Our friend Edd Aragon in Australia shares his experience of seeing the robot Asimo:

I guess Honda is just giving us a preview of things to come: Fully functional robots to serve man and to assist him to overcome his frailties. Asimo? …

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By Edd Aragon

Editor’s notes: Ang Himig Natin (Juan Peso) is an experimental digital movie by Edd Aragon, who uses scanned images, photographed ultraviolet paintings and digital animation created by a computer paint program. It launches officially on Bonifacio Day at Inquirer.net’s Global Nation, YouTube, Pinoycentric, and Aragon’s personal blog. Watch the video.

Working in Nonoy Marcelo’s animation studio back in 1978 gave me rudimentary animation skills using hand-drawn images. Also during this time Nonoy published Bukol Magazine where I was one of his editors.

It was a Pinoy version of Mad magazine and involved cartoonists, writers, and serious Filipino painters who willingly tried their hand in the comics genre. Juan Peso was the name of the comic character I created and have now rebirthed in this video, which is kind of a visual narrative using WMM© effects and metamorphosing digital still images ( I’d like to think of it as a short film with an analogue attitude and a digital rush).

by Nouel C. Omamalin

TO BRAVE THE WORLD outside of home is one of the sweetest adventures in life.

I call myself a fusion pastry chef for the reason that I don’t make cakes and pastries like the olden days. While the base …

Pinoy-Australian artist Edd Aragon recently spoke before the Blacktown Arts Network through the invitation of Ms. Monir Rowshan, Cultural Coordinator of this city. Members consist mostly of artists, writers and filmmakers.

In my younger days I often play my blues harmonica which …

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This young Filipino-Australian was one of three finalists in an international competition Rock Star INXS held last year, in a search to replace Michael Hutchence. MiG has definitely scored international stardom. Blame the power of TV.

“I’m proud to be a Filipino. People may think …

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Like rock & blues musicians invisible by day yet visibly vibrant at nocturne the paintings are all blank, white canvases! However, painted images are revealed under ultra-violet light. Edd Aragon , 57, Australian-based Filipino artist is to open his 2nd one-man show in Sydney on October 7, 2006 . His 1st was in 1985 with his multi-award winning caricatures and illustrations. He is a senior artist of the Sydney Morning Herald. This second solo art exhibit is an array of painted portraits and allegorical images of mainstream and Filipino rock and roll (aka rhythm & blues) personalities considered legends by generations of rock and roll fans. Pieces include Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Juan dela Cruz Band, Bod Dylan, Banyuhay ni Heber and Sampaguita and AC/DC. What makes Aragon 's paintings unique and innovative is his use of ultra-violet reactive paint he personally formulated, emitting a mesmerising, bluish glow under UV lights. The artist calls this medium "Aragonite" (from a UV light reactive mineral first discovered in Aragon, Spain ) which he explored and synthesized with various acrylic polymers for the past 6 years in his Sydney studio.