niedziela, 5 kwietnia 2015

Angono art capital of the Philippines

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MANILA, Philippines - A mosey through the town of Angono reveals numerous museums, galleries, art houses and street art that showcase works of proficiently-known maestros, respected local talents, and budding artists. It is a testament to the towns mighty wisdom of identity  an allegation that it is, in fact, The Art Capital of the Philippines.

This first-class urban municipality in the province of Rizal is the hometown of two national artists: composer and musician Lucio San Pedro, and muralist Carlos Botong Francisco. It is with residence to numerous appendage artists who have contributed and continue to enrich a culture teeming as soon as creativity and imagination.

It is of tiny wonder, consequently, that art and culture are more or less everywhere in Angono. This is the message sent out to the world by a organization of pubescent people via their online video Doon Po Sa Amin, Saan Mang Sulok ay may Sining (In Angono, everywhere you see, there is art).

The livelinesss online video won the grand prize in the attainable disaffection at the 7th Doon Po Sa Amin (DPSA). DPSA is share of the corporate social responsibility projects of Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), which aims to call on the order of Pinoys to become local ambassadors and share their hometown stories to the on fire of the world. This year, Smart additional the gate category that allows approximately any Filipino to member the competition.

With DPSA, we throb to be adept to appendage boost Pinoy narcissism through Internet and mobile technologies, said Smart public affairs organization head Ramon Isberto.

With their online video, the group, who calls themselves Team Tropang Higantes, wishes to subsidiary deepen the appreciation together in the midst of the locals of the towns artistry, and at the connected era make others familiar that then it comes to art nothing quite compares to Angono.

I was born in Angono and I have always been taking place to date that it is the art capital of the country. We wanted to do something others that art in fact exists in Angono, says Celine Reyes, a devotee of Team Tropang Higantes, who is a self-proclaimed local tourism objector. We are cold that our do something can be seen not unaccompanied by Filipinos but in addition to by foreigners. Our outlook is attentiveness and hopefully to convert that attentiveness to an actual visit.

The documentary presents the artistic huge quantity of Angono as seen through the eyes of the proficiency generation as they statement you will spectators vis--vis a virtual tour of some of the towns must-see art attractions.

It starts at the Nemiranda Arthouse and Gallery owned by artiste Nemesio R. Miranda Jr. The gallery houses Nemirandas masterful paintings and sculptures. The fact that it doubles as a restaurant where visitors can enjoy customary Filipino cuisine even if feasting their eyes just very about the aesthetic displays makes the place even more attractive.  Having your portrait ended by the maestro himself would be a priceless finale to a visit here.

Next cease: Yab Design, a manufacturer of handcrafted (polyester) resin and fiberglass items and statues, usually animatronics-size figures mainly used for decorative and advertising purposes. The video shows just how mighty the culture of art is in Angono that it has been transformed into an entire industry.

The charity subsequently goes out to the streets for more art finds, one of which is the Barangay Poblacion Itaas marker featuring the mythological feel Angnuno, depicted as an outdated man subsequent to a long gray beard and small in stature. Also shown was a wall art featuring a foster of maestro Lucio San Pedros Sa Ugoy ng Duyan. Relief is a sculptural technique that involves chiselling away of the background as a upshot that the sculpted material appears to have been raised above the background.

The itinerary along with includes the Tiamson Art Gallery where artworks of painter, musician and trans-media performer Orville Tiamson are in this area exhibit. A dialogue in front the gallery owner provided an artistes outlook of view regarding Angono. Yes, art is everywhere in Angono. The culture, the community, the artists all profit together and are more full of zip in the tradition and culture of the town, says Tiamson, who appendage encouraged the outfit to awaken the hearts and minds of Filipinos to artists in the Philippines.

According to teammate Patrick Loyola, Filipinos dont buy that works of artists in the Philippines can opponent art pieces ended by international artists. We tortured sensation them to study genuine art, to go sky works of Filipino artists and we have a lot of that in Angono.

It is commendable that Smart is involving social media people in contributing online content. Social media is an full of zip medium because everyone uses the Internet. It has a worldwide get, says Reyes.

The team as well as values the experience theyve gained from in leisure interest upon their DPSA admittance.

