"Garbage-to-wear" by Gunnar Hämmerle



Gunnar's inspiration



What is your name? Gunnar Hämmerle.

Where and what did you study and when did you graduate? I studied business management at LMU Munich and graduated 1998. After that, I went to film school HFF, also in Munich. There, I graduated 2003.

How did your experience with blogging started? Why a blog? I started blogging by the end of 2006. First, it was just a fun project. I wanted to take pictures of people and a street style blog gave me a good reason to do so. I love the idea of blogging because it is such a great way to share your work with the whole world. And it doesn't cost anything to start... except your ideas and time.

Where does your inspiration come from? From here and now. I love to be thrown in a situation and then work with it. My approach is rather spontaneous than conceptual.



Gunnar's inspiration



Do you have a favorite designer or artist? No, I don't. Either some creation triggers me somehow or it doesn't. It's not a matter of who created it.

What can you bring to FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2011? To be honest: I don't know yet. Hopefully, something inspiring, something that people do not forget immediately after having seen it.

Gunnar's inspiration



What is the concept of your work (for the CLASH project)? I want to create a look out of things that people don't want to have any more. Garbage-to-wear. Fashion in large parts is a throw-away-industry. I don't like that. So I will try to turn it upside down: from the trash bin to the catwalk.

What do you expect from FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2011? A fun event with nice and creative people.

What are your ambitions? Where do you see yourself in the future? I am more a sort of a drifter, do not think about the future too much. I want to continue doing things I love, the rest will be fine then.

Edited by Natalia Serwanska

My Flickr account will expire on April 20 - arghhh

I just received a note from Flickr that my pro account will expire this April 20, I’m so sad that my pro account will end after a year of fun in uploading too many photos for my blog and for everyone. But I have a choice to purchase and extend the pro account. Thanks to Chuvaness.com for the pro gift of my one year pro account here in Flickr. So its up to me if I can continue another year. And my answer is…

Yes! I’ll extend the pro account, but the problem is that I already encashed my Paypal money and I didn’t know that they are now accepting paypal payments, I remember last year that they don’t accept yet for paypal payments, but today, they allow it. Problem is that, I want to extend my Pro account, but the paypal money that I will use for this account is already processed by the bank to be converted into a real money.. arghhhh now I have to wait for another month to generate more paypal money for another service subscription to Flickr.

I love Flickr!
They host all photos in my blog and I don’t encounter yet any problem with them. I love the pro account because they give unlimited bandwidth for your photo host and unlimited photo uploads. On previous post in my blog, I used my Windows Live Writer to post a content in my blog, some photos are hosted at Picassa, but now I discovered that there’s a Flickr2Writer plug in, and you can post photos and the entire album using the plugin for your Windows Live Writer. Blogging and posting my photo coverage is much more easier,compare to copying the html codes one by one of each photos that I uploaded. Its a great combination in blogging – Blogspot and Flickr.

Here’s a reminder from Flickr about my account

Ohh! I saw this in my account…so if anyone of you wants to donate..heheheh just inform me :)


Here’s the rate of a one year pro account

Here’s a comparison for Pro and Free account.

And I love the Pro Account because they have this statistic report that will show in your front page of Flickr, and it displays how many pics you have, the number of views and number of comments activity.

And wow! I have 17,013 photos!!! and I just checked that my profile views got an average impression of 900 views per day.. wow!!!!! I just hope that I can monetize in my Flickr ahhhaahahh.

If you want to have a free account, just log in using your Yahoo! ID and visit - http://www.flickr.com/

add me and check my profile here at http://www.flickr.com/photos/popazrael/

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Azrael's Merryland blog included in Top 100 most popular blogs in the Philippines

Cool news that I found over in my Facebook network, the blogger behind Pinoymoneytalk listed the Top 100 most popular blogs in the Philippines for year 2010, List was based on website traffic, Alexa ranks, unique visitors, page views and user rate. It's an awesome discovery that someone took a time to collect and list everyone on the board.  The post and list was created this March 23, 2011.

My blog, Azrael's Merryland is on top 30, sitting pretty between TechPinas.com and Coolbuster.net


awesome!!! thanks so much!! and also to my blog readers for the awesome traffic
keep on coming back here! only to the Philippines' premiere pop culture, entertainment and lifestyle blog!

I find it weird on how did I made it on the top 30. hmm.

You are invited to attend BLOGGERS FEST on April 16, 2011

Full details are finally up!!
yes!!! you are invited!


What: Blogger Fest 2011
When: April 16, 2011 (Saturday)
Where: Event Center, Thunderbird Resorts Rizal in Binangonan, Rizal
Time: 11am-6pm

Bus transportation pick up : 9am (venue TBA)
Target attendees : 200 Bloggers

attire: smart casual

FREE ENTRANCE

Feel free to spread the word and help us invite everyone!
reblog! retweet! replurk! Facebook like! this event info

see you there!!

