yay! zine orgy 2!

hello. this post is going to be all about the event Zine Orgy 2 (from my v limited point of view) which happened last night (May 19, 2016). i have been looking forward to this day for so long, being an exhibitor for the first time. i prepared some stuff for sale, etc.

i did the Sticker Bukkake poster! isn't it fine wine? :) i guess i should have asked if i may have this poster as remembrance... . . . thanks to Myers-Briggs-obsessed Gab for taking his picture!

thanks to Mac a.k.a Asshulz for allowing me to make a poster. and for editing it a little. (the white outlines + blue background)

my table during the night! this was taken more than halfway through the event already when there's like only two copies of Mix 66 left and Feels;21 + GOT fanart was nowhere to be seen!

right now i'm trying to come up with words to describe the event + my experience as a seller but i don't know how to write any more. all i can say is that i felt excited the whole night and am very grateful for everyone who picked up zines and stickers et cetera. the GOT fanart prints were the first to disappear. i should have prepared more prints.. . . . the stickers did well too. and my zines! Feels;21 and Mix 66! i was worried nobody's gonna find my babies interesting but my 12 copies of each actually sold out. i hope the one who got Feels appreciated the hand-drawn original covers.

i sold those black & white stickers for 15 each or 3 pieces for 30php.

here's six of like 12 covers of Feels;21. it's a zine compiling sketchbook/diary entries from 2015. 

the inside

not to be too self-congratulating but i felt generous for a lot of times and gave away a lot of stickers when i felt like it + some discounts if the customer is nice * * * not very sure if irregular unplanned giveaway shit like that are good for business but i dont care all that much i guess.
i also displayed my four copies of I'm Fine! mini zine. so surprised people were interested in that!

meanwhile these are the stuff i got from other artists. i bought some and some are acquired through art trades and some just gave me their stuff because they're kind like that. especially czae. who's already pretty and is talented it isn't fair!

best zine of the night for me is that small rectangular one with the japanese title! it has a bunch of pictures taken from japan. the print is in good quality plus the photographs were good. the worst one is the literary folio zine of UPLB writers org., (the one with the face), it just isn't very good as a whole, especially the poems. :( 

i don't know what to say anymore so here are just photos and photos and photos.
i only have pics around my table cause i hardly got up the entire time.

here's me with Gab! thanks for introducing me to #smirnoff ive never tried that shit before!

and hey i almost forgot! here's the zine i did with Magpies! NUDES and stories! it came a bit late to the party so not a lot of people saw it but man i am so proud of this piece. each of the writers worked hard in their stories!

thank u for cumming and if u werent there please go next time! it's a wonderful thing.

I'm Fine! (zine)

last night i spent my absolutely disposable time working on a little zine project.

i've always wanted to make  collage work, but quickly lose motivation because cutting and pasting and cutting and pasting paper just feels like a lot of work . i may be totally into the arts, but i am bad at all forms of handicraft! you should see my Home Eco projects from elementary school! they were a nightmare. it is all because i am used and more comfortable in doing everything quickly and haphazardly. idk.
so! anyway! i opened up a few old NatGeo magazines i have and just started cutting texture-y minimalist images and pasted them on one-fourth sheets and added a couple of drawings and here goes! the title of the ting is I'm Fine! #1. i probably shouldn't have added a number bc the chances that i'll make more volumes is not very likely.

here's a xeroxed version for distribution. i only had five copies printed. (and in very bad quality! absolutely like me as a person). this zine has 24 pages and is approx. 4 by 6 inches.

the ultimate #zine from xerox machine hell. absolutely poor quality. visited the print shop at the wrong time. . . . . #zines #drawing #illustration #collage #artph

A video posted by shin 👽 (@electromilk) on May 4, 2016 at 3:05am PDT

preview of 'Mix66'; writers' meetup; sneak peek of 'Nudes and stories'

okay so the first thing to address is that i don't know how to title blog entries! i just write details of what the post is going to be about so there's no point in reading the entry anymore! how reductive!

