Sebastian's Voodoo

I'm supposed to post my pictures from Australia but I ended up discovering stuffs much more worthy of my space here. I didn't even finish my Cambodia/Vietnam travelogue. So, we'll see. ( AGAIN?? Yes. )

Another discovery from BoingBoingTV.

In today's episode, Boing Boing tv presents an animated short by Joaquin Baldwin, a UCLA grad student working towards his MFA in animation. Joaquin has recieved numerous awards for his work, including Best Animated Short at the Sedona International Film Festival and has been featured on the front pages of Youtube, Crackle.com, and Dailymotion.com.

In this piece, entitled "Sebastian's Voodoo," a voodoo doll must find the courage to save his fellows from being pinned to death. For more on Joaquin and information on festival screenings, you can check out http://www.pixelnitrate.com/

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Go gringo!

Gringo, as I looked in dictionary, means foreign language. You know me, always have a <3 for foreign languages. Also, I believe that, to learn a language well, you should learn from the basics and the most commonly used phrases, which will be dirty words. So, it seems that Sao Paolo design agency Gringo also agrees with me, and puts together this website that allows you to learn dirty words in every foreign languages as contributed by users. Each word will come along with a video where you can see how the native gives the 100% punch to the word!

As a start


Record your own



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Crazy Sexy Beautiful

“ ...I refused to be saddled with the isolating stigma associated with cancer. Just because it had changed my life forever, didn't mean that I had changed...
-Kris Carr ”


Having felt the start of dry season for tv series, I have seek alternatives in movie sources as usual. One day, I bumped into RLSLOG's post regarding VoMiT's release. It's about fighting cancer that turned out to be crazy and sexy, as the title "Crazy Sexy Cancer" says. That is quite true as how the main character presented it.

On Valentines Day in 2003, Kris Carr was diagnosed with a rare cancer which was in critical last stage with signs of deterioration. What lied ahead was knowledge of a time bomb being paused but with the possibility of being resumed into ticking in time. Weeks later, she began filming her journey seeking of cure, in medicine, homeopathy and inner peace. In this true-story-turned-documentary, Kris shares her wild and inspirational journey with exuberance and humor.

This documentary is about strength and growth in life, love and friendship, courage and wisdom. I love the editing of the story that really made me wonder how Kris could have faced this hardship alone, and then slowly, other characters such as family, friends and lover were introduced. Now, Kris has founded My Crazy Sexy Life!, a social networking site for the supporters of holistic medicine; Crazy Sexy Blog! that keeps those that concern updated. It's all about WEB 2.0!

In all, she had all my respect and admiration when she just laughed off certain difficult moments and decisions facing death. This is the spirit.

And that is what I do facing inflation. Go NGV!

The Girl Effect

"Girl Power" - one term that arose when female intruded the male dominance in many countries decades ago. What stay estranged is this phrase that is nonexistent in developing countries where female rights are still struggling.

Regardless, adolescent females in developing countries should be entitled to this term, be allowed to earn it by being offered opportunity to battle for the inequality of socio-treatment and economical benefits. They should have the opportunity to make a change not only their families, but also their communities and countries. Before they can change their surrounding, the world needs to give itself a change. As a start, the Nike Foundation and the NoVo Foundation have donated $100 million and collaborated with Norfolk based Grow Interactive and Portland ad agency Wieden + Kennedy to drive this cause for the world to recognize The Girl Effect. With that, we hope social issues such as poverty, disease, early marriage, and pregnancy will see a sign of reduction, so that the girls can unleash their power and lead their communities and nations towards change.

I enjoy watching the clip. I hope you do, and at the end of it, something inside of you is itching and screaming to make a difference, how minimal it may be.

Peace out.

d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y

I've noticed that even native speakers can get spellings for simple words wrong. So, someone smart turned it into a source of creativity.

Definitely, you will want to print the page out if you are not sure of the spelling.