Hello guys! im about to start my new book entitled Philippines Seven Wonders. It will include the different wonders of the Philippines island from nature to man-made architecture, from ancient to modern philippines, ranked as the best of seven. In this regard, i would like to ask for your entries and suggestions of what should be on the list of seven depend on their classifications. Ex. Seven Most wonderful beaches, reefs, caves, mountains, buildings, houses in terms of human architecture, bridges, cities, monuments, government buildings, schools so on and so fort. New Pictures and updated articles included Thanks a lot, hope to hear from all of you guys.
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Filipino Design Artists in "Finding Nemo
'Bahay kubo' ( "Nipa" Hut)
LOOK closely into that dentist's aquarium, right where the little clownfish Nemo is resting. Yes, that is a bahay-kubo. That little touch is only one of the different contributions to the Disney/Pixar film "Finding Nemo" courtesy of two Filipino artists involved with the production. It may be set in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, but there's a lot of the Philippines in there, thanks to Nelson Bohol and Gini Cruz.
Bohol, 41, is one of the movie's main background designers. "I provide the environment, props, anything they need," says Bohol on the phone. Bohol, born in Catbalogan, had always liked drawing since he was little. After graduating with a degree in architecture from the Manuel L. Quezon University in 1985, Bohol went to work for Burbank Animation in Makati, cutting his teeth on Saturday morning cartoon shows.
Bohol fell in love with the possibilities of this new industry. Bohol and four other animation artists formed their own company in 1991. Shortly after, Bohol got to work on early episodes of the now ubiquitous Nickelodeon show "Rugrats." When the show received an Emmy, the Filipino animators even received a certificate attesting to the Emmy win. While that was a proud moment for Bohol, there was more awaiting him.
In 1996, 20th Century Fox's animation division held an exam for local artists, intent on finding talent they could bring to the States. Thinking he had nothing to lose, Bohol took the exams, and wound up among the 50 artists-there were over 150 applicants- accepted by Fox Animation.
Working out of Phoenix, Arizona, Bohol got to work on such Fox animated flicks as "Anastasia" and "Titan A.E." In 2000, he moved to Pixar Animation Studio, where he designed environments and props for a movie that took three years to finish -- "Finding Nemo," the latest Disney/Pixar collaboration.
Bohol explains that he is still very much into the traditional aspects of animation. "Lapis at papel pa rin (still pencil and paper for me)," he laughs, "I don't know much about computers."
'Pinoy closeness'
Still very fond of his homeland, Bohol applied some personal touches to the aquarium tank in the dentist's office. "The aquarium is 100 percent mine," he says proudly. First, he was responsible for the bahay-kubo. Next, he used Mt.Mayon as an inspiration for the miniature volcano inside the aquarium, Mt. Wanahakalugi: "But I couldn't make it as perfect as the real Mayon."
Last, he added a very personal touch. "In the aquarium, there are three tiki heads. They're actually caricatures of three artists who worked on the movie." The one to the right resembles another Filipino-blooded artist, Ricky Nieva, while another the one on the left is of a Korean-American colleague.
"The one in the middle, that's me," laughs Bohol, "complete with bigote and nunal (mustache and mole)."
Now residing in the East Bay in Northern California with his wife and four kids, Bohol is ecstatic about his time working with Disney and Pixar. "This is it! This is the best place to work, my dream from when I started." Citing Marikina as his hometown, Bohol loves basketball and misses the "samahan" (closeness) among Filipinos and the food-he even hopes to visit soon. Yet he never forgets how lucky he's been. "Oh my God, I'm so blessed."
Animator Virginia "Gini" Cruz's path to Pixar is not too different even if her role differs from Bohol's. Cruz was born in Pasay City but left the country when she was three as her parents migrated to Guam. "My late father wanted me to study here because he said the education was good," Cruz recalls. Originally dragged home "kicking and screaming," she found out she enjoyed herself here, studying at St. Scholastica's College Manila for high school and taking up fine arts at the University of Santo Tomas, majoring in advertising. After graduating in 1987, she returned to Guam, where she worked in advertising, but her artistic sense was pulling her in a different direction.
She studied computer art at New York's School of Visual Art, putting together a reel of animation for her thesis. She sent it out to different companies, but when Pixar called in 1996, Cruz knew immediately where she wanted to go. "I really, really wanted to work with them." Working with Dory In some capacity or other, Cruz got to work on "Toy Story 2," "A Bug's Life" and "Monsters, Inc." But her biggest contribution so far is her involvement with "Nemo," as she got to animate Dory, the forgetful bluefish voiced by Ellen DeGeneres. It was, after all, her job to look at the character designs, listen to the recorded voice, and make sure that Dory said what she was supposed to. "I loved working on Dory," Cruz enthuses. "It really appeals to me, the idea of this fish with short term memory loss. Ellen DeGeneres was amazing. She has such a rich array of emotions in her voice."
