Confetti New Year!!

Whenever I greet someone for a happy birthday or graduation or Christmas, I always add *confetti* or *sparkles* to my message, just to make sure they feel a bit more pizzazz before the special day ends.

Today, as we mark the last day of 2010, and tomorrow begin the New Year, I present to you real confetti and real sparkles, by a Brooklyn-based duo named Confetti System, to hopefully brighten up the already festive mood of the season!

The next pictures are a combination of three of my favorite things:t the confetti and sparkles, as I've mentioned, and the Selby! Todd Selby invaded the Confetti System studio sometime ago, and took pictures of the team Julie Ho and Nick Anderson, knee deep on the job.

People always criticize me for working on my projects myself. I don't mean to say I work on them alone; I couldn't do that nor survive without my team! But sometimes, my friends and family see how balancing a full-time job and extra projects can be really (not only physically) tiring, and advise me to delegate delegate delegate! Imagine my joy, after being told to work with a different method and finding that Confetti System makes their props on their own, too!

While I agree that I'd rather have other people do dirty work for me, I really do enjoy doing some things myself. I do enjoy designing, sticking, cutting... It makes me feel like the project is really mine...

Here's to more of everything in 2011. More of sparkling moments, more of feeling like I could burst into confetti... More blogging, more personal projects and (he)arts and crafts! More of polishing my work, more of being more professional... More of improvement, more of growth. More of building my career, more of coming into my own... :-)

Good luck, everyone! It's a brand new start!!

Pictures of Confetti System projects from their website, http://www.confettisystem.com/ and from The Selby, http://theselby.com. Thank you for letting me post these! :-)

Transformers

A few months ago, my boyfriend, Marco, made this Optimus Prime suit for my sister's friends! Only now did we see some pictures of the school event it was worn in. Bias aside hehe, I think he did a really neat job! :-)

Photo by Louie Yu.

The Gift of Christmas

A small installation reminding passers by of the spirit of the season. Beautiful cardboard cutouts and giant paper art!

Hope your holidays were as happy as mine! And we're just in the middle of it all.  ♥

So thankful for how blessed this year was.  :-)

The Gift of Christmas installation in Bonifacio High Street.  Catch it if you can!

One More Day 'Til the Happiest Time of the Year!!! :-) :-) :-)

I don't know about you, but where I'm from, it's snowing!! :-)

One more day 'til Christmas!! May you feel the warmth of the season, no matter what part of the world you're from. Whether it's sweltering (as it is sometimes here), or you're shivering, this is the time for hugs, joy and love!!

Some pictures of the havoc I created in the stores during setting up. Still doesn't compare to the chaos in the store this past week!

I remember writing a very wishful entry a year ago, with pictures of my favorite Christmas decorations in homes and in malls, being inspired to spread the spirit of my favorite time of year. It was just a random thought, something I had always wondered about before, but never really knew how to go about fulfilling. Though I know I'm in nowhere near the level of those places whose decor I still look forward to seeing today, it's quite a comforting feeling that I've accomplished something I've always wanted to do.

I just want to remember this place I'm in, of feeling like I've come the right way, and at the same time knowing there's more to life. :-)

A last minute graphic I made for our contacts.

Happy Christmas everyone!! ♥ ♥ ♥

Always Up to No Good

Something from over the weekend.

I'm so tired!

UNSCHLD: Always Up to No Good, all credits here.

The Magic Finger

A friendly reminder from my favorite author when I was growing up! Matilda, Charlie, George, and even Mr, and Mrs. Twit were such a memorable part of my childhood.  My first recollection of my habit of reading before going to be, with my one nightstand lamp on, began with sneaking in half an hour or so of Revolting Recipes before finally having to go to sleep.  After reading The Witches, my life was never the same either.

It's been a light day at work; we just have one big presentation this afternoon.  I spent the morning checking off little cousins and nieces and nephews off my mom's Christmas list.  I do this almost every year, and choose to buy them books every time.  And luckily, there's always someone who's about 9 or so, the perfect age to read Roald Dahl, the perfect time to start the magic and believing! 

Photo from cake with giants. 

Swan Lake

Been staring at these stills,

listening to this track,

watching this particular online featurette (it's about production design!),

and trying to understand this lengthy technical interview of how it was shot,

with these behind the scenes pictures to match,

(A room of mylar mirrors!! Mylar is the reflective material silver balloons are made of.

It's very thin and very hard to keep flat.

So you can imagine the taxing job it was to set this room up!! :-)

Kudos to this movie's art dept!! :-))

in hopes all of these will bring me steps closer to actually watching the movie.

Nope, I checked again. Still no release date for Manila! :-(

Fox Searchlight, please send us Black Swan!! :-) :-) :-)

Stills from http://www.foxsearchlight.com/blackswan/ and www.theasc.com.