where the moon shines

My cousin Nikki does a cover of Up Dharma Down’s “Oo.”

I love it. The song suits her voice.

Don’t worry Nik, your facial expressions did not take away any attention from the beauty of your performance. Keep broadcasting yourself!

Sharing a tutorial made by SuzyQ for effectively using digital frame/frame clusters. I actually never tried to do it this way. I’d usually just use the erase or the cut tool. This is much efficient, and clean!

I’ve recently added SuzyQ’s blog to my Reader and I’m glad I did. I never would have seen her tutorial if I hadn’t.

Tomorrow is World Photography Day! I wish I had known earlier so I could cook up something for The Newbie Photographer to commemorate the event. After shift tomorrow, I’ll make a list of things Alfred and I can do for WPD. That should be fun, here’s hoping I’ll have the energy to make something happen!

What are you doing for World Photography Day?

Indeed, the web is what we make of it.

While we should definitely have better safeguards for children on the Internet, here’s one way a parent can use the web to preserve memories.

Remember my LiveScribe post? So I’ve still been thinking about getting it. But now, the Bamboo Stylus for iPad has been thrown into the mix. As in maybe I should just get the stylus instead of the smart pen.

If you haven’t heard about it, let me introduce you to the Bamboo Stylus for iPad:

Getting a stylus means I’ll be using the iPad more often. It also means I wouldn’t have to buy the special notebooks for LiveScribe, nor will I need to refill ink. So yes, you bet this product got me thinking again.

Apparently, Wacom wasn’t the first company to come out with this product. Before this, there were Pogo and Targus. These pens are more affordable too.

Does anyone know if this is already available in the Philippines?

Here’s something to take away the stress from a long day at work:

Nowhere Near Here from Pahnl on Vimeo.

If life is a catwalk, run like a dog.

‘Nowhere Near Here’ is a stop motion animation that uses a combination of light with stencils and long exposure photography to tell the story of a dog running around the city at night, doing whatever a dog does. The animation was first exhibited at the The Herbert, in Coventry, on the 7th October 2010.

With well over 300 hours in the making, more than 200 stencils involved and too many cold nights spent outside on my knees getting the shots, I am very happy (and relieved) to finally share this with you. Through the course of shooting ‘Nowhere Near Here’, I have dealt with curious drunks, a dog almost peeing on the camera (the irony is not lost on me, haha), the endlessly suspicious police and even someone nearly running off with a tripod.

This is street art, this is life and thank you for watching.

…for those of you that may be interested in prints, a selection of film stills from ‘Nowhere Near Here’ are currently available at http://www.pahnl.co.uk/store.php

Animation by Pahnl

- pahnl.co.uk

Amazing piece of work isn’t it? Every time I feel tired or stressed, I always seem to find something that helps eases that. A beautiful photo, or a feel-good movie, or a bearhug and a kiss from my nephews. Or a wonderful work of art, a burst of creativity like this video.

I think that moments of beauty, ample sleep, lots of water and careful eating are better cures for stress-related problems, plus these are also components of the formula for the best acne treatment.

So surround yourself with pretty things and beautiful people. Haha