AK DOMINGO

Antonet Kay Domingo. Graphic Designer and Illustrator. I design for food and paint for love. And food. Mostly food.

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Kinupot (1977) by Philippine artist Edgar Talusan Fernandez

The artwork's title combines two Filipino words: kinuha ("got") and sinupot ("bagged"), referring to the abductions of political activists by the military or paramilitary during [former] Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos' martial law rule. Partly inspired by the form of the artist's pregnant wife, the work also refers to the censorship and "whitewashing" or dissent which was happening [during Martial Law].

Gift of the artist Collection of the Ateneo Gallery

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My photos definitely did not do this artwork justice. This is one of several artworks depicting people's sentiments during the martial law rule that are currently on display at the South East Asian Art Wing of the National Gallery Singapore.

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Someone on may FB newsfeed commented this while figuring out how to get the cat down. I may have laughed too hard.

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I am in Singapore right now. I was feeling a little pressure earlier so I was telling myself to breathe in and out and somehow found myself singing Hands Down by Dashboard Confessional - so here’s a a quick photo manipulation inspired by the song (and the city?) to help me calm down.

I borrowed the aesthetics from Dashboard Confessional’s video for the song. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/kVN2b0DdZAQ

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Quick sketch of an idea based on a scene from Firefly. (Also, yes I am very much late getting in the bandwagon. Again.) Crossposted from my Instagram account.

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Kinda late but I forgot to crosspost this here.

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Because I actually remembered it this year, guys.

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10 facts you should know about Vincent van Gogh

1. Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Holland. He was named after his grandfather and his stillborn brother who died one year before Van Gogh was born.

2. Van Gogh was 27 years old when he painted his first piece.

3. When Van Gogh first began painting, he used peasants as models. He would later paint flowers, landscapes and himself, mostly because he was too poor to pay the models.

4. Van Gogh suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy, a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent, unprovoked seizures.

5. In a short period of ten years, Van Gogh made approximately 900 paintings.

6. During one of his seizures, Van Gogh attempted to attack his friend Paul Gauguin with an open razor. This ultimately resulted in Vincent cutting off a piece of his own ear – but not the whole ear as is often rumored.

7. Van Gogh created his most famous work The Starry Night while staying in an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France.

8. Vincent Van Gogh visually depicted turbulence, an incredibly complex (and still unsolved) mathematical principle in several paintings during a particularly chaotic time in his life.

9. Vincent shot himself in a wheatfield in Auvers, France, but did not die until 2 days later at the age of 37. His brother Theo, at his side when he died, said that Vincent’s last words were “La tristesse durera toujours” which means “the sadness will last forever.”

10. Vincent only sold one painting during his lifetime and only became famous after his death.

Happy Birthday, Vincent van Gogh.

From the TED-Ed Lesson The unexpected math behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” - Natalya St. Clair

Animation by Avi Ofer

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I told her I wanted to be a writer and that I knew a great romance was waiting for me to write it. She smiled and said that she hoped a great romance was waiting for me to live it.

Benedito de Oliva Domingos (Daytripper, 2011)

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My project/s got me making a bunch of sun icons.

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John Mayer. Supposedly. Buuuuuuut, eh. :)) 

If you look closely there’s a trace of a smaller version of this sketch. I wanted to do my usual lyric doodle using one of his photos where he was holding a guitar with one hand so I initally I wanted to draw about half of his body but I ended up fixating on his eyes. And his hair. And that small curve bet. his nose bridge and eyebrows.

Sooooo, there’s that.

And IDKKK maybe if you look at the thumbnail view and squint, it does kinda look like him. LMAO (Just humor me on this.)

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In light of recent events, also because I couldn’t sleep (reason unrelated), I asked my mother, who is a devout Catholic, about her opinion on the legalization of same sex marriage in the U.S. It’s not verbatim, but this is what she said:

“Well, if that is what they think is just. I don’t know if such a law will be accepted here*, but as long as they are not hurting anyone, it [shouldn’t be a problem].

I have heard people say that it is a sin. But even if it is a sin, that is between that person and God. It should not be in our position to judge.”

I am sharing this because I think this is a great example of how a person can be true to their religion and still be open minded and genuinely respectful of their LGBT friends. Also because I am an extremely proud daughter right now.

* - We don’t live in the US. We live in the Philippines, which identifies as a Catholic country

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The night sky. 09/03/15 Watch as the colour of the sky changes due to the rising Moon. This was a 4 hour time lapse recorded last night from 21:00-01:00.

