Encore thoughts

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The excess-thoughts-tripping of Kuris Animators continues for the last time. Join the ride…

70. This coming October 19, 2008 it’s going to be our First Year Anniversary.

71. We wanted to make and declare October 19 as “Kuris Day”.

72. We don’t know yet but we might organize a special event for that day…we’ll see.

73. Speaking of reunion and getting together again, we had our summer reunion at RiversideBeach in Oton, Iloilo.

74. That was the second time that we got together for just a whole evening of fun and reminisce about the group.

75. Janelyn made the reunion possible to happen because she spent so much on the expenses.

78. But we always had daily reunion at Marx’s house in Lapaz.

79. Lyndon used to call their house our Big Brother House…

80. Marx’s home houses the Kuris guys when we were still waiting for the special project.

81. Of course, there were some evicted K-guys from the team…I’d rather not to talk about them.

82. The team keeps getting better without their half-hearted presence.

83. Last June we prepared for an exhibit that Sir Paul told us but it was cancelled due to heavy rain. But next week during the IT Week we might be joining the exhibit.

84. Every time we hear Bryan Adam’s song “Summer of 69”, we remember the best time we had as friends.

84. Speaking of Bryan Adams, Brynh used to lip-synched his song “Heaven” and made a video which landed in the youtube.

85. Brynh’s crazy lip-synched video clip in the old studio where we once worked for a project was our first video clip posted in youtube.

86. Right now, there were more than 10 music videos and animated clips we posted in youtube.

87. Some people told us that those video clips in youtube were nonsense, but who cares? We had lots of fun doing it.

88. When we think about the future, we think about “Lapis” our original story and upcoming animated project.

89. We don’t want to reveal everything about it because we don’t want to spoil the story and keep the mystery part of the project mysterious…hehe.

90. All we know right now is—a good Manila-based writer plans to develop the story further.

91. And a prominent Arts institution expressed their interest to support this dream.

92. It might bring Ilonggo culture to the next level and highlight our true talent.

93. Elson made a 20-page storyboard about the “Lapis” which we earlier planned to submit for our possible sponsor.

94. But since it’s quite too Anime, Bryan might enhance the storyboard and make lots of changes to look more Western-Ilonggo-influenced type of animation.

95. Clue: it might resemble similarity on The BEQUEST style of characters but only in more fictional and fantasy way.

96. Winning in the upcoming Animahenasyon is not our priority, joining and showing what Ilonggo animators can do is our real passion to prove.

97. So if we lose, we won’t feel disappointed because we need these “life-reality” to bring out the best in us and dream even bigger.

98. We are much happier now and contented than what we used to be in the past because time showed us who are the real Kurisans.

99. Now, this is official to tell--- this coming December we might organize a charity-art-workshop event for some less fortunate kids in a far province of Iloilo as a sign of gratitude to God who made every little good things possible for us.

100. ten years from now, I know Kuris as a group still exist as a legacy we left for Ilonggo arts community even if we might have our own personal priorities in life.

101. Someday, we would like to tell our kids that Kuris is indeed a great team of artistic dreamers who believed in the impossible and were not afraid to chase their dream.

102. This is it, end of this post so we’re throwing all our excess baggage to say what we want to see someday--- we hope 20 years from now Iloilo would be the next hub of animation in the Philippines.