Cruz also enjoyed working briefly on the cowgirl Jessie from "Toy Story 2."
Unlike Bohol, Cruz works primarily with computers but adds wryly, "I'm the one who keeps calling the system guys when I can't get it to work." Cruz says one has to learn to use technology if you work on actually animating characters "but it doesn't necessarily make it easier. You have a lot of details to take care of. It's all the same, in the end."
Like Bohol, she is relishing being able to work with Disney: "I am still amazed. I mean, every movie I watched when I was a kid was by Disney."
Next adventure
The very busy Cruz loves living in the eclectic city of San Francisco, where she is currently trying to develop a green thumb by cultivating a garden. "If I didn't have my garden, I'd just be at work all week." She's been back to the country several times, recently for a wedding. But work is what drives her these days.
As "Finding Nemo" proves, Filipino craftsmanship comes in many forms but remains resilient and vibrant, visible in the way Dory mouths her lines perfectly or the mesmerizing seascape unfolding on the screen. Bohol and Cruz are now deep into work for Pixar's next adventure-the superhero tale "The Incredibles," due out in fall, 2004.
Filipino Design Artists in "Finding Nemo
'Bahay kubo' ( "Nipa" Hut)
LOOK closely into that dentist's aquarium, right where the little clownfish Nemo is resting. Yes, that is a bahay-kubo. That little touch is only one of the different contributions to the Disney/Pixar film "Finding Nemo" courtesy of two Filipino artists involved with the production. It may be set in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, but there's a lot of the Philippines in there, thanks to Nelson Bohol and Gini Cruz.
Bohol, 41, is one of the movie's main background designers. "I provide the environment, props, anything they need," says Bohol on the phone. Bohol, born in Catbalogan, had always liked drawing since he was little. After graduating with a degree in architecture from the Manuel L. Quezon University in 1985, Bohol went to work for Burbank Animation in Makati, cutting his teeth on Saturday morning cartoon shows.
Bohol fell in love with the possibilities of this new industry. Bohol and four other animation artists formed their own company in 1991. Shortly after, Bohol got to work on early episodes of the now ubiquitous Nickelodeon show "Rugrats." When the show received an Emmy, the Filipino animators even received a certificate attesting to the Emmy win. While that was a proud moment for Bohol, there was more awaiting him.
In 1996, 20th Century Fox's animation division held an exam for local artists, intent on finding talent they could bring to the States. Thinking he had nothing to lose, Bohol took the exams, and wound up among the 50 artists-there were over 150 applicants- accepted by Fox Animation.
Working out of Phoenix, Arizona, Bohol got to work on such Fox animated flicks as "Anastasia" and "Titan A.E." In 2000, he moved to Pixar Animation Studio, where he designed environments and props for a movie that took three years to finish -- "Finding Nemo," the latest Disney/Pixar collaboration.
Bohol explains that he is still very much into the traditional aspects of animation. "Lapis at papel pa rin (still pencil and paper for me)," he laughs, "I don't know much about computers."
'Pinoy closeness'
Still very fond of his homeland, Bohol applied some personal touches to the aquarium tank in the dentist's office. "The aquarium is 100 percent mine," he says proudly. First, he was responsible for the bahay-kubo. Next, he used Mt.Mayon as an inspiration for the miniature volcano inside the aquarium, Mt. Wanahakalugi: "But I couldn't make it as perfect as the real Mayon."
Last, he added a very personal touch. "In the aquarium, there are three tiki heads. They're actually caricatures of three artists who worked on the movie." The one to the right resembles another Filipino-blooded artist, Ricky Nieva, while another the one on the left is of a Korean-American colleague.
"The one in the middle, that's me," laughs Bohol, "complete with bigote and nunal (mustache and mole)."
Now residing in the East Bay in Northern California with his wife and four kids, Bohol is ecstatic about his time working with Disney and Pixar. "This is it! This is the best place to work, my dream from when I started." Citing Marikina as his hometown, Bohol loves basketball and misses the "samahan" (closeness) among Filipinos and the food-he even hopes to visit soon. Yet he never forgets how lucky he's been. "Oh my God, I'm so blessed."
Animator Virginia "Gini" Cruz's path to Pixar is not too different even if her role differs from Bohol's. Cruz was born in Pasay City but left the country when she was three as her parents migrated to Guam. "My late father wanted me to study here because he said the education was good," Cruz recalls. Originally dragged home "kicking and screaming," she found out she enjoyed herself here, studying at St. Scholastica's College Manila for high school and taking up fine arts at the University of Santo Tomas, majoring in advertising. After graduating in 1987, she returned to Guam, where she worked in advertising, but her artistic sense was pulling her in a different direction.
