Remote Test

This account is itching for a new post.

I was talked into buying a new remote for my camera, thankyouscottkelby. Bought this Phottix IR Remote at Henry’s in Quiapo for a fair price of 500 bucks. Here are some test shots taken with the use of the remote. Waited for night to fall to see how it works in an extremely low light condition.

Will post a colored test shot soon. Finally they look sharp as tack! Haha.

Tamron 28-80mm lens – f/7.1 8s ISO-200

Tamron 28-80mm lens – f/7.1 8s ISO-200

Narrative Turned Experimental

A DVD cover I made for my film.

Sacrifant

Because It Deserves A Place Here

An e-mail between me and my professor in Film 158 Directing, Nick Deocampo. I guess some things will fall into place in time. This is indeed creativity under construction.

Dear Sir Nick,

Good evening! This is Aiess Alonso, a student from your Film 158 Directing class. I’ve been meaning to write to you sir for the past week already but I am too embarrassed with the fact that I haven’t passed the required film for completion of the course. I am sincerely sorry if I have failed you in any way sir. Although I am very eager to put my story into film, to be honest, I don’t have the resources to be able to do it yet. I know that it’s not exactly an excuse to not have submitted it on time.

I humbly want to say that I don’t want time constraints and “the need to pass” to compromise the application of your teachings in this production/my work. And with that, I still want to pass the best product that I can. I plan to shoot in Janaury so I have enough time to polish and save for it. I would like to know sir if you are still willing to accept my project that late? I hope you will follow-up on this matter. Thank you very much for your time and effort sir.

Respectfully yours,
Aiess Athina E. Alonso

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Dear Aiess,

You have won my admiration for your decision to seek an “Inc” grade instead of rushing your very fine film just to pass the course. Take your time until you come up with a good film. You have what it takes. I look forward to your completed film. You may even want to apply for a grant to finish your film.

Warm regards from Yogyakarta,
Nick

Green Peace

“The Era of Procrastination, of Half-Measures, of Soothing and Baffling Expedients, of Delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a Period of Consequences.”

-Sir Winston Churchill (November 12, 1936)

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I didn’t get to do any school work because I ended up watching The Inconvenient Truth for the nth time. Seeing this 2006 documentary again is quite depressing in relation to recent climate events. It seems that the global environmental challenge hasn’t reached or fully captured the minds of many. And sufficient knowledge on global warming or climate change is imperative to realize certain lifestyle changes that will help prevent this environmental crisis. Let’s all try to teach each other and try to take part in reducing carbon emission. Like Winston Churchill, we should all learn to see the truth.

Sometime this month, I will officially be a member of Greenpeace, an independent global organization that campaign for the protection and conservation of the environment. I hope that I will not fail myself in becoming an environmental activist. I’d like to think that that is the best way for me to take deliberate action on helping the planet we live in (and also to be a voice for animals who are greatly affected by human-caused environmental destruction and could not make a stand).

Are you ready to change the way you live?

“Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues”

Canon EOS Rebel Kiss SLR 35mm Kodak film

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A 2005 photograph of a tree in Bear Mountain State Park, NY. The title of this post is a song by Bob Dylan wherein the park is referenced in the lyrics.

all i can do is be me whoever that is

Billy the Kid (Richard Gere): People are always talking about freedom. Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around. Course the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom. Me, uhm, I can change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else. I don’t know who I am most of the time.

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My favorite line from the 2007 Bob Dylan movie I’m Not There.

San Pedro

Canon PowerShot A70 f/3.5 1/1000 sec.

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A digitally “lomofied” year 2005 photograph of the San Pedro bridge in California.

Lift

i think about you every time metal
pivots about a point of fulcrum
every time numbers change digitally
passing by people i only know by floor

but if we go on the same crossing
because of a push of a button
that’s divided by keys, strips,
and some form of unheard experience,

i wake up in the middle night
just to hear your voice.

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poem for the sake of posting

Test Drive

Tamron AF 28-80mm lens – f/8 13s ISO-800

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My first high dynamic range photograph.
This is Katipunan Ave., the view from my window – only less colorful.