Still LSS with this song.

Who says that spending so much time with facebook rather than doing your pending jobs and backlogs is
such a waste of time? Well not all the time especially when you come across such great discoveries like
when I stumbled upon Rock Eds fanpage and see this animated music video entitled Kaninong Anino.
So instead of starting my year-end post, I just decided to write first about it so I can share it with you dear
readers (125 na rin sila) and fellow travel bloggers (kasi alam kong kayo-kayo lang din ang bumabasa ng
blog ko, minsan!haha). I tried to gather some information related to the said video and I found out that my
idol Gang Badoy wrote the lyrics of the song. The music was composed by Francis de Veyra of
RadioactiveSagoProject. The song is part of Rock Eds ROCK RIZAL Album, a collection of songs in
celebration of the 150th birth anniversary of our national hero Jose Rizal. I have downloaded all the songs
before and it was really great than what is in your music player now or at least a good addition to your
playlist. Songs can be downloaded for free at Rock Ed Philippines fanpage. You must like the fanpage
first (sige na, libre naman yung mga kanta eh!)
Going back, the video animation was creatively done my Arnold Arre, a Filipino comic book artist and
writer. Youll know more about him here.

The concept remains the same except that with animation, I realized that I can show Rizal as the main
character walking amidst ruins. I knew it would be a mistake to try and interpret the lyrics literally so I put
a lot of symbolism in the video. We see the structures of Manila all destroyed, however the monuments
are still standing. Its my way of saying that with all the corruption, our country has deteriorated and
because of consumerism, we seem to have forgotten our heroes and what they fought for. However their
images are still intact and thats one thing that should encourage us to go on. Arre wrote in his blog/art
porfolio,

The animation shows Rizal walking in our country dumped in poverty and passing by landmarks which is
horribly devastated showing only monuments of heroes standing still but fractured and partially broken.
Every sequence is very interesting but perhaps the most moving part is when the light started to shine
over the gray and dark scene and Rizal climbed up the ruins and witnessed the Philippine flag swaying in
the drumbeat of our national anthem. (followed by Gloc-9s rap)
Really, I was affected while watching the video and made me realized that instead of blaming the past or
present goverment (not saying all of them) from its obvious and rampant corruption that resulted to
continuous poverty which is then the root of different crimes, I should ask myself, what good have I done
to help, what can I do as a Filipino? what can WE do as Filipinos? I am pretty much sure that with just a
simple gestures of helping and kindness, we can achieve the battle eventually.
Just like how Rizal successfully jumped over the broken bridge, there is still a hope for us to dream and
bring back the Philippines that we once dreamed of. Ilawan, ilawan ang anino, Humarap sa ilaw
Pilipino!!!