January 2012
33 posts
for joelle,
[[posterous-content:pid___0]] <…> right outside is a wall filled with Sol Kjok’s “Nine Nights/Successive Shifts” a beautiful amalgamation of one woman, moving from youth to age and death, where the latter forms into a ball of her body repeated in different poses, until it reaches the most aged of her at the center. Nine nights is a ritual for mourning and death, when the spirit is...
better barbie?
because @joelle41 and i didn’t quite like this. and i asked: can barbie do nothing right? [[posterous-content:pid___0]] good morning. photo via: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=342721499089299&set=pu.23573794978…
life is short. take a chance.
“<…> we were the beneficiaries of chance, that pure chance could be so kind that we could find one another in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. We knew that every moment should be cherished as the precious and unlikely coincidence that it was.” ~ Annie Druyan on Carl Sagan. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/12/27/the-voyagers-penny-lane-carl-sagan/
love loss and what i wore, Manila
Love Loss and What I Wore runs until Sunday, January 22 2012 at the RCBC theater. go see it, bring your mother and your gilfriends! this is last year’s review. Five women in all black outfits, mostly in the same shape save for Bituin Escalante, all the same age bracket save for Jay Valencia-Glorioso, enter the stage and sit on bar stools. The central figure talks of age as Gingy...
SOPA EMERGENCY LIST. →
photosxmusic:
SOPA Emergency IP list: So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 ...
and so the revival better than the original....
woman, love, according to UNHCR ambassador Kris...
Kris Aquino on Twitter: “Came from Malacanang. Lunch for Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. She’s tall & slim & attractive! 44 yrs old, bagay for PNoy!” on the one hand expected because you know the most important thing in the world is PNoy’s lovelife according to Kris. on the other? reeking of the most superficial valuation of woman: “tall & slim...
Picasso, sex, and the castrated Pinoy art scene...
It is also this rendering of the visceral as questionable that happens on the level of spectatorship with the series entitled the “Battle of Love” made up of etchings all entitled “Violación” (“Rape”). Here it is the artist’s hand that falls heavier or lighter as it renders the act of sex, presumed to be at its most violent, across a set of five images that look the same. But are different. The...
art is dead. opinion, too.
via @aninafish.
on Picasso's Suite Vollard at The Met:
“But this love affair between artist and model, its overriding calm and quiet countenance, naked bodies and sensual poses notwithstanding, is only made more interesting by the kind of sex and body – monsters and claws – in the etchings that make up the “Minotaur” series. It is said that the artist is turned into Minotaur here, though what seems more crucial is the fact that the Minotaur in...
the MMFF parade
where the MMFF could both be a measure of last year, as it might be a warning for the year that will be 2012. and it would be Shake Rattle and Roll 13 that gives one some hope. Raining on the Asiong Salonga parade. A script that fails My Househusband. How the soap opera killed the melodrama: on Yesterday Today and Tomorrow. 13 is Shake Rattle and Roll’s lucky number.
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It is What It is
patriciamalay:
Don’t believe everything you read. Prepare to be wronged. Expect to be offended. Manage hurts. Don’t allow any of it to embitter you. Because life is more than the hogwash it sometimes turns out to be. Sometimes it gets better. Oftentimes it won’t. Regrets will be difficult to live with. But learn everyday.
At the very least, learn every single day.
on media and scrutiny
Mister Teodoro’s and CMFR’s claim that UST should subject itself to “media scrutiny” has no ontological basis. If UST and other private institutions subject themselves to public scrutiny through the press, it is because of a social contract that recognizes the relevance of the press in reporting truthful information and cultivating public discourse. It is in this light that UST’s reservation...
anti-self-help the Pinay #7: jealousy and...
