Wednesday, April 28, 2010

A May Bridal Fair

Boys and gals! Do check this out if you are planning your wedding.

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Also, check out these cool promos from the organizers:

Onsite Booker Raffle
For every 500pesos of accumulated receipts at Before I Do Bridal fair entitles the onsite booker to 1 raffle coupon for a chance to win a 3day 2night stay at Pearl Farm Beach Resort! The more they book, the more chances of winning! Pre-register ongoing at http://mybridalfair.com/component/option,com_comprofiler/task,registers/ to enter for FREE!

Best Prenup Photo Contest
Let us know which one is your favorite and you could win a surprise gift from us. Also, the winning couple gets to win a 3D / 2N Stay at 7Stones Boracay Suite from VRC Creative Events and it's all up to you! You simply have to vote online for your choice.

Online voting started on April 22 and ends on May 12, 2010. Top 5 Entries will be displayed on May 15 & 16, 2010 at Before I Do Bridal Fair 7th Edition for onsite voting.


Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Lord Krishna

Lord Krishna
Lord Krishna - Photoshop ArtHare Krishna Hare Krishna

Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama Hare Hare

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

The best approach is to let the film make itself, to let it grow organically, day by day. To find the rhythm of the director. To match a script to its space. To gain the confidence of the actors. To regulate the mood (good or bad) of the cast and crew.
~ Wong Kar-wai

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
~ Henri Cartier Bresson

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
~ Benny Green

Monday, April 26, 2010

Wedding Set Up

The wedding reception set up is one of the most detail oriented part of the wedding. You have to decide a lot of things: what centerpiece to you, kind of flowers to order, kind of table numbers to be printed etc etc. The list of things to decide upon could go on and on. So to make things a little easier for bride-to-bes and groom-to-bes, we are featuring here wedding reception set up designs that you could pattern yours to. Enjoy!

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Indian Cotton Salwar Kameez

Indian Cotton Salwar Kameez
Indian Model posing in Printed Cotton Salwar Kameez.

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

Music, when soft voices die
Vibrates in the memory.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
~ Pablo Picasso

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
~ Vincent van Gogh

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
~ William Faulkner

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Real Life Engagement: Tommee and Suyen

Hi, guys! Sorry or being away for sooooo long. Giving birth can really zap your energy and caring for our little bundle of joy really takes a lot of my time that I had no choice but to take a haitus for a few weeks (months?). Anyway, I am back and I promise to post again daily to help out grooms and brides to be out there to prepare for their big day. So for my come back post, I present this cute prenup from dear Sis Suyen and now hubby Tommee.

Photographer: Jomel Gregorio
Locations: Greenbelt 3 Cinema, Bonifacio High Street and Rooftop of One Tagaytay
Theme: Superhero

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Aamir Khan Biography

Aamir Khan Biography
Aamir Khan BiographyAamir Khan Biography: Aamir Khan, with his penchant for perfection and professionalism, is one of the few method actors in Bollywood, who has taken acting to a whole new level. An actor, director, producer, playback singer, a state tennis champion, and mentor to his nephew – he’s all that and more.

A Step Back In Time
Aamir Khan celebrates his birthday on 14th March. He was born on 1965 in Mumbai to Tahir and Zeenat Hussain. He has three siblings Faisal, Farhat, and Nikhat. The film industry was part of his life growing up as many members of his family were a part of it like his father, his late uncle Nasir Hussain, and his cousin Mansoor Khan. It was Mansoor Khan’s Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak that brought him success.

Aamir’s family roots can be traced back to Afghanistan. He is said to be a descendant of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad who was a scholar and political leader and Dr.Zakir Hussain, the former President of India. Dr.Najma Heptullah, who was a Chairperson in the Rajya Sabha is his second cousin.

