Punchdrunk Panda’s Jen Horn admits to procrastination and smiling stupidly while editing the video for Anteroom Sessions 2, the funnest event this summer all year ever! :D

Enjoy! And thank you to everyone who made this event super awesome (especially those who were bouncing around the stage!)

Lovelots,
The PdP (or Anteroom) Team :D

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ANTEROOM SESSIONS 2 by Punchdrunk Panda & Heima
March 31, 2012 • Cubao X

This has been the happiest video I’ve had to edit so far. :D

Granted, it took me two months after the event before I actually churned out this video, mostly due to the amount of footage, my workload, and sometimes, most of the time, really just procrastination. But yeah, I found myself smiling stupidly and laughing while reviewing the clips.

I’m bummed that I had to cut out a lot of other fun footage (I imposed a 2.5-minute limit upon myself, for the benefit of those with attention deficit), but I think that essentially, what I have on the video is representative of the good vibes and happy energy of the night. My work here is done.

I wonder when the next Anteroom Sessions will be. :)

Pa-pa-pa-pa-paaaaaaaa,
Jen

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Anteroom Sessions 2 & bringing Cubao X back to life Jen of Punchdrunk Panda shares her “abbreviated” thoughts on Anteroom Sessions 2, which was was held at Cubao X last March 31, 2012. She would be overjoyed if you read until the end. :) —- Anteroom Sessions 2: A celebration of creativity & passionA novel by Jen Horn  I don’t even know how to begin writing about Anteroom Sessions 2 by Punchdrunk Panda & Heima. I get goose bumps thinking about Anteroom Sessions and what I feel we achieve when we put it together. But I guess I can start with A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who helped make Anteroom Sessions 2 such a happy, heart-warming, memorable event. My current Punchdrunk Panda team is little, but through our collaboration with so many other groups and individuals, and with help from people we’ve worked with before, we managed to pull off yet another Anteroom Sessions. Thanks to Heima for co-presenting the event with us, whose store interiors also inspired us to create our tent decor. One day, we hope to have a PdP office/store that evokes similar feelings of I-wanna-stay-here-forever. Special shout-out to Bong & Madel! We would also like to thank our inspiring and happiness-inducing performers: DJ Only Revolutions, Tarsius, Gentle Universe, Slow Hello, Love Never Dies, Ang Bandang Shirley, The Strangeness, Techy Romantics & DJ Joey Santos, for pursuing their musical inclinations and sharing that with us last Saturday. We hope that Anteroom Sessions 2 helped more people discover your talent and realize how awesome our local indie music scene is. :D Many thanks to our fellow pop-up shops: Agos, Artwork, Electromagnetic Tentacle, Junk Studio, KLoi’s N KLay’s, MaPapel, Moonleaf Tea Shop, Sophie’s Mom, Ukay Alalay, Vesti, Vnaltik, Yuki who also decided to come on board with us and showcase their wares. You are proof of Pinoy ingenuity, wit and resourcefulness. :) Thank you also to Red House Productions’ Patrick Vinalay & Nailen Garalde, and to Chyna Lo for creating the webisodes for our skimmer design teams, whose skimmer designs we launched that night. You can check out all the webisodes at Punchdrunk Panda’s YouTube. Thank you to PdP artists OJ Desuasido, Joseph Velasquez, Rob Cham, Tof Zapanta & Ge Mapa for creating Anteroom Sessions 2 gig posters, which were also exhibited during the event. So happy to have such passionate and talented people like you in our pool of our artists! Of course, I would like to thank my PdP team, Nica Kim, Pauline Santillan, and Steph Yu for putting up with my abuse. Haha! I commend you guys for being at the venue since morning, helping me setup and prep (long before the event proper), and perhaps silently praying with me as I asked the heavens to let the rain keep pouring down in the morning so it would stop by afternoon. (It was literally flooding in the street in front of Heima that morning. Thankfully, we were only inconvenienced by a little rain in the late afternoon.) These ladies were standing up pretty much the whole time too and were hungry, thirsty, and undoubtedly tired at the end of the night, but I still saw the smiles on their faces. I love you, guys! You have no idea. Thank you also to Jonver David & Joseph Velasquez, former members of my PdP team but always part of the bigger PdP family, for helping around with various things: moving the PdP booth, keeping things dry, setting up the projector, looking for my co-host Thysz, who also did a smashing job, while I ran around like a headless chicken, bouncing around from the stage, to the Punchdrunk Panda booth, to the other pop-up shops, to the Cubao X gate when (horror of horrors!) they prevented people from coming in during Earth Hour. By George was it a tiring day/night, but oh so worth all the beads of sweat and severe leg cramps and muscle pain that I am still experiencing right now due to fatigue. When I get thanks from the event performers and pop-up shops for the opportunity to be a part of the Anteroom Sessions project my heart swells, and I just feel that we are as indebted to YOU guys as well. So, THANK YOU SO MUCH. We created Anteroom Sessions for people to discover and celebrate Filipino talent and creativity in design/art (through our own products, our gig poster exhibit, and all other pop-up shops), music (through our performers), and film (through our webisodes), and if we were able to achieve a bit of that through our efforts, then we are happy pandas. Our product launch was just a good excuse to throw a party for you all. I also have to thank EVERYONE who joined us at Anteroom Sessions 2. Even if you are not among the people that I singled out above, thank you so much for coming to support the event, for giving local indie music the recognition it deserves, buying proudly Pinoy-made products, and helping bring life back to Cubao X! It’s weird that I’m feeling tears welling up in my eyes (Agh! Sorry for being such a girl. Oh wait, I AM one), but I can’t help but feel that we did good with Anteroom Sessions 2. Aaaand…goose bumps again. Agh! I’m just so happy!! I cannot even begin to express in words the high I am still on from all the good vibes from Anteroom Sessions 2. I guess some might say that we’ve come a long way from the first Anteroom Sessions at Moonleaf Tea Shop in September 3, 2011, but this sustained, ineffable happiness is not much different from what I felt after that. I will be forever grateful to everyone who’s just been so game to humor our little ideas, collaborating with us and making these crazy seeds grow into something bigger and better than we initially imagine. We hope you all had a blast, and that you will be with us if (or when) we put together another Anteroom Sessions some day. Your happy headless chicken,Jen a.k.a. Nomad Manager
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Anteroom Sessions 2 & bringing Cubao X back to life

