84 Portraits Project
My love of writing and photography has given birth to a new project!
Meet 84 Portraits, a collaborative art project with Swiss photographer Sebastien Rezzonico.
… And we’re back!
The second-years returned to RRC after three weeks of winter break and three weeks of work placements. A month and a half doesn’t seem too long but when you practically live in school, as most of us have this last year and a half, it’s an eternity. I can’t say I haven’t thought to sneak...
You’re saying it wrong!
In CreComm, we are taught that our spelling is our credibility. Our instructors go to extreme lengths to teach us this lesson — 50 per cent off our marks for every misspelled proper name. In second-year PR, it’s that, and a 10 per cent deduction for every misspelled common name, grammar error or misused punctuation....
Just a vertebrate
I found out today that Trish Keenan, the frontwoman of the Birmingham electronic band, Broadcast, passed away this morning from complications with pneumonia. I heard earlier that she had been in the ICU for a couple of weeks, but, really, who expects anyone to die of pneumonia at this day and age? To honor Keenan,...
Me vs. The Dismemberment Plan
For about 0.5 seconds last September 13, I contemplated quitting school and running away to the States. The idea was like one of those lightning-fast series-of-events montages — quit school, buy plane ticket, pack bag, get on plane, flash, flash, flash… Why? Well, it didn’t help that I was two weeks back in school and...
Font fail
You can blame this post on Netflix. In this episode of HawthoRNe (a medical drama rated 5.8 stars on IMDB), nurse-extraordinaire and single mom, Christina Hawthorne (Jada Pinkett Smith), locks her delinquent teenager daughter, Camille (Hannah Hodson), inside Christina’s hospital office forcing her to re-write a Shakespeare essay that she initially flunked (she wrote rap...
Another day, another tennis stunt
You remember the terracotta warriors, the half-grass/half-clay tennis match, the sky tennis, the high-speed train match and the hilarious flying carpet tennis. There is no shortage of tennis events, and so follows the stunts, pseudo-events and photo-ops. The most recent of which are world no. 1 and 2, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer playing on...
Sour Strube novel is an acquired taste
Heralded by some critics as the successor of Alice Munro, Cordelia Strube is a mainstay in various shortlists and longlists, and is the author of eight novels. In Lemon, her latest novel, she applies her trademark bleak themes and jabs at humor the same way as in her other books. One can only speculate where...
1-1-11
I’m confused as to how to celebrate New Year’s. If you live or lived in Manila or have ever been in Manila during New Year’s Eve, you know they go nuts during New Year’s. The city arms itself with a collective arsenal of firecrackers that could put any modern armament manufacturer to shame. New Year’s...
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