Me In Business Mirror (A Flores De Mayo With A Euro Flair)

Me In Manila Bulletin (Style Zoom)

Photography: Henry Anima II (http://hxero.multiply.com)
Styling: Pol Tapia (http://polseye.tk)
Make-Up: Dino Lazaro (http://leadino.multiply.com)
Hair: Icko Enriquez
Clothes: Barba, Regine Dulay, Mango, Estrellas Manila
Accessories: Estrellas Manila
Model: Angel Javier of DMV

Designs Of A Dream: Business Mirror, Life

 

photography and art direction: Henry G. Anima II

fashion writer: C. Mendez Legaspi
clothes/gowns: Sassa Jimenez
makeup by NANAN VILLALBA
hair by GEORGE DELFIN
styling by UMA DUMALUAN
models: FASHION WATCH FACES BLENDA ARIOLA, PAULA FIGUERAS, FAITH BELIRAN, JADE DY, MIRA BAINO AND GLENNYS MESA

Me In Manila Bulletin (THE CLASH, STARK CONTRASTS)

MULTIPLICITY: Lifestyle Section, Manila Bulletin May 9, 2009
AH, THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS...

Photography: Henry Anima II (http://hxero.multiply.com)
Styling: Pol Tapia (http://polseye.tk)
Hair & Make-Up: Adrian Adraincem (http://adrianpadraincem.tk)
Clothes: Soko Ethical Vintage by Shelley Lamont (http://sokoethicalvintage.com), Penshoppe, Estrellas Manila
Accessories: Estrellas Manila
Model: Romina of DM

Me In Manila Bulletin (Multiplicity)

MULTIPLICITY: Lifestyle Section, Manila Bulletin May 9, 2009
AH, THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS...

Photography: Henry Anima II (http://hxero.multiply.com)
Styling: Pol Tapia (http://polseye.tk)
Make-Up: Dino Lazaro (http://leadino.multiply.com)
Hair: Icko Enriquez
Clothes: Soko Ethical Vintage by Shelley Lamont (http://sokoethicalvintage.com), Odelon Simpao (odie_vince@yahoo.com)
Accessories: Estrellas Manila
Model: Rafa Da Silva of PMAP

Me In Manila Bulletin (Off The Wall)

OFF THE WALL: Lifestyle Section, Manila Bulletin May 2, 2009
Crazy, Colorful, Graffiti-Inspired Dressing

Photography: Henry Anima II (http://hxero.multiply.com)
Styling: Pol Tapia (http://polseye.tk)
Make-Up: Dino Lazaro (http://leadino.multiply.com)
Hair: Icko Enriquez
Clothes: Soko Ethical Vintage by Shelley Lamont (http://sokoethicalvintage.com), Barba, Mango, Estrellas Manila
Accessories: Estrellas Manila (http://estrellasaccessories.multiply.com)
Model: Lori Korth of DMV

Click here for the album link.

Go-See Invitation

I would like to invite male and female models (at least 18-year of age) to an informal go-see for future collaboration (e.g. may it be TFCD and/or exchange-deals). This is open to professional, amateur, and newbie models. I'll be eager to meet with you at Starbucks Mega Strip at Megamall, Ortigas on Saturday, February 7, 2009 from 11am onwards.

Please do bring a short bio telling me about yourself, contact info, your vital stats, experience or lack thereof, your range and capacity as a model, and why do want to model and collaborate with me. If you don’t have a set-card, it’s ok but I do encourage you to bring if you have one for me to have an idea of your skill as a model.

Also, please wear minimal or no make-up at all.

If you have inquiries just PM me here in my multiply or email me at henry_iia@yahoo.com or henryiia@gmail.com.

I am hoping to see you all and meet you. Looking forward to work and collaborate with you in the future.

God bless.

Regards,

Henry II

Mr. CHOCO LOVAH Photo Contest

Hey I just want to repost this blog entry from my friend and fellow komike Jonas Diego. It's a photo contest and you might be interrested. Here goes his blog entry:

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After these guys had their time at the spotlight, it's time for the
rest of you men to show the world what you got!

Gentlemen, I give you the AXE Mr. Choco Lovah Photo Contest!

Click here to register and join!

What do you have to do and who do you have to kill? It's much simpler than that!

Shoot your best photo exhibiting that you are as irresistible as chocolate
with Axe Dark Temptation, register at the AXE website, and upload away!

Better than chocolate? You bet your sweet bippy!

What's at stake? A trip for two (2) to Vegas, baby!

That's right. You and a friend (wink-wink, nudge-nudge) will be provided with
airfare, accommodations, and allowance. Just think of the possibilities!

So get your camera and some ladies, strike a pose, spray yourself silly with AXE
Dark Temptation and get busy! Click here to join the Choco Lovah Photo Contest.

