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		<title>Annual Report &#8211; Splash Philippines</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PROJECT: Interviews, Research and Copywriting Splash Corporation&#8217;s Annual Report for 2010 Design and Layout: JimenezBasic COVER &#124; THE WORLD TRANSFORMED: A Beautiful Change Coming &#160; PHILIPPINE OPERATIONS HEADLINE &#124; PROGRESS ROOTED IN THE CENTER &#160; There comes a time in every great organization’s history when challenges are encountered and in Splash Corporation’s case, used as a springboard towards incredible progress. In 2010, Philippine Operations charged through towards a new era of excellence and profitability fueled by sustainable innovation and strategic risk-taking, marks of an unmatched entrepreneurial spirit. &#160; Splash Corporation is a Filipino corporation first and foremost so though expansion into  multiple foreign markets and into alternative modes of distribution are definite highlights, Philippine Operations remains the formidable driving force. In 2010, both tangible and intangible indicators have emphasized that Splash Corporation gained a status of maturity. With a certainty of vision, the Chairman has put together a team, outlined a strategy and executed it proclaiming a company that is flourishing from a year of challenges. The result,  Splash Corporation has written for itself an epic of transformation—one that is still unfolding. &#160; With 2010 ushering a new government—one led by a beacon of a historical revolution—consumer confidence grew contributing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PROJECT: Interviews, Research and Copywriting Splash Corporation&#8217;s Annual Report for 2010</p>
<p><span id="more-159"></span>Design and Layout: JimenezBasic</p>
<p><a href="http://weeatourfeelings.com/2011/09/arsplash/splash1/" rel="attachment wp-att-161"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-161" title="splash1" src="http://weeatourfeelings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/splash1.jpg" alt="" width="420" height="600" /></a><a href="http://weeatourfeelings.com/2011/09/arsplash/splash2/" rel="attachment wp-att-160"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-160" title="splash2" src="http://weeatourfeelings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/splash2.jpg" alt="" width="420" height="600" /></a></p>
<p>COVER | THE WORLD TRANSFORMED: A Beautiful Change Coming</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>PHILIPPINE OPERATIONS</p>
<p>HEADLINE | PROGRESS ROOTED IN THE CENTER</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>There comes a time in every great organization’s history when challenges are encountered and in Splash Corporation’s case, used as a springboard towards incredible progress. In 2010, Philippine Operations charged through towards a new era of excellence and profitability fueled by sustainable innovation and strategic risk-taking, marks of an unmatched entrepreneurial spirit.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Splash Corporation is a Filipino corporation first and foremost so though expansion into  multiple foreign markets and into alternative modes of distribution are definite highlights, Philippine Operations remains the formidable driving force. In 2010, both tangible and intangible indicators have emphasized that Splash Corporation gained a status of maturity. With a certainty of vision, the Chairman has put together a team, outlined a strategy and executed it proclaiming a company that is flourishing from a year of challenges. The result,  Splash Corporation has written for itself an epic of transformation—one that is still unfolding.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>With 2010 ushering a new government—one led by a beacon of a historical revolution—consumer confidence grew contributing to the growth of the personal industry. By aggressively promoting its core brands and unveiling numerous new brands, Splash Corporation maximized this unprecedented momentum. Distribution also grew from 13,000 to 22,000 stores in 2010. Enhancing the mix of products and their strategic availability resulted in a 3% increase of net revenues. This is only the beginning.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Founded upon a strong sense of discipline and aided by a sense of accountability, Philippine Operations has proven to be the steadfast player within the company ensuring that Splash Corporation stays a market leader in an industry teeming with new competition, especially since Splash Corporation transformed the personal care industry and its end-consumers. By making quality products accessible and affordable, consumer behavior was changed, expectations were raised. A true pioneer in the skin whitening industry, the Company secured the evolution of a niche category of 3 players to a broad-based category of 50 brands across different formats. The same goes for the exfoliant industry. Extraderm and Maxi-peel opened the mass consciousness to the benefits of regular exfoliation and in effect, cultivated extreme loyalty reflected in numerous personal endorsements. These lasting changes in personal care are borne of a keen appreciation of market intricacies and a boldness innate to the entrepreneur. Both traits testify to a prioritization of technological development. For example, it is cutting-edge advancements of the Splash Research Institute that make Vitresse Cuticle Coat, a hair product that provides consistent shine and manageability, unmatched by international and more expensive brands.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In addition, a mindfulness of processes and singularity in purpose have served to be fertile grounds for strategic and progressive ventures. The year 2010 was one that illustrated how a smart mix of the old and the new is sure to reap rewards. Namely in terms of management, the injection of fresh ideas and managing styles rejuvenated an existing enduring base of experience. With processes well-documented and a mission vision clearly declared, the new team was able to integrate into the community with ease without question on function. Along with a rejuvenated engagement with key suppliers, the foundation laid in 2010 resulted in a 25% jump of gross profits from 2009. But most importantly, this transformation was collaborative led by a Chairman whose trust in his people and their partners instilled a genuine sense of involvement.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Splash Corporation has always carved out its own market making the next years definitely ones to watch. Major thrusts in the new year include continued outlet expansion and the introduction of new products and brands including the premium Skin Medix line. With a major capital expenditure going towards the expansion and development of the plants and the supply chain division, a significant reduction of cost of goods sold is also expected. Philippine Operations confidently presses on its chosen path towards unprecedented progress.</p>