Even as his first hit Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak made him an overnight heartthrob across the country, he married his sweetheart Reena Dutta secretly as their parents opposed the marriage. She even made a blink-and-you-will-miss appearance in his song Papa Kehte Hai in Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. They have two children Junaid and Ira. The couple filed for divorce in 2002. Soon after, in 2005 he married Kiran Rao, who was an assistant director on the sets of Lagaan.

Aamir was honoured with the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India in 2003. He turned down the offer to replicate him in wax by Madame Tussaud’s. He was also a tennis champion representing the state of Maharashtra.

Trailblazing Years
Nasir Hussian’s Yaadon Ki Baarat, one of the hits in 1973, had Aamir playing Ratan in his younger days.

The Eighties
He made his debut in Ketan Mehta’s Holi in 1984. The film also had Ashutosh Gowariker as part of its cast, who was a friend of Aamir and later went on to direct the award winning Lagaan. But it was in 1988, with the release of Mansoor Khan’s Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, loosely adapted from Romeo and Juliet, which brought Aamir into the limelight. The film was a big favourite among film-goers and Aamir won the Filmfare Best Debut Actor Award. He received several nominations for the Filmfare Best Actor Award until he finally nailed it in 1996. In 1989, he had two releases. Raakh was a non-commercial film and his performance as Aamir Hussein was recognized. The second film was Love, Love, Love another teen love story with Juhi Chawla.

The Nineties
The 1990 release Dil with Madhuri Dixit made a big splash on the film scene. In 1991, in the remake of It Happened One Night, Mahesh Bhatt’s Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin, he played Raghu Jetley, an out of work journalist, who comes across Pooja Dharamchand, a spoilt brat played by Pooja Bhatt. The film was a big success. In 1992, he had another hit with Mansoor Khan’s Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander.

Aamir continued to work in one or two films a year, a majority of which became unforgettable hits. Mahesh Bhatt’s Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ki in 1993 paired him with Juhi Chawla, and did extremely well. In 1994, he shared screen space with another Big Khan of Bollywood, Salman Khan, in Andaz Apna Apna, which was lighthearted and fun. Ram Gopal Verma’s Rangeela in 1995, gave him a new look as Munna. It turned out to be a blockbuster. The same year he had another hit in, Akele Hum Akele Tum, with Manisha Koirala. His role as Rohit Kumar, a failed playback singer and single father, was well-received.

In 1996, he won the Filmfare Best Actor Award for Raja Hindustani, a love story between a taxi driver and an heiress. The film won several awards. He acted in Ishq, a romantic comedy and a multi starrer, which enjoyed good reception in 1997. Ghulam, in 1998, had Aamir singing ‘Aati Kya Khandaala’ to Rani Mukherji. His two films – John Mathew Mathan’s Sarfarosh and Deepa Mehta’s Earth 1947 – were critical and commercial successes. He played IPS officer Ajay Singh Rathod intent on fighting terrorism in Sarfarosh. In Earth 1947, he played Dil, the ice-candy man, caught in a love triangle. It was set during the partition of India and Pakistan and the resulting bloodshed.

2000 Onwards Aamir’s only release in 2000 was Mela with his brother Faisal Khan. The film did not do well at the box office.

In 2001, he produced and starred as Bhuvan, a villager in British occupied India, in Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan. He won the Filmfare Best Actor Award. The film was India’s entry to the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards. However it lost to No Man’s Land. His other hit the same year was in complete contrast to Bhuvan. He played the suave and urban Akash Malhotra in Dil Chahta Hai, a fresh look at friendship between three men.

After taking a break from films for nearly four years, he returned in 2005, with Mangal Pandey – The Rising. The film’s performance was average and got caught up in controversies about how accurately or inaccurately the Sepoy was shown on screen. In the 2006 release, Rang De Basanti, he played a laidback DJ who tries to take justice in his hands. In Fanaa with Kajol, he played Rehan Khan, a terrorist. His performance in Rang De Basanti won him a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance. He made his debut as a director with Taare Zameen Par in 2007. He also produced and acted in this film about a dyslexic. It was a critical and commercial success in India and overseas. In the early part of 2008, he launched his nephew Imran Khan in Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na. Aamir produced the film along with his cousin Mansoor and it went on to be a major hit.

