tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191565182024-03-13T23:02:04.852+08:00OBLIQUE STRATEGIESan exercise in youthful blasphemy™Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger569125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-199923465820984192019-12-24T07:03:00.002+08:002019-12-24T07:03:26.857+08:00SANDOSENANG ESENSYAL NA KOMIX<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Reposting this set of reviews I wrote for Edgar Samar's website SANTINAKPAN a couple of years ago, as it seems the website is now defunct.<br />
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Mahirap pumili ng isandosenang aklat lamang na lumabas sa loob ng isandosenang taon na ideally ay kakatawan bilang primerang mga halimbawa ng anyong kanilang kinabibilangan, lalo na kung ang isa sa mga self-imposed criteria ay na wala kang kinalaman sa paggawa o pagbenta ng mga librong pinili lalo na sa isang komunidad na kasinliit ng kontemporanyong akdang-komix sa Pinas, lalo na kung medyo involved ka talaga sa book production at distribution in general (as I am), but someone has to do it (at sadly, hindi ako nagwagi masyado sa pagsunod sa criterium na'to), so heto ako dito sa SANTINAKPAN hawak-hawak ang aking listahan!<br /><br />Bukod sa pagsisikap na sana hiwalay ako sa paggawa ng mga librong ililista, ang ilan pa sa mga criteria ng aking pagpili ng mga obra ay:<br /> * ang focus ay body of work, as much as possible, at hindi necessarily isang libro lamang - marami sa mga komix ang serialised ang paglabas na iko-compile na lang pag natapos na ang lahat, at marami rin sa mga komix kreators ang mayroong partikular na tema o estetika na tinutuhog across a certain body of work at madalas the disparate units inform the whole, at mas rewarding na pagbabasa at assessment ang mangyayari kung yung mas long view ang pipiliin nating pagtingin sa mga akdang ito;<br /> * practically lahat ng pinili ko ay small press ang paggawa at paglabas, dahil dito talaga lumalabas ang mas exciting, mas kakaibang mga akdang-komix, mga akdang hindi beholden sa taste ng mainstream audience (na generally ay either superheroes o manga ang hilig o hinahanap); also -<br /> * kasi gusto ko ring tuhugin dito sa listahan na'to ang notion ko na itong kontemporanyong paggawa ng komix ang tunay na Golden Age ng anyo sa kasaysayan nito so far, dala ng equity na binibigay ng cheap access to quality reproduction, ang mga resultang akda ay hindi beholden sa editorial mandate, hindi beholden sa awards-awards, hindi beholden sa market forces at ad revenue, hindi beholden sa merch and derivative cross-media exploitation - nowadays, literally *literally* kahit sino puwede nang gumawa ng komix tungkol sa kahit anong topic, puwedeng gawing available para kahit kanino ang komix na ginawa kahit saan pa nanggaling yan ... kahit sina Ravelo at Redondo at Coching ay hindi nabigyan ng ganitong pagkakataon!<br /> * ang mga akdang pinili ay maaaring i-assume na tumuturo sa direksiyon na pakiramdam ko'y patutunguhan ng komix production sa paparating na isandosena pang taon.<br /><br />By no means exhaustive and by no means complete in the sense na binasa ko ang lahat ng komix na ginawa sa Pinas para magawa ang listahan na'to. Sadly rin, karamihan dito ay mula sa Manila, so despite the effort na maging malawak ang coverage, informed pa rin ito ng myopia at bias ko against mainstream comics (kaya walang mga superhero dito, walang mga manga, wala ang karamihan na malamang ay inaasahan niyong isasama sa mga ganitong listahan, ang isang punto ko rin kasi talaga dito ay magpakilala ng iba pang mga komix kreator na gumagawa rin ng mga importanteng akda na baka hindi niyo nabibigyan ng pansin dahil rin sa sarili niyong myopia, etc), kaya feel free makipagdebate kung feel niyo! Ito ang listahan ko. Gawa rin kayo ng listahan niyo, share-share tayo minsan!<br /><br />In no order of importance whatsoever:<br /><br />1) ALAMAT NG PANGET, N. TABLADO, at iba pang mga libro ni Apol Sta Maria<br />Makikita succinctly ang laro ni Apol sa kanyang mga libro sa tatlong salitang hihiramin ko mula sa isang gawa niya: "Ganda. Ampanget nga." Hilig ni Apol i-exploit ang poetic potential ng umpugan ng non sequiturs sa text at non sequiturs sa art para makagawa ng mga akdang feeling mo pinapaikot ka lang pero baka may sinasabi rin siyang mahalaga sa'yo basta bigyan mo lang siya ng panahon: poetry from incongruency! At nilalaro rin ang isang proseso sa pagbasa ng komix kung saan any sequence of images laid out one after the other ay de facto bubuo ng coherent narrative kahit inchoate ang mga ito. Nakakatulong na ang estilo ni Apol sa pagdrowing at pagsulat ay primitibo, pambata, may epekto talaga ng paglilinlang at pang-aasar sa mambabasa. Paborito ko ang N. TABLADO, starring Nicanora Tablado, isang spoken word poet na sumali sa isang paligsahan ng pagbasa ng tula. Mag-uumpisa sa lumang joke na "Ako'y tutula" sabay kakabig kaagad patungo sa word salad na ang vinegrette ay ang melodious syllabic make-up ng Filipino language, ang paggamit ng malalalim na salita para magtunog-importante, tapos biglang mag-iimbento na lang siya ng sarili niyang wika - makatang-makata! - bago iuwi ang performance sa "Ako'y uupo / Tapos na po." Madalas makita si Apol sa mga komikon! Lapitan niyo siya kung naghahanap kayo ng mga kopya ng libro niya.<br /><br />2) DEAD BALAGTAS ni Emiliana Kampilan, et al<br />Feeling ko marami na ang nasabi tungkol sa pag-umpog ng DEAD BALAGTAS sa ongoing processing natin of our largely whitewashed national history against contemporary practices of media consumption (tulad ng paggamit ng "open-minded ka ba" networking memes bilang punchline sa pag-underline ng pangangailangan ng mga bagong miyembro ng Katipunan), so ang bibigyan ko ng focus dito ay ang hinted at na eventually ay mukhang magiging overarching major discussion ng DEAD BALAGTAS sa queer history ng Pinas mula sa CSI: Babaylan nina Sutlang-Dila hanggang kay Leona Florentino hanggang sa movement of tectonic plates by way of young queer romance na lalabas sa kanilang pending first book mula sa Anino. Isa sa adhikain nina Emiliana ang tutukan ng limelight ang lesser known personnages ng kasaysayan, ang mga na-esta-puwera dahil babae sila o bakla o lesbiyana, ang mga mas problematikong tauhan dahil hindi lang mga imperyalistang dayuhan ang nilalabanan kundi preconceived notions rin natin ng kung ano ba dapat ang bayani. Peerless ang DEAD BALAGTAS. Humahabol pa ang lahat sa mga progresibong akda/pag-akda nina Kampilan. Mahahanap ang DEAD BALAGTAS sa Facebook at Instagram, at mukhang lalabas na later this year ang unang koleksiyon nito.<br /><br />3) MAIL ORDER VANISHINGS Co., Ltd., SPARE CHANGE PARADISE BANK, at iba pang mga anek-anek ni Ev Yu<br />Walang matinong kuwento ang mga akda ni Ev Yu in the sense na hindi sila linear at hindi sila buo. Sila ay mga katologo ng mga ephemera - mga lumang laruan, mga sirang kamera at exposed film, mga lumang librong amoy amag, mga bugbog na kahon ng sabon, mga pakete ng expired powder na panggawa ng jello - na inipon mula sa mga pawnshop at secondhand store ng Cubao Shoe Expo ng panagimpan. Madalas walang silbi, o ang dating silbi nila ay napag-iwanan na ng panahon dala ng expiration date o paglipas ng pangangailangan ng tao. Ang MAIL ORDER VANISHINGS, Co., Ltd. ay katologo ng mga bagay o serbisyo na maaari mong makuha by snail mail, tulad ng VACCI-NATIONAL FUN RUN "an interactive way to share antibodies with others!" kung saan may dalawang lalaking naghahabulan para magsasakan ng hiringgilya; PLAIN CLOTHES: THE PERFECT DISGUISE EVER! "So ordinary, you will blend in without anyone noticing! Buy an entire wardrobe or avail the 1-yr subscription. Just wait for it at your doorstep. No sweat."; at enumeration ng ilang eksperimento ng kompanyang Mail Order Vanishings, Co. Ltd. (o MOV) para makatulong sa iyong hinahanap na paraan ng pagkawala mula sa kasalukuyang buhay - Sulfuric Disintegration (kung saan mapupunta ka na lang bigla sa impyerno), Molluscan Terror (kung saan hihilahin ka ng octopus pailalim habang nakasakay sa submarine), Hole in the Sky (kung saan hihigupin ka ng isang butas sa langit a la Flight 19 sa Bermuda Triangle), atbp. Ang SPARE CHANGE PARADISE BANK naman ay brochure mula sa isang banko na nag-o-offer ng investment to Surreal Estate o pagbili ng mga convoluted appliance at furniture mula sa Space Saver: Embracing Overpopulation as a Lifestyle. Komentaryo at pagproseso ng embarrasment of riches sa panahon ng late capitalism sa third world tambakan ng discarded items ng first world? Ukay komix? Kakatwa ang delihensiya sa pag-aakda ni Yu, sa utak ng mambabasa nangyayari ang kuwento, hindi sa pahina. Mahahanap ang karamihan ng gawa ni Yu sa Uvla Store sa Cubao Shoe Expo ng totoong buhay, basta may kopya pa ng mga ito.