kind word
what are the things that Indonesian really needed to learn ?
I must say : kind word
We must learn how to say sorry and thank you properly,
“Sorry” in Indonesian is a rare word , you seldom see it in TV show , sinetrons ( Indonesian telenovela ) , film, and it was extinct years ago in politics .
sri mulyani
I don’t understand anything about this strange case ( i’m not sure I wanted too though )
but a friend of mine actually knew sri mulyani , she was his professor in Economy faculty in prestigious Universitas Indonesia . Even working for her for a couple of years.
I think how cool was that …
I’m not sure how would the case turns out but it’s weird to held her responsible for everything ,
I say just find whoever got the money and there you have , the thief !.
one idea at the time
As much as I want to write something right now, I just seems to be out of the creative worlds lately. But I have to moving on and just got an idea
why don’t I create illustration from wise quote that I encounter today ?
seems like an awesome idea isn’t ?
I don’t have to think about something wise ( like I could anyway ) , i Just have to think something that would depict that words .
For now I got this quote from a song
” it’s easy to love the rains when you’re not wet “
it really got me thinking how true this one is.
We almost immediately thinking that we’re sorry when something less that fortunate happen to people around us , we were sympathetic when there was a disaster in foreign country. We were sad when somebody die , lose their job, lose their house, failing the exam, not getting a promotion etc .
Anyway it’s probably our darkest secret as human, that we sometime use it as an excuse to be grateful that it doesn’t happen to us ( but sometime it will, God forbid ).
But that’s just my crazy talk , meanwhile Ill start looking for another quote to illustrate and maybe i’ll able to do better illustration than this one.
here’s an example
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indonesian version of avatar
maybe all of you have already seen movie ” Avatar ”
great movie right ?
But I wouldn’t talk about what’s the noble message in it that some people talk about,
no ,, why ?
because I think I am part of the problems that movie was talking about, I never take part of environment action or donate money to WWF funds ( maybe i should ) . My only so called environmental attitude is to throw my garbage in the garbage bin, falsely believing it wouldn’t ends up in some garbage dump ( what a naive thought… all garbage goes to some place ).
the movie reminds me a lot of Kalimantan ( borneo ), whose forest are being destroyed and sold for commodities. And the Omaticayan ( blue people in avatar ) somehow resemble people of Dayak kayan who were wise and just in treating and preserving the forest. And yet the government ( in new orde era ) always quick to blame them for deforestation.
But in Borneo the human prevail and the spirit of the forest were crushed . The spirit were restless and occasionally sending its wrath through flood and landslide , even so the human hold its stubborn and selfish behavior.
on a totally unrelated event there was an articles here about a discovery of vast amount of lithium in Bolivia .
Is it ours (human ) for taking ? or it should remain intake for something that we didn’t fully understand yet
B & W photography #2
just another photos from last year vacation in Bali , but the place was just a shopping mall with lots of painting in its parking lot. Maybe this picture is the only picture that I think has good composition.
I found a website run by a young women with so much talent in photography that could blow your mind.
here is the link
it’s fascinating to see young people these day. with endless possibility to convey and learn to create something beautiful. I remember having a friend back in high school with dreams of becoming an photographer,forcing himself studying how to shoot pictures and spending a lot of money in films (no digital cam back then). Now he is one of top photographer in Indonesia.
I guess perseverance and action could take you anywhere
it’s just so happen I got a list from communication arts of world’s artist of photographers,
see them for inspiration
1. andre kopac
2. peter leverman
3.Cade martin
4. Michael grecco
5. Paolo Marchesi
6.David Schinman
7. Deborah jones
8.Patrick Nichols
9.Claire Bock
10. Nick vedros
new life
I couldn’t sleep and end up doodling with illustrator . And i couldn’t draw anything else beside this …
there’s a saying that
You can’t do the same thing and expecting different results
it’s simple yet hard thing to do as I tend to wake up in the morning and immediately thinking the exact same thing as yesterday.
So today I would started thinking about new thought.
graphics novel
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using the comics form. The term is employed in a broad manner, encompassing non-fiction works and thematically linked short stories as well as fictional stories across a number of genres .. wikipedia.org
there were some extending trends in fictional books that once written only novels have to had illustrations in it. These day information were flooding like never before. News, stories, facts, figures all racing to our head through newspaper, TV, internet. And our brain digest the information with certain limitations, and science proving that our brain tend to absorb anything graphical faster than something written. Some writer uses moderate amount of this illustrated methods like any good teen lit novels. while another writer or publisher tried different approach using only illustrated story hence graphics novel.
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bali – december 2009
I was in Bali for holiday last week, well I guess you cannot call it holiday when actually it’s my home .
it just so happen there were two major event for me in Bali , one is my cousin wedding and second was Denpasar Festival that was held in Denpasar city park .
Here is some picture that I took in both of the events
In the opening of Denpasar Festival there was a fashion show and talent contest , and here’s some of the finalist
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