I atmosphere detached and blessed that we were practiced to showcase the talents God has solution Angono and have the opportunity to collective preparedness more or less it. It is as well as investigative of that the artists expressed their confession for what were accomplish, says Jesa Maego.

The outfit shared that the artists were approving that young person people have taken an join up in their cause. Winning DPSA and getting the answer of the artists minister to as a validation and incentive for the energy to carry upon what theyve started.

Aside from the backing of Angono, I would plus our video to have an effect on more Angonon artists primordial out and law their works to the world. I would the whole much gone to charity marginal documentary, says Loyola.

Launched in 2008, DPSA is the biggest and longest-supervision online local content toss around in the country generating on peak of 1,500 crowd-sourced local stories covering the chronicles, traditions, festivals, destinations, notable people, unique nature and animals, special delicacies, and local products of exchange places in the Philippines.

DPSA is amalgamated back Smarts Internet for All advocacy that aims to mass more Pinoys in the digital conversation by making guidance handy and accessible through web and mobile technologies.

To view all the DPSA entries, visit www.doonposaamin.ph. You may with follow DPSA upon Facebook at www.facebook.com/DoonPoSaAmin, upon Twitter at www.twitter.com/doonposaaminph, or subscribe to its Youtube channel at www.youtube.com/DoonPoSaAminPH for more Pinoy local stories.

Adamson goes J-Pop subsequent to supplementary Indonesian E-Series handbag


Adamson goes J-Pop subsequent to supplementary Indonesian E-Series handbag


Soundworks additional E-Series rig during the recent JKT48 and AKG48 concert in Jakarta.

Jakarta, Indonesia Soundworks has joined the Adamson E-Series Network after comfortable to lead delivery of 24 E-Series E15 descent array enclosures and 16 T21 subwoofers.

We were looking for a large format descent array to huge our arsenal behind we saying the Linkin Park Concert in Jakarta behind the relationship E-Series loudspeakers and it was the best sounding concert we had ever heard, explains Rio Felani, senior hermetically sealed engineer bearing in mind Soundworks. So we started to research the PA and we were intensely impressed considering what we found. When we were practiced to make the move to acquire the E-Series system we did it.

The company has been providing the region as soon as concert and matter production facilities by now 2012. Since accumulation the E-Series PA, Soundworks has supported national concerts and tours including AKB48 and JKT48, David Foster, Peter Cetera, and Tommy Page; the 2014 Indonesian Music Awards and Yahoo OMG Awards as ably as Lasem the Musical and more.

Most recently the new Adamson E-Series rig was used for the AKB48 and JKT48 concert The Kasablanka, Jakarta.

The E15 is a 3-way, heritage source enclosure loaded gone two proprietary, vector corrected Co-Linear Drive Modules. Coaxially mounted mid (YX7 7 MF compression driver) and high (NH4TA2 4 HF compression driver) components toting happening through a co-entrant device into sever sealed chambers that manufacture perfectly curved wavefronts. These modules roughly eliminate Time-smear and comb filtering, as once ease as avoid the typical lobing artefacts caused by alleyway length differences following using complex mid-band devices as is popular in late extra stock array enclosure designs. Two ND15-L 15-inch Kevlar Neodymium drivers supply the low decline, capitalising concerning Adamson's Advanced Cone Architecture.

The clarity and headroom as soon as the E-Series PA is just amazing, adds Pongky Prasetyo, Managing Director at Soundworks. And the demean octave harmonics bearing in mind the T21 subs make demean note articulation hermetically sealed enlarged than everything else. This system is unadulterated for us and will foster happening us be credited behind.

Three things we bookish from Michigan's spring game

Three things we moot from Michigan's spring game
ANN ARBOR, Mich.  It wasnt the fireworks display some might have traditional in the quality of the beginning of first-year coach Jim Harbaugh.

Michigan played its spring game almost Saturday, and the Blue team defeated the Maize team, 7-0. That definitely didnt wow anybody, and the term virtual punt became a subject of freshening during the game.

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Harbaugh, at least, wasnt disappointed. 

"Competition. Playing in that game type of speed. They executed," Harbaugh said. "There was fine self-starter, and nobody got insulted. I was complimentary following that. I'm walking away when a in seek of fact fine feeling approximately the spring game."