<br /><br />4) IMPULSE OVERDRIVE at CONFUSED: VOLUME 1 ni Trizha Ko<br />Maganda at mahalaga ang tinutuhog ni Trizha na overarching narrative sa mga akda niyang DOLLY AND LAVINIA (mula sa #OOTD concerns ng "Dressing Up with Dolly" sa PIKO hanggang sa paglibot ng/pagkawala/pagtakas mula sa internet sa DOLLY AND LAVINIA EXPLORE THE INTERVERSE ng Anino hanggang sa tagos regla blues ng "Dolly and Lavinia: Wasak Rorschach" sa KABUWANAN), ang representation ng women's bodies sa (mainly online/social) media, filtered through the eyes and minds of young adults. Nag-umpisa ang interogasyon na'to sa IMPULSE OVERDRIVE at CONFUSED: VOLUME 1, dalawang koleksiyon ng mga maikling kuwento tungkol sa mga isyung kawomenan told via fantastic and pragmatic and very lonely very mature imagery. Ang paborito ko sa mga ito ay "Acne" kung saan ang tighiyawat ng isang babaeng mag-a-attend ng prom nila ay literal na mundong magugunaw kasabay ng pagputok nito, ngunit bago ang lahat, tatakbo muna ang isang diskusiyon sa pagitan ng ilang mga bansa - Brasil, South Korea, Greece, Uruguay, etc - tungkol sa uneven breasts, brasilian waxing, exposed labia minora, double eyelid reduction, at vaginal rejuvination. Isa sa mga legit na suryalista ng Pilipinas ngayon, sa kahit anong medium. Hindi na ata available in print ang mga librong ito, pero baka online pa sila sa deathbyassociation.tumblr.com.<br /><br />5) WINDMILLS ni Josel Nicolas<br />Marami na akong nasabi tungkol sa librong ito (ako ang nagsulat ng foreword, at tumulong rin ako sa pagbuo at pagpublish nito since una itong lumabas nung 2007), pero susubukan kong pigain pa ang utak ko kasi baka meron pa akong bagong masabi: isa ito sa mga pinaka-importanteng komix ng early 21st century dahil ito ang isa sa mga unang komix na humiwalay sa tradisyon ng nakasanayan ng 20th century komix production in terms of genre - ang WINDMILLS ay isang unreliable autobiography - at anyo - gumagamit ng furry characters bilang bida, disjointed ang pagsaad ng kuwento, at talamak sa visual irony (variation ng poetic irony pero para sa komix in particular, kung saan ang dramatic tension at visual layering complexity ay lumilitaw sa pagsalungat ng sinasabi ng text sa pinapakita ng drowing [marami pang ibang paraan para gawin ito, ito lang ang isa sa pinakasimple ipaliwanag, haha]). Marami itong nabuksang pinto para sa ilang batang komix kreator sa Pinas. Ano pa bang masasabi ko tungkol dito? Slow motion sixteen car pile-up ng pag-iibigan when in your early twenties. Out of print na ang librong ito pero baka makumbinsi niyo si Josel na gawing available ang ilang kabanata nito online o bilang zine (na una nilang anyo), kontakin niyo lang sa Facebook sa https://www.facebook.com/josel.nicolas.<br /><br />6) FOOTNOTES TO MISPLACED ITEMS, ADOLESCENT, SPACES, TIRA TIRA, WHITE NOISE, at SHEAR FEAR nina Joanne Cesario at Michelle Bacabac<br />Short meditations tungkol sa limot, pagkaligaw, at pagkawala ng sarili sa lungsod. May naipaparating na intimacy ang mga akda dala ng pagkakagawa sa kanila - handwritten, handdrawn, minsan hand-coloured, ang tono ng boses na internal monologue a la diary o kaibigang ka-telebabad sa hatinggabi na may binubulong na sikreto sa'yo habang nakatakip ng unan ang mukha at telepono. Mahilig ang dalawa sa paggawa ng listahan, sa paggamit ng sentence fragments na ang drowing ang kukumpleto ng nais iparating, at mga extended sequence ng katahimikan, bumubuo ng modernong epiko na umiikot sa mga bagay na naiiwan (pulang Game Boy, mga payong, medyas sa labahan), sa mga espasyo na iniiwan (aparador, bahay ng magulang, bayan na kinalakhan), sa mga tao na nang-iiwan (syota, magulang, sarili pagtanda na). Interiority at urban sprawl. Ang potential for emotional devastation ng paglilipat-bahay. May lalim na nakaka-engganyong sisirin, at kung malunod ka, walang makakaalala sa'yo, tapos okey lang. Mahusay na collaborators ang dalawang ito, ang resultang gawa ay mukhang iisang tao lang ang may-akda. Hindi ito madalas mangyari. Madalas makikita ang dalawang ito sa mga komikon (katabi ni Josel minsan) at sa BLTX!<br /><br />7) THE CURSED ni Dante Perez<br />Unang lumabas noong 1989, muling nilimbag ng art zine publisher Saturnino Basilia nung 2016 bilang limited edition zine printed on cardstock at mayroong silkscreen na cover. Kakatwang selebrasyon para sa isang halos thirty-year-old eight-paged komix tungkol sa isang sex maniac na sinumpa na magiging halimaw kapag nalilibugan (kahit sex scene lang ito sa TV). Ito rin ay isang eulogy hindi lang para sa may-akda (na namatay noong 2013) kundi para rin sa lumipas na industriya - ang inherent na sexismo, ang exploitation sa mga manggagawa, ang 'di-kalidad na production values - at lumipas na sining - ang O. Henry structure, ang estilo at estetikong hiniram mula sa post-World War II American horror comics, ang off-register printing ng magenta plate sa pahina. Nagsisilbi rin ito bilang magandang paalala na hindi lang puro Coching o Ravelo o "Combatron" o "Planet Op Di Eyps" ang komiks ng nakaraan, na mayroon ring "Santa Klaws" at "Cesar Asar" at Vincent Kua at Dante Perez, mga akda at may-akdang discomfort at discombobulation ang habol sa mambabasa. Nawa'y may mga maglabasan pang mga ganito mula sa kani-kanilang mga lungga. Out of print na ito kasi wala pang isandaang kopya ang ginawa ng Basilia, at wala na rin ang online version nito sa website ni Gerry Alanguilan. Baka mayroon sa kung saang aklatan somewhere?<br /><br />8) UGH ni Hulyen<br />Maaari ring tawaging Confessions of a Catholic Girlhood salamat sa patuloy na pagmina ng collective experience ng libu-libong batang babae na nag-aral/nag-aaral sa private (predominantly Catholic) schools, mapa-co-ed man o exclusive, spesipiko pa sa mga weirdong batang babae, yung flat-chested kahit seventeen na tapos sando pa rin ang suot sa loob ng uniform habang everyone else ay naka-bra, yung marunong maggitara at magkeyboard at magdrums, yung laging pawisin, yung pinagtsitsismisan na kumakain ng sariling kulangot kasi nabanggit niya sa retreat na ginawa niya ito once nung grade two siya kasi gusto niyang malaman kung ano ba lasa nito ... there's one in every classroom, and if you're reading this, it's probably you, and know that you are loved, kahit awkward. May angking sarkastikong talino at talento si Hulyen para kilalanin ang absurdo sa maraming paraan kung paano tayo kinokondisyon ng lipunan na maging straight na tao, na maging amenable sa lagay natin sa buhay, na kailangan nating gawin ang maraming maraming bagay dahil kapag hindi natin sila ginawa, hindi tayo productive member of society, at kung paano ang conditioning na'to ay nag-uumpisa sa paaralan, nagpapatuloy sa opisina, pinapalaganap ng mass media. Marami ring misteryong sinasagot ang librong ito: kung ano ang pinagdarasal ng batang mabait sa chapel tuwing lunchtime, kung infinite nga ba ang potentials ng infinity dress, at kung saan papunta ang tagos sa palda. Tapos nakakatawa pa siya! #Blessed talaga ang komix na'to, na may 666 sa likod. Lalabas ang unang complete volume ng UGH sa paparating na Komikon sa November!<br /><br />9) ANG HARI NG KOMYUT at TALUMPATI ni Lizette Daluz<br />Everyday reality para sa maraming maraming *maraming* tao ang matinding hirap ng pagbibiyahe mula bahay papuntang paaralan o opisina tapos pauwi, mapa-tren man o bus o jeep o tricycle o pedicab, rain or shine (or both), araw-araw mapa-gabi man o umaga, na nakabuo na tayo ng kanya-kanyang paraan ng pakikisama at pakikipag-ugnayan sa isa't isa sa gitna ng daily communal suffering na ito, at dumating na sa punto na masasabi na nating mayroon nang sariling kultura ang Pinoy commuter, isa na siyang social class, ang kalsada ay isa nang autonomous region, kaya hindi na nakakagulat ang minumungkahi ni Lizette na ang pinaka-maayos, pinakamahusay, pinakamakataong commuter above all commuters ay nararapat lang na koronahang Hari ng Komyut. At hindi rin siya tulad ng maraming ibang hari na pyudal ang pagpapatakbo ng kaharian, nakikihalubilo ang Hari ng Komyut sa kanyang mga mamamayan, so masasabi pa na ang konsepto niya ng pagiging hari ay mas malapit sa pagiging Hari ng mga Hari ni Hesukristo. Ito kaya ang final reveal ng komix ni Lizette? Tungkol pala sa End of Days ang HARI NG KOMYUT, magugunaw ang mundo sa isang malaking traffic jam, isasama ni Hesus sa Langit ang lahat ng naghihirap mag-komyut sa kalsada, ang mga nag-u-Uber ay didiretso sa impiyerno? Kung ano man, distinct ang anggulo at boses ni Lizette sa dalawang akda na ito, magaan, simpatiko, umaawit ng mga modernong oda para sa manggagawang Pilipino. Reminiscent ng mga awit ng Hotdog at ni Ryan Cayabyab. Sana maging kasing-successful. Available online ang HARI NG KOMYUT sa FB ng mga akda ni Lizette sa https://www.facebook.com/butterprim, habang ang TALUMPATI naman ay mahahanap sa mesa niya pag mahanap niyo siya sa mga kon at expo!