“Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn. The most wonderful stuff.” - Dr. Seuss

Everyone around me is a total stranger.

Non-trad ad for The Yoga Center. . In Non-traditional Advertising, ads are strategically positioned in the most unexpected places e.g. the sidewalk, a manhole cover, and as in the brilliant ((It's so simple, it makes you go "why didn't I think of that?")) example above, a straw. The trick is in fusing ...

But don’t forget it’s just a ride.

Edsa before: . Edsa after the storm: I don't miss the billboard clutter at all ((Especially not the ones with ginormous photoshopped-to-perfection images of her, what a relief they're all down hehe.)) but the highway just looks so forlorn undressed, no? :( *** On to brighter things: Katamari Damacy ((I know you told me about this ...

Last year’s troubles are so old fashioned

Halloo, I'm back. This site was down again all weekend so I finally left Affordablehost, my home for five years, for the it - seems - to - me more reliable Axishost. You can read about -- and possibly learn from -- why I did so on this page. *** My Arn ...

CSB and Cebu.

Thank you, Getty Images. Gorillaz + Madonna: what an audio-visual feast huh?? *** About a week ago, our good friend Earnest invited Arn to talk to the students of CSB's School for Deaf Education and Applied Studies and what an experience that was. About 50 Deaf students (and a handful of hearing ...

Arn’s Mural, Tippi’s launch, etc

If you were in Megamall recently, you might have chanced upon this 6 ft x 4 ft mural of Level-Up's new game RF Online in the basement, next to Netopia. Uhm, I'm not a gamer so why am I posting it? Because my Arn illustrated it so am being a ...

Back home and back at work.

Opening this Saturday, our friend ?¢ÀÜ?°?Ǭ¢?¢‚Ǩ?°?ɂİ?Ǭ®?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ? the much sought-after photographer Toto Labrador has a one-man show titled Transient: Images from Vietnam and Cambodia at Lumiere Gallery. Lumiere is open Tuesdays to Sundays, 11am to 9pm. Take a peek when you can. *** If you've been checking the phlog, yes we're back ...

A whole lotta Posy, the Komikon, and other things.

Longtime readers of this blog should know that I just love Posy Simmonds' work (... in fact I not-so-secretly wish to be able to do what she does, sigh) so imagine my delight when I learned that she has a new serialized strip called Tamara Drewe at the Guardian Online. ...

Danke schon.

A million thanks to all you beautiful people who braved the rains to attend my Arn's book launch last week! Here are your pictures. And there's more c/o Dario and Carlo. (;

You’re invited!

My Arn is launching his latest graphic novel, The Mythology Class (Special Collected Edition) on Sept. 16, Friday, 6pm at Fully Booked in Rockwell and it would be super duper lovely if you (yes, all of you!) and your friends can join us. (: Please visit the website for more info ...

Close Encounters of the Literary Kind

We weren't able to get any of our books signed, but at least we got to go home with this: Click to enlarge More pics from yesterday are in the phlog. It was really all by accident. Arn met and talked with the Dream King in the washroom, of all places. Of course ...

December 11th 2011
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Jose Rizal in post-apocalyptic Manila?

I'm very proud to share with you my talented husband's latest animated creation - a music video for the Rock Ed collaboration song "Kaninong Anino" (lyrics by Gang Badoy-Capati, music by Francis de Veyra, performed by Aia de Leon, Noel Cabangon, Vin Dancel, Kris Dancel, Ebe Dancel, Lourd de Veyra, ...
October 29th 2011
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Andong Agimat Animated!

What happened since the last time I blogged here? Lots! LOL but I'm not here to talk about them right now since I only have time to share with you Arnold's latest project, an animated film starring his very own Andong Agimat! Arn's never animated before (except for the flip books ...
May 29th 2010
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All’s well that ends well

I apologize for being in a bad mood today but a certain "Totally Creative Graphic Design Studio" totally ripped off one of my original artworks and is selling it on notepads, journals and other stationery in their store "Invitation House". Tsk. My original design, a low-res image of which has been ...
May 13th 2010
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You make me want to tell all I know

My husband Arnold is working on his second short film called "Kaye for Komiks". It's basically about a boy and a girl who bonds over a shared love for the comics medium. The film is still a work in progress but he made a 1-minute teaser video so you can ...
May 2nd 2010
Tags: design projects 6 Comments

I don’t have a reason, but I live like I do

In an alternate reality, the Eraserheads actually released an 8th final full-length album titled Waltz This Knee containing 8 new tracks by the Philippines' fab four. This is the album's wraparound sleeve that I designed: In this reality however, the revolutionary team of Uno Magazine invited me to illustrate a piece ...

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