You know what they say about making faces…

Komikon conducted workshops for the grade school kids of St. Jude Catholic School in Manila. The kids are smart and receptive, and one of them approached us later to thank us for teaching him how to draw.

Thanks to Ms. Aileen Bautista and the rest of St. Jude faculty for inviting us.

I got a package from my Japanese friend Makiko just now.

It contains a book called Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential - How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool, a book Chompy and I just saw online recently. How did she know?

It also contains a book called Otacool 2 - Worldwide Cosplayers and a set on pen nibs.

Thanks, Makiko! I owe you lots!

I now leave you all with Ching-Ching parked with a catbus.

Looks like somebody in Copenhagen came up with a protestnology suit that Jay Bilasko developed some years ago. Jay should protest this.

C.O.P Suit

C.O.P Suit was inspired by the COP15 climate summit. The brief was to propose solutions for, or to comment on, the ongoing climate debate – using wearable technology and design as a medium.

The C.O.P Suit is an experiment in personal protest wear, designed to address the by now almost ritualised stand-offs between police and demonstrators – what has ironically been described as the ‘folk dance of disorder’. The suit is composed of an armored protection sleeve connected to a megaphone-mounted helmet, offering protection as well as the possibility of voicing commands, orders or simply generating noise. The suit is designed as a purposefully ambiguous and (slightly) ironic artifact, echoing the fetishistic visual language of protesters and police alike – a comment on the similarity of the means each side employs.

Gamer vs. Gamer was Skycable’s gaming event last weekend in A. Venue, Makati.

When Chompy found out the Komikon booth was directly in front of a free photobooth, she thought up all sorts of abuses. We ended up having our picture taken three times.

Chompy also got excited when a local version of South Korea’s Girl Generation performed onstage, although later on she ranted about the sloppy dancing and the lack of enough members to properly execute a 7-girl dance choreography.

Thanks to Skycable for inviting Komikon to their event. See you all next Saturday during Metrocon in Megatrade Hall!