November 14, 2009: A day for 2 Filipino Fighters

Boxing- Manny Pacquiao
MMA- Brandon Vera

It was a day to remember. Two top filipino fighters in their own sport category headlined at the same day and represented the filipinos and the Philippines quite well.

First off, Brandon "the Truth" Vera. He was set to fight one of the best MMA fighters of all time and a Hall of Famer, Randy "the Natural" Couture. The fight started great for Brandon and engaged Randy out of the gate but when Randy started to clinch, Brandon cant get out and cant give his all specially on stand up. 2nd round is a lot better for Brandon were he put Randy down on the octagon by giving good kicks/knees to the body and followed by more punches on the ground but quickly stopped by Randy by his defence. 3rd round and again more clinches by Randy but this time he got a few punches to connect. Brandon took down Randy on the last minute of the fight were they mad a last round exchange. The fight ended and the judges gave the win to Randy, to Brandon's surprise and most of the audience including commentator Joe Rogan. Yes, Randy have more clinches and great positioning but he didnt made a lot of damage unlike Brandon. He significantly hurt Randy and did the most of the damage in their fight. Brandon was again been robbed of a fight victory. F***ing judges!

Now, the pound for pound boxer in the world, Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao. He was to challenge and fight Miguel Cotto. At the first few rounds, Pacquiao and Cotto are feeling out each others strategy and punching power. Cotto felt the knockout power of Pacquiao in the 1st half of the whole fight were he dropped in two consecutive rounds. After this Cotto was not the same as he was on the 1st round. You can see in Manny the confidence that he can handle Cotto because for most of the rounds in the 2nd half of the fight, he fought on almost on a standstill not the normal Pacquiao that use his speed to move around his opponent and the ring for i guess he knows he can take Cotto's blows and the confidence in Cotto to beat Pacquiao is gone. In the latter rounds, Cotto is back pedalling and avoiding to go toe to toe with Manny to avoid getting KO'd. When they did exchange punches, Manny is clearly landing most of his punches unlike Cotto who barely punched and made combinations which led to a stoppage by the referee and Pacquiao winning by TKO and winning his 7th belt in 7 weight classes and sementing his place in boxing history.

It would have been nice to see Brandon win aswell but because of the f***ing judges, a double celebration didnt happen but big props to Brandon for representing. All in all it was a great day for us Filipinos.

Take me to the Philippines

Yup, thats the title of a new music video from Apl De Ap of the Black Eyed Peas for the Department of Tourism. Its a tourism campaign to promote the Philippines. Pretty cool video. Filipino pride. Enjoy.

Filipino MMA Fighters on UFC

Just a simple nod and showcasing filipino's who are representing their filipino heritage and pride in their own fields. First off, UFC. One of the top if not the best MMA fight stage in the world. Filipino's have a little space there thanks to Brandon "the Truth" Vera, Mark "the filipino wrecking machine" Munoz and Phillip "the filipino assasin" Nover. Munoz and Nover are fairly new to UFC (correct me if im wrong) but not as fighters. Nover was a lightweight finalist on the reality show, The Ultimate Fighter season 8 by UFC. All of them are proud of their filipino heritage and i believe all of them speaks tagalog and other filipino dialects.

No one is more prouder to show his filipino heritage of the three than Brandon. He wears it proudly on his skin through his alibata/baybayin tattoos on his back and leg. Most of the clothes he wears on his fights has a Philippine flag or symbol in it showing his a filipino. I saw the fight were he entered the octagon while the Black Eyed Peas song "Bebot" is played as his entrance song. You can feel how proud he is to represent specially when the part of the song plays, " filipino, filipino, filipino..."

Brandon Vera

Mark Munoz

Phillipe Nover

Disney's effect on Marvel?

I just saw this video and pics of the new show that Marvel will be premiering on Cartoon Network on September 19. I guess they're gearing towards the more younger audiences along the line of shows like Ben10, Powerpuff girls and the like.. Marvel characters "cutified" :P hehe.. From what i read there are mixed feelings regarding this new path on i guess, introducing Marvel characters to the younger audience.

Power Ranger to MMA Fighter

Do you still remember watching Power Rangers back in highschool? Well, Mr. Green Ranger (Jason David Frank) is now fighting on the MMA stage and brawling it out with some of the best and upcoming fighters in the mixed martials arts world. Just look at the pic below..



















Damn! From a flimsy ranger who knows martial arts to this?! Freaky. Cant wait to see him fight in the cage and maybe slug it out with the likes of George St. Pierre, or maybe Machida, Kimbo Slice or even our very own Brandon Vera. Its time to test out his own fighting style Tose Kune Do inside the octagon.

PICCA – The First Philippine International Cartoons, Comics, and Animation Festival

Watch out for the next event coming this October 15-18, PICCA – The First Philippine International Cartoons, Comics, and Animation Festival. Reposting this from Gerry Alanguilan's site.


Check out their site for more info.

Scott McCloud

This is a great and informative talk by Scott McCloud on understanding comics at a TED lecture. Its a very inspiring video and a must see. I was glued to it to the end.




For more inspirational and informative talks on whatever genre you like, just go to www.ted.com -ideas worth spreading.