My Friends' Photography Exhibit

Hey guys please watch and support my friends, Andy Enero and Greg Galang, on their respective exhibits.

"Lights, Camera, Action"
Capturing Life Though Photography
by Lensman Makati Camera Club
SM Mall of Asia Centerstage January 19 to 26, 2009

Fourground
by Greg Galang and 3 other photographers
3/F Exhibit Area Shangri-la Plaza Mall January 17 to 24, 2009
4/F Podium Mall January 25 to 31, 2009

P.S. Congrats to Karen, Jerome, and Nat for having their photos published in DPP Magazine!!!

1st Year Anniversary

I just celebrated my 1st year in photography last January 11, 2009.

I would like to express my gratitude to God, to my family and to all the people whom I've work with and became friends with for without them I will not be able to make it in photography. I will not mention names because I might miss one person and can't forgive myself if ever I do so. I know you all know who you are and again thank you so much. Of course thanks to Inquirer, Business Mirror, FilAm Star, Philippine Star, Sense & Style for publishing the photos I took. I can't thank you enough.

I am hoping for the best and hope that you will continue to support me with my passion and continue to inspire, criticize, and teach me to become a better artist. I will assure you that I will continue to share, teach and inspire you too.

I am looking forward to whatever life has to offer me. I will still dream with my eyes open because I know it will soon come true if I put my mind and heart to it.

Once again from the bottom of my heart thank you for everything.

I Got An Emmy!

I was so extremely happy to know that cartoon show that I am part of won a prestigious Emmy Award in the category New Approaches – Daytime Children’s at the 35th Annual Creative Arts & Entertainment Daytime Emmy Awards in New York City on Friday June 13, 2008! I was a clean-up and in-between artist for the "I Got A Rocket!" and that was my very first animation job at Sunwoo Entertainment Philippines. Did I already say I am happy? Knowing "I Got A Rocket!" won makes me proud of myself and my friends who work very hard for that show. Congrats to all of us!.Sarap ng feeling!!!

Below is an article about the award:

SLR Productions' animated series wins Daytime Emmy

SLR Productions animated television series I Got A Rocket! won a prestigious Emmy Award in the category New Approaches – Daytime Children’s at the 35th Annual Creative Arts & Entertainment Daytime Emmy Awards in New York City on Friday June 13.

I Got A Rocket! is an explosive fast paced comedy following the adventures of 12-year-old Vinnie Q, who receives the best present a boy could ever get - a wise-cracking, gadget-packed rocket ... who just happens to be his new best friend! The
fast-paced 52 x 11 minute animated series is based on Matt Zurbo and Dean Gorissen's award-winning Australian picture book of the same name. The series is co-produced by SLR Productions, Taffy Entertainment, Sunwoo Entertainment, KI.KA ARD and Europool.

The Australian series airs daily on the USA Video on Demand broadcast channel Kabillion. I Got A Rocket! aired on Network Ten Australia and currently airs on Nickelodeon Australia, KI.KA Germany and Gulli TV France. The 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards is a presentation of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in cooperation with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

SLR's CEO Suzanne Ryan says: “This was an absolute team effort and we are all extremely proud of making a successful series that would win such a prestigious award as an Emmy. It’s great to see an Australian series do so well internationally. I Got A Rocket! has been a rating success on all the networks it’s screened so far. We look forward to its continuing achievements”.

[Release by SLR]

Double Feature In Business Mirror 12/22/2008

Another set of photos I took were featured at Business Mirror today (12/22/2008) on two different articles. The articles "Celebrities Do Double Duty" and "'Inabel All The Way" were both written by C. Mendez Legaszpi. Thank you so much Miss Charlize for the opportunity, photo credits and the early Christmas gift.

Below are the articles:

Celebrities Do Double Duty

by C. Mendez Legaspi

‘The explosion of the tabloid press and the Internet has made the general public kind of insatiable” when it comes to celebrities, Estée Lauder president John Demsey remarked to Time’s Style & Design in Fall 2006. “People want a sense of familiarity with the people they look up to these days.” This opinion takes on a factual urgency when you consider that retail labels have been consistently using familiar faces as a marketing tool to sell their wares.

The stars, too, have seen the profit potential of such a partnership and have, naturally, agreed to be endorsers of all kinds of brands. Don’t wonder then if these stars are averse to ambush interviews or random paparazzi shots. It’s an “invasion to privacy,” they wail. Truth is, they’re just “protecting the commodity,” i.e., themselves. Stars don’t have a stream of income from a stolen shot. What they want is control of their image and how they are presented to the public.

