One of the things I love to shoot happens to be nothingness. Literally. I love shadows, as in my eyes heavy shadows accentuates the light that remains. This set of images are just a few of my favourites from Toronto…
24/01/2009
Shadows and Light in Toronto…
Posted by alexfelipe under Toronto | Tags: light, photography, shadow, Toronto |[3] Comments
20/12/2008
Bailout: A Stupid Question
Posted by alexfelipe under Canadian Politics | Tags: bailout, big three, canada, cars, economy, financial, labour, manufacturing, politics, usa |[4] Comments
Ok I have a really stupid question about the bailouts already enacted and the expected auto bailout to come:
As I understand bad business decisions have resulted in financial institutions being unable to lend, which has resulted in corporations being unable to borrow to make up for losses resulted from their own bad decisions, which has resulted in a the loss, or threat of loss, of jobs for working people, and this has resulted in severely reduced demand for goods. The result is a vicious cycle where the latter results in the weakening of the former at each turn.
Governments have responded by feeding money, gathered from the bottom of the cycle, to the top.
My stupid question is: why don’t they just give us, the people, money instead?
16/12/2008
Fear and Loathing (Minus the Fear) in Las Vegas
Posted by alexfelipe under Travel (excluding the Philippines and Canada) | Tags: arid, desert, empty, fake, las vegas |[3] Comments
So I went to Vegas with the fam last week. As you can probably guess from my other posts, I’m not really a Vegas kind of guy. So it’s not really much of a surprise that I was not a huge fan of the place.
More than anything else, it was the falseness that bothered me. The morning I realised the ‘milk’ I was putting in my coffee (the little disposable kind given out at restaurants) wasn’t really milk but a ‘non-dairy’ chemical substitute almost did me in. (more…)
11/11/2008
Styrofoam Ones Vinyl Release Party
Posted by alexfelipe under Arts & Entertainment, Toronto | Tags: bands, beats, music, rock, styrofoam ones, Toronto |[8] Comments
Pics from the Styrofoam Ones release party at Rolly’s Garage last Saturday night. It was a mad party, with hundreds crammed into an actual mechanics garage on Ossington Ave. (more…)
03/11/2008
The Dead, River Spirits, & a Magic Hat
Posted by alexfelipe under Commentary, Filipino Community, The Philippines | Tags: culture, legend, myth, The Philippines |[3] Comments
Miarayon, Mindanao.
Filipinos don’t celebrate Halloween, they instead have a day dedicated to the dead on 1 November, the Araw ng mga Patay [Day of the Dead]. It’s a holiday that is the perfect metaphor for Philippine spirituality: an imported Catholic holiday that hints at an animist past. (more…)
28/10/2008
Oxfam publishes it’s Rapu-Rapu mining report
Posted by alexfelipe under The Philippines | Tags: australian, lafayette, mining, philippines, ra 7942 |[8] Comments
Back in November of last year I visited a mining site on Rapu-Rapu island in the Philippines owned by an Australian mining firm. Oxfam-Australia has used few of my images to illustrate their newly released site report on this tiny island’s open pit mine. (more…)
24/10/2008
The Stink of Travel
Posted by alexfelipe under Balikbayan Stories, Commentary, World | Tags: backpacking, farmers, indonesia, java, peasants, semarang, travel, travellers, treeplanting, western privilege, yogyakarta |1 Comment
*** This is another old piece of writing from my big Asia wander way back in 2001-2003. I was working as an ESL school in Yogya, Indonesia at the time I wrote this. I was a kid just out of school looking for something that I couldn’t properly articulate, and thus couldn’t grasp. It was on this 2.5 year wander that I eventually picked up a camera for the first time.***
Monday 17 December, 2002
The girl who sat next to me on the bus to Semarang had the aura of one that worked in the fields of Java. It was not the way she dressed, nor anything else she carried that gave me that impression. It was her smell. (more…)
13/10/2008
I Am Not Voting For Stephen Harper
Posted by alexfelipe under Canadian Politics, Commentary, Toronto | Tags: canada, conservative party, federal elections, liberal party, new democratic party, strategic voting |Leave a Comment
I am not voting for Stephen Harper. I am writing this for those of you that are still considering the possibility. I am also writing this for those that are considering strategic voting in this election, but more on that later. (more…)
08/10/2008
The Children’s Rehabilitation Center (Philippines)
Posted by alexfelipe under The Philippines | Tags: children's rights, crc, human rights, karapatan, manila, mindanao, philippines, prison, war |[6] Comments
I did some work with an NGO called the Children’s Rehabilitation Center (CRC) on my last visit to the Philippines in Oct 2007 to January 2008. The CRC works with children who are victims of state violence. This set of ten images will try to tell just a small part of their current story. (more…)
25/11/2008
My Mining Photos in This Magazine (Nov/Dec’08)
Posted by alexfelipe under The Philippines | Tags: ancestral domain, barrick gold, business, Commentary, commodities, economy, gold, indigenous, marcopper, mining, mnc's, multi-national corporations, placer dome, ra 7942, subanon, toronto ventures incorporated, tvi pacific |[6] Comments
Check out the Nov/Dec 2008 issue of This Magazine for my photos and article about two Canadian mining sites in the Philippines. The vid above was produced by This using a few of my images and narration. (more…)