You wonder what does a 19-year old female student/model/blogger, a 18-year old male art student/dancer/slacker, 21-year old female slumber doll and a 22-year old fashion eater/nurse have in common aside from residing in Manila?
At the Lookbook.nu fashion community, they’re models of their own fashion statements. It is here fashion enthusiasts creatively pose and post photos of their own fashion styles. Since the proliferation of fashion blog sites that feature street wear such as the Sarto...
“Well it's really
like twitter - but it's a microblog with a tune!” comments Chico Limjap, a 29-year-old
self-professed blip addict and amateur photographer. “You can also give props
to other blip DJ's if they played a track you like!” He is just one of the avid
fans of Blip.fm with his page at http://blip.fm/chicochongchu. A recent blip user
since October of this year, Chico gets to be his very own DJ playing tracks his
into now.
“Blip” means to
submit or post a track o...
Plurk is a social networking and microblogging site that
lets you share a timeline of events in your life through updates. Short
messages or updates are called “plurks”. A web function also integrates Plurk
into Facebook as status messages. Similar to Twitter, plurks are 140 text
characters in length. User may share images and videos with friends.
Users are encouraged to earn karma points by updating their
profiles, posting quality plurks everyday, and responding to other plurke...
Etsy is a popular online community of sellers and buyers of
things handmade and original – be it headdresses, tops, jewelry, illustrations,
paintings, and home ornaments. This site is like a bazaar full of lovely stuff
from people all over the world (from hobbyists to artists) and making
purchasing easy. Online selling is done through PayPal or bank-to-bank
transactions. Prices are posted in US Dollars.
Etsy sellers help one another through joining a group with
similar interests,...
Need to find Manila’s top graphic designers, illustrators,
photographers, and art directors? The Behance Network is where they share the best of their
portfolios. Filipino users get to share their works with other top artists in
the design field from around the world. Above is a work by Inksurge.
Collision Theory: AJ Dimarucot
The site is great for designers because the community is
active in updating their folios and generous with feedback. An appreciation
button is placed ...
Gdgt is a new site co-founded by Peter Rojas (founding
editor of Endgaget and Gizmodo) and Ryan Block (former editor in chief of
Engadget). This community-driven site with a basic design layout is great for
checking out new gadgets in the market and see how it fares with other users.
Users of the site can select gadgets that they own, used to
own, and want. Under each gadget are its features followed by a thread of
reviews. These features make people more mindful in purchasing gadge...
Preview Magazine, by Summit Media Philippines, is one of the
best magazines for the Filipina fashionista. Stylebible.ph is the online
counterpart of Preview Magazine. This site may have gotten its inspiration from
Vogue magazine’s Style.com. Stylebible.ph features behind the scenes from Preview’s
cover shoots, blogs by Manila’s top fashion designers, gallery of photos of
store launches and other events, and a forum.
StyleBible.ph aims to be the ultimate shopper’s guide fil...
For the first time in the Philippines, graphic designers and
students will come together for Manila Design Week, which begins on August 8
and runs until August 15, 2009. Several events lined-up for this year’s MDW are
the Creative Collaboration Exhibit, Versus Exhibit, and Graphika Manila
Conference, to name a few.
Creative Collaboration brings together the biggest names in
design and fashion. Exploring the theme Beautiful Functional, the two basic
tenets of design, the fruits of th...
I was only five years old when the peaceful 1986 People Power
Revolution in the Philippines ended fourteen years of dictatorial rule under Ferdinand Marcos. But
there were details that I remembered: tunes of protest songs, campaign buttons,
and yellow shirts that bore the graphic image of the slain political rival of
Marcos: Ninoy Aquino.
Three years after his assassination in 1983, it will be his
wife Cory Aquino, who will lead the rest of the country to bring down the
dictatorshi...