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		<title>Brochure &#8211; Institute of Culinary Arts and Food Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PROJECT: Brochure for Institute of Culinary Arts and Food Service as part of the creation of a brand identity TEAM: B+C Design An institute with the food and beverage industry in mind run by the Pancake House Group with Far Eastern University. The logo determined the tone and the design directions of the communication materials—a contemporary, geometric design rendered in bright colors. HEADLINE: Make your move. SUBHEADING: You brought the heat, now get into the kitchen and the dining hall! BODY COPY: Here&#8217;s the best thing to learn—your future really does begin with you. The spark of ambition, the flash of a dream. You are everything you need to succeed. The drive to evolve is right at your fingertips. Time to seize the day and get your hands dirty. At the Institute of Culinary Arts and Food Service (ICF,) a passion for food and service fuels a dedication to excellence. We transform spirited and committed individuals into accomplished and professional chefs and food service practitioners through eclectic and hands-on learning experiences. This is our way of engaging with society—A Beter Kitchen, A Better World. HEADLINE: Build it Up SUBHEADING: Essentials of the Institute of Culinary Arts and Food Service COPY: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PROJECT: Brochure for Institute of Culinary Arts and Food Service as part of the creation of a brand identity</p>
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<p>TEAM: B+C Design</p>
<p>An institute with the food and beverage industry in mind run by the Pancake House Group with Far Eastern University.</p>
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<p>The logo determined the tone and the design directions of the communication materials—a contemporary, geometric design rendered in bright colors.</p>
<p><a href="http://weeatourfeelings.com/?attachment_id=143"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-143" title="icfp1" src="http://weeatourfeelings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/icfp1-1024x387.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="387" /></a></p>
<p>HEADLINE: Make your move.<br />
SUBHEADING: You brought the heat, now get into the kitchen and the dining hall!</p>
<p>BODY COPY:<br />
Here&#8217;s the best thing to learn—your future really does begin with you. The spark of ambition, the flash of a dream. You are everything you need to succeed. The drive to evolve is right at your fingertips. Time to seize the day and get your hands dirty.</p>
<p>At the Institute of Culinary Arts and Food Service (ICF,) a passion for food and service fuels a dedication to excellence. We transform spirited and committed individuals into accomplished and professional chefs and food service practitioners through eclectic and hands-on learning experiences. This is our way of engaging with society—A Beter Kitchen, A Better World.</p>
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<p>HEADLINE: Build it Up</p>
<p>SUBHEADING: Essentials of the Institute of Culinary Arts and Food Service</p>
<p>COPY: At the Institute of Culinary Arts and Food service, you live your education. It is not only learning how to put good food on the table but actively changing the world beyond the kitchen. What better way is there to touch people&#8217;s lives but through stomachs?</p>
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		<title>Review on Pulse.ph</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[originally published on pulse.ph August 18, 2010 Listen: Johnoy and Kakoy, &#8220;Pagtatapat,&#8221; and &#8220;Will I Ever Waltz?&#8221; (Click through to see pictures and listen to the songs reviewed.) Perhaps because they came to me almost-bootleg, I initially viewed the songs of Kakoy &#38; Johnoy (Johnoy &#38; Kakoy) as objects of utter sincerity. This, after all, is how exactly love songs should be shared: either from that high school love who still thinks that mix tapes are cool, or, really, from a sibling gushing (like a head wound). You can approach this method of music acquisition in the same vein as the dying art of the love letter, or just holding someone’s hand without the fireworks, or the self-reflexive, ironic,wink-wink moment that most people think love is all about, or even grand cinematic spectacle (perhaps with the music swelling). The jaunty strumming that introduces “Pagtatapat” tells you that you’re in for a good story. And it is one with which most people are familiar. The seemingly belated entry of the voice cues you into the excited and nervous energy that powers the song: yes, the persona is in love, madly in love, and he’s mustering up the courage (with each guitar [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>originally published on<a href="http://www.pulse.ph/posts/listen-johnoy-and-kakoy/"> pulse.ph</a> August 18, 2010</p>
<p><strong>Listen: Johnoy and Kakoy, &#8220;Pagtatapat,&#8221; and &#8220;Will I Ever Waltz?&#8221; </strong></p>
<p><span id="more-53"></span>(Click <a href="http://www.pulse.ph/posts/listen-johnoy-and-kakoy/" target="_blank">through</a> to see pictures and listen to the songs reviewed.)</p>
<p>Perhaps because they came to me almost-bootleg, I initially viewed the songs of Kakoy &amp; Johnoy (Johnoy &amp; Kakoy) as objects of utter sincerity. This, after all, is how exactly love songs should be shared: either from that high school love who still thinks that mix tapes are cool, or, really, from a sibling gushing (like a head wound). You can approach this method of music acquisition in the same vein as the dying art of the love letter, or just holding someone’s hand without the fireworks, or the self-reflexive, ironic,<em>wink-wink</em> moment that most people think love is all about, or even grand cinematic spectacle (perhaps with the music swelling).</p>
<p>The jaunty strumming that introduces “Pagtatapat” tells you that you’re in for a good story. And it is one with which most people are familiar. The seemingly belated entry of the voice cues you into the excited and nervous energy that powers the song: yes, the persona is in love, madly in love, and he’s mustering up the courage (with each guitar strum) to finally say so. With the earnestness of an old black-and-white Mickey Mouse flick, the narrative portrays scene after scene of hesitation (“<em>nagsasalita sa harap ng salamin”</em>)<em> </em>and textbook juvenile anxiety (“<em>natutunaw sa lagkit ng kanyang tinig”</em>). And, along with these, the arrangement helps build the tension, slowly shifting from jangly ragtime rhythms to drawn-out notes and harmonies that sound as though pleading for love to be returned, and also syncopated by the clarinet’s distractions, as though the clarinet itself were overwhelmed by the possibilities of how it could just be so sweet.</p>
<p>In reality, however, it is not the actual revelation in the narrative that serves as the climax, when the music actually <em>does</em> swell; it is the pleading of the persona to be rid of misery (<em>“Ayoko nang umasa pa./Kung ayaw mo sa akin,/sabihin mo na”</em>). It is as if our ardent suitor sees the reality in front of him, and it is, sadly, <em>not</em> couple-dom. He then comforts himself with the thought of <em>at least</em> having professed love, over and over, knowing that perhaps only the gods’ favor will give him his heart’s desire. And then the voice gives way because only music could fill that uncertainty of waiting for someone to say yes.</p>
