Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Quad trip!

My first stop was La salle but I couldn't get in because of some problems.
DLSU main is Neo classical inspired architecture.
The color of the exterior is white so it is soothing in the eyes.

My second stop was the National museum.

I didn't know the musuem was just near Intramuros even though the last trip was just there(Luneta trip)





Corinthean Column was used in this structure.

The color was pale yellow I don't know why but I think they used pale yellow so the they won't paint again and again when there's a stain.

The entrance was free but taking pictures inside is prohibited so I just moved on and traveled to my next stop.

the next stop was manila city hall

It was scorching hot while I was walking to Manila City Hall.
I needed to change clothes because I was so wet.



It was just like the National Musuem they used Corinthean colums the pale yellow color.
The difference is that the Manila city hall doesn't have pediment while National musuem doesn't have arches.

Last stop was Post Office I felt that I'm in greece because of the columns used (Ionic). I was just amazed I can't talk straight that time I was stuttering.



I was just curious about the spelling of the building there it was "BVILDING". I dont know if im color blind if its dirty white or the color was flesh.

"FIN"

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Perfume: The story of a Murderer

Plot
An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to capture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of author Patrick Suskind's best-selling 1985 novel. Born in a fetid fish market and raised in a dilapidated orphanage, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) toiled his childhood away in a rank tannery run by the thuggish Grimal (Sam Douglas). Subsequently obsessed by smell, Grenouille's keen olfactory sense becomes so finely tuned that it eventually overpowers such human qualities as love and compassion. Though he has indeed discovered the unmistakable scent of a woman, Grenouille finds it impossible to connect with the fairer sex on any sort of meaningful level. Roaming the streets of Paris late one night, Grenouille catches the scent of a young girl selling plums and impulsively strangles her, later sniffing her nude corpse in a twisted attempt to preserve the distinctive scent in his memory. After persuading legendary perfumer Giuseppe Baldini (Dustin Hoffman) to take him on as an apprentice, Grenouille travels to the town of Grasse in Southern France in order to learn the art of enfleurage at a firm run by the highly respected Mme. Arnulfi (Corinna Harfouch). It is there that Grenouille becomes dangerously drawn to the vestal aroma of the young and beautiful Laura (Rachel Hurd-Wood), the daughter of widower merchant Antione Richis (Alan Rickman). Soon driven to madness by such a pure scent, the spellbound Grenouille continues to claim the lives of the numerous young girls in a tragic attempt to bottle the impossibly elusive smell of virginal womanhood. - "Jason Buchanan, Rovi"

Moving to the structures I've seen in the movie I saw a facade of a gothic style somewhere in the movie and there is a scene that is Rococo inspired architecture where the twins was kidnapped and killed and the Aristocrats/Nobles wear wigs.

The big maze


Wig


There is a industrial influence too because there's a viaduct and there are houses on it. The houses are the same, compressed and apartment like structures.

In my opinion the movie was great. I was shocked where Jean-Baptiste was just kicked by his mom after he was borned and the ambilical cord was cut using an unsterilized knife. Even today the people are classified into parts the 1st class or the nobles the middle class and the slaves. The ending was funny because I remembered the song boombox of Lonely Island they had an orgy and the pope was there too it made me laugh so hard. Its a MUST WATCH MOVIE even there are sexy scences and it was kind off blasphemous it was great I enjoyed watching the movie

Thursday, November 3, 2011

LUNETA TRIP


CHOOCHOO!

We had a trip from Luneta to Intramuros to observe the structures there. The first structure that we checked was the Luneta Hotel

I think the style of the Luneta Hotel is Baroque because of the pattern of the windows first is an arch then a window with a pediment on top of it and mixed with Renaissance because it has too many arches and there are gargoyles.

Next stop was Luneta park

There are still people visiting the Luneta park/Rizal Park to unwind, couples that are dating just spending time together.

While taking a walk there we saw a pile of booths there lined up selling toys, balloons and foods. We saw a cute balloon the designs were angry birds, dora the explorer, hello kitty and etc. but the price was too high even if "tumawad kami" the saleslady didn't gave the price we wanted so we moved to the other booth.

The guy said that balloon is P55 I talked to him I said that "we will buy two so can you give it for only P40" he said okay but we only bought one for only P40 hahaha.
While walking we saw a very big clock so we took pictures of it and Paul took a picture for me.

I don't know if I'm going to laugh or what because of this picture I didn't know what came to my mind haha.
Next stop was Intramuros. I took pictures of the structures there while walking

This building didn't look right. I think that the ionic colums of that structure is wrong.



San Agustin Church
I only had the chance to take a picture of the exterior of the church because it was closed. I think the style of the church is Baroque architecture. The color of the church is orange and I think that the priest who wanted the color is kind of childish or immature because the meaning of that color is immature.

this is the entrance of the church.

They used doric and corinthean columns.

The LAST STOP was Manila Cathedral

that was the best place of the trip we've been to for me and i am sure that Manila Cathedral style is Gothic architecture it has a very thick wall but it has a mix of Rococo because there is a garden beside the church

They used rib vault and there are chandeliers that made the church elegant inside.

I couldn't get a picture of the rose window because it was too dark and it would be disrespectful if I put a flash while people are praying solemnly.