The Black Violin: Superstring theories

Higgs is my Boson Buddy-  there goes my superstring pasta recipe even before I prepare it! When mainstream science catches up faster than expected from the other side, with nary a notion of the effects it may have especially for a specie whose talent for war and destruction is only as great as their hubris and greed, perhaps imperializing even the universe as with the atom before- is great cause for concern for the ones aware of awareness. Beware of those who art aware of the selves awareness. Before you know...  you know it already. Or rather just like tower of powersong the more you know the more that you don't know. Shrodinger cat out of bag soon. Higgs Boson has already been observed, it is literally but a matter of time before they figure out how to measure it once they find the way of observing it from another literal point of view. All will shatter many of us will perish just as in the past which we cannot live in, nor send a message. If I could, I'd reply to mark Twain in the 21st century a hundred late. Perhaps send spectra shield armour, an LRAD and a 2012 glock fmg to Herr A. Roensch using the Glocke. hehe! For serious jokes on the hahaha MATTER, go to higgs jokes forum. What's art got to do about this anyway?!!! Is dark matter collectible? thanks for the violin 5368!

We were crazy even before it became "cool".

Sociedad De Tiro Al Blanco De Manila

Marksman competition held in Sta. Mesa,  Manila for consecutive years 1915-1916 sponsored by H.B. McCoy. Both were won by a German immigrant who held the distributorship for Spanish Mauser 1893 Spanish Civil Guard and Guardia Civil model rifles. Later on improved and crafted by the Ovideo Arsenal from the original 7mm Mauser to the 1916 model upgraded to .308 Winchester cal. 7.62 until 1951. There are no surviving records that indicates if it was a superior weapon at the time or if it was the skill of the marksman that bagged the trophies, using it as a sales demo for clients that had already purchased the 1893 model and presumably were used in the Spanish- American War overseas and in the Philippines. It is unknown if it was also previously supplied to the Katipunan or what currency was used to purchase weapons. Subsequently more attention shifted from marksmanship to playing Polo, a sport better suited for gentlemanly competition which they often won until Ricky Y. came along.... way in the future. Never say Colgate to a Spanish conquistador when it's all about trade.

Ming the Merciful

Where one's backyard is a hill and front yard the sea
located in a very important historical archeological site

It contains much of past unknown before what is thought
the stories that they keep are revealed in time
to those to whom space compresses and expands
Gets baked into a loaf of bread to slice the defining parrallel realities
Of mirrors of selves, through rose tinted glass what has come to pass.

Dimasalang Art Movement: Andres Cristobal Cruz

Painting by Andres Cristobal Cruz, Manila, 1968.

Secret Room: Doorknob #3

Doorknob #3, by Ferdinand Lebumfacil Romualdez, 2010.

I don't have this painting but the original antique which is the subject... now, I shall look for the key ...it's not always oppen like it used to be. I wonder if I may take a peek through the keyhole before threshold.

Jorge Riveros woodcut prints

Jorge Riveros woodcut prints, 1973 Bogota, Columbia. Original woodcuts destroyed by artist.

Protocol Officer

No hostile protests cannot afford fiasco.

Artistic License

An "Ah!" Momento. Usually used as an excuse, which it is not.

Abstract distractions: Carratala

Unknown title

Ernesto Carratala, Spain 1972

Abstract distraction

Came across this H.R. Ocampo abstract that the current owner inherited and has put up for sale. Interesting piece. Commissioned in October, 1978, a few months before he passed and has been in a private collection since. Below is the current owner with Norma Ocampo- Fores, daughter of H.R. Authentication control #083.

"Give us this day"

Anthroapology

On an expedition to discover more about tribal culture, an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist set out together to compile research about customs and rituals. The anthropologist kept wondering why the tribesmen kept watching and staring at him, observing his every move... all the gadgets that this stranger used to log his feild research and this other bespectacled fellow recording their music during celebrations kept noticing the natives would hang out when he was at the waterfall. They find out that the natives are actually also studying rituals performed by these strange blogging and singing whilst bathing at the waterfall. Upon listening to Jim morrisson on headphones, correctly presumed he sang drunk in a spontaneous poem, just like they do. See, the rituals are the same but expressed differently no matter what tribe or culture or even time for that matter, explained the guide. The only difference is we study art whereas they live art.

