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WGA Strike: A frightening reality from a view of a 3rd World Country Creative There's this thing hanging over my head for almost a quarter of my life now. I'm currently 26 years old and a bit of a "late bloomer," starting off a bit late into what I loosely called "creative media." Now generally, in the Philippines at least, when you are a kid telling your parents that "Mom, Dad, I want to be a painter / musician / writer / photographer" you'll know what will be the answer. If some of you don't have a clue, here are some of the responses of parents. "That's great honey, maybe if you graduated as an Engineer you can do that on your spare tim

Sleep Deprivation; out-of shape-ness…I thought after I completed my Animated Short I could rest easily with my imaginary hammock, iced tea in hand and listening to a sweet, sweet bossa nova music while I hum along to my siesta.  WRONG! D'oh! #1: 3D Stuff Although I'm proud of my 3D Short, I still can't shake the feeling that I could do and show more. I'm currently having the courage to render an animation in Mental Ray, and watching tutorials of it. As you can see, I have a rigged 3D character with a great face control, but it's far from complete. It still needs work and also my slugs have to be rigged this way so that I could also use

OMG! : It's been a GREAT delight that I had the chance to watch the first Woodstock Festival 1969 on cable (JackTV I love you!). It's like a concert documentary thing. And oh my god I have the chance to see those legendary greats such as Janis Joplin, Richie Havens, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, The Who, Neil Young, Crosby Stills & Nash, Sha-Na-Na,  among other greats. I've seen clips of Woodstock '69 here and there but here I get an hours-long footage of the festival complete with some behind the scenes footages. The Trips: The one that struck me was how happy the people were during that festival. Yeah, yeah I know most of them were fried wit