Babbling Point

Presenting... the directorial debut of... DIREK REINARD SANTOS!!! Obviously, the team had a lot of fun working on this project :) Designed by Reinard Santos & Gisselle Bautista

Client: Jack N Jill (URC) Product: Magic Flakes Agency: Harrison Communications ECD: Alex Arellano / DECD: Budjette Tan / CD: Sunny Dumayas Writer: Bonsai Fojas ADs: Mark Mendoza / Louie Aquino Accounts: Maricel Pangilinan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Jello Tan-Goloy, Ethel Dino Producer: Barbie Leyba Director: Jeorge Agcaoili ProdHaus: MCI SFX: Road Runner THE PARA-MAGIC-TEAM MENDY LIKES WHAT HE SEES :-) DIREK JEORGE SHOWS US HOW THE SNAKES SHOULD ACT SUNNY WANT YOU TO TOUCH HIS SNAKE YUP, WE SHOT IN A REAL CAVE!!!

Quark went to the San Diego Comic-Con and brought pasabulong for Kevin Smith . Hope he likes it! Thanks Quark!!!

Art by Dado http://artspice.blogspot.com/ Art by Hannah http://sketchamababble.blogspot.com/ Thanks to Maya for telling about their works.

This sign was posted on the wall of the basement carpark. I have a weird feeling that someone wrote this in Filipino, then had someone else translate it into English, but was translated into another language before it was finally written in English again.

“There’s the life you live and the life you leave behind. But what you share with someone else –especially someone you love—that’s not just how you bury your past. It’s how you write your future.” --Cal Harper (from Brad Meltzer’s “The Book of Lies” )

Congrats to the DUO OR DIE-hard TEAM that worked on this project! It'll become one the legendary "war stories" that you'll tell your grandkids about. And now, a word from... bloggers who've reviewed the Globe Duo service: http://chuvaness.livejournal.com/626112.html http://jepoy.bengero.com/2009/06/globe-duo-review.html Media magazine reports about GLOBE DUO http://tr.im/ubF0 Philippines telecom company Globe Telecom is making landlines obsolete in a new television commercial for its Globe Duo service. Created by McCann-Erickson’s subsidiary Harrison Communications, the advertisement portrays depressed fixed-line phones and mobiles running on a different, sub-standard network. "We need to shake up the market. We have to fight the inertia consumers have about switching from their current cellphone service provider," said executive creative director Alex Arellano. "Everybody’s offering the same deals, the same price offs. Telco is...

Looking at my files, we started work on this project last January. The first version of this board (along with several other boards) was presented to client in February. AGENCY BOARD We finally got the board approved and met with the director last May. The entire commercial was shot in a studio and everything else was computer generated. We finally launched the TVC in June. DIRECTOR'S BOARD Client: Globe Broadband Agency: Harrison Communications ECD: Alex Arellano / DECD: Budjette Tan / CD: JB "Taps" Tapia Writers: Alex, Budjette, Taps Art Directors: Kitty Almazan, Kevin Sabino, El Lorenzo, Mark Mendoza Accounts: Maricel Pangilinan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Jello Tan-Goloy, Happy Robles Producer: Jho Moya Director: Adrian Calumpang SFX: Road Runner

Trese is the National Book Development Board Book Club's pick for July http://nbdb.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=740&Itemid=1 Join the NBDB Book Club as we follow the trail of Alexandra Trese as she roves the streets of Manila to unravel crimes involving paranormal creatures Sherlock Holmes style. This July’s book pick is Trese, the highly acclaimed series of graphic novels by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo. Contributing to the renaissance of Pinoy comics, Trese reintroduces us to the rich Philippine folklore with its inky sketches detailing creepy stories of dark creatures looming the streets of Manila. The NBDB Book Club will be joined by author Budjette Tan and illustrator Kajo Baldisimo who will talk about their work and answer questions from fans. Trese is published by VisPrint and is available at Comic Quest, Comic Odyssey, Pandayan, National Bookstore, Best Sellers, Fully Booked, Powerbooks and other leading bookstores and comics outlets. The ...

Wow! I just stumbled upon this at http://powerbooks.com.ph/ You can now order TRESE Book 1 at: http://powerbooks.com.ph/webinternal/products.asp?product_id=4204 And you can order TRESE Book 2 at: http://powerbooks.com.ph/webinternal/products.asp?product_id=4770

When crime takes a turn for the weird, the police send a tweet to http://twitter.com/AlexandraTrese

PROJECT: ACHOO Client: Unilab , Product: Neozep Agency: Harrison Communications Creative Director: Sunny Dumayas Copywriter: Bonsai Fojas , Art Director: Ronnie Tres Reyes Accounts: Maricel Pangilinan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Ethel Dino Producer: Datu Gallaga , Director: Joey Agbayani ProdHouse: Straight Shooters

CREDITS: Client: Bayan Telecomunications Brand: Bayan DSL Agency: BBDO Guerrero CCO: David Guerrero, ECDs: Joel Limchoc & Simon Welsh Writer: Tin Sanchez, Art Director: Brandie Tan Producer: Telly Arce, Director Lyle Sacris Production House: Abracadabra Accounts: Ombet Traspe & Eric Oandasan Clients: Tess Canlas, John Rojo, Freya Santos

It has become a habit of mine, when surfing the web, to just cut-and-paste articles that I’d like to read later on and file them away in one of the folders on my desktop. Reviewing these things that I’ve saved, I came across these two entries that were both posted last March. The first one is from Neil Gaiman’s blog (March 08, 2009) , where he talks about the death of his father. My agent, Merrilee, told me last night that the first time she met him [Neil Gaiman’s father], at a signing in New York, she said to him, "Neil is doing so well. I bet you must always have known he'd be a success." "Actually," he told her, "I thought I'd probably be supporting him for the rest of his life. Well... he wanted to be a writer." And I thought, the best thing about that is I never knew. The other entry is an interview with Joe Quesada on the Times Online (March 21, 2009) . Towards the end of the interview Mr. Quesada, talked about his most personal story “DAREDE...

