Who Is Annie Leibovitz?

Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (pronounced /ˈliːbəvɪts/;) was born October 2, 1949, an American portrait photographer whose style is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject.

Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Leibovitz is the third of six children. Her mother, Marilyn Leibovitz, was a modern dance instructor; her father, Sam Leibovitz, was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force. The family moved frequently with her father's duty assignments, and she took her first pictures when he was stationed in the Philippines.

In high school, she became interested in the various artistic endeavours, and began to write and play music. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied painting. She became interested in photography after taking pictures when she lived in the Philippines, where her Air Force father was stationed during the Vietnam War. For several years, she continued to develop her photography skills while she worked various jobs, including a stint on a kibbutz in Amir, Israel, for several months in 1969.

She worked for Rolling Stone and then Vanity Fair.

She learned that you can work for magazines and still do your own personal work, which for her was the most important thing. It is much more intimate and tells a story for her as she works with people who love her and who will "Open their hearts and souls and lives to you."

Her famous works include Covers of John Lennon and Yoko Ono for Rolling Stone, taken 5 hours before JL shot dead. Demi Moore's 2 publicized covers, Demi's Pregnant Naked Photo and Demi's body painted suit. Other famous shots were of Queen Elizabeth II, Whoopi Goldberg, Barrack Obama, Bill Gates, Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton, Sting and more. She also do the yearly Walt Disney's Year of a million dreams!

Yoko And John's Rolling Stone Cover 1981

Moore Naked for Vanity Fair

Controversial 15 Year Old Miley Cyrus for Vanity Fair (2008)

Powerful Actress of Hollywood

Leibovitz is facing bankrupcy after years of financial mismanagement.

She's a great artist (period) Kudos and I hope to se more of her powerful works.

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Tiger Woods For Vanity Fair

I ain't a big fan of TW. But he's a sports superstar. A bankable endorser, a father, husband and (accused) womanizer. Who are we to judge right?

But people like gossips, the big ones. Stars who fell from the pedestal tops our list.

And for Tiger, we feast on his mistakes, from the car crash, his fuming wife, his tale of kinky extramarital affairs, and more.

Vanity fair talks about his adventures, for VF February 2010 issue. read here!

See his cover story.

Personally, I don't like his photo but since Annie Leibovitz took it. I LVoe!

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Planet Cafe Rush

I was too lazy to get up this morning, just watched big brother uber and up late and some crazy and sentimental tv commercial over youtube when Tata confirmed about our " siesta " in Planet Cafe.

5 minutes to prepare, so I jumped as usual from my bed and straight to my 3x3 shower cubicle, that's how small my toilet and bath.grrr! anyhow, I managed to put my overall and literally ran towards Salama St. cor. Hamdan to meet my dear friend.

We usually hang out there to de-stress, chitchat and watch arabic music video via MTV arabia or M. Eat my favorite Chocolate and Banana Crepe for about $5 and Shisha ( mint with grapes flavour ) for Tata around $9, not bad, and we can stay there as long as we want. Ryan came for a surprise visit too!

The food is basically affordable, ranging from $3 to $20, from sandwiches, pasta, shakes, salads, pastries and main course, mostly Arabic, Italian and American.

There is smoking and non smoking area where comfortable sofa and table and chair are available to your desire. There's WIFI too!

The crowd is mixed. From mid-upper class locals and expats. Arab and Filipino servers are there to assist you too!

Planet Café is a place where men in suits wield packs of Marlboros like badges of honour and gabble business behind the clouds of smoke that billow from their lips. There’s a separate shisha area and yet there’s not a no smoking section – meaning you leave rather hoarser than when you entered. This is a shame because looks-wise this is a decent little café. The cool stone interior makes it something of an oasis and it clearly wins the local vote judging by how full it gets – a central city location doesn’t hurt, either.

I like the ambiance of the place, the wallpaper is victorian and the chairs are modern. Everytime we go there, I feel relax and happy!

It's located in Al Markaziyah Near Etihad Bldg. Salama Behind the Big Mosque in Hamdan Street near RBS Bank Building. You'll never miss the signage.

Opens from 0800 to 0100AM daily.



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PHILIPPINES: 1st Runner-Up In Ford Models Supermodel Of The World

For how many years now, our country experienced drought in the beauty pageant competition, gone were the days of Precious Lara Quigaman (Miss International Title 2005), Charo Ronquillo joined and won the Supermodel of World Philippines Search in 2005 when she was just 17 years old. She went on to the Supermodel of the World Finals the following year in New York City and placed third, securing a $100,000 contract with Ford Models. Since her win, Charo has graced the catwalks of New York Fashion Week for designers including LaCoste, Nanette Lapre, Maria Cornejo, Tory Burch, Antonio Berardi, Kenneth Cole, Mac Cosmetics, Barbie Collection, Sisley and Benetton and has secured many high profile editorials.”

And now, Chat Almarvez got 1st Runner Up for the recently concluded Supermodel Of The World competition in Sau Paolo, Brazil. She won a $150,000 management contract from Ford Models Agency. This will be a good start for Chat following the footstep of Charo who's making waves in the international modelling world.

Chanel Iman and Marcelle Bittar presented the winners for this year's competition. Chanel is stunning but her hosting job sucks hehehe! see Chanel Iman hosting job =)

The winners;

The Winner

Chat / Charlene

2nd Runner Up with a $ 50,000 management contract from Ford

3rd Runner Up

4th Runner Up

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Naya Marie: One Woman Act : Lady Gaga Medley

I so LVoe Lady Gaga, her songs and style were all Avant Garde. And when someone sings her cover, it's even more perfect.

Meet Naya Marie, A Filipino-American who collaborated with her cousin from the group Legaci based in the west coast some of Lady Gaga's best songs for her OWA ( One Woman Act ), the end result is amazing.

See to appreciate: 

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A New Creation From MAC...

I was visiting my twitter account when Migs posted that cum January 27th, a new creation from Apple will be unveiled. Hmmmmm! I'm so excited and I just can't hide it!

What will be the new creation? The Mac tablet? A new iPhone 4G? Whatttt?

Well, we have to wait until the 27th...

Let there be Mac!

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