Art Beats Math

Hello! 

You might have wandered in here, but ARTBEATSMATH has a found a new home in Wordpress. I may still upload “tumblr-y” posts here for reblogging from time to time. And some posts prior to my moving can still be found in the Archive.

The Daykeeper is a planner/journal/datebook created by fellow creative, Katt San Juan, who is a wedding videographer at Mayad Studios. By traveling a lot, she has collected tons of inspiration and taken plenty of pretty photos— so it’s not hard to imagine wanting to share all of it with like-minded women!

Cultivating an attitude of gratitude, seeing beauty in the mundane, inspiring productivity, and growing in the faith are values that purposed the creation of The Daykeeper. Independently, Katt made this series of yearly datebooks starting at 2014. Being a fan of her work, I was only able to start owning the 2015 one.

Next year’s (2016) Daykeeper was on track to be the bestest datebook yet, so when Katt approached me because she liked the work I did for Friday Night Light’s “Open Table” poster, I of course jumped on the opportunity to help her with the marketing!

The above image is of a construction of several hundreds of individual matchsticks painstakingly glued together to form 3D lettering.

The video below it is when we set it on fire. 🔥🔥🔥

hello from iloilo.

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biking along diversion road with lollipops in our mouths and making pit stops at warehouses to take one too many photos. a good last day in the friendliest of places, it was. ✽

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Beauty from Ashes: A visual diary of Mt. Pinatubo

Last weekend, a friend and I journeyed to one of the Philippines’ most renowned crater lakes: Mount Pinatubo. Erupting in 1991, it’s considered to be the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century killing 800+ people and displacing thousands more. Its effects on the environment were also felt on a global scale, causing a temperature drop and further deterioration of the ozone layer.

More than two decades later, I find myself hiking its very slopes...

In sunlight, in moonbeams, in forests, in gold streams The colors of your world echo in my dreams

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WATCH THE VIDEO TO THIS SONG RIGHT NOW... and see how it feeds into my obsession with the Pacific Northwest a.k.a #PNW

Philippine Air Force Aerospace Museum, June 2014

All images were shot with an iPod Touch 5 and post-processed with VSCO Cam.

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After rendering a long week of night shift OTs and ending on a Saturday morning, i had breakfast with a few of my officemates at Army Navy then got picked up by the brother after. We dropped by the Aerospace Museum on the way home for Ingress* purposes, but being surrounded by these historic parked airplanes instilled in me such awe and inspiration that i had to shoot and immortalize the experience. It was gloomy at first but i waited for the clouds to part and let out the bright sun for some harsh shadows. Other times i used the clouds as a diffuser for more evenly-lighted photos. Then we moved indoors to see other flight paraphernalia.

All i can say is that i have a new-found appreciation for these giant winged contraptions.

Knowing Kaye, it’s hard not to admire her beautiful voice and soul. 

Love is war.

It sounds like a contradiction. It doesn't make sense; It's hard to make sense of God sometimes... but then doesn't that make perfect sense? The whole unfathomable mystery of God... too great for our limited minds to fully embrace.

Why are some Christians still fighting for their worth, when it was already won for them?

His love has won it all.

- Joel Houston’s words (non-verbatim)

i am most in my element when i’m up in the air.

Phases of Flight: from urban sprawl to paradise ✈️🌴

90% of the time i spend while on a plane is looking out the window and taking pictures. My feet is kept grounded being in wondrous awe as a mere speck crawling in this big, wide, universe.

Now if only i could afford to fly more often...

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As Told By Diptychs!