atlas(t): galleon trade editiontag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-13355522008-08-04T10:04:40-07:00mapping and taxonomizing california, philippines, and mexicoTypePadthings to do in panama citytag:typepad.com,2003:post-537345122008-08-04T10:04:40-07:002008-08-26T20:12:42-07:00've been looking around since I got to Panama, but the internet has failed me: I haven't been able to find any blog posts telling me what to do in Panama City. So in the interests of public service--I is...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2008/08/things-to-do-in.htmldiablo rossotag:typepad.com,2003:post-536400122008-08-01T17:13:26-07:002008-08-26T20:16:52-07:00oday was going to be Art Day number one, the idea being that I would go to the Museum of Contemporary Art, get grounded in what's what in Panamanian Art Now, and then ask the attendants where to go for...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2008/08/diablo-rosso.htmlmy impression of panama so fartag:typepad.com,2003:post-535931802008-07-31T22:42:09-07:002008-08-26T20:14:01-07:00t's been exciting and fun-filled, but we've been literally run off our feet (today's photo download yielded a high proportion of pics of family members sitting down wherever they got the chance), so I've gotten no time to post so...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2008/07/my-impression-o.htmli'm in panama!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-533026082008-07-26T23:10:55-07:002008-08-26T20:16:48-07:00ook familiar? No, it's not a jeepney, and I didn't take the picture myself. This, above, is a pitcher of a painted Panama bus. I was wondering, before I arrived last night, if I really should post about my Panama...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2008/07/im-in-panama.htmlgalleon trade in da baytag:typepad.com,2003:post-527895502008-07-16T13:50:58-07:002008-08-26T20:13:47-07:00ust poking my head in for a second to give notice: the Galleon Trade fleet has finally arrived in San Francisco Bay! A Galleon Trade show, curated by Woff, will be included as an outlying, guest-curated adjunct to this year's...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2008/07/galleon-trade-i.htmlmy entertainment blog!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-522250242008-07-03T11:44:28-07:002008-08-26T20:13:54-07:00i all! I haven't posted here in donkey's years, although I have a couple of posts long overdue. I had an exchange between me an Christine Wong Yap ready to post and then lost it when the wireless at the...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2008/07/my-entertainmen.htmlwoff and unseen forcestag:typepad.com,2003:post-443139942008-02-17T17:13:00-08:002008-08-27T12:51:22-07:00Photo jacked from wofflings.wofflehouse.com. Yikes! I wrote this then didn't post it! Argh! I'm posting it now! hen I responded to Woff's email asking for help installing her new show, I thought I'd be grouting holes and leveling lines. Instead,...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2008/02/woff-and-unseen.htmli is a bad blogger, part fifty-threetag:typepad.com,2003:post-450857622008-02-03T18:19:22-08:002008-08-26T20:12:23-07:00o real post today, just sticking my head in to explain why I haven't posted about Woff's show yet. (Running through February 23 at Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco, so get out there!) I am currently--as in, right now,...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2008/02/i-is-a-bad-blog.htmlstephanie syjuco and body doubletag:typepad.com,2003:post-445875602008-01-24T01:05:50-08:002008-08-26T20:16:32-07:00Video stolen wholesale from www.stephaniesyjuco.com. Double-click to play. hildhood is a distant country for everyone, a place of proverbial and metaphorical nostalgia. Most of us learn in adolescence that something is not right about ourselves, and we drive those things...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2008/01/stephanie-syjuc.htmllouise nevelson is a goddesstag:typepad.com,2003:post-443204062008-01-18T13:03:00-08:002008-08-26T20:16:28-07:00Photo via Wikimedia 'm Not Interested in Abstract Sculpture (sooo not!) so I wasn't going to see the Louise Nevelson show at the De Young (nodding in appreciation? NO!) But then I interviewed Woff for a Hyphen magazine article (stay...