<p>I can only imagine how “Pagtatapat” would be performed in settings where it could be prefaced with <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pelicola.tv%2Fchannels%2Fepisode_aatw.asp%3Fvideo_id%3D54&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNHnVIknxa-uJJ4VU2YEgwClBNW3aw">the actual story</a>, but without that, I’ll take my cues from the song and its vaudevillian shades. You can just hear the silent laugh track, because unrequited love is funny, sad, and unrelenting—at least until the giant hook pulls you off the rickety wooden stage.</p>
<p>Now, “Will I Ever Waltz”<em> </em>is from the same ilk, and it’s about how love changes in the rocky terrain of uncertainty now at the story’s denouement (do we not all have <em>one</em> love story after all?). This song is tinged with simple and poignant lyricism, and even <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poetryfoundation.org%2Fjournal%2Farticle.html%3Fid%3D177207&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNEZlg_cjugKEjT0mq-s4ljh-vWAEg">lyric in the poetic sense</a>, a plea to an unnamed you. It is wry without bearing the coarse irony that a lot of self-conscious indie musicians wield like baby <em>balisongs</em>.</p>
<p>Apart from the furtive plucking that informs much of the song, the easy label of “sentimental folksy ditty” is obliterated by the plainspoken nature of the song’s lyrics (as well as its certain and masterful turns of musical phrase.) Yes, it is lyric and heartbreakingly confessional but without annoying, cloying solipsism. You know that somehow, the voice (or the persona) is singing alone, working out in his head what comes next before he answers an inevitable question. There is an infinite stretch of time that comes before cleaving (yes, to <em>cleave</em> as both “to separate” and “to hold fast faithfully”), and when a song can give you that much space in your head, then you know it is utterance, a strong and honest utterance of such fragile uncertainty. The dramatic situation of a lover trying to discern uncertain fidelity or certain separation is told in recognizable clichés (this is a love song after all). But the surprising use of such idioms (<em>“No comic relief in this novel romance”</em>) gives you critical leeway, as great songs do, to say that this is your song as well as it is his.</p>
<p>Wishing that I had more language and sense to speak of the music so eloquently, all I can say is that the music itself is lyrical. It moves as certain and as uncertainly as the lyrics do—as if in disbelief to find that the notes that do come, fit with what came before it and what came before that. Because this is what great songs must do: give you a parenthesis of coherence in a time where incongruity is default. And when words give way to the unsayable? Yes, there are no words but lo, there is song.</p>
<p>Is it kosher to say that folk is graceful? Because that is exactly what it is. It is this same artful dissonance that resonates in the title—though the use of the word waltz may refer to the song’s structure—it is also a conjecture into the nature of love. Both songs are.</p>
<p>And until we all finally “<em>secure this insecure love of yours”</em> then by Bathala, there should be music. And please, please, please, God, let it be from them.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PROJECT: Video on Biodiversity for an Exhibit at the National Academy of Science and Technology This introduction set the tone of two videos, biodiversity as an intimate connection to everything else in the universe and how sustainability is the only response to our survival. TEAM: Marcus Phoenix Media Productions It’s simple, really. We’re all in this together. The planet, every animal, every plant, every insect, every single living thing, us—we’re all linked.It’s called biodiversity. And for such a big word, it really just means that we’re all in this together. And everything that we do affects every living thing on the planet. It makes you want you to rethink what you’ve been doing everyday, doesn’t it? &#8212; Let’s break that down further, biodiversity is the collection of all the genes, species and environments on the region. It talks about the variety, how many different kinds of genes, species or ecosystems there in the planet, as well as how interconnected all this is. And the more biologically diverse a region, the greater chances it has to survive and thrive. &#8212; That must sound like an incredibly large idea. Let’s try something smaller to stretch your brain out. Bees in a garden. We all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PROJECT: Video on Biodiversity for an Exhibit at the <a title="National Academy of the Science and Technology Philippines" href="http://www.nast.ph/" target="_blank">National Academy of Science and Technology</a></p>
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<p>This introduction set the tone of two videos, biodiversity as an intimate connection to everything else in the universe and how sustainability is the only response to our survival.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">TEAM: <a href="http://www.marcusphoenix.com">Marcus Phoenix Media Productions</a></span></p>
<div><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s simple, really. We’re all in this together. The planet, every animal, every plant, every insect, every single living thing, us—we’re all linked.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s called biodiversity. And for such a big word, it really just means that we’re all in this together. And everything that we do affects every living thing on the planet. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It makes you want you to rethink what you’ve been doing everyday, doesn’t it?</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">&#8212;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let’s break that down further, biodiversity is the collection of all the genes, species and environments on the region. It talks about the variety, how many different kinds of genes, species or ecosystems there in the planet, as well as how interconnected all this is. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And the more biologically diverse a region, the greater chances it has to survive and thrive.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">&#8212;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That must sound like an incredibly large idea. Let’s try something smaller to stretch your brain out.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bees in a garden. We all know how bees buzz around going from flower to flower collecting honey to bring back to the hive, but haven’t you wondered why the flowers have honey in the first place?</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you were thinking that like their beautiful colors or their lovely scents, the flowers were using honey to attract insects like the bees most especially, then you’re right. But why?</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Flowers, for their seeds to be stronger, require pollen from different flowers. And since flowers don’t really walk, unless in Disney movies, the flowers offer the bees honey and they get the pollen that the bees bring with them from all the other flowers they’ve visited in the garden.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">&#8212;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">This is where biodiversity and another big idea, evolution meet. Charles Darwin, the man who wrote The Origin of the Species and stated the controversial statement that apes and humans have a shared ancestry</span><!--  --><span style="color: #000000;">,, predicted (with the help of hours and hours of observation and research) that the bees and flowers were changing to adjust to each other. Like they were in one evolutionary race, except that the prize was actually their relationship with each other. Everyone turns out to be a winner. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bees get their honey (from different flowers), and bring the flowers the pollen from all the other flowers in the garden, spreading around genes. So the next generation of flowers will be stronger and more resistant to disease because their genetic make-up has different sources. Variety really is the answer.</span></span></span></p>
