hi friends ♡ my dad passed on jan. 10, three years after my mom did, and i'm currently footing the remaining hospital and funeral bills after the generous help of friends and family. to fund these expenses and clear space for an eventual move, i'm selling some of my magazines 🧵
just an 18-year-old atom araullo being an inaugural candy cutie in a tee calling to “roll back oil prices!” and declaring apathy a turn-off <3 (september 2001)
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please tell me you have a copy of my very first ad. It was for avon teen colors. Its usually the first ad on candy and seventeen. Close up of me holding a flower. 🙈 you dont have to post it 🙏 I just want to see it again please 😭🙏
exploring the time pond’s went all-in on promoting loose powder in 2004 with a P1 million giveaway ft. karel marquez that was creative and uniquely tangible, a lost reminder of how far a message can go and the many forms it can take in print: the “guess the guy” mystery promo 💌
utada hikaru on her celebrity crush, conan o’brien: “i really think highly of humor, and he doesn’t make insensitive jokes about things like britney busting her knee.” (teen people, november 2004)
today i got to visit 𝙨𝙥𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙚 𝙜𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙮, a new independent magazine shop + art space! it's got everything: cult fav titles from every continent (and every genre), less familiar gems, and even one-of-a-kind zines
📍 city & land mega plaza, adb ave, ortigas center, pasig
14-year-old maja salvador (née andres) didn’t win the candy teen model contest, but they loved her so much they put her on the cover of the next issue ♥️ (august 2003)
i will never see merit in a frivolous “modernization” program that serves only the best interests of those in power who stand to benefit from it financially etc while the dignity of commuters and especially the livelihoods +i welfare of transport workers are disregarded as always
a magazine i bought recently is the gorgeously designed korean food/lifestyle title supermarket. each issue covers a different city, and i love that this one is about the rarely represented taichung. it starts with breakfast, to lunch, to groceries/convenience, to night markets.
Not even joking when I say we need to bring these and/or some iteration of these back in a major way if we ever hope to address the many issues of the fashion industry.
all this recent talk of cillian murphy being the guy he is reminded me of his dazed cover story, just a lovely little profile about a 29-year-old former law student and bit musician turned up-and-coming actor (january 2006)
my jaw dropped at P120 being good for TWO movie tickets 🥲🥲 they used to be P60 for regular seats and P90 for premiere seats on the upper levels but now you have to pay ten times as much for imax (seventeen, august 2003)
this reminds me of the shop near my house that was 99% pink and sold exclusively hello kitty items and it was called “cutingthings,” a portmanteau of cute + kuting a.k.a. kitten in filipino + things (ym happy, 2001)
ended the "twin popsies" mandela effect with ease (ok but really i think it was just that magnolia owned that brand name so when they parted ways with nestle it had to be renamed to just "twin pops")
ed cabagnot writes a tirade on the state of philippine cinema during the era of mother lily’s regal shockers—with a hopeful note in the conclusion that may or may not still ring a little too true today (mega, june 1995)
another forgotten, short-lived title of the filipino teen mag boom, ‘be’ has become a wonderful artifact of youth-oriented y2k graphic design, combining the bauble-y, geometric elements of 60s mod with the reign of all-lowercase sans serif and loud color palettes on cyberspace
i'm very fond of meg's 2002 redesign and how it managed to make fun maximalism—multicolored titles iN sTickY cAps! borders, asterisks, geometric accents galore! no white backgrounds! neons and pastels and everything in between!—look very balanced and pleasant and put-together ✳️
this is still so relevant—one of the headings is literally “a generation that’s had it too easy?”—and the fonts feel so modern that it’s almost anachronistic but then you look at the image and they’re using an encyclopedia-thickness laptop 😭😭 took me tf out (cosmo, march 1999)