Anyone who has ever come across new media art knows there’s no way for you to describe it if you haven’t experienced it.

ASEUM, an international new media art festival that kicks off this week in the Philippines, hopes to change that and to expose the regular Pinoy–whose idea of the arts could be limited to paintings, sculpture, and theater–to a different kind of art form derived from technologies such as the computer.

Manila Design Week 2009 gathers all graphic designers – local and international, established and up and coming – to celebrate the emerging graphic design scene in the country today. The first of its kind in the Philippines, it aims to bring Philippine Graphic Design into the mainstream. More than …

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Educators in 20 public schools in Isabela are keeping their teaching methods updated through 3G phones like the Nokia N95.

Through the Text2Teach program, these teachers can access the Nokia Education Delivery, an exclusive phone application, and find more than 300 visual aids on math, science, and English at their fingertips. In video format, these visual aids can be downloaded, stored in the phone for later use, and viewed using a TV set connected to the mobile phone.

By David Calleja

“The martial art is a cultural asset. I look at myself as a martial arts anthropologist, and if we lose it, we’re losing one more aspect of the culture,” declares Antonio Graceffo, New York-born author and creator of the web TV show Martial Arts Odyssey.

Graceffo looks confident when appearing on camera and packs a punch in delivering his message. His achievements include a career in the US military, investment banking on Wall Street, journalism, linguistics (he is fluent in nine languages), and motivational speaking. Graceffo also reached the semi-finals of the Toastmasters International World Championships of Public Speaking and served as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) with an ambulance crew in Manila, Philippines.

By David Calleja

Martial arts enthusiasts of all levels can now learn from the best trainers and fighters in the industry by watching Martial Arts Odyssey on the Internet.

Hosted and produced by Asia-based New Yorker, Antonio Graceffo, Martial Arts Odyssey has gained popularity by taking viewers into the heart of Asia, providing details of fighting techniques across a range of disciplines. The show also emphasizes the importance of cardio and strength training.