Gretchen of mywedding.com gave me a heads up in an email to tell me I’ve been featured in a brief article in their US based wedding site.
Check it out - article.
Thanks for the props!
The SMS from Kitten Zapanta, Managing Editor of Wedding Essentials, read like this …
You have been chosen by Wedding Essentials to be featured and glammed up for it’s next issue!
I never say no these people nor pass the chance to ham it up in front of the camera. But what did glamming exactly mean?
Did it entail clipping my nose hairs? Wearing the latest collection from Paul Smith and doing Blue Steel? Or perhaps being oiled up and and posing au naturel?
I rarely re-post junk I find on the internet. But make this an exception, I’ve been visiting and revisiting SeanBaby’s Superfriends page since 2000 and it never fails to make me laugh.
Take our good friend Batman - (hey the Dark Knight is coming out real soon)
The one thing that was really notable about Batman was the 5 toolsheds he had somehow jammed into his Utility Belt. I’ve seen him pull out bugspray, boomerangs, inflatable batrafts, 80 feet of batrope, and if Robin was lucky, tiny bat nipple clips. Batman could fall asleep and his belt would keep fighting crime.
For a few good laughs this Thursday morning - The Superfriends.
I remember Saturdays were devoted to the Fun Machine in RPN-9. Space Ghost, Shirt Tales and tons of other cartoons from breakfast to lunch.
Say what you will but the Eighties truly rocked!
If you guys have free time this May, check out the Lomowall put up by lomomanila in Bonifacio High Street as part of Passion Fest 2008.
The exhibit actually chronicles Bonifacio Global City from early morning ’til night time. Our team was left in charge of High Street, Market Market and construction works all over the city from mid-morning to afternoon.
The nice coffee cups above were at Sonja’s (yummy cupcakes!)
Little girl playing at Market Market’s fountain below…
Once again dear blog reader, thank you for dropping by.
Nope it’s not the newest boyband to come out of the dregs of the music business…
It’s the cover of the latest issue of EventDV Magazine with a feature on the “new documentary” style of weddings.
(l-r: Glenn Elliott, Bill Gaff, Chris Jones)
Check out the full article here and see what the buzz is all about.
Heads up to the lovely brides getting married at San Antonio.
It’s been for some months now (I noticed Last December), that one of the halogen lights on the right hand side of the altar has been busted. I was hoping that since you guys were paying for the photo/video permit, you could remind the Santuario office to replace the bulb.
That light is crucial so the altar remains clear from the clutter of a lightstand and cables we would otherwise set up.
Ask nicely. :) Thanks.
I told you my brain was fried this Holy Week. So here it is, the first, the last guide you will ever need regarding crew/vendor meals, especially that of videographers.
1. If you ask us to come by 12 noon or earlier, kindly serve us lunch.
2. If it’s a morning wedding, a steaming pot of brewed coffee is much appreciated. It does wonders for the grumpy non-morning persons.
3. During December and January, when we shoot three or four straight weddings at a time, It’s not funny anymore when you’re served Chickenjoy for the umpteenth time. They serve it at lunch and they serve it a dinner. I swear I’m going to grow godd@mn wings from eating all that chicken. One of my shooters has developed an allergy from it. I kid you not.
4. Yumburgers are nice if you want us to remember the taste of them well until midnight.
5. Thank God for creative coordinators who look beyond the usual fare - North Park, Max’s, Wendy’s, Binalot, TapaKing.
6. McDonald’s Cheeseburgers never get old.
7. It’s a good idea to have stuffed delivered way in advance. Not ten minutes before we leave for church.
8. Eating with plastic spoons and forks which break at the force of hardened steam rice (totally not the client’s fault) is like being trapped in the eighth circle of hell.
9. Gravy and Ketchup stains are not nice and are telltale signs of the slobs we really are. This comes in handy.
10. A tip for people who do weddings at Santuario de San Antonio. Nothing beats buying coldcuts at Santi’s, bread and greens at Rustan’s, you get instant gourmet sandwiches at a fraction of the price Starbucks and Deli France are charging.
11. We understand that we are not guests at your reception. Crew meals served at a function room or an allowance would be great (as long as the Hotel allows bringing in of food). Meals at the seventh level basement of the Hotel cafeteria are not.
12. If you are the couple and midway at the reception, you ask us “Kumain na kayo?” (Have you eaten?), we will invariably say yes, whether or not we have. We do not want to concern you with our trifles despite our near-fainting state.
13. As the head of my crew. I refuse to be served at the buffet while my crew has vendor meals. I appreciate the gesture but I’d take the vendor meal with my crew, thank you. This is not arrogance. This is being one with my team.
14. Oh, fellow documenters of the wedding day, please take note of your trans-fat and cholesterol intake during the wedding day. Gout seems to be common with the wedding photographers I work with pushing forty or so. =)
There - I’m sure much will be added to this list as we go along.
Take this with tongue firmly in cheek. Jesus is still dead today so I’m jaded and dripping in sarcasm. 
Cheers!
There’s this internationally famous videographer blog, notorious for stirring up controversy, poking fun at the industry in general and just generally shooting down anyone he fancies - Wacker’s Blog.
Well the crosshairs were aimed straight at me with this photochop - pretty frikkin’ hilarious. rofl!
To quote - “According to the wise men over at VU, all I need to do is watch this instructional DVD and hey presto, I can “steal” all this guy’s filters and tricks and I’ll be a video rockstar, chic magnet, and master poser!”
Everybody needs to learn to laugh at himself every now and then. Can’t be serious all the time right?
And oh - here’s the link to the DVD point of sale. 
Jason Magbanua is a wedding videographer
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