Pillbox Press is dedicated to the dissemination of information and art through printable media. A subsidiary that serves as the design studio and publishing machinery of all WALA's printed material. It also holds an online library that includes the publications the company recieves as gifts from other people.
Pakbet: WALA Zine # 1
This zine is an experiment of introducing chance and spontaneous movement to a machine that has a repetition and reproducibility as its forte, namely the ‘’seroks’’ machine. With the theme of PINAKBET, we collected a loose but fixed set of images contributed by members of what they think is related to the concept of pinakbet. These images are then constantly being jumbled, reused, sprinkled upon, and wiped across the scanning board of the machine. Each copy is a variation of certain spreadsheet templates making each unique work and still related to a series. Much like how an individual is related to its species.
Cramorama Zine Catalogue
This Pillbox Press release in cooperation with RATBU documents WALA’s Cramorama event and Petri Dish division launch. It features video stills and text files from the guest participants as primary material. It was then altered using digital manipulation techniques and programs such FlexHex (Hex editor), Audacity, MS Paint and Adobe Photoshop to achieve a glitched effect. The same zine in physical form was also made available during the event.
Puro Damo Wala Namang Kabayo
This is the educational companion pamphlet distributed among visitors and participants during the annual exhibition 420 for its 2015 run. It is an illustrated short primer about that great plant many people love but unreasonably criminalized by authorities. Topics include its proper cultivation, useful applications and some reasons why it's not really bad to smoke it at all just illegal.
Kalihim
Tungkol ito sa patagong pagtitipon ng ilang mga magkakakilala't magkakaibigan na nagtagpo sa tulak ng iisang dahilan, 'ang magsmoke.' Kinalaunan, hahantong ang kwento sa estado kung saan tila horor sa takilya, ang pag gunita ng ilang kaibigan na hindi parte ng nasabing sesyon
Ninuno
Acquired through a zine trade with Mag-isa Kolektib.
Red Racket: An Unauthorized Publication of Red Rocks
This zine was a gift from the members of Children of Cathode Ray (Tad Ermitaňo, Regiben Romana, Jing Garcia, Blums Borres, Peter Marquez, and Magyar Tuazon). It was published in 1989.
Hardworking Goodlooking Books Catalogue
from Clara Balaguer
"Since December 2010, The OCD [Office of Culture and Design] has functioned as a platform for artists,designers, writers and projects thatinvestigate solutions for (primarily)developing world issues.In January 2013, we opened Hardworking,Goodlooking, a publishing arm and designstudio, to consolidate the results of ourexperiments—and the experiments ofothers—in print and other formats."
LIBRARY
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DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions that can be found in the following publications are not necessarily also of those from WALA Corporation.
BAKLAS: ilang diskurso sa kasarinlan ng mga lumad
Mula sa Etnikobandido
"Ang dokumentong ito ay mula sa pag-uusap ng ilang indibiduwal sa chat group patungkol sa suliraning kinakaharap ng Lumad, ang diskursong ito ay magpapatuloy hanggang sa maunawaan natin pare-pareho ang totoong problema sa usapin ng kasarinlan ng mga katutubo"
IBON Facts & Figures
na- Dyaryo
For the 'na-[2] dyaryo' project, WALA paid the required entrance fee [i.e. internet access] and swam Facebook for hours stalking user profiles and pages for images, articles, comment thread-battlegrounds and even status updates. A (re)search and select operation was conducted to pinpoint posts that tend to represent, talk about, reflect on or be critical towards certain (inherently political) issues and concerns. We are mostly interested with the ones we don't get to know about or has a different version on a TV news program or a daily periodical. Public information that are at odds with the ones delivered by outlets owned by some private multimillion media corporation obsessed with its own set of self-interests [e.g. maintaining profit yields]. The publishers of these selected posts were invited to participate in a collaborative piece together with the group by granting us the permission to re-publish their work/material on another platform.
Hello
Acquired through a zine trade with Mel