SM Lifestyle Entertainment Inc. Unveils Media Mesh

I was intrigued when I was invited for the launch of the media mesh at the SM The Arena. Upon nearing the Arena, I already saw what it looked like during daytime. After waiting for dusk to start, the program started in front facing the parking area.

It was as big as four cinema screens combined. This media mesh will show the latest basketball schedules from UAAP and PBA, the latest mall events, movie trailers and more. Speaking of movie trailers, the first ones they showed was Guardians of the Galaxy followed by Transformers: Age Of Extinction and Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes.

After watching all those trailers, I was thinking this place could be the best place to watch a movie like old school...in a parking area. When The Arena first opened, my first impression was the All-Seeing-Eye and it would be a good idea to watch the last movie of The Hobbit trilogy there or perhaps just promote the movie by showing the Eye of Sauron in full detail. That would be cool.

Be sure to get updated from SM MOA, The Arena and SMX Convention Center of the latest events happening at the SM Arena Media Mesh. For more mall launches,follow this blog or like the L.E.N.S. blogs on Facebook.

adidas by Stella McCartney

Fall/Winter 2014 Bold all-over prints, natural earthy tones and structured

silhouettes thrive in new FW14 collection

Herzogenaurach, March 2014: adidas by Stella McCartney presents a Fall/Winter 14 collection inspired by nature. Reminiscent of the authenticity and energy found in earth’s natural surroundings, eye-catching all-over wood and animal prints combined with neutral, earthy shades amplified by bold flourishes of colour – enticing the wearer to the outdoors to embrace the open air.  How casing structured silhouettes, innovative texture combinations and laid-back layering, the collection unites aesthetically compelling, standout style with supreme functional performance.

“This season I was inspired by the elements of nature and sense of freedom and individuality that it allows. All-over statement prints are complemented by an earth-based palette of autumnal tones and wintery hues, while a play on structure and sleek lines is tempered by voluminous outer layers and cover-ups. I’m also really proud to continue to offer a collection that incorporates sustainable elements wherever possible,” says Stella McCartney.

This season’s Run Range is influenced by the exhilarating freedom and adventure of trail running. Performance Longsleeves, ¾ Tights, Shorts and Nylon Tees in all-over wood grain prints are enhanced by an enveloping autumnal palette of deep reds, forest greens and earthy browns reminiscent of woodland terrain. Techfit baselayers featuring strong colourblocking deliver support and added dynamism, while Performance Jackets and Hoodies enhance feminine silhouettes with structured layering to complete the look. As temperatures start to fall, revolutionary new ClimaHeat® technology in Performance Midlayers and Winter Tights offers exceptional insulation for runners who love the great outdoors through the use of hollow fibres that trap warm air and maintain body heat. Designed for ultimate endurance, additional ClimaChill®, ClimaCool® and ClimaLite® functionality throughout the range ensures superior comfort and temperature regulation for maximum performance.

Suggestive of nature’s reflective and harmonious balance, the Yoga range introduces a new visual and performance-focused aesthetic based on complimentary contrasts. Ultra-feminine, seamless dip-dye base layers in Poppy Pink and Natural Grey sit alongside Loose-fit Sweatshirts and Woven Pants in Clementine and Platinum Mauve for ultimate manoeuvrability and comfort, as organic, neutral tones are accentuated by vivid splashes of colour. A Seamless Stretch-fit Onesie in Light Maroon featuring transparent racer-back detailing affords total freedom of expression and relaxation during. The highlight of the range is a Woven All-In-One cover-up with batwing sleeves, tailor-fit cuffs and ruched waist detailing available in Rose Tan and Natural Grey, which presents the perfect outer layer for use before or after sessions. To complement style options within the Yoga range, this season’s Studio selection features Performance Longtights and 7/8 Tees specially designed for winter, with Mesh Hoodies and Quilted Jackets adding a Stella edge.

Low Waste Hoodies and Pants in soft pinks and heather greys layer effortlessly with the Low Waste Pull-on and Shorts in Pop Purple and Sharp Grey, as adidas by Stella McCartney introduces additional high-sustainability pieces to the line. Presenting the perfect performance/style option for those mindful of their carbon footprint, Organic Cotton and Recycled Yarn pieces in each range complete this season’s sustainable offering.