<p>&#8212;</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But now to let’s zoom out a bit. We know how important bees are to flowers. But Charles Darwin pointed out that cats are just as important through the stories of a friend, Colonel Newman who cared for bees or humblebees as they were once called.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You see, the number of bees in an area was dependent on the size of the population of mice, because </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">hese mice destroyed the beehives. But if there were more cats, which we all know would lessen the number of mice, then there would be more hives which of course, means more bees. And with more bees, more flowers.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So you could say that the number of cats would determine how many flowers there would be in a certain area.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You see how such diverse creatures as cats, mice, bees and flowers are connected?</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">&#8212;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But what does that mean to us, human beings?</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What we don’t realize is that we rely on so many other species to keep us alive, make sure that the water is clean, the temperature suitable for us but most importantly we depend on everyone else for food, clothing, shelter and medicine.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">&#8212;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So though we can say that we’re saving the whales, chimps or eagles because they deserve to live, we’re also saving ourselves.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s easy for people to forget just how dependent we are on the environment.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">&#8212;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Look at how human lives have changed.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We’ve gone from foraging and hunting for food to settling down by a body of water to plant and breed our food. And now, we’ve gathered into big cities and rely on select groups of people to produce food for us.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nature has always had time to recover from what we have taken of her, to catch up with our consumption, but now at the rate we’re going, we’ve put a strain on the resources available to us.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">&#8212;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And since the world functions through a delicate balance, it is our responsibility to set everything right. Not only for Mother Nature’s sake, but for ours as well.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let’s not forget, we are part of the biodiversity.</span></span></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[[As part of a proposal towards a documentary of the Comfort Woman, and in turn the Filipino woman. To frame them as significant bearers of culture, not as victims of colonial and wartime oppression, but as creators of the Philippine story.] Perhaps due to their advancing age when they finally told their story in public and part of an effort to reclaim a part of themselves, Lola is what the Philippine comfort women chose to refer to themselves. The Filipino word for grandmother, Lola bears with it many connotations—the nurturing aspect of a doting grandmother, a source of wisdom and stories, even a powerful matriarch. When put within the context of the comfort woman issue, the term takes an even more empowering aspect—each Lola telling her story of loss and violence becomes a community elder—a keeper of a special truth, one of survival and transcendence. The term comfort woman is a translation of the Japanese euphemism, jugun ianfu[…]categorically refers to women of various ethnic and national backgrounds and social circumstances who became sexual laborers for the Japanese troops before and during the Second World War. […]The estimate ranges between 80,000 and 200,000, about 80 % of whom, it is believed, were Korean. Japanese women and women [...]]]></description>
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<p>Perhaps due to their advancing age when they finally told their story in public and part of an effort to reclaim a part of themselves, <em>Lola</em> is what the Philippine comfort women chose to refer to themselves. The Filipino word for grandmother, <em>Lola</em> bears with it many connotations—the nurturing aspect of a doting grandmother, a source of wisdom and stories, even a powerful matriarch. When put within the context of the comfort woman issue, the term takes an even more empowering aspect—each <em>Lola</em> telling her story of loss and violence becomes a community elder—a keeper of a special truth, one of survival and transcendence.</p>
<p>The term <strong>comfort woman</strong> is a translation of the Japanese euphemism, <em>jugun ianfu</em>[…]categorically refers to women of various ethnic and national backgrounds and social circumstances who became sexual laborers for the Japanese troops before and during the Second World War. […]The estimate ranges between 80,000 and 200,000, about 80 % of whom, it is believed, were Korean. Japanese women and women of other occupied territories (such as Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma and the Pacific islands) were also used as comfort women.</p>
<p>The comfort women were allegedly part of a system for the Japanese soldiers, to boost their morale in the provision of recreational sex. It was also believed to be a way of avoiding random acts of violence against women during wartime. Except current thinking has taken wartime rape, and other instances of violence against women and children a strategic tool of degradation. According to “Armies at War Use Rape as Weapon,” the invasion of women’s bodies is another consequence of the masculine privilege that extends from warfare, but instead of death, it leaves behind a permanent legacy of suffering and a sense of failure long after the battlefields have quieted.</p>
