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"I Love You Sweatheart" A man risked his life to write the words. A man hung upside down (an idiot friend holding his legs?) with spray paint to write the words on a girder fifty feet above a highway. And his beloved, the next morning driving to work...? His words are not (meant to be) so unique. Does she recognize his handwriting? Did he hint to her at her doorstep the night before of "something special, darling, tomorrow"? And did he call her at work expecting her to faint with delight at his celebration of her, his passion, his risk? She will know I love her now, the world will know my love for her! A man risked his life to write the words. Love is like this at the bone, we hope, love is like this, Sweatheart, all sore and dumb and dangerous, ignited, blessed-- always, regardless, no exceptions, always in blazing matters like these: blessed. Poem by Thomas Lux Found at Jonathan Carroll's blog

You turn the page and then... The Staircase The Hospital The House Another great PENGUIN BOOKS campaign. (click on the image to see larger version) Advertising Agency: SAATCHI & SAATCHI, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Executive Creative Directors: Adrian Miller, Edmund Choe Copywriters: Lydia Lim, Ong Kien Hoe Art Directors: Lydia Lim, Ong Kien Hoe, Edmund Choe Photographer: Allen Deng, Wizard Photography Typographer: Lydia Lim Account Supervisor: Aaron Taylor Retoucher: Karen Yap, Wizard Photography

Supernatural Storytelling By Ruel S. De Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 12. 2008 MANILA, Philippines -Almost from the very beginning, Budjette Tan has been surrounded by the unusual. “When I was a newborn baby, my parents moved into what turned out to be a haunted house,” he explains. “The ghosts were seen by my yaya and my uncles. My parents didn’t believe in such things, until one summer day after my mom gave me a bath. She said the right side of my face suddenly wrinkled up—that it looked like the face of an old man. She prayed over me until I became normal again.” Psychics were summoned and a séance held. “The psychics told the spirits that they had to move on to the next plane. The haunting stopped after some time.” Even Tan did not know that something similarly spooky would redefine his life later on. With him doing the writing and Kajo Baldisimo providing the art, Tan came up with “Trese,”a comic book series that follows mysterious investigator Alexandra Trese as she he...

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The Secret Origin of Bakeman In an earlier post, I talked about the legendary amount of time it takes to create a Piattos campaign. If there’s another campaign that would come close to being legendary, it would be the Magic Chips campaign. It took us a months to finally create a campaign that got approval from client. We were already getting ready to produce it when another commercial came out using the same TV show/genre we had pegged for our story. We had to go back to the drawing board. So, I started scribbling on my notebook. What did we need to do? We needed to emphasize that this particular snack was baked . Could we set in an oven? Could we show some bakers in a giant oven? Maybe the bakers were a rock band or rap stars and they’d be singing about the baked Magic Chips? Chips… Chips… C.H.I.P.S. That old TV show about the California Highway Patrol. Two guys on a bike. Who else rides a motorbike? MaskRiderBlack. Shaider… (yeah, I know he doesn’t ride a b...

Announcement from PLANET X Be there for the grand opening of Planet X Comic Shop 3rd Floor Ayala Mall Glorietta 4 Ayala Center Makati City Sept 27 (Saturday) We will be giving away THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of FREE COMICS (similar to Free Comic Book Day) The First 50 people in attendance (starting at noon) will receive a special print created for this event. Featuring Special Guest Artists: Leinil Yu (Secret Invasion, Wolverine, X-Men) Gerry Alanguilan (Superman, X-Men, X-Force, Elmer) Gilbert Monsanto (Bayan Knights, Hellcop, Tropa) Edgar Tadeo (Wolverine, X-men) Mico Suayan (Moon Knight, What if) Stephen Segovia (Wolverine, Countdown to Mystery) Harvey Tolibao (Ultimate X-Men) Budjette Tan (Trese) Kajo Baldisimo(Trese) And more artists to be confirmed! Artists will be signing from 1pm-5pm. Autographs will be free of charge. Full sketches/drawings of the character of your choice will cost P500 each done on a standard comic sized cardboard (10.5 x 7) (with the exception of Leinil who wil...

"They had been in love once—equally and passionately. Like a spider web that you walk into, it is not so easy to get all the tendrils of real love off after you have passed through it." --Jonathan Carroll, THE GHOST IN LOVE Download the first chapter of the book at: http://www.jonathancarroll.com/books/theghostinlove.html I just wish the bookstores would start ordering more of his books!

The Art of Collecting Stories I found these videos of Jonathan Harris' talk a couple of months ago. That was around the time were working on the Globe "Connected 24ever" project. When Harris talked about his experiment / exploration to find new stories, it made me think about the stories we were trying to tell with the Globe campaign. There were certain nights when it felt like I had run out of stories to tell. Thankfully, with everyone pitching in, we pooled together a good number of interesting tales. Watching Harris' journey makes me remember that I need to spend more time outside of the office and collect more stories. (Well, we try our best to get out of the office earlier than usual). My friend Rog had a favorite line from the movie "The Lady and the Tramp". There was a scene where the two dogs were chasing after a car. Lady asked, "What are we doing?" Tramp smiled back and said, "Making memories." Yup, need to go out there and make...

