Are we flying yet?

Brian: 1. Film student 2. Cream puffs 3. I like lying on grass 4. and floating - This is how I have fun in the void.

[wickedbanters]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRt0_VzFFx0)

[wickedbanters]

Hello, Again

I’ve been wrestling ideas in my head for months or even a year now and none of them were getting out. So here’s the wickedbanters blog to start putting out stuff again. And to start it off here’s a checklist to make putting things online sensible again: 1. Post points that would be taken offline. 2. Enough with self-loathing, there’s plenty of that around here. 3. Here’s a personal blog whose purpose is not only for personal growth, but for engaging the public to share, encourage, and disturb. Hence # 1.

[wickedbanters]

City Ritual

Kill a little bit of yourself to get through the night to endure that long walk home again a chin up below the city's giants like a candle burning out the fire is consumed A smoke from an alleyway to signal among the tyrants that ants are among them the soles of our souls are worn out dragging backpack crosses heavy television screens spewing our next nights the roads lead to nowhere and the lines lead to forgetfulness An old lady asks if she could stay for the night she brought her own cardboard the goddamn typhoon chilling her bones.

[wickedbanters]

Shuffle Dead End

You know that feeling when you're frustratingly searching for a song on your computer's library? Every intro is welcomed with a knee-jerk reaction to click on next. You turn on shuffle and continues to hate on. Why haven't you put on every song for every mood you're on? It's hard to only know what you hate and not what you love. Contemplate on going premium with that music streaming service again.

[wickedbanters]

Isang Sulat Na Hindi Kakasya Sa Isang Papel

Magsisimula sa isang kwarto maliit at masikip Tahimik at tago. Dito mabubuo ang unang mga salita Unang maibibigkas ang A E I O U mga salitang kahit ang dadalawa lamang na nakakarinig ay hindi pa naririnig sa iba. At dito magkakakorte ang mga simula at hangganan ng dalawa. Matutuwa sa dugtong at bugtong ng isa't-isa "Para kanino ba ang mga salitang ibinabato natin?" Susunod ay mga yapak sa eskinita maghahanapan sa dilim iiwas sa hindi nakikita Dito matutunan ang mga salitang magkakaparehas mag-aalangan kung ano, saan, kailan, sino, tayo hihigpit at luluwang mga salitang dinugtong kanina nahuhulog na ang mga letra may tumatawag sa magkabilang dulo ng mga eskinita Papadaanin, magpapadala, maiiwan Isang libong yapak ang sasabay sa nauna at kasabay ay mga tanong na hindi naman nanggagaling sa dalawa Ngunit ibinabato papunta o palayo sa kanila Isang pagsulat na hindi angkop sa dagat ng iba pang mga sulat ang mga sukat nito ay hindi pulido at ang mga hangganan naglalagpasan sa mga linyang ilang ulit pagsasabihan sundan at sumunod Ang mga yapak ay tatapak mabilis na mabilis lalamunin ng  mga busina at motor lumayo, lumangoy ang mga dugtong ay mawawlan pa ng mga letra sunod sunod na pangungusap na hindi natutuldukan sunod sunod na pangungusap na hindi maghihintay at hihigpit at lalayo ang mga parte nito hindi alam, walang alam hindi na nagtutugma ang mga salita ng dalawa. Sa dagat ng mga salita ay maliligaw ngunit babalik at babalik sa mga unang nabuong salita hahalik sa mga labi ng hindi nabubuong pangungusap ang mga yapak ay mamahalin ang aspalto ang lupa at kasabay ng anod ay makikita muli ang maliit na kwarto. At sa loob ay higit sa isang libong yapak ang bugtong at dugtong ay makikitang muli paulit ulit na mga letra walang mga metro at sa hampas ng alon hindi na naguguluhan kung magdidikit muli ang dalawa ang mga salita ay nasa gitna ng isang mahabang sulat na hindi lamang sila ang gumagawa

[wickedbanters]

Too cloudy to think of home.

August 3, 2014

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Waiting on a slow sunday; labas tayo nood tayo nung mga nagbabike, tumatakbo, lumalangoy.

