Mar. 23, 2012
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#Sarah Meier#Dix Perez#John Lozano#Philippines#Fashion
Photography | Dix PerezCreative Direction and Styling | John LozanoStyling Assistant | Tsard ChuaMakeup | RB ChancoClothes and Accessories | Kenneth Chua Location | Newport Theater, Resorts World —

Photography | Dix Perez
Creative Direction and Styling | John Lozano
Styling Assistant | Tsard Chua
Makeup | RB Chanco
Clothes and Accessories | Kenneth Chua 
Location | Newport Theater, Resorts World —

Mar. 12, 2012
at 8:50pm
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#Sarah Meier#Adrian Gonzales
He got me. Photo by Adrian Gonzales.

He got me.

Photo by Adrian Gonzales.

Feb. 10, 2012
at 7:25pm
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#MEGA Magazine#Sarah Meier#Roshar#Sev Barretto#Dollhouse#Make Up#Fashion
Stay Gold. Shot for MEGA Magazine’s 20th Anniversary Issue by Sev Barretto, with make up by Roshar. You have no idea how long it took Roshar to put this gold tan color on me (I was painted all the way down to my ribs and fingers), and how long it took to get off! But he’s no newbie to challenging make up, with music videos by the likes of Katy Perry under his belt. And speaking of music, his iPod gets my nod of approval. Check out the entire spread (Vicky looks insanely beautiful in it!) in this month’s MEGA. (I love my job.) -s.

Stay Gold.

Shot for MEGA Magazine’s 20th Anniversary Issue by Sev Barretto, with make up by Roshar.

You have no idea how long it took Roshar to put this gold tan color on me (I was painted all the way down to my ribs and fingers), and how long it took to get off! But he’s no newbie to challenging make up, with music videos by the likes of Katy Perry under his belt. And speaking of music, his iPod gets my nod of approval.

Check out the entire spread (Vicky looks insanely beautiful in it!) in this month’s MEGA.

(I love my job.)

-s.

6:59pm
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#MEGA#Magazine#Cover#Sarah Meier#Fashion#Philippines
Kim Reyes-Palanca revisits 20 of MEGA’s MEMORABLE COVERS that have CHALLENGED and REDEFINED Filipina beauty. In this month’s 20th Anniversary Issue of MEGA Magazine. On stands now. — Grateful to have been included in this feature :) My very first cover for MEGA was when I was a scrawny little teen, and every cover shoot we’ve done since then has been nothing short of a blessing. All smiles, -s.

Kim Reyes-Palanca revisits 20 of MEGA’s MEMORABLE COVERS that have CHALLENGED and REDEFINED Filipina beauty.

In this month’s 20th Anniversary Issue of MEGA Magazine. On stands now.

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Grateful to have been included in this feature :)

My very first cover for MEGA was when I was a scrawny little teen, and every cover shoot we’ve done since then has been nothing short of a blessing.

All smiles,

-s.

Jan. 25, 2012
at 11:31am
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#Perou#Status Magazine#Rosario Herrera#Sarah Meier#Ayala Museum#Philippines
The Perouvian Wasteland.

Through my eyes — and the lens of the Samsung Multiview the @statusmagazine Team handed me at the door of the Ayala Museum last Saturday.

(Except for the last picture. That one was taken by my daughter, Kaya. Baym.)

Shouts to my homegirl Rosario Herrera, head honcho at Status, for being the change we seek. Love you, woman. Stay inspired.

-s.

Jan. 21, 2012
at 3:07pm
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#Sarah Meier#VUDU#Cebu#Events#lifesnaps
s.m-a, VUDU Cebu. Sinulog 2012. Photo via www.facebook.com/VUDUceb || www.facebook.com/zeroaperture 

s.m-a, VUDU Cebu. Sinulog 2012.

Photo via www.facebook.com/VUDUceb || www.facebook.com/zeroaperture 

Jan. 9, 2012
at 5:25pm
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#Filbert Kung#Georginna Desuasido#Michael Cinco#Sarah Meier
Che cosa desideri? -s.

Che cosa desideri?

-s.

Jan. 8, 2012
at 3:29am
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#James Jean#Fully Booked#lifesnaps#Sarah Meier#Vicky Herrera#Jaime Daez#Chris Daez#Unscripted#Rebus#Order#Online
James Jean.

