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Sarah Gaugler is a Filipino-American tattoo artist, visual artist, designer, illustrator, model, actress and musician. She is best known for her signature line art and being the singer of the electronic rock duo Turbo Goth.
Gaugler majored in Advertising at the University of Santo Tomas, where she graduated with honors receiving a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and Design. As a student, she quickly made her mark in the Filipino art industry. She illustrated and designed the artwork for the Filipino pop rock band Orange and Lemons' last studio album, Moonlane Gardens. The album art went on to win her the NU Rock Awards for Best Album Packaging Design in 2007, and then The Awit Awards in 2008 for the same category.
Gaugler’s artworks have been exhibited in the Philippines through many group shows. She has been featured in galleries such as Gallery Big, Gallery 9, Rockwell, and Robinson’s Galleria. Her first solo show was in 2011 called 'Dead Lines and Tattoo Designs'. The show was a success and it paved the way for her first major exhibition in 2012 called 'Condemnant Quod Non Intellegunt' at The Crucible Gallery, Megamall.
Gaugler is currently a professional tattoo artist in New York City. She began tattooing in 2008. Her distinct line art style and custom designs helped her build a steady clientele including many Filipino celebrities. In 2012, she opened her shop Snow Tattoo in Manila, and in 2015 the shop moved to the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan. [1] She was one of the judges at the Philippine tattoo competition, 'Tatularan 3' in 2012. In 2014, Spot.ph ranked Snow Tattoo one of the top ten tattoo shops in the Philippines. [2]
Gaugler’s modeling career began organically after she was featured in one of the Philippine’s national newspapers, The Philippine Daily Inquirer as an up-and-coming artist in 2007. The photo for the feature caught the eye of a photographer and stylist team and she was hired for her first photo shoot. As Gaugler was featured in more articles for her tattooing and art, more modeling requests would follow. Gaugler has been on the cover of UNO magazine in December 2009 and CLAVEL magazine in 2012. She has also been featured in numerous Philippine newspapers (Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, The Philippine Star), fashion and art magazines (Preview, Cosmopolitan, Status, Rogue Magazine), and other publications. She has been featured on billboards and print advertisements for Nestle Yogurt, Great Taste Coffee, Silverworks and Globe Tattoo Broadband.
Gaugler has made several appearances on TV. She became one of the finalists of the MYX VJ Search 2009 and participated in the online MTV Asia VJ Hunt in 2010. She has also dipped into acting for indie films like The Erotic Man in 2010 directed by Jørgen Leth, The Diplomat Hotel in 2012 directed by Chris Ad Castillo, Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo? in 2013 directed by Joyce Bernal, and Gemini in 2014, directed by Ato Bautista. She has done modeling for several music videos of bands and local artists since 2007, as well as several television commercials.
Apart from her visual arts and passion for tattooing, Gaugler is also the vocalist of the electronic rock duo Turbo Goth which formed in 2008. The duo recently[ when? ] performed at South by Southwest (SXSW) 2014 in Austin, Texas, [3] and the 2015 CMJ Music Marathon in New York.
The Araneta Coliseum, also currently known by naming rights sponsorship as Smart Araneta Coliseum, is an indoor multi-purpose sports arena that is part of the Araneta City in the Cubao area of Quezon City, Philippines. Nicknamed "the Big Dome", it is one of the largest indoor arenas in Asia, and it is also one of the largest clear span domes in the world. The dome measures approximately 108.0 meters (354.3 ft) making it the largest dome in Asia from its opening in 1960 until 2001 when it was surpassed by the Ōita Stadium in Japan with a dome measuring 274.0 meters (899.0 ft).
Valentina is a supervillain created by Mars Ravelo and Nestor Redondo who first appeared in the second episode of the Darna series published in the Philippine comics Pilipino Komiks. One of the most recognizable supervillainess characters in the Philippines, she is the archenemy of Darna. She was originally a bitter, deformed woman born from ordinary human parents with venomous snakes on her head that appears to be like hair. When she grew up, she killed her parents and was subsequently taken in by a serpent creature named Kobra. Valentina was soon referred to as "goddess of the snakes".
Zsazsa Zaturnnah is a fictional comic book superheroine created by Filipino illustrator and graphic designer Carlo Vergara. The character first appeared in the Filipino graphic novel, Ang Kagila-gilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran ni Zsazsa Zaturnnah, originally a self-published work in December 2002 consisting of two parts. It was later distributed and merged in a single volume by Visprint Inc.. The graphic novel won a National Book Award in 2003 given by the Manila Critics Circle. It was the 12th bestselling fiction book among Philippine publications in 2005 based on the records of National Book Store.
Venesa Moreno Lacsamana, professionally known as Alma Moreno, is a Filipina actress and politician.
