ONE ALEXANDRA TRESE. So everybody else has their version of Alexandra Trese, Budgette Tan and Ka-Jo Baldisimo's protagonist in the talked-about occult-themed comic book published by VisPrint, now I have mine. :) It's a projection of Alexandra when she's 20 and very, very, voluptuous. Seen here, too.
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TWO BICYLCE WHEELS I was browsing through posts by Scott Schumann, The Sartorialist, and I chanced upon this picture of a guy riding a bike. Awesome bike huh?
I suddenly missed having a bike. Therefore, I shall devote my next, next, paycheck into buying a bike bike bike! A very, very, nice one. And then I'll have to fund my "Operation Super-Size Me" a.k.a. "fatten up yo skinny size one model type ass" lol. :)
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THREE AD AGENCIES I have been hunting down ad agencies left and right, in vain, might I add? Well, the hunt would be so fruitful if it hadn't for some agency's freeze hiring policies. Well that's life, eh? Makati and Ortigas ad agencies, hear my call (and take time to read my supercalifragilisticexpialidocious resume. lol)
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FOUR FAIRIES ARE MISSED. I miss Encantadia. Now that the actors from the original cast have been dispersed into another station, needless to say, GMA 7 will have a hard time cooking up a new one. Gosh, I hope they don't make a movie.

Labels: thought balloons

Labels: graphic design

Finally able to watch the Coraline movie by Henry Selick at Zeno's place. The movie wasn't much but Zeno's place was. Decorated with his obra maestra's that kill. I loved the neatness and the aircon. The minimal furniture, and the spacious floor area.. well, kinda.

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The MRT line 3 is being hurried up. I wonder why? 2010 election? lol

I hope lives are easier and safer after the construction.

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Okay. I'm having this intership at this local men's clothing brand. Why? I want a side-career in fashion, that's why. Why this particular brand? Because I used to see that this brand goes up to par with other international and forward brands--at least before it diverted its image into a more relaxed line--replicating a more Ralph Lauren image, as the brand manager put it. Anyway. My dilemma is this. I want to be in some place where I can use my forward thinking. We already have centuries and centuries of the usual button-downs and t-shirts. It's risky, but we should have something apt with the times--at least in the cutthroat world of fashion. I'm just sad that the image of the brand I'm interning in is in contrast to my style philosophy. Just sad. I'll have to think of something to do before this dilemma digs in deep into my eject-self-from-internship veins.

Labels: thought balloons

Created a folding clutch bag from our old sofa seat cover. Bow.

Step 1: Cut material in equal lengths and find a zipper big enough to accomodate your material. Step 2: Double the thread on your needle (to make it stronger) and start doing close running stitches for the zipper. Do minimized running stitches. Make them so close to each other so that the stitch would be so tight. Go back along the stitch to make the stitches look like machine stitch. This might be tiresome but it would tighten the stitches altogether ensuring a really durable bag. Do the same on the sides of the material to properly close it.
Step 3: After you're done with all the sides and stitches, turn the material inside out and flatten every side. Since I used synthetic material here, I turned the bag inside out and flattened it by slipping it under a thick (and I mean thICK) pile of newspapers which I later sat on for a more flattened-out result.

Voila! A folding clutch bag. This one's perfect for my phone notebook and my planner. Actually, those were all what I intend to put here. haha And I made this just for those two. haha

Labels: do-it-yourself

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Redeemed cover. Nuff said. Heart Evangelista on June's issue of Sen se& Sty le. However, the cover blurbs are not cooperating with the ferocious cover photo. They could have made the L in "The EssenList" in bold typeface but they had to extend it. Right. More here.

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SLab’s smaller gallery 20Square proudly presents new work by artist Bea Camacho in Disconnect The Dots from June 2-June 20,2009. The mixed media pieces explore spaces of separation through unorthodox maps. The main piece of the show, An analysis of relative distance (Family map, 1983-2009), charts the artist’s family location through the years via a series of boxes which are colored using a color-numbering system. The colors correspond to the international dial codes of countries—Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, USA, UK, and so on—where they have lived as a family unit, or as individuals. Rather than attempting to create connections, these works deliberately engage in a process of taking apart and aim to show the “in-between”. As a construct of the disconnection, Camacho will be mounting the other half of the show at Finale Gallery.

Disconnect The Dots will have its opening reception from 4-7pm on June 2, Tuesday at 20Square Gallery. It will run from June 2 to June 20, 2009. Bea Camacho will be giving an artist talk on June 9.

Disconnect The Dots will be shown along with Inner Spaces by Briccio Santos at Silverlens and Balana by Charlie Co at SLab (Silverlens Lab).Visit 20Square at 2/F YMC Bldg.II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City. Gallery hours are from 10am - 7pm Monday to Friday, and 1 - 6pm on Saturday. For more information, call 8160044 / 09052650873, email manage@silverlensphoto.com or visit slab.silverlensphoto.com

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I accidentally dropped my phone three times today. Once while I was sewing somethin and had to check my phone, and then two more, consecutively, while I was trying to get ready to go out. I fear I might have it changed. I hope it'll still be functional. I can't afford another phone right now. Tsk. :(
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Meanwhile, things might just be looking up. :)

Labels: life oh life

Labels: photo-rama, stranger than life

It was not until today that I noticed I liked reading stuff off S&S. Okay. Mabe just the Blossoming Issue. Working behind the scenes made me feel like the magazine was something like an arts and crafts project, or a magazine project we had during college. It was like, "Oh good, the magazine's out. :) Finally. :I" In short, it's nothing of a big deal.

