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Mirror page
POSTED BY ANDY MALUCHE, FEBRUARY 23. 2008 | Philosophy

Recently I have gotten so much traffic on my website that I was forced to open up a mirror site to relieve the pressure on my server.
Please check out my new mirror site you will like it.
It's a way of life.

Puey Quinones Fashion Gala
POSTED BY ANDY MALUCHE, FEBRUARY 23. 2008 | Photography

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As published in Saturday Super, Philippine Daily Inquirer

Wow, only a few years ago I watched Puey dressing Barbie dolls and now he is spicing up the wardrobe of the stratosphere of Pinoy society. Star models and socialites like Ornussa Cadness and Phomela Bandera modeled Pueys fashion statements in a fabulously (pronounce: faaabulooously) minimalistic set designed by Melvin Mojica who is so hot these days that I am surprised that his designs don't catch on fire. Watching Boy Abunda, KC Conception, Tin Tin Cojuangco, Divine Lee, Ruffa Guiterrez and Lulu Tan Gan proudly showing off their Puey gowns you would have never guessed Puey's humble background. As the MC pointed out, humble indeed it was when wee Puey worked on those Barbie dolls a few years back in Bobon, a small town in Northern Samar. But Puey had his influences. On the one side there is Dennis Lustico a close family friend from the same small town who gave Puey his first pointers and on the other hand yours truly, Puey's uncle, from whom he inherited the light blue hair.

"Was I drunk yesterday?"
"Well you swiped your credit card through my cleavage"
"Boy oh boy, must I have been drunk.
That card is maxed out since months."

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Having Blue hair is like
being on stage
your world is your audience
it forces you to interact
you can't be timid or insecure
on stage.

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In Father's Footsteps
POSTED BY ANDY MALUCHE, JANUARY 28. 2008 | Photography

My daughter has gotten some of my artistic genes.
Recently she traveled with my wife to Tagloban, Leyte and from there on to Northern Samar all of which is located on the eastern side of the Philippines.
In between Samar and Leyte is the Juanico Straight so it is only fitting that they called the bridge spanning from one Island to the other - Juanico Bridge.
Passing over that bridge my daughter took some pictures with her cel phone camera.
Imelda Marcos is originally from Leyte.
It was under Ferdinand Marcos' reign that the bridge was build in 1973.
Let's face it Imelda was a babe then and well worth building bridges for.
It is the longest bridge in the Philippines and it is also oddly shaped as a giant S.
Leyte is also the place Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to after he threatened very media effectively to do so a few years earlier.

RileS
POSTED BY ANDY MALUCHE, JANUARY 11. 2008 | Photography

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A couple of months back I drove around Manila with a couple of friends looking for images of Manila. Since they were shooting for French TV they were looking like all Europeans for the worst parts of Manila, poverty and dirt. We found those guys who utilize the tracks of the one and only railroad in the Philippines to move people back and forth on small push trolleys. We took a little round trip and luckily got off in time before the real train came.

A few years back when I finally had enough money to buy myself an used car, my brother in law borrowed the car to fix the radiator. I guess he and my other brother in law got a little too high and got stuck on the one and only rail road track in the whole country. A few seconds later the one and only train in the country totaled my car. Luckily those guys didn't get hurt. I was ready to hurt them. I saved long for that car and didn't even have it for a week. And of course I had no insurance.

Change
POSTED BY ANDY MALUCHE, JANUARY 8, 2008 | ART

Some of the more keener observers between you, my dear audience, might have noticed a small change in the design of my website. After threatening to do so last June I finally really decided to put the ASSIH (Aggressively Shy Stick Insect Hunter) to a rest.
Not that I am not shy anymore but the last time I seriously hunted any stick insects is ages ago.
The ASSIH was 5 year long art project. My medium was the internet and of course also the magazine.
You can read here more about it.

The new approach to my blog coincides with some other changes in my life.
I am about to end my artistic sabbatical which lasted 5 years as well and was documented extensively on the ASSIH and go corporate. That doesn't mean that I will stop producing art and I won't retain my cheerful disposition.
I am about to sign a contract.
As soon as that is done I'll let you know what I am up to.
All I can tell you so far is that it is really cool.

Getting the Blues
POSTED BY ANDY MALUCHE, JANUARY 11. 2008 | PROSE

For all of you who have been speculating.
No, I did not really inherit my blue hair from my mom.
And also I don't blue myself.
As you can see on this picture I get blued in one of the coolest and most prestigious salons in Manila—Basement Salon.