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I'm 21. I like writing, pictures, and the web. I live in the Philippines, and I love baking but don't have an oven.

mlq3:

July 4, 1946: the Republic of the Philippines becomes independent at last. Newsreel.

I can’t decide which independence day date is more appropriate, considering our history. 12 June 1898 or 4 July 1946? With the first one, we declared it ourselves but didn’t get recognition; Spain sold us to America, anyway. With the second one, we got recognition, but it seems the independence was practically given to us. America didn’t want to keep us because rebuilding the little island outpost would have cost them too much.

Hmph.

Sometimes I wonder (1) if we ever did become truly independent and (2) whether we really are all a country, considering the number of nations (Tagalog, Bisaya, Muslim, etc.) inside us.

mlq3: leflaneur: Angelus Novus (1920)Paul KleeWatercolorIsrael Museum, Jerusalem * “A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.” —Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History mlq3: leflaneur: Angelus Novus (1920)Paul KleeWatercolorIsrael Museum, Jerusalem * “A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.” —Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History

mlq3:

leflaneur:

Angelus Novus (1920)
Paul Klee
Watercolor
Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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“A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.” —Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History

mlq3:

Universal Newsreel, 1945. Starts with film of Manila in flames, and tanks clearing the Rizal Memorial.

migsambo:

Bubblicious by Rex The Dog

I think this would be my new favorite stop motion. You have to watch it. :D

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kevingreene:

(via withafunnyheart)

i hope this happens.