BluPrint Magazine, Nov 2002
The magazine commissioned this essay at the height of the Parisian Life scandal, during the painting’s “extended stay” at the Bureau of Customs. to put things mildly, it was hell getting the interviews. GSIS Museum Director Eric Zerrudo even had to meet me incognito (unshaven, and in house clothes!), in some roach-infested […]
Manual Magazine, April (?) 2004
(This essay is probably the most ambitious text ever published by any fashion magazine for a model in a string bikini. Breathtaking styling & photography by the magazine team, because this was the farewell assignment of our beloved colleague, top photographer Tommy Zablan. That month’s issue was completely sold out; I […]
Still-unpublished (and still-unpaid for!) manuscript. Supposed to be the final story for a new publisher’s revamped magazine’s aborted special issue on Collecting. December 2005.
The era of dirt-cheap Philippine art is about to end.
Increasing international demand, an exodus of visionaries, and skyrocketing production/ exhibition costs will finally be allowed to take their toll, in a last-ditch […]
Published as a boxed article by the Inquirer on 24 Nov 2006, the only comment published in full. Other replies and rejoinders, including Jon Red’s were parsed and compiled by staffwriter Marinel Cruz. I emailed this to Prof. Baumgartel; he himself forwarded it to the Inquirer.
Dear Inquirer,
This is in response to UP Film Institute’s Prof. […]
Manual Magazine, August 2003
There was a time eleven years ago when I treated Mario Katigbak like my father. This wasn’t a good thing, of course, because a week after he hired me, I ran away from home and stayed away for ten years. Katigbak eventually fired me in exasperation, and it was this that turned […]
