http://lurino.blogdrive.com/ .:Asylon Lurino:. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:20:00 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2008. Art http://lurino.blogdrive.com/archive/159.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:16:49 GMT The End of Neo-liberalism? by Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – The world has not been kind to neo-liberalism, that grab-bag of ideas based on the fundamentalist notion that markets are self-correcting, allocate resources efficiently, and serve the public interest well. It was this market fundamentalism that underlay Thatcherism, Reaganomics, and the so-called “Washington Consensus” in favor of privatization, liberalization, and independent central banks focusing single-mindedly on inflation. For a quarter-century, there has been a contest among developing countries,... (more) http://lurino.blogdrive.com/comments?id=159 http://lurino.blogdrive.com/archive/158.html Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:30:05 GMT So a political party leader mentioned that he agreed if houses of prayer should be kept neutral from campaign settings. Furthermore, the said politician also noted that sermons are not campaigns, and the two needs to be contextually separated. And someone commented that it’s a secular notion. From my perspective, it’s not about secularism or anything. Politics and religions are mutually exclusive by themselves. Politics is about gaining power to rule over other people and lead them towards a goal. Religions –from a theistic approach, is about relating oneself to the divine.... (more) http://lurino.blogdrive.com/comments?id=158 http://lurino.blogdrive.com/archive/157.html Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:08:12 GMT simply burnt my ass on the way to hell. http://lurino.blogdrive.com/comments?id=157 http://lurino.blogdrive.com/archive/156.html Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:12:32 GMT Traditionally, people have certain moral codes which differentiated what’s good and what’s evil. Most of the time, this distinction is black and white, and the society enforced a strong control over the boundaries. As time goes by, people developed several ways to metaphorize the concept of good and evil. One interesting thing to see as a metaphor is the concept of good and evil. This has been a seemingly perpetual source of debate among philosophers. They tried to explain what’s good and what’s evil, but they forget to see the meaning of these concepts. They seem to take for... (more) http://lurino.blogdrive.com/comments?id=156 http://lurino.blogdrive.com/archive/155.html Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:31:52 GMT Back in the 2004, the long-awaited Phantom of the Opera movie production was finally released. And I intended to watch it with someone who was my loved girlfriend back then. Many things happened, and the plan was definitely fucked up. I haven’t watched the movie production until now, and I don’t plan to. There’s only one person in this world I’d want to watch it with. Many things happened in these three years, the drastic rise and fall of Lurino in all his imaginary glory. I don’t think it’s book-worthy, and I definitely wouldn’t think it’s noteworthy if it’s not my own life I’m... (more) http://lurino.blogdrive.com/comments?id=155 http://lurino.blogdrive.com/archive/154.html Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:00:44 GMT Despite of my current life, I’m a fan of Broadway musical shows. And though I don’t really grasp of its history and origin, I’m a fan of its music. There are songs on my list that originated from Broadway musicals. And if you think musicals suck, then I should remind you that most Disney musical animations are somewhat related to it. Throughout Disney animation movies, there are stage show adaptations from animations like Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Tarzan and Lion King as well. And there’s also Disney channel’s High School Musical that’s a drop dead musical... (more) http://lurino.blogdrive.com/comments?id=154 http://lurino.blogdrive.com/archive/153.html Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:16:59 GMT If you make a thousand paper cranes, your dream will come true and you’ll find happiness. I think this is an allusion to being punctilious, that your happiness and dream will come true after an episode of hardship. And I think Cassius Handoyo tried to communicate this very message in his film “Burung-Burung Kertas.” And by showing the extent of things people will do in the name of love, I personally commend this movie as an interesting thing to watch, despite of the superb and meticulously-detailed-yet-dramatically-astonishing cinematography offered. And to think this is a... (more) http://lurino.blogdrive.com/comments?id=153 http://lurino.blogdrive.com/archive/152.html Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:51:16 GMT So ferdi;) seems to have this hit on communication programs, something I regret since he’s one of the supporting agent behind my being where I currently am [though I’m to go very soon]. But I’m not about to tell him of advices like what other communication associates might provide. Despite of him being quite lazy and sorts, I still believe that this guy has a great potential to be a great artist. There’s always this certain feeling when you meet an artist, and I’m sure you’re quite aware of it. As a fellow artist wannabe, I seriously think about this matter for quite some times... (more) http://lurino.blogdrive.com/comments?id=152 http://lurino.blogdrive.com/archive/151.html Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:16:09 GMT First and foremost, it's highly irrational that men tries to reduce as much as uncertainty as possible. Our mind is adapted –and forcibly well-suited, to face uncertainty in the eye. Since the day we were born, there's been no certainty in our life where random fuck-ups happened infinitely all the time. Men grew by improvising through the fuck-ups, instead of diminishing the uncertainties. Only those moronic primitives would use certainty as a word, and only totally irrational idiots would yearn for certainty. But then again, human is an irrational species. One of the ... (more) http://lurino.blogdrive.com/comments?id=151 http://lurino.blogdrive.com/archive/150.html Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:21:42 GMT Rhetoric, from the ancient grecian days, is an artsy science of explaining things to the audience. Originally, the acts of rhetoric consisted of inventio, dispositio, elocutio, and actio. In simpler english, rhetoric is the art of ‘finding out what’s to be said and how to contextually speak of it;’ ‘putting a structured train of thought on how it’s to be said;’ ‘stylishly elaborating the arguments;’ and ‘moving the general audience.’ In the visual version, the actio and elocutio of rhetoric coincides. So, simply put, visual rhetoric spoke about how to design a picture that’s communicative... (more) http://lurino.blogdrive.com/comments?id=150