The Philippine Kite Aerial Photography Project of Gerome Soriano

My good friend Gerome Soriano has this one of a kind awesome photography project. His goal is to travel the Philippines and photograph it in a rather interesting style. Kite Aerial style. It all started with a video about kite aerial photography done in America which he showed me a couple of years ago and he eventually did it for his thesis paper.  Fast-forward to February of 2012 he defended his paper to a panel of jurors and they were impressed with his work that they gave him a outstanding thesis award.

I have been a witness to my friend's hard work while he was building his camera rig. There were dead ends but despite all the hurdles he has manage to conquer them all and get to the top. Right now he is probably the only one or maybe one of the few kite aerial photographers in the Philippines.

As I've said his goal now is to travel the country but he needs our help. If you are interested to support his project hit the jump.

One Kickass Music Video filled with Happy Fans and Still Images

Let's start this week with something completely awesome. 

Imagine yourself making a music video but then you think its too bland for your taste so what you did is you printed all the stills of that video and handed it strangers in a pub and photograph them while holding that still then you merge it into one awesome stop-motion video. Add the music, vintage color tones and post it on youtube.

Cool? Yeah, this is what you'll get:

According to Animalnewyork.com: J. Views or Jonathan Dagan made this special music video to interact with his fans (the strangers holding the stills) while doing a tour in Israel and what makes this one really awesome is that the fans can tag themselves in. Now, that is what I call quality "fan service".

Photography Inspiration: David LaChapelle

If Salvador Dali had a son and did photography the obvious result would probably David LaChapelle in my opinion. Known for his surrealist style, he is considered as one of the most revered photographers in this era. Scroll down and see for yourself.

Shameless

Rape of Africa

Self Portrait for Dazed & Confused: Satyr

Would Be Martyr and 72 Virgins

Berlin Stories

Archangel Michael: And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer

More of David LaChapelle's works here.

Photography Inspiration: Li Wei

We are going to get crazy this time, today I am featuring Li Wei a contemporary artist from Beijing, China whose work will definitely amaze you. He creates gravity defying images not with photo montages but with people who can do acrobatics, add some safety harness and cleaning it up with Adobe Photoshop. 

Red Ribbon

Air Games

Live at the high place 5

Balloons 2

We in 2011.11.10”

Check out his other stuff