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START HERE - Artists can help TYPHOON ONDOY victims

On September 26 2009, Typhoon Ondoy (international codename Ketsana) hit the Philippines, causing a multi-city flood reaching up to two storeys high or around eight meters in the entire Metro Manila area and 25 provinces nearby. Areas most devastated by the 24-hour rainfall brought by the storm are Marikina City, Pasig City and the municipality of Cainta in the province of Rizal.

Four days later, Ondoy is gone from the Philippines’ territory of responsibility but has left 246 people dead, 38 people missing, countless families displaced and sheer indescribable ruin in its wake.

But there is one more thing that Ondoy left with Filipinos that day and it is hope. There has never been a more united effort to help fellow countrymen that this generation has seen than the volunteerism of people from all walks of life and of all ages in the many relief centers set up all over the entire country.

This is what’s happening now but we have to ask ourselves, where do we go from here?

START HERE is a collection of artwork inspired by Typhoon Ondoy relief efforts that aims, in turn, to inspire others to help in rebuilding the Philippines. The hope is that we can eventually set up an exhibit where we can sell the artworks with the proceeds donated to Ondoy relief efforts, rebuilding programs and calamity risk management programs.

Why art? It is our belief that art is made because we have something to say and this is the perfect time to say something meaningful and in our own special ways. Art moves, not just our hearts but also towards a positive direction that we can choose for ourselves.

Say something. Move with us. Share your art visions of creation and rebuilding.


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START HERE is open to artists from all over the world who want to help the victims of Typhoon Ondoy in the Philippines and inspire the rest of the world through art.

Please keep artworks to 8” x 8”, 300dpi, and save to JPEG or TIFF format. Include your full name, title of the artwork, your short description of the artwork, contact number and e-mail address when you submit to starthere.rebuild@gmail.com.

Submissions will be accepted until November 26, 2009.



Please help spread the word.

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/19121781/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/19121781/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:58:23 PDT
here's the link, get a tissue to wipe your drool later.
[link]

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/18567895/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/18567895/ Thu, 29 May 2008 21:15:49 PDT
I am so fucking bored right now that I've been scourging the goddam net, looking for something more interesting than the emoticon animations.

I think I need a long vacation. Think, Jay! Think! I'm passing out right about now...zzzzzzzzzz

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/18190648/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/18190648/ Tue, 06 May 2008 02:28:02 PDT
P.S. It's also a plus that you guys know how to operate Adobe CS2/CS3.

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/17002732/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/17002732/ Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:12:26 PST
We also want to feature your school events, student idols, favorite professors, and anything and everything that has to do with college life, so send us an email with your suggestions!


*Guys and Gals, you really don't need to be still in college in order to contribute in this magazine. As long as you're still a college student at heart. hehehe. Everybody is invited to submit their works.*

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/14419579/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/14419579/ Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:28:32 PDT
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There's this funny yet irritating thing which happened last week. Mom called from her office, telling me to come over and do some sideline graphic design. So I did. And designed a tarp which I won't even put in my portfolio. I worked under deep pressure. I had a time limit of around three hours. My payment/compensation? Two asado siopao and a large Iced Tea. *groans*

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Aw God, I need a muse... or at least some amusement.

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/13520507/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/13520507/ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:35:22 PDT ...watching a cartoon while looking at it in real life perspective.
...playing a video game while reading a comic book.
...wearing chuck taylors on prom night.


...feeling that you're young and you'll never grow old.


Bless you Steven Spielberg.
Bless you Michael Bay.

I guess the 12:01 midnight screening was all worth it.

I'm gonna watch it again.

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/11980372/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/11980372/ Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:35:24 PST
At least I'm learning some new skills in both Photoshop and InDesign. There's a whole lotta shit that I want to share to you if I have the time (mostly InDesign stuff). Hehehe.

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/11021208/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/11021208/ Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:55:06 PST


Also, I'll try to quit smoking.



But for now, I'm going to finish the two covers for ORP. I'm almost there! Woohooooooo! Stress na 'to! Sabawan! Inuman hanggang sa magdamag. Paduguin ang pusong nagliliyab at naghahanap ng kaibihg! Mama!

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10870386/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10870386/ Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:37:30 PST
Ahehehe. Nope, wala naman akong iniisip na katarantaduhan.