<br /><br />10) IN-SITU: IMAGES OF CONFINEMENT ni Love Joy Raza, MAGLUNOY ni Maria Ana Fajardo, POSTCARDS: MALESIA 1997-2007 nina Christian Tablazon at Jesa Perl, WE DELEGATE FRUSTRATIONS at ALTERNATE DESTINATIONS ni Ched De Gala, and a whole lotta other stuff from the Cabinet<br />Madaling makaligtaan na ang art practice at artform na may pinakamalapit na proseso ng paggawa at pagbasa sa komix ay collage. Basically, things relate to each other (thus creating narrative coherence) by sheer juxtaposition, making new meaning: ang caption na lumulutang sa langit sa ibabaw ng mga gusali ay hindi billboard kundi ang boses ng narrator, ang word balloon sa tabi ng mukha ng bida ay hindi usok mula sa bibig kundi ang dialogue niya, ang mga panel na magkakatabi ay hindi mga bintana sa harap ng gusali kundi ang pira-pirasong sandali ng buhay ng mga bida. Sa ganitong paraan kinukuwento ng komix ang mga kuwento nito. Sabayang simplification at complication ang resulta ng paglalantad ng the Cabinet (isang grupo ng mga manunulat at artist sa Los Baños) sa collage roots ng komix: ang caption box ay billboard rin nga, ang word balloon ay usok rin nga mula sa bibig, ang mga panel sa pahina ay mga bintana rin nga sa harap ng gusali; so, ano na? Ito ang espiritu ng laro sa anyo ng the Cabinet mula sa architectural software-rendered images with cut/up captions ng IN SITU ni Raza hanggang sa analog cut paper and ringbound komix randomizer ng ALTERNATE DESTINATIONS ni De Gala. Pinapaalala ng the Cabinet na ang komix ay materyal, na ito ay gawa sa papel at tinta, binuo ng mga kamay ng tao, at puwedeng gupit-gupitin at ipagdikit-dikit sa iba’t ibang paraan upang makagawa ng bagong kuwento, makabigkas ng bagong ibig sabihin. Naaalala mo ba yung teorya na hindi ka puwede magbasa ng kahit anong teksto sa panaginip dahil ang bahagi ng utak natin na namamahala sa pananaginip ay hindi ang bahagi na may kinalaman sa lohika ng pagbabasa? Ito yung mga komix na binabasa mo kapag nananaginip ka. Kontakin ang the Cabinet sa https://www.facebook.com/technologiesoftheself/ o tiempuhan niyo sila sa mga komikon at expo!<br /><br />11) RICHARD KESO, ELLA ARCANGEL, DESTROYER, KEITH BUSILAK, at iba pang mga malcontent ni Julius Villanueva<br />May plano akong isulat na mas mahabang sanaysay tungkol sa mga akda ni Julius – specifically tungkol sa mga dinosaur komix at future evolution komix niya kasi sobra lang akong interesado sa pre- at post-anthropocene stories at si Julius lang ang gumagawa ng mga yun dito sa Pinas of any frequency at tingin ko mayroong political potential ang topic na’to lalo na sa approach na ginagawa niya – so baka ang sasabihin ko dito ngayon ay ang buod muna ng sanaysay na yun: mula sa dalawang oviraptor na naghahanap ng silong mula sa ulan sa Mongolia 71 million years ago hanggang sa prehistoric early hominid superhero na lumalaban sa mga hyena at megantereon sa South African savanna hanggang sa isang tighiyawating asshole I’m-better-than-everyone-else layout artist at isang batang mambabarang sa squatter’s area at isang highschool tomboy skater na may pineperpektong talon sa isang inabandonang water treatment facility at isang overworked tatay taxi driver na naghahabol ng boundary hanggang sa isang grupo ng mga tao, alien, giant ipis, at aso na nagsusumikap na mabuhay sa isang Daigdig na napag-iwanan na ng panahon at kasaysayan, may hilig si Julius sa mga kuwento ng mga tauhang nabubuhay sa dulo ng kutsilyo, mga tauhan na habambuhay ay nasa bingit ng kamatayan, habambuhay kailangang lumaban para hindi mamatay, mga tauhang inisantabi ng kasaysayan at lipunan dahil may ibang mga kuwentong mas kailangang bigyan ng pansin o dahil hindi lang natin alam na mayroon pala silang mga kuwento. Yan ang mga pinipiling bida ng mga komix ni Julius, ang mga walang kuwenta, ang mga in-etsa-puwera, binibigyan sila ng pagkakataon na magsalita, magpaliwanag, tila sinasabi na ang tunay na kalaban sa buhay – ang kalikasan, ang sabre-toothed cat, ang kapitalismo, ang expectations ng straight na buhay, ang tiyanak, ang minimum wage, ang parasitic alien invasion – ay mga manipistasyon lamang ng apatiya, na ang tunay na epektibong armas laban sa lahat ng dahas at atrosidad ay simpatiya sa naiiba. Mahalagang mensahe sa panahon kung kailan uso ulit ang pasismo. Tulad ng marami sa listahan na’to, madalas kasama si Julius sa mga komikon kung saan-saan, pero available rin online ang ibang komix niya bilang downloadable PDFs. Harasin niyo siya sa FB via https://www.facebook.com/zekemachine.<br /><br />12) LANSANGAN: MGA KUWENTONG KALSADA ni Piya Constantino<br />Hindi obvious sa karamihan ang political potential ng paglalakad ng/sa lungsod (kahit hindi pa mobilisasyon sa mga rali ang pag-uusapan). Hindi ba kayo nagtataka kung bakit hindi maayos ang mga sidewalk natin sa kalsada? Kung bakit ang mga walkway at overpass ay dinadala lamang tayo papunta sa opisina (para gumawa ng pera) o sa mall (para magwaldas ng pera) at hindi sa mga monumento para sa mga bayani? Ang LANSANGAN ni Piya ay isang koleksiyon ng mga kuwentong na-ani ng may-akda mula sa kanyang madalas at malawak na paglalakad mula Ifugao hanggang Tondo hanggang Los Baños hanggang Diliman. Iba’t iba ang kanyang mga dahilan para sa paglalakad – rali, street photography, press coverage, pagliliwaliw – ngunit sa dulo ang lahat ay magkakaugnay, ang lahat ay sinisisi sa kanyang nunal sa talampakan. Interesante ang paraan ng pagkukuwento: collage ang atake, madalas gumamit ng totoong mga litrato ng mga tao na ininterview (documentary), madalas nasa frame o panel ang may-akda ngunit laging may takip ang mukha o ‘di kaya’y nakatalikod (hindi siya ang bida), madalas ang mga kuwento ay nakasulat sa kalsada (bandalismo) o sa mga blankong espasyo sa paligid ng drowing at litrato (marginalia), madalas ang mga salita ng mga kuwento ay nagsisikipan at nakikipagtunggalian sa mga tao at barung-barong at gusali (urban density) para mapansin ng mambabasa at madalas ang mga kuwento ang nananalo. At dapat lang talaga ang mga kuwento ng mga tao na ito ang nananalo, mga tao na naglalakad sa kalsada hindi para pumunta sa opisina o sa mall, kundi kasi dito sila nakatira, mga tao na sinakripisyo ng lipunan para sa ngalan ng urban progress na para sa iilan lang naman. Mahusay na halimbawa ng komix journalism sa Pinas. Matagal nang out of print ang librong ito, likely walang plano magreprint any time soon. Best bet ay manghiram ng kopya sa library ng Fine Arts sa UP Diliman!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-50001858351984862832019-10-30T06:45:00.001+08:002019-10-30T06:45:30.416+08:00What to Do When You're Friends With the Perpetrator?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">What to do when you're friends with the perpetrator? I've always believed there should be room among friends to be able to talk about everything, especially when a friend starts shitting the bed in some way. Friends should be able to demand accountability from other friends, especially when they've been accused of abuse, assault, rape. The best thing one friend can probably do for another is to lay to bare the grave mistakes that they had made, maybe elaborate on why you think the grave mistakes they had made were grave mistakes in the first place (sometimes you have to do this), and ultimately tell that friend to do the right thing. Unfortunately, most people - most men, even those you think are "one of the good guys" - need reminding about how to be fair and decent to other people - how not to be creeps and assholes - and how being fair and decent to others won't happen at great personal sacrifice. Often, you actively need to make decisions and often the best (fairest, most decent) decision isn't easily obviously favourable to you, but eventually you'll find the trouble that will follow the bad decision is never worth making it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Speaking merely for myself, it's difficult parsing out the TJ-Tiny-Iligan Workshop situation while trying not to fall into instant condemnation (although fuck Iligan Workshop, man, what a fucking shitty way to handle Tiny's complaint). Well aware about how my usual tactic when dealing with these things in general is instant and loud and constant condemnation, my approach here is different because my relationship with the perpetrator is different, thus the effectivity of my protest different: who am I, as an individual, to a workshop panelist/tenured professor/established writer working for an institution/school/publisher that tends to cast a blind eye to his historied and monumental sexual shenanigans with young writers/creative writing undergrads/workshop fellows too confused and immature to know how to react and who to report to?; who am I, as an individual, to a friend who had commited abuse, assault, rape to another person?