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the f’kin clean blogging slate April 14, 2008, 4:34 am I wonder what would it feel like to have a clean slate? To be in a new place with no strings and no baggage. To go back to basics. Think of living at a residence with a plate number - the trunk of your car. Have all your personal things, photos and your resumes handy in your yahoo email. Just worry about parking space for the day if I would go as far as to keep a car. Just be free with your locker, fitness first gym program, a steady job, your wallet, cell phone, laptop and credit cards, a post box to keep mail and a blog website to track you down…I would sleep under the stars and swim in uncharted waters. Blog all day on unlimited internet. Dwell on the mysteries of what to eat the next hour. Muse the beauty of simplicity. Just writing thoughts. Experience fleeting images of everyday routine and not be affected by it. Picture overload on 360 degrees of happenings! Gimiks and nightlife to the max! Make your major choices every

The End of a Dream Whenever I wake up, and the mist of slumber still reigns, I glance around in fear on what this dream might be. So compelling it beckons to dread, that I could only feel icicles and coldness in my body. Shivering oddly wanting it this time to be real. Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™ Mandaluyong City, Philippines *** visit me at http://www.facebook.com/miel.roldan at my blogs: www.amielroldan.wordpress.com www.amielroldan.blogspot.com www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/a-g-roldan.html www.myspace.com/amiel_roldan www.amiel_roldan.multiply.com www.face-pic.com/amiel_roldan please comment and tag if you like my compilations. amiel_roldan@yahoo.com amiel.roldan@gmail.com P.S. A friend posted this disclosure. I am willing to try it out. Warning: Any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental structure including but not limited to the United States Federal Government also using or monitoring/using this website or a

The start of our generation of then young artists of SBW! April 17, 2009, 9:44 pm ***04 18 2009 One could sum up the number of artists struggling to be recognized in the Philippine art scene and find out that it would stretch almost infinitely. From the earliest I could remember in the 1990's we were aggressive. We were always up to the dare. We were focused perhaps because there were also equally good and better young artists around us to measure ourselves with. The artist group Salingpusa and Sanggawa were both breakthroughs. The equally strong response and competitions from the Chabet conceptual artists were a pleasurable view. Both overlapping and producing more good exhibitions that we waited with rapt attention to. So many artists were also accorded recognition in the Thirteen Artists Award and figured in prestigious and not so known art competitions. We knew all of them and we knew that within the group everyone had the potential to be better. There were exceptional you

Of Making Your Marks December 4, 2002 When one travels a road not taken before one could fairly approximate the sense of feet scouring the ground. We usually walk to get to a point of destination and if one happens to have the time and the effort to spend it could be quite enjoyable but the pain still. On this first week of December 2002, I happen to find myself on foot to Green Papaya Art Projects to see the exhibit of large paintings and 50 drawings of Louie Cordero, titled ‘Torts and Damages.’ A frequent visitor before, I had now seldom the opportunity to come this far away, yet, I was curious how would one of the most dynamic young artists of SBW to date, would present his latest one-man show. I should have guessed that Roberto Chabet would have a hand in this former UP student exhibit albeit a small one. I was fascinated by how he would design the works with the numerous crannies that space has. I wouldn’t push past the inconvenience and was surprised that Chabet had a hard

A Long Stay in New York City June 29, 2009, 9:07 am * ****06 14 2005 I am writing this report as a requirement for the fellowship grant I received from the Starr Foundation through the Asian Cultural Council, New York . The grant included a six month program with the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, a weeklong artist stay with the Lafayette Experimental Print Program and collaboration with printmaker Curlee Holton and other artists in Pennsylvania, artist interaction with numerous contemporary Asian and European artists, immersion with current new york city art exhibitions, a week long trip to Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art, the Chicago Museum of Modern Art and other contemporary landmarks in Chicago, an apprenticeship with printmaker Lisa H. Mackie that culminated in solo exhibition at Lisa H. Mackie Studios, collaborative group exhibitions and a published dvd. September 2003 During my preparations to stay in the states, the ACC people have been