chardgrimaldo.chronicles

My research on a video project leads me to find a very touching and inspiring work of an artist. The message made a big impact and delved to my inner self. It teaches me how to value and appreciate life. It touched me with its sincerity of execution through his canvas. Obviously, there is social cancer that has been prevailing around us that we simply deny to ourselves that it exist and get blinded by the reality of it. We see all these kind of situations everywhere and immediate action is salient. But where do we start from here? Through Joey Velasco's work, I saw the true picture of our society. The depressing sights that linger around and continue to cause grief and sorrows that is vividly defined as Poverty. It is precisely depicted on his obra, "The Last Supper" where it integrates social relevance by putting street children instead of apostles with Jesus. These children has a "colorful" stories of their own. He made a difference by sharing his talents and...

An invitation came for the 2006 Epson Photo Imaging Exposition Culminating Day. Its from the organizing director himself and fellow photog Mr. Ross Capili the director of One Workshop Studio. I'm glad that i was one of its 200 selected few to be honored and be featured on a photography book. T'was an accidental entry that I can consider and was lucky enough to have a single entry that have made it to the finals. Here's an excerpt from the book: EPix06- Preserving the past, capturing the present By Yugel Losorata Both the images of the past and the present possess a sense of absolute power. They take individual full control and recognition by means of a powerful medium called photography.The magnificence of the past is always a target of extinction while the present, a window view for reinvention. Thus, a photographer' s job is to capture the images that show their authority; loudly saying that looking back is paying homage to the present while seeing today is honoring t...

Last month was a very hectic, mind boggling and design eccentric-focus deliberation of a project that soon will be making history in the Philippines. It's a portal that will addresss the insufficient dessimination of educational information to our students, scholars, researchers and filipinist on the value of our history as a nation. Conceived a year ago, Filipiniana.net was born in concept of passion and love of the country. It's the passion that drives its founder and publisher Gus Vibal to reinvent the model concept of publishing in the Philippines. The need of instant information at the comfort of individual's PC drives him to share his knowledge and vast collection of rare, unpublished and out-of-print books and images to the Filipino people. With this initiative, he will be pionering online publishing amongts his contemporaries in the publishing scene. So, working with him is really the most challenging part of my corporate career. I have been in a creative field ...