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'm trying to walk the tightrope of no-instant-condemnation because when the shit hits the fan, I always give friends the initial benefit of the doubt whatever the case may be because my initial reaction with friends is always to help, to be of use, be it a friend caught vandalising a train cab or a friend needing recommendations for an emergency cheap book printer or a friend being accused of rape. So I sent TJ a message and we talked about his side of what happened. I'm assuming a lot of what he told me would be part of his legal defense so I won't talk about any of that (and part of it I feel is corroborated by Tiny's account), but what I can talk about is what I told him, which was, in so many words, "Do the right thing," be open and honest about everything with everyone concerned, and that my advise would sadly be most likely unusable when the situation moves into legal/criminal territory and self-preservation kicks in. Sadly, I feel that is exactly what happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It was important to me to reach out to TJ because in my own soap opera life, I had always seen him as part of my generation of writers pushing for reform in the community, and this accusation was a betrayal of that trust (that I fully consciously know I imposed on him based purely on my reading of his personality), and I wanted to test that trust and see if it was misplaced. It was important for me to do this without losing sight of what Tiny has gone through and continues to go through pushing for her voice to be heard, and without losing sight of Angely, the person who broke this silence (and with it another two silences), also a very very very good friend of mine, who is now potentially under threat of libel against which I am very much prepared to fight if TJ and his lawyer do decide to pursue that avenue. I am very much aware of the fact that I will fail to walk this moral tightrope and most likely fall on my ass (and most likely already have in people's eyes, just writing about all this).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">What is clear to me, purely as a person with no legal clue about all this, just another glorified cis mansplaining rubbernecker, is that Tiny's account takes primacy, is priority; that Tiny has all the right in the world to file a complaint against someone she believes took advantage of her; that TJ was de facto already in the wrong just solely based on his position in the workshop in relation to Tiny's - why drink with workshop fellows (basically your students) to the point of blacking out? He simply shouldn't have put himself in that situation; that TJ's statement may be the most legally sound but it is also, to be generous about it, the most utterly tonedeaf both emotionally and morally; fuck Iligan Workshop and its awful awful admin for having shit on everyone and everything about this, and continue to shit on everyone and everything about this; and that libel is one of the most awful things a journalist can brandish over anyone in this country at our present political moment, so an anticipatory "fuck that" to that, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is important to me spiritually, morally, artistically, that we do not repeat the sins of the generations before us, all the abuse and assault and rape and just purely taking advantage of people subordinate to us in some way, all that shittiness and also the deafening silence among peers whenever something like this happens to someone close to them. I know silence doesn't always mean complicity when the situation is a friendship minefield, and I'm well aware that not everyone who knows the people directly involved has to chime in with their own takes on these things so sincerest apologies for this mouthy hot take, but clearly the silent treatment hasn't given us much good, has only allowed for more of these things to continue to happen. So: I think it's time to talk to your perpetrator friends and remind them to do the right thing.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-2513847542693227462019-01-02T12:01:00.000+08:002019-01-02T12:01:00.124+08:00Hello 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Abandoning Facebook in favour of reviving this nascent venue. Will be posting mainly about komix work - creative, critical, academic - and maybe some photos and stories about my miniature games. For now, let this image suffice as my pledge to blog again, something I drew for my mom's friend a few days ago.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-79482581402757197032015-06-29T08:08:00.001+08:002015-06-30T06:25:57.334+08:00meta machine museless / the year so far / the 2015 edition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's been a good year, so far.<br />
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<a href="http://allyourgrievances.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>All Your Grievances</b></a><br />
an urban ennui generator / published January 2015<br />
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<a href="http://kalboambahomo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Kalbo, Ambaho Mo!</b></a><br />
a slapstick komix strip / published February 2015<br />
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<a href="http://thanthenthan.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Maalalahanin</b></a><br />
a road movie komix strip poem about geologic time and urban sprawl / published March 2015<br />
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<a href="http://himaamsir.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Hi, Ma'am Sir</b></a><br />
a fast food fiction generator / unpublished April 2015<br />
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<a href="http://bahayukay.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Depeche Mode</b></a><br />
an outfit-of-the-day decider / published May 2015<br />
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<a href="http://sinoangmgabagongbayani.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Mga Bagong Bayani!</b></a><br />
a contemporary Pinoy superhero origin story and motivation generator / published June 2015</div>
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And more plans for the coming six months.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-15425527872879977192015-03-22T21:48:00.001+08:002015-03-22T21:48:30.430+08:00Nutrition Facts: Always Look at the Label - a microreview of Anvil
Publishing's FAST FOOD FICTION DELIVERY edited by Noelle Q. De Jesus
and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Uii7kElZGJk/VQ7IK4Uzy5I/AAAAAAAACI4/TNxhvLp-4X8/s640/blogger-image-2123255926.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Uii7kElZGJk/VQ7IK4Uzy5I/AAAAAAAACI4/TNxhvLp-4X8/s640/blogger-image-2123255926.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the art of anthology-making, textual framing is key. It discloses the editor's method and intentions for the pieces chosen to be exhibited, how and why they are exhibited and exhibited together. And among all the various and sundry ways of framing an anthology - introduction, preface, marginalia, annotations - the title is almost always the most obvious key of all.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you see a book called THE LIKHAAN JOURNAL 2014, you know it's going to contain what editors from UP think are worthy of inclusion for the year 2014, with all the baggage that that inclusion comes; even the use of the word "Likhaan" implies a nativist frame, maybe a nation-building thrust to the anthologising, implying that the pieces included are all "Filipino." When you see a book called PHILIPPINE SPECULATIVE FICTION 5, you know it's going to contain specfic stories written by Filipinos and that there were four of these books already published prior to this particular volume; and the inclusion of the word "Philippine" does not only denote geographical or national boundaries within which the stories were written, but it is also a holistic statement saying "This is how Filipinos engage with the international genre that has called itself ‘Speculative Fiction.’"