Michael Tesch aka Midi OK! is a musician, freelance photographer & graphic artist based in Cebu City Philippines. He has collaborated musically with bands like Urbandub namely on the song “City of Sleeping Hearts” which can be found in Dub’s Embrace Album, which also contains filler ambient works in between songs. As a thank you to the fans and their continued support, he is giving away the new midi OK! album 100% free, exclusively via music.midimoik.com. Download here
MTV and DOT just had another fruitful collaboration this time with B.E.P’s Apl.de.Ap. This music video also serves as a tourism campaign to attract more people to come to the Philippines. Awesome video is done by We Are Royale – another top motion design agency based in LA.
See the music video here.
A few weeks back Val and I have been discussing the possibility of creating a site that gives you a “tour” around the Philippines. A sites and sounds type of site, with a different twist. You don’t post the usual tourist spot visuals and ethnic Filipino music, but present alternative images and sounds. We agreed that the experience should be presented frame by frame as if you’re watching a slideshow with sfx. We internally called it a “static movie” — an oxymoron that clearly described what we wanted to do with the site. We’ve been tinkering with the site code and design, and we were lucky to get elmar (Koyz) to do the javascript magic. Another interesting thing we did is add a google map link to show where the photo was taken. In the future, it would be cool if we can use the music created by local bands and promote them in the site at the same time. We present you Plus63.com the sister site of Plus63.net. 
Enjoy the experience…frame by frame.
The Department of Tourism Philippines has partnered with MTV Asia to launch a new campaign called Awesome Philippines to promote our country’s popular summer vacation spots. A great effort by DTI to attract tourists from around Asia to our lovely shores.
