local culture manages to be surprising
Some interesting things to look at if you can.
01. More people go with Visa. Visa's Go campaign. The first time I saw this was on the elevator television, because my house is an island bereft of all channels that aren't local. It's just fun to watch, and makes me feel all happy and fluffy inside. Follow your dreams, live your life. Just go. Oh motherfucker, I'd get a Visa card just for the illusion that they want good things for me just as much as I do.
02. Espanyol. Malapit sa ating kultura. Just a station away. Berso sa Metro, a collaboration between Instituto de Cervantes and the MRT & LRT stations. It's a reading campaign promoting Spanish poems with accompanying Tagalog translations scrawled on the insides of the trains and the train stations. Design-wise, the quality is erratic. The visual imagery is like a pastiche of semi-related things slapped onto a white canvas with little to no finesse (but there are few exceptions). But graphics aside, it's really the essence of the whole campaign that strikes and crushes with powerful clarity. Heritage is easy to find if you care to look.
My particular favorite is this poem:
Spanish:
Todo pasa y todo queda,
Pero la nuestra e pasar,
Pasar hacienda caminos,
Caminos sobre la mar.
Tagalog:
Lahat ay dadaan at lahat ay maiiwan,
Pero tayo ay dadaan,
Dadaang gumagawa ng daan,
Daanan sa ibabaw ng karagatan.
English (my rough translation):
All will pass and all will be left behind,
But we will pass,
Passers-by making passageways,
Passageways above oceans.
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I remember that there was a third one I wanted to share, but I can't remember for the life of me and it's gnawing at my brain like a hungry rat. In other news, I have picked up Wraeththu again and find that once I've dropped all my expectations of it, it's actually quite a nice read. Pell can still fall off a cliff (so can Cal) but I have a fondness for Seel now, as well as my under-dog favoritism fetish for Vaysh.
Most memorable line(s) I've read today from the book:
"What did Ashmael say when he saw you?"
"Say? What do you think? A long time ago, I died in his arms."
- Wraeththu, The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, Book Two, Chapter 8, p. 195
:S
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[ETA]:
I know remember what that dang third point is! It's MOODSTATS. A motherfucking app that monitors how many times you feel bad, happy, depressed, crazy, hungry, whatever-you-name-it-it'll-compute-it in a given span of time. And not only can you set it to monitor your moods, but you can also change the settings so that it monitors how stressed you feel or, this one's my personal favorite, how many times you pleasure yourself. Yes, I just said masturbate.
Honestly, I downloaded it just for the titillation factor (!!!).
01. More people go with Visa. Visa's Go campaign. The first time I saw this was on the elevator television, because my house is an island bereft of all channels that aren't local. It's just fun to watch, and makes me feel all happy and fluffy inside. Follow your dreams, live your life. Just go. Oh motherfucker, I'd get a Visa card just for the illusion that they want good things for me just as much as I do.
02. Espanyol. Malapit sa ating kultura. Just a station away. Berso sa Metro, a collaboration between Instituto de Cervantes and the MRT & LRT stations. It's a reading campaign promoting Spanish poems with accompanying Tagalog translations scrawled on the insides of the trains and the train stations. Design-wise, the quality is erratic. The visual imagery is like a pastiche of semi-related things slapped onto a white canvas with little to no finesse (but there are few exceptions). But graphics aside, it's really the essence of the whole campaign that strikes and crushes with powerful clarity. Heritage is easy to find if you care to look.
My particular favorite is this poem:
Spanish:
Todo pasa y todo queda,
Pero la nuestra e pasar,
Pasar hacienda caminos,
Caminos sobre la mar.
Tagalog:
Lahat ay dadaan at lahat ay maiiwan,
Pero tayo ay dadaan,
Dadaang gumagawa ng daan,
Daanan sa ibabaw ng karagatan.
English (my rough translation):
All will pass and all will be left behind,
But we will pass,
Passers-by making passageways,
Passageways above oceans.
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I remember that there was a third one I wanted to share, but I can't remember for the life of me and it's gnawing at my brain like a hungry rat. In other news, I have picked up Wraeththu again and find that once I've dropped all my expectations of it, it's actually quite a nice read. Pell can still fall off a cliff (so can Cal) but I have a fondness for Seel now, as well as my under-dog favoritism fetish for Vaysh.
Most memorable line(s) I've read today from the book:
"What did Ashmael say when he saw you?"
"Say? What do you think? A long time ago, I died in his arms."
- Wraeththu, The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, Book Two, Chapter 8, p. 195
:S
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[ETA]:
I know remember what that dang third point is! It's MOODSTATS. A motherfucking app that monitors how many times you feel bad, happy, depressed, crazy, hungry, whatever-you-name-it-it'll-compute-it in a given span of time. And not only can you set it to monitor your moods, but you can also change the settings so that it monitors how stressed you feel or, this one's my personal favorite, how many times you pleasure yourself. Yes, I just said masturbate.
Honestly, I downloaded it just for the titillation factor (!!!).