</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So how does one read the decision to frame an anthology of contemporary English-language short fiction in the Philippines with the title FAST FOOD FICTION DELIVERY?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What is fast food? It is mass-produced food meant to be produced and consumed cheaply and quickly, typically chockfull of carcinogens and empty calories; it leads to cancer, diabetes, obesity; is packaged in non-biodegradable containers; the most famous of its franchises is among the top three leading causes of global warming; hallmarks of this industry's service are the option to consume even more of its product for an even cheaper price, to have the product delivered straight to your door in twenty minutes or less else you'll get the food for free but with the delivery boy paying for it from his paycheque. To describe it as an industry founded on excess and exploitation is merely to state factual information.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At this point in time, with all the chatter on sustainability, slow cooking, organic, antiGMO, even artisanal and "project" food, even with the ongoing glamourisation of healthy living, the decision to call the antho "Fast Food Fiction Delivery" comes across as a little weird. It implies uncritical, borderline irresponsible thinking, out of touch with the real world where SUPER SIZE ME the movie was premiered eleven years ago. Maybe the antho that they plan to do next is called SIX PACKS OF CIGARETTES A DAY POETRY?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But I suppose readers can glean from the antho's contents that the editors intended to use "fast food" as a "cool/trendy" metaphor to describe the quick, maybe even disposable, nature of short-form/flash fiction, purely ignoring all the ideas encoded in the combination of those two words. Funny how the editors - themselves highly-respected writers - seemingly missed out on the value of words and their meaning. Nothing screams "lazy curatorial work" as much as deciding to name your short-form fiction anthology after a mode of food production and consumption that is problematic, to say the least, just because it was "cool/trendy."</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unless the intention is to frame contemporary English-language short fiction in the Philippines as mass-produced art meant to be produced and consumed cheaply and quickly; poisonous in content, leads to awful fatal diseases; depleting and wasteful; a lasting, ruinous monument to colonialism and capitalism? If we are to assume that the editors in fact did their curatorial jobs well, were not superficial with their editorial decisions, in fact made very deliberate and measured intelligent choices with the naming thus the framing of the anthology, this seems to be the only rational explanation.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(629 words)</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Quick Cuts:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Funny how practically all the stories are heteronormative!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Funny also how practically all the stories contain middle to upper-middle class characters and sensibilities, while the title of the antho is about cheap mass-produced food!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* I know I make it seem like the editors didn't write anything other than the title to frame the antho, but actually both of them wrote an intro each, although they only talked about how far the form has come and how good some of the pieces in the antho are, neglecting to mention any of their motivations for calling the antho "Fast Food Fiction Delivery!"</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* I'm still undecided on the preoccupation over the very superficial formal conceit of wordcount as criteria for short work to be classified as fast food fiction!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Talking about formal conceit, I'm very disappointed nobody played around with Twitter's brevity of form (140 character limit) and unique engagement with subtext (hashtags)! Or even the easy feels of emojis. But I suppose that's too "cool/trendy" for people? I mention this because the editors make hay with how some writers "played" with the form via revealing the subtext through overly-long titles, but then, fictionists here aren't very exciting or intelligent with how they handle/play with/interrogate form, so, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-47943309395972465392015-03-13T06:39:00.001+08:002015-03-13T06:41:55.362+08:00Thirty-three, and two more new things.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I spent my thirty-third birthday at home with the girlfriend and the cat, reading, watching stuff, dozing, etc. After three years of spending it both alone and via Skype, kinda decided that goofing off at home was the best choice ever.<br />
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Right now I'm getting ready to prep the bags for tonight's flight to Laoag - NBDB's sending me there to teach zine making and how to politicise zine production - and I'm halfway anxious about it in the sense that I'm leaving behind a ton of work that I need to do (not leaving behind all of it, though, as we have a laptop so I know if I need to do some heavy typing, there's that, and for that matter, I've been writing both in my notebook *and* smartphone these last couple of years) but I've decided to take this one to the chin and just flow with the punch. I haven't been that far up north in the Philippines, so I'm halfway really excited about it, too. Feeling it'll turn into a zine of some sort, maybe by next week?</div>
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Speaking of zines of some sort, I spent yesterday morning doing a komix strip project. I woke up with a few images in mind then decided to eschew all plans of goofing off, at least for the first couple of hours of the morning, and sat down and drew/rendered/encoded this whole thing that apparently enjoyed 1,400 clicks the whole day yesterday.</div>
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It's variously about urban development, travel, and geologic time. Press "go" and everything changes. I'm calling it <b><i>should i stay or should i go</i></b>. You can read it <i><b><a href="http://thanthenthan.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a></b></i>.</div>
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Another zine I finished this week - Monday - is called <i><b>It will be the same/But not quite the same</b></i>. It's a collection of 132 stories gathered from a story-generating machine I encoded called <i><b>thirty minutes or less</b></i>. It's a simple randomiser that I fed story fragments to, culled from the flash fiction collection <i><b>Fast Food Fiction Delivery</b></i> (edited by Noelle de Jesus and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, Anvil 2015), which kindasorta comes across as a half-hearted effort to rebrand flash fiction for the 21st century audience, to give it some sort of new vibrancy and relevance. I think it's a bit misguided to aim for those things by naming your project after something so literally devoid of substance, something we equate with mindless consumption. I have more things to say about it, I just need to earn enough time to afford my sitting on my ass for a morning and typing it all out. For now, the zine will have to do. You can download the zine <i><b><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/view/uvs4zitj2emfoed/adam_david_-_IWBTSBNQTS_-_singles.pdf" target="_blank">here</a></b></i>, and you can play with the story-generating machine <i><b><a href="http://himaamsir.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a></b></i>. Make your own zines and send me a copy!</div>
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With these and <a href="http://kalboambahomo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i><b>one other komix thing</b></i></a> and <a href="http://allyourgrievances.blogspot.com/" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">one other story-generating thing</a> that I did a couple of weeks ago, and <a href="http://wasaaak.blogspot.com/2015/02/bltx-despedida-manila.html" target="_blank">two small press expos last January (Manila) and February (Davao)</a>, and the upcoming small press expo this April (Baguio), it has to be said, the first quarter of 2015 is shaping up to be really really really productive. More of what I've been drinking, please.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-20019345929118256062015-02-21T09:35:00.001+08:002015-02-21T09:35:28.281+08:00Two New Things<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Been busy the last couple of days doing some mild encoding as warm-up for more-than-mild encoding I expect to be doing in a few months.<br />
