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https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/spotlight/10/05/21/this-new-makati-underpass-might-be-the-citys-best

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“SMDC intends to build a condominium complex that includes a world-class, state-of-the-art theater that will be the future home for orchestras, cultural events, school recitals, and the like.”

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These were the fashion trends that ruled our lives in the 2010s

These were the fashion trends that ruled our lives in the 2010s

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In a decade defined by the rise of Instagram and the advent of the influencer, it has never been more important to pay attention to what you’re wearing. While you may not have actively sought out clothes to fit a certain style, some of the items hanging in your closet at the moment fall under the categories listed below: the fashion trends that defined the 2010s.

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Compare it to buying a sports car.  This stereo system won't devaluate at nearly the rate of the car.  No other costs like gas, insurance, and maintenance.  And it's much safer in your listening chair than behind the wheel. 

[magicalhideoutengineer]

https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/movies/04/11/22/jude-law-on-playing-a-wizard-and-returning-to-hogwarts

Q: We recently celebrated the 20th-year anniversary of the Wizarding World, and Albus Dumbledore is the only character in the films who has been there from the start. What qualities are constant and what qualities are different from the man we first met in the Harry Potter stories?

JUDE LAW: Looking at Dumbledore’s journey from beginning to end, what remains constant, I would guess, are his abilities to see the good in people, his mischievous quality, his good humor, his enjoyment of young and innocent magic, and approach to life. I think he is revitalized by the youth around him because it's sort of untarnished. But you get to see his regrets, I think, a little more earlier on. He’s still someone solving self-afflicted issues, someone who is still unpacking who he is in the world. There’s perhaps a quality of experience and wisdom that we see later on where those wrinkles have been ironed out.

Q: He always seems to be a couple of steps ahead as well, right?

JUDE LAW: I think this idea that Albus Dumbledore is always a couple of steps ahead is a position he naturally finds himself in. One thing that I found very hard playing him was playing someone who is really seeing the world and the multiple dimensions and perspectives of the world and its possible outcomes all in one, effortlessly. It’s quite a hard thing to convey. Because Albus has that ability, which I suppose isolates him slightly. It can be a place of loneliness because you see everything ahead of everyone else. So it weighs on him somewhat. I guess it’s true to say that, later on, when we see him in the Harry Potter stories, he’s also learned how to settle into that ability.

Q: What appealed to you about delving into Dumbledore’s history?

JUDE LAW: There was so much to relish in a part whose future we already know. He’s already this much-loved, admired character in folk history. To be able to go backwards and understand how he put himself together, how he worked out a young man’s issues, a young man’s problems, and understand the path he took, or didn’t take, or fought to take to get him to the man that we know he became, is a gem for an actor because you know that journey’s going to be rich. I suppose there was also something wonderful about knowing that in his heart he had strength and a goodness that he was resolving. There were so many facets to the possibilities and so many areas to mine that it was a wonderful part to accept and be a part of.

Q: This film also delves into the relationship between Dumbledore and Grindelwald. Can you expand on how what once brought them together has now turned them apart?

JUDE LAW: What brought Grindelwald and Dumbledore together at an earlier stage in their life was a like mind and a shared passion and excitement, I suppose, for what was possible with their abilities. I don’t think either had ever met a wizard who was as capable as the other. So suddenly, they were able to speak freely, think freely, and express themselves freely. Like many relationships from our past, they then changed, as we all do when we grow up, and their paths separated. The bond that they made in the blood troth was at a very specific point when they were both, let’s say, naive, ambitious, and unexperienced, and their philosophies, therefore, evolved in very different ways, into very different directions. So there’s this huge amount of regret from Dumbledore’s perspective that he has tied himself to someone who he sees now as holding a very dark perspective and creed. And yet, of course, he’s still connected to this person, and I think still holds him very dearly because of the relationship that they did share, the bond that they did share, but Grindelwald’s outlook doesn’t represent Dumbledore’s.

Q: It seems that in this film, Dumbledore is treating Newt more like an equal, giving him a position of leadership within the team. Can you talk about how their relationship has evolved?

JUDE LAW: Newt and Dumbledore’s relationship has evolved, but let’s not forget that in the first film, Newt was sent to New York on his own mission and has always been entrusted and believed in by Dumbledore. But at the same time, I guess it’s fair to say that, because Newt was a student of his, there is this teacher-pupil relationship, which you slowly see shifting to equal, but also friend. Certainly now, I think the two of them recognize a very special connection between each other and trust. For Dumbledore, I think, Newt’s incredible barometer of what is right and what is wrong and his natural tendency to choose what’s good is a really important element in his personality because obviously Dumbledore needs to know that someone isn’t going to sway, isn’t going to be misled and is, in real crunch moments, going to make the right choice. And with Newt, I think he just knows it’s implicit.

