Stuff to buy? Stuff to sell? It’s all right here in Sulit.com.ph

There’s this banner competition going on at Sulit.com.ph. Being a happy buyer and seller in the site I was really excited to do be able to do my Photoshop work and advertise for them.

If you’re from the Philippines and you’re looking for stuff to buy, chances are somebody has that online. Or maybe you’re a seller with your products; I tell you, there are a lot of people out there wanting to buy what you have. Or maybe you are in need of business services, you can find it here at Sulit.com.ph.

Sulit.com.ph is the leading buy and sell website in the Philippines. Post advertisements or find great deals at Sulit.com.ph.

Celebrate Sulit.com.ph 4th Anniversary! Join the Sulit Banner Making Contest for July and get a chance to win cool gadgets from Sulit.com.ph, Blackberryzuela.com, and GadgetGrocery. com!

UP students walkout from classes

Hundreds of student from University of the Philippines – Diliman walked out their classes to assert their dissatisfaction at the current educational system.

On Friday, July 16 2010, as part of the nationwide movement called the National Day of Action for Education, student leaders from the Center for Nationalist Studies (CNS) in UP organized a march to Mendiola Avenue.  At around 10:40 am, about a hundred students attended the program conducted in the Palma Hall Lobby in preparation for the march. In the program, representatives from different campus organizations took turns in speaking their cause; among the speakers the recently tenured Professor Sarah Raymundo.

“Nung isang araw lang inaprubahan ang 37 lab fee increase (Just the other day the 37 lab fee increases were approved)”, Professor Raymundo stressed, “Kailangan natin ng edukasyon na makabayan, siyentipiko at makamasa (We need an education that is nationalistic, scientific and publicly accessible).”

Among the organizations who participated in the mobilization are members of  League of Filipino Students (LFS), Anakbayan UP, Kabataan Partylist, UP Student Catholic Action, Agham Youth, STAND- UP, UP Repertory, Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity.

The concerns stressed in the protest include the Tuition and Other Fees Increase of 2006, commercialization and privatization of land areas in the university, and Representatives from different academic departments also raised their individual concerns such as from the College of Mass Communications and the sudden increase of lab fees from the College of Engineering.

“Kung gusto talaga ni [President Aquino] ipatupad ang kanyang plataporma, [tatanggaling niya ang mga katiwalian] ni [President] Gloria (If President Aquino really wants to carry out his platforms he will have to eliminate President Gloria’s corrupt policies).”, spoke Lawrence Co, chairperson of the UP Center for Nationalist Studies.

Clad in red, the student protesters picketed around the buildings in UP and afterwards proceeded to march towards Mendiola Avenue, passing through Espana Street, Tomas Morayta and Recto Avenues in Manila. They were later joined by students from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas, and the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. Likewise, in observation of the National Day of Action, students of UP Los Banos, UP Cebu and other picketed their respective government and educational institutions this day.

A similar protest was also held on July 10 of last year during the oil price crisis.

The UP Circuit Logo Revamp

Then there are the logos that, while they already have interesting designs, have the potential to be better. These are the logos I’m going to looking at. In this Photoshop series, I want to revamp existing UP logos and make hip new version that would look pretty in posters and promotional materials.

Here I have the logo of UP Circuit. I started out by basically recreating the logo with solid colors.

I threw in some gradients, shadow and glow effects then I added the UP text using the font Yearbook Solid filled in with white.

I took me a few trials before I got the final patern for the “circuit” inside the C. I used most of the original design plus a few circles and a “core”, courtesy of Tech Brushes. I used the Tech lines from the Tech Brushes to redo the white line pattern outside the blue triangle.

The original logo had the three EEE courses written inside the blue triangle, and that’s not something I think should be removed. However, when I tried to recreate that using stylistic fonts, the text just looked out of place and messy so I decided to put it outside the triangle. It also fits perfectly in the space of the white lines.

A pattern overlay and more brushwork later, it looked like this.

Time to light up the circuit. I thought the glow effect with gaussian blur is very appropriate for the logo (besides looking really cool) so I used it. A lot.

The logo is done. A little background editing and it looks like this.

More American Idol 9 Fan Art

Here is the long overdue second part of my AI fan art.

Terrified Cover

I adore this song and I couldn’t help making a cover so I did (also partly because of a request made my friend Aid).
Check it out:

Single Review – House Party – 3OH!3

“I’M GONNA HAVE A HOUSE PARTY IN MY HOUSE!”

This song is almost Lonely Island On A Boat-levels ridiculous, but ridiculous seems to be working for 3OH!3 after their second album Want became huge in the US dance pop scene.

House Party, the first single to leak come out of their third studio album (due for release on June of this year), is pretty crazy and entertainingly straightforward. It has a hot beat, perfect for…umm…house parties, when you’d be so wasted to pay attention to the mundane lyrics.

The music video is equally absurd. You can check it out, but PLEASE do not attempt to do so if you are photosensitive or are prone to seizures.

Fan Art – Michael “Big Mike” Lynche

In honour of Big Mike’s elimination and save, here is his sketched portrait as part of my American Idol 9 finalist portrait collection.