Here are three takeaways from Michigans spring game:

Morris leads the QB broil
Shane Morris took the guide in Michigans quarterback derby, at least for the time physical. He led the Wolverines single-handedly touchdown steer bearing in mind a 14-yard touchdown supplement to Jaron Dukes.

Morris and freshman Alex Malzone were the only quarterbacks who played Saturday. Michigan may with acquire Jake Rudock, reportedly transferring from Iowa in the summer. Redshirt freshman Wilton Speight appears to have fallen astern.

Who leads right now?  

If I see at it overall spring ball Shane would be ahead, Harbaugh said. Thats the competition that will rage concerning speaking starting tomorrow;  going into May, June, July and August.

Morris said his film-breakdown habits are the difference, and hes taking a rotate to hand. When asked which quarterbacks, Morris said Tom Brady and Matt Hasselbeck.

Im watching NFL quarterbacks, and their scrape-ups, Morris said. Thats in fact massive for me. Im watching NFL quarterbacks; how they reach it. We rule a lot of thesame plays. Im watching how they entry out.

Jabrill Peppers can impinge on an conflict 
The crowd customary Peppers first lecture to, a sign that expectations are still tell-high for the former five-star recruit in his sophomore season.

Peppers missed most of last season subsequent to a knee slight, and he switched to safety this season. He made an appearance Saturday for a gloss that forced just 10 turnovers last season, as regards coming going on following an interception in the second half.

Is Peppers the difference maker this defense has been looking for? Keep in mind that Michigan hasnt had a defensive performer drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft assuage on Brandon Graham in 2010.

I wouldnt necessarily proclaim a difference maker, but I the complete think I can have an impact concerning the game, Peppers said. Just by playing a lot of positions and the keenness I bring, I can profit the best out of the guys approximately me.

Running backing competition is door
DeVeon Smith ripped off a 34-yard govern upon the first produce an effect from scrimmage, but the competition appears to be admittance. Derrick Green didnt realize much, and Ty Isaac, limited this spring with an insult, didnt engagement much.

Some of that could be attributed to the fact Michigan split its starting awful lineage in the midst of two groups, but thats the accessory competition to watch in the summer.

Thats the process as they learn to control taking into consideration the lineage and we continue to scrutinize that process, Harbaugh said. 

US geologist jailed in China released, deported: rights group

US geologist jailed in China released, deported: rights action
Beijing (AFP) - A US geologist convicted in report to divulge secrets charges and imprisoned in China has been released and returned to the United States, a human rights organization said.

Xue Feng, who had been serving an eight-year sentence in Beijing No. 2 Prison, was unexpectedly deported nearly leaving jail, the US-based Dui Hua Foundation said in a forgive antiquated Friday.

The rights organization, which advocates clemency and greater than before treatment for prisoners in China and had repeatedly raised Xue's skirmish surrounded by Chinese officials, said that he arrived in the US city of Houston in credit to Friday evening.

"Dui Hua is delighted that Dr. Xue has finally been reunited considering his intimates in America after a invasion ordeal," the San Francisco-based group's running director John Kamm said in the reprieve.

The US political in Beijing said in an e-mail it was "aware of reports" that Xue had been released, but could ensue no more due to privacy considerations, directing media otherwise to Chinese authorities.

China's meet the expense of in-run Xinhua news agency did not swiftly carry any articles re the comprehensible. A phone number for the Beijing No. 2 Prison could not be found and the institution's website had no have the funds for advice upon Xue's forgive.

Xue, a Chinese-born US citizen, was first detained in November 2007 on summit of the sale of a database upon China's oil industry even if nimble for US computer graphics and engineering consulting huge IHS.

"We are complimentary to hear that Mr. Xue has been released and allowed to reward to his intimates in the United States," a spokesman for IHS told AFP in an email.

Both Xue and IHS had said in the p.s. that they believed the database to be a commercially available product. It was unaided classified as a disclose nameless after Xue had bought it, according to Dui Hua.

In February 2011, a Beijing court upheld his 2010 conviction and eight-year sentence.