Kung wala akong makuhang mistletoe e di mag-iimprovise na lang ako... MISSILE TOE!

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10806173/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10806173/ Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:35:49 PST
It was my first encounter in design and I didn't know shit about Macs & Adobe Whatnots. All I knew were two things: writing and illustrating.

Somehow, at the right luck o' time, Sir Vinz Serrano introduced me to a world where a lot of cool published stuff were being passed around in black and white pamphlets.

It was the world of ZINES.

My attention was completely caught so I studied them. Master V even lent me his book on zines which I had unfortunately lost... (huhuhuhu). From that point on I decided to become a zinester. So, in a way, my first VIS and design techniques was actually based on zines, those black and white papers of pain, dementia, rebellion, and other madness. I think I remember being the only one who submitted without using any CD. My VIS was inside an old brown envelope.

It's actually fun making a zine, I used to have a pair of scissors and some glue ready. Hehehe. I remember scavenging our old newspapers and magazines, reusing the texts and images to make a point. That's why I still love to do some layout because I've been doing that shit since my zinester days.

I miss cutting papers and pasting them randomly on some pages. There was nothing digital about it. Just a sense of improvised creativity (and fun).

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Actually, why don't we make a collaborative effort on publishing a zine? You don't need to use any software, just bring your article[s] and some pictures (also some random texts). Tell me if you're interested. We'll talk about it.

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]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10663848/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10663848/ Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:57:19 PST
Next week is my real hell week. With all the students buying their books I think I'll be doubling my carbo and protein intake so I can carry the books as well as last the whole day without fainting. Haha, see you at the LSB.

Anyways, I've been studying some art and design stuff. I'm still in the process of unlearning and relearning. It's like cleaning out my desktop and saving the files that really matter, as well as upgrading some of the programs. My hands are already itchy for a new personal project. I hope that I can raise my own personal bar (as well as raise hell to some extent).

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10542139/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10542139/ Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:42:19 PDT
1.) I've been busy finishing my sidejob (go Mustard!).
2.) Office has been stressful lately. My boss finally bared her fangs at us.
3.) I'm half-stumped and half-in-the-zone. It's like my attention span is all fucked up. I'm thinking about this exciting concept and the next few minutes I'm thinking of another (unrelated) idea. So I think I need a clone like the one in *** ******** (hehehe, I'm not gonna tell you the title of the film, spoiler spoiler spoiler!).

Anyhoo, I wanted to post my Holloween stuff but due to the lack of time (and reason number three), I guess I'll just post it next week or something near that time. Hehehe.

Trick or Treat!

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10482253/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10482253/ Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:32:42 PDT the campus is as silent
as my heart.

Too few people walking
lost in paradox and purgatory.
Grades are to be submitted,
so is my lonely soul
to You.

Woohoo! Sarap umibig sa wala.

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10448982/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10448982/ Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:09:21 PDT
However, such great advantage provokes an equal disadvantage: the loss of physical touch, our means of doing something that is beyond the realm of the electronic. Also, the death of design's sanctity.

Years ago, it would almost take an entire lifetime to master a craft. The creation and design of books during the middle ages were made with great practice and zeal. Scribes would carefully write and draw on a rare piece of paper, creating a personal and astounding effect for the readers to enjoy. Apprentices would give their lives to the craft from the very beginning, everyday their hands would toil away, practicing their handwritings and drawing skills while studying the various aesthetics provided by their guild masters. Even during the later days of print, the typesetters would carefully carve and care for their leadings, every block of type is formed with pinpoint accuracy with proportional and integral calculations.

A decade ago, when the letterpress was still something to rave about and illustration was still a great deal (stock pictures didn't exist back then), people created their layouts with papers, scissors and blades. Colors were separated with special paper since epson/canon/ etc. computer printers were still nonexistent. Designing something was made with great labor, maintaining a mutual effect between the creator and his/her work, manifesting this sense of care and mutualism between the two. During the "good ol' days," designing was an act of love found in labor and professionalism. If you were a designer during those times, you have to know a lot of shit in order to pull off a miracle (things that may or may not concern the concept of designing).