This morning while on my way home I decided to get that complimentary beverage Erna gave me. I nervously sashayed into the Starbucks at SM North, inquired about the complimentary drink, bought a doughnut, and looking around, caught sight of the S&S April Issue. Intrigued by the fact that they had S&S on their racks, I took it out and read it. My drink was done and by the time I decided to finally go home--after browsing a much and commenting to myself how some layouts (on that certain issue) was stunning--my drink had already succumbed to the warm coffee shop temperature and I was forced to sip, sip, sip green tea frap.

I found it amusing trying to figure out which stories were PRs and which ones were photoshopped, which ones seemed a little to fanatic, and which ones were--and sir would be dismally dissappointed yet again, I know--errors! Hahaha I kind of miss the magazine, though. There I said it. One thing for sure, I will get my ass back on to Starbucks to read some more.

Labels: mag-ger, thought balloons

I used to think JanSport was cool because I see them on all the cool girls and guys. Then I saw people wearing fakes and thats that. I used to say I would buy one but I guess the fact that they are not water proof (unlike synthetic leather or patent or distressed leather bags which I have) made me retract my money. I was walking around and saw their window display for the kid's line: a 3D cartolina and felt-paper constructed visual display, I bet through blood, sweat, and tears. I like the fact that its precise, clean, well-constructed, and fun to look at. Suddenly I miss the times when my high school teachers required us to build some zany things out of thin air to pass for project or as final exams and wonder what could they possibly get from making us do those arts & crafts projects.

Attention PhotoshopDisasters.com. I found this hanging at SM North EDSA's Supermarket section, near the check-out lines. It got my attention because of the hideously huge head. I didn't like the fact that the girl's head was too big, freakishly big for the body at that. Her hair appeared to be thinning and very much inconsistent: thick on one side, thin on the other. not even a "before" photo for hair thinning would appear like that. We go now to the fully-made-up and ridiculously computerized uniform. Yes. That's a vector uniform fashioned out with help of burn, dodge, and shading to look like a uniform. Any photoshop user would know because the stiff and shadowed collars gave it away. And I don't need even need to mention the neck cropping but I just had to. There. Wait, there are no visible arms. Why? There should be because at the angle the girl's supposed body is positioned, the arm should be very visible. Unless of coure the girl mastered contortionism. Plus, don't tell me the arm vanished because of the red backpack strap. Tag-lish copy. Why? Last I know, SM Supermarkets don't do Taglish. Bubble thought balloon instead of one with a sharp and slender end. Why? It made the publication look passive rather than assertive. Little girl on the picture, wherever your body is, I hope you get it back fast. Props for the backpack, lunchbox, snack, and notebook page on the background. We can all let that font and color pass for now. SM Creatives, lotsa love. xoxo

I like seeing animals on the window at Bio Research before. BEFORE. Dogs would be ecstatic, sometimes lazily cute, but entertaining nonetheless. When I went there for out on a whim, I saw sorrow. The animals were just damn lonely, sad, and stressed, I bet more then ever. A dog was biting its leg, another lay motionless with an open mouth and with fluids which looked like puke and feces beneath its cage. I wish the caretakers would care/tend to the animals better. Sayang naman. Dun na lang ata sila mamamatay. Tsk Tsk. Attention PAWS!!!

Hugely satisfied with Lisa Lutz' The Spellman Files, I tried looking for more of the Spellman books. I found this in National Bookstore TriNoma. It's about 700 bucks. Good if I had the oney and the job. Bad if I don't, like right now. Amp. So I gotta get a new job. ASAP.

The orange marker on my sketch glows against the blue background of the TV screen. Statics are a thing of the past and now, there is only bluuuuuuuuuuue.

Forgot which European designer designed this but I'de love to have one, or have one made. So slick. It's perfect for Aeon Flux, I bet.

Labels: photo-rama, thought balloons

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The Hottest Komiks Event This Summer!
KOMIKON SUMMER FIESTA 2009
UP Bahay ng Alumni, UP DilimanMay 16, 2009, 10am-8pm, SaturdayEntrance Fee: Php 50.00
The VISPRINT booth will be at the right side exit of the venue.Meet and greet and have your books signed by Visprint creators:
Carlo Vergara of "Ang Kagila-gilalas Na Pakikipagsapalaran Ni Zsazsa Zaturnnah"
David Hontiveros of the Penumbra novellas: "Takod", "Parman" and "Craving"
Manix Abrera of the "Kikomachine Komix" seriesFreely Abrigo of "Kulas"; and
Budjette Tan & Kajo Baldisimo of the "Trese" series

A limited number of For Official Use Only and Kikomachine t-shirts will be available too! See you all there :D


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How To Get There. Bow.

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WHAT: Pepper Roxas' Maude Marie and Other Curiosities

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I'm not really a fan of Robert Pattinson's but I like biopics like these. Little Ashes (2009) star Javier Beltran as Spanish poet, dramatist, and theatre director Federico Garcia Lorca (author of "The Butterfly's Evil Spell"), Robert Pattinson star as Spanish Catalan surrealist painter Salvador Dali (of whom we all know for his The Persistence of Memory), Matthew McNulty as filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and Marina Gatell as Margarita, Buñuel's sister. Dali said to have rejected Lorca's "erotic advances." The film is said to detail the relationships of the three.

Labels: movies