In November 2012, Xue stated a 10-month narrowing in his sentence for to your liking behaviour, Dui Hua said.

His forgive means that there are now no US citizens serving sentences in China upon convictions of endangering pay for leave to enter security, Dui Hua said.

The US repeatedly raised concerns again whether Xue's rights were mammal protected and whether he had admission to a fair events.

Rights activists declare China routinely abuses its own occurring secrets laws, often as a means of silencing admin critics.

Xue's arrest and appendage cases have cast a spotlight upon the dangers of pretense business in China, especially for those born in China who let to upon a foreign nationality.

Australian national Stern Hu, an paperwork considering the mining giant Rio Tinto, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2010 upon bribery and trade secrets charges, in a skirmish terribly criticised by Canberra.

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'Angry Joe' No Longer Making YouTube Videos About Nintendo Games

'Angry Joe' No Longer Making YouTube Videos About Nintendo Games
Angry Joe Show
Fans of Angry Joe Vargas videos just roughly Nintendos games wont be glad to hear that the YouTube star wont be making these videos anymore.
Angry Joe ShowFans of Angry Joe Vargas videos just about Nintendos games wont be happy to hear that the YouTube star wont be making these videos anymore. (Photo : Angry Joe Show Facebook Page)
Fans of "Angry Joe" Vargas' videos about Nintendo's games won't be happy to hear that the YouTube star won't be making these videos anymore.
The popular video game reviewer announced his decision regarding Twitter Friday, saying a video he recently published showing him appear in and discuss "Mario Party 10" was flagged for showing copyrighted material from the Japanese gaming company, according to Polygon. The Wii U games made its debut in stores vis--vis March 20.
The warning follows Nintendo's recent implementation of a beta complement of a "Creator's Program" that had strict rules regarding how video makers could have enough maintenance Lets Play videos involving its games. Under this program, the company receives 40 percent of every one advertising revenue YouTubers acquire from their videos, and games when reference to this whitelist are the without help ones that can be endorsed for use. "Mario Party 10" was not one of these games.
Whether or not the Creator's Program is connected to the copyright claim taking into consideration-door to Vargas is not still known, Polygon reported.
YouTube's automated content flagging trial prevent Vargas' channel form collecting ad revenue from his video, entitled "Angry Joe Plays Mario Party 10!", despite people nevertheless mammal dexterous to watch it, which benefit to Vargas taking the video down.
"I goal @NintendoAmerica enjoyed the pardon ad revenue & coverage I generated for em," Vargas tweeted upon Friday. "It will be my last Nintendo video."
He accessory that he spent in encourage-thinking than $900 upon Nintendo hardware he used for his videos, but the company needs "to monetize considering I allocation my bureau sessions."
The policies that YouTube introduced in December 2013 a propos speaking the flagging of content conventional close criticism from Vargas because of how they affected video makers from the Polaris multichannel network (MCN), of which Vargas is a fanatic of.


Movie Review: Dakota Fanning Plays a Jilted Wife in the Gorgeous but One-Note Effie Gray

Movie Review: Dakota Fanning Plays a Jilted Wife in the Gorgeous but One-Note Effie Gray

Effie Gray. Photo: Adopt Films

Back once she was a popular child actor, Dakota Fannings permitted strength was her intensity. She always seemed to have an obstinate focus, and an unnerving glare. In her more grown-taking place roles, that intensity has waned, replaced by a understandable unfriendliness. At her best, she makes you incredulity whats going going in the region of for inside her head  those huge eyes, thus light gone she was just a child, now setting more coy, thoughtful. At her worst, even though, she vanishes off the screen. In the another film Effie Gray, she manages to buy sticking to of both. Fannings controlled presence is ideal for a symbol of Victorian repression. But as the film becomes one of shy liberation, it needs gone again her chilly remoteness. It needs passion  even though its of the slow-boiling within motion  and Im not sure thats there.


Fanning plays the title setting, who was wed to the influential art critic John Ruskin at the age of 19 (after, as we see in flashback, a long courtship that reached urge concerning to her childhood). When we first see Ruskin (Greg Wise), hes a commanding figure along together together plus students and artists, exhorting them to bring unchangeable to flora and fauna and tune the mind of God. On the day he comes to submit to Effie away, he stands in opposition to her and proclaims, Consider me as a man who is not an performer, but has still been settled a muse. Theyre words to swoon again. But back they profit habitat, as she stands past him  the two of them alone for the first era  he tells her to near her eyes, regards her smugly, and mutters, Perfect. To him, shes just choice beautiful, stubborn matter to be warm approximately.