This is where an endorsement deal becomes desirable for a star, who can rake in millions in the process. For a brand to build and solidify its market position, it makes business sense to attach itself to a recognizable face. Get Laud!, for instance, was generally unknown until it got the ingénue Roxanne Guinoo. With leads in ABS-CBN soaps and sitcoms, the starlet did wonders to the sales of the fledgling clothing brand.

Guinoo’s fellow Star Circle Quest finalist Melissa Ricks was commissioned by lifestyle label Penshoppe to be one of its cliquish endorsers. With her loveteam-mate Matt Evans, both appeal to the brand’s youth target market. The multitalented Maja Salvador hawks for Folded and Hung (F&H), long the turf of Claudine Barreto and Angel Locsin. While the latter two are positioned for the chic working-class females, Salvador serves the company’s aim to lure the perky, younger crowd.

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ROXANNE GUINOO for Get Laud!

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While Penshoppe snared Akihiro Sato (and scored a coup when JC Tiuseco, recently declared the Pinoy Sole Survivor, walked the runway at Philippine Fashion Week), F&H grabbed the equally hot Hideo Moraoka to be its billboard boy. The Japanese-Brazilian may not have cinematic ambitions like his countryman Akihiro but his appeal knows no borders, helping the once-boring brand attain a combustible status.

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CARMEN SOO for Petit Monde

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Still smiling—and selling well—are bosom buddies Gretchen Barreto (for Plains and Prints) and Ruffa Gutierrez (for Avon Fashions). After scandals and heartbreaks, the cachet of these great beauties increases exponentially. Both also hawk for Pantene. As long as they are in the public eye, for good or ill, their fame serves their benefit.

To complement its loyal stable of endorsers (Sunshine Cruz, Jodie Santa Maria and Cheska Garcia), Petit Monde introduced Malaysian superstar Carmen Soo. Gaining fame starring opposite Jericho Rosales, Carmen endeared herself to the public as the prudish but charming Carrie in the concluded soap Kahit Isang Saglit on ABS-CBN. “We didn’t have a hard time in the negotiations. She went to one of the Petit Monde stores and liked what she saw,” said PM’s owners, the Tan siblings, adding that they believed that Carmen signed on because she loves the clothes (50 percent) and is satisfied with the paycheck (50 percent).

All this luring of stars super and up-starts has been mastered to a science by the biggest lifestyle brand of them all—Bench. Not content with its already dizzying lineup, it launched over the weekend the current hottest property: Karylle. Shedding her prim image, Karylle also shed some of her clothes to be the image for Bench Body. Suddenly, the proper Miss Tatlonghari is no Pollyanna after all. (Philippine Fashion Week photos by Henry Anima II)

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IN PHOTO -- KARYLLE for Bench Body

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'Inabel' All The Way

by C. Mendez Legaspi

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CORY QUIRINO in Dita Sandico-Ong

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In its continuing efforts to make abel Iloko as useful as piña and jusi, the Ilocos Sur provincial government staged a unique showcase, Tawid Ken Partuat Red Fashion Show, at the SM Megamall Megatrade Hall, participated in by the northern province’s political bigwigs and social lights.

Directed by Cata Figueroa Jr., the fast-paced “heritage and crafts” show was a display of pomp and color as the locally woven abel fabric enjoys a resurgence among the country’s high-fashion purveyors.

“It’s worth to note that this project was made possible by the provincial government of Ilocos Sur, headed by Gov.

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DEPUTY National Security Adviser Luis “Chavit” Singson in Roel Rivera

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Deogracia Victor “DV” Savellano. It was the first time that the bigwigs of Ilocos Sur politics, such as Assistant National Security Adviser and former governor Luis “Chavit” Singson, Rep. Eric Singson, Rep. Ronald Singson, President Elpidio Quirino’s granddaughter Cory Quirino and Governor Savellano, together with local politicians and society figures, were present in one affair,” says Winona Santos, the overall project coordinator.

Since the start of his tenure, it has been Savellano’s vision to promote the province as a “wholesome, safe and secure vacation destination with personnel capable of delivering world-class services” anchored on five tourism market niches: coastal, heritage, pilgrimage, events and agri-aqua.

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BOARD member Chuchi Purisima in her own design

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From blankets to bed covers, pillowcases and place mats, abel Iloko has also penetrated the high-fashion firmament. At the Tawid Ken Partuat show, Randy Ortiz, Edgar San Diego, Avel Bacudio, VJ Floresca, Dita Sandico-Ong and Rhett Eala dressed the politicians and their scions in abel Iloko finery.

The show signified the provincial government’s mandate to preserve and promote the economically viable abel-weaving industry. The traditional craft follows a complex intricate process—from preparing and dyeing the yarn, to arranging different colors of yarn to produce the envisioned design, and operating the wooden handloom with the synchronized movement of hands and feet. (Photos by Henry Anima II)