April’s Writing Challenge!
This month is all about building on your brilliance! If you haven’t discovered what you’re good at yet, there are two pages from the Slate 2012 Planner that will challenge your skills on writing or designing. The first one can win you a Sloot*! Try your hand in creating a story with gaps! Fill in … Read more
February Sloot Winner!
HELLO HELLO! Happy Friday, happy Sloot Winner announcement! Here are the placers for February’s Continue This Doodle Design Challenge: THIRD PLACE goes to PAOLO GANGOSO! A bittersweet poison we ingest – two parts curiosity, three parts regret. SECOND PLACE goes to ANDIE CARMA! Overthinking Kills FIRST PLACE goes to MARIANE GO! NegaMonsters The things that … Read more
Some Photos of Angkor
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –Mark Twain
Slate Reel: Balance (animated short)
Before February ends, here’s a treat to honor our Attack the Addiction month. One of the classics, Balance (this month’s antidote!), won the Oscar for Animated Short Film in 1989. Directed and produced by German twin brothers Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein, it is simple and unpretty, yet affectively powerful. Some may find it a bit … Read more
A SLOOT Addiction
February cannot end without another Sloot Design Challenge! Get a chance to win a Sloot when you continue the illustration below: basically, it’s a kid on a scale and something is weighing him down. Your goal is to be that kid and illustrate what are the things or what specific thing weighs you down and … Read more
January Design Challenge Winner!
Hello everyone! This is long overdue so let me get to announcing the placers and the very first Sloot winner for 2012! Huzzah! … Read more
February : Attack the Addiction
Addict you say? Perhaps in less-updated times, an image of an emaciated gaunt-faced person with untidy scruff and murky eyes come into the picture. However, in these modern times, we Filipinos already use the term loosely, as in “adik ka talaga”, which means that times may have changed. Merriam Webster said it best when it defined being addicted as to … Read more
Slate Reel: Restless
Restless (2011) is lovely to watch on a weekend or a weeknight after a stressful day, as it serves as an attractive alternative to your usual rom-coms. It’s surprisingly light and has that good-natured vibe that bewilderingly straddles reality and dream state that are inherent of several Van Sant films. Although not one of his best … Read more
Fierce Fears!
Hello! I should have realized beforehand that not everyone can process space relations as well as others. And since the font I used for the phobia names [on the planner] is pretty geometric, it didn’t read that well for some. In my defense, the font looked pretty good on the screen but yeahhh, it didn’t … Read more
A SLOOTable First!
HELLO! The Slate Team is very excited to open the first ever Sloot* giveaway of 2012! So without any more delays, the challenge this month is to continue the doodle below: Here’s the deal, you can either choose to complete the doodle in your Slate Planner or download the image above (by right click saving … Read more