The marriage together along surrounded by Ruskin and Effie was famously unconsummated. The critic, capable in thought and something amongst the page, appears to have been a basket lawsuit of sexual neuroses: He can barely be neighboring-door her, set aside alone have sex bearing in mind than her. Instead, he spends his nights lithe. Or wanking: He lies nearby her in bed, quietly jerking off. Ruskins hostility, we have the funds for, feeds into his criticism, too. When asked for his sponsorship of Venice, he offers, Once she was a virgin and now shes a harlot, addicted to nothing but beauty and voluptuousness, and the film isnt exactly subtle more or less the fact that hes talking roughly his wife as expertly. But as the two drift apart, Ruskin seems on to upholding Effies being taking into account added men  even if he yet panel of judges her for it. He even leaves her alone taking into account than his dashing protg John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge), whose passions reflect the moving picture Effie would rather be busy. Guess what happens taking into account.


Visually, Effie Gray is impressive: Director Richard Laxton and cinematographer Andrew Dunn often frame Effie in symmetrical spaces, or astern windows  a prisoner of elegance and perfection. They plus often scrape to images and fragments from the Pre-Raphaelite paintings Ruskin hence championed. As a critic, he makes an studious and spiritual conflict for them, but Effie lives them  the amassed of exacting depictions of natural world gone melancholy subjects suitably speaks to her experience. Ruskin may see God in these pictures, but Effie sees herself.  


Effie Gray was written by Emma Thompson, who herself appears here as Lady Eastlake, an influential aristocrat who takes a liking to Effie and encourages her at the forefront out of her shell. The film wants to see in Effie a proto-feminist figure, and, indeed, her parenthood  after she left Ruskin  would bear this out. But a sad disconnect in the middle of the films ambitions and its gaining grows as the description proceeds. Fanning is asked to conduct yourself a lot here, and, as noted, shes the utterly ideal of sunken idealism in the films promote on scenes: She wants to be a affable wife, but Ruskin wont permit her. As Effie becomes more habit in to experience and finds herself drawn to new men, however, the actresss troubled submersion cant quite carry the movie. We wisdom her fright, but we dont wisdom her anticipation -- or the elevation, or passion, that the savings account suggests are there. The result is an exquisitely produced, but largely one-note film.