Q: And yet, he doesn’t tell him the full plan.

JUDE LAW: Well, the problem is he can’t tell him the full plan, so of course there also has to be trust. That’s something I think the two of them share. Even though Dumbledore can be infuriating because he doesn’t always explain everything, Newt trusts him enough to know that he has the overview, and he’s therefore willing, if you like, to jump out of the plane without a parachute. Not that he does that, but he would.

Q: Dumbledore assembles an interesting team to try and stop Grindelwald, including a Muggle.

JUDE LAW: Everybody who Dumbledore recruits for this is someone he has to trust will react in a certain way in a given moment because only Dumbledore really knows what is going to happen. Everyone else is sent out blind. So, he has to know that each of them will make the right choice, but in the right way. They also will have a different skill set. Jacob, the Muggle, is kind of key to the whole thing. He has a sort of willful and spontaneous personality, and, as he says to him later in the story, he also has a full heart, a heart that sort of guides him. A lot of that all boils down, again, to Dumbledore being able to trust these individuals and know that they will eventually end up where he needs them to end up in order for the plan to come together.

Q: Why does Dumbledore send Jacob a wand and what do you think it symbolizes?

JUDE LAW: Well, I suppose Dumbledore giving Jacob the wand is first of all a symbol that he belongs in this team of witches and wizards. In a way, it’s also slightly cheeky; there’s a cheeky side to Dumbledore in that he offers Jacob a false sense of security, a false sense of power, which he knows will lead Jacob in a certain direction.

Q: From Harry to Newt, and now this group… How do you think Dumbledore gets people to risk their lives, carrying out these missions?

JUDE LAW: Ultimately, his aim always is that the right, the good, the honest choices are made. So he has to hope that he attracts and has the devotion of people who are led by what is right, what is good, and what is honest. He’s also someone who doesn’t necessarily go out and say, “You must do this.” He sets it up in such a way that people feel the need to do it because they know this is good, this is right, this is honest. What’s interesting is that all these people also go on a journey in which they discover their own honest, good, true self. So it’s a personal journey that is also for the greater good, and Dumbledore somehow manages to conduct all of that, without it feeling like, “You must do this for this person.” It’s like, “You’ve got to do this for yourself; it’s the right thing.” He’s someone who just seems to be able to attract that, but he’s also someone who’s out there doing it anyway. And I would say Dumbledore is persuasive because he guides the needle in yourself to be the better you, the stronger you, and the more honest you.

Q: There’s definitely a theme of family and of brothers in this film. Can you talk about Albus’s relationship with his brother, Aberforth?

JUDE LAW: There is a strong theme of family and brothers, and all the complications that go with that. Dumbledore’s journey to the sage that he becomes in the Harry Potter films, I think, is unearthing and facing the darker shadows of his relationship with his family, the regrets. That’s very much locked up in what The Secrets of Dumbledore is about. I don’t know that, when you find him at the beginning of the Fantastic Beast series, and certainly even in this new film, he thinks he’s a very good person. I think he believes he’s a bit of a monster, really, because of things that have happened, particularly between him and his brother. There’s always love between Aberforth and Dumbledore. It’s not that it’s gone that far, this kind of crevice between them. But there’s a lot between them. First of all, you’ve got to remember that Albus, as the older brother, was this outstanding wizard from the beginning. Aberforth was always, probably, in his shadow. So there’s that, which let’s call it brotherly, fraternal jealousy, I suppose. Then added to that, Dumbledore’s decisions in his youth have really caused a wound that has affected the whole family, particularly these two brothers. The relationship with Aberforth is one of the main wrinkles, if you like, that needs ironing out in Dumbledore’s past.

Q: There is a climactic moment in the movie with Dumbledore and Credence. Can you just speak a little bit about shooting that battle with him?

JUDE LAW: First of all, what was really quite brilliant on the VFX department’s side was that they decided Dumbledore would take Credence into this sort of mirror world so that any destruction or violence that they wreak with each other doesn’t affect the Muggle world. Then on top of that, there’s this fantastic battle and I think it will be exciting for people to finally see Dumbledore in action. There was also this unusual kind of contrast between the desire to destroy from Credence and the desire to protect from Dumbledore. It makes for quite an interesting dance.

[southeastasianists]

Film professionals Carl Chavez, Alemberg Ang, Mackie Galvez, and Camille Aragona recently came up with an idea to help their industry colleagues. Called Lockdown Cinema, the group is asking movie lovers to watch all they want, and give all they can.

