Project BLOOM: Mark Your Calendars
The Philippine art scene is thriving. A hodge-podge of talents–70 of them, in specific, will be showing their creations on the 29th of September at Cubao X for the Bloom Arts Festival. You wouldn’t want to miss this, so mark your calendars and come soak yourself in homegrown art! Here’s a little sneak peek of some [...]
Team Manila x Trese: Urban Myths and Weird Tales
The duo behind the supernatural/horror comic, “Trese”, Kajo Baldisimo and Budjette Tan collaborate with Team Manila for a limited edition release of shirts based on their hit comic series. Exacting the comic’s black-and-white images, the three shirts are wearable art at its finest. The collection’s launch on the 15th of September in the Team [...]
“CRUEL SUMMER” ALBUM ART
Leave it to Kanye West to do his own marketing. Recently tweeting a photo of G.O.O.D. Music’s album called Cruel Summer, we couldn’t help our curiosity on this artful cover. The image is both dramatic and iconic as how Kanye’s Donda has been putting out lately. There’s a strong reference to Roman iconography and religion, as [...]
SLOW MAGIC: “ON YR SIDE”
If you want to see magic, all you have to do now is type in your favorite URL, then… viola! A well-controlled expression to shock both your audible and visual senses. The effects on this video are enough to give the best LSD trips a run for its human-made synthesized effects. Sans the sensations. Albeit [...]
The Bionic Men And The Future Thread
There are a million and one ways to look at discarded materials. The most common? Trash. Another way would be by treating like treasurable gold. Leave it to artist extraordinaire Pharrell Williams to think outside of the box and actually open his eyes to this idea, cultivate it and get other people to listen and [...]
What’s It All About? BLOOM ARTS FESTIVAL
With over 70 of the today’s prolific artists, creative groups as well as a few to represent Asian countries, Bloom Arts Festival is set to be the Philippine’s biggest art show of the year. Project Bloom, like any artistic greatness, started with an ambition. Ray Kristoffer Zapanta and Samantha Nicole Samonte, together with Burnwater and [...]
BLOOM ARTS FESTIVAL at CUBAO X
Bloom, by definition, is to support abundant growth into the achievement of a certain potential (unexpectedly, in remarkable quantity or degree) / a state or time of great activity or achievement, and with that we focused this year’s Bloom event (launch) on one of the significant places where the slow bloom of contemporary art and [...]
NY magazine’s “The Teens of Coleman Skatepark”
In this generation, skateboarding culture is a global. Love or hate it–but do you really understand it? NY magazine‘s short but sweet candid profiles on Coleman Skatepark’s young skaters will give you an unadulterated perspective on what the skateboarding culture is all about. Justin Casado, 14 Are you here a lot? | Yeah, I go every [...]
Humans of New York
In a heaping pile of fashion blogs all over the world, it is most interesting to find one that catches you off guard. Humans of New York is not your run-of-the-mill fashion blog–in fact, blog per se. Sure, I love my daily dose of Rumi Neely and her endless parade of designer garb, but this blog [...]
Campbell’s Soup Pays Homage to Andy Warhol
What sane human being doesn’t love Campbell soup? If you don’t already, here’s a reason for you to start loving the kitchen staple. September 2nd marked the release of their limited-edition repackaged Tomato soup cans, that pay tribute to Andy Warhol‘s iconic pop art-take on the product decades ago. On the grocery racks for $.75, this is ‘life [...]
