Trees are not fungible. You cannot undo the harm of tree cutting with a simple promise to plant elsewhere. Destroying street trees is destroying value in neighborhoods, destroying health outcomes, destroying our future.
18 Narra trees can be found in our street alone here in Mandaluyong. This time every year I look forward to their flowers blanketing our street yellow. Today I just saw another big one behind our studio office (still in the same baranggay!)
Van Gogh painted stars that way because the medication he took for his mental disorder caused him to see blurred halos around the stars, and he wanted to show us what he saw. Artists give society the gift of seeing what others see. They teach us empathy. Machines can't do that.
I heard an interview today about AI in creative spaces and the man being interviewed said “AI is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I need to sit with that in the best possible way.
I just don’t get it, you could literally read a book every day until you die and not even scratch the surface of what’s been written. The bottleneck has never been quantity, who is demanding more poorly written crap
I was drawing in the park yesterday and honestly it wasn’t groundbreaking or exceptionally beautiful, but i was sitting in the park and I was drawing while my boyfriend was reading next to me and I thought to myself ‘Wow, this is a beautiful day, I’m going to be doing this when I’m 85 too.’ And that’s what art is, a lifestyle, a process, a thing to do. Sometimes you make the exceptionally beautiful work, most times you’ll just be drawing an okay drawing in the park, and if you’re going to be an artist in any day and age you’re going to have to love that too
the debate about whether it takes a crazy inhuman level of skill to recognize a monet painting is very silly to me because in 2016 I was doing stuff on my tumblr like "matching a Spongebob screenshot to a Rothko painting I'd seen on a slide 1 time" w a bachelor's degree & a dream
been an avid viewer of ph short films and decided to list accessible labor day essential viewing:
💿 excuse me miss, miss, miss (2019) – 16 mins
💿 jodilerks dela cruz, employee of the month (2017) – 13 mins
💿 ligawang malay (2024) – 20 mins
💿 primetime mother (2023) – 15 mins
sometimes i wonder why astronauts are all so charming and funny then i realise they literally go through psychological and psychiatric selection processes to ensure that they’re not a pain in the ass to be around 😭😭😭
this was such a fun project to work on as a huge fashion history lover, and it's finally live!!
fashion is a reflection of who we are and the state of the world we live in at a given moment, and studying these pieces can teach us so much. I would love to hear everyone's favorite piece of fashion lore👀