My brother, at an exhibit around Art East Island.

Me & Jeff Koons.

I’ve been going around Hong Kong, so I haven’t had a real chance to sit down and write about the art fair. The last day was yesterday, but I only went for one day. In case you weren’t following my Twitter feed, here are some photos I took while going around the fair.

Nedko Sokolav.

Tracy Emin.

Peter Liversidge. Favorite new discovery. He has a swell series of proposals that I will post about later.

Robert Rauschenberg! Old favorite, but I saw an oriental series that I never saw before.

Peter Blake’s “Homage to Joseph Cornell.” I love Joseph Cornell. His works inspired the anthology that Jonathan Safran Foer edited, A Convergence of Birds.

Andy Warhol’s photo of Jean-Michel Basquiat. So many inner explosions after seeing this little ID picture.

Alexander Calder’s “Fleur Jaune.” The first photo I took was cropped, and I looked over at the title and looked for the yellow flower. :)

Yoshimoto Nara. The fair had an interesting variety of Nara’s work, from full-size paintings, to rough sketches and pencil drawings. It was a nice change from seeing just the work that I am familiar with.

Mariano Ching.

Dina Gadia. I am in love with her collage work.

Jose Santos III.

Fiona Banner’s “The Greatest Film Never Made.” Made me laugh.

Louie Cordero.

Roberto Chabet.

Ricky Powell’s photograph of Basquiat and Warhol in NYC.

Keith Haring.

And finally, my work! For Zoe’s pop-up space for Lightbombs Contemporary over at Art East Island.

I’ll post about it soon, but Trickie Lopa has already posted about her findings in these three posts:

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3

Lomography X-Pro Chrome 100.

We waited and waited and waited for the plane to get to where we were. It rained in between. I was particularly antsy and worried because Zest Air is notorious for delays and flight cancelations. True enough, our flight was delayed for about an hour. We walked around the area, which isn’t much to walk around, but we were bored. I had some breathing problems, for some reason, but I couldn’t just sit there and wait.

More Airport madness, clickety!

On the last day, all of us (sans my brother) woke up extra early to walk the 299 steps up the hill to catch the sunrise. 299 steps doesn’t sound like much, but I was winded about two-thirds up.

Kodak Portra 400NC.

It was getting light, but it was brilliant when the sun finally peeked out. Lomography X-Pro Chrome 100.

The rest of the photos and leaving the island.

Kodak Portra 400NC.

Bellarocca, for its lack of a nice beach to lounge on (there is a narrow strip of rocky sand surrounding the perimeter of the island), compensates with two nice pools. Although not really sizeable, I think they’re enough for the number of occupants they get at a time. When we went, at least. There was probably only 1/3 of the 79-person capacity when we were there.

The lap pool is sandwiched between two rows of hotel rooms. Other people can opt to stay in villas, which reportedly have their own plungepools. There is a view of the mountains, and the water was a comfortable temperature.

All day, swim day!

My sister & me on the airport ramp. Fuji Reala 100, cam ASA set to 400 by mistake.

This vacation was planned a long time ago by my awesome mom! We didn’t even know where Marinduque was (now we do), but we were excited because I’ve been hearing a lot about Bellarocca, a resort and spa on an island in Southern Luzon.

BellaRocca, in words and photographs

I was gifted with an Olympus Pen EE and, along with my Sprocket Rocket and LC-A+, it came with me on a recent trip to Buenavista, Marinduque, home to the (pretty) famed Bellarocca Resort and Spa. We were there for three days and actually left right before the Moriones Festival. Without saying much, here is a post with mostly photographs. As I mentioned, these were taken with an Olympus Pen EE—great mileage in terms of film—loaded with Kodak Kodacolor 200.

There wasn’t much of a beach to speak of so the main point of that getaway was for rest and relaxation. We swam all day or napped or slept for real. The beds were so soft, I didn’t want to leave.

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