American self-help says that women are stupid for 7. Being jealous and insecure. But what of just being selosa as a matter of intuition? What of pakiramdam ng babae – the woman’s intuition – as the premise of an inexplicable insecurity? Truth to tell the Pinay would gain much by listening precisely to the impulses that are about jealousy and insecurity, not just because sometimes these are...
dear DOT: teach your crowd to document sources,...
above image from a news article up at gmanewsonline. original image by Jes Aznar from New York Times article, 2010. this is via TanginaThis’ Facebook Page, where they caught this and another photo being used and being shared with no documentation of sources. i don’t know that the Dennis Garcia name that appears in the Inquirer in relation to these photos is meant as...
Pinoy film: don't knock it, if you don't support...
“Graceland” a film by Ron Morales is taking the online platforms for independent filmmaking and funding creative projects like no other Pinoy film has, indie and otherwise. At the award-winning film website Indiewire, the film got the most votes out of four films and was declared project of the week, which makes it eligible for the project of the month competition by January’s end. Over at...
anti-self-help the Pinay #6: you talking to me...
American self-help says that women are stupid for not being courageous. American self-help hasn’t met the Pinay. 6. Not being courageous eh? Dr. Laura says that women have a hard time “expressing healthy and righteous anger.” She obviously hasn’t seen our stereotype of the crazy woman kontrabida. Or just the bungangera palengkera. And every Pinay has it in her, every Pinay after all has...
anti-self-help the Pinay #6: who can afford it?
American self-help says that women are stupid for not being courageous. American self-help hasn’t met the Pinay. 6. Not being courageous eh? Dr. Laura says that women have a hard time “expressing healthy and righteous anger.” She obviously hasn’t seen our stereotype of the crazy woman kontrabida. Or just the bungangera palengkera. And every Pinay has it in her, every Pinay after all has...
anti-self-help the Pinay #4 and #5: who can afford...
American self-help tells us that women are stupid for 4. Not realizing their worth, and 5. Not taking care of themselves. But if you’re Pinay, living in third world Philippines, the question can only be: WhoTF has the time to engage in these notions at all? And I respond. 4. Not realizing one’s worth. Dr. Laura says, “It is your job as a woman, as a person, to become as fully realized as...
what uncompromised journalism?!?
ok what’s going on? rappler finds out that in fact the ETEEAP that allows UST to grant degrees without dissertations, etc., DOES NOT include a Doctorate in Law. and yet the question it asks is: Who’s Lying UST or Corona? at this point isn’t it obvious that UST and its credibility is the one that must be put into question, giving out a degree it isn’t allowed to give out?...
anti-self-help the Pinay #3: on passion and our...
American self help tells us that women are stupid for: 3. Being too passionate. Seriously? Seriously. Where we come from women lack precisely this passion because Pinays are also taught to rein it in, hold your horses, not for anything else other than a guilt trip, if not a promise about the fires of hell: the heavens don’t like loose women. It’s the same rationale that keeps us only as good...
on Asiong Salonga
I don’t care that Estregan might later win a best actor award or two. Melanie Marquez won best actress playing herself in her own biopic. It’s easy to chalk Estregan’s win up to the tragedies that befall award-giving systems that can only be questionable across our cultural productions, even more so for the incredible Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF). Which decided to be strict about...
hello, 2012.
O the Eyes that will see me, And the Mouth that will kiss me. And the Rose I will stand on, And the Hand that will turn me. —José García Villa, FTW. Sent from my iPad
anti-self-help the Pinay #2: on devotion
American self-help says that women are stupid for: 2. Being excessively devoted to the wrong person. We are being told here that women stay with the wrong men because women have low self-esteem. Wrong. Where we come from, the Pinay enters a relationship and is in it for the long haul. We are taught to stay. Here the Pinay is still made to believe that she must marry her first love, here she...
anti-self-help the Pinay #1: on courtship
because American self-help doesn’t apply to the particularity that is the third world Pinay. and this is the most anti-woman list i’ve seen in these shores in a long long time. responding to it one-by-one if only so no Pinay thinks that there are no options. and because it has to be good that we begin 2012 by learning to think for ourselves. American self-help says one stupid thing...
December 2011
30 posts
fall of the sentinels
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