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Category: Art & Review

  • #excite #art #hopeful

    (1) Correction: you can also paint. This canvas has been waiting for me for a very long time now. I’m positively itching to fill it up. :) /hello room again, i have missed you/

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  • Art Recs: Ashley Mackenzie + Alexander Khokhlov

    Sometimes I forget that images can be more puissant than words.   The visual flair of Ashley Mackenzie‘s works demonstrates a striking transcendence through dimensions. What makes it so evocative is the nature of the barriers that she breaks; previously unthought of physical territories are unravelled and then stitched together through a thematic motion of form.…

  • Bored.

    Spacing and indention and all sorts of words can turn moments into mysteries.

  • Art Recs: Spoken Word

    There are a few things in life that leave me honestly breathless: the suspense of a novel, the progression of a musical piece, the unabashed movements of a singular person. And there’s spoken word poetry, which leaves me breathless not once or twice, but all throughout a performance. There’s something so raw and so personal about spoken…

  • Awesome poetry things

    The same hand which wrote Mouvement also wrote Nos fesses ne sont pas les leurs. Brilliant art things, honestly.

  • Book of the Month: Something Classic

    Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne, 1864 Recommended. I first encountered Jules Verne in a dusty, undisturbed bookshelf in my high school library. The book was Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and though I cannot remember praising its literary style or ingenuity, the novel opened my eyes to the wonders of science…

  • Movie: Iron Man 3 (Spoiler Review)

    After watching Iron Man 3 thrice –once each on the first showing,  just last week, and this morning– I’m pretty confident in saying that I’ve a good grasp on the quality of the film. And my verdict is A++ (I wouldn’t have gone for seconds otherwise). Rating: 4.9/5 Details: Directed by Shane Black, produced by Kevin Feige…

  • Pens and Photoshop: mixed media is awesome

      1: I really wanted to use my relatively new Sharpie metallic gold and silver pens. 2: We had black paper lying around. 3: Something Filipino to give more zest. 4: I was too lazy to paint, so Photoshop it was. Surprisingly fun to do. 5: The universe naturally tends towards chaos. We tend to…