On Carna Manila 2010
I ditched a Mishka Adams gig last Saturday for this, and that gig was in Eastwood City, hence it was the easy option. However, I was in the mood at that time to party. Wait, correction: to witness and cover a party.
Cynthia Royo, from Escola de Samba de Manila, in what’s probably my favorite photo of that night.
Carna Manila 2010 started with me trying to warm up to the event: set at the Rockwell Tent, with more than a hundred people, the type who’d spend weekends out (read: not the crowd I belong to), were there. To fit in, and maybe because I was at the event with RF dude Wam, I had a plastic cup of red wine in one hand, and my camera on the other.
Oh yes that is news: my perpetual NO answer to a shot of this, a bottle of that, will now be on a conditional basis. Wine is fine, but don’t expect me to gobble it up like water.
Large Format View Camera Portraits
I just wanted to look for a lens cap I lost last night, and I ended up being in a group of not very handsome dudes taking pictures of each other with a large format wooden view camera. One of my portraits can be found after the post cut, but let me share first the photo I took with the view camera of a lovely friend of mine I invited to the studio, since we were already dicking around anyway.
Han. Lit with Studio Strobes, shot through a 5×7 large format wooden view camera with a Industar-51 210mm lens on Ilford Photographic Paper.
Ahh, you are mistaken if you think I made a booboo here. Ako pa! You call this soft-focusing, this is not out-of-focus.
This Month’s Thing To Geek On: The Portable Audio Rig
Sansa Clip (Original, not ‘+’ version) + Fiio E3 amp + Soundmagic PL11 IEM’s
Just last month, it was an unhealthy obsession on CPU cooling. Now its that thing in the middle you see with a red light on the bottom.
Its 500 pesos worth, powered by one AAA battery, and it makes me keep my mp3 player volume halfway.
Big Band Jazz at Ten 02
Last Monday was a gig adventure. I didn’t think I’d enjoy one that started at 6PM. I couldn’t imagine that there was an actual smoke-free jazz bar in QC. I must’ve had numerous silly-face moments as I was just in awe of the amazing sound I was hearing from the 20-or-so performers on stage.
I find it just too awesome that this happens every two weeks.
Eating Differently/This Blog’s 6th Anniversary!
BREAKING NEWS: Just noticed today. THIS BLOG IS 6 YEARS OLD. No shit. Not my first blog, but the first one hosted and using Wordpress (when everyone jumped ship from Movable Type, the de facto blog CMS before), and my own domain. See the first entry here.
Back to regular programming:
Vegetarian Barbecue (Gluten), Brown Rice, and Pickled Cucumber and Carrots
Something I read about a month ago had me shun red meat for some time. Not a complete dismissal in the normal, everyday diet, just that it won’t be cooked or served at home, nor taken to work as baon. That non-purist thinking was something I got from what Jane Goodall said recently on The Daily Show. Jon Stewart posed a question about him enjoying a good hamburger, and if it actually bothers Goodall. She said it doesn’t, and vs. the well-known PETA animal rights activism (I’m para-phrasing here) extremism is never good.