Neither Here Nor There

geekfight :: For anybody still unsure about their Valentine’s...

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:23:22 +0800

geekfight ::

For anybody still unsure about their Valentine’s Day options, here’s one more to consider.

Wait a minute… It’s not *really* PhP500 to check out Finally Found, yeah?

via maopanalo :: wearetheinnovators

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:56:56 +0800

via maopanalo :: wearetheinnovators

Top five Japanese people I don't mind trading places with

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:13:17 +0800

via barnsisnoble ::

1) Shugo Tokumaru - musician

2) Haruki Murakami - author

3) Shigeru Miyamoto - video game creator

4) Takeshi Yasutoko - agressive inline skater

5) Takeru Kobayashi - hot dog eating champion

This guy could potentially become my second favorite person on Tumblr, if he keeps this up.

via notsofriendly :: skiptothend :: some of our best decisions...

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:32:18 +0800

via notsofriendly :: skiptothend ::

some of our best decisions are those which are made in a snap.

I suppose Michael LeGault would probably beg to differ. But then again, he often comes across like a dismissive, condescending prick anyway, so fuck him.

existentializzy :: Brian Cox teaching a 2 year old Hamlet’s...

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:11:00 +0800

existentializzy ::

Brian Cox teaching a 2 year old Hamlet’s soliloquy.

Dear hypothetical children, this is your future.

miss-choi ::

And now I’m actually considering procreation, just so I can do this to my future progeny. My children will be reciting “to be or not to be” and air-guitaring to “Enter Sandman” before they can walk.

Procreation? There’s no reason why you couldn’t attempt to do this with a child fashionably adopted from an impoverished region. You’ll be chic and socially conscious!

(Unless, of course, you’re a biological determinist like that.)

via wehaveseentheenemy :: Sputnik, Junkie, and Heima. Sputnik,...

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:38:39 +0800

via wehaveseentheenemy ::

Sputnik, Junkie, and Heima.

Sputnik, Junkie Shop, and Bookay-Ukay (especially their zine and CD selection) for me.

I wonder about the corresponding figures, in the local context, where taxes and even operating expenses (utilities, etc.) don’t work quite as transparently or efficiently as they do in the US.

Regardless, The 3/50 Project seems like a worthwhile initiative to get consumers to recognize the economic and political implications of their shopping habits.

uhhstuff: (click for a larger version) SPINDLE is a non-profit...

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:32:26 +0800

uhhstuff:

(click for a larger version)

SPINDLE is a non-profit online journal that publishes poetry, prose, artwork, and essays in English and Filipino. We accept different forms, genres, and media. You can submit reviews and interviews relating to literature and visual arts, poetry collaborations (“rengga” in the vernacular), sequential art, hypertext, photo essays, works from a series, and whatever you think counts as literature, art, an intersection thereof — or simply a piece that deserves an audience.

Send your work in DOC, PDF, JPG or PNG format* to SPINDLE.PH@GMAIL.COM on or before MARCH 31 to be considered for this issue. Please include “SUBMISSION” in the subject line of your email.

Submissions are read year-round. New Spindles will appear every six months on the official Spindle website. Our first regular issue will come out in June. For now, you may follow the developmental blog at SPINDLEJOURNAL.TUMBLR.COM.

*We’re open to other formats, depending on what your work is, but we prefer these staples as much as possible.

Please reblog!

For the benefit of those who stopped following the GeekFight...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:45:00 +0800

For the benefit of those who stopped following the GeekFight Tumblr page. (And really, after months of inactivity, I wouldn’t blame anyone for doing so.)

geekfight ::

Because somebody had to make one, eventually!

via majorleagues :: Everybody Hurts? Really? Great song choice,...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:47:35 +0800

via majorleagues ::

Everybody Hurts? Really? Great song choice, douchebags.

Also: Great cover. A true testament that everybody hurts.

“Everybody Hurts” (except Michael Stipe’s accountant). Disappointing, but not exactly a surprise.

Scrappy underdogs FTW?

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:18:20 +0800

Scrappy underdogs FTW?

via gangbadoy :: It is only later, in solitude, in memory, that...

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:12:24 +0800

via gangbadoy ::

It is only later, in solitude, in memory, that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself -quite to one’s surprise - in an entirely different world. (D.Tartt) Driving home. Sunrise 01.01.10.

I wonder which book the quote is from. (For some reason, when I was actively looking for novels by the “literary Brat Pack” in college, Tartt’s work seemed harder to find than her peers.)

noisy alphabet by Tom Gauld via unomagazine :: nevver

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:35:18 +0800

noisy alphabet by Tom Gauld

via unomagazine :: nevver

via thepublics :: Synth Britannia (Part 1/9) “In the late...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:35:00 +0800

via thepublics ::

Synth Britannia (Part 1/9)

“In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard and dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain”

Synth rock was the first cyborg sub-genre, methinks. Even its name suggests the pained fusion of dispassionate electronics and New Romantic melancholia. And like the Borg, it has since proven quite effective at assimilating the defining characteristics of the styles it makes contact with: postpunk’s art damaged standoffish posturings; disco’s celebratory bacchanalia. And somewhere en route to siring bastard offshoots like electroclash and big beat, it ceased to be what it originally was.

Maybe it just couldn’t exist in its original form outside the context of Thatcher era’s Blighted Isles. Regardless, this docu promises to be a fascinating look at this misunderstood sound.

Another repost for Flashback Friday. This is me, about 12 years...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:59:00 +0800

Another repost for Flashback Friday. This is me, about 12 years and quite likely a hundred or so pounds ago.

