Mouthless Kitty Decoupage

I used a cardboard chalkbox, scrapbook paper and stickers for this one. It's going to Joytag. :D

New Paste-up Decoupage Projects

Had some ugly old index card boxes. They looked boring.

Materials:
1. Wooden index card boxes
2. Magazines
3. White Elmer's glue
4. Duraseal adhesive plastic cover
5. Scissors
6. Hobby / X-acto knives

I just laid a plain base and pasted cut up parts of old magazines on it for color. Final sealing by Duraseal adhesive plastic cover (old stock, can't find newer stock in National Bookstore).


From top left: Hello Kitty box, Capt. America and Iron Man box, Western comics box, Superboy box (old project, repaired), Anime DBZ et al box, Anime GITS et al box (old project, repaired)

Red Dreams

Red Dreams: stalking angels and vampires.

Three childhood friends. A lazy Sunday morning. An abandoned and burned-down house. Music. Photography. Paintings. Red dreams. Angels. Vampires. Test shots and comps. More to come.

Released under Creative Commons.
Creative commons wings from hegarty_david and frielp.

Model: Ian Gabriel Mercado
Photographer: Igor Cabbab
Stylist: Allan Gigantoni

Red dreams are Ian Gabriel Mercado (concepts and music), Allan Gigantoni (paintings) and Igor Cabbab (photography).

Collage

I've been revisiting an old hobby for the past two days: paste-up collage art. I just get old magazines, cut up anything that catches my eye, then paste them onto anything. In college one of my teachers got one of my works, it was actually just a box fashioned into a bag. Been years since I did this so I started small this time around. Got an old planner and pasted words, pics and logos on it then sealed it in plastic. Maybe I'll go bigger and on canvas again next time.

pic 1: the plain old planner
pic 2: other raw matls, almost all recycled: the cut up pieces, the scissors, hobby knives, plastic, elmer's glue
pics 3 and 4: front and back done, all it needs is plastic covering
pics 5 and 6: covered and heated to shrink the plastic tight

Copy con talumpati.txt

Von of Filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com found speeches which he translated and posted in his blog reproduced in a book entitled "Talumpati! Talumpati! Talumpati! Book One: Pantulong sa mga Guro't Mag-aaral". He has posted an Open Letter to Ms. Christina S. Canonigo, the author.

This is not new to me, yet I hope it stops. Art from my friend Aldin's comics "Dreamwinder" found their way on shirts sold in shops merely a couple of weeks after we printed it in Questor. And speaking of that old anime mag, we found knockoffs of posters which we originally printed mass produced and distributed in Recto, Quiapo and Divisoria. Bebert knows this all too well, manga which we lettered in english are redistributed in digital format. Sad part is the scanners removed the names of the letterers and placed their own names as those responsible for lettering. And quite recently, Hazel, an old acquaintance, found one of her deviantart works printed on t-shirts sold in shops in Divisoria. And get this, the shirts came all the way from Bangkok. Before that she found pirated cds with her artwork as album covers. Gee, maybe the net really is bad. O_o;;

Crossposted: http://gokitomo.com, http://gorilla.multiply.com and http://gorilla.vox.com.