Christmas 2008 saw the release of the much talked about Ghajini, a remake of the Tamil film by the same name. Aamir played Sanjay Singhania, who suffers from short term memory loss and his quest for revenge. The movie was a high earner which broke previous industry records. His 2009 release, Three Idiots, was based on Chetan Bhagat’s popular novel Five Point Someone. It starred Kareena Kapoor, Madhavan, and Sharman Joshi. The movie received a thumbs up from the public and critics.

Up Next
He is producing Delhi Belly which has Imran Khan in the lead. Aamir will be seen in a brief appearance, mostly in an ‘item’ number.

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Designer Work Sari

Designer Work SariPhotoshop art of a lady posing in Designer Work Sari

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
~ Twyla Tharp

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
~ Edward Steichen

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
~ Henri Cartier Bresson

Never really went in for that kind of filmmaking about love. I think love...
~ Joe Pesci

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Indian Model posing in Printed Designer Sari

Indian Model posing in Printed Designer SariIndian Model posing in Beautiful Printed Designer Sari

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
~ Pablo Picasso

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
~ Pablo Picasso

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
~ Edgar Degas

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
~ Robert Altman

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
~ Leonard Bernstein

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Photoshop Glowing Edges Art

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FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~ Scott Adams

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
~ John Ford

What passion cannot music raise and quell!
~ John Dryden

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Printed Cotton Churidar

Printed Cotton ChuridarIndian Model Posing in Fancy Printed Cotton Churidar.

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his work will unlikely be perceived entirely as he intended.
~ Martin Dansky

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
~ Aaron Copland

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~ William Shakespeare

Actor Abhishek Bachchan Biography

Actor Abhishek Bachchan Biography
Actor Abhishek Bachchan BiographyAbhishek Bachchan Biography: Abhishek Bachchan, the anything but angry young man, came out of the shadows as Amitabh Bachchan’s son to build a success story in Bollywood.

His father’s son
He was born as Abhishek Amitabh Srivastav on 5 Feb 1976 in Mumbai. What set him apart from other babies born on that day was that he was the son of superstar extraordinaire Amitabh Bachchan and actress Jaya Bachchan of the Guddi fame, who is currently a Samajwadi MP at the Rajya Sabha. He has an older sister Shweta. He’s also the grandson of Harivansh Rai Srivastav (pen-name Harivansh Rai Bachchan) who was an acclaimed poet. Both Abhishek and Amitabh took on the ‘Bachchan’ from this pen-name. Abhishek is partly Punjabi Sikh on his paternal side and a Bengali Kulin Brahmin on his maternal side.

The 6’3” tall Abhishek studied at the Jamnabhai Narsee School and Bombay Scottish School, both located in Mumbai and also Modern School in New Delhi. His college years were spent in Aiglon College, Switzerland amongst the cheese, clocks, and banks. He moved to Boston University in U.S to study business only to return back to India to help his father with ABCL, which was hit by a financial crisis.

He was engaged to the controversially sexy Karishma Kapoor back in 2002. They went public during his father’s sixtieth birthday celebration. It lasted as long as January 2003. He got engaged to ‘the most beautiful woman on earth’ Aishwarya Rai in 2007 and tied the knot with her a few months later at the Bachchan’s residence, Prateeksha.

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Abhishek Bachchan has endorsed brands like Motorola and Idea Cellular. He appeared with Aishwarya in the Lux ad and the star couple will be seen together in a PETA campaign.

