PinoyTattoos.com aims to build a community for anything related to Filipino Tattoos. With this site, they wish to preserve and educate the world about our tattoo history as well as our indigenous culture.
Hilary is a phenomenal jewelry designer who truly honors me by writing about the work I do with PhilippineScript Designs: Thursday, November 6,2008. View the rest of Hilary's blogs and jewelry:
My dear friend, Joe Walls, is the Inayan Guro and owner of Three Rivers Eskrima Concepts located north of Pittsburgh in Beaver Co., PA. Eskrima is a skill I have long since admired so it has been a wonderful and fruitful relationship that Joe and I have formed, teaching each other about our mutual passions.
Definition of Babaylan: A term identifying an indigenous Filipino religious leader, who functions as a healer, a shaman, a seer and a community "miracle-worker" (or a combination of any of those). Although the role and function of a babaylan is open to both sexes, most babaylans from the pre-hispanic era are female. (Source: Wikipedia)
To view a video about the 2010 Babaylan Conference:
In 1998, Guro Fred Evrard founded his first Kali school in Moorea (french polynesia) and another one soon followed in Tahiti, teaching Filipino Martial Arts and natural health concepts. In 2006, a third school was open in Singapore, and the latest was opened in 2008 in the Philippines, the birthland of Kali.
Guro Fred calls the Kali system taught in his schools : Kali Majapahit. It is a synthesis of several Filipino Martial Arts, and some other fighting arts from the ancient Majapahit area in Southeast Asia.
I wanted to share, too, these beautiful pictures of Guro Fred expressing his art:
The Bathala Project "is the embodiment of the direction, perspective, and cultural understanding of the ancient Filipino script, Baybayin, through the body and mind of David Lazaro." I love his expressive work and the time he takes to explain the meaning behind his art.
These shirts are a lot of fun and the graphics are beautiful!
The owner and designer, Robert G. De Vera, is sporting an "Akala" - Believe - rosewood pendant with a sterling silver "Believe" charm. (Rob is also a graphic artist and sent me this pic for our photo gallery...so naturally, I'm using it everywhere!)
Michael Anthony has used a necklace from PhilippineScript Designs in his mainstream glam shots and it was so much fun to see my jewelry in his work. VISIT THIS WEBSITE IMMEDIATELY to see the rest of his photographs!
"Renaissance Man" is what I call Mel Orpilla. He's an historian, photographer, trains in Balintawak Arnis style of Filipino martial arts, is raising an award-winning rescue shar pei, has taken part in Filipino tribal tattoos and has written a book called Filipinos of Vallejo. His website is a great read. I only wish we lived closer so we could have a loooooong chat!
These pieces are truly beautiful images with so much heart it's hard to look away. The picture I've included here is the most wonderful depiction of motherhood I've ever seen.
I know this doesn't really have anything to do with baybayin but the entire song is sung in Tagalog and I was thrilled to find it. "Bebot" is used as a slang word for women like "babe" in English.
