Wednesday, May 10, 2006

One Of My Early Works + Childlike Imagination

Two of my favorite characters.
Spiderman and Doraemon spend time to play under the sun.
done with Corel Photo Paint


My brother in-law and niece.
Enjoying time together at Palakol (Pampanga) waters.
done with Photoshop Elements

Art As A Life

My Love for the Arts never stop by just spending time home composing music and doing some sketches on paper. I even enrolled: for me to learn how to paint on canvass. Western Mindanao State University (Zamboanga City) offers a one semester lecture and hands-on for Visual Arts enthusiasts. It's a Non-Formal Education, I enrolled. I learned a lot, and made some paintings on canvass. My works was left in our house in Zamboanga. And by the time working at Star Appliance Inc., computer generated imagery (CGI) was slowly introduced and used by photographers and visual artists alike. I spent most of my time to learn how to and read some materials about computer graphics. The last time i was in front of a personal computer was in college; using pascal and autocad 2DB in 1998. Whew! I have this friend who worked at one PC Store in Megamall. Mr. Francis Fantone. I asked him if he could introduce me once again to use PC as medium for music and arts, and he agreed. Since then, i explore every free tutorials and hands-on from friends to rediscover myself using new medium for new millenium.

One Of My Early Writings (lyric)

“QUESTIONS”

Music and Words : Dante R.


Since my childhood days

I always wonder about how God let it be

That there will also be bad instead of just good ones

Now it clings to me


So many questions, lost of thinking

When will I realize and understand all of these?

Can’t we be let live in a perfect world?

Why, Oh why, Oh why, Oh…


My sweet God

You know what we don’t

Send us you guiding light

Untie our blindfolded minds


Let us see through the darkness 3x


Sun slit these black clouds

My eyes, then- get wider and made me understand

We truly are, living in a world of no questions

Just our instincts falls down maybe


Why do we always seek an example

For example is not a proof

Do we need to watch in awe before Jesus

Oh hear that robber ask for penance-


(Oh! God I pray, things will soon be changed)*

Sunday, May 07, 2006

CCP Backdoor

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet...

At the bay. Tanghalang Francisco Balagtas (Folk Arts Theater).

It's a fine time Sunday. A blessed Sunday. Good thing to unwind and feel the breeze. The water though can't compare with those in our province, Occidental Mindoro. But it's good-

Filipino Heritage Walk

Tanghalang Francisco Balagtas -

After KALOOB - Filipino Heritage Walk at Folk Arts Theater. Long gone years and friends find time in each others presence. Decades of finding the real purpose of life in its existence and still, nothing much changed yet. So little time for so long years. Decade of decadence- maybe has been a part of my Youth. Look, i smiled a lot now. Distance that makes me feel alone sometimes is so melancholy: laughter, stayin' together and simply hanging around- (i don't feel no more). Nothing really compares when being around with people you knew for some time. And nothing can compare when you're in your homeland. Sentiments of being alone and alienated are all flushed away. Feel like a newborn once more. So many thoughts and ideas, dreams and longings, plans and schemes... i am much more excited now. Like a stone in a deserted land, there it lays. So many fragmented pieces, torn away from boulders, scattered. But as the wind pass thru, i am thankful that i am becoming more finer than ever and has more freedom to move along- drillö