Jen of Punchdrunk Panda shares her “abbreviated” thoughts on Anteroom Sessions 2, which was was held at Cubao X last March 31, 2012.
She would be overjoyed if you read until the end. :)

—-

Anteroom Sessions 2: A celebration of creativity & passion
A novel by Jen Horn 

I don’t even know how to begin writing about Anteroom Sessions 2 by Punchdrunk Panda & Heima.
I get goose bumps thinking about Anteroom Sessions and what I feel we achieve when we put it together.

But I guess I can start with A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who helped make Anteroom Sessions 2 such a happy, heart-warming, memorable event. My current Punchdrunk Panda team is little, but through our collaboration with so many other groups and individuals, and with help from people we’ve worked with before, we managed to pull off yet another Anteroom Sessions.

Thanks to Heima for co-presenting the event with us, whose store interiors also inspired us to create our tent decor. One day, we hope to have a PdP office/store that evokes similar feelings of I-wanna-stay-here-forever. Special shout-out to Bong & Madel!

We would also like to thank our inspiring and happiness-inducing performers: DJ Only Revolutions, Tarsius, Gentle Universe, Slow Hello, Love Never Dies, Ang Bandang Shirley, The Strangeness, Techy Romantics & DJ Joey Santos, for pursuing their musical inclinations and sharing that with us last Saturday. We hope that Anteroom Sessions 2 helped more people discover your talent and realize how awesome our local indie music scene is. :D

Many thanks to our fellow pop-up shops: Agos, Artwork, Electromagnetic Tentacle, Junk Studio, KLoi’s N KLay’s, MaPapel, Moonleaf Tea Shop, Sophie’s Mom, Ukay Alalay, Vesti, Vnaltik, Yuki who also decided to come on board with us and showcase their wares. You are proof of Pinoy ingenuity, wit and resourcefulness. :)

Thank you also to Red House Productions’ Patrick Vinalay & Nailen Garalde, and to Chyna Lo for creating the webisodes for our skimmer design teams, whose skimmer designs we launched that night. You can check out all the webisodes at Punchdrunk Panda’s YouTube.

Thank you to PdP artists OJ Desuasido, Joseph Velasquez, Rob Cham, Tof Zapanta & Ge Mapa for creating Anteroom Sessions 2 gig posters, which were also exhibited during the event. So happy to have such passionate and talented people like you in our pool of our artists!