Bachchan Junior’s Movies
Abhishek’s first film was Refugee opposite Kareena Kapoor in 2000. The film was not a blockbuster but a good debut vehicle nonetheless. He got nominated for the Filmfare Best Debut Award. His acting career dipped from here on as he went on to act in several films that didn’t boost him up to the star status enjoyed by his parents. Some of the films that he starred in between 2000 and 2003 were Dhai Akshar Prem Ke, Tera Jadoo Chal Gaya, Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai, Om Jai Jagdish, and Mein Prem Ki Deewani Hoon.

Come 2004 and our boy showed that persistence pays off as he delivered some brilliant performances. In 2004, he starred in Mani Rathnam’s Yuva as a goon Lallan Singh, winning the Filmfare Best Supporting Award. He then had another major hit with Dhoom in which he played the part of ACP Jai Dixit. Another film worth taking note of in the same year was Phir Milenge, a recycled version of the Hollywood film Philadelphia, revolving around AIDS. Abhishek played the lawyer Tarun Anand.

In 2005, he had a runaway hit in the comedy Bunty Aur Babli with Rani Mukherji, which had shades of the Hollywood hit Bonnie & Clyde. It was the first film where he appeared alongside his father Amitabh Bachchan. The second film with his father, Ram Gopal Verma’s political thriller Sarkar, was also a major hit. Abhishek’s portrayal of Shankar Nagre won him the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. He also did some guest appearances in films like Salaam Namaste and Neal n Nikki. He wrapped up the year with Bluffmaster with Priyanka Chopra, in which he sang the number ‘Right Here, Right Now’ which was one of the top tunes of the year.

The year 2006 saw him in some of the biggest flicks of the year like Kabhie Alvida Naa Kehana that won him his third Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. He also made a brief appearance as Sunny Kurana in the sequel, Lage Raho Munna Bhai. He played Nawab Sultan Khan in Umrao Jaan with his real-life bride Aishwarya Rai. The film didn’t do as well as expected. However, the sequel Dhoom 2 did a great job at the box office.

In 2007, while Jhoom Barabar Jhoom didn’t perform as well in India as overseas, he did justice to Gurukant Desai in Guru, which also starred Aishwarya Rai. The sequel Sarkar Raj, with Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, again pulled in the moolah at the box office. He had only two films lined up in 2008 – Drona, which was a below average performer, and Dostana where he was paired opposite the hunky John Abraham.

In 2009, Abhishek had two releases – Delhi 6 and Paa. While Delhi 6 received mixed reviews, Paa received applause. In this movie, his father played the role of his son who is suffering from a rare disease.

Stay tuned
Year 2010 will see Abhishek with Aishwarya in two movies- Mani Ratnam’s Raavan and Abhinay Deo’s Crooked.

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Bengal Cotton Saree With Rich Pallu

Bengal Cotton Saree With Rich PalluIndian Model posing in Bengal Cotton Saree With Rich Pallu and Contrast Border.

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist.
~ Edgar Allan Poe

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't afford.
~ Pablo Picasso

Country music is three chords and the truth.
~ Harlan Howard

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
~ Paul Strand

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Robin Uthappa IPL 2010 Royal Challengers Bangalore

Robin Uthappa IPL 2010
DLF Indian Premier League
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FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

A good film is also a documentary.
~ Eric Rohmer

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
~ Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors, 1923

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
~ Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917

Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.
~ Patrice Leconte

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Printed Cotton Churidar Dress

Printed Cotton Churidar DressIndian models posing in beautiful Printed Cotton Churidar Dress.

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
~ John Irving

Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.
~ Ernst Levy

Television--a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
~ Fred Allen

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
~ John Anthony Ciardi

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Yusuf Pathan Rajasthan Royals IPL 2010

Yusuf Pathan Rajasthan Royals IPL 2010
DLF Indian Premier league 20-20 cricket
Yusuf Pathan Rajasthan Royals IPL 2010Photoshop glowing edges art of Baroda allrounder Yusuf Pathan who plays for "Rajasthan Royals" in the IPL 2010.

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

If Hitler's still alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical.
~ Larry Gelbart

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe

You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
~ Author Unknown

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
~ Ansel Adams