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Introducing our new system - e-Mbarrassment...

"Living more with less" was my New Year's Resolution since last year and I swore I would challenge myself with those decluttering mini-missions. I was able to give up almost half my clothes, furniture and other nonsensical shit that I kept around my room and because of this, I was able to build a fundamental wardrobe that I'm actually proud of. As I was moving at that time, I found a lot of these missions attainable. It's convenient to give away than punish myself by hoarding up. But when it boils down to these:

MINI-CHALLENGE: DVDS

Put a couple of DVDs in your bag by the door.

MINI-CHALLENGE: BOOKS

Put a book or two in the box/bag by the door.

How about N O O O ??? Same applies to my (new collection of) books.
Ok..I already my initial donation of old school/leisure books to my school library. It's painful.
My DVDs are with a friend. It was a precious collection, I can't trust any of it to a stranger. I suppose I'm kind of cheating as I have the freedom to take it back from her any time I want. Idk...

Just something to ponder on...

"If the world were a village of 100 people, how would the composition be? This set of 20 posters is built on statistics about the spread of population around the world under various classifications. The numbers are turned into graphics to give another sense a touch – Look, this is the world we are living in."








..and more.
When brilliant social marketing meets brilliant design...
Buy it.

...Jil Sander's return to her eponymous label, a piece of history fyt:

  

Margaret Howell Fall/Winter 2012
Source: vogue.co.uk

...and the brogues (replace with black pumps), will be sporting this look to the office tomorrow! My boss better appreciate it. 

Surf across the Pacific Ocean via Siargao until I reach Peru or Brazil - I shall make this happen amen

"A classic is an excuse because one is too lazy to contrast the spirit of the time." - Jil Sander


Everything Jil Sander says is poetry to me and gets me thinking about my way of viewing things. This quote certainly made me have second thoughts about using the term "classic".

Just re-posting this from my tumblr since I thought it was an interesting brain exercise:


1. What was the last movie you watched on theaters?

Sherlock Holmes (2011) - currently at the province staying with my parents and damn the theaters here are dated I have no words


2. What was the first movie you ever remember watching on theaters?

My brother dragged me to see The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)


3. Top 5 movies

There are way too many, gosh


4. Top 5 directors

Michaelangelo Antionioni, Ingmar Bergman, Zhang Yimou, Wong Kar-Wai & Jean-Luc Goddard


5. A favorite adapted movie

The English Patient (1996), Jane Eyre (2011), The Reader (2008), Jules and Jim (1962), The Beach (2000)


6. Your best experience on going to the movies

It involves my friends, blue cheese popcorn, and chick flicks


7. A guilty pleasure

Hitchcock films


8. An overrated movie

Forrest Dumb Gump (1994)


9. An underrated movie

I’m honestly doubtful about this but I’ll mention Wong Kar-Wai’s Days of Being Wild (1990) anyway because I never hear any love for it when it was equally engaging and stylish as In the Mood for Love (2000)


10. A movie that not many have heard that you’ve seen

Southeast Asian films I guess, I wouldn’t know…


11. A movie you watched mainly for an actor

Superman (1978) for Marlon Brando & Christopher Reeve - ended up loving the entire film series

As for actresses, Police Story (1985) for Briggite Lin & Maggie Cheung, Time of the Wolf (2003) for Isabelle Huppert, She-Devil (1989) for Meryl Streep etc.


12. Top 5 actors

Marlon Brando, Michael Caine, Steve McQueen, Andy Lau & Montgomery Clift


13. Top 5 actresses

Jeanne Moreau, Ingrid Bergman, Meryl Streep, Gong Li & Isabelle Huppert - I feel like I betrayed my other goddesses


14. VHS, DVD or Blu-Ray?

DVD since I have no VHS or Blu-Ray players


15. Favorite Disney movie (not PIXAR!)

Tie between The Lion King (1991) & Aladdin (1992)


16. A tearjerker

90s Gong Li/Zhang Yimou films (i.e. Ju Dou (1990), Raise the Red Lantern (1991) etc.)… and that scene in Love Actually (2003) where Emma Thompson locks herself in the room after she opens Alan Rickman’s gift


17. A movie that you know its bad but you can’t help but love it

The Golden Compass (2007) - a lot of people bitched about this but whatever


18. Favorite Movie Soundtrack

I can only recall Midnight in Paris (2011)


19. Favorite quote from a movie

http://i40.tinypic.com/2db839w.jpg


20. A movie that was better than the book

To Have and Have Not (Hemingway/Hawks, 1944)


21. First adult film you watched (thematically speaking not R-rated)

There’s this film my mom put on our VHS thinking it was a family-friendly, and it turned out to be soft-porn - too bad I can’t remember the title. As far back as I can remember, it was the The Fly (1986).


22. A kids movie you always watch

Disney/Pixar films


23. Favorite Science Fiction movie

Alien (1979), Gattaca (1997) and most recently Melancholia (2011)


24. Favorite Comedy

Oh jeez I just realized none of my favorite films are comedy… I’ll just mention Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) because I loved Carole Lombard in it.


25. Favorite Fantasy

Persona (1966)… and Harry Potter


26. Favorite Love Story

Gahh there are so many: Jules and Jim (1962), Elevator to the Gallows (1958), L’Eclisse (1962), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), From Here To Eternity (1953), all of Bacall/Bogart films, anything Goddard…


27. A movie you hate

There are 2: Forrest Gump & the 2004 remake of the Phantom of the Opera


28. Favorite animated movie

Classic Disney princess films hands down


29. A movie from your favorite director you didn’t liked

Wong Kar-Wai’s 2046 (2004)


30. Favorite comic book movie

Not into comics..hmm Superman & Batman movies I guess X-Men


31. 3 movies you’re expecting excitedly!

I can’t possibly choose 3 - Untitled Terrence Malick Project (2012), Red Lights (2012), Bel Ami (2012) and all of Jessica Chastain’s future films

For the lols - Casa de mi Padre (2012) & Mommy & Me (2012)

…and the 2011 films that have yet to reach my city - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Artist, Hugo, among others.


32. A book you read for a movie

Kramer vs. Kramer by Avery Corman


33. Favorite Musical

Pierrot le fou (1965) and Mulan (1998)


34. Favorite fictional character

Mulan idk anymore


35. A movie you wished they never made

None. If it’s an awful adaptation, at least I have something to mock…


36. Favorite remake

Not a fan of remakes but I’ve always wanted to see the 2007 version of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games


*These questions are more difficult than my entire high school and college life combined… I was brain-dead for a minute or two.

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)