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Imagine it, then post it.
Remember the Imagen I.T. digital art contest we told you about? The website is up. Submit your entries for a shot at the P20K grand prize and other prizes. They’re accepting entries until 19 November.
Pictures of things that never happened
Tilda Swinton says she would love to play Conan O’Brien. I think it’s perfect casting. Also, if Cate Blanchett can play Bob Dylan I think Angelina Jolie should be Mick Jagger.
You went to your high school prom with the mohawk guy from Glee.
Lady Gaga comes to you for fashion advice. (You said, “Meat is the new black.”)
When you were 14 you beat Rafa Nadal in straight sets using a wooden racquet.
You have a secret love child with Matt Damon.
One day in Cambridge you told your classmate Zuck that there should be a website like the Harvard freshmen facebook, only for everybody.
On your last vacation you went to Saturn.
These things never happened. But you can create the photographic evidence. After all humans have invented Photoshop, Corel, Paint, Freehand, and a host of programs for drawing and digital manipulation. Those visions in your head can now be rendered as images. Now you can unleash your fantasy world on an unsuspecting audience—and win P20K.
COMDDAP, the Computer Manufacturers, Distributors and Dealers Association of the Philippines, is holding a digital imaging contest called Imagen I.T. Pinoy. The rules are as follows:
1. ANYONE can join. The subject can be ANYTHING.
2. It doesn’t matter how the image was made as long as it’s in digital format. And is not offensive to any race, color, or religion.
3. Submit your digital artwork to the Imagen I.T. Pinoy website, which launches next week (We’ll let you know when it’s up). If your submission is accepted, it will be uploaded onto the site gallery for open voting. You can ask everyone you know to vote for your entry as many times as they’d like. You can vote for yourself over and over again.
4. However, the winner will be chosen by a board of judges. The first prize is P20K.
5. You retain all rights to your digital artwork, although COMDDAP has the right to use the winning images in its promotional materials.
Events are too stressful; we want a Non-Event.
I was reading this interview a few days ago, and I remembered how much I loved going to screenings of old movies (from a 35mm print, not from a DVD) with friends who also love the movies.
On a lazy Saturday we’d have brunch, then catch a black-and-white movie, then have coffee and cake and talk about the movie (Not in a criticky way, more like “I had a shirt that looked exactly like that” or “the hero’s idiotic friend looks like someone I kicked in the shin”. These days going to a screening is almost scary, so competitive, everyone wanting to prove that their taste is better than yours, or just trying loudly to impress, which is a little sad), then visit a bookstore, then have some more coffee or alcohol and read our new books or write in our notebooks. Just a quiet, relaxing day; like being alone, but with other people.
The following day I was reminded that this blog will celebrate its fourth birthday on September 24 (fifth if you count the blogspot), and it would be nice to have some kind of event to mark the occasion. Event—there’s a scary concept; the accompanying stress would kill my enjoyment. If an event is to take place it would have to be a low-key gathering of people who like the same things. In short I want a Non-Event on a weekend afternoon, with a movie, coffee, dessert, books, and notebooks.
So I’m thinking of screening a print of The 400 Blows (and Antoine and Collette, maybe Bed and Board or Stolen Kisses. The Antoine Doinel movies by Truffaut because they make me feel nostalgic. Why, when they didn’t happen to me? That is why I love these movies) in a small venue for maybe 50 of our regular readers who are in Manila, followed by coffee, cake by Carlo and ice cream by Haagen Dazs, a book sale featuring titles I’ve selected, and an exhibit/sale of Moleskines.
This is off the top of my head, it might not happen at all, but I will keep you posted.
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