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2008/01/louise-nevelson.htmlmike arcega and homing pidgintag:typepad.com,2003:post-441984742008-01-16T07:37:00-08:002008-08-27T12:55:24-07:00Photo swiped from www.arcega.us. t the top of the broad flight of stairs glows a row of stained glass windows, like what you'd find in the arcade of a monastery. The windows are each composed of a bright primary color,...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2008/01/mike-arcega-and.htmlnew years and artistic processestag:typepad.com,2003:post-437624162008-01-15T16:21:46-08:002008-08-26T20:13:29-07:00have a great many excuses, reasons, circumstances, 'n' such to present for being essentially non-blogging on this blog in the past few months. But the main reason is simple: depression. Not that I've been completely nonfunctional. It's been a mild...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2008/01/once-and-proces.htmlA Serving of Lovetag:typepad.com,2003:post-415753782007-11-14T18:17:11-08:002008-08-27T12:53:23-07:00ere's a brief clip from Robynn Takayama's RJ Lozada's newly released documentary, A Serving of Love, about the recently passed community leader Bill Sorro. My friend Robynn Takayama was intrinsic to the project as well. Check out the website for...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2007/11/a-serving-of-lo.htmlswear in tagalogtag:typepad.com,2003:post-404026942007-10-18T15:54:17-07:002008-08-27T12:51:54-07:00his site right here will teach you how to say bad words in Tagalog, among other things. Punyeta!clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2007/10/swear-in-tagalo.htmlphilippine history according to youtubetag:typepad.com,2003:post-401063602007-10-11T21:27:34-07:002008-08-26T20:13:25-07:00his is so awesome I want to cry. It's a typical youtube homemade video of a song describing the conflict between Magellan and Lapu Lapu. It ends with Magellan asking for a doctor and telling his mama "don't you cry."...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2007/10/the-manila-acap.htmltrader wofftag:typepad.com,2003:post-399124042007-10-08T23:30:29-07:002008-08-26T20:16:26-07:00This and other unattributed photos were stolen from www.wofflehouse.com, Woff's website. rader Woff is here to speak, speak about the Galleon Trade. Jenifer Wofford, by name, den mother, artiste, fearless leader, unspeakable admiral, grantwriter, ruffled trade, and the one to...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2007/10/trader-woff.htmljeepneystag:typepad.com,2003:post-372192242007-10-02T18:01:56-07:002008-08-26T20:13:20-07:00Jeepney! Almighty Jeepney! Everyone's symbol of the Philippines, everyone's adjective. It's impossible to explain a jeepney--you have to see one. But once you've seen one, all you need to say is "jeepney" for the full force of its symbolism--its representativeness,...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2007/10/jeepneys.htmlbill sorrotag:typepad.com,2003:post-386196832007-09-26T18:00:31-07:002008-08-26T20:16:18-07:00ne could be forgiven for thinking that I'm a bit of a pinoyphile, what with this whole Chinese-hapa-with-no-Filipino-connections-starts-a-blog-about-Filipino-stuff thing. I'm not, as it happens, a pinoyfile (pinoypile?) but I do have a special connection with Fil Am history and culture--not...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2007/09/bill-sorro.htmlleah cabullotag:typepad.com,2003:post-393948722007-09-26T00:36:05-07:002008-08-26T20:16:21-07:00Detail from Jenifer Wofford's Kandingan, 2004. oday I paid a visit to Galleon Trade captain Jenifer Wofford's home studio. More will be posted soon about La Woff, but there was one strangely lovely story that came out today that needs...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2007/09/leah-cabullo.htmlmanalo juantag:typepad.com,2003:post-372191822007-09-25T09:21:00-07:002008-08-27T12:52:38-07:00nce upon a time, before art was professionalized (insofar as people are willing to pay artists, that is to say) folks stayed at home a lot and made art themselves. Every middle class home had a piano, every working class...clairelighthttp://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast_galleon_trade/2007/09/manalo-juan.html