“Terror is a man” and horror is our fascination for it. Whatever
comes out of its fanged gnawing mouth leaves no absolute space for
thinking, its awesome indescribability drawn from the probability of
the unseen or even the unimaginable come alive. This re-engagement
with the morbid fantasy of prepubescent awakening by Fangoria and
Clive Barker mixed in with the horror vacui- jeepney graphics
profusely converge in Louie Cordero’s latest exhibit Absolute Horror
opening at Mo_space on June 28 until July27 2008.
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There’s a new shop in town—that is, if your town happens to be Cubao—and it looks like no other shop you’ve ever seen before, except perhaps in some strange dream that you had after staying up all night rereading Grant Morrison’s run on Doom Patrol. Outside, it looks like it’s melting; inside, it looks like geek heaven, with its bright white interiors and its shelves stocked with wonderful comics and toys. It’s called Sputnik, and it just opened at the Cubao Expo. In the words of one of the owners, Ramon de Veyra, “We sell comics, graphic novels, action figures, designer toys, and other cool stuff: some posters, some shirts, some novels, some statues.” (The other owner is Lyle Sacris, acclaimed and anti-ordinary filmmaker.) We talked to Ramon about his new enterprise.
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