Foot and Fire

Except that it is named as such, the Museum of Sex is nothing like a museum because everything inside is made to be touched. Also, gushing and explaining and bragging can be heard inside. All I can bring you are pictures here and videos because I could not even explain the varieties of articles inside from candies to books to postcards, csrdgames to pills, garments and kinky toys or gears, if I may say.  Museum it is not indeed but a store of merch, all kinky and for all kinds of handling!!! Here are the photos I got which are self-explanatory. Got videos of those I can't explain. Click here for the link to my youtube.  Video Post # 2 Xxx More video post here Post 3 Xxx More video post here Post 4 Xxx More video post here Post 5 Xxx Xxx Xxx Xxx We missed the show they have in a room or basement. You can tell me about it on your visit there!!!

The Guggenheim Museum Building is a World Heritage. It has this beautiful unique shape built ahead of its time.  When I checked the Museum featured arts in the web, I was afraid that I won't like it. The museum supports sensory poetry, abstract expressionism, experimental techniques, utilization of unique materials to achieve art. In short, I am hesitant as I think I won't like it. The website says, "Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction  will bring together highlights from the Guggenheim Museum’s growing collection of contemporary art. Acquired over the past ten years, and shown at the museum for the first time, this selection of artworks reflects developments in painting, sculpture, and video from the 1960s to today that manifest in a turn towards gesture as a response to the constraint of Minimalism."  Here are some of the pieces in installation by Cecilia Vicuña: I can't appreciate indeed.  Thanks for the Thanh...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art or The Met has shown me two wonderful things when I visited it. I was able to see a real mummy, sphinx and statue of pharoah Mentuhotep and this 1787 oil painting on canvas by Jacques-Louis David.  Just before making this blog, I checked the wikipedia entry on this one to see if my own appreciation adds up to it, only to find out that I got my own understanding of the painting.  Wiki says, " The Death of Socrates (French: La Mort de Socrate) is an oil on canvas painted by French painter Jacques-Louis David in 1787. The painting was part of the neoclassical style, popular in the 1780s, that depicted subjects from the Classical age, in this case the story of the execution of Socrates as told by Plato in his Phaedo.[1] In this story, Socrates has been convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens and introducing strange gods, and has been sentenced to die by drinking poison hemlock. Socrates uses his death as a final lesson for his pupils ...

I had been raring to stop by this museum located at Brgy. Sum-ag, Bacolod City for a long time already. It is located by the street where we pass by each time we go to Bacolod City. Time is always running out because either we pass by the place on an early morning with some errands to do or we pass by there when it is already nighttime and time to go home.  But it was by luck that I was able to pass by the museum while the sky is still with light and the drizzling of the rain stopped. The museum accommodates visitors by appointment only and I was doubly lucky on that day because the owner was around and so, on my first try to visit, I was able to enter the place and chat with the collector and curator Tomiko Casiano. According to Tomiko, he had visitors as far as Russia because he has some pieces from Russia (check the blue chalice held by my mom in the picture below), and the US (of course, because the pieces were from the Depression Era of the US) as well ...

Time is relative. Entering Casa Mariquit is like being transported to the late 19th century and early 20th century. Located just a little walk from Biscocho Haus in Jaro and with Lunok Tree as the corner landmark, this heritage house has an intact brick facade with wooden veranda in good condition upstairs. Upon entering, one is welcomed by the caretaker who will act as the tour guide as he is also the curator and framer as well as the securty guard of the property. We posed beside the portrait of Former Vice President Fernando Lopez and the caretaker informed us that it is a Manansala rendition. The house is not big but it houses some pretty interesting memorabilia like the symbolic keys to the city and lighters housed in a photo frame and a steel plane which also serves as paperweight. The polaroid cameras displayed are also functioning as well as the 116-year-old grandfather clock. What I liked most about this house is that it still has good wooden floors and furnitures. Time see...

A gold earring.  The report also shows that the large bent tube gold earring was found on what was once the right ear of a male burial. A similar example is found in the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Gold Collection taken from Surigao and is dated to the 14th up to the 16th century. “Boljoon is rich in heritage now because it is the only town that has evidence to show pre-Hispanic times,” remarked University of San Carlos'  Jose Eleazar Bersales, head of the excavation project.   The excavation report shows that their finds came from the Pre-Spanish (1550-1650) and Early Spanish (1700s-1800s) periods.  Bersales  further said that it is the first time that an earring was found on a male, that a ceramic bowl has Chinese characters as part of its design, and that it is first evidence throughout Cebu of a pre-Hispanic times. The Burials  A total of nine burials in various states of internment were uncovered at a depth of 60-70 cm. This brings to a ...

Perched beside the national highway, the Church of Boljoon, its Rectory and Escuela Catolica are all a wonderful stopover when one is from Cebu City going to Oslob; it is just about two hours from Oslob. Aside from its oldness, the church ground has been an archaeological site for Japanese goods that dates back before our pre-historic period. (I will be featuring the museum in the next entry.) When one is in the side of the church one can look beyond the highway and lavish at the sight of the blue oceans and white sand aside from the giant karsts and hills standing in protection and beside it.  *** Inside the Boljoon Church. *** The history of the Church of Boljoon *** I don't know if this shot will still make the code effective.  Please try and let me know. *** *** *** The Escuela Catolica which is still used  by old women teaching catechism today. *** *** *** The church and the ...