The Mike Abundo Effect » Photos http://mikeabundo.com Mike Abundo on tech and media. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:22:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ph/ YouTube Live Tokyo Photos http://mikeabundo.com/2008/11/25/youtube-live-tokyo-photos/ http://mikeabundo.com/2008/11/25/youtube-live-tokyo-photos/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:45:48 +0000 Mike Abundo http://mikeabundo.com/?p=3909

YouTube Live Tokyo failed as a live broadcast, but it certainly succeeded as a party for over 2,000 people in the live audience. Reader Alex Lopez sent in these photos from the concert. Korean singer BoA Kwon headlined YouTube Live Tokyo, but Japanese rapper Kreva brought the house down for the last act. Otaku culture blogger Danny Choo also livened up the proceedings by dancing around the area in his famous Imperial Stormtrooper costume.

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]]> http://mikeabundo.com/2008/11/25/youtube-live-tokyo-photos/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ph/ Happy 20th Birthday, Tricia! http://mikeabundo.com/2008/11/24/happy-20th-birthday-tricia/ http://mikeabundo.com/2008/11/24/happy-20th-birthday-tricia/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:30:17 +0000 Mike Abundo http://mikeabundo.com/?p=3884

For years, this young avant-garde artist has shared her talent with the world through Creative Commons. Now that she’s more actively employing the advanced photo-sharing capabilities of Flickr, her work flies even higher in a widgetized world. Happy 20th birthday to Filipina photographer and model Tricia Gosingtian.

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]]> http://mikeabundo.com/2008/11/24/happy-20th-birthday-tricia/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ph/ Ragnarok Valkyrie at Level Up Live http://mikeabundo.com/2008/10/21/ragnarok-valkyrie-at-level-up-live/ http://mikeabundo.com/2008/10/21/ragnarok-valkyrie-at-level-up-live/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:34:00 +0000 Mike Abundo http://mikeabundo.com/?p=2845 Ragnarok Valkyrie at Level Up Live

Filipina cosplayer Jerry Polence wore her Ragnarok Online Valkyrie Angel costume to Level Up Live 2008. Apparently, a lot of Ragnarok players there wanted to transcend.

Ragnarok Valkyrie at Level Up Live

Photo op tip for cosplayers: bring a huge weapon. People love to hold it.

Ragnarok Valkyrie at Level Up Live

Ragnarok Valkyrie at Level Up Live

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]]> http://mikeabundo.com/2008/10/21/ragnarok-valkyrie-at-level-up-live/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ph/ Tokyo Game Show 2008 Photo Group on Flickr http://mikeabundo.com/2008/10/13/tokyo-game-show-2008-photo-group-on-flickr/ http://mikeabundo.com/2008/10/13/tokyo-game-show-2008-photo-group-on-flickr/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:44:20 +0000 Mike Abundo http://mikeabundo.com/?p=2473

Don’t you just love how Flickr enables rapid photo aggregation? The day after Tokyo Game Show 2008, photographer M. Julien Leblond puts together a Flickr group for photos from the event. From booths to babes to cosplayers, they’ve got enough eye candy to make any gamer wish he spent his weekend in Chiba.

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]]> http://mikeabundo.com/2008/10/13/tokyo-game-show-2008-photo-group-on-flickr/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ph/ iPhone Girl Should Be Chinese Ellen Feiss http://mikeabundo.com/2008/08/21/iphone-girl-should-be-chinese-ellen-feiss/ http://mikeabundo.com/2008/08/21/iphone-girl-should-be-chinese-ellen-feiss/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:12:12 +0000 Mike Abundo http://mikeabundo.com/?p=1576 iPhone Chinese Girl

Between Chinese labor practices and Steve Jobs’ perfectionist whitewashing, this girl will probably lose her job. Let’s help her out and give her fifteen megabytes of fame. A new iPhone shipped to the UK comes with adorable photos of the Chinese girl who made it.

If Apple PR is smart, they’ll spin this into a humanizing positive — sort of a Chinese Ellen Feiss. Unfortunately, Apple PR isn’t very smart.

