Summer Art Workshop

Interested in learning about basic art elements, techniques, and how to use materials and tools like pastels, watercolor, colored pencils, etc?

Join us for a summer art workshop this April – May 2009 at Mindgym, Inc!

• Draw, paint, & express yourself through art
• Get personalized coaching of your works from artist Mr. Mar Bongalon
• Meet new friends and post your art in your own exhibit

Who can join? 7 years-old and up art enthusiasts!

Maximum of 10 students per class

For 10 sessions, inclusive of art materials, pay only P3,500.

Art classes will be held at La Casa Mia, 219 J.P. Rizal Street, Project 4, Quezon City (near Katipunan Avenue and Cubao).

Contact 0927-877-08-00 now for more info!

Hartharthart

Sent with all his love, and the chocolate stains on his teeth.

Change the World, One Photographer at a Time

It’s the UP OPTICS ACLE experience–Photos that moved the world, and how to take them (more info here).

In this picture, UP OPTICS’ “Kuya”, and forever-resource person, photographer Dan Cercado, shows off one of the few pictures that sits framed in his house. “It was taken with this point-and-shoot camera.”

Fangirls?

I am reminded that one doesn’t need fancy cameras to take photos that “change the world”. All it takes is a camera, and a heart to see things others can’t, to learn/”invest“ in skills to do justice in the moment you’re capturing, to be humble enough to realize that you’re supposed to take pictures with the purpose of glorifying and share the ”awesomeness“ of life in this day and age.

I am humbled and educated in this ACLE (Haha, I’m plugging). Then again I always learn from Kuya Dan. Read his blog to learn how he takes his pictures.

It's THAT trademark grin! :D

Thank you for sharing how you do photography Kuya Dan!

UP OPTICS ACLE – Photos That Moved the World

 

Learn about

Photos That Moved the World 

and

How to Take Them

An Alternative Classroom Learning Experience

by the UP Photography Society (UP OPTICS)

February 4, Wednesday   • 1 – 5 PM  • AS 410, Palma Hall, UP Diliman

 

Speaker: Dan Cercado, photographer

 

For more info, contact Cori (0905-294-45-48)

 

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What is the UP Alternative Classroom Experience? Find out here!

 

Prusisyon

Another reason to wake up early, explore somewhere you’ve never been to, and literally get lost before you reach your destination:

PHOTO-OPS.

 

 

 

 

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Did I break a solemn mood there?

(Antipolo)

I, state your name, do hereby..

A very cool, and rather black-and-white 2009’s first General Assembly of doctors, interns, and staff at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, Quezon City:

As I walked past the ensemble to go stay with my dad, I caught a line from one of the speeches: 

“…You can count by your hands, even with only one hand, the things that can make you happy.”

 

Whatta way to start the year.

Wreath

 

When it arrives

The darkest of nights

Let me have my back turned

And not realise

 

The story’s coming to an end

I’ll never be just giving in

I’m living by the rolling dice

It’s closure but it’s in disguise

 

- To An End, Marit Larsen

UP Para sa Bayan photos

UP Para sa Bayan -- The crowd in awe at the landing parachute gliders-- and yes, that's Quezon City Mayor Sonny Belmonte on the right :D

Leadership, excellence and service– the three pillars that make University of the Philippines have recently been “personified” in the recent Hail UP Oblation photo shoot, and UP Para Sa Bayan, a one-day public service fair of UP colleges and alumni offering free services for the Filipino last Saturday, December 13, 2008.

I roamed around this event, and got free blood and sugar, a health & lifestyle one-on-one consultation, and a portraiture lesson! Click here for more photos from my camera and more details about the event.

My on-the-spot portraiture lesson by UP Centennial artist Mar Bongalon

 

Silent drill formation

Other highlights of the day:

• Kasalang UP, a mass marriage of a hundred couples, with QC Mayor Sonny Belmonte doing the “funky”/cool-toned honors and marriage vows
• UP Vanguard parachute tents! I love seeing the faces in the crowd looking at it ^_^ They’re all in awe.
• UP Vanguard silent drill exhibition —I miss rifle-passing/throwing from COCC. These guys were all snappy and alert!
• The Hail UP Oblation photo shoot

Hail U.P. Oblation pictures!

The Hail UP Oblation photoshoot was legendary! It made me want to take off my clothes and pose for my alma mater as well! :D (Kung pwede lang sana e!)

Hail! U.P. Oblation centennial photo shoot

An incredible, breath-taking experience! Click this link for photos from my camera.

Very “alive” human oblations

Of course these Oblations were very alive themselves! View their funnier photos here.

 

Thanks to all the models who participated in this centennial shoot! Our National artist Guillermo Tolentino would’ve been very proud! You did the Oblation monument, and UP, more justice than it can ever receive in its lifetime! To inspire the gathering of a all these people, and “sacrifice” themselves, er, visually by doing something potentially embarrassing (and you did it anyway!). We’re all super proud of you guys!

Let’s do what we can to keep the spirit of Filipinos in the minds of many :) I excited to see what the AP and Reuters photographers came up with! 

Hail! UP Oblation photoshoot

UP Oblation Run fans and enthusiasts! Finally, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get that perfect angle of a human UP Oblation: A photoshoot of 100 U.P. Oblations–minus the masks, and all that running!

Attend “Hail! U.P. Oblation“, a grand UP Centennial photoshoot in UP Diliman’s Amphitheater, on December 13, Saturday, at sunrise (6 A.M.).