Philippine All-Stars lost @ 2009 World Hip-Hop Championships

Yes, they didnt win this time.

Results are 1st place- RAF (France), 2nd place- Neutral Zone (Mexico), 3rd place- Joyce and Boys (Singapore)

Videos are now up on Youtube. Below are their dance routines. You be the judge..

FRANCE



MEXICO



SINGAPORE



PHILIPPINES

Fmr. President Corazon Aquino passed away..

I awoke to the news that Cory has passed away. She has been battling a good fight with cancer but sadly lost.. She was popularly known in the world by bringing back democracy to the Philippines after Marcos' martial law by winning the presidency on a snap election vs. Marcos and leading the People Power protest that took out the Marcos regime and martial law in the Philippines. Just doing my little part on her passing.. May she rest in peace..

Prince of Persia The Movie

Prince of Persia is a great game and now they are shooting a movie of it. Jake Gyllenhaal plays the lead character, Prince Dastan and below are some photo stills from the set and the movie poster. There are still mixed feeling from the fans regarding this movie and Jake being chosed to play the character. I personally like how the whole movie, its look and the characters/actors are panning out specially the teasers, clips and the set pics are looking. Hopefully the end product is good.

Here are some pics i got over the net. Thanks goes to the owners. :D

Ryan Reynolds is Green Lantern??

Well there's a buzz going that the Green Lantern will be played by Ryan Reynolds. Nothing is final yet on who will be cast as GL. One celebrity who is also in the news to play GL is Justin Timberlake. Please, dont let him play the role of Green Lantern..please. I'd rather pick Ryan than Justin.. Hopefully the producers of the movie and the DC people will pick a good actor that is fit to play the Green Lantern.

Here's a fan made pic of Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lantern courtesy of comicbookmovie.com.

Scarlett Johansson is a Widow!

Yes! She is the new Black Widow in the upcoming Ironman 2 Movie. Fans have different reactions in Scarlett being picked to play the part of the Widow. Some are good and some are bad. I just hope she did a swell job portraying the character even though she doesnt look the part for playing the role of the Black Widow. Black Widow is a pretty strong character, so lets hope she does gives justice to the character..

Here are a few pics of Scarlett as the Black Widow courtesy of comicbookmovie.com

1st Asian-American Comicon

The FIRST Asian-American Comicon will be held on the 11th of July 2009 at the Museum of Chinese in America in NY from 10am to 5pm. This a new venue for all comic book artist of asian decent. It is said that there are only 250 tickets that will be sold for the said event (quite few dont you think?). Some of the special guests for this event are Larry Hama, Sean Chen, Greg Pak and a whole lot more. Though there werent any Filipino artists (i think..) in the line up of guests, hopefully some of them would come and dropby to the event and represent.

Go to their site to find out more! 1ST ASIAN-AMERICAN COMICON!

The End of Slideshows

Here's a new way of presenting your artworks fellow artists. Enter Animoto. Put in your images and wait for your final video to appear. I just bumped into their site and was quite amazed on the presentation they did to my artwork on video format. Click play below and see for yourself. :)



I was satisfied on how it turned out. Yeah it was short, but sweet. hehe. Go and sign up now at ANIMOTO!

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Man! That was a good movie! Just finished watching it at the cinema and boy, that was a fun movie to watch. The personalities of some of the new characters in the movie specifically the twins, Mudflap and Skids really made an impact at least for me which gave the movie an added comedic relief compared to the first transformers movie. To those who havent seen the movie yet, go to your nearest mall or cinema and go watch it. Its well worth it.

FREELANCERS!! ATTENTION!

I know that there are lots of up's and down's in being a freelancer in whatever field you're in. This video pretty much sums it up and shows the reality freelancers face when they are negotiating with a client. Most if not all clients wants to get work from you for a very cheap price which results in haggling for a better price. Pick your clients wisely and do not deal with these type of people in the video. Know your worth. Dont kill the industry.




Thanks goes to Jay Ramos (boysoltero) for the video. Found it on your multiply dude! :)

AVATAR: The last Airbender teaser trailer

I was just informed about this by my friend Carlo Pagulayan. I look it up on his multiply site and click on link to see the youtube teaser. It was great! Im really interested on how this movie adaptation will turn out because the animated series of Avatar is kick-ass so i wish Mr. M.Night's adaptation stays true with the series. Im so looking forward to this on 2010. Here's the teaser, enjoy!

LIFE-SIZE F@#%!NG GUNDAM!

I heard about this life-size Gundam that is being built in Japan and i was really curious about it and i looked for it on a friend's multiply site (Edgar Tadeo). To my surprise, it was REAL! The pictures were really great! Dude, the thing towers like a six-storey building (more or less). The engineers of this project are really good. My jaw dropped when i first saw this.. Let the pictures say it all..




























































More pictures here were i got the pics from the original poster. --- http://punynari.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/assembled-rx78-gundam-part-2/

Lion-O colored

Some of you might have seen this pinup already at my deviantart or multiply sites. I just thought of doing some simple flat colors for this piece so here it is. Just something to post and share with you guys.

Pencils and Colors