Offering a unique fusion of technical superiority and style for the true performance-focused tennis player, the Fall/Winter 14 adidas by Stella McCartney barricade range will be worn by ambassadors including Caroline Wozniacki, Andrea Petkovic and Laura Robson for their matches throughout the season. Demonstrating cuttingedge athletic design and standout aesthetic, the range comprises separates and dresses based on an ultrafeminine power palette of nude and ginger hues, bright pinks and all-white; Innovative texture mixes of open and closed mesh structures meet with statement colourblocking for maximum effect during play. Wimbledon will see Caroline Wozniacki step out in a limited edition  cropped, spacer fabric Bomber Jacket in White, while Andrea Petkovic will debut a new style of on-court Short with flyaway detailing. The US Open introduces an edited selection of match ensembles for day and night, with bright shades of red and pink making an impact in New York during the day and sophisticated nude and ginger hues at night. Fit-and-flare silhouettes and bi-tonal pleats that flirt with players’ movements and swing add a luxurious, even more feminine edge.

FOOTWEAR AND ACCESSORIES

The season’s collection is supported by high performance footwear and utility accessories; each styled to reflect the adidas by Stella McCartney aesthetic while providing specific performance benefits. FW14 sees the introduction of the first ever adidas by Stella McCartney adiZero XT Trail Run shoe, specifically designed for trail running. Revolutionary  RAXION™ outsole technology delivers superior and surefooted grip, while the lightweight outer with protective toe enables runners to take on challenging terrain with speed and agility. Available in three eye-catching colourways – Cargo, Red Zest and Woodgrain print – the adiZero XT Trail Run shoe is the perfect option for this season’s winter trail runs. Run Backpacks and Bumbags in dark, subtle shades are perfect for storing essential items when on the go, while Run Beanies and Gloves in Base Brown and Ginger blend with outfits perfectly to keep runners cosy and warm.

Alongside the new adidas by Stella McCartney adiZero XT Trail shoe, the Run range extends its adidas by Stella McCartney Boost shoe offering. Featuring intelligent rubber zoning for grip and weight reduction – as well as stretch to mimic natural skin movement – new Pure Boost and Boost II shoes ensure unparalleled energy return in training, with thousands of capsules contained within the shoe, storing and unleashing energy with every step. New Pure Boost tooling enables runners to get back to their roots with uninhibited contact between foam and foot for ultimate comfort, while Boost II features an extended Torsion® system for stability and four-way mesh upper that complements the aesthetic of the main collection.

The innovative inner boot construction means it can be rolled down for a laid-back look, or worn up for maximum protection against the elements. Backpacks in Sharp and Natural Grey sit alongside ribbed woollen neckwarmers, balaclavas, hats and gloves to complete the look. 

Kleptomaniacs stage production review

Kleptomaniacs is a rap musical being stage currently during the weekends at CCP Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino(Little Theater). The situation is about a squatter community but it deals with the social issues about who are the real "kleptomaniacs" in the society.

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The conversation is done in a fliptop manner because it suited the setting of the story. What really impresses me was the performance of the child actor plays a significant role in the production. The stage design is also impressive as well because it really look like they lived in makeshift shacks.

The production is very unique and the message is quite clear for social awareness. I recommend to watch this before it ends July 28. For more stage reviews, follow this blog or like the L.E.N.S. blogs on Facebook.

Ballet Phils. Celebrates Apolinario Mabini's 150th Birthday with La Revolucion Filipina

2014 marks the 150th birth year of the "mind behind the Philippine revolution", Apolinario Mabini. Ballet Philippines opens their Sapphire season with Agnes Locsin's La Revolucion Filipina. What's unique about the production was that it combined dance with theatrics. There's a part where the ballet dancers spoke lines in the production.

Agnes Locsin not only choreographed this play but did her own reading about the works of Apolinario Mabini. She was digging dipper on what makes Mabini's mind tick. She imagined his visions and interpreted in the only language she knows how: dance. This is how I imagine Mabini if he knew how to dance, says Ms. Locsin.

The choreography was not easy. She had to collaborate with librettist Dennis Marasigan to coordinate the sequences of the story with the dance. She used the movements of local tribal dances and infused it with the story.

The music was written by Mr. Ryan Cayabyab. There's an interesting story about the original music. Ryan Cayabyab already had music in mind but when he saw the dance sequences, he immediately wanted to create a music that will fit the movements without asking any monetary obligation in return. It was an honorable thing to do because it's a musician in him.

La Revolucion Filipina was first performed during the 90's and was already been shown in U.S. Imagine the surprise of the Fil-Am community especially those who were born in the U.S. that there was a Filipino-American war that took place in history.

La Revolucion Filipina will be staged for 6 performances starting July 25 at CCP. Take this opportunity to see it because there are facts that our history textbooks didn't cover about that is significant in today's society. If you have a heart of looking back in history, you may also express desire to buy seats for people who you seem fit to pass the message of this production.

