Eldrin's Arts Blog

      "Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music." - Ray Charles      There are many varieties of musical instruments that were created and developed, aiming to aid musicians to create new music or sound. Common musical instruments that easily comes to mind are stringed instrument like a guitar, percussion instrument like drum, or the classic keyboard/piano--all of which are common denominators that are being used by bands, local or globally, professionals or amateurs.     However, there are a group of instruments that are seemed to be overlooked by many. These instruments are the wind instruments. Examples of these musical instruments are flutes, clarinets, and those under from the brass section--like trumpets, trombones, saxophones, etc. Unlike stringed instruments and in the piano that presses different combination of strings and different combination of keys, respectively, wind instruments u...

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein. This quote from Einstein in particular can sum up the digital drawing created by Iñigo Angelo Dabuet, a person I became friends with after years of being present in the campus journalism scene during High School. He created this digital artwork last 2020, during the early days of lockdown due to the COVID-19 virus. Well, as you can see and from the title itself, his work was inspired and based on Greek mythology--particularly the story about Pandora's box. To those who are not familiar with the story, the story is all about Pandora, who was entrusted to take care of a box and was thoroughly warned not to open it. Despite the warnings, Pandora--out of curiosity--still opened the box that unleashed many horrible things like greed, war, etc. Dabuet compared the story to how the Philippine government seemed to ignore the early warnings to declare a travel ban to and...