The big gathering was held in the big venue of Megatrade Hall 3, the finest and best of all pinoy art and music talents got into a big assembly for a 3 days of art and music performance. I was there for 2 days only and I got tired already on Day 2 after attending some other events, but the event really boost up on Day 3 which I really missed it, but the good change for me is that I survived my two day attendance and will prepare more for next year in the biggest arts and music festival that I attended here in the Philippines.
day 1 and day 2
I got early in the venue and it was like I'm inside the video game Silent Hill, I was laughing because I went there during the ingress time, just to fix the booths of Glass House Graphics and DA Meat, then most of the people inside the venue are booth contractors and sounds people. The smoke already filled the entire venue and if you are familiar with Silent Hill, you will get my point hahah, I just immediately boot up my laptop and surf the web and promote the event in my last minute and invite everyone to come and celebrate with us the arts and music.
At the booth, got in touch at last with Khavn Dela Cruz, we haven't seen each other for a long time and the only time we got to talk to each other was via sms and email, and here I just heard about his .MOV 3rd Digital Film Festival and I'm very happy to know about it, because I was part of the 1st .MOV and I was there during the moment it was born for digital film making. There I just showed him my works and my winning entry of the Buhay Coke video, and wow I got a great review from an award winning film maker. Then we just discussed some parts on what I can do to boost up the 3rd .MOV
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Then after that, the opening of the festival had just started, and people are starting to come inside the festival venue as they line up outside and finishes off the festival ritual of the ribbon cutting. I got to coordinate with my people who came one by one, and then the DA Meat booth was in progress of building the designs and decor, and also for GHG went in and posted the drawings of the comic artist under their rosters.
The opening performance on stage was a blast! never seen a massive act of ethnic music, rock music, theater dance and symphonic sounds. The music was composed by Jay Virina, the festival director and he just relayed the music to the band and this is what the festival will reflect into a real Arts and Music as a festival , the music, the art and the celebration.
I just met a lot of people, and one of them are our neighboring booth which is Musik Lokal, they had placed a gaming hub in their booth and a photo op booth for artist, we played Nintendo Wii games and Playstation 3 games. Soul Caliber 4 in PS3 is the main attraction, and It was my first time to play the Darth Vader and Apprentice character in the game.
Bands played one by one, I haven't seen other bands, but the show is filled with lots of band performance minutes after minutes, hours after hours, the crowd seem to get busy, instead of clapping or cheering, they are busy taking photos and videos of the band performance, ahahah this is the new audience every music and concert events and yes... I am one of those people who are busy in taking photos.
Ulysses Veloso did sculpting lecture for all, and he discussing how you can start sculpting, and he shared by passing on some clay to the audience,and then he showed a demo sculpt of a troll creature live on stage. Many artist went there to watch the lecture as they learn more about the artistic side of sculpting from a professional sculptor. I am surprise to see that Ulysses is young and I was expecting an old artist. But from his lecture. it was a big start for the festival.
Booths becomes busy as people come inside, I just got to play this Guitar Hero 3 for the first time in my life at the Inquirer.net booth, and friends were there watching me play, as we proceed there after some Fotoloco photo snap shots, I just tried this game and played a Rage Against the Machine's Bulls on Parade song, and I got carried away playing, and since it was my first time, the Inquirer.net people were shock to see me perform using the Guitar Hero controller guitar. And because that I know the song, I just got no problem in playing and it just look like that I'm playing an ordinary guitar. Then they asked me for a challenged, they let me play this guitar hero music that runs in 20 mins. they say that many people haven't survived the whole 20 min track, so for my big challenge .. I tried it. and the keys are so crazy, I just lasted at around15 minutes, and I got lost in some part of the track, after that my hands and fingers got numb. hahahaha.
Tanduay serve a free tasting of their vodka and rhum, This it the best part of the festival, even that booze is not allowed inside,but having a free taste is the best. I love the taste of this mango shake with vodka and the cookies and cream shake with vodka, it tickels and had a few kicks, Many free drinkers got the advantage of it and most of them got drunk through out the festival ahahahaa.