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* <a href="http://allyourgrievances.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i><b>IS THAT ALL THERE IS</b></i></a> - domestic-and-urban-dystopic-imagery machine<br />
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* <b><i><a href="http://kalboambahomo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">WALA NAMAN TALAGA</a></i></b> - a komix strip machine<br />
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Expect more of these things in the next few weeks.</div>
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One of the first advertising materials for BLTX6 - dated December 6 and 7 2014 but actually happened January 17, 18, and 24 2015, the most recent one in Manila - was a poster featuring a rather thinner rendering of my person walking down a length of concrete with a knapsack on his back while pulling a small wheeled airplane luggage bag as he types something out on his phone. It was rendered in black and grey, with some text along the top, one of the more prominent lines exclaiming "DESPEDIDA MANILA" in bold all caps. It was meant to be a resounding proclamation and public promise of BLTX's specific advocacy's next step: take the small press expo and fora to places other than mono-centric Manila.<br />
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As one of the main co-organisers of the project, it had already been clear to me early on that even with how we were running things, the risk of the community ending up as closed-circuited/insular as the community and industry we had set out to destroy was high. There was also the question of the durability and longevity of the standards and practices towards sustainability we have been trying to develop in our ranks, if they were actually tough enough to exist outside our immediate circle. There was also the particular challenge of trying to solve old world book problems using new world book practices. We feel taking BLTX out of Manila and into places we perceive may benefit from having its small press community jumpstarted was a possible solution for all these problems.<br />
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The original plan remains to be simple and effective: hook-up with a local organiser familiar with the art happenings going on in the area, gather the interested parties under one roof, analyse and troubleshoot the present situation, brainstorm possible solutions, then plan for the future, with "the future" now meaning establishing a national network of small press publishers talking to/exchanging ideas with/helping out each other/everyone else.<br />
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The first to volunteer for the project was Davao. We hooked up with UP Mindanao professor/department chair writer/critic/translator John Bengan, first on a professional capacity for UP Min hosting Chingbee's talk on plagiarism as art practice, then turning into a BLTX happening - me doing a talk on small press community-building, then an expo - thanks to a separate discussion with Ser Ricky de Ungria and NBDB head Ms Ciela Cayton. John and Ricky then hooked us up with Davao writers org Pulong's Liezl Raniel and Angely Chi, who turned out to be someone who was standing amazingly firmly and squarely on the center of Davao arts production - words fail to describe how instrumental Chi was with how successful BLTX: DVO went (Chingbee and I firmly believe that all credits to its success ought to be directed her way). We agreed to do everything on February 2: Chingbee's talk on plagiarism in the morning at UP Mindanao, my talk on community-building in the afternoon at University of Southeastern Philippines, then the expo at a bar called Sales Tekanplor.<br />
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The original idea was just to have me talk about BLTX, its ways and means, the practices it has developed, as a way to till the soil for another publishing fora set later in the year, but then Chi suggested that we also do an expo for the local zine producers. Early in our eMail exchange, I had asked some tentative questions about the state of small press publishing in Davao. Chi's reply was humble, that things were happening, but not happening enough, so there aren't very many zinesters down there, so Chingbee and I weren't exactly mentally prepared for what we saw -<br />
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- and on a Monday night!<br />
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They also hosted a thirty-minute-long talk on small press publishing as the expo happened, with me, Mindanews and Mindanao Times EIC Ms Amy Cabusao, and poet/publisher/all-around local literary legend Ms Tita Lacambra-Ayala as speakers -<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of love for this photo, like a practical effects proof-of-concept shot from the LOTR movies - a giant and an imp! (photo taken from Ricky de Ungria's FB page)</td></tr>
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- where a lot of interesting things were said: the local news outfits apparently host a regular (monthly, I think) forum on arts and culture, hopefully to develop local practice, which will hopefully lead to more arts and culture coverage in their newspapers; Ms Lacambra-Ayala's ways and means of publishing and sustaining (art patrons, donations, sympathetic printers, recycling paper spoilage from other printruns) her ROAD MAPS series of art and poetry folios (each issue a single sheet of paper more or less measuring 17"x22" folded like a map, the contents laid out strategically).<br />
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For my part, I fielded questions mainly about small press publishing being primarily a political choice, but one of the better questions ("better" being, "a question I hadn't been asked before") asked was about Metro Manila's relevance as a central hub for Philippine art production, if artists from Davao actually need to somehow develop their art with an eye towards making it in Manila. I grounded my reply with a thick layer of situating my own place in art production - thirty-something Manileño who only knows two Filipino languages (the mainstream ones), UP-educated, more or less middle-class upbringing, and first time to set foot on Davao - then stating in no uncertain terms that Manila is only really a bigger pond than Davao because Davao is only just starting to develop its own thing ("thing" being, a more democratic art practice, meaning, it's not just the well-off or the cream of the crop who are making art), and so, Davao should focus on making their pond bigger, and the only way to do that is to stop seeing Manila as the place to be, recounting my eMail correspondence with Chi about Davao small press production: "I thought that not much was happening here, that there weren't too many people doing things, but then, I look at this crowd, I look at all the sellers, all this on a Monday night - my goodness, was I wrong!"<br />
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Some of them expressed their desire to do more expos in the coming months, wondering out loud if they can actually do them monthly. I said a few words about the importance/need for labeling their forthcoming expos "BLTX," for using the name as some sort of trademark - I basically suggested that they don't need to do that, but they can if they want to, but it'd probably be better if they come up with a name that is relevant to Davao and their particular local practices. That was what I felt was right at the moment, and I still think it's right today.<br />
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That said, I'm still seriously thinking about it: using the name would provide the project national continuity, and with it a sort of allegiance to the still developing philosophy as it has started and initially developed in Manila; only, using the name would in a way tie it down to being something always in relation to a project started and initially developed in Manila, and ultimately, what we want to encourage is a local art practice autonomous from Manila; but, we still want the hopefully two-way connections between localities to remain solid and clear, and having them all share a common name will help make that happen. Again: still thinking about it.<br />