Lockdown Cinema reached out to filmmakers in the country and across Southeast Asia to make their short films available to the public to raise awareness for this initiatives and for the plight of these challenged workers. The group will provide the links to where these films can be watched as well as the venues by which viewers can donate.

So far, there have been two separate volumes of this initiative.

Volume 1 has works by Antoinette Jadaone (Plano), Dodo Dayao (If You Leave), Giancarlo Abrahan (May Dinadala), Gino Santos (Labing Dalawa), and Kiri Dalena (Gikan sa Ngitngit ng Kinailadman) mixed in with those by Thailand’s Nontawat Numbenchapol (Gaze and Hear) and Malaysia’s Bradley Liew (Describe The Color Red To A Blind Man).

Volume 2 has even more works by our regional neighbors including Cambodia’s Polen Ly (Colorful Knots), Indonesia’s Adi Marsono (Fatimah), and Singapore’s Nelson Yeo (Five Trees) along with works from Filipinos Lav Diaz (Ang Araw Bago Ang Wakas), Erik Matti (Vesuvius), Jerold Tarog (Faculty), Quark Henares (Child Star), Samantha Lee (Agos), and a lot more.

[mcreodica]

     Mariah Reodica is a filmmaker, writer, media archivist, and musician based in Manila, Philippines. Her background as a musician--not formally trained, but ouido,--reflects in her practices of filmmaking and writing. Her works tackle narrative-making in oblique yet intuitive manners. She is currently a lecturer at the University of the Philippines Film Institute and the De La Salle-College of St. Benilde.

     She was awarded the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism at the 2019 Ateneo Art Awards, and currently maintains the column Platforms in The Philippine Star’s Arts and Culture section. Her writing has appeared in Perro Berde, hcmf// (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival), CNN Life Philippines, ANCX, and other publications.

      Eerie (2019), a feature-length film she co-wrote with award-winning director Mikhail Red, won the National Asian Fantastic Films Award at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival 2017. Her works have been shown or performed in Bangkok Biennale 2018; Manila Biennale 2018; the Asia Culture Center, Gwangju; and the Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video, and Music Festival 2018, among others. She graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Arts in film, cum laude, and also studied at Chuo University, Tokyo.

       She is also a guitarist and composer for a number independent music projects, from fuzz rock to primitive Americana. Her band The Buildings released their second album Heaven is a Long Exhale on Japanese label Call and Response Records, and has been featured in NME Asia.

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Interviews

The Buildings: “At the end of the day we’re making music we like, which has always been our north star”. NME Asia, 2021.

AE x Goethe-Institut Critical Writing Micro-Residency: Meet the Writers. ArtsEquator, 2021.

[worlddaily]

These were the fashion trends that ruled our lives in the 2010s

These were the fashion trends that ruled our lives in the 2010s

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In a decade defined by the rise of Instagram and the advent of the influencer, it has never been more important to pay attention to what you’re wearing. While you may not have actively sought out clothes to fit a certain style, some of the items hanging in your closet at the moment fall under the categories listed below: the fashion trends that defined the 2010s.

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(Nasdaq:ANCX) Access National Corporation Dips To New 52 Week Low

(Nasdaq:ANCX) Access National Corporation Dips To New 52 Week Low

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December 17th, 2018 Access National Corporation neither rose nor fell during ‘s trading, but stayed put at $22.45. As well as the drop in value, Access National Corporation hit a new 52 week low of $22.01. (more…)

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Capitol Theater

Pre-war Manila was a city of entertainment, its streets lined with nightclubs, cabarets, theaters, cinemas, and social clubs. The city had so much theaters that some were built right in front or beside each other. So, along the stretch of the beautiful Escolta is a first-class theater that many members of the alta sociedad prefer, which is the Capitol Theater.

The Capitol Theater sits on prime land at the western side of the Escolta, once the country's premier business and shopping area north of the Pasig River. The Capitol Theater is one of the city's many cinema theaters, but not the Escolta's only cinema as its rival (later sister) theater Lyric is only two buildings away from the Capitol.

Photograph by Joel Vivero Rico

The Capitol Theater was built in 1935, and a masterpiece of National Artist Juan F. Nakpil de Jesús, who also designed the Pérez Samanillo Building together with the great Andrés Luna de San Pedro. It was designed and built in the art-deco style of architecture, an architectural style that was prevalent in the 1920s and 1930s. The Capitol had a total of eight hundred seats, and one of Manila's air-conditioned theaters. One interesting feature of the Capitol was its design. Inside the theater, Nakpil made use of double balconies, which was then a rare architectural design. Its lobby adorned murals designed by the triumvirate composed of Filipino modernists Victorio C. Edades, Carlos V. Francisco, and Galo B. Ocampo. According to documents, Nakpil originally commissioned Edades to work on the mural. Edades then chose 'Botong' Francisco to be his assistant, who then brought with him Ocampo. The three had just returned from the United States and hoped to change the Philippine art scene long dominated by the masters Fernando Amorsolo and Guillermo Tolentino.

