These Portraits! // July 31, 2009

I have a backlog of exhibit posts, but I wanted to post about These Portraits, which is a project my friend Gabby has been doing for the past few months. What exactly is These Portraits about?

Here’s the gist, for each portrait I take, I donate P20 to Rock Ed Philippines’ Rock The Rehas project.

It’s super-cool because a) it’s for a good cause, and b) she’s a really good photographer. We were supposed to shoot today, but stupid things got in the way, so I’ll post about the project instead. Here’s a bunch of portraits she took for These Portraits:

One of my favorite photographers, for real.

Since our plans for today, fell through, I ended up drinking coffee and educating myself about current events, via the newspaper. Also, mostly driving around the city with my grandpa. It’s his favorite past-time, aside from watching boxing matches or UFC. Check out his cool digs:

Plaid on plaid FTW.

I love him a lot.

 

Today, I cooked my own lunch. // July 30, 2009

And about time, too! When I am home in time for lunch, I usually just open a can of Chef Boyardee Beef Ravioli and call it a day. But I wasn’t in a meal-in-a-can mood today so I called up my mother and asked if I could still reheat the bowtie pasta in the fridge, and she said I probably shouldn’t since it’s been there a while. Long story short, I had a sudden urge to cook for myself, and it didn’t turn out to be half-bad, to be honest.

Sundried tomatoes forever and ever, amen.

Bowtie pasta!

Yay, my lunch. I enjoyed it.

And then I kind of just ate some fruit in a cup!:

It came with a tiny spork!

Two Things I Learned Today:

1. The pasta will not get cooked if you keep on lifting the lid to see if it is.
2. You can never have too much sundried tomatoes in your pasta. This is the truth.

OK. That’s basically it. I cooked my lunch and I ate it. Why is this a big deal? Because I’m a lazy-ass and I have no cooking experience at all, except if you count second year high school, when I had to cook, or else I would FAIL the subject. I was so bad at it that I used the wrong end of the knife to slice some garlic — and held the blade against my thumb. I don’t think I need to expound on how bad I really am.

AGH. I really want to eat s’more of those tomatoes. But really, they taste better cooked, and I think I’m all cooked out for the day.

 

Mariano Ching: Dead Ends & False Starts // July 25, 2009

I’d been meaning to post an entry about a recent exhibit that I viewed (the first in a while), but things kept getting in the way. I’m writing it now, so no mo’ complainin’. Anyway, last July 15, 3/5 of my family, plus me and Pau, went to view Mariano Ching’s solo exhibit in the Silverlens space, SLab. It is called Dead Ends and False Starts and it is amazing!

I’ve been a fan since his solo exhibit entitled We Are Not Afraid of You and We Will Beat Your Ass, which was mounted in 2008 over at West Gallery. Here’s a link so you can view the show. And yes, it is pretty much a Yo La Tenga-centric show, title-wise, at least.

Since I’m probably going to butcher the whole experience by writing about it (as I seem to be particularly fond of affectations when it comes to writing about art), here are some of the pictures I was able to take. Not a lot, since I was experiencing a personal crisis at the time (shush), but here:

The brochure-slash-catalog they gave out.

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