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The pixel house, a new visual curiosity introduced into the index, is another example of   in that several tiles or bric...
04/02/2025

The pixel house, a new visual curiosity introduced into the index, is another example of in that several tiles or bricks (as images) are applied on a single tile, effectively cutting down material costs in construction. Facades that are finished using this type of tile appear like something out of a computer screen: a Minecraft structure or a lowres JPEG.

With its ornateness, the occurrence can also be filed under , referring to the Filipino maximalist tendency to fill every measure of space with perceived value. The example in this entry features not one but two types of “tiled tiles.”

Even very solid road features like rumble strips are succumbing to the real new normal: a shifted baseline for heat and ...
05/05/2024

Even very solid road features like rumble strips are succumbing to the real new normal: a shifted baseline for heat and humidity, especially in tropical South, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean (Manopawitr, 2024, via ABSCBN News). Suddenly “heat index” has moved from scientific jargon to common parlance, and work and classes can be cancelled due to dangerously high temperatures. Photo by .

Tropical adaptations of ancient Greek and Roman architecture in Malaysia. This field work-slash-joy ride made us feel li...
13/02/2023

Tropical adaptations of ancient Greek and Roman architecture in Malaysia. This field work-slash-joy ride made us feel like going around periurban Metro Manila and the countryside beyond it. Incidentally, Kuang is also periurban, around 1 hour away from Kuala Lumpur.

Postcards from Southern Tagalog from .zicarelli and  🧡
13/02/2023

Postcards from Southern Tagalog from .zicarelli and 🧡

Peak improvisational aesthetics 💯 Posted  •  Plastic sheets for tables and floors are the new rat-disuaders for coconut ...
13/02/2023

Peak improvisational aesthetics 💯

Posted • Plastic sheets for tables and floors are the new rat-disuaders for coconut trees (used to be sheets of steel)

Improv at the Folk Arts Theatre
17/12/2022

Improv at the Folk Arts Theatre


Two days before the country sees a Marcos restoration, we spoke with Frances Wadsworth Jones (link in bio), Pio Abad's c...
29/06/2022

Two days before the country sees a Marcos restoration, we spoke with Frances Wadsworth Jones (link in bio), Pio Abad's co-artist and collaborator in the project The Collection of Jane Ryan and William Saunders, about the spectral lineup of 3D printed jewellery created based on mere photographs of a portion of Imelda's hoard. The hoard comprises nearly 400 jewels, sequestered by US customs in Hawai’i where they were granted exile after the People Power Revolution. Wadsworth Jones and Abad’s series of resin sculptures, part-creative speculation and part-forensic reconstruction as the real jewellery remain locked in a bank vault in the Philippines, is part of a larger presentation by Abad titled Fear of Freedom Makes Us See Ghosts, ongoing at the Ateneo Art Gallery until July 30.

The Collection of Jane Ryan and William Saunders, juxtaposed with individual equivalencies calculated by the Presidential Commission on Good Government, lends the clarity and specificity needed to defog the nebulous cultural imagination surrounding the Marcoses’ ill-gotten wealth.

Ang nakaw ni Imelda, mana ni Bongbong.

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“The Christmas tree in Surigao,” one of the hardest hit areas of  , photographed by .tiu for . Mindful holidays to all. ...
25/12/2021

“The Christmas tree in Surigao,” one of the hardest hit areas of , photographed by .tiu for . Mindful holidays to all.

Even as LGUs and the IATF finally clean up their protocol rollout act, face shields are likely to still be required on p...
12/11/2021

Even as LGUs and the IATF finally clean up their protocol rollout act, face shields are likely to still be required on public transport. Photo credit Gudito Bautista Gomez Jennelyn via Facebook.

Humidity wins. 💦
06/11/2021

Humidity wins. 💦

PSA: Booking and processing may be easier at off-site passport services in Mega Manila. This one is in San Pedro, Laguna...
21/10/2021

PSA: Booking and processing may be easier at off-site passport services in Mega Manila. This one is in San Pedro, Laguna, (unbelievably) a 45-min drive from Quezon City via Skyway. Like many public spaces, this fashion boutique in a mall is converted into a temporary public service site.

One in a series of postcard murals at Old Balara Elementary School, currently a QC Health vax site, depicts Hundred Isla...
27/09/2021

One in a series of postcard murals at Old Balara Elementary School, currently a QC Health vax site, depicts Hundred Islands National Park in Pangasinan. The faux woodgrain in the background though.

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