Our healthy crew is composed of photographers, illustrators, layout artists who are just as passionate about our work as the two of us. We are comfortably and chummily left-of-center. We have to confess that we’ve never been to art schools nor earned a major design degree…coz despite its pluses, we reckon this isn’t for everyone..let alone for us. In our case, the real world is the best course.

Our vision is based on principles of openness, directness, irreverence, democracy and a dislike of institutions and pretensions.

We’re always looking for the culturally relevant work and staying current with the hive mind. It’s intuitive, a lot of it. We think it’s just experiencing how far you can keep your mind open on a daily basis, and paying attention.

We’d like to describe our work as a tickle in your brain. .it’s not just the quality of the idea, it’s the quality of the execution, the finish. the unique spin in colors, the lines, perspective..when these elements align, they create a visual perfume.

We believe that no matter how monstrous your talent, no matter your adeptness with concepts, your adroitness with words, with pictures, no matter how much you have learned from all the creative masters who have gone before you, it will mean nothing - no, it will mean less than nothing - if you do not love your work with all its pain and glory. .every last sweet and sour moment of it - the late nights, the lost Sundays.

We love it all. Embrace it all. Suck it all in and let it shape and form us into something amazing, something with depth and breadth and subtle variations in texture and color, the likes of which we’ve never seen.

We love what we do..the highs and lows and weave it all into what we are, and what we are to become. Inspiring us to work harder and longer and smarter than we did the day before.

So…uhhh…enough with this before we all get too mushy & carried away.

Now go ahead and eat our new blog and enjoy all our sun baked fun.

Any comments, suggestions and ramblings, post them in the comments box or better yet, shoot us a private mail.

See yah!

Video / { Threelogy } . Photo / { mangoRED + Stephen David }

Pier One Batangas Philippines

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S h o t   o n   l o c a t i o n  / { Serendra O N E + Bonifacio High Street Philippines }

M a k e U p / { Leo Posadas } . _H a i r / {Felicity Son + Gino Ferrer } . _S t y l i n g / { Geof Gonzales of ILoveYou }

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SEEING {RED}

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Getting hitched need not be a boring affair, at least not in those album photos you’ll be showing your kids and grandkids a couple of decades from now. MANGORED shows us how to add zing to the world of weddings.

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By Raydon L. Reyes

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The first thing you would see once you enter MangoRED’s office is a blue sofa and a large wide-screen LCD TV more than half the size of a door. Further back are the desktop computers surrounded by a myriad of stickers, plastic toys, a surfboard, and a collage of photos forming the image of Obama – all these hinting at the lack of any real planning when it comes to their space’s design. But from the start, MangoRED was never about making plans. The weird name itself just came up one day because the brothers and company founders Randall and Ryan Dagooc thought it “sounded funny.”

But it is this free-flowing, anything-goes approach to life that forms the core of their crafy in the world of gigantic cakes with plastic couples on top, women in white flowing dresses and veils. And two people who vow to be together until the earth turns over-or something like that.

What started as a mini-project between two brothers has since transformed into a team of photographers, graphic illustrators, and layout artists who share the vision of adding more zest to matrimonial memories. “People have this notion that weddings are the cheesy and corny photos,” asserts Randall, who is happily married himself. “What’s corny about some [wedding] photographers is that they’re not genuine of authentic. Everything comes template-based.”

Randall noticed that most wedding photos did not really show the identity of the bride and groom. And so in 2004, they began to experiment. One of their initial ideas was to make the couples in their photographs appear like cartoon characters by using a lot of light. The pictures that resulted made the couples look like sketches of people celebrating in a more colorful parallel world. They then shifted their style into imitating baby pictures from way back that rouse a sense of nostalgia. Then MangoRed posted their photos online. They eventually started getting some attention. “Posting your photos in a site works because people have time to ogle at them. One time, we even had a client from the US who discovered us just by searching ‘funky wedding photographers’ in Google,” Randall narrates, laughing.

It also helps when the ones who commission them are mostly young people who understand what they are trying to do. Between puffs of smoke, Randall explains, “Many young people are also exposed to culture, and they’re looking for someone who can relate with them. We cater to thos who have similar personalities as we do.”

The team of MangoRed also makes it a point never to let the technicalities of photography get in the way of their creative vision: “I once reached that point where I was too conscious about ISO, aperture, shutter speed…and before I knew it, I lost my idea for the photo. Never let the technicalities hinder you from achieving what you imagine is the perfect photo.”

What started off as a n artistic effort to spice up the shots of people getting hitched is evolving beyond the wedding scene. From portraits to magazine shoots. You never know what to expect from this photo-graphics savant duo.

www.MangoRed.com

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M a n i l a   P o l o   C l u b   P h i l i p p i n e s

Gown / { Mich Dulce }. Make Up / { Lala Flores } . Flowers / { Margarita Fores } . Video / { Threelogy }

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Shangri La Mactan Resort. Cebu City Philippines

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Photography / MangoRED

Styling + Creative Direction / Geof Gonzales of ILoveYou Concept + Production Design / Mimi Sanson of ILoveYou

MakeUp / Jake Galvez  . Hair / Chris Rodil

Styling Assistant / Jam San Pedro . Production Assistant / Darryl Recina

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Beyond the ridge to the left, you asked me what I want
Between the trees and cicadas singing around the pond

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” I   s p e n t   a n   h o u r   w i t h   y o u ,   s h o u l d   I   w a n t   a n y t h i n g   e l s e ? “

We sail in the smallest boat
Sleep just when the wind is low

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Y o u   s e e   f r o m   t h e   s p a r r o w ‘ s   h e i g h t  .  M e ,  s e e k i n g   y o u   e v e r y   n i g h t

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D i d   t h e   w i n e   m a k e   h e r   d r e a m   O f   t h e   f a r ,   d i s t a n t   s p r i n g ?

