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Showing posts with label burgundy. Show all posts
the aftermath
"Nothing, before its time."
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Alicia Keys
For the thousands of my brethren, my comrade-at-arms, my kindred spirits, who have taken the recent Licensure Examination for Architects last January, this week spells the inimitable wait towards finding out, revoking all previous qualms and uncertainties, if we have earned the legal and professional right to call ourselves architects.
early december delight
Beneath the surprisingly arid blanket of an early December evening, amidst the jolly frolicking of Christmas party-goers, I sat exhausted upon the uncomfortable edge of a low-profile poly-vinyl wicker-backed chair in one of the comparatively less-frequented cafes at Makati. Books in tow, sprawled across a wood-veneered composite table laminated in deep cherry lacquer, I piled my readings face-up to assess that evening’s objectives.
the countdown begins
The PRC (Professional Regulation Commission) has finally released their board examination schedules for the 2013 term. Now, the eventuality and immediacy of the licensure exam is more palpable and real. From here on, it becomes an inimitable countdown to a necessary deadline. The date is January 25 and 27 (Friday and Sunday) 2013.
in chaos, clarity
Underneath the Atlas of immediate expectations,
Of pending papers, incumbent examinations,
Bearing and bursting tattered seams of discipline,
Tick-tocking verily, a veritable exhaustive end.
mutatis mutandis
A subtle change is happening. I feel it most during those
incoherent hours between sleep and wakefulness, vast and vacuous moments of
apathy to the world that pepper and interject my days, and sometimes nights.
They mingle and trickle beneath the seemingly bland normalcy (if, one could
imprecisely classify it as such). It may be a harbinger of something more
pervasive, invasive and assertive that has yet to find fruition. So far, this
paradigm shift is neither malevolent nor malignant, at least to my knowledge.
quotidian quote XVIII
"Kinetic Rain" Changi Airport Singapore from ART+COM on Vimeo.
“The chaos brought on by political turmoil, mobility, the population explosion, and by the tremendous impact of the machine, demands that man – if he is to retain his sanity – must have a serene environment. But with serenity we must have delight – the delight of interesting silhouettes of water, the play of variety of outdoor and indoor experience. But serenity, the physical manifestation of the belief that man can live in quiet dignity, must unify the whole.”
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Minoru Yamasaki on providing sanctuaries in response to today's feverish pace and framing man happily in his environment
identifying independence
The question of independence is both subjective and objective; it is, in fact, contrarian. In as much as one could argue sovereignty, political and social constructs inclusive, being evidence to the establishment of the case of independence and its palpable manifestation to our reality, our sense of either of these are not as fully developed or realized as some may surmise.
public service announcement - fashion writing
Are you knowledgeable in the clothing arts? Does your sense of style transcend your pecuniary means? Do you command a comprehension of fashion with a competency beyond those of your peers and relations? Are you self-aware of trends, and satisfactorily sound when choosing your looks?
Do you love to write? Do you have the journalistic credibility and reportorial hunger to tell a story with both restraint and abandon? Do you seek the limelight that only being published can afford? Do you find writing both as an expression of life, and a creative description of the aspirational qualities of it?
to the distraught dilletante
Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.
To all jaded and disillusioned, to the downtrodden and heartbroken, to the fallen and beaten.
To those whose pain has been used to exact the elixir of another’s craft, stolen and stillborn amidst a pigeonholed public mesmerized by the litany of the perpetrators. To those who have given so much, only to realize that they still fall short in the end. To the perplexed and perturbed, purgatorial spirits who seek meaning in the wasteland of our reality, the collapsing consciousness of a life meant to be lived but remaining unrealized.
sky's the limit
We’ve all dreamt of flight. Man’s pedestrian and ambulant fate is to gaze upon the heavens, in awe, disbelief, and yearning, for an opportunity to be one with its zephyr skies. That divine and foreign experience of flight is one of man’s copious holy grails, as he walks downtrodden and exhausted upon the dirt of this earth. The burden of our planar banishment seems mundane and lackluster, in comparison to the expanse of aerial space above, and beyond us. There is something transcendent in flight, in how man, his weighted existence, can achieve the miracle of levitation with the expertly maneuvering of a multi-ton contraption. It seems unreal for him to fly, being a fragile bag of bones and flesh. And yet, he can, and does.
mabuhay marketing
The effectiveness of a marketing campaign is not evidenced by how in-your-face and conspicuous it is, but by its ability to elicit an emotional response from its intended audience. Memory and longevity is always rooted on emotional response, and employing an approach that affords this cross-pollination between audience and the intent of the message makes for a more successful advertising strategy.
where's the catch?
