migration today (sunday) was a lesson in flight. or an invitation for more migraines. ahahahaha!

i met with my video arts group today. we're putting together a 40 minute show on migrant issues, and our first meeting was today. i know all you literary types read this blog... thank you... you must be really bored... but thank you, thank you! ahahaha... no really... i know all you literary types read this blog (thank you), so ANY type advice or suggestions will be welcome!

should we start small, with a specific story to illustrate our macrointelligence on economics, globalization, industrialization, assimilation and other -tions and -isms?

St. Theresa's College Manila Foundation is committed to the education of the middle class-lower-middle, middle-middle, upper-middle... Many were middle-class bus riders with middle-class baon... Even among those who became "comfortable," the sensibility has remained essentially middle-class.

Besides, for the survival of this nation, it is imperative that a case for the middle be pursued. For the struggling middle is an endangered specie - earnest but emasculated and emigrating. ... [ more ]

i wish i could tell more, but it's like excommunication and the priesthood for me regarding our plans for this video project - we cut ourselves and signed a blood pact that made us all swear to secrecy. the fastest way to excommunication from the priesthood is to divulge confession details. the surest way to earn marked man status is by breaking an oath formed during a blood pact.

just kidding. ;-P

we are operating on a shoestring budget - read: zero thousands of dollars - we are all in college, gradschool or still in our first jobs out of college, and we are still in the research stage of a 2-year timeline, so it really isn't worth anyone's time to pick on us. a couple friends of ours are heading home to the philippines for family time, shooting and interviewing key people, so any suggestions for people to talk to and methods to telling this huge, ambitious story will help! please email

demetrio maguigad - demetrio@videomachete.org
sarah lynn pablo - sarahlynnpablo@gmail.com
jennifer jimenez - jimej@uic.edu


thanks!  ¶ 12/06/2004 04:06:00 AM