reductive is yesterday's word of the day. i first heard it in an old interview with Madonna when asked about being compared to Lady Gaga and she's like "i think it's reductive." and the report was like "and is that a good or bad thing?" and queen Madonna was like "i don't know. look it up." !! ha ha. Madonna is cool, i guess? and then Shaunnah (boss of Magpies collective) said "reductive" a lot last night too. i really like that word now. speaking of words, Gab asked what's one word i really dislike, and my answer is "blessed". what's one word you do not like at all?

here's a GIF preview of one of my zines, Mix66. (i said i will make a separate post about this but i realized i don't have much to say about this particular little book except that it's full of cool never-before-seen anywhere art (HOW DARE I!!!) and is absolutely life changing and you should ask me how to buy a copy like right now.)

okay. last night i met up with the writers of Magpies to discuss some work we've done for a group project we're doing. i don't want to give away much details because the thing is like only 30% done at the moment, but it's called NUDES and stories. what else could be more interesting than that! nothing! please buy that zine as well on Zine Orgy 2 happening this May.

it's been a while since i've discussed writing and storytelling and prose in general with other people so the meeting felt nice. one of two works i presented is a revision of some work i did a long time ago (2014). i am so thrilled for this project, i've never made this kind of collaborative work before and i honestly totally believe that our finished product is going to be good. all the writers involved have very original/fresh ideas. :) :) :)

see you around!

update for final week of April

hi! how are you?
i am doing pretty good (at least as long as i set my emotions and loneliness aside! :))
i have a couple of commission work to do and a new zine project which i can't say anything about yet but if i may give a hint: it has something to do with nudes!! goddamn. how thrilling.

okay
last Friday (22) i went to PRC Lucena to get my professional teachers' ID then went to SM there with Kathy and Jayson. Kathy bought us Dairy Queen shit. the latte was good.

and she just HAD to take a picture as evidence of kindness and generosity. 

when i got home at about 6 i had to get ready to go to UPLB immediately for a meeting with Magpies (group of cool kids who make zines on poetry and art i joined in) in which i discussed my zine project this month, Mix66.

i don't remember what i said about it anymore but all i know is that i'm glad they liked the concept. Mix 66 is technically just a bunch of dark grimy drawings put together under the "softcore death metal" theme, whatever that means. maybe next month i will write an entire blog entry about this.
i also showed them my stickers and donated a few to the members.

speaking of which, i did some original no-reprints stickers using Sharpies:

man!
i want to write more right now but i have a couple of things to do! there's no need to update here much anyway since i tweet everything or post it on my personal ig or the art one.

goodbye!

---

PS i almost forgot! mt.marcy made cassette tapes for his EP naked lunch! which i designed the cover in! this is so awesome!

listen to it here

review: Oh My God! I Miss You! by Yoshitomo Nara

i am in a very cheerful (despite being sweaty) mood today. as i was taking a nap my order from Book Depository has finally come. a book of 30 postcards of artworks by Yoshitomo Nara.  i ordered this as a birthday present for myself, last 28th of March.  it took about 20 days for it to come here. honestly i didn't expect it to arrive at least until May, though the site promised 10 days max for delivery.

 there is nothing to say as far as the art goes, of course. Nara-san is an angel, and if anything, 30 postcards is definitely not enough. there should be like a giant, bigger book of maybe 100 postcards, etc.

the quality of each piece is excellent. the pages are thick, just the right amount of glossiness, and at the back has some minute details of the illustration/photograph (title, date, and materials used.)

i guess stuff published by Chronicle Books are all good. . ? i have David Shrigley's Red Book and ...but i wanted a pony! by Ann Taintor and they're fantastic as well. quality and design-wise. i guess from now on i will keep my eyes peeled for books they have released.

i got this postcard book for 8.25$. now that i checked, it's only for 7.38$ (!!!) so i suggest YOU to order now if you're interested. it's a very pure and entertaining little treasure that would make a perfect present (for yourself, as in my case.)

here's a video i took:

my book of #YoshitomoNara postcards are here!!! it came while i was sleeping!!!

