Babbling Point

HAPPY BDAY KAJO!!! Just wanted to greet my partner-in-crime and in the dark arts Ka-jo Baldisimo a happy new year. (That's not really Kajo's pic up there, but that was his initial design for Trese.) Considering it's his birthday today, I promise not to bug him about the lettered pages of TRESE #5. (Hopefully, he won't remember that I'm also late in submitting the script of TRESE #6) It was almost a year ago when Kajo texted me, asking if I'd want to do a monthly, 20-page comic book. He said, if I could write it, he'd devote an hour a day to make one page. (At that time, I thought it would impossible to do considering the workload we both faced everyday.) So, we did a little test. I went away from my desk, away from the AEs that were bugging me to finish some print ad, and wrote down a little fight scene. I emailed it to Kajo, who emailed me back after an hour or so. And this is what I received: Yup, originally, Trese was supposed to be a man, a cop named Ant...

Somewhat connected to my last post, here's a speech that was given by Emily Abrera, McCann-Erickson's Chairman-Emeritus about work in the ad agency and creativity in general. THE VALUE OF THE INTANGIBLE by EMILY ABRERA Albert Einstein said, " Imagination is more important than knowledge." Prophetic, even visionary words from a great scientist. Come to think of it, the greatest scientists were so because they had the ability to generate theories… and what are those, if not imagined outcomes? By now, the second day of this forum, and after the tremendous inputs from Mr. Richard Glover, Professor Desmond Hui, and Mr. Baey Yam Keng, I am sure that everyone appreciates and agrees that especially today, creativity drives value. As the world zoomed past the industrial age and entered the Knowledge Era (also called the age of technology and communication), companies soon discovered that technology itself, easy to replicate and prone to early obsolescence, was not the point. ...