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]]> http://mikeabundo.com/2008/08/21/iphone-girl-should-be-chinese-ellen-feiss/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ph/ Me at M3Con http://mikeabundo.com/2008/06/02/me-at-m3con/ http://mikeabundo.com/2008/06/02/me-at-m3con/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:06:02 +0000 Mike Abundo http://mikeabundo.com/?p=1209 Mike Abundo at M3Con 2008

Thanks to RJ Rivera for his awesome shot of me at M3Con 2008. I’m putting it in my blog sidebar. iBlog FTW.

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]]> http://mikeabundo.com/2008/06/02/me-at-m3con/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ph/ You’re Welcome, Alodia http://mikeabundo.com/2008/06/01/youre-welcome-alodia/ http://mikeabundo.com/2008/06/01/youre-welcome-alodia/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 18:00:22 +0000 Mike Abundo http://mikeabundo.com/?p=1203 Alodia as a Doll

I bought a print of this photo from Filipina cosplayer Alodia Gosiengfiao at M3Con 2008. She signed it with this message:

Hi Mike, Thanks for the support through your blogs! -Alodia

You’re welcome, Edj. You’ve earned every post.

(Photo by Tricia Gosingtian. BY-NC-ND.)

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]]> http://mikeabundo.com/2008/06/01/youre-welcome-alodia/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ph/ Filipina Cosplayer as Motoko Kusanagi http://mikeabundo.com/2008/05/27/filipina-cosplayer-as-motoko-kusanagi/ http://mikeabundo.com/2008/05/27/filipina-cosplayer-as-motoko-kusanagi/#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 14:11:45 +0000 Mike Abundo http://mikeabundo.com/?p=1200 Motoko Kusanagi Cosplay

Samsung’s upcoming 256GB solid state drive is cool, but so is Filipina cosplayer Fatima Camiloza as Ghost in the Shell’s Motoko Kusanagi in her hard drive suit at Fanime.

Fatima seems to have a knack for timely cosplays. She previously cosplayed Street Fighter II’s Chun Li on the character’s 40th birthday.

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]]> http://mikeabundo.com/2008/05/27/filipina-cosplayer-as-motoko-kusanagi/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ph/ Alodia in the News http://mikeabundo.com/2008/05/18/alodia-in-the-news/ http://mikeabundo.com/2008/05/18/alodia-in-the-news/#comments Sun, 18 May 2008 04:03:08 +0000 Mike Abundo http://mikeabundo.com/?p=1181 Alodia Gosiengfiao

Nevermind that Filipina blogger Alodia Gosiengfiao is pretty in this picture, or that the composition provides a visual metaphor for her newsworthiness as a Filipina otaku queen and a case study in personal online branding. That’s not what I found remarkable about this picture.

What I found remarkable is that she posted it under a Creative Commons license. For all you fanboys out there, that means you are explicitly free to repost this picture as long as you follow a specific set of rules recognized by Philippine law. Before this, she always released content under old-fashioned permission-based copyright.

In an interview last week, the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Alex Villafania asked for my opinion of Alodia as a blogger. If she keeps embracing digital abundance this way, that opinion just might go up a notch.

(Photo by Tricia Gosingtian via Alodia. BY-NC-ND.)

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]]> http://mikeabundo.com/2008/05/18/alodia-in-the-news/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ph/ Filipina Photographer Featured in Taiwanese Magazine http://mikeabundo.com/2008/05/08/filipina-photographer-featured-in-taiwanese-magazine/ http://mikeabundo.com/2008/05/08/filipina-photographer-featured-in-taiwanese-magazine/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 20:14:38 +0000 Mike Abundo http://mikeabundo.com/?p=1169 Tricia Gosingtian

Good things happen when you share your creativity with the world. Congratulations to Filipina photographer Tricia Gosingtian on being featured in Idea Photos magazine in Taiwan.

(Photo by Regina Belmonte. BY-NC-ND.)

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