Makati Ave. Ace headed home to sleep, he's been awake for more than 24 hours already. We ordered white chicken noodle soup, 3 orders of siomai and 2 honey-cured pork siopao. Sarap nung siomai but its kinda pricey for a 3 pcs an order. Nothing beats the Hidalgo siomai at 6php a pop. hehe.

This session's topic for discussion "Women: We are fickle-minded, so what?"

6:10 am

Jasper had to go back to his office. Earlier, while we are off to Purple Haze, he got a call from work about conflict with his work schedule. He needs to straighten things up first and it'll just take 10-20 mins. Below is a picture of me at their office, 40 mins after.

7 :00 am

Starbucks @ Leviste St.

As usual I had the tall signature hot choco. I suggested to go to starbucks @ Valero st but they do not like it there, simply because last time we were there, they were not able to smoke for 2 hours. haha. As a heavy smoker before, that 2 hours without smoking is a punishment. Anyways, I regretted to have ordered hot instead of iced choco, it was so hot and dry that morning. We had a lengthy conversation about road trips, pointlessness, the future and movies. Alcy wanted psycho-thriller movies, I recommend that she watch Hard Candy. Jasper likes movies with battles in them, well I said he should see Night watch. Anna likes love stories with tragic endings, hehe, I said go watch Shinobi.

Me geting really angry- "amf... ang init!"

Alcy doing the heel-to-heel-chaplin-thing.

10:30 am

After getting lost in Sampaloc, Manila. Jasper dropped me home. Took a bath, ate lunch, talked to Jean about the 80's music we grew up with, and slept whole sunday.

The end.

recently watched movies list

2007-03-23T15:20:00.000+08:00

I love watching movies so I created a list about the latest I've seen. I thought adding my personal rating for each by adding medals. Yes, as you can see the list on your right, the first one is always the newest and beside it the "x-shaped" medals. Refer to the legend below:

Legend of the "x-shaped" medals

x x x x x = your life will not be complete until you watch this
x x x x = you will not regret this
x x x = recommended, if you have nothing else better to do
x x = don't worry, you didn't miss a thing
x = watch this, if you really hate yourself

Please note: Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. Do not take this seriously if you are a very serious movie person. If you think I gave the wrong opinion then you are wrong cause there is no wrong opinion (well, according to my debate teacher).

got another one in

2007-03-19T15:25:00.001+08:00

umbrella catchlight + big sunglasses = flickr explore photo. I know this is not a big deal, but it does make my day.

fairies UP and down

2007-03-12T16:00:00.000+08:00

There is one thing I gotta say about this shoot... bittttiiinnn. So many possibilities so little time. Let's do this again! hehehe. It was indeed a fun collaboration with different talented artists. For makeup and styling we have Donna Santos, Jey Amurao for art direction and the "always-game-kahit-ano-kahit-saan" models: Trisha, Ehrian and Shiela.

It was almost a perfect run if this "little" incident did not happen. We thought somebody lost my radio trigger but it was just hiding in my bag all along. I found it out after I went home. Yan tuloy isa lang Canon shooter (galeng talaga ng Nikon CLS!). Sensya na guys, kaka-Ipod ko kasi eh. :))

Would you believe that these girls are actually fairies?

Trisha

Ehrian

Shiela

this shoot will not be possible without us photo-monkeys

at syempre and pinakaimportanteng part ng shoot, ang group hug. Bow.

gloc 9 music video: lando

2007-03-10T10:11:00.000+08:00

I had the chance to watch the making of a new gloc 9 music vid. I never knew what or who will Jaime be shooting until i got to UP Bliss. He allowed me to document the whole shoot while I was there.

Gloc 9

Jaime the director.

This is Vince as Lando.

This is Gail as Elsa.

Mobbstarr and...

Francis M was also there.

project stef

2007-03-05T14:51:00.000+08:00

This was the last set of "project stef" modelslashfashion shoot. It was setup at the basketball court of Sambahayan Condominium in Mandaluyong. We initially planned on having this set at a basketball court, unfortunately it was too dark without the basketball court lights on so we decided to just do it at the bleachers. After Ivy prepped the model and after I setup the lights, the basketball court lights turned on. WTF??? We still went on with the current setup. Hell with those lights, we dont need 'em. We packed our own, strobist style.

The resulting image. Mukha daw syang alien dyan. hehe

model: Stef
makeup/stylist: Ivy
lighting and photography: yours truly

Of course, this is the mandatory group-hug shot. From L-R, Ivy, Doogie, Me, Marlon, Stef, Kirby and Sonny. Cleo, Ivy, John and Herbert went home early so they were not included here. Sorry na lang sa inyo, kayo eh.

This was not possible without Marlon's cooperation. We crashed his house, he talked his way out with a complaining concerned resident and he guaranteed the safety throughout the shoot. Next time ulit!

jason kidd in the haws!

2007-03-05T07:00:00.000+08:00

Or this may be the alleged bossing of the tambays still at the compound. Ayon sa mga residente doon, sya raw yung tipong siga na sinisipa lahat ng nakapilang timba at balde sa may poso. Beware. Do not make eye contact or else.

real men wear pink

2007-03-05T00:18:00.000+08:00

If real men wear pink (sando) then real photographers use pink (barbie) camera? hehe. This kid is one of the tambays at Marlon's compound during our fashionslashmodel shoot with Stef. And yes, that is Kobe Bryant at the back. After he realized that I took a shot of him with his bad-ass camera, he left. Baket kaya sa tingin nyo?

hello world

2007-03-01T16:18:00.000+08:00

Check one check. Is this mic on?