Random Thoughts / "Inspiration" № 1

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Looking forward to see this in full on March 11, 2011.

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Moving Pictures / Never a Year Like '09

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iLove! Gandaaaaaaaa! Ohmygulay only a few hours 'til twenty-ten.

Moving Pictures / Experience Mobile Mobile

Experience Mobile Mobile from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.
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iLike. Gandaaaaaaaa.

Moving Pictures / Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles

Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.
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iLovit. Anggandaaaaaaaaaa.

Moving Pictures / V61

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Dear Shin,

Would you be kind enough to get me a copy of V61? Kthx.

E

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Via Vmag

Moving Pictures / Beeeeyutiful!

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I feel so inspired.

Moving Pictures / "Inlingua: War made of Words"

O, something to take your minds off this week's super sensationalised piece of chika.
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I'm not one to get excited over things with war themes (movies, games, etc) but team it up with type? Where do I sign up?

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Via MyModernMet

Moving Pictures / Shorts: "Validation"

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"Validation" is a fable about the magic of free parking. Starring TJ Thyne & Vicki Davis. Writer/Director/Composer - Kurt Kuenne. Winner - Best Narrative Short, Cleveland Int'l Film Festival, Winner - Jury Award, Gen Art Chicago Film Festival, Winner - Audience Award, Hawaii Int'l Film Festival, Winner - Best Short Comedy, Breckenridge Festival of Film, Winner - Crystal Heart Award, Best Short Film & Audience Award, Heartland Film Festival, Winner - Christopher & Dana Reeve Audience Award, Williamstown Film Festival, Winner - Best Comedy, Dam Short Film Festival, Winner - Best Short Film, Sedona Int'l Film Festival.

:-)

Moving Pictures / Videos: Linda Evangelista 90s version

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I was like 2 summers young then!! haha Anyway, now I understand why Linda Evangelista said that famous quote "won't get up for less than $10,000". Watch and feel like it's 1991 again.

Films & Videos / Amazing Ads: "First Love"

Parang ewan lang!!
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I wanted to blog about this ad when I first saw it but I thought it's quite new and it's possibly still on it's way to Youtube. Or anywhere. I almost forgot to post it here until I saw Owen Maddela's entry.

Bittersweetastic! So strange...it makes me want to craugh! (cry+laugh)

Credits:

Creative Team:
GADC (McDo Clients) : Margot Torres / Christina Lao / Mel Montemayor
Creatives : Teeny Gonzales - ECD-Copy / Argem Vinuya - Sr. Art Director
Accounts : Tey San Diego / Wella Balagtas / Lester Obice
Producer : Irene Chingcuangco
Director : Stephen Ngo
Prod House : Provill / Sound Design
Caster : Enrich Munchua
Musical Work : "Ang Huling El Bimbo" by Ely Buendia

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Video from argemv

Films & Videos / "Happy 2009"

Happy 2009! from postspectacular on Vimeo.
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OMG! How?! Very cool! (no pun intended) Nice music too.

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Video via Postspectacular

Films & Videos / "The Egg"

The Egg from Edrick on Vimeo.
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An animation/short video/story I did for my Flash subject

Films & Videos / Strawberry Earth

Strawberries & Cream from Strawberry Earth on Vimeo.
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Type-tastic again!! Very cool graphics too. Lovit. A video about how "we can save the environment by organizing the way we spend our money".

PS (esp to type junkies and the extra observant)—I tried to identify the origins of the cut-out letters. M and I are from Miu Miu, no? How about the other letters?
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Via Blad Blog (Translated)

Films & Videos / "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

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Very nice! Type lovers, watch this. I just wish they laid out all the letters at the end of the video.
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Video via Blad Blog (translated)

Films & Videos / Will It Freaking Blend, Again

To blend or not to blend? (My favorites)

Light Bulbs: Yay! Science projecty.


Toy Cars: Nay! :-(


Make-up: Yay! For curiosity's sake. Or something that should be shown to foundation-day type of girls*



Tilapia: Yay! Tilapia smoothie, anyone? BTW. I didn't know it was also called Tilapia abroad? hehe


Magnets: Yay! Again, for curiosity's sake.


Go to Will It Blend for more. Btw, I got this gem of information from PGHQTV. You should check out their fun posts. Like the new McD store in Japan, love it! :-)
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*Girls who put on too much make-up, specifically foundation.

Films & Videos / Will It Freaking Blend

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I am out of words. This is ker-azy! Crazy-fun! T3's gadget busting tactics suddenly paled in comparison.
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Video from Will It Blend
Related, PGHQTV

Films & Videos / Sacha Baron Cohen

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Di ko kinaya! Talk about being seen and making a scene! Story here.

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Source: The Cut

Blog Update / Categories

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The last few weeks has found me busy as usual. Beating plate deadlines, brainstorming for new plate ideas, last minute reading for exams, the usual school stuff. Plus the non-school stuff that are really hard to miss (see photo above hehe). In between all these, I can't help but be bothered thinking that I should re-organize this blog. I want long term style of organization but i can't really come up with one so I ended up not being able to post whatever whenever. I've also made (and thought of making) separate blogs dedicated to one thing e.g. magazines, food, drawings. Just when it kindof got noisy inside mein trolly, I hit my head with an imaginary wake up hammer and realized, I just had too many blogs (and blogging materials at that) but so little time! So after a few weeks of arguing and talking with myself, I have decided to just put it all here, on the Happy lab. I initially made this blog for the stuff I find inspirational, in real life or in cyberspace. But as I blogged, I kind of went here and there, although basically, most of the posts here still adhere to my "what inspires" topic/theme/whatevs. And now I feel magulo. A little bit (or not) sturm und drang.

To stop my mind from the sturm und drang mode, I came up with these categories:

• Art & Design
• Blog Update
• Books
• Events
• Fashion & Style
• Films & Videos
• Food
• Magazines
• Music
• People & Places
• Photo Friday
• Quick Thoughts
• Random Photos
• Random Thoughts

So there. Now I feel much better. hehe :-) I guess I don't have to explain these because these categories are quite self explanatory. Or maybe just wait for the future posts and see. ;-D

Thanks for reading my blog and I hope you'll find inspiration here! :-) If you've got something to share or have something to say, just pop me a note because I'm one email away! (see contact)
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Photo above from Threadless T-Shirts

PS—To those reading this in my Multiply account, this is a cross post from blogger. I just thought maybe you think what the heck is this. hehe