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New Philippine Tourism Video is a Remake But a Good One

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Don’t get me wrong. It’s always awesome to promote your country of origin, especially doing so without expecting compensation in return. That’s exactly how these celebrities from the Philippines performed on the video. It is a remake of the old one created by the Department of Tourism but this time featuring new artists.

Is this better than the original one? What do you think?

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Written by Raffy Pekson II

August 13, 2011 at 7:00 am

Disney movie UP created by Fil-Ams

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Among the Best Picture awards nominated this year is Disney Pixar’s tenth full-length computer animated film UP. The critically-acclaimed blockbuster movie grossed more than $720 million worldwide and has been hailed as one of Disney’s best-animated movies.

Fil-Am animators Ronnie del Carmen and Ricky Nierva are part of the Academy Award-nominated Pixar team.

Del Carmen served as the Oscar nominated movie UP’s storyboard supervisor and Nierva led the production design team.

Read more at Asian Journal

Written by Raffy Pekson II

February 22, 2010 at 10:06 pm

Free New Moon Tickets for Nov 19 Screening

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See poster below for details.

Source: National Bookstore and SM.

Written by Raffy Pekson II

November 16, 2009 at 3:26 pm

The Classic Palmolive TV Ad That Created Alice Dixon

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I just couldn’t help but post this YouTube video. For the 80′s people, this not only created the career of Alice Dixon but generated that shoulder-circling, kikay-like, “I can feel it!” craze!

Written by Raffy Pekson II

October 7, 2009 at 4:23 pm

Over-population in the Philippines

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Written by Raffy Pekson II

September 12, 2009 at 8:32 pm