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And so with all this, we go into the rest of 2015's first quarter - it's only just the middle of February! - with BLTX: BAG more or less sure to happen this coming April, with BLTX: CEB in the works for maybe the middle of the year. So far, the original plan remains to be simple and effective. We've yet to talk seriously about establishing a national small press network, but we already have plans - the Baguio BLTX will have stuff from Davao, then the BLTX after that (Cebu?) will have stuff from Davao and Baguio, then the BLTX after that will have etc etc - and we're slowly getting there. Hopefully, by year's end, we'll all be troubleshooting something else entirely. But for now: BLTX: DVO was a blast; hope to see you soon, wherever you are.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chingbee with some of the UP Min faculty, after delivering her lecture on plagiarism as art practice.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John, Chingbee, and Jombits posing with that famous nudist.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jombits!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John and Chingbee posing after a two-hour zine-selling session.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute nekko painting in Alleycat, a local teahouse that also sells books and stuff. We left some of our zines there! I plan to write about how modern hipsterdom in Davao is the oldish more politicised hipsterdom I grew up with back in the 90s. Soon!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some framed art hanging in Alleycat. They do great tea! Hi-hello to Xiao and Jesh!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me and Chingbee with some of the peeps who made BLTX: DVO happen: clockwise from Chingbee - John, Julian de la Cerna, Ser Ricky, and Chi.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-81799776718734118702013-09-01T12:13:00.001+08:002013-09-01T12:13:19.276+08:00Proof of Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WOomTfz__hA/UiK-2bm43YI/AAAAAAAABA8/Vc0tKf-VZTw/s640/blogger-image-1260883901.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WOomTfz__hA/UiK-2bm43YI/AAAAAAAABA8/Vc0tKf-VZTw/s640/blogger-image-1260883901.jpg"></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-71049739020181331342013-01-20T16:02:00.001+08:002013-01-20T16:02:35.411+08:00Sunday Morning <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FxMFWT89FO0/UPukmIsvokI/AAAAAAAAAow/n6xedVB7UwY/s640/blogger-image--1767869060.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FxMFWT89FO0/UPukmIsvokI/AAAAAAAAAow/n6xedVB7UwY/s640/blogger-image--1767869060.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-63617451355740375372013-01-16T16:55:00.001+08:002013-01-16T16:55:47.783+08:00New ThingBack to recording daily consumption, now with its own blog at http://whatadameats.blogspot.com <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-c0A8ZcnBTBo/UPZrEC6ptiI/AAAAAAAAAoI/r_RPpI2CIdc/s640/blogger-image--1652034660.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-c0A8ZcnBTBo/UPZrEC6ptiI/AAAAAAAAAoI/r_RPpI2CIdc/s640/blogger-image--1652034660.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-52148773731489744392013-01-11T12:45:00.001+08:002013-01-11T12:45:05.115+08:00The days when we were forced to make our own entertainment. <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-plSrtLi5vGA/UO-Yb5dH2vI/AAAAAAAAAnk/t6-GkMQY70A/s640/blogger-image-2051680522.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-plSrtLi5vGA/UO-Yb5dH2vI/AAAAAAAAAnk/t6-GkMQY70A/s640/blogger-image-2051680522.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Mrz4xFW2kK0/UO-YzU1zMpI/AAAAAAAAAn0/9mg5yWGBSxo/s640/blogger-image--899755864.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Mrz4xFW2kK0/UO-YzU1zMpI/AAAAAAAAAn0/9mg5yWGBSxo/s640/blogger-image--899755864.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3wWBmBmY1UM/UO-Yfxp8-3I/AAAAAAAAAns/ATbeQTdmsz4/s640/blogger-image--123619744.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3wWBmBmY1UM/UO-Yfxp8-3I/AAAAAAAAAns/ATbeQTdmsz4/s640/blogger-image--123619744.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-62949086111247378582013-01-03T08:39:00.001+08:002013-01-03T08:39:52.142+08:00This is just a test. <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yGIO2o9yog0/UOTTUXUeJzI/AAAAAAAAAnU/38mVD6rJL_o/s640/blogger-image--1371041984.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yGIO2o9yog0/UOTTUXUeJzI/AAAAAAAAAnU/38mVD6rJL_o/s640/blogger-image--1371041984.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-55777763837235363532012-11-24T10:26:00.000+08:002012-11-25T20:56:59.323+08:00Hello, It's Me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I just remembered a few minutes ago: back in 2007, I was a fellow for nonfiction for the UP MidCareer Writers Workshop. My <a href="http://briefexercises.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">work's</a> panel was tabled by Ma'am Jing Hidalgo, my <a href="http://wasaaak.blogspot.com/2008/04/dazzle-them-with-brilliance-baffle-them.html" target="_blank">theory paper</a> tabled by Ser Roland Tolentino. Both pieces<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">—</span>packaged as <i><b>Brief Exercises in Youthful Blasphemy</b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">—</span>were manifestos and promises made by and to my early 20s self (I was 25 at the time), about how the past thirty years’ practice of local literary production is a broken, corrupt, lazy, ultimately irrelevant machine. The pieces and my presentation and demeanour prompted Ser Butch Dalisay to affectionately describe me on the spot and in his column at the time as an "angry young man." He followed it up with "See you in five years' time!" implying that by that time, I'd have mellowed. I realised that "five years' time" from 2007 is this year, 2012.<br />
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Thinking about it, I'd say I've mellowed somewhat. But then again, I was never angry, not in the sense that everyone seems to frame me as. I'd describe the feeling as more disappointed, maybe even heartbroken. My belief has always been<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">—</span>and still is<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">—</span>that people who have been guiding local literary production these past thirty years have done so with only their own interests in mind. No real issue there, until you consider the homogenisation that this has brought our general output, not to mention the institutionalised moral, intellectual, creative corruption practiced that have helped bring to fruition this situation, practices that sadly continue to this day, some with new faces, often still with the old.<br />
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All this is sad, up until you realise that these things only matter if you give them power to matter. Fact of the matter is, things are changing, regardless of how firmly these people cling on to the cliffs, no matter how many awards they give their friends named after themselves: <i>the Philippines Free Press</i> is kaput, quietly died an embarrassing death amidst hushed gossip of embezzled finances and employees left with no benefits; Anvil went through a shakedown after realising not only that it had only been publishing books of barkadas but that these books haven't been selling for twenty years (which makes this year's National Book Award for Best Publisher extra jokey). The people may have moved to different offices, but nonetheless the power has been displaced, negated, shown to be a sham.<br />
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"See you in five years' time." Here I am five years later: <a href="http://curiouscouch.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">met some people</a>, <a href="http://wasaaak.blogspot.com/2011/06/ang-una-kong-dekada-tomo-una.html" target="_blank">published some books</a>, <a href="http://wasaaak.blogspot.com/2009/06/status-que.html" target="_blank">written </a>some <a href="http://wasaaak.blogspot.com/2011/09/lets-sing-another-song-boys-this-one.html" target="_blank">criticism</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_346120266" target="_blank">edited </a>some <a href="http://www.highchair.com.ph/issue12.htm" target="_blank">anthos</a>, <a href="http://www.ybb.ph/p/workshops.html" target="_blank">hosted some workshops</a>, <a href="http://www.ybb.ph/p/the-small-press-expo.html" target="_blank">organised some events</a>, all the while affectionately still your angry disappointed heartbroken young man, slamdancing in the fire. Here's to five more years of polarity, to five more years of brief exercises in youthful blasphemy!