And now we have the computer. Sure, there are over a hundred different programs that could give us what we need (and want) for our designs, but such intimacy (if there still is) is separated by the monitor. The blocks, ballpens, blades, and bristles of design where separated by blunt mouse clicks and keyboard taps. The designer would just sit in his/her comfy chair and click away, doing minimal labor, saving energy for meetings with clients. Sure, hey, we also have other hardwares such as scanners, printers and tablets, but the present status of technological progression directly points to the monitor, giving way electronic globalization, an oversimplification of something which is inherently complicated to begin with. We cannot simplify a concept; we cannot dumb down the sheer complexity of the human mind.

This would result to (and I have to say it bluntly) the rise of "hacks" which is extremely dangerous for various industries. Technology made things easier for all of us, in fact, it made things a little too easier that it had created a definite blur between the true/practicing craftsman and the pseudo-know-it-all a.k.a. the hack. There are some who had already made their way into the corporate scene and had already established their names in the foundation, creating a set of standard which contradicts the very integrity of design and its value relating to work. These are the designers who wear crowns, who consider themselves as top class citizens, who consider themselves as 100 percent artists (which, in fact, is still highly debatable).

Rooting them out is highly unacceptable and untenable, but challenging them is favorable. My suggestion: once in a while, step away from the monitor and go outside. Explore. Acquire things that are alien to you and let them be your other craft, your bridge to another world. Learn how to draw with Pencils, Acrylic, Charcoals and not with the tablet. Learn how to see the world with the camera and telescope and not with google earth. Learn how to interact with other cultures by going out of your comfort zone and not by searching your way to wikipedia. Learn what it is to feel by actually talking to your friends face to face over a cup of coffee and not by chatting. Learn to cut things with scissors and glue and not with the crop tool from some pirated software that you have in your PC. Get the fuck out of your shell and stop acting like a goddam diva.

*If you remove the Adobe/Corel Programs, all the hardware, and the internet from a hack, he or she will stop work... ]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10427493/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10427493/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:25:27 PDT
We breathe, we eat, we sleep, we find shelter. But in the end we still want, which comes to fruition our obsession with certain things: hobbies, skills, collection, the arts (?). We then find a way to achieve such wants and at the very last to enjoy the benefits (and pride) of attaining our goals. However, when we already have what we want, we come to a complete stop, a sort of soulful halt, that we are already satisfied, only to find ourselves wanting more. But that certain "want" is invisible. We do not know what we want and it blurs the line between wanting and needing. We keep on progressing on a flatline...

Is this what we really want?

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10380891/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10380891/ Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:26:24 PDT
Also, I'm still not finished with my side project for Mustard Magazine. I'll try to finish at least 70% of my assigned task today (I still can't think of any ideas for some of the layouts).

Feel the pressure, feel pain,
feel life, nothing's in vain.

I love the world, and yes, YOU, I think I like you. Oh, what the hell, you never existed in the first place. You never did.



Cheers!

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10361540/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10361540/ Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:02:53 PDT
It's really strange, holding my own copy, thick, heavy, and new. Actually I wanted to share the book (also Goodbye, Chunky-Rice and Carnet de Voyage) to the peeps at the lab, but due to some unfortunate event concerning theft within the area, I was thinking about letting only a few people borrow my copy. Oh well, we must investigate first and find the muthafuckah who stole Eric's bag.

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Last night, while I was going home, I saw this mess. Something small took down this huge trashcan, bits and pieces of garbage were all over the place. I saw a figure moved and when I looked closely it was a dog. In fact, I've been observing this pack of dogs within the campus for the past few weeks. So, AdMU is not only the home of stray cats and ducks but also stray dogs as well. Recently, I saw this urban pack at the soccer field. There were three of them and I could guess that the black one was the alpha male. Nice, we have a wildlife sanctuary!

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Fucking Cold! My throat is burning and I can't smell anything. Bleh, I hate it.

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10353151/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10353151/ Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:12:01 PDT
*balik sa trabaho... ehem ehem*

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In other news, punta ako ng Cubao mamaya para habulin yung Graphic Novel na palaging nadudulas sa aking mga kamay. Tarantado ako hindi ko pinareserve! E kasi naman hanggang 3 days lang yung reservation, yung sweldo ko kararating lang. So hope to God na nandun pa yung Blankets na isinulat at ginuhit ni Craig Thompson!

Woot!

Kung wala e dadaan na lang ako ng Cubao X (Marikina Shoe Expo) at magtitrip sa mga thrift shops. Masaya naman pumunta dun. At kung may disposable income pa e di kakain ako ng mag-isa sa Bellini's. Libre ko sarili ko. Hehehehe.

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10341442/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10341442/ Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:17:15 PDT
So the word Nuclear, as a literary tool/device, may mean to wipe out (to "clear") and to start all over again ("New").

So when I say I will "nuke" or "nuclear" my room it means that I'll clean it up and start anew.

Or when in a conversation with my significant other, having a dialogue about breaking-up and starting all over again, all I have to say is: "Honey, I think we need to nuke this relationship." or "Honey, I think we need to go Nuclear on this one."

And while I'm writing this article I've also realized that when you combine Nuclear (newclear) with "use" you get Nucleus. Leading to something "New," "Clear," and easy to "Use."

Hence, I can say: "Wow pare this cleaning product is sooooo 'Nucleus,' it's new, it's clear, and it's easy to use."

Can you use Nuclear and Nucleus in a sentence?

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10321091/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10321091/ Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:24:47 PDT
And I have a lot of stuff to draw for next week. Huhuhu...

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10274800/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10274800/ Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:18:16 PDT
It was actually weird coz when I went to Greenhills from Katipunan via taxi, I had this strange chat with the cab driver about billboards, the recent UAAP game, the government, while listening to the AM radio with two guys (the host and the attorney) talking about various and interesting cases happening all over the metro.

Anyway, I got to Greenhils a little early, we were supposed to meet at Pancake House but I guess nobody was still there. Ho-hum, so I waited, and I saw this yuppie lady typing around with her MacBook. I texted my blockmate and she said that she was going be late. Okay, fine, let's wait. Soon, this yuppie lady went to my table and asked.
"Hi! You must be Jay," she queried with a cheer.
"Uh, yup," I replied blankly.
"I'm Rissa," she told me, never giving up her welcoming smile.

So we shook hands and went to her table. Had a chitchat about me and the stuff that I do here in school. I showed her my portfolio through Lap-lap (my laptop's name...hehehe). I couldn't say if she was impressed or not, but I think she just, well, accepted the works that I had (I couldn't find my Little Prince series of drawings).
After ordering our food Rissa told me, much to my surprise, that she was the Editor-in-Chief of Kerygma (Whoa!). She also held a position for magazines such as Fish and Didache (Double Whoa!). That was a little too much, I was expecting someone new in the field of publishing and to tell you the aching truth I felt I was slowly shrinking. She was one of the heads of Sheperd's Voice Publishing! And now I am about to participate in the publication of their new magazine for kids.

Anyway, Rissa also explained to me the schedule. Woopidoo, set me the deadlines.
"Our target date of release is actually next year," she said coolly. "We're going to distribute them to various schools at around June 2007."
I sighed mentally.
"But," she quickly added (and I really hate hearing the conjunction... also "yet" and "however"). "We need to release a maiden issue this month."
My world crumbled, my stomach turned into cement, and my mind collapsed like some bad tetris puzzle.

We had like two weeks to finish a magazine! And this one was going to be highly critical coz it was supposed to attract the teachers in schools. I wanted to stand up and turn the table, to throw the chairs and escape. But then again, my wilde/insane/gung-ho side made me relax.

"Bring it on," I said calmly, with a nervous smile.

And so a few minutes had passed, Quincy (another designer... checkout his DA) and Danielle (my Blockmate, the Writer... she's really good) finally arrived. Rissa explained to them again the nature of the magazine and the challenging schedule. We also divided the work with me volunteering on one article (a book review), the cover, the layout (around 12 pages and the cover) and a two-spread comics page PLUS the character design of the mag's mascot.

We parted ways at around 10 pm.

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I went home a bit tired and sleepy. For a moment, I felt happy that finally, I had have the opportunity to work outside the school. I also had this funny insight: so far, all of my sidelines had a theological background. The first one's for AtSCA, the other one's for our local parish (altar design), and now this, a magazine for kids published by the people behind Kerygma and Didache.


Are these signs of my vocation perhaps?

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10263970/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10263970/ Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:06:55 PDT
I am walking in this field of carabao grass, dry and calming. I lie down, facing the night sky, only that it isn't dark or starry, it's fucking psychadelic (as in Beatles-in-LSD colors psychadelic! With bright hues whirling and dancing about. An overwhelming waltz.). I am smoking my usual Winston Lights, and a very faint Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is playing somewhere.

and the world is turning, spinning, celebrating [life?]...

Life is Sweet, Life is Good, There is Hope.

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10241749/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10241749/ Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:49:00 PDT
New books on my shelf includes:

1.) Haunted by Chuck Palahnuik
2.) Ship of Fools by Normington (or is it Norrington?)
3.) Collected Stories by William Faulkner (Yeah!)
4.) The Thing: Idol of Millions by Dan Slott (OMG! I've been looking for this title for almost three months!)

I've just finished reading the Year's Best Science Fiction 2003 right after the storm and now I'm reviewing some design stuff through The Design of Books and Reading with Type (both of complement each other in a weird kind of way). Also, I'm almost finished with PEN's Anthology of Filipino Short Stories. Plus I've got a lot titles in my checklist of short stories right now (hand-outs courtesy of Master Edgar Samar two summers ago).

I want to read all of them right away (due to excitement and curiousity...plus millions of liters of coffee and a thousand packs of cigarettes). But then again, I also need patience. I need to read slowly in order for me to enjoy the whole text and its varying degrees of intertextual and intercultural layers (not to mention the various interpretations and psychological/aesthetic assumptions that need to be considered). Ah, the tragedy of time.

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Anyway, just last Saturday, a friend of mine had reacted violently after knowing the price of books and comics that I had just bought. Well, I have five [theoretically] good counter-arguments for such bewildered response:

1.) Disposable Income gives me the right buy such items (I do know how to save money by the way).

2.) It's my hobby and my choice (a certain necessity to trade or sacrifice something for a more beneficial outcome/gain). I am a geek. The stuff that I buy improves and reinforces my interests as well as skills.

3.) Hey, if I don't give a shit on the things that you buy (which, in my honest opinion, are more expensive than my stuff), then I guess you really don't need to give a shit on what I buy.

4.) I share to other people what I have (books and comics).

5.) I don't have a significant other. Therefore I can invest my effort and time to other things. (Okay, so I present this argument in order to spite the questioning individual. Yes, I am evil to a certain degree. Go ahead, kill me now).

Heh.

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10148467/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10148467/ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:01:16 PDT
Punyeta ka talaga. Ilang beses mo na ako pinahamak sa Boss ko at sa Sengco. Tarantada, kanina lang sinira mo ang sarili mo. Pagkatapos ng ilang tawag sa supplier at isang half-rant and half-speech (ukol sa warranty at services) galing kay Bossing, naisipan mong ayusin ang sarili mo at pahiyain nanaman ako. Grrrr...

Mabuti pa si Lap-Lap (ang aking laptop), hindi nasisira kahit Windows pa ang OS niya. Palaging game kapag may trabaho. Nandiyan palagi kapag kailangan ko. Habang ikaw, iKo, nagiging okay ka lang kapag feel mo. Tamad! Hmph, kung hindi ka lang payat, maganda, at maputi, iniwanan na kita.

I trusted you gadamet! Huhuhuhu... (

*ehem*

Balik sa trabaho. ]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10125552/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10125552/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:33:45 PDT
1.) Later this afternoon, more books will be sold in the ongoing LitSoc Booksale. More books for me!
2.) Finally, CIVIL WAR #4 is out! Woohoo!
3.) Blade #1 (non-Marvel MAX issue?) is out too! Double Woohoo!
3.) Found some good articles on non-educated Graphic Designers in the AIGA web page.
4.) There's gonna be a series for Iron Fist (Luke Cage's Buddy).
5.) This December (and the other following months) I'm going to wait for good titles such as Fantastic Four: The End, Marvel Westerns, THE DARK TOWER SKETCHBOOK, etc...
6.) 2nd Komikon (local comic book convention) is near. It's gonna be held at the UP Bahay ng Alumni sometime in early October.

Well, that's about it, I hope that you guys are doing well with your studies and all. Coz right now my body is pumped with caffeine and motivation.

Cheers!

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10115033/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10115033/ Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:20:39 PDT
I meditate to answer one simple yet subtle question: Why are you so beautiful?
Followed by a hard theory: there is no hope, only despair.

EMOde kicks in.

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10105124/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10105124/ Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:33:03 PDT
While doing some mini-assignment for my officemate, I saw a poster from LitSoc and FA Non-Fictionists. They have a BOOKSALE! Splendid! Reminds me of the good old days when my orgmates and I would guard the books at Dela Costa while enticing passersby to read books (and of course buy our stuff!). Woohoo! With a disposable income in my wallet, I splurged on Literature, and it felt really nice. I mean, hell, I don't have to buy stuff for handouts and textbooks anymore (the advantages of post college life...sweet).

I'm pretty much excited to dive back into literature.

Books bought:
1.) The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Finally! My personal copy)
2.) The Elements of Editing by Arthur Plotnik (A good companion to Elements of Style)
3.) Nebula Awards 29 (I'm enjoying Science Fiction at the moment)
4.) The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (Woohoo! Stuff written by Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jorge Borges, Nadine Godimer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and a whole lot more! Saan ka pa?.

Anyway, just a self update, these are the books that I'm reading right now:
1.) Pen Anthology: Philippine Short Stories (a classic! check this out, local old school writings in their magnificent and ornate splendor)
2.) Year's Best Science Fiction 2003(?... I forgot the year)
3.) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Promise, before I die I will finish reading this book... and who the fuck is John Galt?)
4.) Ginseng and other Short Stories by Marianne Villanueva (I read this in our office whenever I'm bored)

Wishlist:
1.) Blankets by Craig Thompson (I've already read it but I need to have a personal copy)
2.) The Thing story arc by Dan Slott (I've been looking for this for almost two months)
3.) Ulysses by James Joyce
4.) Wolves of Calla by Stephen King (I need to update myself on his Dark Tower Series)
5.) Books written by Rosario Cruz Lucero, Julio Cortasar, Adolfo Bioy Casarez, Italo Calvino, and Peter Conrad (If you want to sell books written by them please tell me!)

I LOVE BOOKS! I LOVE LIT! I LOVE LIFE!

Go to the LitSoc and FA Non-Fic Booksale now! Sept 18-22 Dela Costa Building (Near the entrance, you can't miss it. If you do, well, you're a fucktard.)

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10076447/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10076447/ Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:28:43 PDT
I. Godhead

The nonchalant environment within the four quarters of the office is pain inducing. A window to the outside world can be sought via the amalgamation of cyberspace, literature (from office stocks), and of course, vivid imagination. The buzzing sound of the air-conditioner taunts and tingles my ears, deafened by the silence broken only by the minute sound of the speaker, whispering the graceful yet tragically velvet voice of Portishead. I, sitting at the edge of an airless and chaotic world that is politically-ridden and psychopathically manipulated by inconceivable strings, sits and stares at the image formed by corresponding combinations of ones and zeroes. Such wonder, that I am unable to comprehend the finite intricacies of technology (cold, calculating, and static) formed by various warm-blooded entities that are imitating the rigorous (and sometimes rambunctious) revel of rusted and petrified lust of iron, lead, and the occasional copper.

God exists through machinations. Human beings exist through a self-proclaimed, self-glorified equation.

II. Christhead

Therefore the martyrs of science, syntax and space could not understand the levels of the human condition, they had embraced (or was engulfed rather???) the conditional and irrepressible matters and anti-matters of the mind, the body, and the immediate intellect - short termed and eligible for neglection.
Organizations were formed, a new nucleus collected and evolved in order to produce a thin membrane to protect the cognitive deformity of society.

Spiritual Death is the by-product. Humanity plundered. Being.

III. Main Atrocities of Man(e).

Despite to dislike such spiritual death, the consequence is warmly unassuring. Sure, Man has achieved semi-perfection and manifested godly characteristics of choosing and dominion over what is within his perimeter. Nevertheless, man is limited by something which remains constant over the centuries, which, may in fact reaffirm the existence of a higher being (theoretically speaking, this may be a manifestation and proof of desperation).