<p>This perspective of the violence against women during times of war was not prevalent when the Lola’s first went public in 1994, not even when the first Korean comfort women (Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan) came out and filed suit against the Japanese government in 1991. The reaction of the Japanese was to point to the 1965 treaty that expressed the country’s regret regarding aggression during the Second World War as a means of dismissing these women’s stories. Except it took the efforts of an article published in a Japanese major daily in 1992 for the Japanese to first apologize. When then Prime Minister Miyazawa KiichIapologized, the matter of compensation was left in the air for the sake of waiting for fact-finding committees to be set up in both Japan and Korea. Criticism was harsh even by the women journalists of Japan, seeing the “comfort system as a necessary evil to be adopted in war zone to avoid harm to local women.” The three reports (Japanese, South Korean and North Korean) were contradicting as the Japanese government’s reports did not include evidence that the women were coerced as was evident in the Korean Council’s two reports. Until the Japanese government admitted to the coercion in August 1993.</p>
<p>The issues of an apology, compensation and even the mere mention of this event in Japanese textbooks have been highly contested and unfortunately, still unresolved. Though the Japanese government has expressed remorse over the categorical wartime atrocities, the issue specific to the use of women in military camps has been more problematic. The Asia Women’s Fund was established in 1995 as a way to dispense monetary reparations yet many human rights and women’s groups have found this effort as suspect since it is not compounded by a categorical admission to such atrocities especially in Japan itself.</p>
<p>In 1992, Lola Rosa Henson, the first Filipina publicly recognized comfort woman, told her story leading 200 Filipino women to follow her example. She was a part of the class action suit against the Japanese government which demanded a formal apology, the inclusion of all the wartime atrocities in Japanese textbooks, and monetary reparations for the abuse. She details her experiences in her autobiography, Comfort Woman:Slave of Destiny, published in 1996.</p>
<p>Currently, there are many countries and organizations involved in the advocacy for the comfort women. As the tide of politics changes, and more women raise their voices for the Lola’s and other Comfort Women, there are still many stories to be told. World War 2 has been enveloped with a silence that has only recently been broken, with the veterans slowly dying out as well. And in the face of still so many wars, so much violence against women happening in the global community, it is apparent just how valuable these Lola’s are to cultural history. It is by no accident that the image of the storyteller is usually depicted as the old woman, the grandmother who has experienced everything. She is vital to the creation of a genuine national memory. One that transcends the impulse of quiet desperation, and becomes an active movement to stop these atrocities from ever happening again.</p>
<p>Chunghee Sarah Soh and Jerry D. Boucher, “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20061209130115/http://online.sfsu.edu" target="_blank">The Comfort Woman Project</a>,” 2001, 24 July 2009 &lt;http://web.archive.org/web/20061209130115/http://online.sfsu.edu&gt;.</p>
<p>National Organization for Women, “<a href="http://www.now.org/nnt/fall-99/viewpoint.htm" target="_blank">VIEWPOINT: Armies at War use Rape as Weapon</a>,” Fall 1999, National NOW Times: Fall 1999, November 2005 &lt;http://www.now.org/nnt/fall-99/viewpoint.html&gt;.</p>
<p>The three reports are Results of Investigation into the Question of ‘Military Comfort Women’ Originating fro the Korean Peninsula (July 6, 1992), Interim Report of the Fact-Finding Investigation on Military Comfort Women under Japanese Imperialism (July 31, 1992, An Indictment: The Japanese Government Must Fully Establish the Truth on the ‘Military Comfort Women’ Question and Sincerely Apologize (September 1, 1992)</p>
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		<title>Celestina Catalog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PROJECT: Spring/Summer Catalog 2009 for Celestina Maynila &#8211; New York Celestina is the internationally-sold accessories line of Tina Maristela-Ocampo. It is the strong artisanal tradition and rare native materials that set them apart. TEAM: B+C Design, Inc Heavily inspired by the pieces and the vision the designer had for this season, the copy was borne of being Catholic and being Filipina—its easy juxtapositions and meaningful contradictions. It reads: The wishes of the faithful flicker like candles in the silence. There is soft light glinting off the luminous faces of the paua in the hands of the Filipina. The very fingers that smooth the fragrant rosary beads embroider intricate patterns on delicate piña. The thriving artisanal tradition and these life-affirming rituals deepen a rich cultural identity. These aged walls tell stories of how it takes time to forge silver into exquisite strands. Light streams through windows and bounces off timeworn stone, gleaming like graceful mother-of-pearl. The contemporary is wed with tradition, the everyday suffused with the ethereal. Celestina lays bare the sacred in the beautiful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PROJECT: Spring/Summer Catalog 2009 for Celestina Maynila &#8211; New York</p>
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<p>Celestina is the internationally-sold accessories line of Tina Maristela-Ocampo. It is the strong artisanal tradition and rare native materials that set them apart.</p>
<p>TEAM: <strong>B+C Design, Inc</strong></p>
<p>Heavily inspired by the pieces and the vision the designer had for this season, the copy was borne of being Catholic and being Filipina—its easy juxtapositions and meaningful contradictions.</p>
<p><a href="http://weeatourfeelings.com/celestina"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24" title="Celestina Catalog" src="http://weeatourfeelings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/tumblr_kv98c7fEhN1qabyk9o1_1280.jpg" alt="" width="1136" height="1136" /></a></p>
<p>It reads:</p>
<p>The wishes of the faithful flicker like candles in the silence. There is soft light glinting off the luminous faces of the paua in the hands of the Filipina. The very fingers that smooth the fragrant rosary beads embroider intricate patterns on delicate piña. The thriving artisanal tradition and these life-affirming rituals deepen a rich cultural identity.</p>
<p>These aged walls tell stories of how it takes time to forge silver into exquisite strands. Light streams through windows and bounces off timeworn stone, gleaming like graceful mother-of-pearl. The contemporary is wed with tradition, the everyday suffused with the ethereal. Celestina lays bare the sacred in the beautiful.</p>
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		<title>Brochure &#8211; Bonifacio Global City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PROJECT: Marketing brochure for Bonifacio Global City TEAM: B+C Design, Inc In the trend of Creative Communities, Bonifacio Global City is a mixed-use development targeting the new professional—someone whose passion suffuses both their work and their play. With this brochure, we emphasized a sense of OPEN-ness, both in the sense of space and most importantly, socially. Here are some pages: &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PROJECT: Marketing brochure for Bonifacio Global City</p>
