A very inspiring video about making art.
I decided to write down the things that he said for me to remember all of the time when drawing or making art.
Derek Boshier's Lessons in Art:
1. Don't forget to work on the edge.
2. Not do the image and fill the edge in. Go over the top iff you'd like.
3. You're drawing towards making an interesting work of art.
4.Taking the line for a walk. Take your mind for a walk now.
5. Don't be afraid to destroy things.
6. Add anything, take anything out. Picture making is not putting everything in, its sometimes the ability to leave things out.
7. Take some risks with these drawings. Take some risks.
And his final quote from the video that struck me when he was critiquing one of his student's works: It has a strangeness that is beyond depiction.
It's 2013 and I am aliiiiveee! And you're still ALLIIIVEEE! And WE ARE ALL ALIVE. Maybe the "jokes" were true about the Mayans just running out of ink/paper/whatever it is they need to write upon their dates and ended at December 21, 2012.
ANYWAYS...
I'm alive and my "blog" is alive and I am back for a revenge! (Lol, not really)
A new year means a new planner and bro was kind enough to buy me one when we went to a trip in HK. I'm currently making a video out of that trip so hold your breaths for that (No. Don't do it. You will DIE). NEW YEAR MEANS NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS TOO. Quite frankly, I never did remember my resolutions and they never made it past March. They just get buried underneath the shit that goes into my mind. Cue a quote from John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, a character says "Writing does not resurrect. It buries." (I'm a busy bee too ya knoow?)
I've been MIA because of school and when school was over and break began I couldn't think of anything to blog. It was like I lost my "blogging mojo". SOMEONE STOLE MY MOJO (Austin Power's style) and I couldn't find it until naooo. I actually missed it, hmmm who knew, huh?
That up there is a photo of my new planner/organizer/the other half of my brain. It will guide me the whole year and hopefully it won't fail me just as my 2012 planner did not. If you look closely, you'll see that I wrote there"Things to do for the N.Year!" and I listed down some things for me the whole year.
1. BLOG AGAIN- I will try to blog again and I don't know why but my life feels more important when I "blog". I like to pretend people care about my life so I feel like I'm doing something right.
hehehhehhehehehhe lolwat.
2. New Stuff for #60- The Number 60 is my new raket. Yes, rumaraket ako (see second to the last thing to do for 2013). Also, if you are not aware what The No. 60 is ... click here! I know I have the ukay/secondhand thing going on but last year I just thought there has to be something better than ukay-ing and I thought creating my own pieces/designs would be nice. Getting The Number 60 out there is smooth sailing for now and I hope I get to do more of it this year. It's like my baby number 2 aside from Secondhand Ripped Tee. LOL.
3. Read John GreenSLASHMore (books)- So I'm currently doing that and so far so good. I've read Will Grayson (2x), Looking for Alaska which was awesome and I still can't get over the plot twist, and then I just recently finished...
Which is just a heart-breaker and I read it in the car and I was silently crying in the backseat. Anyhoo, my next target is Paper Towns and An Abundance of Katherines and then Grace Coddington's book which I'm still waiting to arrive in the shelves of Fully Booked.
4. TRAVEL- I'm not looking into any specific country or location right now but after last Christmas' HK trip, Iwannafreakintravelsomewhereagain. Or I can always just travel to Quiapo, Boracay or Palawan and that's cool too. Getting lost is the best way to do this but I do hope I get lost with cash coz I can always take a cab home when I get lost if ever. HAHA.
5. Do Something I've never done before- HA! I've always been the person who would do "the right thing" or is always worried that I might offend someone by doing this or that (at least I think I am) sooo I wannado some shit nao. Thanks.
6. Get RICH OR DIE TRYING- Shhhh guys, it's my inner 50 Cent comin' out. Haha, but seriously tho...this line has ALWAYS been in my list.
7. LIVE- CHEEESSYYY I KNOOWWWW. Kill me now but it's true. I gotta do something with my life, ya know?
So with that, I leave you with this classic video:
Happy New Year, Mofoooss!
PS. I just saw that Ang Nawawala part 1 is hanginggg as in cliff hanger siya so part 2 of the photos is somewhere over here.