A video posted by shin 쉰 (@ok.milk) on Apr 17, 2016 at 10:48pm PDT

 = = =

PS do you know that the documentary Travelling with Yoshitomo Nara is out for everyone to see in YouTube? give it a watch. it's good.

sick, sad, seaside MOA experience

i should have visited this place first. when i came by here in the afternoon it was already sunset time and it was too hot and bright.

i tagged along BunBun going to SM Mall of Asia in Manila (which i HATE travelling to) cause she was attending Ozine Fest 2016, and i want to visit bookstores there, hoping to find some fine, cheap, rare artbooks in their Book Sale branch. Book Sale is the ultimate treasure store of the Philipines, if i do say so myself. there's nowhere else i'd rather spend my money on, goddammit. sadly, their BS branch wasn't all that much. there were plenty of books but mostly fucking crossword puzzles and (worse!) hardbound books on business. what a nightmare.

i got two books, however. both about **Art**, which i am SO obsessed with lately. (i have been drawing and painting since birth, but never paid attention to art books since they're expensive. not so much when you're in Book Sale, thank you very much.)

Adweek Portfolio Ilustration is a book published back in 1986 of print ad artworks. there wasn't much photography used in magazine ads and posters back then, so there were a lot of artists around. this book is cool because it's quite large and thick and it's that authentic retro shit, not one of those newly published stuff trying so hard to feel vintage-y. i'm not sure if that makes sense.

this is the other one i got,

 

Impressionism is as the title suggests, a book on first impressions. (kidding! ha ha. kill me) impressionist painters, starting with the origins of this art movement which i consider a favorite, to quite modern works, it has plenty on Manet and Monet and a bit of Van Gogh. speaking of our dear ever-unhappy artist, there were some Van Gogh books in there. i didn't buy. this book alone costed PHP550 and to me that's already a lot. probably the largest amount i ever paid for  Book Sale product.

-------

so. besides crying in stores contemplating how poor i am, and wandering around lost, i pretty much did nothing that day. i will not go on talking about how hard and painful it was, trying to get a bus to go home. the whole thing sucked, as i was with incompetent, inconsiderate people whom i wasn't well-acquainted with. (oh! i ordered coffee from Go Nuts Donuts and it was the worst! never buy coffee from that shitstore.)

journal entry whilst sitting alone at a park, around people together.

A video posted by shin 쉰 (@ok.milk) on Apr 16, 2016 at 7:59pm PDT

hello.

i am going to skip the whole self-introduction thing because if you are here it probably means you probably know me already, right?

but if you don't, and you're only idea of who i am is basically the fact that i am a fantastic the fox, young and legendary, then here's a little bit more about me:

i just screen-captured my Facebook uploads.

i am 22 years old. i graduated with a degree on teaching English to High School students. so far i have worked as a customer service representative, an English language instructor to young, beautiful Korean children, and then as an English teacher for horrible college freshmen.

but NONE of that is important; what i really am is one of the most creative, genius-y, fearless, innovative artists and forward thinkers of the century. if you know me IRL, then you know it is the absolute truth, if you don't, then i guess you're better off.

ok, here's some more screencaps, i guess. maybe this entire blog entry is going to be just screens from my other pages and shit. forgive me. i think by tomorrow i'll have something else to show.

i'd like to include some pictures from the actual life i live, and not just drawings i do, but it honestly feels like a lot of work at the moment. .. . how am i supposed to cram all that i am and have been up to for the past twenty and two years? i can't honey i can't. let's just hope i can actually update this blog regularly, for whatever's sake.

but hey, i used to have a blog before. boxuniverse, which i've been filling with memories from 2012 to 2013.

i do not know what to say anymore at this point so just wait until i get back later. i might have something in mind then.
meanwhile, here are music which i like to listen to these days;

as you can tell, i have an impeccable taste in music and like, everything else basically.

good bye.