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<p>TEAM: <strong>B+C Design, Inc</strong></p>
<p>In the trend of Creative Communities, Bonifacio Global City is a mixed-use development targeting the new professional—someone whose passion suffuses both their work and their play. With this brochure, we emphasized a sense of OPEN-ness, both in the sense of space and most importantly, socially.</p>
<p>Here are some pages:</p>
<p><a href="http://weeatourfeelings.com/2011/02/brochure-bonifacio-global-city/coverbgc/" rel="attachment wp-att-154"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-154" title="coverBGC" src="http://weeatourfeelings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/coverBGC.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="231" /></a></p>
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		<title>Brochure &#8211; Anvaya Cove</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PROJECT: Omnibus brochure for Ayala Land Premier&#8217;s Anvaya Cove TEAM: B+C Design Not your typical leisure community, Anvaya Cove builds and operates in tandem with the ebb and flow of the land and its natural inhabitants—in a sense, a share family home. It reads: At Anvaya Cove, set your life to Mother Nature’s pulse, steady as the rise and fall of the waves. On sun-flooded days at the beach, let your children plunge into the energy of the sea by enjoying an array of water sports or exploring the wonders of a vibrant tropical marine ecosystem. Give them the chance to watch the pawikan hatchlings set off on their first swim in a cycle as magical as the days are long. And with the arrival of migrating birds, they learn that other creatures also call Anvaya Cove home. It reads: Wake up the family with a symphony of birdsong ushering in a day of discovery. Take a walk through the Nature Camp, and discover a multitude of colors and textures with a score of indigenous flowers, plants, and trees. Let your children experience the thrill of flying across a zipline or racing through the forest. Their hands becomes familiar with the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PROJECT: Omnibus brochure for Ayala Land Premier&#8217;s Anvaya Cove</p>
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<p>TEAM: <strong>B+C Design</strong></p>
<p>Not your typical leisure community, Anvaya Cove builds and operates in tandem with the ebb and flow of the land and its natural inhabitants—in a sense, a share family home.</p>
<p><a href="http://weeatourfeelings.com/anvayacove1"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9" title="anvayacove1" src="http://weeatourfeelings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/anvayacove1.jpg" alt="Opening Spread from Anvaya Cove Brochure" width="1011" height="939" /></a>It reads:</p>
<p>At Anvaya Cove, set your life to Mother Nature’s pulse, steady as the rise and fall of the waves. On sun-flooded days at the beach, let your children plunge into the energy of the sea by enjoying an array of water sports or exploring the wonders of a vibrant tropical marine ecosystem. Give them the chance to watch the pawikan hatchlings set off on their first swim in a cycle as magical as the days are long. And with the arrival of migrating birds, they learn that other creatures also call Anvaya Cove home.</p>
<p><a href="http://weeatourfeelings.com/anvayacovebrochure2"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10" title="Anvaya Cove Brochure 2" src="http://weeatourfeelings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/tumblr_kv9afmurbp1qabyk9o1_1280.jpg" alt="Spread from Anvaya Cove Brochure" width="1011" height="939" /></a></p>
<p>It reads:</p>
<p>Wake up the family with a symphony of birdsong ushering in a day of discovery. Take a walk through the Nature Camp, and discover a multitude of colors and textures with a score of indigenous flowers, plants, and trees. Let your children experience the thrill of flying across a zipline or racing through the forest. Their hands becomes familiar with the feel of the earth and the sway of rope bridges. Their eyes are soon fluent in the vibrant markings of birds and insects. From the cliffs, end your day with the incredible sight of an endless sky of star. At Anvaya Cove, the exhilarating outdoors is preserved for you.</p>
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		<title>Review &#8211; Films</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[blog entry reviewing three films of Cine Europa. Reading in the Dark 1. Lust,Caution is an exploration of what desire can do. perhaps in the same visceral way Perfume was. I’ve never seen sex used in this manner —— how it actually becomes a raw look into a relationship, into a power dynamic. And how it necessarily isn’t a binary opposition, more so in such intimate situations. It seems that the closer we get, the more things become gray—betrayal can also mean fidelity. I like that love was never uttered, it was never a beautiful ideal. As if to ask , “how can love truly exist in a world where they censor everything, where your ties to your land can mean death?” The movie itself was fabulous. The way Ang Lee watches women as they click mahjong tiles and talk (and backtalk) is almost the way Pedro Almodovar tries to explore the gritty nature of being a woman. not better or worse, just in the same country. 2. La Mome is a biopic of Edith Piaf. Probably because I actually do like her songs (so does jeff buckley, so really) this one did it for me more than Walk the Line. Even [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>blog entry reviewing three films of Cine Europa.</p>
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<p><strong>Reading in the Dark</strong></p>
<p>1.<a href="http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/lustcaution?q=Lust,%20caution" target="_blank"> Lust,Caution</a> is an exploration of what desire can do. perhaps in the same visceral way Perfume was. I’ve never seen sex used in this manner —— how it actually becomes a raw look into a relationship, into a power dynamic. And how it necessarily isn’t a binary opposition, more so in such intimate situations. It seems that the closer we get, the more things become gray—betrayal can also mean fidelity. I like that love was never uttered, it was never a beautiful ideal. As if to ask , “how can love truly exist in a world where they censor everything, where your ties to your land can mean death?”</p>
<p>The movie itself was fabulous. The way Ang Lee watches women as they click mahjong tiles and talk (and backtalk) is almost the way Pedro Almodovar tries to explore the gritty nature of being a woman. not better or worse, just in the same country.</p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/lavieenrose?q=La%20Vie%20En%20Rose" target="_blank">La Mome</a> is a biopic of Edith Piaf. Probably because I actually do like her songs (so does jeff buckley, so really) this one did it for me more than <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/walktheline?q=Walk%20the%20Line" target="_blank">Walk the Line</a>. Even if the whole movie did feel like the way Piaf must have lived, constantly drunk and teetering in pain—it only made the moments when she sung that much more powerful. Her clarion voice in the tiny frame. Marion Cotillard was just Edith Piaf, you never questioned it. Ever.</p>
