State of the Mellama May 2014
Hello wonderful beings of earth! Updates from the Mellama's end include:
• Landing a second part-time job as an online freelance writer! It has been kicking my butt in a good way. Look, ma! Both hands and feet! *multi-tasks to the extreme*
• As a result, I am again adjusting how I go about squeezing in art commissions and personal projects with a more rigorous work schedule. Apologies for the wait! (I can do this, I can do this!)
• Local viewers: I have a live TV interview for the morning magazine show "Pambansang Almusal" (Morning Breakfast) on the channel Net 25 anywhere from 6am to 8am! I will be talking about my venture, PaperCanvas: Personalized Hand-Painted Notebooks, on their "Usapang Business" segment. Please tune in if you can. I'll ask if I can get a recording of it for my international followers. :)
• If you missed it: I've been featured in the zine "Memory Insufficent" for my essay on Philippine representation in Ragnarok Online. Entitled "Fun in Port Malaya?", it explores how the game depicts this virtual imagining of a Philippines supposedly free from colonial rule, and how exactly power distorts depictions of minority cultures. Read this issue on Asian histories and games here.
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• Landing a second part-time job as an online freelance writer! It has been kicking my butt in a good way. Look, ma! Both hands and feet! *multi-tasks to the extreme*
• As a result, I am again adjusting how I go about squeezing in art commissions and personal projects with a more rigorous work schedule. Apologies for the wait! (I can do this, I can do this!)
• Local viewers: I have a live TV interview for the morning magazine show "Pambansang Almusal" (Morning Breakfast) on the channel Net 25 anywhere from 6am to 8am! I will be talking about my venture, PaperCanvas: Personalized Hand-Painted Notebooks, on their "Usapang Business" segment. Please tune in if you can. I'll ask if I can get a recording of it for my international followers. :)
• If you missed it: I've been featured in the zine "Memory Insufficent" for my essay on Philippine representation in Ragnarok Online. Entitled "Fun in Port Malaya?", it explores how the game depicts this virtual imagining of a Philippines supposedly free from colonial rule, and how exactly power distorts depictions of minority cultures. Read this issue on Asian histories and games here.
Hi! This was originally posted at http://itsamellama.dreamwidth.org/68975.html. You can comment there using OpenID. I mainly use Dreamwidth now; please feel free to follow me there!