Yeah there’s that six A.M. calltime.. but then again it’s once-in-a-lifetime! You’re gonna be telling your grandchildren about this event (especially if you’re one of the models, or know one of them)! So go! ^_^

More details in the press release below:

A hundred male University of the Philippines alumni, students, faculty, and staff will pay tribute to the UP icon, the Oblation, via a unique photo shoot on December 13, 2008 at the crack of dawn. The “100 Oblations” event will be one of the closing activities of the UP Centennial celebrations.

Called “Hail! U.P. Oblation”, the historical and visual gathering is estimated to take place at 6 a.m. at the UP Diliman Amphitheater behind Quezon Hall where the original Oblation monument stands. The event will be covered by foreign and local media organizations and professional photographers. The best photographs from Hail UP Oblation are being planned to be featured in a future UP Centennial coffee table book.

All are invited to witness this once-in-a-lifetime human ensemble and photo expedition as one of the final events of UP’s one hundred years of service to the country. Unlike the men of the Oblation Run, the 100 Oblation models will be wearing specially designed trunks with stylized fig leaves.

After the photo shoot event, “UP Para sa Bayan”, a public service fair offering free medical, dental, legal, veterinary, health promotions. education workshops, as well as traditional and non-traditional amenities, will take place at 7 a.m. The entire University Avenue and the UP Academic Oval will be filled with 100 tents offering various services to the public for a day.

Both Hail UP Oblation and UP Para sa Bayan are organized by the UP Alumni Association special committees. 

For more information, please visit the Hail UP Oblation official Multiply portal, or contact the committee through Misha (0920-901-51-07), Debbie (0917-791-39-24), and Bev (0915-847-91-19), or through email (hailupoblation@gmail.com).

For UP Para sa Bayan, please contact the UPAA office at 929-8327, 920-68-68, and 920-68-71.

Who is the UP Diliman student, exactly?

Someone’s releasing groundbreaking findings about the “UP stereotypes”. 

A recently conducted study by a class in our Communication Department attempts to generalize the new Isko’t Iska with numbers and facts in KaleidoISKOpe: Silip sa Bagong Iskolar ng Bayan on December 4, 2008 at the CMC Auditorium, from 1-3pm.

Here’s the spiel from my classmates Sheena and Kayc:

 

So you think you know the true Isko and Iska? Think again! These findings will surely bust commonly held notions and stereotypes on UP Diliman students. A glimpse of our research findings:

Grade Conscious. Most UP Diliman students work hard for incentive grades. 

Loner no more. 76.5% of UP Diliman students are organization members. 51.5% of them belong to more than one org. 

Party harder. 70.8% of UP Diliman students have gone clubbing. 

On the go! More UP Diliman students own laptops (53.1%) than desktop computers (41.1%). 

Readings galore! Photocopying books is more popular than owning original copies. 

My Ride. 25.1% of UP Diliman students drive their own cars. 

Non-Smoking Campus. 65.1% of UP Diliman students have never smoked and do not plan on smoking while still in UP. 

Academic Integrity. UP Diliman students find cheating and plagiarism unjustifiable. 

Just say NO. 84.8% of UP Diliman students have never had sex while in UP. 92.4% have never taken prohibited drugs.

Sexy time! 10.6% of UP Diliman students have had sex while in campus and they are willing to do it again while in UP.

Intrigued? Know the numbers. Go beyond the statistics. 

Watch KaleidoISKOpe: Silip sa Bagong Iskolar ng Bayan

CMC Auditorium, Dec. 4, 1 – 3 PM. 

Kanya-kanyang bayad

Some confusion, bad math, and crayon computations in my reunion with classmates from grade school, people I’ve known for over a decade already.

We lost track and fell out of each other’s lives, but being childhood friends it’s effortless getting back together again ^^;

For dessert, we got more confusion, more surprising revelations, and luckily rekindled promises of friendship.

I quote a friend’s reply when I told him he was becoming too cheesy: “Bkla ka dyn..Ang drama nyn lang sa buhay. Hahaha I hope 10 or 20 years from now we still are the closest friends ever.”

 

When I’m thirty, I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m still hanging out with these guys.

Dancing penguins!!!!

…Such crazy hip-hopping Penguin mascots with superpowers that turned me into mush!

Yeeeaaaaargh!

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Glorietta Activity Center

One day of fame

 

A few months ago, I created a corporate identity for one of the projects of my dad, with my dad. He took a picture of his glass globe, and I painted and photoshopped it over until it represented a new theme.

Recently, I’ve seen this identity online, on newspapers, and today on this bag.. whoa!! Distributed to a two hundred corporate people I didn’t know! :D 

The identity was also expanded to other media by other designers and producers. I may not have my name on it, but just seeing work out there is enough.

It hardly mattered, too, that on this day, I also happened to get only an hour’s sleep while cramming for my thesis proposal revision, then commute from Katipunan to Makati to UP Diliman to Makati again to submit my paper.

I had to attend the event because it’s about marketing which I’m starting to like these days, partly because it’s my dad’s “pet” projects, and I got in for free as a designer, and then because it’s one of the rare places I get to see respectable Filipino entrepreneurs and leaders in the flesh. Inspiration heightens when you see respected people in the flesh. We realize that they’re tangible and human too, and in a few years I can very be well like them ;)