Babbling Point

I saw this pic a year or so ago and always wondered, was there a story behind it. Last Monday, around 2:19am, while doing OT at the office, something kept bugging me, like something wanted to be written-- and out came these words. Maybe it's her story. :-) Words: Budjette Tan / Lay-out: Brandie Tan Photography by: BEYONDER. Hair: Bea Rivera / Basement Salon. Make-up: Flore Rivera / Basement Salon. Model: Maria Kathrina Agarrado. Photo from PULP MAGAZINE. (used without permission… hehehe... sorry po)

. Found it. Another chopped up journal entry pretending to look like a poem. Two others can be read in the archives. June 29, 1996 / 3:50am SELOS Part 1 Nakakapagod at napakasakit ang magselos. Wala ka naman ginawa kundi tingnan ang litrato niyo na kinunan sa Photo-Me at isipin kung ano ang gingawa niya ngayon kung ano ang ginagawa nila ngayon. Pagtingin sa relo dalawang oras na pala ang lumipas. Pawis na pawis. Pagod na pagod. Masakit ang dibdib. Aksaya nang oras ang magselos. Pero buong puso mo ito pinagbibgyan. Parang baboy na naglalaro sa putikan. Pagod na ako. Mamaya na lang siguro magseselos ulit ako. Matutulog muna. Sana mapanaginipan ko siya. Baka mapanaginipan ko SILA! Manood na lang kaya ng TV. Ano ba ang palabas sa HBO? Aba! The Crow! Tungkol sa magsyotang pinaslang at ang lalaki ay binuhay ng uwak na makapangyarihan, upang ipaghiganti… Ahhh… Paghihiganti! Para sa ibang tula naman yan.

. COMICS FOR KIDS “…I can’t help noticing that in the world of children’s literature, an overwhelming preponderance of stories are stories about children. The same is true of films for children: the central characters are nearly always a child, a pair, or a group of children. Comic books, however, even those theoretically aimed at children, are almost always about adults, or teenagers. Doesn’t that strike you as odd? Maybe somebody should try putting out a truly thrilling, honestly observed and remembered, richly imagined, involved and yet narratively straightforward comic book for children, about children. “We can’t afford to take this handcrafted, one-kid-at-a-time approach anymore. We have to sweep them up and carry them off on the vast flying carpets of story and pictures on which we ourselves, in entire generations, were borne aloft, on carpets woven by Swan and Hamilton, Kirby and Lee. They did it for us; we have to pass it on, pay it forward. It’s our duty, it’s our opp...

. tuning into monday 12:59am At the office. Now listening to Lille's songs . Just finished writing copy for something that needs to be presented at 10am. Welcome the new work week. Hurrah. Hurrah. Ugh...

daddy groovy Underneath that afro and shades is Taps. His leading lady is Aze Sasaki (FHM Girlfriend of the Year). This was shot for a MYGLOBE RINGBACK TONE print ad. As things go, when we usually make a study for a print ad, we sometimes grab the nearest creative not doing anything in the office and take a pic of them with the digicam... cut-cut... paste-paste... and there you go... instant print ad. (Well, it goes something like that.) So, we showed the ad to client using Taps as the stand-in talent and they loved it and said we should use him for the real ad. So, he got to stand really, really close to an FHM Babe (which doesn't really matter bacause Taps has got his own babe these days... yiheeeee!)