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		<title>BRYAN LIM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PIOLO PASCUAL</title>
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Manual Magazine, October 2004
To amuse the crew at a movie shoot, Judy Ann Santos supposedly once brought a bowl of rice over to a sleeping Piolo, and, never taking her gaze off him, wolfed the rice down without any viand whatsoever.
But Piolo isn’t just eye candy. He’s one of the few local artists who’ve achieved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FULL CIRCLE, BULLSEYE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW TO BE A LIGHTHOUSE (for Sid Gomez Hildawa)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(version 1.2.1, with pictures + an expanded conclusion. With thanks to Fatima Lasay for comments leading to these revisions)

“For ten years, Sid was my lighthouse. Now he is gone.”
I wanted to leave it at that, if at all. Sid was a very private man, you see, and now more than ever, I felt the need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ericflo.com/2008/04/sid-gomez-hildawa/</link>
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		<title>ON HERESY AND FAITH: A Juan Luna Primer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BluPrint Magazine, Nov 2002



The magazine commissioned this essay at the height of the Parisian Life scandal, during the painting&#8217;s &#8220;extended stay&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPIUM (Vivien Tan)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; photography by the magazine team, because this was the farewell assignment of our beloved colleague, top photographer Tommy Zablan. That month&#8217;s issue was completely sold out; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MUTINY FOR THE MUSEUMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still-unpublished (and still-unpaid for!) manuscript. Supposed to be the final story for a new publisher&#8217;s revamped magazine&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ericflo.com/2007/03/mutiny-for-the-museums/</link>
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		<title>THE DOWNSIDE OF BEING FILIPINO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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&#8217;s Prof. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FALL FROM THE SHOULDERS OF A KING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ericflo.com/2007/03/fall-from-the-shoulders-of-a-king/</link>
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		<title>ANTARCTICA/ BREAKING THE ICE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manual Magazine, September 2003
It’s a hook all too easy to sensationalize: two deskbound Pinoy yuppies literally sail through twin hurricanes straight out of The Perfect Storm—but in the subfreezing waters of Drake’s Passage, just off the coast of Antarctica, where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans collide. Seventy-five-knot winds hurled sixty-foot waves towards their ship every [...]]]></description>
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