<p>There is this wonderful scene where she wakes up in the sunlight where contrast was used with such a painful twist that you’ll see that this really is a movie, not just a film version of a wikipedia article.</p>
<p>[When she was sick, my mom began to sing. She’s always had this strong, mellow voice that began to fade in her last months. But there is this one afternoon in the living room where she sings la vie en rose —— I’ve always felt that her voice was too heavy, too solid for the song until I saw this film and saw that Edith Piaf sang in the same manner, for the streets. Fullness, richness, weight.]</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/livesofothers?q=The%20Lives%20of%20Others" target="_blank">The Lives of Others</a> reiterates that even if we stand on the other side of each other, everything and everyone eventually connects. Loyalty requires ambiguity.</p>
<p>I really liked how careful and how restrained the whole film was. It makes me think (it doesn’t hurt that the Martina G was in both films) about the difference between <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/mostlymartha?q=Mostly%20Martha" target="_blank">Bella Martha</a>and <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/noreservations?q=No%20Reservations" target="_blank">No Reservations</a>. One was poetry in its control, the other was melodramatic. Though the melodramatic is not a force to be forgotten. Though props for this film that there was no big hollywood embrace with tearful, “comrade!” being uttered.</p>
<p>——- But most importantly about<a href="http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20090901-223041/Cine-Europa-to-raffle-off-trip-to-Europe" target="_blank"> Cine Europa</a>, it was nice to just talk to people about movies while waiting in line and hearing them talk with such enthusiasm—how film really is everyone’s medium.</p>
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		<title>Reading of Carol Ann Duffy&#8217;s Little Red Cap</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[academic paper on Carol Ann Duffy&#8217;s &#8220;Little Red-Cap.&#8221; Into the Woods Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s “Little Red-Cap”, it is imperative to keep in mind its intertextuality. It does not merely allude to the Little Red Riding Hood myth popularized by Charles Perrault and the Brother’s Grimm, Duffy is part of a tradition of the fairy tales of the little girl in red encountering the wolf in the woods. In her introduction to the Virago Book of Fairy Tales, Angela Carter raises the point that because fairy tales follow a pattern, a path, they change in the mouth of the storyteller and conversely in the ears of the young listener imagining wolves in the dark. Though fairy tales are easily dismissed as flights of fancy due to their simplistic structure, many scholars have delved into these patterns, these structures and have found the codification of norms. Feminists have long decried the images of the helpless princess waiting for the prince to come and save her. Once it is possible to see the pillars of what defines society, it is possible to tear the temple down. As proposed by Rosemary Jackson, fantasy in its broadest sense is “a literature of subversion; a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>academic paper on Carol Ann Duffy&#8217;s &#8220;Little Red-Cap.&#8221;</p>
<p><span id="more-50"></span><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Into the Woods</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s <a href="http://thepoemoftheweek.blogspot.com/2006/01/poem-of-week-1162006-little-red-cap.html">“Little Red-Cap”</a>, it is imperative to keep in mind its intertextuality.  It does not merely allude to the Little Red Riding Hood myth popularized by Charles Perrault and the Brother’s Grimm, Duffy is part of a tradition of the fairy tales of the little girl in red encountering the wolf in the woods. <!--more-->In her introduction to the Virago Book of Fairy Tales, Angela Carter raises the point that because fairy tales follow a pattern, a path, they change in the mouth of the storyteller and conversely in the ears of the young listener imagining wolves in the dark.  Though fairy tales are easily dismissed as flights of fancy due to their simplistic structure, many scholars have delved into these patterns, these structures and have found the codification of norms.  Feminists have long decried the images of the helpless princess waiting for the prince to come and save her.  Once it is possible to see the pillars of what defines society, it is possible to tear the temple down.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">As proposed by Rosemary Jackson, fantasy in its broadest sense is “a literature of subversion; a tracing of the unsaid and then unseen of culture: that which has been silenced, made invisible, covered over and made ‘absent’”(Jackson 1991, 4.)  She describes a territory rife with a population who has been ignored and considered second-class by those who have drawn the lines of race and gender.  Feminists and Postcolonial critics have taken these fairy stories to reveal and then destroy the rules that have been imposed.  Feminist writers and critics have gutted literature, folklore, and myths to expose the structure of patriarchal oppression, and have revealed how the pen is a metonymous tool of subjugation.  Duffy’s “Little Red-Cap”, along with Angela Carter’s “Company of Wolves”, Anne Sexton’s “Red Riding Hood” and other retellings have taken the fairy tale and used it to expose the wolves so to speak.  In this re-telling, Little Red Riding Hood has entered the woods knowing exactly what its darkness holds.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">In the confident voice of someone who has returned from a quest, the persona of the poem reveals herself to be Little Red-Cap in the first verse.  The first phrase, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>At childhood’s end…</em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> tells the reader that this retelling is not by a little girl being cautioned by her mother, but someone who recognizes how the wolf stood at the junction between her innocence and maturity.  The persona’s catalogue belies that she knows exactly where everything is; she can’t be led astray by a wolf dressed in her grandmother’s clothes.  The choices are interesting since they do not fit into the typical fairy tale: a factory, an abandoned set of train tracks and hidden vegetable plots.  They all speak of an industrialized era, yet they are meant to be static symbols to show that there will be a departure from the real world.  This tendency towards contextualization, providing a clear picture of where and when does not follow the fairy tale mode.  It signifies a specificity that dwells in the feminist world of the personal as political.  Though this Little Red-Cap may be walking in the footprints of other young girls in red following their mother’s orders, she will be different.  She is an individual.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The defiance one perceives from the appearance of the pronoun “I” is in stark contrast to the narrative third person pronouns used in fairy tales.  In the lines that follow, it is obvious that the persona has the control over her own actions as she is the one who sees the wolf first.  The choice of the active word, clapped only emphasizes this.  Who was once considered prey is now stalking with the ferocity and stealth of a predator.  