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MERYL STREEP (left) as JULIA CHILD (right)
Julie & Julia is now showing in Manila and I managed to catch a screening this weekend.

The new Meryl Streep and Amy Adams-starrer, Julie & Julia, is more than just about cooking. The film is also about blogging. Food blogging to be specific. In several scenes, the movie shows how a blogger grows from signing up one's blog account to having supportive readers who constantly comment. Paypal is even mentioned. And, of course, there's the readers' loot which is more practised in the US.
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JULIA CHILD's BEEF BOURGUIGNON

I was able to relate to the character of Julia who struggles entering her '30s not knowing what she'll do with her spare time. Her day job is nothing that she's passionate about and her leisure time is seeking refuge from the daily remnants of work. Soon, she finds herself blogging about the thing she loves to do -- cook.

Meryl Streep, as the legendary food author and cooking show personality Julia Child, is also featured in the movie to render Julia's connection to her childhood adoration of the former.

The movie, by the way, is an adaptation of a book which director Norah Ephron wrote for the big screen.

I started blogging about the food I eat, the restaurants I eat out in, and the snacks I bring home to eat because I reckoned what else is good to write about but those that I engage in on a daily basis, right?
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YOU OUGHT TO READ THIS:
The day my folks convinced me to eat home-cooked mussels (tahong)
 
 
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The Starbucks VIA campaign

I'm not a millenial. I was not born into a generation of information technology and the internet. I, however, was exposed to lots of manual art work and graphic designing mostly on paper. You can just imagine my appreciation of a Starbucks ad campaign which I eventually found out was executed by graphic artist and designer Yulia Brodskaya. The ad campaign is for Starbucks' new experimental instant coffee called VIA.

The rest of her design outputs just blew me away. The intricacy of her designs brought me to an introspective and retrospective stance. She loves to experiment and explore ways of bringing together all the things she likes most: typography, paper, and highly detailed hand-made craft objects.

Y U L I A 's   O T H E R   W O R K S

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Yulia's take on monochromatic design
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