Graffitti Walls

Somewhere in one of the most secure subdivisions in Manila lies this wall, among others like it. An alley so dark and secluded that a party can be thrown there and no perpetrators will be caught, a group of structures so abandoned that its new paint job goes unnoticed.

I'm actually not sure about who did these walls, but KST http://kstphilippines.tumblr.com/ would be a good guess. :-)

Paper Leaves

The new Fully Booked displays are finished!  I actually set this up in the Fort almost a month ago, but I was only able to finish with all the branches last week.  I was able to go to the Pampanga ones, this time around! The Rockwell branch has also just been renovated, so it was my first time to set up in its new window.

Special thanks to my setmen who helped with set up, and to Karen Ramos and Marco Ortiga, who cut and designed for several branches, as well.  And of course, to Mackie Galvez for the last two pictures and these next ones of my set up:

Today's Soundtrack at Work

I've been listening to these two tracks non-stop since getting here! :-)

"My Name is Lincoln" from The Island (2005), and "Arrival to Earth" from Transformers (2007), both directed by Michael Bay and scored by Steve Jablonsky. :-)

 An amazing sense of motivation comes over me when the songs reach their peaks. Just what I need for this lazy daisy Friday!

Random Things

Random things from this week that warmed my heART hehe:

Beating Marco in a cutting race! To see who could finish one whole cartolina's worth of cutting hehehe :-) These are the things we come up with to make working a bit more fun, when it feels like I can't cut another piece or like I'll just throw up cartolina from being surrounded by so much of it!

Finding craft paper cartolina! I'm so excited to use this for a project. I want to buy it in bulk already, but I have no idea what on earth I'll use it for! It feels quite sturdy, sturdier than normal colored cartolina, and it's cheaper too. It sounds promising. :-)

Having this large and this tall a pile of cardboard! And it's just sitting there in my garage... It was twice as tall yesterday, before I made deliveries to my next project's team members. And it's actually a big hassle to have it around since it occupies so much space and can't be moved. But still! So huge and so many of them! Something you can't just find anywhere...:-)

Excited to finish one of my big projects at work sometime soon... Let's hope this is it! Yes!

S Is Also for Swamped

I've been so so so swamped with work lately! I'll finally get to update something substantial soon, hopefully next week!

For now, I'll leave this entry with something I've been looking for for so long --a scanned page of the 11th Portrait of Despair, illustrated by Barron Storey (thanks for this info, Ramon!), from Neil Gaiman's Endless Nights. I've been wanting to post this, but I've misplaced my copy... Among Gaiman's "Fifteen Portraits of Despair," a collaboration with 15 different artists providing visuals to his words of tragedy embodied in one being, this has to be my favorite. It will also always be plaguing fear of mine, and one that I've been especially feeling lately! :-S

The second straight week of Photoshop hell! I can't even think of what life would be like after this.