She studied computer art at New York's School of Visual Art, putting together a reel of animation for her thesis. She sent it out to different companies, but when Pixar called in 1996, Cruz knew immediately where she wanted to go. "I really, really wanted to work with them." Working with Dory In some capacity or other, Cruz got to work on "Toy Story 2," "A Bug's Life" and "Monsters, Inc." But her biggest contribution so far is her involvement with "Nemo," as she got to animate Dory, the forgetful bluefish voiced by Ellen DeGeneres. It was, after all, her job to look at the character designs, listen to the recorded voice, and make sure that Dory said what she was supposed to. "I loved working on Dory," Cruz enthuses. "It really appeals to me, the idea of this fish with short term memory loss. Ellen DeGeneres was amazing. She has such a rich array of emotions in her voice."
Cruz also enjoyed working briefly on the cowgirl Jessie from "Toy Story 2."
Unlike Bohol, Cruz works primarily with computers but adds wryly, "I'm the one who keeps calling the system guys when I can't get it to work." Cruz says one has to learn to use technology if you work on actually animating characters "but it doesn't necessarily make it easier. You have a lot of details to take care of. It's all the same, in the end."
Like Bohol, she is relishing being able to work with Disney: "I am still amazed. I mean, every movie I watched when I was a kid was by Disney."
Next adventure
The very busy Cruz loves living in the eclectic city of San Francisco, where she is currently trying to develop a green thumb by cultivating a garden. "If I didn't have my garden, I'd just be at work all week." She's been back to the country several times, recently for a wedding. But work is what drives her these days.
As "Finding Nemo" proves, Filipino craftsmanship comes in many forms but remains resilient and vibrant, visible in the way Dory mouths her lines perfectly or the mesmerizing seascape unfolding on the screen. Bohol and Cruz are now deep into work for Pixar's next adventure-the superhero tale "The Incredibles," due out in fall, 2004.
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^^ kewl
And also the oldest Spanish settlement in the Philippines.Not just one of the oldest but indeed the oldest
kay:Yup. If I'm not mistaken, it's from Davao City or Palawan.
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The Pearl of Lao Tzu aka The Pearl of Allah
The Pearl of Allah, the largest pearl on record, was recovered from a giant clam on May 7, 1934, off the coast of Palawan Island, Philippines. The pearl is 9.4 inches long and weighs about 14 lbs. According to the "Guinness Book of Records," the San Francisco Gem Laboratory has valued the pearl at $40 million. The Muslim diver who found the pearl said its surface bore the image of a turbaned face, and he named it the Pearl of Allah.
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I heard somewhere, I think on a Youtube comment, that SMB in RP tastes way better than the one in Spain.
Can anyone confirm?
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kala ko rin human brain sculpture:lol:
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did you know that the largest flower can also be found in the Philppines ..
Raflesia Manilena
Raflesia Speciosa
http://www.haribon.org.ph/index.php?q=node/view/342
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Raflesia Speciosa
http://www.haribon.org.ph/index.php?q=node/view/342
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I doubt that Philippines is the 3rd largest English speaking nation. The majority doesn't even use it as a primary language. Most Filipinos without proper education have a hard time stringing English words into sentences with ease when they speak it.
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I'm posting a question though. It's been bugging me for the very long time, but doesn't the Philippines looks like a sitting dog? Of all the countries in the world, ours is the most unique because it has a shape. If Italy looks like a boot, and Japan looks like a sword, and Vietnam looks like a scimitar, the Philippines looks more like that shape more than them.
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It depends on the person. I know some also say that San Miguel RP taste like urine or something.
Es un trozo de Ghost in the shell dónde se ve claramente que se están bebiendo una Cerveza San Miguel.
This is the video for ghost in the shell. Its dubbed in Spanish but you guys can understand it.
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closer look of our archipelago it looks like an old man w/ a walking stick ..that's why we re called sick man of asia :colgate:
Luzon is the head, visaya's the body , mindanao feet and palawan the cane.
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closer look of our archipelago it looks like an old man w/ a walking stick ..that's why we re called sick man of asia :colgate:
Luzon is the head, visaya's the body , mindanao feet and palawan the cane.
lol i hink it was china who was called the sick man of asia...
Luzon is the head, visayas the body, palawan the cane and the mindanao is the feet (the southeast of davao and the lake land body near lake sebu will be the feet)... then what is zamboanga? :lol:
The Philippine shoreline is the world's third longest after Canada and Indonesia.
Really? Would you be kind enough to post a photo of that? It sounds interesting.
I do think so, too. A howling dog on a sitting position. Look at Lingayen Gulf. It looks like the mouth of a howling dog.
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mabaho yan diba?i remember merong tumubong ganyan sa mintal tapos sabi ng mge residents mabaho dawdid you know that the largest flower can also be found in the Philppines ..
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