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Paint It, Beige

Robinsons Residences, Manila

By Tommy Nagle

We lived in Manila for six months. The high-rise apartment building we moved into was located in the middle of the Ermita district.

From the roof there were panoramic views of the wider Metro Manila area:

...the sea front:

...as well as the buildings nearby:

One day we received an email telling us that over the course of a few weeks, a crew would be giving our building a fresh coat of paint.

I was working when suddenly something odd happened. A pair of paint-spattered shoes, and then legs, appeared on our balcony, 16 floors up.

Many hundreds of feet in the air, the only thing preventing each guy from falling was a harness strapped to old plank of wood.

One word:

Nope.

They tried to prevent paint dripping onto the pool below, but as you can see, they weren't entirely successful.

Come visit the pool! (Now with 100% more beige eggshell lustre)

[Not entirely related, but I didn't know where else to put it...]

One weekend morning I decide to take a trip on the elevators, and take a photo at the same spot on every floor of the building.

Now you too can imagine what it would look like for a whole skyscraper to retract underground.

All photographs taken with Panasonic Lumix GH4, processed in Lightroom.

All photographs taken with Panasonic Lumix GH4, processed in Lightroom.