Manual Magazine, October 2004
Bench began 17 years ago with one stall in a corner of SM Makati. Today, it is every mall owner’s locator of choice, with 11 brands in 230 stores in 5 countries, and with 2500 employees in 30,000 sq m of retail space. It sells clothes, underwear, toiletries, cosmetics, furniture, grooming services, […]
Homestyle Magazine, Jan 2008
“A story well told,” Robert McKee famously wrote, “gives you the very thing you cannot get from life: meaningful emotional experience. In life, experiences become meaningful with reflection in time. In art, they are meaningful now, at the instant they happen.”The implications of this is what drives most artists and cultural workers […]
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 […]
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 […]
