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I was astounded when I saw this animation at Youtube. At first I thought it was created by some amateur whiz artist who wanted to use youtube as a conduit for his pieces. Turns out the animation is created by Lev Yilmaz, a short film auteur who narrates his life using no-budget animated stick figures.

Lev's protagonist reminds me of Woody Allen - a modern insecure male - self-conscious and complex-ridden. His animations are narrated in a mature self-deprecating down-to-earth tone.
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{photo by Bryan Veloso}

At last! No more redundant tiled photo background, blinking text, and auto-playing background music. With the exception of Friendster, Myspace blogs, the majority of sore-eye pinoy blogs of the past are but now a minority. Thanks to the ever-evolving Content Management System (CMS), Filipino blog designs everywhere never looked so good.

The gallery below showcase the most awesome Filipino Blog Designs for 2006. It exemplies why in the hands of a talented pinoy designer, any blog can appeal to the eye, be eminently usable, and can also creatively throw the rulebook out of the window.
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If I didn't know it already, I wouldn't discern that the gallery below is made up of drawings. Yes! They are NOT photographs. Vector drawings using gradient mesh to be specific. Except for Bert Monroy, all of the vector art displayed here are 100% made from Adobe Illustrator.

Whether for challenge, or for pushing the boundaries of what the Illustrator can do, or just for the sheer pleasure of creating, these brilliant artists have dazzled, wowed, and amazed me with the pyrotechnic showcasing of their technical mastery.