*Cebu, Ironman thing. August 3, 2014

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Why I Bought a Pair of Running Shoes

An autobio comic about the way health scares often lead you to reprioritize your life and focus on your wellbeing.  

[wickedbanters]

Write In The Morning

They say you should write in the morning

Just before the day gets busy When the mind's still new Just before you forget the feeling of longing For the dreams you'll be forgetting replaced by the infinite screens of our world saying all you'd be needing to do today

A continuation of what you pray from 6am to 10pm To make it less hurt That we've been receiving dirt to prove to ourselves we're still human but only between 6:00-6:30

Left between sips of coffee Sometimes you'd forget what was in-between and what was life Your 7am alarm rings, you write everything else off

[romansva]

" Unreal Estate " by Tim Doyle

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Let's see what it looks like at night

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"One of these days I'm gonna get organiz-ized!"

Recently watched Taxi Driver, one title off my watch list named "Films You Should Have Watched At Film School". A recurring theme or predicament on most of these classic films, I noticed, is the unrest that society gives to the protagonists. Soft-hearted people stuck in a world that has systematized its violence and integrated it as part of civil society. And you get pretty messed up heroes. Last week I was able to watch Bicycle Thieves and saw a connection between these two though they're decades apart. Reminds me as well of the city at Bladerunner.

*Makes me wonder when did these themes become passe. The ills shown in these films are still apparent. When did the image of a harsh society become muffled up? Or everybody had gotten so much accustomed to it, that a character like Travis isn't justifiable anymore? Loonies.  

[orthelious]

Alejandro Cartagena captured Mexican workers on their way to job sites in Car Poolers. This is such an amazing and simple photo series. 

[brightwalldarkroom]

What will your verse be?

(Dead Poets Society, 1989)

[a-bittersweet-life]

[a-bittersweet-life]

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre, their idealism—and their assumption of immortality. As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in the ultimate goodness of man. But if he’s reasonably strong—and lucky—he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s élan. Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death—however mutable man may be able to make them—our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Stanley Kubrick

[goodniteowl]

You’re really good at not letting people love you.

Unknown (via tiennas)

[cinephiliabeyond]

[cinephiliabeyond]

Dear every filmmaker, read this: an utterly brilliant series of articles by Film School Rejects’ Scott Beggs called 6 Filmmaking Tips From…

Martin Scorsese

Alfred Hitchcock

David Fincher

Stanley Kubrick

Billy Wilder

Steven Spielberg

The Coen Brothers

Wes Anderson

Ridley Scott

David Cronenberg

Pixar

Nora Ephron

Aaron Sorkin

Michael Haneke

Christopher Nolan

Jon Jost

John Ford

Charlie Kaufman

Sylvester Stallone

Tony Scott

Frank Darabont

Monty Python

Werner Herzog

Paul Thomas Anderson

Joss Whedon

Rian Johnson

Wes Craven

John Carpenter

Dario Argento

The Wachowskis

Steven Soderbergh

George Lucas

Peter Jackson

Kathryn Bigelow

Quentin Tarantino

Sundance Directors

Harold Lloyd

John McTiernan

Oscar Winning Directors

Ang Lee

Danny Boyle

Harmony Korine

Dennis Hopper

Sam Raimi

Shane Black

Richard Linklater

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Guillermo del Toro

Sam Peckinpah

Akira Kurosawa

Edgar Wright

Wong Kar-Wai

Robert Altman

James Wan

Errol Morris

Ron Howard

Yasujirō Ozu

Kimberly Peirce

Steve McQueen

Andy Warhol

Roger Deakins

David O. Russell

James Gray

Terry Gilliam

Andy Serkis

Rick Baker

Alain Resnais

William Friedkin

Saul Zaentz

Woody Allen’s Manhattan

Abbas Kiarostami

Darren Aronofsky

Lars von Trier

Hayao Miyazaki

Federico Fellini

Sarah Polley

Tommy Wiseau

Brian Koppelman

Spike Lee

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[wickedbanters]

IT NEVER ENDS

[ghosts-in-the-tv]

Tetrahedral kites by Alexander Graham Bell, (1898-1912)

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A quick search for a renewed interest!