PROJECT: TRANSLATION This was a classic example of figuring out the winning idea at the last minute and by accident. We've been working on this project for sometime and was given the extra challenge of: FEATURE THE FOUR NEW FLAVORS IN 15 SECONDS. We had just wrapped up the meeting and agreed on which stories should be storyboarded when Erwin started to talk in Tagalog but with a Japanese accent. So, I suggested, what if one of the potatoes was trying to teach the other potato how to talk in Japanese. It sounded simple and stupid at the time and we were just laughing about it. Isabel wrote the final script and client approved it. When we got Direk Luis to work it, he was the one who suggested how the words were supposed to be pronounced and when he said it in his accent, it sounded funnier. So, that's how we recorded the dialogue. Great work by the Roadrunner team on designing the look and characters of the potatoes :) Client: Jack N Jill, URC Product: V-Cut P...

PROJECT: WOOT! WOOT! We had a lot of fun working on this campaign. I think Shirley and the team wrote enough jokes to fill up a book. So, we've got enough jokes to keep this campaign going for the next five years! WOOT! WOOT! But seriously folks... At least we can now tell our parents that all those years of watching BULAGAAN, BUBBLE GANG, TODAS, TVJ, and CHAMPOY did not go to waste. I wonder if we can now use this material to apply for a gig in Bubble Gang? WOOT! WOOT! Client: Jack N Jill, URC Product: Cloud 9 Agency: Harrison Communications ECD: Alex Arellano, DECD: Budjette Tan, CD: JB “Taps” Tapia Copywriter: Shirley Tan Art Director: Gissele Bautista Accounts: Maricel Pangilinan-Arenas, Monday Gonzales, Madel Palman, Noelle Segundo Producer: Jho Moya Director: Matthew Rosen ProdHouse: Unitel

ANG MASKOT by Macoy 48-pages, black-and-white (P50.00) Available at Comic Odyssey and Sputnik Comics If I were to do the Hollywood-pitch for ANG MASKOT, I’d say : it’s WASTED meets ELMER which then crosses-over with CREST HUT BUTT SHOP ANG MASKOT tells the story of what happens when you put a very angry man in a very cute, chicken mascot suit -- someone’s going to get hurt. (Thankfully, nobody gets killed, which is what sets it apart from “Wasted” and “Elmer”.) The story starts with a guy wearing the chicken outfit and he’s seated on the sidewalk, outside of a McBird fast food store. The chicken’s head/helmet sits beside him, ogling at something in the distance. He’s smoking and realizes that his shift is about to begin and the first words out of his mouth is, “Siyet.” He gets called in and is introduced as Jholeebird and the kids mob him. He counts down his mandated 15 minutes, sweating and cursing while inside the chicken suit. At the end of his shift, he stands in the middle of the ...

The Balut in a Superhero’s Underpants by Budjette Tan http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/sim/sim/view/20090517-205447/The-Balut-in-a-Superheros-Underpants These days, the “Easter egg” has been given new meaning. It refers to the secret scenes and paths hidden in DVDs and video games. They’re the “in-jokes” left by the creators of movies and TV shows for their fans to discover. If the Americans have their “Easter eggs”, we Filipinos have our “Balut eggs”. (Okay, I just made up that term, but it seemed appropriate anyway.) “Balut eggs” are those moments when Filipinos (or something Pinoy) suddenly pops up in foreign movies, TV shows, novels and comic books. You know what I’m talking about, right? Like that scene in “Constantine”, starring Keanu Reeves, where the possessed girl says, “ Papatayin natin siya! ” (Seems like demons converse in Tagalog.) Pinoy speaking characters were also seen in movies like the maid in “Her Alibi”, the pirates in “The Life Aqautic”, and Rob Schei...

In the June issue of FHM, if you manage to not get distracted by the pretty pictures of RR Enriquez... ... and you manage to get yourself to this page... ...you'll get to read the interview conducted by B.A. Borleo ...wherein he talked to Arnold Arre, Gerry Alanguilan, David Hontiveros, Carlo Vergara, and me about the past and possible future of Philippine comic books ...and if that isn't enough reason to get this issue of FHM, then I must tell you that this issue also contain the first ever picture of Zsazsa Zaturnnah in the nude!!! ...which is accompanied by one of the funniest interviews I've ever read!!! ...Zsazsa Zaturnnah should be given a regular advice column in FHM!!! Itutuloy... :-)

Client: Globe / Product: Globe Broadband Tattoo Agency: Harrison Communications ECD: Alex Arellano, DECD: Budjette Tan, CD: JB Tapia, Art Director: Reinard Santos, Louie Aquino Accounts: Maricel Pangilinan-Arenas, Monday Gonzalez, Jello Tan-Goloy, Happy Robles Strat: Gen Cruz, Ez Abero Producer: Chona Bustamante Director: Adrian Calumpang ProdHouse: Provill PostHouse: Optima / Roadrunner And just because you want to see more, here's the first commercial...