Of course, I would like to thank my PdP team, Nica Kim, Pauline Santillan, and Steph Yu for putting up with my abuse. Haha! I commend you guys for being at the venue since morning, helping me setup and prep (long before the event proper), and perhaps silently praying with me as I asked the heavens to let the rain keep pouring down in the morning so it would stop by afternoon. (It was literally flooding in the street in front of Heima that morning. Thankfully, we were only inconvenienced by a little rain in the late afternoon.) These ladies were standing up pretty much the whole time too and were hungry, thirsty, and undoubtedly tired at the end of the night, but I still saw the smiles on their faces. I love you, guys! You have no idea.

Thank you also to Jonver David & Joseph Velasquez, former members of my PdP team but always part of the bigger PdP family, for helping around with various things: moving the PdP booth, keeping things dry, setting up the projector, looking for my co-host Thysz, who also did a smashing job, while I ran around like a headless chicken, bouncing around from the stage, to the Punchdrunk Panda booth, to the other pop-up shops, to the Cubao X gate when (horror of horrors!) they prevented people from coming in during Earth Hour.

By George was it a tiring day/night, but oh so worth all the beads of sweat and severe leg cramps and muscle pain that I am still experiencing right now due to fatigue. When I get thanks from the event performers and pop-up shops for the opportunity to be a part of the Anteroom Sessions project my heart swells, and I just feel that we are as indebted to YOU guys as well. So, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

We created Anteroom Sessions for people to discover and celebrate Filipino talent and creativity in design/art (through our own products, our gig poster exhibit, and all other pop-up shops), music (through our performers), and film (through our webisodes), and if we were able to achieve a bit of that through our efforts, then we are happy pandas. Our product launch was just a good excuse to throw a party for you all.

I also have to thank EVERYONE who joined us at Anteroom Sessions 2. Even if you are not among the people that I singled out above, thank you so much for coming to support the event, for giving local indie music the recognition it deserves, buying proudly Pinoy-made products, and helping bring life back to Cubao X!

It’s weird that I’m feeling tears welling up in my eyes (Agh! Sorry for being such a girl. Oh wait, I AM one), but I can’t help but feel that we did good with Anteroom Sessions 2. Aaaand…goose bumps again. Agh! I’m just so happy!! I cannot even begin to express in words the high I am still on from all the good vibes from Anteroom Sessions 2. I guess some might say that we’ve come a long way from the first Anteroom Sessions at Moonleaf Tea Shop in September 3, 2011, but this sustained, ineffable happiness is not much different from what I felt after that.

I will be forever grateful to everyone who’s just been so game to humor our little ideas, collaborating with us and making these crazy seeds grow into something bigger and better than we initially imagine.

We hope you all had a blast, and that you will be with us if (or when) we put together another Anteroom Sessions some day.

Your happy headless chicken,
Jen a.k.a. Nomad Manager

Only a day to go before Anteroom Sessions 2! It’s going to be held tomorrow at Cubao X formerly known as Marikina Shoe Expo, 4pm onwards!  Cubao Expo or Cubao X has been a haven for art afficionados, collectors looking for rare finds and at times, it serves as a venue for people chilling to some indie music. It houses unique stores (the ones you don’t find in malls) and hole-in-wall restaurants such as Bellini’s famous for its Italian dishes, Sputnik comics and of course, Heima store :) Here’s a map to Cubao X to guide you to Anteroom Sessions 2! It’s near Ali Mall and walking distance from MRT Cubao Station and Gateway Mall. See ya!
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Only a day to go before Anteroom Sessions 2! It’s going to be held tomorrow at Cubao X formerly known as Marikina Shoe Expo, 4pm onwards! 

Cubao Expo or Cubao X has been a haven for art afficionados, collectors looking for rare finds and at times, it serves as a venue for people chilling to some indie music. It houses unique stores (the ones you don’t find in malls) and hole-in-wall restaurants such as Bellini’s famous for its Italian dishes, Sputnik comics and of course, Heima store :)

Here’s a map to Cubao X to guide you to Anteroom Sessions 2! It’s near Ali Mall and walking distance from MRT Cubao Station and Gateway Mall.

See ya!

View our little PdP skimmer design team webisode “trailer”. :P

In line with the launch of our latest batch of ladies’ skimmers, we’ll be screening their webisodes first at ANTEROOM SESSIONS TWO by Punchdrunk Panda & Heima this coming Saturday, March 31 at Cubao X!

