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RAMBOL NA NAMAN!!! I recently found out that we're already airing this version of the Magic Flavors TV commercial, so I can now post it. When we first presented and shot the commercial, this was supposed to be the game that the wrestlers were playing. (We have no idea what it's called, so all through-out the meetings and production, we just called it the Slap-Clap Game.) During the shoot, Direk Jeorge and the team thought of making the wrestlers do another game: the bato-bato-pik aka rock-paper-scissors game. During the editing, we found the "bato-bato-pik" version funnier, so that became the launch material. The cast and crew of Proj:Rumble aka Proj:Happiness aka Proj:Trip Direk Jeorge in the middle of d'Wrestlers Agency: Harrison Communications Client: URC Product: Magic Flavors crackers ECD: Teeny Gonzales DECD: Alex Arellano CD: Budjette Tan Copywriter: Biba Cabuquit Art Director: Erwin Trivino Accounts: Wella Balagtas, Ethel Dino, Sinta Rosales, Lou Bogn...

I've posted this TVC before, but it was recently review in Business World. It's not everyday we get a glowing review like this, so... here you go. :) Subtlety in communication ADS AND ENDS NANETTE A. FRANCO-DIYCO BUSINESS WORLD, Vol. XX, No. 134, Friday-Saturday, February 2-3, 2007 http://www.bworldonline.com/Weekender020207/main.php?id=marketing_diyco I must salute Harrison Communication for the totally different look and feel of BPI in its 30-second television commercial launched during the holidays. It adopted a market leader stance that could not have flown high without the heritage and the confidence of a bank like BPI. The first time I caught the commercial, I mistook it for a teaser ad. I thought it was a commercial that deliberately left the viewer hungering for more facts. Ergo, I concluded that there must be a sequel to it, the major material scheduled for launch perhaps after a week or two. This was the role of a teaser ad: It is meant to titillate the viewer and ca...

NEOZERYE You can finally watch the "complete first season" of the Neozep "Neozerye". The team had a lot of fun working on this project. It was also great how client recognized the potential of this campaign and approved the production of four commercials that went beyond the usual 15 or 30-second time limit and also took a leap to do something rarely done by other brands in the category. Here you go! PROLOGUE PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 Agency: Harrison Communications Client: Unilab Product: Neozep Creative Director: Isabel Gamboa Copywriter: Darwin Bamba Art Directors: Elvin Julian, Rommel Joson Producer: Chona Bustamante Director: Erik Matti

RAMBOL!!! I've been itching to upload this commercial since we finished it last year. It was one of those ideas that sounded so stupid that we just had to present it. We even acted it out during the client presentation. After we got it approved, we had a difficult time finding the right talents. The caster got so desperate, she started hanging out at gyms and at bars that were frequented by foreigns. (She must have had a hard time trying to convince them that she wasn't trying to pick the up.) Well, she was, but it was for professional reasons. Anyway, the commercial finally aired yesterday. Hoooraayyy!!! :-)

G o o g l e Time Tony Scott’s DÉJÀ VU can also be described as CSI: TIME TRAVEL or "Seven Days" Minus Four (did anybody ever watch that TV show “ Seven Days ”?). In the movie, Denzel Washington plays ATF Officer Doug Carlin. In the course of investigating the bombing of a New Orlean’s ferry, he is recruited to become part of secret government task force to help track down the terrorists. “Snow White” is the top secret operation/device that allows the task force to look four days into the past. So, imagine Google Earth, but you’re looking at that spot of the earth four days ago—and you can even go inside the rooms of house, see through walls, and hear people’s conversations. The “time window” works like “video streaming”, so they can’t rewind and check other places in the past. They can only view one place, one person at a time. The writers toss in some time travel/physics terminologies like the Einstein-Rosen Bridge just to make the logic of it all sound okay. (They could’ve...

trese: The Choir Story by Budjette Tan Art by Elbert Or Hank had tended the bar of The Diabolical long enough to know that the one who just entered was another troubled soul. The typical patron of The Diabolical were the goth-girls and the vampire wanna-bes who dressed in leather and velvet despite the tropical weather of Manila. There were also the 24-hour party people, who danced to the ever-escalating electronic beats in the clubs next door, but who slipped into The Diabolical because their beer was cheaper. So, when the man in the denim jacket entered place and didn’t fit into the usual profile, Hank knew this was someone in a bad need of a drink. The man unbuttoned his jacket as he took three steps down to the main floor of the club. Before he could even reach the bar, Hank had already prepared a shot glass, poured the tequila and set the salt and lemon on a little plate. He then reached into the cooler, past the sea of ice cubes for a bottle of San Mig Light. The man sat on the ...

