
September 30, 2013
Bragging rights

September 27, 2013
3.1415

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September 26, 2013
Hands

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September 25, 2013
Household items

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September 24, 2013
24th and 1st

Please pardon the fuzzy picture again. I managed to get a few clear shots, but I chose to post this one because I just love her smile here. She was smiling at her husband who happened to be standing right behind me.
September 23, 2013
Audacious
What do you get when you put a ballet company, three choreographers, and eleven rock bands together? The most daring ballet performance Manila has seen in years!
Ballet Philippines got together with Rock Ed Philippines to put together [rock] Supremo as part of the year-long celebration of the birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio, the father of the Philippine Revolution against Spanish colonial rule. Last Saturday, my husband and I watched the single show where the bands performed live. I loved it! I couldn't take photos of the actual performance, of course, and these were taken after the ballet ended. I have to apologize for their quality—the Cultural Center of the Philippines does not allow cameras inside the entire building so I had to use my phone.
The ballet was episodic, with one song from each of the eleven bands for each episode. The last song was by Radioactive Sago Project, one of the most popular bands in the country right now, and which refuses to be boxed into a single musical genre.
After the standing ovation, the audience couldn't let them go, and they gamely played a few more songs. And that's when things went a little riotous on stage. (Yes, that's one of the crew taking photos on the stage.)
And the dancers of Ballet Philippines! Oh my goodness, after a two-hour performance, they still had the energy to have a pop dance showdown. (And yes, even the dancers were taking photos of each other and of the audience.)
All I can say is, if you're going to have a dance showdown with professional dancers, you better be one yourself.
Bravo, Ballet Philippines! Bravo, Rock Ed Philippines!
Ballet Philippines got together with Rock Ed Philippines to put together [rock] Supremo as part of the year-long celebration of the birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio, the father of the Philippine Revolution against Spanish colonial rule. Last Saturday, my husband and I watched the single show where the bands performed live. I loved it! I couldn't take photos of the actual performance, of course, and these were taken after the ballet ended. I have to apologize for their quality—the Cultural Center of the Philippines does not allow cameras inside the entire building so I had to use my phone.




Bravo, Ballet Philippines! Bravo, Rock Ed Philippines!
September 22, 2013
Preparing the way

The church's unique chevron-shaped and intricately-detailed stained glass window, which I posted back in 2010, is worth revisiting.

September 20, 2013
Clothed in many colors

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September 19, 2013
To go

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September 17, 2013
Choose your style

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September 16, 2013
Cultural Appreciation 101

See murals from around the world in Monday Mural.
September 15, 2013
Getting ready

September 13, 2013
Dressed like royalty

September 12, 2013
Woven dreams

- T'nalak are woven dreams. T'boli women weave them, keen eyes and hands working together to judge lengths, to transfer patterns from memory to loom. T'nalak is made of the whitest abaca fibers connected end to end with the smallest possible knots and dyed red and blackest brown. Its patterns are handed from mother to daughter, or bestowed on the weaver in dreams by Fu Dalu, the spirit of the abaca. It is a product as much of quietness of spirit as it is of skill, for not all women weave, and not all weavers dream.
~ from the chapter "What is T'nalak?" by Maria Elena P. Paterno in the book "Dreamweavers"
T'nalak (in the foreground) and other indigenous hand-woven fabrics and clothes are also available at The Manila Collectible Co.
September 11, 2013
Natural fiber

September 9, 2013
Half the sky

September 8, 2013
Father and Son


September 6, 2013
Manila skyline

September 5, 2013
Bumper stickers
September 4, 2013
Portrait with noodles

September 2, 2013
Yummy to the last sip

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