Instagram Contest!

#POETRYOFMOVEMENT Photo Contest on Instagram!

WANT TO WIN USD500, 2 PAIRS OF LEGGINGS FROM LIQUIDO AND A FREE PHOTOSHOOT FROM BRIAN CRAWFORD? Keep on reading!

CONTEST RULES

1. Follow @My_Liquido and @BrianCrawfordPhotography on Instagram
2. Post an original photo of yourself/your friend/ you and your friends in your best active pose
3. Check @BrianCrawfordPhotography for inspiration
4. Brownie points may be awarded to contestants who wear Liquido Leggings in their photos, but you can wear anything you want
5. The description of your photo must include this: #PoetryOfMovement @BrianCrawfordPhotography @My_Liquido
6. Contest will start on 20 July -  20 September 2014
7. Brian Crawford will choose his TOP 10 favourite photos and they will be reposted on @My_Liquido and @BrianCrawfordPhotography for voting
8. Voting starts 21 until 27 September 2014 at 12:00pm (U.S.A - California, GMT - 7)
9. Number of votes on both @My_Liquido and @BrianCrawfordPhotography will be summed up to find the winner!
10. Winner will be announced on 28 September 2014   

PRIZES

• USD500 - This amount will be transferred to you via paypal. 
• 2 Liquido leggings - view the range here: http://www.liquido.com.my/funky-fitness-pants-1.html (We will ship worldwide to you at no extra cost!)
• Free photoshoot by Brian Crawford (based in Laguna Beach, California) - If a photoshoot cannot be arranged due to geographical distance, Brian Crawford will give you a photography workshop over Skype instead.

JUDGING

• The TOP 10 photos will be selected by Brian Crawford based on quality of image, composition and if it has some attributes of Brian Crawford Photography.
• The TOP 10 photos will then be re-posted on the Instagram accounts of both @My_Liquido and @BrianCrawfordPhotograhy and the winner will be the photo with the most number of votes (total sum of votes from both accounts).

CONTEST CONDITIONS

• Open to EVERYONE from EVERYWHERE!
• This contest will run on Instagram only
• Public accounts only. No private/ghost/giveaway accounts
• Unlimited entries, however, each post must be different. 
• Posts must stay up the entire competition
• Liquido and Brian Crawford Photography will have the rights to use any photos that have been submitted for any future promotional activities. 

Weekly 'Friends Of Liquido' post!

Time for our weekly dose of 'Friends of Liquido' from all around the world!

In this weekly posts, I share photos of friends and customers who have posted beautiful photos of themselves, in active poses in their Liquido gear.

This week, I discovered photographer Brian Crawford who produces art out of active photoshoots.  Check out some of his beautiful work below:

Breath taking, isn't it?

How does she do it?!?

Timing is everything in this photo. Brian must have taken a TON of photos before he managed to get this perfect shot, of the toes of both yogis, touching the sun. Simply beautiful.

Legging on the right can be found *here*

Our friends from Singapore say hello in this photo below :)

Leggings on the left can be found *here*

Leggings on the right can be found *here*

Our new print, the 'Alchemist' makes it's debut in our blog in this photo below :)

Leggings below can be found *here*

And below, our sisters in Australia greet us with their love, light and happiness :)

Butterfly leggings available *here*

Marble Aqua leggings available *here*

And finally, I end this post with an awesome quote by the beloved Cookie Monster

Back in the Liquido Headquarters

Among others, one of the purposes of my trip to Brazil was to pay a visit to the boss of Liquido and to check out their new collection.

So here I am finding myself back in the office that I have visited so many times in the past 2 years. (Wow. Has it really been 2 years already?!!)

Liquido wall which contains some of their magazine covers from 2001

Liquido Hall of fame. Fotos of the celebrities that they have worked with

Their warehouse which I have spent HOURS AND HOURS shopping and wondering which stocks to bring back to be introduced in Malaysia & Singapore. Most people have no clue of the amount of work that goes behind the scenes of running an online clothing store.

More shelves of their worldwide popular funky leggings

Of course all work and no play makes Nadia a really dull girl. Below are some photos which shows me at play :)

Did you know that Brazil is full of Italian immigrants? As a result, they have some really fantastic Italian restaurants and some of the best pizza outside Italy. Some Brazilians even swear that pizza in Sao Paulo is better than pizza in Italy. It's hard to refute - pizza in Sao Paulo is PRETTY FRIGGIN GOOD. The photo above was taken at a really chic Italian Restaurant, close to the centre of Sao Paulo. 

Biking at Ibirapuare Park on a sunny Sunday morning. Ibirapuara Park is beautiful. And biking through Sao Paulo on Sundays is delightful. 

Sunday afternoon BBQ!

Nom nom nom

Finally. Just wanted to share this photo because I thought it was ironic. This photo was taken the weekend before the World Cup 2014 started. The host cities were all busy preparing, which includes placing relevant signs to the football stadiums at the Metro (subway) stations. 

The poster above is a map of how to get to the football stadium by metro (subway). In the middle of this poster, you can see a small red sticker (obviously placed by a protestor) which reads 'Nao via ter Copa'. Translated from Portuguese to English, it means "There won't be a world cup".

Unless you have been living in a cave that has no internet access and you do not have access to cable tv or radio, you must be (at the very, very least) vaguely aware that a majority of the Brazilian population was against Brazil hosting the World Cup. 

This has been the most expensive World Cup ever, due to the fact that 12 cities are hosting this event. 12 different stadiums had to be either refurbished or totally built from scratch. 2 out of the 12 cities do not even have a local football team and the stadium will become a giant white elephant once the World Cup is over. All this when Brazil is lacking the basic necessities such as public schools, adequate public transportation and hospitals. 

Riots were going on until the DAY OF the World Cup.

Even though I never ran into any of the riots personally while I was there, you can sense the lack of excitement with most Brazilians. 

Well, this was during the first week of the World Cup. I flew back to Malaysia within the first week. Now that Brazilian football team has made it into the quarter finals, seems like Brazilians have forgotten that they were against the World Cup in the first place. 

Altho the Brazilian football team's performance has been fairly unimpressive, I am rooting for them. Most of us don't think that Brazil will win the World Cup this year, but there has been a lot of surprises, so you never know. 

I think the funniest comment to come out from the World Cup to date is "You are more likely to be bitten by Suarez than to be bitten by a shark". LOL ! According to this article published in The Metro, this is proven to be statistically true: http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/26/its-official-youre-more-likely-to-be-bitten-by-luis-suarez-than-a-shark-4776523/

DOUBLE LOL! 

And that's all for today folks! <3