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If you’re an enterprising young and beautiful self-publisher,
shirt-printer, CD-burner, toy-sculptor, game-modder, or any sort of
fringe cultural producer of the DIY persuasion, you are invited to come
join us in the third semi-annual small press expo Better Living Through
Xeroxography for this coming December 7, 2012 at Ilyong’s Kalantiaw,
Cubao!<br />
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If you’re interested as a seller, feel free to contact the following people, categorised for your convenience:<br />
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• For komikeros and gamers, eMail Josel Nicolas at <b>ajora_metalanger@yahoo.com</b><br />
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• For literary groups, organisations, and individuals not based in schools, eMail Mabi David at <b>mabidavid@yahoo.com</b><br />
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• For literary groups, organisations, and individuals based in schools, eMail Carl Javier at <b>carl.javier@gmail.com</b><br />
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• For the more visually- and/or aurally-inclined artists, eMail Ina Santiago at <b>katrina@kssantiago.com</b><br />
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• For everyone else who do not fit any of the categories mentioned
above, like shirt-printers, filmmakers, TV pirates, sex toys
manufacturers, eMail Chingbee Cruz at <b>chingbee.cruz@gmail.com</b><br />
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If you have any concerns about BLTX other than selling, eMail Adam David at <b>juncruznaligas@gmail.com</b>.<br />
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The space is quite limited, but we’re willing to try making it work
for everyone, but to make that happen, we need all interested sellers to
contact us by Friday, November 23, 2012 at the latest! We can offer a
grace period of a couple of days, of course, but we really really really
prefer you contact us by the 23rd!<br />
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Two small pet projects of mine finally pulled through this week:<br />
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* Psychogeographical project <a href="http://fromheretoheretohere.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i><b>HERE</b></i></a>, a walk and talk and write workshop, finally happened in Cubao with about a dozen participants. I framed it as a 24-hour happening, with the discussion, walking, actual writing, editing, and publishing all happening inside of 24 hours. We actually pulled it off! <a href="http://fromheretoheretohere.blogspot.com/2012/09/cubao-09292012.html" target="_blank"><b>Here is the output</b></a>. I'm planning to do this regularly, and this was the first; the next one will be a walk across EDSA, from north to south, writing and talking all the while. We'll see what happens! The first draft of the workbook for this workshop can be downloaded <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?qzvu7cwmntpwn6z" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>. It's called <i><b>CAPITAL CITY</b></i>. So clever!<br />
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* The first issue of <i><b>BUT THE WORDS GET IN THE WAY</b></i>, an erasures anthology I assembled 2011. I sat on this for a year, trying to come up with enough money to make it happen as a print book. And then, the Cybercrime Bill happened, so I decided to upload it finally, much to the excitement of precisely one person in my Facebook page. <b><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?hd1j4sajp32d9j4" target="_blank">Download the PDF here</a>!</b> Featuring erasures from Tilde Acuña, Angelo Suarez, Nerisa Guevarra, Petra Magno, A Despi, and Katrina Alvarez. Send stuff for the next issue!<br />
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Let's see what else I can do inside of seven days!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-35548644735383685322012-09-12T14:09:00.000+08:002012-09-12T14:09:28.735+08:00HERE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As a continuation of the Youth & Beauty Brigade’s campaign to generate writing committed to the task of investigation, we are planning to host regular workshops on travel writing, specifically on walking urban landscapes/navigating consumerist structures with wakeful attention.<br />
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Each workshop will be structured around a couple of walks. Actual writing will be done while travelling, with discussions in between about writing and the city; the place of the pedestrian/tourist/citizen/condo owner in a society where urban development means building residential units within gated mall centers; issues of rising population, its resultant congestion, and their possible/potential artful re/solutions; and so on.<br />
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The workshop proper will culminate in the evening with a discussion of each participant's output and how the works can be developed with an eye toward the anthology to be produced by the group. Participants are expected to turn in their final pieces by 9 am the following day. The anthology of their work will be available online as a blog and a downloadable PDF shortly after.<br />
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To sign up for the workshop, email <b><i>ybb.books@gmail.com</i></b>. You will receive instructions regarding the workshop and a PDF booklet containing writing prompts. The deadline for signing up is on September 26, 2012. The entire activity will be hosted by Adam David. It is for free.
The first workshop will be held in Cubao on September 29, 2012.<br />
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<i>Something I found in my PC, recovered from an old harddrive. The timestamps say I made these from between July 21 2006 to August 11 2006. Six years ago! They were studies for a planned webkomix. Left unfinished due to my PC conking out and me losing all the original PSDs.</i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">A Biannual Youth & Beauty Brigade Publishing Project
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We are looking towards publishing books by young, unpublished authors with brave, new, and vibrant works we are both befuddled by and believe in.
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<li>The book should be about an investigation: implicit, explicit, inner or outer, about any and all – a family member’s suicide, flood control protocols, a detective novel, history of the evolution of the logo of a multinational company, etc etc – as long as something is being detected, uncovered, found, as long as the investigation is refracted through art’s lens;</li>
<li>The book should fit 48 pages, all in, from 9”x9” to 6”x6” to 4”x4”, counting the front and back matters, i.e., title page, copyright page, dedication, acknowledgements, endnotes, etc etc;</li>
<li>The book need not be pure prose or pure poetry: any multimedia and extraliterary form is welcome, as long as it can be fitted and printed within the 48 pages.</li>
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<li>Three books will be chosen to be published for release at the upcoming <i>BLTX XMAS</i> event, and subsequently every three or four months after that;</li>
<li>Ten copies of each book to be printed, each copy to be sold at P300;</li>
<li>All earnings from the first ten copies straight to the authors;</li>
<li>All three available for pre-order, 50% of earnings beyond production cost going straight to the authors (that’s potentially P12.50+/- per book);</li>
<li>Print rights remain with the authors, this deal merely for this project only, so if ever the authors decide to pull out, they can easily pull out, no strings attached.</li>
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Send any and all submissions in whatever language, in whatever appropriate format – PDF, RTF, DOC, JPG, GIF – and also questions, et al, to <i><b>ybb.books@gmail.com</b></i>. Selected manuscripts will be prepared for publication by the Youth & Beauty Brigade in full consultation with the authors. The deadline for the initial entries is <b>20th of October, 2012</b>.
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The Youth & Beauty Brigade is still off-the-books, still utterly shoestring, still the extremely young and incredibly beautiful book design-and-publishing outfit still operating within and around the immediate Cubao area. There are many of us in spirit, but it is run primarily by Adam David and Conchitina Cruz.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-23352254961508439992012-07-28T08:50:00.000+08:002012-07-28T08:54:48.546+08:00Road to ReaderCon: Reading Over the Shoulders of Giants - One-Sentence Reviews of Contemporary Pinoy Novels #3: Charlson Ong's BLUE ANGEL WHITE SHADOW<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It is a detective novel, dependent on crucial revelations, more so than other narratives. If you don't mind spoilers, highlight the space between the two spoiler markers. Consider yourselves forewarned.<br />
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<span style="color: white;">You wasted your time.</span><br />
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*** SPOILER ALERT ***</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-2333982695974330452012-07-28T08:45:00.001+08:002012-07-28T08:54:38.519+08:00Road to ReaderCon: Reading Over the Shoulders of Giants - One-Sentence Reviews of Contemporary Pinoy Novels #2: Lourd de Veyra's SUPER PANALO SOUNDS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It can be read in the span of a jeepney ride from Antipolo - just off Cainta - to Cubao - a few minutes from AliMall - keeping you cool all the while.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-59730820010575766232012-07-28T08:39:00.001+08:002012-07-28T08:54:26.601+08:00Road to ReaderCon: Reading Over the Shoulders of Giants - One-Sentence Reviews of Contemporary Pinoy Novels #1: Mario Miclat's SECRETS OF THE EIGHTEEN MANSIONS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It reads like a prepubescent girl's diary, where the words were read aloud as they were written.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19156518.post-26247244192651935972012-05-01T10:00:00.000+08:002015-02-24T20:45:20.762+08:00GREAT PINOY ANTIQUITIES CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><b>A catalogue of clothes for sale from the closet of Christine Abella</b></i></div>
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<i><b>- perpetual student, ukay fan, and compulsive traveler</b></i></div>
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