Cecilia "Cheche" Aldaba Lim-Lázaro, is an acclaimed Filipino broadcast journalist and the founding President of Probe Productions Inc. as well as an Editor-at-Large of online news website Rappler.
Rhea Santos-de Guzman is a Filipino broadcast journalist, television host, and newscaster currently based in Canada. She is known for co-anchoring GMA Network's morning show Unang Hirit and hosting several news and public affairs programs including Reporter's Notebook and Tunay na Buhay. After 19 years of being a broadcast journalist, she left the Philippines to study and eventually resume her profession in Canada.
The Philippine Star is an English-language print and digital newspaper in the Philippines and the flagship brand of the Philstar Media Group. First published on July 28, 1986, by veteran journalists Betty Go-Belmonte, Max Soliven and Art Borjal, it is one of several Philippine newspapers founded after the 1986 People Power Revolution.
Allison Elizabeth Harvard is an American model, artist, actress, and Internet celebrity, best known as the runner-up of both America's Next Top Model Cycles 12 and 17: All-Stars. Harvard has appeared on a number of magazine covers, such as Harper's Bazaar, L'Officiel, ONE, WeTheUrban, and one of the Philippines' leading fashion magazines, Mega. She also featured as the brand endorser of the Belo Medical Group and covered their special edition magazine.
Sassa Jimenez is a Filipina fashion designer. She was selected as one of the presenters at the bi-annual Philippine Fashion Week. In 2009, she focused her "club glam" style towards "partyphiles" by using snakeskin and metallic. A report in Status Magazine suggested that in 2012 she is moving away from her "signature pretty and sweet designs" and playing with leather, dark colors, and different silhouettes.
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Joey Albert is a Filipina pop and jazz singer, musician, lyricist, and songwriter. An alumna of St. Theresa's College Manila and Assumption College San Lorenzo, she began her professional singing career in 1981. In 1982, she was proclaimed winner of the Dream Girl Filipina contest on The Party, a television program hosted by Ariel Ureta over the now defunct Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation. Albert became a member of The New Minstrels, a popular Philippine show band during the 1970s and the 1980s. Apart from Albert, The New Minstrels also produced many other outstanding Filipino musical artists.
Lia Cruz is a Filipina television host, news and weather anchor, sportscaster, podcaster, writer and producer based in the Philippines.
Solenn Marie Adea Heussaff-Bolzico is a Filipino actress, model and singer. She was one of the official castaways of Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Showdown. She made it to the Final Three. In December 2010, she signed a recording contract with MCA Music, a movie contract with Regal Entertainment, and a television contract with GMA Network and GMA Artist Center.
Alodía Almira Arraiza Gosiengfiao is a Filipina cosplayer, model, TV presenter, singer, vlogger, actress and co-founder of Tier One Entertainment. She is also known as Senpai Alodia of the Philippines. As a celebrity endorser, she is one of the ambassadors and VJ for Animax Asia known as the "Ani-mates" and co-host of ABS-CBN's prank show Laugh Out Loud. She has been featured in various magazines, newspapers and TV shows locally and abroad. She appeared on the Filipino FHM 100 Sexiest Women poll, ranking No. 1 in 2009, No. 2 in 2010 and No. 3 in 2012; she posed as the cover girl for that magazine on its July 2013 issue. She was named by DOS Magazine as one of the Most Influential Women in the Philippines.
Turbo Goth is a NYC based, electronic rock duo from the Philippines. Formed in 2008, Turbo Goth is composed of Sarah Gaugler and Paolo Peralta. Turbo Goth's music is semi-experimental electronic music with distorted bass synths backed by aggressive heavy beats and guitars, stitched together by light vocals. Turbo Goth has had numerous performances in the Philippines and at music festivals in Asia, but after their show at South by Southwest in 2014, they decided to relocate, for a broader audience, finding a new home in New York by the end of that year. Turbo Goth's notable international performances include the 2011 Baybeats Music Festival in Singapore, 2012 CAMA Festival in Vietnam, and shows around the U.S.
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Timothy "Tim" Yap is a Filipino TV and radio host, actor, newspaper editor, creative director, columnist, club owner and eventologist from Manila, Philippines. He also owns several clubs in the Philippines. He currently hosts The Tim Yap Show which airs weeknights on GMA Network, edits a pop culture section of The Philippine Star entitled "Supreme", and hosted the morning radio talk show The Playground on 99.5 PLAYFM.
Christiana Jade de Silva-Ong is a Filipino art director, painter, illustrator and graphic designer. She was known as a "Gifted Child" and a "Promil Kid", being featured in an infant formula ad in 1998. She had three major one-woman exhibits and now a senior art director.
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