cover cover: the division bell, r.i.p storm thorgerson

here's a visual cover version of the album cover of pink floyd's the division bell, whatever the fvck visual cover version of album cover means, let us just keep talking.

rest in peace storm thorgerson. (i'll update this post w album covers he did. i'll update this post at the soonest time possible, append covers after the cut)

imagined all the people.

 

(note: i am supposed to do an unsolicited progress report thing to self but let me offer this space for john lennon. the tragedy happened thirty two years ago. let me plug: if you want to humanize him, venerate him with understanding, you may heed the call of the lachrymologists. more info about the project [here], about the group [here]. tomorrow or the day after, i shall plug things that have been, are ongoing and will [hopefully] be. sighs.)

"count dracula" tribute

 

[source]

now, heaven will know the body count, perhaps?

anyway, send my regards to borges, wherever your 

forking paths cross, be it in a garden or a wasteland.

or a library, or an e-library, or, hey, this 

can go on and on and on, so i stop to say, to sigh,

better late than never: rest in peace, jerry nelson.

sensya na ser kung eto lang ang kinaya. takits.

Shorts [v]: Bradbury + Salin: Ang Saglit (Atwood)

ray bradbury went to one of the other sides today. links: [news from cnn][neil gaiman's tribute from the guardian][news from io9][news from time]. he reminded us that "there are worse crimes than burning books. one of them is not reading them," which kinda makes me feel guilty right now, as i am yet to read someday his novel fahrenheit 451. sa tagalog, "may mas malala pang krimen kaysa sa pagsusunog ng mga aklat. isa rito ay ang hindi pagbabasa sa kanila."

i have read a couple of his short fiction collections, and his zen in the art of writing, and i've done some of his suggestions, but, i don't know, maybe, i have to, really, focus. anyway, i tried to draw something as tribute to one of my favorite writers. well, a lot of favorite people have already went to one of the other sides. here are links that mentioned some transfer, er, mations to another plane:

[moebius, karl roy, encyclopaedia][kurt cobain, beng hernandez][andres bonifacio][crispin 'ka bel' beltran][maurice sendak][tony dezuniga, adam yauch, and victims of state fascism]. in place of an artwork, or any tribute of some sort, here's my adaptation of atwood's poem "the moment":

mothermats day, article in press

the women's month  slash gender themed march-april issue of u.p. forum shall, hopefully, be in print this coming week. my article is about tandang sora and mothers and related matters. it shall also have illustrations of yours truly. one that i'd like to call LGTButterfly, another a yinyang thing.

meanwhile, an advanced happy mothermats day to you

isang pang-habang-buhay na saglit (isang interpretasyon ng tula ni maningning miclat) + ilang pakikiramay ngayong umaga

tulad ng nabanggit ko [kahapon], nakaiskor ako sa bargain bin sa vargas museum ng voice from the underworld: a book of verses ni maningning miclat. at, nabanggit ko rin [ilang kahapon na ang nakalipas] na magha-hiatus ang carcosite, pero medyo mahirap palang hindi magkaroon ng labasan ng buntonghininga, kaya eto at nagbabalik ang inyong lingkod sa pagdaragdag ng polusyon sa cyberspace, bagamat napapanindigan pa naman ang pananahimik sa social networking sites.

karamihan sa mga berso na nasa nabanggit na kuleksyon ay may salin sa english at chinese ng mismong makata. mas "interpretasyon" ang ginamit na termino, kaya ito na rin siguro ang gagamitin ko, at ang pinili kong piyesa ay yung hindi pa isinalin ng makata sa ikalawang kuleksyon niya ng mga tula. "To Catch a Second and Turn it to Forever" mula sa unang bahaging Leaving China ang napagdiskitahan ko. narito ang burador:

maurice sendak tribute

a quick doodle slash update. mentioned in the previous post of the carcosite's supposed hiatus. failed. cannot help it. let me speak for a while to say: rest in peace where the wild things are. lame lines, i know. was thinking of treading unfamiliar ground with plans of following your footsteps.

farewell, maurice sendak. say hi to moebius. see you when i see you.

[read "maurice sendak: cannibals and psychotics" by neil gaiman [here]

[not really related, but read "100 ideas that changed graphic design" [here]