Cebu Bloggers Society and Partners Announce World Bloggers’ Day 2011

sharing now a good news from our friends in Cebu...
and Manila Bloggers Network just joined another world bloggers event
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Cebu, Philippines, March 11, 2011—Cebu Bloggers Society, Inc. (CBSi), along with its local and international partners, announces World Bloggers’ Day 2011 to be held in Cebu, Philippines, on May 2011.

Blogging has indeed become more than just an electronic platform of expression. It is now used for business marketing and self-promotion and for personal and social causes. It has also linked like-minded individuals in different parts of the world and has been identified as an effective tool in online media.

To celebrate the friendship and to foster unity as well as professional and personal relationships, CBSi is inviting every blogger to participate in the upcoming World Bloggers’ Day 2011, with the theme: “World Bloggers’ Day 2011: The Roles of Bloggers.”

The affair will offer participants plenty of online activities, including interactions among local and international partners, a series of lectures and discussions, live blogging, and loads of fun and entertainment.

CBSi initiated World Bloggers’ Day as a way of gathering all bloggers in all corners of the globe. The first World Bloggers’ Day happened last May 2, 2010, in Parkmall Cebu.

Initially participated by Cebu-based bloggers, the event has already attained wider recognition and has gained the interest and partnership of various blog-based organizations, both here and abroad. Through their leaders, CBSi has obtained the participation confirmation of the following:

● Sydney Bloggers Festival Glen Frost

● Greek Bloggers Maria Kotsari

● Pakistani Pro Bloggers Mohammad Khan

● Iligan Bloggers Lovette Jam Prada Jacosalem

● South African Bloggers Muhammad Karim

● Manila Bloggers Azrael Coladilla

● Singapore Bloggers Tom of Singapore Stories

● New York Bloggers Michael Bouldin

● Dubai Bloggers Ion Gonzaga

● Lahore - Pakistan Bloggers Rohan David Emmanuel

World Bloggers’ Day aims to unite the world through blogs and bloggers.

For more details about the upcoming event, particularly about how to join, send your e-mail to cbsicorporate@gmail.com.

About the Society
Cebu Bloggers Society, Inc. is a non-stock, non-profit organization. It is the first blogging society in the country that is registered in the Securities and Exchange Commission. Composed of more than 60 members, CBSi aims to promote the province through the use of new media such as blogging and social networking. It also desires to develop its members to be value-driven, productive nation builders by utilizing online media to reach out communities, locally and internationally.

Links
http://www.facebook.com/worldbloggersday

Get ready for another upgrade from Blogger.com

If you are using Blogger.com or Blogspot in your blogs, then you should read this post and check out the new update and also upgrade by Blogger.com, the news came out few days ago at the SXSW event in Austin, USA. The short preview of their new UI will drive more people to stick to Blogger.com and for me... I'll stick to Blogger.com.

Right now I just transferred one of my WP blog into Blogger, because Blogger is much more easy to manage and user friendly. Last year, Blogger offered us some new upgrades like the new content editor, preview post viewer, the real time blog stats, spam comments filtering, the web fonts , mobile blog templates and a nice template editor.

So let's stop the talkies and see the awesome new updates from Blogger.com


The new blog compose editor


the updated Blogger dashboard

This one is interesting - a Navigation bar that features tool button for related post and media also called a "smart content discovery feature", were you can see a short cut links of other post related on what you are reading on another blog site.


Watch this video and see the new upgrades in action, also you can find out here that Blogger becomes more successful and bigger last year 2010, now having 250 million readers every day.

yay! Blogger!

for more, check the news at Blogger Buzz

new blog template is here!

I like to announce that I changed already the blog template and layout of my blog. It al started at around after lunch, my stomach is in pain and it went upside down after eating some sea shells for lunch here at home. To take the pain away, must fool myself for being busy and never think about the pain in my tummy, its the time also to be busy and update my blog even that everyone is having a big rumble about that proposed National Bloggers Association of the Philippines.

This was my 3rd template for this day, been experimenting some layout and trying to make my dear readers enjoy more reading my blog and experience a great UI usability.

Just tell me if you like it or hate it.
I'll change it and find a much better blog layout.

The Most Popular Asian Bloggers

I'm surprised that I'm on top 14 for the most popular Asian bloggers and top 3 for Philippines. I' m a member of Rice Bowl Journal since 2003, and I've met lot of bloggers during those years, and that's online meet up only hahaha. The list of Rice Bowl Journals is based on the blogs' Alexa rankings,and my Alexa just updated and my Alexa rank increased 1k more. It's cute and fun to see my blog sitting beside ToysREvil's blog. The Alexa rank posted in Rice Bowl Journal is not updated, my blog is ranked now at 223k, but here it says I'm still at 224k.

more news below

check the list here at http://ricebowljournals.com/thelist/

here's my screen shot today