At first, it came as a surprise, why a cafe brand would send me a promotional complimentary drink, considering I rarely patronize their beverages, and seldom even hang-out at their branches. I am partial to the green-and-white brand, whose logo is so ubiquitously gay – the mermaid.
But, as I am a cheapskate and a sucker for all sorts of swag and freebies, I decided to heed the invitation to peruse their website, where the promise of a free beverage had my mouth salivating in anticipation. Of course, all manners of promotional campaigns come with a fine print, and I was waiting for the catch all along.
But, as I am a cheapskate and a sucker for all sorts of swag and freebies, I decided to heed the invitation to peruse their website, where the promise of a free beverage had my mouth salivating in anticipation. Of course, all manners of promotional campaigns come with a fine print, and I was waiting for the catch all along.
aegri somnia IV
a delicate arrhythmia pervading
of cracked voices, soaked in malaise
and vomit spilled, coagulating.
Like paranoia and panic it crept
metastatic, hempen and contagious
be the youthful forcibly wept
so virulent, potent and hideous.
It felt wounded, a gash, open
fiddled heavily by a muddy digit
perusing flesh beneath the skin,
to rape the limping spirit.
I am here, amidst this anarchy
of bodies mindless, and hollow
moving shadows in captivity
by their own subversive sorrow.
Struggling for alimentary earth
where seed can grow to life,
where breathe escapes dearth,
where warmth eases the knife.
quotidian quote XVII
To achieve the impossible, you must believe it's possible.
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Charles Kingsleigh
Alice in Wonderland
March 2010, Walt Disney Pictures
typography IV - inciting incredulity
In the spirit of fair-mindedness, I am sharing this video for your perusal. Let me state this as a disclaimer that although the video and its contents are portrayed as credited facts, I challenge you; an intelligent, educated, and sound-thinking audience, to validate and verify the information presented herein. I am neither discrediting nor reinforcing this content, merely sharing it for the sake of impartial indignation. The bottomline here is not that the video attempts to expose certain longstanding theories, or that it is obviously unilateral in its target, but that it affects us – to become indignant advocates of truth, to awaken the inquisitive and the questioning, to begin the process that peels away ignorance by incredulity.
means. meanings.
fallacy of form - economics of creativity IV
[The Final Part of the Economics of Creativity Series]
Began with Fallacy of Form - Economics of Creativity I
Followed by Fallacy of Form - Economics of Creativity II
Continued from Fallacy of Form - Economics of Creativity III
This economics of creativity is an underlying force that could spell the solution to the puzzle of astute designing, by including the human condition as a factor in the process we can hope to inform and reform our design to suit more humane translations. Interpretation is always a subjective matter, but to totally ignore the epistemological would be looking right through the elephant in this room. Why can’t a space be both economical and efficient without it being boring and devoid of personality? Why can’t a form that’s emotional, distinct and exciting also be user-friendly and welcoming? Are the concepts of form and function too distant and antithetical that one has to forego the other to become complete? Or have we, as designers, simply become too egotistic and lazy to chip in the effort, dispensing one and never both?
fallacy of form - economics of creativity III
Began with Fallacy of Form - Economics of Creativity I
Continued from Fallacy of Form - Economics of Creativity II
These two trends; one being stale and has a predilection towards utilitarian lines and devoid of character or context, the other of an unquenchable thirst to assert deference against predecessors and continually challenging the capacity for alien forms and visions, are both equally valid and applicable in the milieu of our urban and non-urban realities. Where it fails and succeeds threads a fine line between respecting the previous or pre-existing vernacular, context, culture and prevalent esthetic, while providing for novelty, innovation and ingenuity, as well a suitable expression of creativity in solution and conception. Projects and developments of an institutional nature usually fall prey to this assumption of iconic corporately-driven ideological rendition of identity and enforced singularity. Whereas, commercial and retail spaces often become too occupied with finagling its users to purchase and spend that it becomes a claustrophobic orgy of mixed signals and self-promoting infatuation on all extant forms of commercialism. They are always striving to assert uniqueness against competition, becoming a laissez faire of line and form. But, when everything is unique, nothing is. When our senses are too overwhelmed, focus wanes and desensitization occurs. If either trend tips toward its more abstruse or extreme interpretation, what we’re left with is a space that is devoid of any relationship with the human scale.