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THE MYTHBUSTERS RETURN TO DEBUNKAND DECODE MORE URBAN MYTHS AND LEGENDS WITH NEW EPISODES COVERING EVERYTHING FROM STAR WARS TO ZOMBIES

- New season to kick off with a one-hour special DANGEROUS TOYS -

Over the past 11 years, Discovery Channel's Emmy^®-nominated series  MYTHBUSTERS have tested more than 925 myths, filmed over 7,600 hours, created more than 840 explosions and used in excess of 50 kilometres of duct tape. Come July, Discovery Channel brings back your favourite cool geeks – Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage, Tory Belleci, Kari Byron and Grant Imahara – for brand new episodes from season nine of MYTHBUSTERS. Together with guest appearances by actor Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead), award-winning actress Sophia Bush and world record-setting tightrope walker Nik Wallenda, the gang will sort out facts from fiction by using their signature brand of real-world scientific experimentation. Join them every week for explosive new episodes as they prove or disprove popular myths, misconceptions and legends starting Wednesday, July 16 at 9:00 p.m.

 

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The season kicks off with an hour-long, epic toy-themed special DANGEROUS TOYS, executive produced by Jamie and Adam. After years of working together, the pair is finally squaring off against each other in a no-holds-barred, all-out war! Jamie and Adam are taking their talent for building awesomely destructive gadgets and crossing it with kids’ playtime to compete in an elaborate child’s game of war. Their ultimate goal: to try to take each other down.

To create their twisted adult interpretations of fortifications, vehicles, weapons and other child-play favourites, the two will draw inspiration with their “Dangerous Toys brain trust”, a pint-size think tank made up of a group of imaginative pre-teens who offer up limitless ideas including a 25-foot (7.6 metre) couch fort, combustible robotic armies and a thing Jamie affectionately calls “The Kraken”. With ingenuity and innovation, a sandcastle could be a fortress and a cardboard box can open an entire universe of possibilities. Jamie will do whatever he can to conquer Adam’s fort, while Adam does the same, as each man fends off a succession of blistering attacks to be the last one standing.

Don’t miss this and many more mad-cap experiments in 17 new episodes of MYTHBUSTERS! Encores every Saturday at 11:00 p.m. and Sunday at noon.

Some of the myths they’ll tackle include:

Star Wars: Revenge of the Myth: The gang, along with special guest – award-winning actress Sophia Bush, examines and tests three scenes from the Star Wars series for plausibility. Could Luke really have swung across a huge chasm to escape Stormtroopers while carrying Princess Leia with only his belt-rigged grappling hook? Could the Ewoks’ primitive swinging-log trap have realistically crushed one of Darth Vadar’s most sophisticated weapons - an Imperial “Chicken Walker”? And would a Tauntaun’s carcass have kept Luke from freezing to death on the bitterly cold climate of Hoth?

Zombie Special: What would happen if there really was a zombie invasion? In this episode, the team challenges three tall tales of apocalyptic proportions with The Walking Dead’s Michael Rooker as a special guest. When it comes to wasting “Walkers”, is an axe the more efficient weapon of choice, or are you better off with a gun? Meanwhile, Adam turns undead to test another zombie myth: can the ‘might of the living dead’ bust down Jamie’s door or is the physical force of the unwieldy mob just filmic fiction. And, if you’re swarmed, can you outrun – or outsmart – a hungry horde? Tory, Cary and Grant investigate why fleet-footed film human heroes still end up at the wrong end of the brain buffet despite zombies shuffling at the speed of an arthritic grandma.

Mythssion Impossible: The team tests three implausible idioms. According to the saying, “like herding cats”, shepherding a throng of feisty felines is not just difficult, it’s downright impossible. So Adam and Jamie set out to learn the herd mentality and then attempt to apply it to some crabby tabbies. Kari, Grant and Tory bring home the bacon with a porker of a phrase, “catching a greased pig” is another challenge that seems out of the question, but when they combine pigs, lubricant and athleticism will this mythical expression turn out to be a load of old hogwash?

Duct Tape Canyon: Lost in the wilderness, Adam and Jamie survive the desert, repel down canyon cliff-faces and brave Class 5 rapids – all with just duct tape and a bumper load of bubble wrap. Can they traverse a desert with duct tape travois, repel down canyon cliff-faces on a duct tape rope, and create a pair of daft rafts to navigate through thunderous rapids? It’s their most ambitious duct tape adventure yet…this time with a special guest appearance by Discovery Channel’s Nik Wallenda, the famous daredevil who walked across the Grand Canyon on a tightrope last year while millions watched live.

