Halloween 2011 | Photos

Celebrated Halloween at Republiq Club last week [Saturday - October 29] wearing my Black Ninja Costume by Viktor Jeans

also at Privé and KYSS [Monday - October 31] wearing my Masked Torero Costume.

Jacket by Jeremy Scott x adidas
Mask & Pants by Viktor Jeans

Dia De Los Muertos Exhibit | Photos

Photos of Dia De Los Muertos Exhibit Opening Night at Secret Fresh Gallery, RONAC Art Center.
The Exhibition started last October 23 and will be on view until November 18, 2011.


Please Checkout my 'DEAD RED' and 'IMAGIBATION' sculptures when you visit the exhibit.

Participating artists: 


A.lien,Albert Sy, Alvin Capistrano,Alvin Zafra, Archie Geotina, Argie Bandoy, Arnold Austria, Beejay esber, Bembol dela Cruz, Bjorn calleja, Carina Santos, Chati Coronel, Christian Tamondong, Clint Catalan, Cos Zicarelli, Dave Lock, Deejae Paeste, Garapata Boy, Dexter Sy, Don Dalmacio, Edric Go, Epjey Pacheco, Frederick Sausa, Chill, Ferdz Valencia, Gail Vicente, Gani Simpliciano Genepol Martin, Gino Javier, Goldie Poblador, Heidi Franco, Hepe, Ian Jaucian, Igan D’Bayan, Ino Caluza, Jacob Lindo, Jason Tecson, Jayson Oliveria, Jed Escueta, JJ Zamoranos, Joey Cobcobo, Joseph Tecson, Jigger Cruz, JP Tria, Kat Medina, Kiko escora, Lea Lim, Luis Santos, Marc Gaba, Mark Salvatus, Marija Vicente, Marvin Tojos, Mica Cabildo, Mike Crisostomo, Nemo aguila, Rain Dial, Rolf Campos, Sam Kiyoumarsi, Tanya Villanueva, Tawnie Tantay, Tin Garcia, Tripp, Ungga, Vermont Coronel, Veronica Peralejo, Whoop, Yason Banal, and Zeus Bascon.

Secret Fresh Gallery is located at

RONAC Art Center 

Ortigas Ave., North Greenhills, San Juan, 

Metro Manila, Philippines.

Open from Mondays to Saturdays from 2-10 PM and Sundays from 1-6 PM. 

Kidrobot for Swatch Exhibit | Swatch Interactive Billboard

Kidrobot for Swatch Exhibit at the Swatch Interactive Billboard by Jagnus Design Studio.

Artist's Rendering

 Actual Exhibit

  JOE LEDBETTER

SMASH | MONO

DEATH METAL EDITION TERROR & MAGNUS

KING OF THE DEADBEATS | MONO

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF ARNOLD AUSTRIA]

 

FRANK KOZIK

8” KOZIK DUNNY

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF SECRET FRESH]

3” SERIES 5 DUNNY

3” ENDANGERED SERIES DUNNY

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF AIEE ALIBUDBUD]

GARY BASEMAN

HOTCHACHACHA

3" SERIES 4 DUNNY

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF DANNY ALIBUDBUD]

FIB DUNCES VANIMAL ZOO

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF SECRET FRESH]

 TILT

CUSTOMIZED MUNNY

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROMMEL CHUA]

TILT 3" DUNNY

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF ARNOLD AUSTRIA]

2 TILT FATCAPS

TILT SPRAY CAN

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF DJ VILLA IGNACIO]

 JEREMYVILLE

THE LOVE BUNNY PLUSH

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF SECRET FRESH]

3" ENDANGERED SERIES DUNNY

3" 2009 SERIES DUNNY

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF AIEE ALIBUDBUD]

 MAD

8"ZOMBIE ROBBER DUNNY

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF MIKO ABUEG]

3" 2009 SERIES DUNNY

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF AIEE ALIBUDBUD]

2 FLIP MAD

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF SECRET FRESH] 

 

SSUR

SSUREAL “FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE”

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF SONNY SUNGA]

 TARA MCPHERSON

THE ADVENTURES OF ACE & ION

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF SECRET FRESH]   

MAGIC LOVE HELLO KITTY

3" FATALE DUNNY

[FROM THE COLLECTION OF VANGIE ESPIRITU]

more photos after the jump.

8065 Bagnet

After our Halloween costume hunting last friday, my friends Ino and Will brought me to this small eatery called 8065 Bagnet in Estrella Street, San Antonio Village, Makati.

It's an old house turned into a restaurant with a Cafe on the second floor. 

The place offers a variety of home-cooked meals and almost everything is Bagnet based. Bagnet is a famous Filipino-Ilocano delicacy also known as Chicharon [deep fried pork's skin and meat]

Everything that we ordered is really really good, especially the crispy Kare-Kare Bagnet. [Hello Cholesterol!!]

8065 Bagnet

Complimentary Soup

Bagnet Dinuguan

[one of the best Dinuguan I've tasted!]

Kare-Kare Bagnet

Okra with Bagoong

Ensaladang Talong

Yummy Pastillas de Leche

Graffiti wall inside the restaurant

Knick knacks at the dining area

Artists' wall 

Bagnet 8065
8065 Estrella St., San Antonio Village, Makati City
Tel. No. 5081807 
Open Mon - Thu & Sat: 11am – 12mn
         Fri & Sun: 11am – 1am

Andy Warhol 'Banana' Keychain | Medicom Toy

The iconic banana is now a keychain!