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I am in love.

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crying

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do you ever think about how little Michelangelo cared

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All right, everyone, grab a chair and sit back because I’m going to share with you what I learned about Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel in my Art History Class.

The man NEVER wanted to paint the damn thing. But the pope at the time “forced him to” According to my teacher. Michelangelo hated this man, I MEAN REALLY HATED HIM. So did a majority of people. The pope’s nickname translated literally means “Terrible pope”.

And the working conditions were awful. He had to work on his back with all that paint, which is filled with some toxic shit that gave Michelangelo a limp for the rest of his life. (Also, our teacher made us get on our backs and try drawing with both hands JUST to prove how bad and uncomfortable it is.)

At the time, the ceiling was so high, you could barely see it. You need binoculars to get a good look at what’s up there, by the time people could see the paintings, there was a lot of weird symbolism that Michelangelo hid up there.

This one? The creation of the sun and moon? God is mooning you. And the pope and all others after him prayed under that without knowing.

This one? At the time, dissecting was sacrilegious and everyone found out how behind God was what looked like half a brain. blah blah, science, science, that pissed everyone off.

And also, ALLLLLLL the men and women in the Sistine Chapel are all on fucking steroids. My teacher described the women’s bodies as "Men bodies with boobs slapped on."

And then there is this:

Now this is the back wall. Michelangelo actually wanted to paint this one after he finished the ceiling. (and there was a different pope too, I believe.) However, originally, EVERYONE in that painting was naked. And they didn’t like it. Adam and Eve naked? That’s cool. But Jesus? Now you crossed the line. So the pope at the time hired someone else to censor it and give the important figures clothes. He worked on it for 6 or 9 months before he died.

And then the symbolism in this one is great. Somewhere in the right, there are homosexuals in heaven. (No matter what, the Vatican will say “Those straight men are happy” I’ll get to that in a second), Michelangelo painted himself near Jesus, and the terrible pope is in hell with a snake biting his balls.

And if you were to point ANY of this out to the Vatican, they will deny all of it and claim Michelangelo was a catholic hero. In fact, when they discovered the symbolism around the 60s or 70s, the guy who told the Vatican was kicked out of the Vatican for life.

TL;DR: Michelangelo hated the pope and made the best “fuck you” of all time.

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YO. ALL OF THIS^. Michelangelo was hella grumpy all of the time. It was fantastic.

However, as beautiful as this commentary is, I’m gonna make a little correction. The Pope isn’t the one in hell getting his balls bitten; that guy is actually the Papal Minister of Ceremonies a the time, Biagio de Cesena. 

See, when Michelangelo was painting this, as you said, lots of people were uncomfortable with all of the nudity (especially because the Last Judgement [back wall mural] was painted much later when nudity in religious art was even more controversial than before), but the dude who was the angriest was de Cesena. 

He was so angry that he reportedly burst in on Michelangelo while he was working (which is already a big no-no because Michelangelo’s requirements for working were mostly “fuck the hell off and leave me alone or else I quit and I will stab you in the eye with my paintbrush/chisel”.). He then proceeds to tell Michelangelo that this fresco is disgusting and obscene and shame on him etc etc. He also referred to it as “i stui di nudi”, which means “A stew of nudes” which is one of the best descriptions of a thing ever, if you ask me. 

So Michelangelo, probably on the cusp of homicide is like “Thank you for the notes. Now get the fuck out,” and de Cesena reluctantly does. 

Later, he comes to see the finished product and finds that Michelangelo had painted his portrait down in Hell to represent the Minos, King of the Dead. He has the ears of an ass and the above described crotch biting snake:

Upon seeing this and being enraged, de Cesena went to the Pope to demand that it be changed and that Michelangelo be punished. However, the Pope was SO incredibly done dealing with Michelangelo’s snark, tantrums, and general hatred of the world and everyone in it, that he didn’t want to do shit. 

The Pope’s response to him was literally to say “As Pope, I have a lot of influence on Earth and up in Heaven, but I have no jurisdiction in Hell. You’re shit out of luck.” 

And it stayed.

Michelangelo, grade A artist, snark master, and professional dick.

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Just another bit of information that makes this even funnier:

The guy that was hired to censor all the nudes was best remembered for this particular job rather than his previous career, which earned him the name of BRAGHETTONE

THE BREECHES-MAKER

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`sup?

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Suzuyacchi says hi! —- Seriously though it’s been a while since a series got me doodling characters in my spare time. Says a lot about how I like this manga’s aesthetic?