This was shot at Clark’s Comics, in Causeway Bay Center, Hong Kong. The store became my default LCS after Legends & Heroes shut down. (I always preferred the selection at Comics Box in Miramar Plaza, Tsim Sha Tsui, but it was out of the way for my Island-centric routine, when I still lived there.)

Can you spot all the horrible 90s gimmicks? I see the awful redesigned “electric” Superman logo from his brief resurrection as a Doc Manhattan ripoff; the Scarlet Spider from the “Clone Saga”; and Top Cow’s The Darkness (with a harem of scantily clad bimbos).

Oh, and what’s up with that cheesy Pamela Anderson poster in the background? It doesn’t seem to be an obvious comic book tie in, like Barb Wire?

(If you click on the image, there are more pics from the same general era.)

Because it’s still Flashback Friday in the Western...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:39:00 +0800

"Marked", pg. 1

"Marked", pg. 2

"Marked", pg. 3

"Marked", pg. 4

"Marked" playlist

Because it’s still Flashback Friday in the Western hemisphere.

“Marked”, a 4-page karmic punk romance (with bonus soundtrack listing FOR YOUR HEALTH). All text + illustrations by me.

At 25, Gaiman was probably drafting the first Sandman comics. At that age, I was making… this.

This comes from Monochrome Fiesta, an anthology comic I co-published for Free Comic Book Day in 2004. It was a joint effort with Claire and Matthew, via Dumpling Press, our little independent media empire.

via yobananaboy :: International Conference Center in...

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:41:41 +0800

via yobananaboy ::

International Conference Center in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa by Coldefy & Associes Architectes Urbanistes.

If Oscar Niemeyer’s national congress building mated with the Death Star, this is their lovechild. Surely shows that great architecture is not destined only to the first world.

Billy Bragg and Kate Nash - “A New England” (Live at SxSW...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:15:00 +0800

Billy Bragg and Kate Nash - “A New England” (Live at SxSW 2008)

It’s a seemingly unlikely pairing — latter-day pop star and earnest Leftist folkie — but their voices mesh rather well. Plus, i’ve always regarded Nash as being lightyears ahead of her peers, musically (with the possible exception of Lily Allen).

And i’m not gonna deny it — I find Nash decidedly attractive. (There. I said it.)

She displays real charm and pluck in this clip. It totally works. It almost reminds me of the dynamic between a curmudgeonly Warren Ellis protagonist, and his spunky assistant, I guess.

via Environmental Graffiti :: Archigram’s Walking City: A 60’s...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:00:00 +0800

via Environmental Graffiti ::

Archigram’s Walking City:
A 60’s Architectural Vision of the Future

Whoever feels strangely reminded of the Beatles’ cover art and Monty Python when viewing the picture above is not far off: it’s a design by radical art collective Archigram, founded in 1961. Their pop-inspired ideas of mobility – walking cities in particular – and radical urban design have inspired many contemporary architects and continue to inspire futuristic designs today.

Balita by Mixkaela Villalon

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:40:00 +0800

Balita by Mixkaela Villalon:

3rd place winner in the Essay category for Timpalak Panitik, the UP Filipino Department’s writing contest, this year.

With lots of people on my Dashboard feed busting out New Jack jams and smoothed over 90s hip-hop for YNYL (You Nostalgia, You Lose!), I figure now would be an ideal time to offer a contrarian view. Consider excerpt from Balita, by Mixka Villalon:

Hindi rin talaga ako nahilig sa hip hop. Noong nakalubog pa ako sa punk subculture, madalas magtalo ang hip hop at rock. Laging nag-aaway ang dalawang subkulturang ito. Sabi ng mga punkista, gaya-gaya raw sa mga Amerikanong negro ang rap. Tila ba nagka-amnesia kami, nakalimutan na hiram din mula sa Inglatera ang istilo namin ng pagsusuot ng Doc Martens at punit na hapit na pantalon. Sabi naman ng mga hip hop at rappers, laos na raw kami. Lipas na raw ang panahon namin. Kung ang punks, ‘no future,’ sila raw ang future. Mababaho raw at hindi naliligo ang mga punkista.

Hindi ito ang una at huling beses na napagbintangan akong mabaho at hindi naliligo. Nagsimula na kasi akong pumasok sa unibersidad sa panahong ito. Ang devil horns hand sign na inaangat ko tuwing punk concerts, naging simpleng kamao na lang. Nang makatuntong ako sa kolehiyo, napadalas ang pag-angat ko ng kamao kasabay ng pagmartsa sa lansangan kasama ng mga kaibigan kong hindi naliligo. Hindi ito malaking talon mula sa pagiging punk. Hindi nagbago ang hilig ko sa ingay, sigawan, at sabay-sabay na pagkilos. Pero ngayon, may direksyon na ang ingay na kinahiligan ko. Nabigyan ng kabuluhan ang pagiging pipit sa gitna ng pawisan at mababahong mga katawan. Karatula at kamulatan lang pala ang lamang ng mga aktibista sa mga punk.

Click on the link to read the whole essay, an insightful, personalized deconstruction of “Balita” by Asin, “Balita” by Gloc9 feat. Gabby Alipe, and “The APL Song” by Black Eyed Peas.

Famous Crushes (Virgo Edition) #2: Rose McGowan born September...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:09:36 +0800

Famous Crushes (Virgo Edition) #2: Rose McGowan
born September 5, 1973

I’ve had a thing for her ever since I watched The Doom Generation, as a horny sixteen-year-old, during the 1996 Hong Kong International Film Festival.

In that confused period, I wanted nothing more, sexually, than a ménage a trios with her and co-star James Duval. But I quickly realized that wasn’t very likely to happen, since I wasn’t a rail-thin, pasty-faced shock rocker. Oh well. A boy can dream…