#PCN

[with-grace-and-guts]

Vance Creek Bridge {wildyouth.us}

[mkpcn2015-blog]

FAHC: Tinikling - Davis Dance Revolution 2014 Second Place - Traditional

[necrophiliacoftheday]

Undertaker from Black Butler is a pro-contact necrosexual.

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[stevensweden]

LUCIF GSF DY... PCNcrew

[mkpcn2015-blog]

Mga Kapatid's 27th Annual PCN: Ang Pinapangarap ko Teaser Trailer

[andsoju]

I wish I knew how to love myself, as well as I have loved you.

"too soon," aej

[wikara28-blog]

Ja tak bardzo ciebie kocham lecz nie moge z tobą być bo zjebałem wszystkie szanse teraz chiałbym przestać żyć

Pcn-Dla

[pcnmagazine]

A triptych of musical marvel as the Worlds Collide tour hits Glasgow

A triptych of musical marvel as the Worlds Collide tour hits Glasgow

Evanescence top off a magical night of music Evanescence and Within Temptation (and Veridia) – OVO Hydro, Glasgow – 17th November The Worlds Collide tour finally hits Glasgow after previous Covid hit attempts had failed and Evanescence / Within Temptation gets to play to an adoring Glasgow audience at last… they also brought Veridia along with them. The venue doors opened at 6 pm to…

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Michael Baliton 2nd Year Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior Major Adrian Tan/Tagabili Co-Choreographer

The character I’m playing is Adrian Tan who comes from a really big, but not-so-well-off family. His character has a lot of depth, and is very realistically human in that he is undoubtedly ambitious yet also has his share of self doubts and insecurities. His dream is to ultimately help his family earn a better living and make something of himself, and while his vision is clear he feels daunted by the challenges that lie ahead. This year’s PCN tells the story of how his character struggles to fulfill his ambitions, how he loses himself in the allure of fame, and the circumstances which derail him from his goal to support his family and feed the hands that once fed him.

This role really struck a chord with me! I've found so many parallels between Adrian’s life and mine. I think the most important similarity that I resonate with is the fact that he is so driven to make something of himself, but is sometimes disheartened by the roadblocks that stand in his way.

But more importantly, I hope we can all resonate with Adrian’s character as Pilipin@ Americans. This is ultimately our story on stage, and if you have ever felt like your own dreams seemed distant and out of reach with no clear path to getting there, hopefully you and I can learn from Adrian’s story together. From a Pilipin@ perspective, even if we don’t like the reality that we wake up to every day, we should keep dreaming and keep WORKING to realize our dreams so that we can slowly transform our dreams into our realities.

This is actually my first time acting…in anything. I feel nervous about PCN, but I feel really honored to be able to tell our story on stage. I feel like the message of this year’s PCN is what I really wanted to show the Fil-Am this year, but I feel like I had no proper outlet until I realized the capacity of this role.

So far, my favorite PCN memory was chanting the MK Chant for the first time with everyone in the courtyard during my first year. It’s such a different feeling when you’re just jumping and dancing around with the community in solidarity. I feel like it’s really brief moments like these that really give our Fil-Amily its backbone and support because in those few seconds or minutes I really feel like we can face any adversity together – and smile and laugh while we’re at it.

PCN is really our story as Pilipin@-Americans. I feel like in way or another, we can all connect with some fragment of a character’s struggle or even an entire character’s story. For me, PCN is a medium that takes important issues that affect our community and drags them out of the dark – and hopefully we can realize that we’re not facing these issues alone because we have a community that can relate to these issues with us as well. By exposing these issues, we can then face them, act on them, and hopefully change them as well. My dream is really to become a doctor one day! I feel like I have a lot of dreams, and right now, one of them is to help people realize their capacity as Pilipin@s or as members of our community. I hope that we can all realize our legacy of resilience that is inseparably intertwined with our history and use that motivation to keep chasing whatever it is that we believe is worth chasing after.

[necrophiliacoftheday]

Dr. Richard Trager from Outlast is a pro-contact necrosexual.

[requested by anon]

[bawood]

Will you be going to the Filipino night thing tonight for CSUSB? I feel like you never go to school things

It’s called Lubos Paso and yes of course! I’ve been going since I was a senior, gotta show the love! That’s about the only thing I go to for the school, well… more for the people I know.

