February 2012
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i love preserving my family's photos
… i just hate being allergic to the must and dust. I’m wearing a face mask and a pair of gloves next time. I don’t want to get the oil from my hands on to the photos.
*sniffles*
Last photo… my mom putting “Toddlers in Tiaras” to shame.
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Creativity in the Age of Copyright →
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“The heart has reasons reason cannot understand.”
– Pascal (via murderedromantic)
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Indigenous People Vulnerable to Climate Change →
climateadaptation:
“Researchers say indigenous people are among the most vulnerable to climate change. They’re studying how extreme weather events can trigger more disease outbreaks.
Scientists say extreme weather events have accompanied a rise in global temperatures. Droughts, heavy rains and floods have put indigenous people around the world at risk.
“I would say that indigenous people are...
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“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
– Albert Camus
THIS summarizes everything I have been talking about for the past few weeks.
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“Language is wine upon the lips.”
– Virginia Woolf
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“I rebel; therefore we exist.”
– Albert Camus
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Sunday Morning thoughts.
I do not believe it to be a disease: me being “addicted” to art. I don’t think we should even call it an addiction. How can I be “addicted” to a natural bodily need? I am NATURALLY attracted to beauty, as much as I am attracted to ugliness, for I believe ugliness is merely another perspective of beauty.
What do we call it then? Attraction? Not even: sounds too...
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untitled
Without a sentence spoken our lips meet. This soft red-pinkish velvet fabric… This sweet sunbeam… this. All this.
Nectar.
I can taste the scent of freshly toasted bread, some Jasmine tea, and strawberry jam.
But your lips still taste of you. You are toasted bread, Jasmine tea, homemade strawberry jam.
You are a fulfilling need.
Our lips part, and I brushed your hair...
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“I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Sleep is the best meditation.”
– His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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“We also need an insurgency of theater owners, distributors, marketers, and...”
– Eric Hynes (via this Slate article)
Of the more than 800 feature films released theatrically in America last year, more than 300 were documentaries. (At premiere marketplace festivals like Sundance and Toronto, the ratio is similar.) Yet at the Academy Awards, where the film industry lavishly...
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Before February 14 ends...
A simple and not-so random thought before I go to bed…
Love is the act of paying attention. It is a struggle to bring out the goodness in people. Without that struggle, there can be no love. And without love, there can be no goodness.
If we refuse to pay attention, we decline the invitation to be loved back.
So this is why we love, or at least why I think we do: we can see goodness in...
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“You’ve got to do your best to understand what your strengths are and then ensure...”
– 9 Lessons Jeremy Lin Can Teach Us before We Go To Work Monday Morning — Forbes
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Pancho Dela Luna: Endurance Is Where We Meet:... →
panchodelaluna:
(Justin by Sil Frando Jr.)
Judging by his pictures the photographer, Sil Frando Jr., is not a wordy man. Not so silent either. He prefers to listen than talk. Perhaps that’s why he takes photos as an alternative to saying words. The image is the precondition for sentences. In his own way,…
Have you followed this awesome guy? If not, DO. He does the best articles on...
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the making of gravity (poem)
panchodelaluna:
(Late Afternoon Frolic by Iza Elises)
The weight of your fingers at midnight, anchored by the sea. Buried under the future’s blueprint. All my thoughts, dreams, actions are bound to be here, at this impasse, beneath this consoling weight inside your room warm as the inside of your fist. The little round clock on the bedside table struggling with our standstill - as if an...
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Nakakataba ng puso moment
No, I didn’t eat anything cholesterol-infested!
But I’d like to thank Sir Chris Millado of the Cultural Center of the Philippines for sharing my blog about “Observatory” by Roberto Chabet on his Facebook page. Just saw it on my news feed!
Yey! After a somewhat sad and rather stressful week (it’s only Wednesday, but I’ve gone through so much at the moment),...
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Experiencing humanity on a Sunday: Hello, Legaspi...
After several months since our last get-together, @murderedromantic and I have finally had brunch at the Legaspi Market today. To be honest, I like this market more than Salcedo Market, which I’m nearer to, simply because of the diversity of the stalls and the apparent blending of cultures, both foreign and local (not to mention that it’s more affordable to eat here).
Disclaimer:...
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“What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions...”
– Octavio Paz
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“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group...”
– W. Eugene Smith (via life)
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Ways of seeing By Michael Hodges →
“As Roland Barthes says in Mythologies, ‘Myths enable people to recognise themselves without knowing themselves.’ So if people can realise that they are all invented through these images, they might start seeing the roles they are trapped in and look into their hearts and minds. That’s why the mission is important,” Frédéric Brenner says.
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The word "Cavite" is derived from the word...
Random things you learn while you research for a guide book for the South of Manila.
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January 2012
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“What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything....”
– Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J. (via larisaaa)
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And because Love battles
por Pablo Neruda
And because love battles not only in its burning agricultures but also in the mouth of men and women, I will finish off by taking the path away to those who between my chest and your fragrance want to interpose their obscure plant. About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you. I lived in the prairies before I got to know you and I did not wait love...
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“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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