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!

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?

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.

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?

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

I don’t understand why they didn’t win.

Yesterday, all over the news (and before I saw it on TV, I heard about it from Twitter) was suspected mastermind of the Ampatuan Massacre, former Governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. He was being transferred (from prison) to a military hospital because of shingles or Herpes Zoster (I’m not sure, but I think it looks a lot like eczema). What they didn’t say is that the shingles is highly transmittable (airborne), so moving him is more about keeping the other prisoners safe from the disease than taking care of him. Haha.

And what photos did I use? Those from our Safari adventure!

(This video I just uploaded doesn’t look good! It’s all pixellated. I’m going to try again and then re-upload.)

No, we didn’t go to Africa for this, nor did we drive out to Subic to experience their Zoobic Safari. This is the Safari display of stuffed animals at the SM Sky Garden, at SM City North Edsa. It’s still there until now, if I’m not mistaken.



Ugh, I think my dad chose the hottest day this summer to take the kids there. Or not. Maybe it just felt like the hottest day for me because

1. I just came off a 12-hour shift.
2. It was freezing cold inside the office.
3. I was quite sleepy; and,
4. I was wearing heels.

You know, I’m not sure if they asked me to come along because they needed another chaperone (Mom couldn’t join them because she had a meeting), or they really needed a photographer. Hmmm.

The kids were all willing subjects, okay maybe with the exception of Adam who doesn’t always feel like smiling at the camera, but they all were very eager to post in front of the stuffed animals. I, however, was one frustrated photographer. I wasn’t dressed appropriately. And because of my weight, I wasn’t willing to kneel or able to sit on the floor to get better angles. Tsk. I gotta do something about that. Hehe.

Anyway, here are a few of my favorite photos: