Notions of Beauty

Winning the "Asia's Most Beautiful Face" title in the Cannes Festival is like winning Miss Friendship in the Miss Universe.

Anu english ng pampalubag loob? Consolation doesn't quite get it.

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this post is brought to you by the word 'fokfokation'

Clearly, there's a significant difference between independent and alternative. The former just means you don't have much moolah (then why is Cinema One's Romeo and Juliet considered indie?), the latter is an entirely different thing. Lumbera succeeds in differentiating the two. Try Revaluation.
Familiar with Red Saga? It's a work in progress.
i currently have 200 pesos (give or take) ... could i make one?
For wanna-be-film-makers, Rodriguez' Rebel could probably do wonders for your work. El Mariachi is proof.

I blame my "training" in film (and Romeo and Juliet) production for my indie film trauma. sigh.

Side dish: According to Nash (another Cimatu frequenter), Serbis was reviewed as one of the worst films in this year's Cannes. Sad. To quote Nash, you can't always have fokfokation films as 'art.' And apparently, not all Pareno movies are great. Again, this time sadder.

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The Subjective and The Objective

This table was taken from Arthur Koestler's The Act of Creation. Upheld as one of the most influential art theorist, Koestler was one of the assigned readings in our Humanidades 2. The graph demonstrates the spectrum of position taken by different human endeavors. Being highly subjective, are you still convinced that art (,or writing for that matter,) is non-political?

Pity I didn't give this much thought back then.

Must be the nostalgic-i-miss-schooling-days setting in.

I miss learning. (sigh)

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