Father's Day Special

Old school dad with old school me.




And our most recent picture together, taken on my 21st birthday last January.

Earlier today, papa bad-signed a woman while she had her back on us because she was rude and not very helpful. It was funny and not a very good example for his kids too. But he's the only consistent man in my life and I know that whatever happens, he'll always be there for me.

Thank you papa. You will always be the best. I love you.

Misadventures

Updating my blog has been a constant struggle, but I do try so give me a little credit here. ;)

The past week has been scorching with heat and endless humidity! Errands filled my Moonleaf 2012 planner to here and there. I'm not complaining though. I must say that it's been fun! Now, where do I start?

Right.

June 03, 2012 I had a job interview with an amazing wedding photographer, Jaja Samaniego (Check out her stuff here!) accompanied by two of my close friends who you're probably familiar with by now, Karla and Ruther. In my opinion, the interview went quite well. Anyway, enough about work. Meeting Jaja was really great. During the meeting-slash-interview, I also managed to book Bruce Venida a modelling gig for Jaja and her team the coming Thursday. Feels great! We went to Taft where Karla goes to school after to drop Ruther off because he's our baby (even if he's twice my height).

Fast forward to June 7 (that Thursday), I went to school first to meet up with my dad and then headed to Taft where I'm supposed to meet Karla and Bruce. We arrived in Jaja's place a little later than the call time, though. I feel bad for that one. But everything went great! Jaja's team conducted a talk about photography (of course) and there were fifteen attendees. They were to shoot Bruce, Jill and Pilar, learn how to direct them and what not. However, while they were having their own shoot, Karla and I had a little of ours.

Photography: Karla Ynzon / Anne Vitug (me)

Post-process: Karla (I have yet to get the raw files)

Here are some outtakes!

Sorry if they're blurred. Karla's lens doesn't do the auto-focus thing. It's broken, sadly.
While we were hanging out-slash-waiting for the shoot to start, Karla and I admired Jaja's pad. It was spacious and neat. Oh, and it has a big bathroom! Whoa. We were so smitten with the place that we decided to rent a space around next year when I graduate. I know, we're just inseparable. Plus Bruce who invited himself to the party. Yay! This is going to be great.

After the shoot, we headed over to Willar's place where Ruther, Paul and Mav were for the Salad Dye party. Wish I could participate but maybe when my hair is longer and when I'm finally done with school. We had another mini shoot, then. Not too big.

Me, Willar, Karla, and Bruce.


Meet Willar and his eclectic sense of style.


Mav and The Paulhighness.


Paul, AJ, and Willar.


Brucey


Our golden boy, Ruther. After Pasay, we headed straight to Cubao X for Nissy's birthday celebration where we met up with more of our amazing friends.


Willar, Mav, Deo, Cody, Ruther, and myself (with red lipstick, yes)
Deo, me, Cody, Gelo, Juliana, their friend, and Joseph. Karla's behind the camera. And I look fat in this photo.

We had drinks, danced, did silly things before leaving around 1AM. Pretty early but we all had stuff to do the following day.

Anyway, that would be all for today! I know I didn't really talk about the entirety of my week but hey, this is better than nothing right?

Back to The Norm

I finally managed to re-install my Adobe Master Suite CS5 today! Which means I finally get to create more cover art and random digital artworks for my blog posts (and self-satisfaction).

May has passed and summer is over. Which means, it's time for another mixtape. Sun's out, rainy days are back. It's another school year / semester for (us) students and it's also my dad's birthday month. Also, since my previous version of Adobe failed me, I've been itching to make a new design-slash-layout that will be inspired by the playlist I came up with. Combining two things that I love, yet again!




Click this to listen to the playlist.

Neo-Traditional

I haven't had a tattoo done in a while; the last one was my "Infinite" tattoo by my friend Gab that was done some time in 2010 (probably on the fourth quarter of the year). After a couple of months, I was itching to get a new one or at least to have my paper crane and the one on my wrist retouched, which obviously did not happen. Yesterday however, was a dream come true!

Three roses were tattooed last night on my right shoulder. The session lasted for about more or less five hours. This is my first ever major piece. All thanks to my really good friend, Kenneth Quijano of Good Hand Tattoo (formerly Applehead Tattoo) who made things possible!

Okay so this is just the first session, I'll have to go back and get the lining fixed if ever there are problems, and then to more elements to the back part, then it's time to color!


PS.
If you're curious, it hurt like a bitch. See those red splotches? They're bruises. *sigh*

Momma's Day

This is to the most important woman in my life who is unbearable most of the time, bipolar, and cranky. Despite the arguments, the misunderstandings, and despite the times that you piss me off, I love you. It just so happens that I have the oddest ways of showing it. So before this day ends, I would just like to say that you're a superhero mom, my superhero. Thank you for all your sacrifices and your never ending guidance.

Again, I love you!