Argon Laser did another nice performance, but instead of having a lot of dancers, they got 2 dancers only for the festival, but still the performance was great, the music is like from the soundtrack of the movie The Matrix and it was remixed and the laser light dances around striking to the body of t he reflected costumes of the dancers and it bounces back, the laser dancers perform this every hour of the event, and it was such a great sight.
There are a lot of bands, here are some bands that I got lucky to caught on stage.
FMD rock the event on day 1, and it was fun to see them perform with original music, their face were painted and It was like our pinoy version of the KISS, and they just got the crowd went wild when they joked about being an EMO.
Insanara played at the festival and as their semi manager for the band, I got all the coverage in video, glad that they made it on time and the nice part for them being at the festival is that they are very prepared and professional whenever they will be on stage, I'm proud of them as they got exposure from the festival and got treated as a real super star rock star.
Alamid played and everyone went on stage to watch them live. I was infront taking photos and videos, which I will upload it soon. The Alamid band from the 90's really rock the event performing their super hit songs like China Eyes and Your Love. Everyone got a nostalgic dose from the 90's band and people thought that the band died years ago, but they got a big mistake that the band is still here performing alive and kicking.. and they have now their own multiply.com site.
Urbandub was the most high energetic crowd, people aim their cameras and never seem to stop. People with Tanduay sample drinks sat infront and enjoy the heaviness of the music, I love to see them perform and I like all their music. One of the best band we have here and also they announces that they are the new endorser for JB music.
Mike Pepito performs Filipino rap lyric and poetic music, I just this guy in some music social networking site and he stated promoting it online and he got me as a semi fan of his style in rap music. Brigada in a massive performance and it was a big samba tune on stage, I was dancing in our booth as we hear them, and also people playing the PS3 game got a chance to dance too in the floor while playing hahaahha. Marco de leon of Paramita with his bassist did a Bosse sound demo with their units, he played live impromptu guitar riffs while listening to some electronic beats, Freestyle performed too for all pop music lovers and listeners, I haven't seen them for years , but I know they are well active in their gigs in some venues. Many people looked for them after the performance to have a photo op, but after that we didn't see them going to the backstage hahhaa. Also club music performed by top DJ's of Science of Sounds, their style of having a music played and a visual image showing on the screen.
Wilson Tortosa and Ernest Jocson was there on day 2 for the comics creation lecture and talk to all people who are very curious on how comics are being created, Wilson and Ernest shares some points on how creative pinoys are in the field of comics, we showed some samples on the screen and after that Wilson did a live drawing of Wolverine in manga version, he also promoted that the he now pencil the upcoming manga comics of Wolverine that will be release next year. They represent Glass house Graphics and many artists from their roster arrived later on and met with the fans and did some sketching for free. Super star artist like Carlo Pagulayan, Ariel Padilla, Wilson Tortosa, Ernest Jocson, Dan Bargonos and many others went there at the festival to join the celebration and also represent the studio that got them the comic gig. This was my last gig for GHG and now as their former web master and events organizer, I still support them since I love comics and I support our local talents.
I was surprise to see the large number of cosplayers that participated this year's festival. I'm very happy that everyone enjoyed the event and since that this is not contest and mainly a fashion show, many people loved the style of having a catwalk one by one while a live anime garage band , and original songs performed by the Ducklings. Outside the venue, it looks like that I am inside the Toy Con event, I was joking to Jay and Joann Virina in congratulating them for the success of their Toy Con ahahah, I got a photo op with "V" of V for Vendetta and it was cool to see him at the festival, there were cosplay models of Conan, Jokers, Batman, Supergirl and many anime and gaming characters who went there to support and celebrated that cosplay is a form of art. It was the biggest and successful cosplay gathering on that day. Now I got an idea what If I organize a cosplay gathering event hahahaha.
I still missed a lot of the actions of Day 3 and also the end of Day 1 and 2, but there still be next year festival and I know that it will evolve more and hopefully have a bigger venue. And I enjoy my part as for helping the event and hosting the cosplay fashion show, for the 2nd time around for my participation. I am now excited on the next year's installment.
For more information of the event, visit www.backdoorvent.multiply.com
here are photos of Day 1 and Day 2 in my album
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2nd Cosplay Fashion Art Show @ DAY 2 of the 4th Backdoor Ventures ARTS and MUSIC Festival
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and yes.. meron na yan sa susunod.
since i do this from the very start pa