Bullet Baloney: The MYTHBUSTERS take on five filmic firearm clichés and fables. Can a gun fire lethally if its barrel is bent? Can you fire a gun in space like they do in science fiction movies? Can tape measures, wallets and golf balls stop a bullet? Will a neon sign blow out in shower of sparks if hit by a bullet? Will a shotgun shell on a tip of a wooden spear detonate if jabbed into an attacking animal à la the movie The Gray? And finally, if a gun is dropped in the boiling oil of a deep fryer go off?

Do Try This at Home: After more than a decade of testing impossible, dangerous and downright crazy myths that you shouldn’t or couldn’t try at home, the team investigates a host of myths that maybe you can! Be sure to break out the safety googles and get ready for Do-It-Yourself (DIY) science from chemistry conundrums, to a veracity of viral videos, stopping time in your living room, and some extreme fire-fighting and metronome madness thrown in for good measure.

Hollywood Car Crash Clichés: It’s wall-to-wall automotive mayhem as the crew drive through glass, tackle a cinematic solution to congested roads and plough through traffic, and fire a rocket-propelled grenade at a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) to see if they can flip it to take aim at classic Hollywood crash clichés.  

Car Chase Chaos/Animal Antics: Can you really switch drivers, share the driving duties, or dump a dead body in the middle of a Hollywood high-speed getaway? To tackle a trio of Tinsel Town car chase clichés, our dynamic myth-busting duo puts the pedal to the metal, gets their action movie hero on and brings Buster a body bag for the ride home. Also, the team tests a host of fan-suggested homemade deterrents for keeping critters from crawling, creeping and causing calamitous catastrophe on the property.

Supersonic Ping Ping/Ice Cannon: Adam and Jamie ask if supersonic ping pong can go lethally wrong. Supposedly a lightweight table tennis ball can top the speed of sound and become a lethal projectile. To find out if this unlikely premise is possible our dynamic duo turns the dial marked supersonic science to 11. The rest of the crew looks into a ballistic mystery from history – by lighting the frozen fuse on a cannon made of ice. It could be an explosive combination!

WILDEST INDOCHINA: RAGING RIVERS, FLOODING LAKES AND HOME TO SOME OF THE MOST RARE AND ELUSIVE CREATURES

In the south Asian peninsula known as Indochina, amongst the political tensions, burgeoning new wealth and developing nations, lies some of the world’s most breathtaking natural marvels. In the latest Animal Planet series, the spectacular WILDEST INDOCHINA – which premieres Tuesday, July 15 at 9:00 p.m. – sweeps across the globe’s most diverse peninsula to unearth all the makes it the organic wonder it is. The four-part series traverses from Cambodia to Vietnam, southwest China and Thailand – historically-rich cities whose vast area are homes to outstanding landscapes, tropical jungles and armies of animals, some of which are the most rare and secretive.

 

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The Indochina is bounded on the north by India and China, on the east and south by the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand, and on the west by the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal. Much of the area is mountainous and the rivers are largely unnavigable. Being a tropical climate with heavy seasonal rainfall, the WILDEST INDOCHINA journey begins in the water kingdom of Cambodia, which is considered to be one of the most biologically-rich countries in Southeast Asia. A place where wildlife and climate are ruled by turbulent monsoon cycles, the wild land of changing seasons pose significant challenges for its numerous inhabitants – like Asian elephants and Burmese pythons, amongst others – who face daily intense battles to adapt in order to survive.

Over at the eastern most part of Indochina, see how life has fought back in war-ravaged Vietnam whose tropical jungles are bursting with 10% of the world’s species so much so that new breeds and types are being discovered at incredible rates. The WILDEST INDOCHINA journey extends to a south eastern Himalayan enclave where China’s secret garden lies tucked away with approximately half of all Chinese birds and mammals; many found nowhere else on Earth. 

WILDEST INDOCHINA caps off in the heart of the peninsula where one of its wildest countries lays – Thailand. From ancient rainforests – that are believed to be older than the Amazon – to hostile coastlines, Thailand has some of the most prolific environments on the planet. It is a melting pot of varied habitats and territories where an assortment of creatures such as reptiles, birds, amphibians and nearly 300 mammal species – such as endangered hog deer and clouded leopards which are vulnerable to extinction – roam and have evolved to cope with its ever-changing landscape. Where the natural world is left to forge its survival, extraordinary adaptations, behaviour and evolutionary tricks occur. Witness the magnificence of WILDEST INDOCHINA which encores every Wednesday at 3:00 p.m., Saturday at 10:00 p.m. and Sunday at 7:00 p.m.