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I was truly impressed with how progressive Shanghai has been. Still keeping to their own sets of values, beliefs and principles they were able to construct fantastic infastractures and a solid foundation for future businesses and investments.
It left me thinking and comparing Shanghai to our beloved and wheeeewww amazingly struggling country. What were Chinese people doing so different that in 10 years their growth has been this droolingly wild!!??
A difference I see is their faith and belief in their Government. Being under rigid rules and jurisdiction must genuinely instill in them that Communism is the be all and all of the country. I hope and will start going to church again, pray on bended knees and offer my life to single blessedness if our Dear Country would have to resort to such governance just to make things work, UH-UH nieeeuuu weeeiii!! =P
My mama even commented during the trip that it would be better if The Philippines were lead by a dictator. I told her that I'd fight for an individual's right to speak and make change if need be.
I kind of veered from the real influence of this shoots concept but it has something to do with all the drama I wrote above =)
Photgraphy: Ago Coronado
Make Up: Ria Gamboa for Clinique
Models: Bubbles Paraiso and John Joe
Art Direction and Styling: Patricia Coronado of Yunikwita
Assisted by: Telay Robles
*This is what we call a Wala Lang siyut-siyutan (tama ba spelling beegee?). Everyone involved in the shoot did this out of love and insanity!! Hehehehe =)
Enjoy!
PS.
Ago, I'm such a proud Ate...Very Good ka 'Tol..Sige Umahhrtt ka pa ng Umaahhrrtt ng gumaleng ka lalu!
And to My Bula. I know you injured your "foot finger" hahaha, your toe cause you take each jump to heart and for that (not that you had to hurt yourself) I truly adore and love you, my friend =) MWAH!!!
Siyut Siyutan tayu lahat ule!!!!!!!! I will prepare basket full of chicha for John Joe =) Nancypoo should join us in our next one!
Click on photos for better viewing pleasure..Baka makakita kayu ng prize!!! YEY! Haha =D
Kuram Chawders!
I will be posting another album of same concept but this time through the eyes of love...Haha joke...Through the eyes of The seasoned and AHHRTTTfull Veejay Villafranca.
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 | Nice!!!! When can in charge of art direction??? haha yeah right |
 | wonderful! yeah let's do this again! bubbles post the other photos na! hehehehe... sorry for being the cause of your injury that night! as patricia says.... "for the love of ahhhrt!"
yeah lesdodis again! =) |
 | wow your brother is really good!! :D
anyways,China - they have been at it since the ancient times, they have found their culture and adapted well to the changing modern times while keeping their core values intact.
We pinoys have yet to find our identity, but i hope eventually we will. |
| oo naman of course i read it sayang naman if i just read Kuram Chawder?!!
pati pala sa pagsulat hyper mode ka rin, you gotta give me whatever it is that you are taking !:P |
 | well directed!! .galing!! |
 | sis!uma-art maculangan!!!!!ay lavet!!!lufet! |
 | lorse wrote on Jun 13, '07 Hey how are you? Great shoots dear love it mwah ! |
 |  Sis, ung aten ha?! =D  Yes sis yung aten I promise!  I will talk to Myca. |
 | wow! may album na din pala ako dito... nakakaiyak naman.. whahaha! joke.. pero touched ako infairness.. proud din ako sayo! sino kaya makakaiisip ng mga ganitong concept kung wala ka? diba? akalain mo yun! whahaha! thnx ulit sinama mo ko.. sa uulitin! :-) |
| wow! may album na din pala ako dito... nakakaiyak naman.. whahaha! joke.. pero touched ako infairness.. proud din ako sayo! sino kaya makakaiisip ng mga ganitong concept kung wala ka? diba? akalain mo yun! whahaha! thnx ulit sinama mo ko.. sa uulitin! :-) Walang anuman, 'Tol!  Join lang ng join sa shoots and make yourself available para you can practice. Lalu na pag kasama ang mga kabog na photogs Ees gana bee alatafan!  |
 | kuram chawski! love the composition..nice!! |
 | this looks so kinky. hahaha ;p |
| the colors came out really nice, good job ago! =) |
| loves it...umaahrtmaculangan! |
| loves it...umaahrtmaculangan! I can't wait to meet this At Maculangan guy! Hope he is as lovely as his name. We have used, misused and abused his name. "Umahhhrt Maculangan" I freaking love it! Hahaha |
 | hi ago. great youre working with you sister. heard you listen to her. thats good. your on the way to become a famous photographer. ill see more of your photos in the future. good luck with your studies, |
 | great job and to ur brother too :) |
 | wow.
so asian.
love it, miss trish!!:D
kudos to you and ur utol!!:D |
 | dreiskee wrote on Apr 21, edited on Apr 21  Hi there. I love your work!! =) I'm just a passerby admiring yer photos :-) About China, their big population growth for the past decade is the key factor for their recent economic boom, and not so much because of their communist-capitalist government, or their well-in tact ancient traditions.
About government, show me one decent politician, and I'll show you a man who's either a great liar, a leader who's soon-to-be-assassinated, or soon-to-be-ousted. Hahaha. ^__^u Have you been to the slum areas in China? Poverty there is just as bad, man..All governments have graft and corruption. So that factor doesn't count.
About keeping tradition amidst globalization, I agree wiju! :) "Tayu rin naman nun ancient times pa tayu nag fo-formulate ng growth but it's extremely slow and painstakingly corrupt." However, there are countries like Bhutan where you'll see ancient traditions well-preserved despite globalization, and yet their economy is really bad. That's because they have a very small population.
So that leads us to the POPULATION factor.
In ten years, countries with the highest populations will dominate the international arena of economics.
Simply put, the bigger the population, the bigger the labor force, the bigger the market, the stronger the political voice. Everything becomes cheaper. Levels of competence are pushed to greater heights. Products of higher quality for cheaper costs are the fruits of innovation: Compete or perish. ;-)
I can go on and on about this matter over a cup of tea some time, haha! :)
But at any rate, I just wanted to say I sooo love your work. If you need an assistant, I would like to volunteer when I get back to Manila ;-D
Cheers!! Galing galing mong stylist!! ^____^
Sincerely,
Drei. |
| Hi Drei!
Thanks for taking time and interest in my work. Feels great to see people other than my family view and like my work, haha. Thanks for the explicit explanation about Shanghai's economic progress. Not really what I was getting at for this concept (shoot) but still very much appreciated =).
Thanks again!
Cheers and take care! =) |
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