February 2012
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Hey there! Catch the SINE: REEL film fest at the Beato auditorium and witness short feature films by us, the CommArts seniors. Please support our entry, “SESSIONS”. Heave ho! “SESSIONS” A TITS Production A Pietro Santiago Joint Written by Racine Anne Castro Beato Angelico Auditorium February 27, 28, 29 AND March 2 Screening time for all films: 10am-12pm and 1-5pm FREE...
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La Manille
This City, this city that both thrills me and tires me, this city that’s so familiar yet its streets lose me, this city that radiates home yet at times feel so empty—
I seriously need a break, my procrastinating ways are returning (it’s like an illness, honestly)—I’m unmotivated, why? I practically have everything one needs to push on forward going for me yet...
Hong Kong lates--
Does the saying ‘better late than never’ still count here?
CTMA Centre, I have finally found where the trail made of rainbows and unicorn tears has led me
I buy magazines which I will never be able to understand. I’m such a sucker for pretty pictures.
Polaroids: magically adds beauty to everything you...
See, see how first impressions often fail. Old polaroids along with others taken between 2000 to 2010 and compiled by casting director Douglas Perrett along with his first impressions for his forthcoming book, Wild Things—truth be told I don’t really care much for high-fashion and it’s many trivial this-and-that’s, I just find the ‘mug-shots’ polaroids of...
Dampa tayo, dali!
Went to the Dampa (wet market) near MOA a few weeks ago with the mother and my sisters. Why can’t I cook like that? Why can’t I cook at all? WHY? Chos.
Day in, day out
clockwise from upper left: the homie & child with her new mohawk, my alarm, friendship bracelets I did for the child & I, matilda being pudgy and cute
Neglecting this blog lately, my apologies. I’ve been sort-of-busy-but-not-really. Y’know when you have so many things to do all piling up that instead of actually getting started with ‘em you just sort of do a...
DIY Sea Salt Spray
My hair has always been in the top 3 when it comes to things I like about myself (physically)—and while, yes the rhetorical question ’what’s not to like’ never gets old for me there are still those times when my body fails me. I chopped my hair off into a pixie cut for my senior prom, hadn’t agreed with me since. I constantly try to grow it out, yes...
Self-proclaimed bag lady
Guess who got great Alexander Wang Emile Tote knock-offs? :> Aren’t they pretty? I’ve been looking for one for ages, my waiting and lusting over it finally paid off I suppose. I got the grey one from SM Megamall, from a brand called Parisian, they produce great shoes at affordable prices as well. I think it’s a Filipino brand, someone correct me if I’m wrong though....
an artist is a person who produces things that...
I never really got abstract art, probably never will—that’s why I’m already anticipating this thing to be a complete disaster, or is that what the goal is for abstract art? Don’t know, don’t have the energy to think for now. *le sigh* I’ll proabably just go all-out Jackson Pollock on this one. College really does teach you unnecessary yet meaningful things.
January 2012
18 posts
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WE NOW NEED 500,000 SIGNATURES. STOP THE NEWEST... →
A new global treaty could allow corporations to police what we do on the Internet. Last week we successfully pushed back the US censorship bills — if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat — add your voice now!
Anonymous, the hero that internet deserves
Last January 20 the feds closed down Megaupload, the ‘50+ million daily visits and 4% of all web traffic’ file-hosting website for, you guessed it, copyright infringement! Upon witnessing all this (and probably having been called out with a huge symbol in the sky) hacker collective Anonymous proceeded to bitch slap the US government, repeatedly by killing down the websites of...
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An afternoon in Baclaran
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Hong Kong in the eyes of instagram
Managed to snap up a few photos in instagram while on holiday in Hong Kong. I’m beating myself up for not getting enough photos—tried to live ‘outside of the lens’ for a change. It was a lot easier on the shoulders I’ll tell you that, still wish I snapped up a few souvenirs though.
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there is beauty in purity
Finals plates for one of my subjects last term. Had a few minutes for each plate, what do you think?
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seeing Gray
A plate I did for one of my subjects last term.
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Makinang-kinang
Been cleaning our room out a bit when I saw my jewelry box, I thought I’d organize it a bit and polish some of the jewelry. I ended up making a mess and just taking photos of some of my favorite bits and pieces. Most were given to me—not really a jewelry person—hence my ‘favoring’ them.
My mum had this made for my sisters and I. F**ked if I know why she did...
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Midnight run
Saw this little boy at the immigration area on our way home from Macau. Couldn’t seem to take a decent photo of him (and he was so willing to have his photo taken :| ).
a bit hesitant at first—
this is why I love going to new places, discovering new people— the hopeless romantic in me thrives on opportunities like these, ‘meeting’ new people, exploring new...
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How much does this bother you? Enough to stop... →
We love our iPhones and iPads.
We love the prices of our iPhones and iPads.
We love the super-high profit margins of Apple, Inc., the maker of our iPhones and iPads.
And that’s why it’s disconcerting to remember that the low prices of our iPhones and iPads — and the super-high profit margins of Apple — are only possible because our iPhones and iPads are made with labor practices...
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Streets from the perspective of a stranger
I have a love-hate relationship with this place. The diversity, the constant changes, the new and unique, I admire how the streets you wind into surprise you every time. I love seeing the people all collide together, you don’t see much of these in La Manille—then again you don’t (intentionally or otherwise) feel ostracized in Manila either.
One of Mongkok’s many...
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Baby's day out
I’m thinking of making a (scrap)book+story book of sorts containing photos, notes and bits and pieces of the daughter’s day-to-day life. Here are some of the photos I might put in—
Baby in a bookstore
Baby in the backseat
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Holiday wishlist no.4: listen to your mothers...
Just got back from a trip to Hong Kong, land of all things that are Holy in the 1/6 world. Had loads of fun of course but I do feel bad about not having enough time to discover everything the city has to offer, and I deeply regret not purchasing the Clarisonic Mia when I had the chance *le creis*.
I initially didn’t think that I needed a tool to help wash my face since I’ve been...
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I should really start working my way down on my...
“A year ago, Michael Chrisman placed a pinhole camera in Toronto’s Port Lands and aimed it — as best one can aim such a camera — at the city skyline.
For 365 straight days and nights, light has crept through the pinhole, slowly building an exposure on a piece of photosensitive paper.
Ponder that.”
(via thestar)
December 2011
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“The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for...”
– Gertrude Stein (Midnight in Paris, 2011)
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Holiday wishlist no.3: wherein my hypocrisy...
I used to be a practicing vegetarian. Now, my relationship with burger has been mended and I can no longer imagine life without bacon.
I have never liked the phrase ‘treated like cattle’. It denotes this idea of inhumane treatment towards man, an egregious act. So, why does one treat his/her fellow human like ‘cattle’? And why do we treat cattle like...
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Advanced Happy Holidays everyone!!!!!1!!