Jack TV's Boombox Live 2

I trooped off to Eastwood Central Plaza last October 11, 2008 to be the official photographer of Jack TV for the event. It was fun being silly with my former mates again after such time. There were free flowing Margarita Kings and SMB Pales that really loosened us up and made us red to the skin. To top everything off, good music was in the air to give that oomph to the event.

The bands were:

• Lala
• Sinosikat?
• Stonefree
• Markus Highway
• Join the Club
  
• Rivermaya
• Taken by Cars
• Typecast
  

During the half of my stint, I assumed that I will only be covering the event for their post collateral and stuff. But, then the events manager approached me from behind while I was in between shots of Kat of Sinosikat? then whispered into my ear, "galingan mo ni... gagamitin yan photos mo para sa CD design" (make it good... we will use your photos for the CD design). Then a voice in my head said "Can you feel the pressure right now? Yes, I can feel the pressure right now!"

You see, part of the event is the live recording, and afterwards they will be producing and publishing the event in a CD featuring the hit songs of the artist as it was performed live. Never have I expected that I would be commissioned to provide the images for the CD design. It made me excited and scared at the same time since I never handled anything major like this. Though I better get ready if I want a career in photography.

Please click on the image to see more of the shots that I submitted for their use. Tell me what you think on how I did. Yes, I am open for criticism, I am open minded. Now, let me just fix some additional compensation since they did not tell me that this project included this...

So it is indeed a bit tight...

Weeks into braving the job market and now I find myself in the middle of a job-hunter's hell. I am selling myself too much and still I haven't found anything.

I guess like looking for a good apartment... looking for a job is like falling in love. You don't have control over it and things will fall into place. Yet, sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and still you fall short and get dumped for prettier faces attached to godlike bodies. It's just isn't fair. But, when did anything in life got fair?

Some will just suck you dry as you put everything into it. As you give in to every request. And yet will leave you hanging not as much as giving any hint of any good future. Just enough to mess with you and making you clench your teeth tightly. Leaving you in turmoil and driving you at your wit's end and still not so much as a single call. Then you find them with someone else.

All you need to wait for is a perfect match. If indeed it will come. Or just settle for something that is just there without sparks flying around you. Or go with anything that pays for the rent... life is a little bit tight these days...

Let it not be contrived...

Dusk has risen into the skies clad in a cloak of raging red. Slowly crawling into the vast expanse of the heavens. Engulfing everything that is blue. I see myself entranced, as if the skies are telling me divine secrets of my destiny. I let loose and let go... and let myself be swallowed into the wraith of my ominous future.