I'll let the video speak for itself. JUST PRESS PLAY. :)
She pushed in before me, in the supermarket queue. Pretending not to see me in the way women do. She put on the counter some bread and milk too, and then she pulled out 5 different bottles of shampoo. And I thought to myself, "I will never understand women." And I hear some of you saying "Yeah but all men are the same, they all think they’re so cool and are ruled by their dicks." That might be true of me, but it ain’t true of all of us, so don’t point that finger so quick. I do see some of the blokes though, in the clubs, pinching girls asses, trying to be intimidating, making obscene passes. "Man, she’s a goddess, you can tell by the way she dances." But you call her a slag when she don’t accept your advances. You just show you got no respect for yourself. Show you ain’t got the balls to just talk to a girl. So when she chats to me, you spit at her and shout "WHORE." Well, it’s written in the art of war, to fight only the battles you can win. But I will defend your honour until they kick my face in. If you have to scrape me, broken boned, bloodied, bruised and battered up off the floor, well fuck it. Integrity is what black eyes were invented for. So down with the dictatorship, they’re so cock sure, they use rape as a weapon of war. Fuck the man that thinks it’s okay to give his wife a punch. Fuck the judge that said it weren’t rape cause she was drunk. And if you’re pro life, I mean, if you’re PRO life, then become a doctor, or foster a kid, make it possible for people who are alive, to LIVE. But don’t you dare tell women, what they can and can’t do, when it was a woman that gave life to you. Yes, I’m a man who may be stereotypical, but I ain’t afraid to say it, I think all women are beautiful, and strong. Too fat, too thin, that’s just media spin. You look best when you’re comfortable in your own skin. So I’m sorry, if we made you feel untrue, if truth be known, I love all of you. You’re a giver of life, and a warrior too, so do you really need 5 different bottles of shampoo?
Every time I get a haircut, I make sure I have my pegs with me. EVERY TIME. Ever since I discovered the power of pegs and how it's so much better to have a picture than explain it to my hair cutter-guy, I've always made sure that I look for pegs before going there.
People always ask me where I get my hair cut, I go to Salon de Manila in Makati. Been going there ever since I was a kid. I got my hair de-virginized there too, but that was just recent. Anyhoo, gotta blitz, see ya!
I found these two (they're supposed to be 3 but I liked these the most, the 3rd one was mehh) in designcove.com and they all have the same concept.
My fave would be the first one because the added poetry was awesome, I suggest you click that first,it's pretty worth it. Check 'em both out for inspirations too. :D
He's such a cool dad/parent. Is it weird that someday I want to be a cool parent like him too? =)) Too early to say? Yeah? No? Anyhoo, I also like that he loves his business and I love the way he works and thinks. This guy's pretty cool.
And coolness about the score of the short film was that it was made from scratch by my friend Thor! Pretty cool, huh? GOOO WATCH IT, it's really niiice.
From the moment the first slide showedI knew he'd be one interesting guy to listen to.
See what I mean?
He showed us how to make turon in a cool (and funny) way:
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and you fry it all up...tadaaa! :)) TURON.
Anyhoo, that's how his talk began...and it led to this.
In College, he was really into drawing and he drew his friends a lot and even made them super hero characters.
Funny about his friend who likes to take weed, there's a logo of marijuana on the backpack :))
Then he went to:
He did some stuff there too and made lots of story boards.
He even made the cool/funny Chippy tv ad!
His process:
His materials:
He was inspired by Filipino banigs (mats) and made a cool design out of it.
His work was featured down here:
This was quite a controversial one because if you look closely, the priest is holding a condom instead of the bread of Christ. That work was about the RH Bill.
He even made an app game for iphones/itouch which was about helping dolphins!
So gruesome, the deaths of the dolphins down there! :))
The game play was easy, you have to deflect the harpoons that are going to hit the dolphins otherwise... (see illustrations above) :)) Genius, eh? :))
He's very interested in space and aliens too so he made this.
He said that if the astronaut gets bored in outerspace (he has a point) he can play tic-tac-toe on his left arm. :)))
In the presentation, that astronaut was really moving! :O
The spaceship of the astronaut was inspired by the old game of jack stones!
This was the rocket ship at first!
Until it dismantled to the tip and that was where the cockpit was =))
And that was his presentation. There were really more slides when he presented at Graphika Manila 2011, I wasn't able to take all of them though. He's really a cool dude and he's a professor in UP Diliman! :O He also has a tumblr riiighhttt....here.
I follow him and I looove his works and his "Good Morning Monday" section. Check 'em out. :D
