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