Markku Seguerra’s weblog on web design, photography, and other things of interest.
Yes I’m in the mood for blogging Christmas photos, so I’m posting another one from my recent UP shoot. I think I should just post all of them so I’d be forced to shoot a new set for next Christmas, which will hopefully have grand decorations considering the just approved tuition fee increase. Nonsense.
Christmas greetings again. It’s back to work for most of us tomorrow, three agonizing days of work leading to another long weekend. Woohoo!
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It has been my tradition for the past three years to write a Christmas entry on the 25th of December, or sometime near that date. This time though, I’ll be doing it earlier for a change. Not surprisingly, it is another Oblation/UP shot though at least this one was recently shot unlike the dated photos I used to repost over and over again.
I like this photo. What do you think?
Yes, I’m now a problogger at the Blog Herald! Abe broke the news out yesterday right after I got my brief introduction published.
Just a short story: When I heard that Abe was taking over and will be doing editorial duties for the new TBH owners, I was very surprised at the turn of events. Finally, a Filipino blogger taking a lead position in a prominent international weblog. I had no inkling that I could also be part of this sweet deal. When I got Abe’s SMS inviting me to write for TBH, I quickly confirmed without hesitation. This is just too good to pass up.
In the coming days, I should be writing regularly there on the various topics the Blog Herald has expertly covered in the past. Should. Hopefully as well, having myself write regularly for an external resource would also make the updates here more frequent. Hopefully.
Two Sundays ago, our high school batch had a little Christmas party for street children. We invited small groups near Diliman and brought them to the UP Lagoon for their celebration. Though it rained briefly, it didn’t stop us from pushing through. We moved to the Quezon Hall and it was more than enough for our needs.
We didn’t have much of a program prepared but for the usual kid stuff, but to them it was more than enough for a typical Sunday afternoon.
Some would argue that activities like this do not provide long term benefits for those who really need them. Though I agree, I also feel that we cannot help based on future gains alone. If you could make a young child smile over a plate of chicken and spaghetti, even just for an hour or two, you know that by doing so you give them hope. That no matter how difficult life may be, somehow God’s goodness will continue to manifest among men. Hope.
“Ate, kuya, salamat po.” All we could do was smile.
Last Saturday’s Graphika Manila was a huge success with over 1,300 attendees. Being the first international multimedia design conference held here in the Philippines, interest across all related fields was high, especially with the presence of popular local outfits like Team Manila and Inksurge. More importantly (no offense to our local guys), the world–famous Joshua Davis was also here to talk about design and his recent work for Motorola in the MOTOKRZR campaign. I was lucky enough to get invited to the press conference courtesy of Jayvee and our friends at Ogilvy. This being the first presscon I was officially invited to, I didn’t know what to do so I just took photos.
Our local designers were quick to agree that the multimedia design industry here in our country is still very much in its infancy, a disadvantage that we can put to good use since it provides us the room to grow in the direction we intend to grow into. Avid Liongoren and Nico Puertollano discussed the video/broadcast aspects of design and though they lauded the Filipino designer’s skills, they raised a common trend among local designers — the absence of true identity.
When it was Joshua Davis’s turn to speak, he initially appeared a bit uncomfortable with the unusually silent media people; little did he know that almost everyone in the room was awestruck with the presence of a design demigod right in front of them! He discussed his use of randomness and kaleidoscope ideas for his recent Motorola work and I was amazed how his art is greatly influenced by his use of programming. Like what Jayvee has also written, this man has basically created a unique design process that makes him his own programmer, artist and critic. His strength in programming has allowed him to accelerate the evolution of his unique designs. Using randomness and chaos within the confines of a predefined environment and set of parameters, he manages to produce designs that are truly unique that cannot be manually drawn/created in illustration/graphic programs. “Unless you’re on crack,” he says in jest.
Prompted by Avid’s question on doing designs for clients as compared to designs for personal satisfaction, Joshua emphasized the need to “just continue doing what you do.” He narrated how he used to work eight hours doing client work for a design house, then he’d go home and spend another eight hours just doing design on personal projects, the stuff he simply loves to do. After years of doing this, he eventually got paid work for the things he used to do on his personal time. I couldn’t forget what he said in regarding that: “You might as well be hired for something that you love.”
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