It’s only a couple of days away!!

We’ll also be launching our newest camera straps for both SLRs and point-and-shoot/prosumer cameras (like the Lumix, Canon G series, etc.)

Kick back with us as we listen to local indie music, shop from creative Pinoy entrepreneurs, drink milk tea, and eat cupcaaaakes!!

Argh! WE ARE SO EXCITED! And we hope you are too!
Say hello to us at the Punchdrunk Panda booth! 

Cheeeers,
The Punchdrunk Panda team

Skimmer Webisode Shoot BTS: Kasey Albano + Arriane Serafico

Check out some behind-the-scene shots during Kasey and Arriane’s webisode shoot at Heima Store in Cubao Expo :)  You can also visit our FB album for more photos!

Catch the premiere of their webisode at Anteroom Sessions 2, March 31, 4pm onwards at Cubao X.

Only 5 DAYS before Anteroom and the launch of their design GOING PLACES!

See you there!

Anteroom Sessions 2 joins forces with ELECTROMAGNETIC TENTACLE! A group of five super friends formed Electromagnetic Tentacle (EMT), a brand of limited edition graphic t-shirts that are currently irradiating the local geek populace like wildfire. Their first line, EMT Mutations, consists of parody shirts that cross breed pop culture icons with Pinoy culture. Visit EMT on Facebook or visit the official website! Watch out for their awesome and hilarious designs at Anteroom Sessions 2 on March 31, 2012, 4pm-11pm at Cubao X!
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Anteroom Sessions 2 joins forces with ELECTROMAGNETIC TENTACLE!

A group of five super friends formed Electromagnetic Tentacle (EMT), a brand of limited edition graphic t-shirts that are currently irradiating the local geek populace like wildfire. Their first line, EMT Mutations, consists of parody shirts that cross breed pop culture icons with Pinoy culture.

Visit EMT on Facebook or visit the official website! Watch out for their awesome and hilarious designs at Anteroom Sessions 2 on March 31, 2012, 4pm-11pm at Cubao X!

Anteroom Sessions 2 proudly brings you GENTLE UNIVERSE! “Gentle Universe” is a new nature and children-inspired ambient sound performance group. Inspired by the birth of his son, it was founded by ambient musician and sound designer Cris Garcimo in 2011. They create music and sounds using vintage synths, computers, toys and field recordings. Chill to their ambient music at Anteroom Sessions 2 on March 31, 4pm onwards at Cubao X! Follow Gentle Universe on Twitter and visit their Website 3 DAYS TO GO! :D See you all at Anteroom!
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Anteroom Sessions 2 proudly brings you GENTLE UNIVERSE!

“Gentle Universe” is a new nature and children-inspired ambient sound performance group. Inspired by the birth of his son, it was founded by ambient musician and sound designer Cris Garcimo in 2011. They create music and sounds using vintage synths, computers, toys and field recordings.

Chill to their ambient music at Anteroom Sessions 2 on March 31, 4pm onwards at Cubao X!

Follow Gentle Universe on Twitter and visit their Website

3 DAYS TO GO! :D See you all at Anteroom!

Get your favorite Artwork tees at Anteroom Sessions 2! Artwork is one of the leading t-shirt brands in the Philippines dedicated to the young and passionate; a brand that never tires out of pushing the limits of t-shirt fashion and art. With its myriad of influences—art, music, and pop culture—it strives to become a channel where the Filipino youth can find meaningful truth by means of design and concept development, guaranteeing the best quality and interactive service one can find.  Catch their pop-up shop at Anteroom Sessions 2 on March 31, 2012, 4pm-11pm at Cubao X. Like Artwork on Facebook and visit their official website! ONLY 4 DAYS TIL ANTEROOM :D See you there!
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Get your favorite Artwork tees at Anteroom Sessions 2!

Artwork is one of the leading t-shirt brands in the Philippines dedicated to the young and passionate; a brand that never tires out of pushing the limits of t-shirt fashion and art. With its myriad of influences—art, music, and pop culture—it strives to become a channel where the Filipino youth can find meaningful truth by means of design and concept development, guaranteeing the best quality and interactive service one can find. 

Catch their pop-up shop at Anteroom Sessions 2 on March 31, 2012, 4pm-11pm at Cubao X.

Like Artwork on Facebook and visit their official website!

ONLY 4 DAYS TIL ANTEROOM :D See you there!


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