Hello everyone. This is my first time to join this contest and I really am so excited about it. Thanks to @digi-me for encouraging me to submit an entry. The contest post, by the way, can be found here if you haven't heard of this contest yet. Do read up about it and I encourage you to try this out.
Well, here goes my maiden post to this contest.
I was driving to work a few weeks ago and I happened to notice these murals along the wall of one of the public schools in my city, the Davao City National High School, the premier public secondary educational institution in Davao Region. It is located along F. Torres Street, Davao City, Philippines.
I live in Davao City, Philippines. It is located in the southern part of the country in the island called Mindanao. The original settlers of Mindanao was a tribe called Manobos that lived along the central and northern part of the island while those of Davao Region were the Mandayas. These tribal folks are of Malayan descent and have been in Mindanao as far back as the 14th century. They are considered the first settlers of the southern part of the country. The Manobos and Mandayas have similar lifestyles and appearances. They are an agricultural people of the slash and burn type. This accounts for the wrinkled and dry facial skins especially of the old folks as a result of overexposure to the sun and other elements. Their womenfolk have a fondness for trinkets and beads and other ornamentals which they wear with elaborate and colorful costumes.
These paintings were done by Archie Oclos, a Street Artist / Muralist whose body of works focuses centrally on the plights of farmers, indigenous people and socio-political themes. In these murals he hopes to convey the delicate condition of these tribal people who have been displaced from their homes because of logging, mining, industrialization and modernization. He is a well-known artist in my city and the country as well. Here he is painting one of the murals depicted above. This is not my photo. I just included it here as I think it would be a cool idea to see how such art is made. Source of photo is indicated below.
And finally, the whole wall (or at least most of it) as I saw it from my car the first time with the photo taken just a few days ago. The school building can be seen behind the wall.
It's a big school and I am sure there are some other murals to be found in it's other walls. I will find the time to pass by here again and check out if there are other street art to be found.
Meanwhile, that's all for now. I hope you enjoyed this post as much as I did making it. Best of luck to all participants. May you all be safe and healthy. Have a great week ahead!
(All photos are mine.)
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The facial details are so fine, great find
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Whats with the constant self-upvote brother?
Because of constant downvotes on every post/comment I make (anddumbcunts is downvote spamming everyone) and because I can., it harms no one, its nothing to do with anyone but my own HP. The OP sure doesnt care. Also, not a "brother". Thanks.
Well, anddumbcunt does nothing to your rep or comments, its just an annoying bot.
Well, its kinda seen as spam and abusive, so it came up in a discord where we fight abuse on the chain :)
It would be better if you would give the upvote out to other people ans their posts instead of yourself.
I have witnessed Hive userfaces minimize my comments and posts due to it. My upvoting myself is not spam, sorry if you dont like it. Pretty sure liberty is a big deal on this blockchain... I don't hang out on discord or care about some others opinions on what I do with my HP, it helps fund the account which helps curate other accounts. I give upvotes out to people nearly everyday, plus engagement tokes, and more. Me upvoting the accounts own posts/comments also allows the account to fund more of this. The vast vast majority of users do not care about the seld vote debate. And, if people wanna debate it, they should learn what spam and abuse is.
Wait, so since its your hp you can do with it what you want?
Thats correct though, because that means that I can use my hp however I want. Right? :D
Well, it also funds the account to upvote others though xD
If you wanna go spam and troll, like the thing you are pretending to complain about, then go bother someone else. You are the one you is spamming and trolling.
Spam is you highjacking this OP and my engagement thread on it to talk about your feelings on upvotes. Abuse is the violent people who use this platform and attack others or try to spread dangerous idealogies.
At the low end, abuse is the jag off who downvotes everything anyone comments or posts because people downvoted their other account who spammed every post they made (see previous comments about the downvote bot). Me using my HP to vote how I want, not spam, not abuse. Even if some people ona discord chat disagree. Last time I checked, this is Hive not Discord.
It was a friendly reminder though. All I did was I told it have come up in a discord for review.
So stupid being mad about me mentioning it x)
The self upvote debate is some old news, thanks. Like Steem era old.
Maybe look up friendly. Not mad. Usually the upset person is the one trolling, which is you.