This is further fleshed out by the insertion of the ubiquitous amazement over the size of the ears, paws and teeth.  The added description of the wolf as someone who is both reading poetry out loud and drinking red wine serves to humanize it.  This anthropomorphication is not a ruse to fool the persona as the grandmother’s clothing was, but an intersection between the animal and the human that allows for desire.  After revealing herself to the wolf, the persona quickly explains that it is poetry that makes her want to share his bed.  This is a desire to speak, to harness thoughts into words and she seeks to mimic him even to his glass of wine.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">It is significant to note that beginning in the second verse, there is a distinct change in sound.  The internal rhyme and repetition of sounds within lines are more pronounced and the use of more periods stops the reader creating an odd pairing of what can be described as fairy tale cadence with the rhyme and repetitions and the jaunty, almost flippant tone affected by a 16 year old.  The persona may think that she may need to encounter the wolf to be able to create poetry, yet this doesn’t mean that she has to speak in his </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>wolfy drawl.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The third verse details what she expects, and the phrase, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>I knew</em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> only supports the power of the persona.  Her clothes may been torn and she lost both shoes, yet the phrase </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>murder clues</em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> are like the colored stones of Hansel and Gretel &#8212; they lead to a way out.  But the cautionary </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>better beware</em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> seems more as one for the wolf then Little Red-Cap.  The foreshadowing triggered by these two phrases spells doom for the wolf.  The sensuality of the lines in the fourth verse emphasizes an earlier point made concerning desire and its role in the relationship of girl and wolf.  The focus on both breath and love poem hark back to Little Red-Cap’s identification of poetry as her reason for all her actions.  The implicit sexual act doesn’t serve to reduce the persona’s power, it is only a fulfillment of the role each plays to the other &#8212; a partner in an act of creation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>for/what little girl doesn’t dearly love  a wolf? </em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">is an interesting play on the complexities involved in this partnership of creation.  The word, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>dearly</em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> can be both an emphatic expression of affection or an even estimation of what it costs to love the wolf or the man it may represent or the poetry that the wolf supposedly possesses.  The feeding of the wolf with the bird plays well with the fairy tale requirement some form of eating or ingestion and it is also the persona’s trick of getting away from </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>the heavy matted paws of the wolf</em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as opposed to the clever ruse of needing to relieve oneself as employed by other versions of the tale (Windling 2004.)  And as it sleeps, the persona revels in the wealth of words and knowledge the wolf has kept at the back of his lair.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The passage of time and the listing of what she learned living in the woods diverts is part of the fairy tale mode, allowing for the lead character to change or grow up.  It also signifies how her maturation coincides with the acquiring of knowledge.  The catalogue that she has given is an interesting tension built on the ability to speak or the inability to do so.  The rhythm is broken by the axe and now the persona is actively wielding it to discover the world.  She ends with her opening up the wolf to find her grandmother.  The virgin white of the bones echoes the white dove yet now the persona is feeding him stones to stop him from moving as opposed to the bones and the </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>living bird.</em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The reversal is final as the persona leaves the woods.  It is important to note that she is now singing, creating her poetry without the wolf.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Duffy has used the cautionary frame employed by both Perrault’s and the Brothers Grimm’s version and subverted it.  If the moral of the story was to be vigilant, to not be fooled by a wolf hiding in clothing, Duffy uses this journey into the woods to depict the journey of the woman artist.  The poem begins by showing Little Red-Cap as seeking the ability to speak, yet the readers are surprised in the end by the revelation of the grandmother’s bones.  The build-up to this revelations hints at the fact that Little Red-Cap knew what she would find in the belly of the wolf.  She is a triumphant heroine back from a quest to seek poetry, to wrest it from the wolf, which has selfishly gobbled it all up, singing her own song:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>warm, beating, frantic, winged, music and blood.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The persona has not stolen from the wolf, she has merely claimed what is rightfully hers.  A woman writer does not need to be allowed to speak, to write poetry, to tell stories, to create art, she is merely harnessing the power that a patriarchal system has told her she does not possess.  Seeking the darkness of the woods of which she was told to beware, she must reclaim that </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>warm, beating, frantic</em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> impulse and leave the woods </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>singing, all alone.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">WORKS CITED</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Duffy, Carol Ann. “Little Red-Cap” in </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>The Poets’ Grimm: 20</em></span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>th</em></span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em> Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales</em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">. Jeanne Marie Beaumonte and Claudia Carlson, eds.  Oregon:  Story Line Press, 2003.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jackson, Rosemary. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion.</em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> New York: Routledge, 1991.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Windling, Terri. “The Path of Needles or Pins: Little Red Riding Hood.” <span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/rrPathNeedles.html">http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/rrPathNeedles.html</a></span></span> 2004.</span></span></p>
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