Archive for the ‘People’ Category

Neil Gaiman: The 3rd Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards

February 28, 2010 Write a Comment Events, People

Hey, fan boys and girls! Here’s great news for us all.

Fully Booked and Neil Gaiman
present

REVELATIONS: Stories of Light and Darkness
The 3rd Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards Night
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J.D. Salinger: Goodbye, thanks and god bless you!

January 29, 2010 2 comments People

Let me get one thing out before we continue on. I posted a fitting answer to FB’s What’s on your mind? question through a J.D. Salinger quote on my Facebook status last January 26, 2010.

Would you like to know what I honestly think? Would you? – Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

I’m still halfway in finishing his short story “Franny and Zooey.”

Be it coincidence or whatever, finding out about his death (last January 27, 2010) today weirded out the order of things.

Moving on.

Jerome David “J. D.” Salinger lived a long life at 91. He is the author of the only novel that I read numerous times – “Catcher in the Rye.” And I also owned several copies of it – three(3) to be exact. If you go see my profile in Facebook, Myspace and Friendster, you’ll see that it’s always been there as my favorite book.

My utmost gratitude to you for authoring the only book that inspired me in millions fold and I’m still trying to ingest the philosophical and religious musing of “Franny and Zooey.”

Goodbye, thanks and god bless you, JD!

Creating Kenneth Cobonpue

September 8, 2009 2 comments People

Kenneth Cobonpue doesn’t need any introduction to the international furniture community or maybe even locally and though I missed the tour to his creative lair last September 5, 2009 with the Cebu Bloggers Society, because I happen to just sleep it through, I find it obligatory to still to post about him. A post that could someday inspire some of our brilliant minds in the same field as his to follow their star.

Anyway, for the uninitiated, Kenneth Cobonpue is an industrial designer known for his signature designs using rattan, buri, bamboo, and abaca.

It’s a wonder how he does it so listed below are the thoughts of the people who were there to witness and actually breath through the secrets of his creations:

• Cebu Bloggers Society: Kenneth Cobonpue Showroom Tour by Beejing
• Kenneth Cobonpue: A world-class Designer by Tanom
• The Hive of Kenneth Cobonpue by Mikyu

Les Paul: Another legend lost (1915 – 2009)

August 14, 2009 2 comments People

Year two thousand nine once again added a legend to THE list (FrancisM, Michael Jackson, Cory Aquino).

This time it’s guitar gods’ god Lester William Polsfuss better known as the guitar Les Paul. Seriously though, without this guys innovations on the craft, music would not have been as colorful and rocking and rolling today. He created the solid body electric guitar that we all know and love. Jimi Hendrix won’t be kissing the purple haze so sweetly without Les Paul.

To the innovator, may you rest in peace and thank you for the new music movement that you pioneered.

Carlo J. Caparas: Not a Visual Artist

August 9, 2009 1 comment Grrrievance, People

Another bwahaha moment for the already very laugh-able Ate Glo government that we have. It’s nothing big for the majority of Filipinos but it is for those who happen to respect and appreciate the wonderful three letter perception called A-R-T. Though I’m not really laughing about it because it’s actually a S-E-R-I-O-U-S thing but it being another stupidity by her people made it such.

The thing is called the National Artist Award for Visual Art and Film which was recently awarded to Carlo J. Caparas. A somebody that’s everything but a visual artist.

Here’s Gerry Alanguilan, the other Filipino comic artist I look up to along with Whilce Portacio, summing it up through this line:

You claim you can draw. You’ve shown your drawings of eyes, or whatever they were on TV. But the issue here is whether you drew the comics stories that form the body of your work. YOU DID NOT.

This is what happens when people in the government decides to play god. Go down already, please, or just simply designate the job to people who knows what they’re doing.

Take action here: petitiononline.com/ccaparas/petition.html

And for further reading here: gerry.alanguilan.com/archives/1731

Cory Aquino; Always The Rockstar

August 2, 2009 4 comments People

There’s really nothing much that I could say about her running of the Philippines. I don’t think her government ever accomplished much aside from tweaking Marcos’ intelligent take over of the constitution. Which is not really bad for an alienated country.

Cory Aquino represented democracy at that moment. The real one! Though she reached the peak in Philippine politics using her own name, she still remained just a shadow of her late husband Ninoy. But she became the loving mother of a country that’s been wandering without one.

Cory Aquino’s death, very much like her legacy, hopefully will bring the spark back in our hearts of how to again become a Filipino with pride, choice and freedom.

Thank you for giving us what we now have and finally be with Ninoy.

Francis Magalona the man!

March 6, 2009 72 comments Music, People

Always looked up to the vision of this man. The ever so conscious Filipino that he is.

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Francis M – Pen And Ink (Freeman)

He may have lost his battle with Leukemia but the fire that he’d sparked in our hearts will always remain burning.

May The Almighty rest his soul well.

Goodbye, Freeman.

Michael Crichton’s sun sets at 66

November 13, 2008 2 comments People

The author who’s known for writing the “Jurassic Park,” “Congo,” “Twister” among many other pieces passed away on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 in Los Angeles after a private battle with cancer. The family provided no further information about the memorial service as they want to keep it private.

Though I’ve only read two of Michael Crichton books “Rising Sun” and “Eaters of the Dead” he doesn’t in anyway fall short on the description of a great fiction author. The movie adaptations of his books is a testament as well. (Continued…)