PROJ: EVERYWHERE Finally! I can upload this TV commercial and Flickr the pix from the shoot. Getting "kc" with KC The Harrison Communications Team with the very friendly, very beautiful KC Conception. Oh, and if you want to know more about this great new service, just go to: myGlobe IMevrywhere or text IM to 2222.

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The sun also shines… I am very happy and proud to announce that Harrison Communications won the following Award Values Awards: Gold Globe "SEA Games" TVC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of-Ay8u8vv8 Silver Philippine Daily Inquirer "Piggy" print series COPY: Recycling saves. Support the Philippine Daily Inquirer Newspaper Drive. Silver PDI "Puzzle" print series COPY: 64% of energy is saved through paper recycling. Puzzling but true. Support the Philippine Daily Inquirer Newspaper Drive. COPY: 41% of garbage is lessened through paper recycling. Puzzling but true. Support the Philippine Daily Inquirer Newspaper Drive. COPY: 35% of water pollution is cut through paper recyling. Puzzling but true. Support the Philippine Daily Inquirer Newspaper Drive. Silver Pioneer "Knock" print Silver Pioneer "Filing" print Bronze Gentxt "Buwan ng Wika" print ad

Once upon a time... Many years ago (maybe six or so years ago), I wanted to do a music video for The Jerks' song "Rage". The video would star the futuristic versions of Darna, Panday, and Zuma. These analog versions would battle mecha-powered Metrocom cops in an alternate reality where Martial Law was never lift. I imagined it would animated like how AKIRA was animated. Since I didn't have the funds or the resourcers to do that, I just thought I'd turn it to a comic book. So, I sent the script to one of the guys and got a couple of sketches in return. Arvie, the artist, loved the idea so much, he started to map out the whole history of the characters in the "music video". Anyway, our day-jobs got the better of us, and we never even got to do Page 1 of the project. I just thought of "giving birth" to it now, especially since we wanted to make that story of yet-another-unproduced-anthology called NOV30: A TIME FOR HEROES. Given the chance, I'...

6 Steps to Oblivion by Bow Guerrero Story and art by Bow Gurerrero. Lay-out and graphic design by Ronnie Tres Reyes. (click on the links to read the story) Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9

And for a moment, the clouds parted and revealed... Skyworld is the creation of writer Mervin Ignacio and artist Ian Sta. Maria. If you happened to drop by the Alamat table at the Komikon, you would've seen the two full-color posters for this book. If you didn't get to see that, you can head on over to the SKYWORLD gallery (which is filed under Sgt.Digmaan's site, for some strange reason). SKYWORLD should be available early 2007.

RIDERS OF THE STORM I bought the very first STORMWATCH because I was Jim Lee fanboy. It had an interesting premise of a team of super-powered soldiers sanctioned by the United Nations. Of course, I was disappointed when I found out Jim Lee only did the cover and the inside art was nowhere near as good as Lee’s art style. The stories also felt like I was reading the rejected scripts of “Street Fighter the Movie”, where we just see costumed wrestlers fighting in different parts of the world. The next time I picked up STORMWATCH was their 37th issue , when Warren Ellis and Tom Raney took over the series and I was not disappointed with that run. Ellis made the team for ruthless and made them battle deadlier threats with delusions of bringing about a better world and inject a conspiracy angle that made you not trust Weatherman One, the commander of Stormwatch. Ellis eventually pushed the title towards the direction of the wide-screen, action-packed stories of THE AUTHORITY. The Stormwatch n...

i hated yesterday. i hate today . maybe tomorrow will be better.

