Flip side 2012-2014:

a decade after spending 7 years in the philippines, these projects explore the familiarities in what was foreign and draws parallel lines with our american culture.


12/12 IN PERSON

A soda bought off the streets of Manila relates to goldfish bought in American pet shops.Consumed and contagious.Spiritual and medical.Faith and healing.A ba...

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11/12 BRIDGE

A man jumps from the same place where Houdini escapes, as Harvard Bridge delivers us to Cambridge.Photos from the spot where the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridg...

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10/12 PUTO

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Filipino street food and slang are slurred into this film where flavor and memory collide, evoking those of people, places, and events that are at once forei...

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 9/12 ON WORDS

We asked our community about today's most relevant hashtags, Taglish, and Millennial Twitter. The Top 30 user-submissions are presented as a collection of l...

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ABAKADA is the indigenized Latin alphabet for the Tagalog and Filipino languages of the Philippines. It was created, relatively recently, in 1940 and has sin...

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 7/12 STORM

Flood footage from PVR Headquarters in 'Evacuation Zone A' when "Frankenstorm" Sandy hit NYC is combined with US based artists Jason Corff and Joshua Seidner...

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6/12 CIVET

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5/12 HERO

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 4/12 BRAIN BLOCK

Brain. Block. Brain. Wash. Brain. Freeze.Temper. Mental. Heat. Stroke.Distract. Recall.TIA. TMI. SIRA. ULO. LOL.PerVeRse? UNcensored.Therapy. Recovery.Pickin...

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 3/12 FOB

Our protagonist finds that when Opportunity Knocks but Once, doors that were locked have opened. In the wake of the American Dream, a key fob is turned, Fres...

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 2/12 IN ARMS

Secret Valentines, first ink on my forearms from founding forefathers, a gift on his and his daughter's day. Honoring the PVR and EDSA shared anniversary, th...

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 1/12 PHILLY PINES

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