[nathanbarrios]

Before I edited this, I hadn't been invested in a video edit for a while. But once I started working on this "hype video" for my upcoming PCN, I started getting back into the swing of things. I packed in as much creativity with as little footage as I could muster from my resources, and I'm really proud of how it came out.

Here's the breakdown:

Song is Kanye West's "I Wonder". I was listening to almost nothing but Kanye for weeks, and just got into Graduation, and this song stuck with me for its grandiosity. The sample is absolutely perfect, the pace is mellow, yet brisk.

Kanye describes the song as the hip-hop version of U2's "City of Blinding Lights", in keeping with his consistent sound of "stadium-status" hip-hop. PCN is a stadium-style form of expression: it's live, it's lively, it's in front of you, it's colorful, beautiful, and utterly inspiring.

I used the "All of the Lights (Interlude)" in the beginning to sort of stir emotions with the text. I wanted a beautiful set-up that sort of gives something for the viewer to expect (another Kanye song), but then give them something else that's similar (a different Kanye song). The piano and violin simply work for me.

I wanted to start with an almost violent crash, despite being a relatively pleasant track. The initial snare kicks off the footage--last year's Tinikling performance, a fan favorite.

My idea was to shift footage with stuff in the same category. So 2013 Tinikling (two different angles) shifts with 2012 Tinikling, other cultural dances shift with each other, acting footage shift with each other, and Infinite PASAbilities footage shift with other ones in the past few years.

Tinikling has generally been a centerpiece of PASA's PCNs, thus I gave it the middle. Acting and other dances get their corners. IP footage needed four sides because of 1) the lack of footage to make another unique sequence and 2) the consistent balance and symmetry of all the IP footage.

The goal was to show Tinikling as a cog in the machine--that behind this amazing dance is many other amazing aspects to the PCN. I wanted it to come together in the end as a video mosaic of PCN. I wanted it to cut to the beat so your eyes were constantly working and that you can't catch everything at once, so you have to watch it again and again. It's overwhelming, but so is the show.

Showing footage from the past 3-4 years meant paying homage to our PCNs' rich history. I made a trailer-style "From the Organization that Brought You" sequence near the end just to show that this is something that comes consistently every year, and that the next one is near.

The segment of "I Wonder" where the verse style changes entirely is completely moving, and thus the style of the video had to change. I had the idea that I wanted to show "the full PCN experience." That it wasn't just the show or the day of that was PCN--it was every single moment leading up to it. I was careful to save all the backstage and run-through footage for this portion.

This is the part that is most rousing, thanks to both the footage and music. Going with every lyric and beat, I cut to different bits of nostalgic footage.

For those who've never done PCN, it gives them a look into the treasured moments of refining the show. It's the small, quick instances of people laughing, practicing, relaxing, being together, having fun, that will sell people into participation.

For those who've all ready done PCN, its a heartwarming reminder of what great moments come out of preparing the show. It's pure nostalgia. It's closer shots, more intimate footage, and just as important as the actual show.

It ends abruptly. And in 2 and a half minutes. It is over all too quickly and, I must admit, I wanted to make it longer. I tried working out ways to make it longer, which verse in the song could stay in so I could add more footage. But if I wanted the video to encapsulate the PCN experience, I had to show that PCN sometimes ends all too quickly, and you're left wanting more, but can't.

The "My Song" sample consists of the repetition of Labi Siffre's lyrics "and I wonder / if you know / what it means / to find your dreams." Thematically, the PCN story this year touches on pursuing ones passions over settling with complacency.

The lyrics also work as a metaphor for discovering what PCN means to the individual participant. Mainly speaking for those unfamiliar with PCN, it hints at the feeling of "wonder." It's a feeling most would understand when I point to the example of World of Color. It's a great feeling.

I'm really happy with how it came out, considering that none of the footage was shot by me, or shot with the intent of a promotional video.

[s-n-arly]

It Sounds Familiar - Update

Registering ISBNs and requesting my PCN today.  Still on track!

[tori-36]

13 łez 13 osób za mną 26-12 chciałem się zabić MAMO! ~SPŁYNEŁY ŁZY

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It has been a week since we had our show, but take a behind the scenes look at how we made the show possible! Shout out to MK's outgoing Herstorian, Catherine Lavitoria, for this awesome video!

[necrophiliacoftheday]

Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a pro-contact necrosexual.

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