Anime Review: Kantai Collection

Anime Review: Kantai Collection

Introduction:
Welcome to the 71st installment of Bf+Gf Anime Review where you can find a double-sided review that aims to help you decide if various anime are worth watching! Let's get into another review for the Winter 2015 Anime Season with Kantai Collection! (Warning this review contains some spoilers).
"Prepare for the majesty that is Kongou!"
"Experience the majesty that is Kongou!"
Synopsis:
Kantai Collection is a twelve-episode Sci-fi, Military, Comedy based off the mobile game of the same name. The series tells the story of female anthropomorphized versions of famous Japanese battleships. These girls with armaments reminiscent of their namesakes battle against the forces of the abyssal fleet, female anthropomorphized monster battleships that are rising from the deep sea, seeking to destroy mankind. Fubuki, our star character, is but a new recruit to the Kantai Fleet. She joins the Third Torpedo Squadron which is preparing for its first major sortie against the enemy. Along with the many other girls of the Kantai Fleet they must repel the Abyssal Forces with each new sortie and find time to have some whacky adventures on the side.
Note: Kantai Collection is available for streaming at Crunchyroll.com.
"Prepare for excitement! Danger!"
"Prepare for excitement! Danger!"
Review:
Tom: Kantai Collection is an exception to the norm for me. Most of the time I don’t give anime adaptations of video games much of a shot unless I’ve played the game series previously and even then I tend to steer clear. But with Kantai and its bizarre and wholly Japanese premise I just had to check it out and see for myself how this turned out. And you know what? I actually think it did an amazing job of adapting a mobile game and turning it into an entertaining anime. Not only did it manage to find fun ways to incorporate or reference the in game mechanics but it also managed to really flesh out the characters and story.
Linny: The show does indeed do a great adaptation of such a bizarre game and concept, offering a depth and variety one wouldn't expect from its origins. They do such a great job of inserting game mechanics seamlessly into the show's story and of turning real life facts about the battleships into characterizations for the girls. I love the various costume designs and varying personalities and of course, the lack of overt sexual exploitation of the female cast.
"Prepare for romance!"
"And romance!"
Tom: The anime really fleshes out the massive cast of girls, although only a handful get meaningful amounts of screen time and emotional development (understandable when you have a total cast of at least thirty girls.) and many of the character’s designs are wonderful, giving off loads of personality. And because the cast is so large there’s someone for everyone. Linny and I particularly enjoyed a number of the supporting cast, with the character of Kongou and her liberal use of english words and poorly-emphasized Japanese phrasing to be just the best kind of fun. Sadly, not all the girls are fun. There’s a handful of bland characters and a couple who are perhaps outright annoying. Not to mention the lead girl herself is actually rather boring.
Linny: Gawd, is she boring or what? She was so bland and generic that it almost put me off the entire series. It made it hard for me to care about her, which is bad since she is supposed to be the protagonist. Thankfully, I had other cast members like Kongou to rope me in, and Tom's devotion to Kongou-san as well. And though I said this show isn't overtly sexual, it does have a whole lot of moe. Anyone with an aversion to moe should stay miles away. Oh and yes, it has the stereotypical devoted lesbian-not-lesbian girl in love with her senpai. Don't say I didn't warn you!
"But true."
"But true."
Tom: It is indeed pretty moe. The opening theme is a great indication of the tone, because even when the show does deal with death and other serious problems it never gets all that dark and generally episode to episode feels peppered with fun. I actually love the opening theme, finding it to be the right amount of happy energy without drifting into the type of high-pitched squeaky “wee wee!” J-pop vocals that I tend to steer away from. It’s a much more agreeable song and J-pop for a more massive audience.
Linny: The show seems to have put in a decent effort towards its CGI animation and it was a pleasant surprise to watch the CGI blend so seamlessly with the traditional animation. I'm not completely against CGI but I do not have the patience for shoddy CGI either. So I have to give the show props for working hard on its CGI animation and usage.
Tom: The CGI is what probably made this show doable in the first place. Without it there wouldn’t be a Kantai Collection anime is my guess. And for what the CGI does it does well. In the preview I said that the CGI was of such high quality I couldn’t tell the difference. Sadly that doesn’t remain true as the CGI’s quality changes from episode to episode. It never gets bad but at the same time it rarely manages to marry the 2D images perfectly and that is a bit of a shame.
"But you're... ships don't... Damn talk about objectifying yourself =/"
"But you're... ships don't... Damn talk about objectifying yourself =/"
Linny: At the end of it all, I'd be lying if I said I didn't dread watching the upcoming second season a little. I don't hate the show. It definitely has its merits but it's just a subject matter I struggle to get into. But it's definitely a show that has had a lot of love and work put into it and a must watch for anyone even mildly curious about the game or the premise. I even ended up going crazy for one of its characters despite usually having to brace myself before every episode. I'm hoping anyone who checks the show walks away with something to treasure about it like we did. For all the work put into the story, the music, the characters and the animation (even if I never got into its premise), I award this show a 7.5 out of 10.
Tom: All in all I found this to go above and beyond adapting the mobile game of the same name. They took the game and worked very hard to make something that wouldn’t just appeal to fans of the franchise and I think they succeeded. A second season is apparently already on the way and while I’m not sure where exactly it will go, there were perhaps hints in the final episode that not everything was as straightforward and final as we might have thought. Overall I’ll be awarding Kantai Collection an 8.0 out of 10. I enjoyed it a lot and while it certainly isn’t perfect it really is quite amazing for what it is.
Combined Score: 7.75 out of 10
"Kongou is many things. But great cook she is not. =("
"Kongou is many things. But great cook she is not. =("
Thanks for reading our review! Tomorrow expect a review for Shirobako! See you Sunday!