Slateplanner.com 2012 in Review!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 75,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that … 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
2012 First Quarter Design Challenge
The first quarter of 2012 is about to end and we’re closing it with the biggest design challenge yet! Prizes for this Sloot giveaway will be bigger and we’re awarding more than one winner! Yeah! We’ll let you know more about the awesome prizes in the following weeks. For now, kindly read the mechanics: 1. … 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
A Race to 2012
Listening to: A Spell A Rebel Yell, Coldplay Hello! Here at the Slate HQ, we’re busy answering emails, inquiries, text messages and [most importantly] preparing new additions to our home in cyberspace, Planet Slate! We’re putting up a page for all the art and literary works you all have sent us from all over the … Read more
