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!

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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

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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.

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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.