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My Dad knew Hendrix --
I'm still cooler than him.

Sarah Meier-Albano
sarahmeieronline.com

About
Current:
- Philippine Fashion Week TV, Supermodel TV Host / Writer
- Philippine Daily Inquirer Columnist
- Status Magazine, UNO Magazine Contributing Writer
- CalCarrie's Int'l Models Philippines Model / Talent
- Hip Hop, Positivity, Phil. Tourism Purveyor
Past:
- MTV Asia VJ
- Steak Productions Co-Founder / CD
- u92, Power 108 radio host
- Burn Magazine columnist
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Contact
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- Allan Acosta (+63) 2 8440350, (+63) 929 8433339

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Feb. 11, 2013
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#philippines #art

Luis Lorenzana’s “Mona Lisa Overdose” #philippines #art

Nov. 24, 2012
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#Platform #Manila #Video #Round 2 #Trade Show #Philippines #Fashion #Music #Art #Culture

Spread the love.

See you there.

Nov. 19, 2012
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#Platform #Show #Manila #Youth #Design #Fashion #Music #Energy #Ronac #Brands #Streetwear #Art

This was the last @PlatformShowMNL event.

Platform Round 2 happens this Sunday, November 25th @ the Ronac Art Center, 12nn-8pm.

Free entrance. Curated DJ sets. Open to all ages, for as long as you’ve got good vibes.

I’ve got new hosts coming onboard, new artists, new brands/designers, new sponsors, but the same substance and heart.

It’s a day to chill, network, be inspired and inspiring.

We’ll only be young in Manila once.

-s.

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facebook.com/platformshow

@PlatformShowMNL

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Aug. 7, 2012
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#Create #Web #Design #Graphic #Art #Computer #Christian San Jose #Philippines #PH #Usain Bolt

From the incredible kids (yes, they’re basically children) that did this very blog as well as our book Unscripted. Hire them.

csj89:

Create.ph recently launched the official website of the World’s Fastest Man, Usain Bolt.

www.UsainBolt.com

Usain Bolt is the world record and Olympic record holder in the 100 metres, the 200 metres and (along with his teammates) the 4×100 metres relay. Earlier today at the 2012 London games, Bolt successfully defended his title by winning the 100 metres Gold Medal with a running time of 9.63 seconds, again setting a new Olympic record.

Web design and development by Create.ph+HS3

Jul. 10, 2012
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#sarahsays #color #technology #art #emoji

“What color — right now?”

It’s 2012 and I’ve become an emoji whore, responding to resounding questions and genuine comments with wide-eyed, kiss blowing smiley faces and double-heart icons, which (for a writer) is not only ironic - it is a travesty. But the truth is, i don’t have the words at times to encapsulate what I’m feeling. Can’t quite say where I am, or where I’m at in a manner any more impressive than a peace sign (that untowardly used to register to me as a Playboy bunny).

✌

But today I was asked what color I was seeing. “Orange and lavender”, I replied. And though it may not have been enough to give anyone a clear sense of positive or negative, of stability or mobility, peace or transition - the profundity of color has always been what sound has been for me; a universe in which nobody is ever absolutely wrong, where nature inspires technology, and technology mobilizes by adhering to human nature. But what struck me as interesting was that when I said “orange and lavender”, my visual plane split into two. On the left, the picture of a sunset bleeding from my first to second color, bottom up. On the right? A screen. On the top, a solid block in Pantone 1645 C. On the bottom, a block in Pantone 264 C.

The computer. Has it taken over my brain?

Your concept of what works visually has been summarized from the days of basic HTML on MySpace pages, in the outfits you put together, and the way you’ve organized your room. It is your avatar, and your Twitter page background - the balance of the aesthetic on your Tumblr page. Nobody in this generation landscapes gardens anymore. I don’t know anyone that paints sunsets, or plates food, or knits sweaters. Everyone Instagrams them with conviction, me included, but the question that that poses really, is - how long until we forget?

Because as much as I use emojis, and find validation and expression in the assortment of little apps on my iPhone, I don’t want to forget.

The feeling of anticipating when the tape in your cassette is about to snag. The contentment knowing you have a pencil on standby. Pulling the tape out. Reeling it back in.

Dropping off a cartridge of film, not knowing what to expect. Hopefulness. Surprise. Disappointment. Learning how to do better next time. The process.

Getting paint all over everything. Your jeans, your shoes, under your fingernails, in your hair. Not having a “clear all” button to press. The weight and significance of every stroke, angling of the wrist, how your feet were planted on the floor, even.

The clacking of a typewriter. The glorious swooshing sound of starting a new line. Deliberate and intense focus on the letters. Finding flow. You needed conviction to press those keys. Not like these.

It’s a rundown topic, this whole new digital age thing is, but I had a moment today and wanted to share. So that maybe you too can stop and notice how you are evolving, changing, and you can step on the brakes or the gas - whichever seems more appropriate.

And I’m typing my little daily everythings all here today, hoping my computerized blog won’t let me forget.

Thoughts?

✍ ♥

-s.

Jul. 7, 2012
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#Keith Haring #Brooklyn Museum #NYC #Art #Street

Keith Haring Exhibit @ The Brooklyn Museum

Sometimes posts don’t need words.

Love,

-s.

Apr. 10, 2012
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#Platform #Show #Youth #Culture #Music #Hip Hop #Fashion #Art #Street #Design #Verge #Culture #Community #Energy

The Platform Show 2012 Video to be shared by you only if:

You believe in the creative Filipino youth
You were there
You weren’t there but wish you were
You know someone that should have been there
You didn’t know what our city was about, but now you do

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!