Jessica Zafra's Blog, page 304

Doppelganger?

Look at the recent ads of the competing telcos. Can you spot the difference? A. Of course. They're entirely different. B. Yes, the one on the left is. . .wait. The one on the right is. . .I am confused. C. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. D. The later ad is a copycat [...]

This is not a scene from Children of Men.

This is not a still from Alfonso Cuaron's bleak, glorious Children of Men. This is England yesterday. Photos in the Guardian. London's burning.

The smartest most emotionally-involving Hollywood movie of the summer

is about an ape. Doesn't seem like much of a compliment, but please take it. In a season clogged with superheroes, we pick the chimpanzee Caesar. And the best performer of blockbuster season isn't even onscreen. It's Andy Serkis, who honed his motion-capture skills as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, as Caesar [...]

Dotty

The invitation said, "Wear dots." The Swatch Interactive Billboard at Greenbelt 5 was done up in dots. The food followed the dot theme. The games involved dots. Raymond's top is dotted. Of course the Swatch has dots. My scarf has dots. I volunteered to be a walking ad for Zombadings 1: Patayin Sa Shokot Si [...]

The Weekly LitWit Challenge 6.6: Let's hear from the villains is Extended.

Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview, hero and villain of There Will Be Blood. We have no winner for LitWit Challenge 6.6 so we are extending the deadline to Sunday, 14 August 2011 at 11.59 pm. Some useful tips: 1. The title is "Let's hear it from the villains." The piece should be written from the [...]

Ay caramba! Society magazine readers will implode!

Spanish duchess gives away fortune in order to marry civil servant. She is one of the richest women in Spain, owns a dozen castles whose walls are hung with works by Goya, Velázquez and Titian and is a distant relative of King James II, Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales. Now, however, the 18th [...]

Itching, scratching, squirming

Read the case of the woman who scratched an itch through her scalp all the way to her brain by Atul Gawande in the New Yorker. Thank you Boing Boing. Itching is a most peculiar and diabolical sensation. The definition offered by the German physician Samuel Hafenreffer in 1660 has yet to be improved upon: [...]

Immigration Delay Disease

Referring to a genetic condition, not some bureaucratic aggravation. In David Fincher's Se7en the hunt for the serial killer was made difficult by the fact that he left no fingerprints. I thought I might be destined for a life of crime when I was having my biometrics recorded for an American visa and it took [...]

Tw*tter

Chus, Leo and I went to the artist Lee Paje's solo show Mater Potestatem at Tin-Aw Gallery. The exhibit features images of female archetypes—Delilah, Lilith, the Magdalene and others—painted on androgynous bust silhouettes, Edible sculptures called Sanctus Cunnus—liqueur (tapuy)-filled chocolates that the visitors can eat, and the Para Series, oil on relief sculptures done in [...]

Warning: You may become ravenous all of a sudden.

We tag along to the My City, My SM events all over the country. So far we've been to Baguio, Tarlac, Lipa, Batangas, Lucena, Naga, Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro and Davao with the hardworking marketing team of Ms Millie Dizon. My City, My SM highlights the histories and the sights of Philippine cities; now this [...]