In honor of Andy Warhol, Medicom Toy has released a keychain version of the artist's famous 'Banana'.

Now available at Secret Fresh.

5 colorways [yellow, pink, blue, green & chrome]

 packaging

Brogue-Sneakers | carbon

I just bought these nice brogue-sneakers from carbon. They look similar to Prada's Brogue Creeper which are always out of stock in stores.

These stylish leather shoes are a hybrid of a brogue, espadrille and a trainer.

A good find and actually a look for less since carbon's version are very affordable.  What's best about it is that they are made in the Philippines.

Available in black and tan.

Brogue Creeper I saw in a Prada store in Zurich

 
Check out Carbon Greenbelt 3 and Rockwell Power Plant Mall.

IMAGIBATION

Here is another sculpture I did for the Dia De Los Muertos Exhibition at Secret Fresh Gallery.

Half a meter in height the skull sculpture can stand alone or can be hanged on the wall.

IMAGIBATION Info Card

IMAGIBATION

[white]

Behind is the raw/unpainted IMAGIBATION wall/floor art

The Exhibition will run from October 23 to November 9, 2011

Secret Fresh Gallery is located at

RONAC Art Center 

Ortigas Ave., North Greenhills, San Juan, 

Metro Manila, Philippines. 

KAWS VERSION SNOOPY | OriginalFake

The most famous beagle reinterpreted by KAWS!

KAWS version Snoopy figure - "JOE KAWS" 

"This figure has been in the works for a long time and finally we will be releasing it next week at OriginalFake and KAWSONE." - blogged KAWS

'DEAD RED'

Secret Fresh Gallery invited a few artists to participate on their "Dia De Los Muertos" Exhibition.

Each artist was given a cast resin skull to customize.

Here's what I did with mine.

Inspired by the Great Jack Kirby, this is my take on a 'Dead' Red Skull.

'DEAD RED"

2011

Cast Resin | Air Dry Clay | Acrylic

'DEAD RED' at Secret Fresh Gallery

'DEAD RED'  Info Card

The Exhibition will run from October 23 to November 9, 2011

See more photos of 'DEAD RED' after the jump.

Dia De Los Muertos Exhibit | Secret Fresh

Secret Fresh Gallery presents: Dia De Los Muertos Exhibit

The show’s title takes off from the more festive Mexican version of our own Todos Los Santos (which is mistranslated in the vernacular as Araw ng mga Patay or as Undas). 

Their persistence in being represented in the arts or in every platform of representation in our visual culture seem symptomatic of our fascination for and for our grasping for our fleeting mortality, hence being more than symbols of death, skulls also signify the preciousness of life that we all have to hold on to as dear and celebrate it for the fullness achieved in living it. Of this existentialist exercise of pondering upon the calcic armature that supports the drapery of flesh and tissue which has been made as a yearly ritual/feast , does it ere yonder reveal our precarious hold on our mortality? We celebrate, we gorge on the deluge of tenuous emotions of sorrow and merriment, but tis the vanity or is it not we just prolong the eventuality of our inescapable end. The themes we like to portray in the pictures we like to hang on our walls seem to bespeak of such. We ponder and wonder but it’s both a miracle and an abomination. Alas, these are portraits of our very frail shells. We fill them up instead with the spirit of infinite jest. A hundred cast resin skulls lined up on a shelf each customized by various artists as diverse as their age, cosmological outlook and style flesh out this philosophical point aside from the numerous drawings, paintings, prints and other sculptural works to complement the aforementioned custom skulls. 

The participating artists are : A.lien,Albert Sy, Alvin Capistrano,Alvin Zafra, Archie Geotina, Argie Bandoy, Arnold Austria, Beejay esber, Bembol dela Cruz, Bjorn calleja, Carina Santos, Chati Coronel, Christian Tamondong, Clint Catalan, Cos Zicarelli, Dave Lock, Deejae Paeste, Garapata Boy, Dexter Sy, Don Dalmacio, Edric Go, Epjey Pacheco, Frederick Sausa, Chill, Ferdz Valencia, Gail Vicente, Gani Simpliciano Genepol Martin, Gino Javier, Goldie Poblador, Heidi Franco, Hepe, Ian Jaucian, Igan D’Bayan, Ino Caluza, Jacob Lindo, Jason Tecson, Jayson Oliveria, Jed Escueta, JJ Zamoranos, Joey Cobcobo, Joseph Tecson, Jigger Cruz, JP Tria, Kat Medina, Kiko escora, Lea Lim, Luis Santos, Marc Gaba, Mark Salvatus, Marija Vicente, Marvin Tojos, Mica Cabildo, Mike Crisostomo, Nemo aguila, Rain Dial, Rolf Campos, Sam Kiyoumarsi, Tanya Villanueva, Tawnie Tantay, Tin Garcia, Tripp, Ungga, Vermont Coronel, Veronica Peralejo, Whoop, Yason Banal, and Zeus Bascon.

Dia De Los Muertos will have its opening on October 23 Sunday at 6PM and will be on view until November 18, 2011.

Secret Fresh is at Ronac Art Center, Ortigas Avenue, Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila.

Secret Fresh is open from Mondays to Saturdays from 2-10 PM and Sundays from 1-6 PM.