Crimson Crux

Never laid your hands on the famed notebook known as the moleskine? Or looking to add another to your collection?

Here’s a great chance to win one, courtesy of Pinoycentric.com. All you’ve got to do is join their newly-launched weekly “Ika Nga” Cartoon Caption Contest. For one well thought out blurb of text, you get a moleskine — sounds like a sweet deal to me.

Thanks to Sir Armand Frasco of Pinoycentric.com for the email!

If you haven’t tried out iJigg yet, do so now. As you might readily deduce from the name, it’s like Digg for music (but sleeker and much more worth the time, IMHO).

Ripping off the site’s description:

What’s iJigg?
Artists from around the world can post their music on iJigg. As listeners, you can vote or “Jigg” music that you like and directly influence the music that becomes popular!

What I find great about iJigg is 1) the quality of music just waiting to be discovered, and 2) the uncluttered, easy-on-the-eyes manner in which these music files are presented to the user. A cool name that sticks like gum to your mind doesn’t hurt, too. (Maybe Ia of Qwerky can write a longer post on iJigg’s Web 2.0 qualities, hehe!)

Before you go and open an account with iJigg, let me share with you a trifecta of newfound ear-pleasers (including a Dragon Ball Z rap!):

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It’s been nearly three months since I’ve posted anything about my moleskine, so just in case you’re wondering what I’ve been doing with it lately:

First, I’ve put up a Moleskine page on my lit blog (or is it a mini-shrine?). Needless to say, writing on the notebook has been a real treat. In the coming weeks I’ll be posting more of my made on moleskine works on Slip of the Pen.

Second, one of my poems has been featured on the popular Moleskinerie.com (thanks to sir Armand Frasco!). (more…)

While writing some posts for a Dungeons and Dragons Online site a few weeks back, I chanced upon a highly entertaining webcomics by the name of DDO1Liners. Highly entertaining, that is, if you:

• Are a fantasy geek,
• Have played D&D or any similar RPG systems,
• Have played the DDO MMORPG or any similar online games, or
• Have a sibling whose endless ‘dice rolls’ and ‘dungeon delvings’ with his/her friends at your house have somehow ingrained the terminology and lingo into your otherwise innocent brain.

Needless to say, those items can overlap! Anyway, I found myself going through every strip in their archives, which I don’t usually do with other webcomics. (more…)

For months I’ve been savoring the thought of penning down new poems and fiction for my literary blog on a moleskine. Yesterday, the package I ordered from Moleskine Philippines finally arrived, much to my delight.

For the uninitiated:

Moleskine is the legendary notebook, used by European artists and thinkers for the past two centuries, from Van Gogh to Picasso, from Ernest Hemingway to Bruce Chatwin.

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I count Blizzard Entertainment as one of my favorite game publishers. I’ve spent countless of hours playing the games of their three main franchises — Diablo, Starcraft, and Warcraft — not to mention poring over hundreds of pages of fan fiction and game manuals.

That is why when Blizzard announced that they were having the 1st Annual Blizzard Art Contest, I was thrilled — not because I wanted to join (me? an artist? mwehehe), but because I couldn’t wait to see the winning works.

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