Man is trapped in his own uncertainty. There is an inconsistency within the evolutionary equation.



My Psychobabble ends right about. Now. ]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10011872/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/10011872/ Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:51:57 PDT
So only me and Ate Grace are present (I was tasked to report to the LS Bookstore and not at the main office). Woopeedoo. Four hours to burn and nothing much to do but to bum around and exploit our resources (evil). Hehehe. I get to "borrow" some of the books from the stock room and read them like they're mine. I miss reading short stories. I miss writing drafts. I miss doing some critiques for my classmates in fiction.

Oh well, I'm almost finished with Joy Dayrit's "The Walk and Other Short Stories." It's really good.
After that I'll be reading "Ginseng and Other Tales" (I forgot the name of the author).

]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/9957791/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/9957791/ Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:52:56 PDT Saturday night was the best! I've just discovered that I'm quite a geek even in "drunk" mode. Haha! Jed and I had this little chat about Alan Moore, the Ultimates, and other fanboy stuff even when our heads are all fucked up by the dreaded (and sweetest) gin. Hahaha!

Btw, I passed out, quite an experience coz I didn't actually notice. I thought I was just dreaming but in fact my ID friends were carrying me back to Lech's house. Woot! I woke up at the veranda with the peeps continuing their session. I tried to "catch up" but all I could say was semi-insubstantial and random phrases (and actually trying to recall what the fuck had happened to my shirt).

It's quite scary to think about the things that you do when you're drunk (and the things that you cannot remember). I guess I can feel what Logan feels like whenever he's trying to pick up the shards of memories that have been taken away from him. Oh well, at least the guys were there to help, I could've woken entirely in Cubao...

THANK YOU ID FRIENDS! I owe you guys a Yellow Cab Pizza or two (atin-atin lang 'to).

Special Observations:
1.) Melbert Flexing Muscles
2.) Pokemon running around the table
3.) Bar-b-q and Grill... mmmm...
4.) Wine and gin is a BAD combination
5.) Dave's Birthday (with Yellow Cab Pizza!)
6.) Professionally Speaking (Haha! Did I actually say that shit?)
7.) Drunk Driving is some scary shit, but it was better than roller coaster
8.) I'm getting old... We're getting old
9.) Emo still exists
10.) Let's do it again! Har!

II. iMac returns
I'm writing this entry with my newly-fixed iMac from the office! Hahaha! My baby's back, all healed and ready to help me with my design needs! Thank you Senco! Thank you for the free service! I feel so elevated today.

And you know what? They "threw in" a whole lotta interesting stock pictures in my computer plus a couple of back-up files. Isn't it great!? Woohoo! ]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/9765223/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/9765223/ Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:18:24 PDT List 10 things about your art and post it in your journal.
Then pick six other deviants to do the same.

1.) My drafts are done on scratch paper. I play with an idea, so it takes about five to ten drafts before I get to the final product
2.) I tend to get obsessed on a specific era or timeline (I love the past and the crazy innovations they have back then).
3.) I love pencils (and their variations)
4.) I use 0.8, 0.5, and 0.1 pen tips
5.) I don't do jap style (anime or manga)
6.) Doodles, noodles, and some kaboodles, I tend to play around with the page (and insert kakulitan)
7.) I use three shades of one color on vector art
8.) My works are intentionally two-dimensional
9.) Due to my fondness for comics, I'm always tempted to add words to images and mix them responsibly
10.) Layout and its proper combination with various elements is a must.

I tag YOU (anyone who's interested to share). ]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/9744221/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/9744221/ Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:00:03 PDT
something's out of place and I don't know why. everyday, there seems to be a muse that keeps on challenging me to do shit that I actually want, like to have fun while illustrating and designing stuff. The problem is: I don't know who my muse is. Sounds kind of sad that I'm doing something with a hazy goal, and that scares me a lot.

anyway, at least I'm enjoying my endeavors right now.

next stop: short stories!

but that's still a long, long, long way.




P.S. To my muse: whoever you are, thank you.



]]> ~rectorjay http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/9631796/ http://rectorjay.deviantart.com/journal/9631796/ Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:19:49 PDT
Anyway, I've promised myself to do some redux on a couple of things... both personal, so you better watch out for 'em.

Cheers!

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