Vicky and I had plans for dinner this evening with our ‘Unscripted’ publishers and Fully Booked’s King and Queen, Jaime and Chris Daez, and their guest for the weekend, the inimitable James Jean.

Conversation snippets included anecdotes from radio (both from our end [The Dollhouse] and his [koreansgonebad.com]), pets, fans (including a girl that approached James today complaining of an “aching pelvis”), and jokes about James’ Jersey roots.

Got a sneak peak at his brand spanking new jewelry line, OVM, currently only available in Japan. If his book is any predictor of his capacity for success, look into the merchandise now — word is the latest edition of James Jean blessed pages (entitled’Rebus’) sold out today at Fully Booked High Street! Dopeness.

To order his book (or me and Vicky’s!) - fullybookedonline.com

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Some of his work!

Awesome.

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V.Herrera, s.m-a, James Jean.

See you in LA!

-s.

Jan. 5, 2012
at 11:19pm
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#Artist Profile#Rob Cham#Create PH#Design#Illustration#Philippines#Sarah Meier#Blog#Art
The New Blog Header, The Artist, and The Profile: ||ROB CHAM||
And the celebration of our country’s artistic ingenues continues! New blog header to start off 2012, and this time around, I felt it was only apt to invite one of the newest artists to come onto my radar to give my site a little re-up. A recent addition to the steady growing CreatePH Team, Rob is the doodle dood joining Christian San Jose and Kasey Albano’s design bunker, and partially responsible for some of the graphic magic you see in me and Vicky Herrera’s recently published book, ‘Unscripted’.

Let’s get to know him better, shall we?
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What your parents named you:
Robby Derrick S. Cham. 

What you would have opted to name yourself:
Rob Cham. 

Icon/Celebrity/Character/Historical Figure that best personifies your artistic style and/or would be an ideal subject/source of inspiration:
I don’t think I can really name just one person. I am not familiar enough with the world to know who could personify my artistic style. 
Source of inspiration would be a bunch of people. I think the Internet would be the main thing I get a lot of my inspiration from, as well as how I got to learn how to do what I do. I got to sort of figure out my style from being just exposed to all these great artists I’d find everyday from all around the world. I’d see something I like and try to ape it, make it my own and apply it to my own work albeit with a different sensibility. I always check blogs and other feeds to find new artists. The whole connectivity of the world just allows that access and each day I find a new artist to love. It’s important to expose yourself to all sorts of things, and just work from there. I think. 
A lot of artists I get inspiration from happen to also be comics artists. Asides from my own personal pieces, I’d make comics in my spare time. My comics are somewhat absurd, autobiographical in some strips, and sometimes just dumb. I got to sort of be exposed to making my own not from reading Spider-man or Superman, but through the alternative world of web comics. I would find comics like Achewood, Horribleville, Pictures for Sad Children, Dresden Codak, A Lesson is Learned, and the Perry Bible Fellowship. (Google those. They are wonderful ways to waste your time on the internet.) 

A thing I love about web comics is how young and fledgling artists can now get their work out to be seen all over whereas before all we could be exposed to was print and limited stock. With the whole web comic rise, I’ve been able to read different stories I could never imagine be seen in local newspapers here. The skewed humor and different art styles displayed on these sites are a huge influence on my own work besides the comics as seen with my characters and humor and word balloons I’d sneak in to larger pieces. 

Common denominator in all of your work:
I want to give people something to notice and smile about in the work I do, hidden Easter eggs here and there, and I try and make things people would be interested in looking at. I want people to look at my work longer than they should just noticing a lot of the smaller details I’d hide. I reference a lot of things I watch or read since I just like having those sorts of moments where people would see this character or line and know that we have this common interest. It’s a conversation starter. Another thing is I just want to have fun with it. “If I don’t like it, no one else will.” is how I see it. 

How to “court the muses” or “get into the zone”:
 If I treat something I love as just work, it gets a bit grating and I wouldn’t bother with it. I just try and figure out how to keep myself interested in it as well. I never make excuses not to work like needing to get high or what other people would use as excuses for why they couldn’t create stuff. I either feel it or don’t. If I don’t, I fix that feeling by just looking for inspiration or motivation through reading, browsing image sites, or just resting before tackling anything. I just avoid that whole tortured artist needing pain and misery, or that whole inebriated, intoxicated feeling, to do art. It’s forming a dependency on these things for creativity that just sort of feels wrong to me. Cut away the ties and rely on your own. Believe in yourself a bit. Everyone else probably won’t, or will, but they aren’t going to do what you want for you. I just sputtered a bunch of nonsense. I’m sorry. 