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Or a bed full of hens Or the ghost of a friend?

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Magazines and paperbacks, the perfect rainy day

The scent of roses and raspberry leaves

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B l u e   b i r d   l a u g h s   o n   a   f a l l e n   t r e e   S u n s e t   b u r n s   o n   a   q u i e t   s e a

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Pull the braid from your hair, so it falls down your back
I just passed Spartanburg, cigarettes on the dash

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Will you wait on the swing, in the front of the house?

or the steps of the porch in a white cotton blouse?

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Lately she don’t care for a warmer breeze Or shade around the base Of the maple trees

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Tonight we’re the sea and the salty breeze
The milk from your breast is on my lips
And lovelier words from your mouth to me
When salty my sweat and fingertips

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I recall the sun in our faces stuck and leaning on graces

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I’ve a picture of you

On our favorite day

B Y  T H E   S E A S I D E

There’s a bird stealing bread That I brought
out from under our nose

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So I’ll clear the road,

the gravel And the thornbush in your path
That burns a scented oil That I’ll drip into your bath

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The water’s there to warm you
And the earth is warmer when you laugh

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And I was greener, greener than the hill where flowers grew and the sun shone still

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There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon
Summer warmed the open window of your honeymoon

S p r i n g   w a s   o n   t h e   m o u n t a i n   w e   c l i m b e d   u p o n

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Stopped to see how high
And how far we’d gone

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I said, “Love is waiting
And better days”
She smiled and placed a kiss
On my waiting face
Promise what you will
Something good for me

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T i m e   w i l l   t a k e   i t   a l l   A n d   i t   w i l l ,   y o u ‘ l l   s e e

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T o n i g h t   w e ‘ r e   t h e   s e a   a n d   t h e   r h y t h m

The waves and the wind and night is black
Tonight we’re the scent of your long black hair
Spread out like your breath across my back

Our hands they seek the end of afternoons
My hands believe and move over you

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Your hands they move like waves over me
Beneath the moon, tonight, we’re the sea

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Y o u   p i c k   a   p l a c e   T h a t ‘  s  w h e r e   I’ l l   b e

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W e   s i t   o n   t h e   l a w n

And she winks and she yawns
At the sound that the setting sun makes
As it lights up the lake and goes down

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And you ease my troubles with your hands
Like the night puts a calm on the valley
Moved my shaking castle from the sand
When you gave me your soul for to marry

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CLARK FIELD PAMPANGA > ANGELES COUNTRY CLUB > PHILIPPINES

HMU  > ALLAN / BAMBI FUENTES SALON

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S O N G / L Y R I C S  >  S A M  B E A M  O F  I R O N  &  W I N E

A L L  I M A G E S  A R E  S H O T  W I T H  A  M A M I Y A  R B 6 7  P O L A R O I D  B A C K  C A M E R A

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Sunday morning, my Rebecca sleeping in with me again
There’s a kid outside the church kicking a can
When the cedar branches twist she turns her collar to the wind
The weather can close the world within its hand.

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E m p t y  d r i v e w a y  a n d   a  f l a g p o l e  t a p  B r e e z e  a t   h e r  b a c k  a n d  h e r   h a n d s   i n  h e r  l a p

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H o w  d o  y o u  b u s t  t h e  c l o u d s ?
G r a s s  o n  y o u r   b a c k  b e e n  h a n g i n g  i n  t h e  a i r
I  w a n n a  s c o p e  y o u  o u t

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I f  I  d i e d  a t   t w e n t y - t h r e e   w o u l d  y o u  b u r y  m e  i n  t h e  s u n s h i n e ?

When the grass grows over me
Let me know you still love me
Never put nobody else above me

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A boy with a coin he found in the weeds
With bullets and pages of trade magazines

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A girl with a bird she found in the snow
Then flew up her gown and that’s how she knows

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R e a d i n g  l e t t e r s
A n c i e n t  c o i n s
A n d   p o c k e t s  f u l l  o f  e a r t h

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Bathtub running Joint hands
And naked as a bird
That’s a vision I’ll remember

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H a n d  i n  h a n d   y o u  w a t c h   t h e  s u n  g o  d o w n

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C o l o r e d  l u l l a b y e  o f  G o d
S h e  w e a r s   h e r  m o t h e r ‘ s  o l d  n i g h t g o w n
S l e e p i n g  w i t h  a  n i g h t l i g h t  o n

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White sheet blowing on a short clothesline

New tree bending to the breeze

This clock’s beautiful but can’t keep time

What’s that scar on both your knees?

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You returned the book unfinished about a girl with raven hair
And a gentleman, her lover, who presented her a mare

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NUSA DUA

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INDONESIA

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BEN KAMARCK { a n d } JEN CHAO

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Mooban Talay Resort

KOH SAMET ISLAND

THAILAND

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