Wala na tayong mga problema Tanggal lahat ng ating tinik sa dibdib Pati arthritis mo'y mawawala Ayos na Ayos na At sa mali mo'y may liquid paper Sa lovelife mong panis, Ctrl-alt-delete Lahat ng biyenan biglang gaganda Pasipul sipol na lang Basta't kasama kita Ayus na ayus na ayus na Basta't kasama kita Ayus na ayus na ayus na Lahat ng hasel ay mawawala Basta't kasama kita Ayus na ayus na ayus na Walang perwisyo, walang bitin Wala kang tropang dehins boto sa akin Pati impyerno ay e-airconan May sorbetes pang ipinamamahagya "Ayuz" by Rico Blanco from the album YOUR UNIVERSE

great marketing gimmick for TRESE ...now if I can only find the marketing budget to do stunts like this. :)

THE INVINCIBLE PACMAN This is a panel from THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN, illustrated by Salvador Larocca. Doesn't Tony Stark look a lot like Manny Pacquiao? In this current story arc written by Matt Fraction, Iron Man has been shown visiting the Philippines after terrorists killed the Triumph Division, a Filipino super-team. Maybe Manny and Tony switched places. Maybe one of them is a Skrull?

PROJECT: MAGIC CREAMS ROUNDWICH CLIENT: URC / Jack N Jill AGENCY: Harrison Communications ECD: Alex Arellano, DECD: Budjette Tan, CD: JB "Taps" Tapia Copywriter: Taps Art Director: Reinard Santos Accounts: Maricel Pangililan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Ethel Dino Director: Luis Tabuena Animations/SFX: Underground Logic Producer: Barbie Leyba

PROJECT: NIPS 2008 CLIENT: URC / Jack N Jill AGENCY: Harrison Communications ECD: Alex Arellano, DECD: Budjette Tan, CD: Isabel Gamboa Copywriter: Darwin Bamba, Art Director: Elvin Julian Accounts: Maricel Pangililan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Madel Palman, Macy Cruz Director: Joey Agbayani Producer: Jho Moya

PROJECT: CHOOEY 2008 CLIENT: URC / Jack N Jill AGENCY: Harrison Communications ECD: Alex Arellano, DECD: Budjette Tan, CD: Isabel Gamboa Copywriter: Darwin Bamba, Art Director: Elvin Julian Accounts: Maricel Pangililan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Madel Palman, Macy Cruz Director: Matthew Rosen Producer: Jho Moya

connected 24ever And so it all comes down to this. After two months of secret meetings, weekends lost to OT, gaining weight thanks to all the OT food (we got an umbrella from Aristocrat because we ordered so much from them), last minute / last second revisions, twists in the plot that would make Jack Bauer just surrender and cry, we finally, finally launched Globe’s new campaign. Hundreds of hours of work, all compressed into 30-seconds. Of course, you can expect more that just this 30-second TV commercial. Below are the credits of the people behind this launch material. But if were to list every single person that helped conceptualize, strategize, craft, and execute this campaign, I might as well just attach the entire directory of the McCann World Group. It was, most definitely, an unforgettable learning and trying experience. Stay tuned! More to come! And if you want to know more on how you and your friends can keep connected 24ever, just click the link below: http://www1.globe...

Piattos TVCs (2008) Legend has it that a creative team once went on a journey to find the big idea for a new Piattos TV commercial. They were never heard from again. It seems to have already become a tradition in Harrison, that any team that tries to make a new Piattos TV commercial would end up in strange time-space warp of continuous revisions. So, we were quite surprised that we were able to get approval for the 30-second material after three tries. Then we were asked to make a 15-second TV commercial for the new flavor; and we thought, “This should be easy!” Legend has it that the creative team went on a journey… CUT-TO: months later … we finally got approval for the 15-second TVC and finally got to shoot it and it finally aired this month. And the legend grows. PROJECT: POV PROJECT: BAON PRODUCT: Piattos CLIENT: Jack N Jill / URC AGENCY: Harrison Communications ECD: Alex Arellano / DECD: Budjette Tan Copywriter: Bonsai Fojas / Art Director: Louie Aquino Accounts: Maricel Pangilina...

I think we've been watching too much HOUSE. Last week, my mom told me about how she almost choked while she was drinking her strawberry Frapuccino. She was in the mall, walking around in a store, drinking her Frap, when she suddenly coughed and couldn’t breathe. She said she felt her throat tighten and she struggled for her air. She grabbed onto the first person that came in the store, who happened to be the sales lady reporting for work. The sales lady was carrying a bottle of mineral water. My mom pointed at the bottle and the sales lady gave her some water to drinking. She soon recovered and was able to breathe normally. My mom thanked the lady and found out her name was Jona. Couple of days later, she said that the same thing happened, but it wasn’t as bad as the first one. This prompted her to go to Medical City where she underwent several tests, including a pulmonary exam. So, she was telling us about all this during dinner last Sunday. Monday. 4:30am. My mom barged in my ro...

TRESE: The Association Dues of Livewell Village page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 Read the complete story in TRESE: UNREPORTED MURDERS which contains the following: Case 5: A Little Known Murder in Studio 4 Case 6: The Outpost on Kalayaan Street Case 7: Embrace of the Unwanted Case 8: The Association Dues of Livewell Village TRESE: UNREPORTED MURDERS is now available in some stores. Click the link below for details: http://visprint.multiply.com/journal/item/27/TRESE_2_out_now By mid-September, the new book should be available nationwide in your local book store / comic book shop. Make sure they order a copy for you by giving them the following details: TRESE: UNREPORTED MURDERS Published by Visual Print Enterprises Written by Budjette Tan & Art by KaJo Baldisimo ISBN: 971-92574-9-0 B&W comic book SRP: P140.00

YEAR 2 he said : thank you for making me believe in happy endings again she said : i think we are two of the fortunate few... who know we'll be in love forever btw, the dolls were created by: Cez Nunez-Uhing you can reach her at: cezgroup @ gmail .com

“You gotta remember in the entire history of the universe ... you’re the only ‘you’ that has ever existed and ever will exist,” Grant Morrison said. “... there’s nobody in existence who is you, and no one can ever see the world the way you see it and can tell the rest of us how it looks. And it might be so different and so beautiful that it changes everything.”