Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Three Things for Tonight!

Before sleeping off this drowsy day (had a 24-hour shoot yesterday that KILLED me! Will share about that soon =D I spent the whole day wishing I were back asleep!), I'll post three things I did in the past month:

1 -- I had a lot of cancelled shoots this month. =( Here are two pictures of some prepping I did for what didn't push through:

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Spray Painting Paper Cranes!
There was no budget to work with, so I had to recycle old props
like these paper cranes -- used even by CD before I met her!
So they're probably older than my career... hahaha!

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I had to recycle my frames too!

2 -- I did make up for a fashion show for the first time, too! It was so hectic! But I managed to do five faces in about five hours. That's so fast for me!! Hahaha! Anyway, here are some pictures of backstage with all the make up!

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Tons of make up to share!

I couldn't help but notice that whenever we, the make up artists, weren't busy with a model in front of us, or during our breaks, a bunch of us would be busy putting make up on ourselves! Can't help it, I guess. =)

3 -- BOW TIES! =D I love bow ties and have been fascinated with them since I started loving men's fashion. It's one of my favorite men's accessory, and I couldn't find a self-tie one in this country for so long. I had my friend Sab buy one in the US, and now that I have it to copy its pattern, I can make my own! Here are three bow ties I made tonight as gifts for my guy friends birthdays this week:

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Extra thank yous to my sister Gisella who was actually the one who sewed them. Hehe =) I can't use a machine yet =S but I want to learn now because I want to make TONS more and bow tie the world!!! =D

Good night!

Monday, June 22, 2009

Blast from the Past! An Art Dept Boo Boo!

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In Episode 1 of Rakista, Caloy, the lead, goes to an Eraserheads Tribute Night in Route 196, and sees CC, his love interest and ultimately, the reason for his forming a band (and the show's premise). We dressed up the place with a bunch of posters, and even had a tarp for the "stage area."

A couple of weeks ago, that's almost a year after we shot that episode, we return to the same bar, and a poster is still stuck to the glass window. It was my boo boo as Art Director for that being left behind... =S But I won't deny it was kind of a nice, nostalgic moment too. The poster even had "The Matador," on it, which was, in the script, the original name of the bar the event was to be held in.

I didn't take it down yet, so you can check it out if you go to Route anytime soon. =) Maybe they won't notice ever!

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In line with my stop motion fascination yesterday, I dug up a video we made at the beginning of the year. It was stop motion as well, using light drawings this time. I was part of the team of "light painters," and in order to get ready for the shoot, we had two camera tests that were months before. I think we started in August last year! Then finally, we shot for five days this January. Here are some pictures of our camera tests:

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"Rain"

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A ring around me!

I'm not entirely sure of the details of what the DOP, Pong, would do, but it's something like -- he would keep the shutter of the camera open for as long as we needed to animate with LED flashlights, and one frame (yes, one FRAME - it was a very tedious process!) of the video was born!

Here's our "wrap" picture, all of us happy to get it done!

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From L-R: The light painters! Gino, Marco (head light painter), me, and Mei.
Then Pong (DOP), Nic (Director), and Zig (Producer/PM/AD).

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The band, Up Dharma Down, with their "instruments" =)

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Our director, Nic!

And here's the video!



After this project, I think I can say I'm an expert at drawing musical notes and hearts! Hahaha! I always wanted to do a butterfly too, so I did that instead at our wrap picture. =) All pictures in this post, by the way, were taken by Pong! =)

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Post Its



I love how the simplest object can be turned into art. When I think about a set's design, especially when it's a normal-life scenario (like a girl's room or a boy's room), I always try to come up with one weapon of choice -- one thing that would be the simplest thing alone, but multiplied would be a fantastic element in a set. This is a perfect example of that idea. It's GREAT. =D

Source video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWM0FNPZSs

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Corrugated Cardboard Chandelier

It's been more than a week since my last post! I promise to catch up with all the stuff I did - mostly gift crafts and prepping for a shoot! Here's one of the things I made for a shoot, out of corrugated cardboard:

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The Orange Corrugated Cardboard Chandelier!

I saw the design online a couple of weeks ago, and when I was thinking of what to include in what I was prepping for, I saw this and I knew I had to put it in the video. A bulb is supposed to hang at the center of this "chandelier" to make it light up! It was hard to cut (I even used a cutter - which I hate! I love scissors!) - but it was worth it! I love this, I want to make it in wood and permanently hang one in my room!

Will update more soon! Still working and being stressed at the moment... =)

Monday, June 1, 2009

Summer Eyes

Today was my last day of make up classes! I can't believe 13 sessions went by so fast. Here are some pictures of my last two days! Fashion show make-up/Evantrail eyes! =) In summer colors! I can't believe it's June already!

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CD and My First Try at Evantrail Eyes
I love summer colors and CD was very enthusiastic about them too! Yay!

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Gisella and My Last Day
I just wanted to practice the last session's lesson again,
and my sister Gisella was my model! =) A young, fruity, summer look! =)

Thank you to everyone who agreed to be my model! =)

Polka Dots

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I saw this picture in my daily gossip blog rounds, and fell in love with the skirt! I tried to copy it with some fabric I have here at home and this was my result:

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My sister Gisella doing her best fashion blogger pose

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Close up of the waist...

I soooo want to make another one now!! It wasn't even as hard as I thought it would be... I can't wait to find more fabric, this time hopefully a nice floral print like the original skirt. =)