They also tried to grow the bag of popcorn we gave them. Good thing it was organic heritage seed.

Found objects

Calatagan pottery shard of unkown origin Found off the reef kaypating channel, Calatagan Batangas. Presumably pre Ming dynasty.  900days Russian expedition boat spotted at kaypating channel, pagapas Bay Batangas aon Philippines leg 12:25pm October 5 2012

Guys!!!!

Missed the underwater cross marker exposed by storm. Fronting dulong Kubo. SSRadar se.

Indio Tears

I have heard of many obscure inventions by archeapelagists, that are brilliant but alas never made it or worse, stolen and patented by others abroad. Lost in obscurity, ahead of their time and laughed at. Here a a few I vaguely remember but their ideas were sometimes whimsy or impractical. I shall mention a few and let's see if they would be significant today if things were different from today. A few started off as accidental discoveries or simple humor taken to the next level into the reality we percieve. Imagination does become reality and sometimes we regret bringing new things into this world that cannot be undone so here are a few worthy of mention:

The Flying Tampipi

Inventor's name eludes memory but the premise was to build airplanes for the postal and cargo using indigenous materials. Using woven bamboo mats (think sawali or baning) to make an airworthy frame, wings, rudders, and even the propeller. Bamboo is very strong and it's fiber made into mats that when layered and bonded with resin for panels forming the fuselage and wings, round hollow sections for tubes as structural support struts and even laminated and shaped for propellers. The only parts that had to be imported were the engine, flight controls and instrumentation, landing gear and tires. A prototype was built and successfully tested, but nothing came of it because at the time it was preposterous and was the laughing stock of aviation. Disappeared without further pursuit for development, ended up importing aircraft made of flimsy cloth and subsequently aircraft grade aluminum. This design was superior in strength and way ahead of present day carbon fiber composite laminates that are non biodegradable.

The Unsinkable Batel :

Patterned after the Spanish galleons, it was made up of many compartments that would flood if Hull was breached, but would still float even if riddled with cannon shot or small arms fire, localizing flooding of the ship. Think of straws in bundles that are sealed in sections. Again, bamboo has natural sections in one pole, resin, lime and Manila hemp (the unsmokable type you guys!) Bound it together.

High protien feeds for livestock:

Using waste material form rice mills,  the husks are combined with rice bran (Darak) into a large pile outdoors to which molasses (pulot) was added and mixed thouroughly and left outdoors. The millions of flies they attract feast and lay billions of eggs that hatch and become maggots that are steamed and run through a ballmill then dried. Excellent source of protien and fiber for livestock.

Manhole covers made of recycled tires:

This one invention is especially relevant today as a substitute for iron manhole covers or drain grills on the street which constantly get stolen because they are metal easily sold as scrap to junkshops. Made out of old tires shredded and molded reinforced with the steel belt layer to add strength to support vehicles all the way up to holding up the weight of heavy equipment. This way nobody would bother to steal them for it's value in metal.

Ammonia harvesting public urinals:

Take a pee- get a peso instead of paying to use the comfort room. Waterless urinal that proccesses and stores ammonia for use in industry. Not only save precious water but harvest the waste product. Ammonia was used in refrigeration and has many commercial uses. Think of your pee providing AC for Edward and make a Buck on top of it.

Whipple Shield Bunker walls:

Whipple shield is a structural design that protects modern spacecraft from micro meteor or space junk impacts. One small scale prototype was built and successfully tested as  ballistic protection for use in buildings alternately layering fiberglass, sorbothane, Kevlar and coconut coir together with concrete, lead (for radiation) rubber and ten meters of soil and rock.

There are many more..... This is just to illustrate but a few ideas turned into reality, whether successful or not. Ingenuity and imagination we lack not.

We have all we need and hope to inspire new forward thinkers by rekindling the past and better yet, improving them not for personal gain or acclaim, but for us earthlings

Now back to indio tears: basically a modern Baghdad battery made by the ancient sumerians using the electron dissimilarities between two metals and a saline solution so that the next time your device runs out of power, its alright to cry about it. Now, to find a crybaby to shed tears into pure silver vials (see colloidal silver) set on a frame of old reading glasses- chopping a sack of red onions. Hehehe!