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vintageanchor: Crash course in Shakespeare. Source:...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:15:18 +0800

Crash course in Shakespeare. Source: http://tinyurl.com/bbbl6s3

Yup. This. :)

malacanan: In pursuit of more Awesome (look how much we love...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:17:45 +0800

In pursuit of more Awesome (look how much we love you), the PML Tumblr Team recently paid a visit to the Lopez Museum and Library. Look at all those beautiful paintings by National Artist Fernando Amorsolo hanging on the wall.

A special shoutout to the lovely librarians who gladly took out reams and reams of material to help us with our research on #EDSA27. As we were making our way through the first batch of books, one of the librarians challenged us: “Give up na kayo? Marami pa!” (“Have you given up? There’s more!”) So, yes. More coming your way.—JLA

It was loads of fun! And this image of Manila burning was just too much for the heart to handle.

nevver: Tête-à-tête

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:49:46 +0800

nevver:

Tête-à-tête

theparisreview: “The body is a statement and challenge to not...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:48:00 +0800

theparisreview:

“The body is a statement and challenge to not only the audience but also the writers and works the readers are reading.”

Read more from Rae Bryant on Naked Girls Reading Series here.
Photo Credit Yana Paskova/The New York Times.

critink: Up in the rice terraces of the Cordillera mountain...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:00:06 +0800

critink:

Up in the rice terraces of the Cordillera mountain range of the Philippines live the last few tattooed women of Kalinga. Traditional tattooing is seen as archaic and painful by the younger generations of Kalingas. As an Indigenous group that has successfully fought against colonizing forces, it is losing the practice of traditional tattooing because of the changing perspective of beauty and interpretations of the practice by outside scholars.

Studies on the tradition interpreted the practice to show that men were given tattoos because of brave acts during tribal wars while the women were given tattoos just to decorate their bodies. Men who attempt to get traditional tattoos without acts of bravery are shunned by the community and are now unable to continue the practice without facing criminal charges from the government. Women are unconstrained by the same reasons but are struggling to continue the practice because of the pervasive western interpretations of aesthetics that changed the perceptions of “beauty” in Kalinga. To the women of Kalinga, the batok or the tattoo goes beyond beauty and prestige but it is symbolic of the traditional values of women’s strength and fortitude.

The traditional tattoo is an indigenous body art, an expression of the psychological dimensions of life, health, love and it defines local perceptions of existence. Sadly there is now a decline of the traditional art among indigenous women brought about by the changing perspective of the meaning of the tattoo and its stigmatized practice. It is now considered a vanishing art along with the gatekeepers of the knowledge associated with it.

The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga by Jake Verzosa. Jake Verzosa is a freelance photographer based in Manila.

I love this series by Jake V. He really captured the women very well. I also recall meeting the woman above Fang-Od (the one on the extreme right) She watched when I got inked. Beautiful, these ladies.

This site has lost its spark. Perhaps it’s time to migrate, noh?

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:51:19 +0800

This site has lost its spark. Perhaps it’s time to migrate, noh?

"Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a..."

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:16:07 +0800

“Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument, and when we wish to move about we do not move the body as we move an object. We transport it without instruments as if by magic, since it is ours and because through it we have direct access to space. For us the body is much more than an instrument or a means; it is our expression in the world, the visible form of our intentions. Even our most secret affective movements, those most deeply tied to the humoral infrastructure, help to shape our perception of things.”

- Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Primacy of Perception (via soccer-tease)

"Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist,..."

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:16:04 +0800

“Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu.”

- Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993), Chap 4, Sect 2 (via ardora)

Photo

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:15:59 +0800

"Narrative originates in the heart, time’s pendulum and apostrophe, until the heart’s scales are..."

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:15:55 +0800

“Narrative originates in the heart, time’s
pendulum and apostrophe, until the heart’s scales
are swung to a standstill, to a breathing balance,
a light meridian of the hemispheres…”

- Derek Walcott, from “The Prodigal” (via weissewiese)

breathingvioletfog: Boleslas Biegas...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:02:08 +0800

breathingvioletfog:

Boleslas Biegas (1877-1954)

(source) (venusmilk)

All the world’s a stage.

"So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you..."

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:50:47 +0800

“So you plant your own garden and
decorate your own soul, instead of waiting
for someone to bring you flowers”

- Jorge Luis Borges, “After a While” (translated by Veronica A. Shofstall)

Yes, exactly. But flowers are still most welcome.

"You know it’s funny what’s happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends now virtual,..."

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:02:39 +0800

““You know it’s funny what’s happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends now virtual, and everything you could ever want to know is only a click away. Experiencing the world through endless second hand information is not enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.””

- Travis Rice in The Art of Flight (via the4es)

robskavsta: Flagrante delicto, 1975 — Madelon...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:54:33 +0800

robskavsta:

Flagrante delicto, 1975 — Madelon Vriesendorp

Encountering the Necropolis in art.

"Everything that once was can never be again… everything that succeeds was conditioned by what came..."

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:53:37 +0800

“Everything that once was can never be again… everything that succeeds was conditioned by what came before and would not have occurred in the manner in which it did if not for those precedents.”

- Alois Riegl, “The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Essence and Its Development,” 1903 (via nickkahler)

thelittlesea: Tomas Sanchez Requero This reminds me of...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:49:44 +0800

thelittlesea:

Tomas Sanchez Requero

This reminds me of yama-bato.

Because we all have to grow old at one point and it would be...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:02:24 +0800

Because we all have to grow old at one point and it would be nice to have someone to hold.

booksmatter: “Man hands on misery to man…” Poet Philip Larkin...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:53:44 +0800

booksmatter:

“Man hands on misery to man…”

Poet Philip Larkin read his charming and unforgettably bleak poem, “This Be the Verse,” which we have all, from time to time, read to comfort ourselves in moments of despair.

He would know very well what this is like because I read somewhere that he did live with his mother (or was it his parents) for quite some time.

Leontyne Price: Un Bel Dì - from Puccini’s Madama...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:10:31 +0800

Leontyne Price: Un Bel Dì - from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly

Beautiful.

I really like coffee, white shirts and mornings that look like...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:07:10 +0800

I really like coffee, white shirts and mornings that look like this. Hmm, maybe one of these days.