Motion Unsickness

Rino Stefano Tagliafierro, a skilled Italian animator and artist, took it upon himself to recreate some of our most favorite works of art in a recent short film called “Beauty.”

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Childhood, goddamned Childhood

D' Kids Are Alright. Watercolor paintings and sculptures by Renato "Jojo" Barja Jr. 

1. Balloon Head Boy
2. Combatant Boy / Combatant Children
3. Costume
4. Frog Boy
5. Garbage Boy
6. Gypsy Girl
7. Incomplete Boy / Charcoal Girl
8. Loner / Simone Barja
9. Market Boy / Boy in the Public Market
10. Ngo
11. No Classes
12. Preparatory Class
13. Sailor Boy
14. Salt Vendor Girl / Salt Vendor Children

Remember when Icarus fell?

Snippets from Jojo Barja's Sitting On A Bird's Back.

Sitting On A Bird's Back

Paintings and sculptures by Renato Barja Jr.

I failed to come to the opening of Jojo's exhibit. But some random day when I was out reading in a coffee shop at Rockwell, I decided to go for a walk around the city until my feet give up on me and the  two o'clock heat exhaust my body. I found myself in a corner sidewalk near Manila Peninsula. P and I would have gone together some other day, but I couldn't help myself and visited anyway. I was the only one in the gallery. It's one of the best feelings you can get, such wonderful art only for yourself.  

My personal favorite aside from the Puppylation is the Crazy Lady Outside a Local Drugstore in a Deadtown. (Of course, there's a cat by her feet and she's mad. I always have a soft spot for cats and mad women.)

His exhibit is on until the twenty third of this month at Blanc Gallery, Manila Peninsula.

1. Crazy Lady Outside a Local Drugstore in a Deadtown
2. Basilio the Businessman
3. The Landlord
4. Sylvia La Torre, Beautician for the Corpse
5. Ed the Tombstone Painter
6. Promodizer
7. Father of Today
8. Nene the Caretaker
9. Puppylation
10. Jojo, All Is Well and Puppylation

P.S. Original photos are from the gallery. I'll post the photos I took soon when my film is all used up.

Regina

Hey love, I was bored so I tried to paint you from memory and it was quite not so good so I tried to make some changes and tried to refer to some photos. Merry Christmas!

Regina, watercolor on paper

The sadness will last forever

Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette, 1885–1886, oil on canvas, Vincent Van Gogh

The way he sees me: Portraits and cigarettes

Paintings by P.

1. Museums make good rain shelters

2. I find it  rather  sad that Juan Luna's paintings, of the steel factory particularly, are all scattered in different museums. 

3. Frames matter.

4. Rich families can make a museum out of their filthy rich lives.

5. I could be half wrong about number four. I wish.

6. If Jose Rizal lived in this time, he would probably hit on Chloe Sevigny. That guy likes his women's jaws rounded.

7. If he lived in this time, I would probably fall in love with him and he would probably break my heart.

8. Mad women make every novel extra good.

9. People are pretentious.

10. Today was a hurricane.

Smoke and Letters

So I checked my mail today. 

P: Marionne, my cousin's here and we're painting with my mom. I painted you from memory, but it's just on paper. I'm really excited to show this to you. But the neck is long like that because I want to emphasize your long hair. I'm really happy. I want to paint you soon, with you modelling for me, okay?

M: So this is how you remember me? I like what I am in your memory. I really like it. The hair, the skirt! The book and all. You really made my day. Thank you. I'll let you paint me soon.

Monday's child is fair of face.

I bought new brushes and now I'm broke. But it was a good deal, so. Yeah, I'm still broke. I said I was gonna do a (pseudo) realistic portrait but I ended up doing a cartoon of myself, which doesn't even look a bit like me. Oh well. And I got lazy but I like that it's unfinished. My head's floating. I really need some sleep, been awake for two days. Bye now.