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First, a disclaimer. This is NOT a sponsored post. I'm doing this out of free will and all-out charity.

Like the raging water and mud we must have been high so for tough times and tragedies, I recommend Yahoo! Launchcast, an online radio with minimal advertisement-nuisance and music genre freedom, like there are over a hundred radio stations to suit every taste and generation. This is definitely my third Y! love, after the RSS indexer My Yahoo and grandfather service Yahoo Mail.

There's also this "Play a mix" bar where listeners can key in their favorite artist and everything played from then on are songs by that act or those in the same genre or generation. So I plugged into Boyzone radio with this feature and check out the coolest evuh lineup of songs generated in random -- a precious chest of rare, sought-after treasures only those with discriminating taste and high level of culture can appreciate:

Boyzone - Must Have Been High
All Saints - Bootie Call
Aaron Carter - Oh Aaron
5ive -Rock the Party
Boyzone - A Different Beat
Spice Girls - Mama
N*Sync - I Want You Back
Mandy Moore - Walk Me Home
Li'l Kim - Lady Marmalade
Britney Spears - Everytime
Boyzone - So They Told Me
B*Witched - Blame It On the Weatherman
East 17 - Each Time
Backstreet Boys - Shape of My Heart (Soul Solution Radio Edit)
N*Sync - Pop
B*Witched - Rollercoaster
Christina Aguilera - Come On Over
Boyzone - That's How Love Goes
... On and on and on.

It's the nineties man, sure I was born a fan.
A philosopher friend of mine is celebrating her 40th birthday on the 28th. Inspired by Daria and this inconsequential sketch of a dachshund by Picasso and my newest masthead above, I vector-drew an outline of her most distinguishing and enduring features: her bangs and her glasses. Plus, she lives off medieval studies and an enlightened mind. So I carefully Googled some Latin phrases to mark the middle ages and chose an astoundingly apt subtitle - a fortiori, "with yet stronger reason."


This is the half-end product of my pseudo-artistic contemplation -- a ticket to her parteyyyyy!


Yep. #
Inspired ako sa Tagalog.
Kaya sa Tagalog din ako mag-isip.
Nakaka-relaks pala.
#



Bye, Nadal. See you next time when your knee gets better. For now, my Argentinian player advances.

I wish every morning were like this. A battle conquered. #
The chicken reports the scattering stair throughout our composite. #
A big, bold, underlined, highlighted Y-E-S.

Since the world embraced the cult of the amateur, as digital media pessimist Andrew Keen calls it, many started to resent the democratization of previously untouchable fields, making it available to everyone, and making everyone a quote-unquote expert.


'Cause, see, it's easy to blog. It's easy to Photoshop. It's easy to Google. It's easy to Windows Movie Maker. I can be a publisher, you can be a designer, my toddler sister can be a researcher and my gen-Xer Mom can be a filmmaker. No formal training required. No tuition fees. No books. Just time, minimal wizardry and a Facebook account.

Purists condemn ease. Ease is death to art, they say. It's an age-old conjecture tracing back to the birth of photography -- a now-accepted medium they used to call non-art. They said the same of fauvism, and then the world looked up to Matisse. Big deal.

Don't get me wrong, everyone can discriminate. Like when I gave up studying digital photography when people my age started buying entry-level digital SLR cameras and snapped every minute of their days. So I put my camera back in its box in an attempt to preserve my vain individuality. Plus, I never read Harry Potter to deviate from the muggle bandwagon.

But then came design and Photoshop. Same thing. They say it's not art, it's easy, the experience of it is not of the creative process that comes from within.
Oh. come. on.
A blank page is a blank page. A professional, traditional artist starts with a blank page as much as a dork Photoshopper does. The former's creative process can be as much as the latter's.

DeviantArt.com, for example, features all sorts of digital artists, from the crudest to the finest. It's a real design democracy. Skills are of different levels, but they don't determine expertise in communicating ideas or executing good taste. There might be an explosion of so-called artists and it might seen at first glance to be a dilution of the highbrow.

At closer look though, standards are higher than ever with the increase in wisdom, competition and visual noise generated. A good design is still a good design, and a bad design still is a bad design. But the ones who will stand out are still indisputably those who are most gifted and politically savvy.

Saying the old is better than the new, and that the traditional should be more esteemed than the fresh and easy are just non sequitur. #
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We will have but one option: We will have to adapt. The future will present itself with a ruthlessness yet unknown.
~Michelangelo Antonioni, filmmaker

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ...
~first lines of Charles Dickens' The Tale of Two Cities

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
~Matthew Arnold, cultural critic

The only way to really change society is through culture ... it's not through force, it's not through armies, it's not through politics (but) through freedom.
~Dony McManus, artist

You are a fine person, Mr. Baggins ... but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!
~Gandalf in The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

"I find television very educating. Every time someone turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
~Groucho Marx, actor

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
~Logan P. Smith, essayist

God is in the details.
~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect

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