today

To recount: I had my favorite spaghetti and pan-fried chicken for lunch. I had a frappuccino and didn't care. I saw an awesome movie about something that meant a lot to me as a kid. Seeing it restarted in such a well-crafted, enjoyable manner made me feel a little bit more alive. It was truly Art and Heart. Then I had a nice dinner in the company of people I sincerely like.

Days like these don't come very often anymore, as I get older. I just want to remember today. It was a good day.

BTS

I was supposed to head out, listen to some bands play, but, good grief, it's a downpour out there. It makes me want to stay in (done!), catch up on sleep and some reading. Still haven't really recovered from my late flight back from Cebu last night (work that turned into a food trip), and my early appointment this morning.

You know how a lot of pros play it cool? I won't. I admit that I like behind-the-scenes shots from shoots. I want to see their set ups. I'm interested in the creative spaces people inhabit, how their studios or work desks look like. I like to have some insight, however imagined, into how other people work. I'm a geek like that. That's also why I'm a big fan of What The Jackanory's Inside the Photographer's Studio/Home series.

Anyway, Real Living, one of my solid editorial clients, started posting BTS of cover shoots on their blog. I shot the May cover (Sorry, shameless plug right there!) and the BTS photos can be found here. Final product below:

obligatory Pacquiao post

As a Filipino, I suppose I should say something about how magnificently Pacquiao floored Hatton yesterday. But instead I'll say two things:

1. Slo-mo has got to be the best thing next to the Internet. It was instrumental in helping me appreciate the beauty that is Manny's punch as it rendered the lower half of Ricky Hatton's face as a highly malleable piece of flesh. Like Play-Doh even. The slow moving image of sweat flying off Hatton's impacted head was glorious.

2. Twitter was awesome in helping me schedule my Sunday morning (local time) since there was a Boston-Chicago Game 7 finishing up right before the Pacquiao-Hatton match. Brian Viloria was constantly tweeting from the fight venue, and I was able to estimate the time I had to leave the basketball game to catch the fight at a resto.

Anyway, Fire Quinito has a better round up of the Pacquiao-Hatton fight post mortems.

When I'm filthy rich

I'd get myself these:

1. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

2. The West Wing boxed DVD collection.

3. And this

Building the LEGO Millennium Falcon from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

American Family X

"Found photography and snapshot culture," is the tagline for American Family X. I gather it's put together by Doug Rickard and what an amazing collection it is.