Ramos,B. The Ruins of the Capitol Theater Post-WWII occupied by thr Silver Slipper Club, a nightspot catering mostly to U.S. servicemen. Retrieved from https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/spotlight/03/31/19/goodbye-to-capitol-escolta-is-losing-another-significant-heritage-building

There are other interesting things about the Capitol Theater. Its façade has two bas-relief sculptures designed by Italian sculptor and expatriate Francesco Riccardo Monti. Monti's other works also include the bas-relief sculpture called 'Furies' at the old Meralco (then Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company, now the Manila Electric Company) Building along Calle San Marcelino, sculptures atop University of Santo Tomás' main building, and the sculptures at the Quezón Memorial in Quezón City.

The Japanese occupation came about in 1942, with the defeat of the combined Filipino and American forces in Corregidor. During the war years, the Escolta still continued to be the center of gravity in the city. Since most theaters in the city featured American films before the war, they were banned from being showed by the Japanese High Command. The Capitol instead showed local films, live production acts, and Japanese propaganda tools. It has been said that Fernando Poe Sr. was a film producer in the Capitol during the Japanese occupation.

Recently, the Capitol's interior has been abandoned, leaving only its façade. Several small business establishments and a restaurant used to operate inside. As for the line of the building it is strong lines and soft curves outline the pleats of the gowns worn by the muses.For the texture, fascinated with the texture on the side of this Art-deco building demolition, it's like looking at the innards of a huge old fossil.The shapes on this building was made of organic shapes because the building was made of free formed and also a geometric shape because some structures are precise.The form of the building is 3D because it is an actual building and you can touch it. Color, the color of the building has faded that’s why the color that you can only see in the building was color white and some dark color.Value, the value of the building is now white and dark because of the structure of the building now.Space, positive space because the building was filled of different interiors. Composition, a building that is made of both of the vertical surfaces have low-relief figures depicting two Filipina muses which are portrayed wearing native dress or 'traje de mestizas' and local fauna which include carabao head. This was done by Francesco Riccardo Monti.

There are initiatives done to preserve the historic Escolta. The Escolta Commercial Association is an organization composed of owners of business establishments along the Escolta. Also, another intiative called 'Hola Escolta' was made in 2012 which seeks the revitalization of the Escolta.

Rubío, P., Rubío, P. and profile, V. (2019). Capitol Theater. [online] Arquitecturamanila.blogspot.com. Available at: http://arquitecturamanila.blogspot.com/2014/03/capitol-theater.html [Accessed 2 Dec. 2019].

Rom, Khyla | Sangilan, Steffanie B.

[d-criss-news]

On January 7, 2019 (Manila Time), Filipino-American actor Darren Criss made headlines when he won the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television at the 76th Golden Globe Awards.

His astounding portrayal of the serial killer Andrew Cunanan in the drama anthology The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story made him the first-ever Filipino-American to bag the award. The San-Francisco-born actor-singer bested movie hotshots such as Antonio Banderas, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Hugh Grant. (FYI: In September 2018, he became the first Filipino-American to win an Emmy for the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, also for the same role.)

So before anyone goes on to pounce on that keyboard to make jokes—or memes—about how we always claim the “Filipino-ness” or “Filipina-ness” of someone who is on the spotlight, even if he or she has but a drop of Filipino blood running through their veins, Darren himself already made it clear. In his acceptance speech for the Globes, the actor-singer proudly spoke about how his Filipina mother from Cebu City, Cerina, was “hugely responsible” for his success.

“This has been a marvelous year for representation in Hollywood, and I am so enormously proud to be a teeny tiny part of that as the son of a firecracker Filipino woman from Cebu that dreamed of coming to this country and getting to be invited to cool parties like this,” he said while clutching the Globes statue. “So Mom, I know you’re watching this. You are hugely responsible for most of the good things in my life. I love you dearly. I dedicate this to you. Congratulations to all of you. This is totally awesome.” 

We can definitely get habituated to these moments where people of prominence and great achievement make wagayway our watawat, albeit not literally. But in case anyone needs more proof that Darren’s win qualifies as a true #pinoypride moment, we give you The Filipino-ness of Darren Criss.

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