You have one last piece to create. There are no limits. Describe it to us:
I want to make an animated series. I’d get a bunch of creative people and just work on something we love, tell stories about our characters, about ourselves, about everything through that medium and get to show it to the rest of the world. I always loved animation and just feel like if I had to accomplish one thing before I die is that I make a cartoon. It’s nothing big I suppose like curing diseases or say a large art installation utilizing the whole of Metro manila as the canvas, but I had all this obsession with art because of cartoons. It’s what started my whole journey into trying to learn to draw so I could just sort of tell stories to other people and kids who would maybe want to try getting into it as well instead of settling with being an accountant. No idea what the show would be about, what I do know is I want to make it that everyone can tell their own story in that world, and that any one of my friends could come in and pitch a story for us to make. That whole collective collaboration thing is what draws me towards animation as well. I think when people collaborate, you’d have people putting more into it, and animation and film are art forms that require that there be collaboration between people for it to be any good. Comics, sure, but animation is on a bigger scale.

Complete the sentences:
Creativity is: problem solving.
The Filipino artist can: just be called an artist and avoid the politics.
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And here is what the kid can contribute!
Me likey.

You too? Then remember his name, and follow.

Website: http://robcham.com
Twitter: twitter.com/robcham

Salamat Rob!

-s.


Special thanks to CSJ!

Dec. 17, 2011
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#sarah meier#vicky herrera#unscripted launch#fully booked#books#the dollhouse

Dan is the man.

unscriptedconversations:

Via Dan Buenaventura

12:57am
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#Sarah Meier#Vicky Herrera#Unscripted#Book Launch#Magic Liwanag#Fully Booked
Photo by Magic Liwanag.

Photo by Magic Liwanag.

Dec. 16, 2011
at 7:31pm
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#Sarah Meier#Sarah Meier-Albano#Vicky Herrera#Unscripted#Magic Liwanag#Pictures#Manila
Last night, we launched our book in Manila. Tonight, we’re in Cebu. This coming week, I’ll be tucked away on a mountain somewhere with my girls and mentor giving thanks and reflecting. After, I’ll tell you what it was like. Humbled, -s. Photo by Magic Liwanag.

Last night, we launched our book in Manila. Tonight, we’re in Cebu. This coming week, I’ll be tucked away on a mountain somewhere with my girls and mentor giving thanks and reflecting.

After, I’ll tell you what it was like.

Humbled,

-s.

Photo by Magic Liwanag.

Dec. 14, 2011
at 1:56pm
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#sarah meier#vicky herrera#unscripted#the dollhouse#books#fully booked#christian san jose#create.ph#roy macam#philippines

vickyherrera:

It Just Got Real.

Dec. 13, 2011
at 12:48am
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#Unscripted#Tracy Ayson#Sarah Meier#Vicky Herrera#Blog#Big Bad Wolf#Fashion#Bloggers
Fashion Fangirl: Unscripted dinner

Thank you, Tracy! Sorry if we kept you up and out so late. Once we talk, we can’t stop!

-s.

tracyayson:

A night full of substantial conversations with fashion personalities: Sarah Meier & Vicky Herrera plus fellow fashion bloggers to talk about their new book, UNSCRIPTED.

Really cute name thingy they prepared for us :) Sweet, right? They said that’s an illustration of me! Nice :)

Bonded…

Dec. 12, 2011
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#Unscripted#Book#Fully Booked#Philippines#Sarah Meier#Vicky Herrera
Please do come celebrate another chapter with us this Thursday, as Vicky and I launch our very first book - Unscripted. We’ll be at Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street, The Fort at 6pm on December 15, 2011 to officially launch the book, and sign your copies - as well as share with you a little snippet of our lives, and the talents of people we love/that love us. See you there? -s.

Please do come celebrate another chapter with us this Thursday, as Vicky and I launch our very first book - Unscripted.

We’ll be at Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street, The Fort at 6pm on December 15, 2011 to officially launch the book, and sign your copies - as well as share with you a little snippet of our lives, and the talents of people we love/that love us.

See you there?

-s.