Zerothreetwo Conversations: Interviews with the Creative Class

I talked to J Martino "Bobbidee" Olvido. Usually when I interview a musician, it becomes clear what music group I should attach them to. With Bobbi, this was not so easy. Here's an incomplete list of his bands; Sunday Sunday, Snubear, Foc Fashion, The Spirals, and his newest focus Kubra Commander. It was fun to talk to a guy who loves music and doesnt care about all the other trappings of being a musician. Oh and he talks about meeting one of his heroes, Raimund Marasigan, by the urinal. It was a fun story.

If you base Zerothreetwo's 2018 on our New Year's Resolutions, you will see that last year was a complete failure. Will 2019 mirror 2018 and be just as bad?

If we always judged ourselves based on arbitrary goals, it would make for a difficult existence. Fortunately, I don't base our year on silly things like New Year's Resolutions but that doesn't stop me from making them.

For this episode, I look back at 2018, make another set of New Year's Resolutions for 2019, and make a huge announcement (sort of)

Happy New Year!

This is part two of the Best Episodes of 2018! If you want to listen to part one, head on back to the previous episode to get a complete sense of this one. But you won't need to listen to part one to enjoy this.

My guest is my wife Stephanie Villarica. She and I talk about the past guests, how we perceive them, how they've impacted the culture, and what we can do in the future.

Enjoy the episode!

I'm typing this right before we head out for Christmas eve dinner. So this is going to be quick. I thought it would be a good idea to recap some of the most downloaded episodes of 2018. The perfect person to talk to for these episodes is Stephanie Villarica. She's my wife and she was awesome in this episode. It was fun to sit down for an hour and talk about the guests, her thoughts on the episodes, and just spend time with her.

Bry Onglatco is a freelance graphic designer in both logo design/branding and anything print design related, but I know him more for his personal work. He has printed a few comic books. Notably a comic called Heathen Humor and iMBry, but many of his best work is simply posted on Instagram.

In this podcast, we talk about the scarcity mindset, mastering your tools, the freelance life, how to find a routine to create art, and the tools of his craft.

I wanted to expand my world by talking to someone who travels as a profession. Edgar Alan Zeta-Yap is a travel writer, photographer, and blogger from the Philippines. He has traveled to all 81 provinces in the Philippines from Batanes to Tawi-Tawi, and all 11 nations in Southeast Asia, including Myanmar (Burma) and Timor-Leste (East Timor).

I couldn't wait to get Amiel "Cortz" Cortes in the podcast. In a word, he's an honest to goodness historian (he won't say it, but I will) or if you want to get technical, he's a researcher for the culture and heritage unit in the RAFI. Digging into the past of Cebu is always something fun to do, and I could not have picked a better person to share a few of those stories.

We talked his music background, why Cebu doesn't have a Chinatown, when America bombed Cebu, and why our roads are like this.

Kathryn is a freelance artist, cat-mother, food-lover and child of the sea. Whether it's through illustration color or music, she has always been driven by the idea of pushing a story forward without words. Her work has appeared in Space (IDW), Skyward (Action Lab), One Week in the Library (Image), He-Man, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (DC Comics).

We talked about our experiences in gaming, how relationships are different and difficult, her start at freelancing, Patreon, Twitch, and a ton more.

So whenever I get the chance, I like to speak to people in the band scene. Someone currently experiencing gigs and playing. When Wessui Bacareza of Cosmic Kid reached out to me, it was a good opportunity to get the temperature of the current gig scene, especially when it comes to punk. It was fun sharing stories with Wes and comparing what it was like during my time in the band and his time in Cosmic Kid.

I first encountered the work of Wyndelle Remonde on the streets of Cebu. I noticed the symbol of a carabao in various places. I didn't know what it was at first, but somewhere along the way, I found his Instagram handle and noticed the symbol there. I enjoyed his work and gave him a follow. When I caught him for the interview he had just done a Vinyl on Vinyl Gallery show in Manila.