Bullshit-Proof
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Costume blast from the past! My traditional French Belle gown from LOJ last year.
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Osamu Tezuka as a meme? That’s right, Internet. This is Osamu Tezuka.
You can call this meme douche-bag...
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Riiiiiiibs. At Bistro Valhalla with Dwight <3 (Taken with instagram)
This is what the sky above Mandaluyong looked like this morning. And no, I didn’t use a filter on this photo. (Taken with instagram)
Had my hair trimmed and cellophane-d today. SO SHINEH. (Taken with instagram)
One of my aunts started a stamp collection in the 1970’s, and I’m trying to keep it going. (Taken with instagram)
My boyfriend surprised me with white chocolate for White Day! <3 (Taken with instagram)
Hot Chocomint at UCC! <3 (Taken with instagram)
Playing around with Fully Booked’s Imagine app at their Katipunan branch. Y u grinning at me, dragon? (Taken with instagram)
Rainbow over the ADMU HS soccer field. Can you spot the face in the clouds? :p (Taken with instagram)
Note to self: Buy a proper vase for long-stemmed roses, because my boyfriend is taking advantage of my weakness for flowers. <3 (Taken with instagram)
“Design by Aki” my ass. Now I feel stupid for buying this thing.
The artwork shown in this pendant is actually called “Smoking Cat”, and it’s by a Japanese artist named Shiori Matsumoto. This pendant is only one of probably hundreds being sold in various bazaars and retail stores (like Solo, where I bought this pendant) that feature Matsumoto’s artwork, but like a lot of the obviously copied/recast accessories being sold for cheap everywhere in the Philippines, nowhere is she credited for her work.
While I know these only sell for around 100-200 PHP, I still feel a bit bad that this artist probably has no idea that her work is being used like this, and there’s probably no way anyone can put a stop to them being manufactured by whoever supplies the trinkets being sold in the Philippine marketplace.
Despite all that, guilt compels me to spread the word about her art in what little way I can, just so everyone else who owns one of these pendants (or have at least noticed them while visiting a mall or bazaar) knows whose artwork it was that caught their eye.
Some of the other artwork by Matsumoto that I’ve seen appear in pendants (in full or in part) include:
