We Are (not) The World 3

GSK (gulong sa katatawa) ako last saturday sa spoof ng SLN. Ha ha ha maski na hindi singer kasali sa We Are The World 2. Ang daming sabet, me baby na me Farnsworth Bentley pa! Ika nga ni Quincy Jones (Kenan Thompson), "the song itself was a disaster...a sloppy mess of half famous randos." The intentions were good but disaster talaga. Sabi nga ng greek kong kapitbahay "only in ameriki".

move your money

Move Your Money is a campaign launched by American University students, other universities and financial institutes in the Washington Dc to assist local communities to develop businesses and overcome the gross wealth inequality in the city.

The idea is to move some of the university's $312 million endowment money to local financial institutes like local banks and credit unions which will lend out to help local businesses and help revitalize the community. Specifically the students are campaigning to move 5% of the cash assets from the school's endowment into Community Development Financial Institution like the City First Bank.

Move your money in Washington is not a lone event. Actually in some other cities a similar move has been initiated.

In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has pledged to move 425 million of municipal tax dollars to local credit unions.

In Los Angeles City, the city Council is reportedly considering a measure to move all government money out of big banks that routinely foreclose on citizen's without mercy or trying to keep them in their homes.

Move your money should be a national campaign to encourage individuals and governments to move cash to financial institutions that are more friendly to the local communities and citizens. We have read news stories saying that some big banks are taking foreclosed homes from home owners and sell the homes for their own interest - in a way to take the equity from the owners.

Italy vs. Manila

The Leaning tower of Pisa versus da lean na lean tower ng Divisoria. Fight! Mas panalo ang Divisoria Tower. Baket conyo? Kasi me exploding Meralco transformer na, me Jollibee pa.

Gasping for More!

Have you listened to No Air, the love song of Jordin Sparks, featuring Chris Brown?

"No Air"
(feat. Chris Brown)

Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air

If I should die before I wake
It's 'cause you took my breath away
Losing you is like living in a world with no air
Oh

I'm here alone, didn't wanna leave
My heart won't move, it's incomplete
Wish there was a way that I can make you understand

Yes, there is a kind of love that can leave you breathless or take away your breath for a moment. You would be left gasping for air! Gosh! Have you had that kind of experience?

Continue reading Gasping for More!

Meralco Supot

Unplug to save elecricity bags that contained Electricitips or information on how to save electricity and ways to practice smart electrical consumption were given away during Christmas bazaars and Meralco mall events. Pero, baket, why kasali yung flat iron na plantsa ng mga under de saya? Electric savings ba yun? Hindee! Sunog po yan pag hindi mo nabunot ang plantsa!

Meralco ads by TBWA, Philippines

A Piece of paper

 

Peter Callesen:
My paper works have been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality. I find this materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form almost a magic process - or maybe one could call it obvious magic, because the process is obvious and the figures still stick to their origin, without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts. Some of the small paper cuts relate to a universe of fairy tales and romanticism, as for instance Impenetrable Castle inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Steadfast Tin Soldier, in which a tin soldier falls in love with a paper ballerina, living in a paper castle. Other paper cuts are small dramas in which small figures are lost within and threatened by the huge powerful nature. Others again are turning the inside out, or letting the front and the back of the paper meet - dealing with impossibility, illusions, and reflections.

I find the A4 sheet of paper interesting to work with, because it is probably the most common and consumed media and format for carrying information today, and in that sense it is something very loaded. This means that we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By removing all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white 80gsm A4 paper as a base for my creations, I feel that I have found a material which we all are able to relate to, and at the same time is non-loaded and neutral and therefore easier to fill with different meanings. The thin white paper also gives the paper sculptures a fragility which underlines the tragic and romantic theme of the works.