The Wily Filipino

Nuts!

My mom's a "villager" -- she doesn't actually call herself that, but it's what Lemax Christmas Village nuts call themselves, apparently. I'm not even sure how she got started on it, but a few years, hours of eBay trawling (on my and Bulletproof Vest's part), a few tons of styrofoam, and many balikbayan boxes later, the result can be seen here.

I don't have a tripod, so my photographs aren't that great, though I have to say the blur sometimes works. (My brother and his friend Cathy are better at it, so I'm hoping they upload theirs at some point.) But on my Flickr set you don't get that many details, including the styrofoam tunnel (complete with icicles), and the few dozen other buildings. However, you do get an accidentally blurry shot of the mayor coming down the steps of City Hall shot from, say, a helicopter; it reminded me somehow of a Gerhard Richter painting, so that's why I chose it as the graphic above.