Saturday, November 19, 2005
action star to filmmaker
Robin Padilla guested at a Muslim Art exhibit and cultural show at Makati last night.
He had buckled down to working on his documentary-reality film. He brought along the two Australian actresses who would be feautred in it, and a two camera-one sound crew.
They were the center of attraction, to the point the almost everybody in the venue almost lost track that this was an art exhibition tackling Muslim issues. It was a good thing that they deferred to the point of the event ang giving importance to the artists being featured.
Most of the artists are novices to the painting world. Their coordinator explained to me that they drew experience from doing advertising signs because of the need to earn money. They needed at least a 1000 pesos to sustain their daily needs as well as the needs for their artistic endeavor.
A positive sign that this would push through is the promise by the NCCA Chair Cecile Guidote-Alvarez to have the works in exhibit at the NCCA Museum in Intramuros.
As for Robin and the two Australian actresses, I hope they continue to feature good things about the country. You can check up here about Robin's passion for filmmaking.
Sunday, November 06, 2005
first shot
Wohoo!...I finally got the chance to shoot the President.
After, 9 months of shooting for the magazine, I finally get to see the president and to photograph her in an event.
The occasion was a mass and dinner for the 900 particpating athletes to the SEA Games here in the country starting on the final week of November. All the athletes were agog by her presence. Anyone who had a camera was taking a photo or video, (digicam, cellphone or videocam) during the photo-op with the President.
As a bonus, I also had the lucky stars to get a shot of the First Gentleman. It was a good thing because the First Gentleman is very elusive these days and all the new photos we have of him date back to 2004, maybe even 2002. He arrived late for the event but was acknowledge during the dinner.