I curl my toes to music downloaded from the net. The screen's the sunrise from the beach south of where I sit. My face is gray from typing, burnt from radiation. No need to leave the second floor to take a paid vacation. by Kris Lacaba, march 2003 I am back from my 10-day vacation. I had just great hopes to finish a lot of things. I thought I could finish writing all 13 issues of TRESE, but only got to write one. (I did get to plot out everything from #9 to 13. I now know where the Kambal came from and what really happened to Anton Trese. TRESE #7 is scheduled to be release mid-December. So, it might take time before the rest of you get to find out the mystery behind Papa Trese.) I ended up spending more because I tried to write in internet cafes and Starbucks. I should’ve stayed home. But whenever I did stay home, I just ended up sleeping. At least, I had a relatively stress-free birthday (compared to last year, when I was running back and forth to attend three differen...

MY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF There is a military-grey filing cabinet in my room. It used to belong to my mom. It was placed in my room back when we moved to our house in La Vista in the mid-80s. Since it was in my room, I decided to remove all of my mom’s stuff and put in my stuff. It has seen become the time capsule of a whole lot of Alamat works. I opened up that clunky filing cabinet the other night and was looking for one of David’s stories, thinking of submitting it to Adarna. Instead, I found one of my sketch books, containing sketches and doodles, during the time I fooled myself that I could draw. One page contained a poster / pin-up for a comic book that was supposed to be called: BLASCO, Psychic Investigator. The page contained all sorts of creatures from Filipino folklore. BLASCO was a character I created for a scriptwriting contest for ABS-CBN during the early 90s. Blasco was a college professor who served as a consultant to the police whenever they were too stumped with a pa...

PULIS BLOTTER !!! Ultracops !!! Now Available !!! ULTRACOPS Story and art by Ian Sta. Maria Script by Bow Guerrero (click to see the pages) Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 The clandestine Batch-Serum Experiment of 1972 resulted to the birth of hundreds of super-powered Filipinos. There were also hundreds of unaccounted test-subjects that died. Those that survived went underground and later resurfaced to become the country’s most wanted criminals. In the late-80s, Doktor Kamatayan instigated the infamous Mendiola Super-Hero Massacre. More would have died if not for the arrival of Digmaan, a veteran Filipino super-hero of World War II. Even though Doktor Kamatayan ripped off both of Digmaan’s arms during the fight, Digmaan managed to defeat the Doktor’s and his army of villains. The government funded Digmaan’s hospitalization and cyber-enhancements. In return, they requested for Digmaan to head the organization of a special division of the Philippine Nation...

3:45 pm, 34 years ago. My face almost hit the floor. I came busting out of my mom (or so I've been told). Good thing Dr. Knight (or is it Dr. Night) caught me as I popped out into the world. So far, so good. Thanks to everyone. It was a pretty good year. It was better than most.

the dead-tree editions TRESE is now available in the following stores: COMICS ODYSSEY 3rd Floor Extension Mall Robinson's Galleria, Ortigas (near Red Ribbon) COMIC QUEST Basement, Bldg. A SM Megamall DRUID's KEEP 3rd Floor, Gateway Mall Magallanes, South Super Highway In case you don't see it on the shelves, just ask the friendly people behind the counter. Also available: THE LAST DATU Story by Kajo Baldisimo and Budjette Tan Script by Budjette Tan Art by Kajo Baldisimo (click to see the pages) Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Now, I can tell the strange and secret origin of this story. Around three years ago, Kajo sent me these pages and said he needed help in writing the script for it. I said, "Okay, so what's the story? Who are these characters?" He said, "Oh, I leave that up to you. I want this story to be 50% mine and 50% yours." At that point I had wished he had at least given 80%. Maybe even 75%. So, I got the pages and stared at them... for over ...

The Letter That Was Never Sent November 1994 Dear ___________ Greetings! In view of the growing number of FILIPINO comic book creators, we find it encouraging and hopeful that this might be the start of a new era in the Filipino comic book industry. But most of the comic book buyers are not aware of our creations due to the lack of exposure / advertisements and we are fighting for shelf space among hundreds of foreign comic books. Furthermore, we end up competing among ourselves instead of helping each other, which is only detrimental to the growth of the industry. In order to address this situation, we propose the gathering of all our titles under a UNIFYING BANNER under this banner the creators would retain autonomy over all direction and copyright of their creations; free ad space will be provided to ALL our comic books to promote the others’ creations; the name of your printer / publisher will still be retained if you want. We invite you to a meeting to discuss this...