Happy Birthday Benedict

Hey there birthday boy! Happy 37th birthday Benedict. I've been supporting you since 3 years back and I hope more years to come may be filled with joy and happiness and best actor nominee for the Oscars :)

I love your works because it's always a stand out with your unique characters and thus you are my favorite one. 

I had a plan on giving you a birthday present but that I know you're busy travelling around the globe and I hadn't have the time to finish it and posting via air takes a load of time, so maybe next year you will receive it, hopefully :)

I'm still not sure if you're turning 37 or just 12 years old hahaha

Yu Orait? - Perjalanan ke Papua Niugini

Papua Niugini (Papau New Guinea)

Selamat datang di Papua Niugini, the land of the unexpected. Hari ini saya akan bercerita tentang hari pertama saya di PNG. Kebetulan numpang liburan ketika ayah saya sedang bertugas disini, yaa sambil nunggu wisuda, pekerjaan masih lenggang, kenapa ga liburan aja sekalian jalan-jalan ke tempat baru :)

Sebenarnya saya suka sekali pergi ke tempat yang baru, apalagi kalo harus naik pesawat, wuiih senengnya minta ampuun karena salah satu transportasi yang menyediakan makanan enak minimal sekali selama perjalanan (yang jauh ya) itu hanya di dalam pesawat hehehe. Alasan yang lain seneng naik pesawat itu karena bandaranya. Ya, semenjak pertama kali datang di bandara Schipol, saya jadi seneng window shopping (cuci mata ke barang dan manusia cakep hehehe). Apalagi pas lagi transit di bandara Changi, buseet mall aja udah kalah tuh, lebih lengkap didalam Duty Free-nya. Berpergian antar terminal juga memakai Skytrain saking jauhnya. 

Okey back to PNG, saya tiba di bandara Jackson International Airport dengan pesawat Air Niugini pada pukul 7.30 waktu setempat. Perjalanan dari Jakarta-Port Moresby total mencapai kurang lebih 12 jam – wow, dengan transit di Singapore dulu. Ketika memasuki pesawat Air Niugini dari bandara Changi, sudah terasa hawa-hawa khasnya, karena yang boarding kebanyakan orang-orang berkulit hitam. Tuhan itu adil, membuat orang kulit hitam mempunyai senyuman yang manis dan ramah, sehingga para pramugari pesawat Air Niugini membuat nyaman para penumpang. Bandara di Port Moresby tidak sekeren di Soetta, banyak pula penduduk lokal yang menjemput temannya dengan menyeker, bukan karena dia tidak punya sepatu tapi itu sudah menjadi hal yang biasa disini.

Perjalanan dari bandara ketempat penginapan memakan waktu kira-kira 15 menit dan selama perjalanan berbincang dengan warga Indonesia yang menjemput kami ada banyak hal yang saya temukan aneh. Coba lihat poin-poin berikut ini:

1.       Kejahatan disini masih tinggi. Warga Indonesia yang tinggal di Port Moresby berwanti-wanti agar jangan jalan-jalan sendirian di jalan raya, apalagi kalo tempatnya sepi. Kalo bisa naik mobil saja. Naik taxi terlalu riskan, bisa-bisa diculik dan dibawa kabur hiii.. Di kota seperti ini sih saya kayanya ga akan betah, kemana-mana dikawal, pulang ada jadwalnya, ga boleh pergi sendirian, trus mau ngapain di dalam rumah? Asalkan ada internet super cepat dan kerjaan via online sih tak masalah hahahah. 

2.       Kenapa kejahatan tinggi? Mungkin salah satu faktornya adalah pabrik bir di tengah kota, dimana anak kecil saja sudah mulai minum. Kadar alkoholnya pun lebih tinggi dari pada bir2 yag ada di indonesia. Banyak pula billboard dan ILM tentang “Drinking and driving” yaaa maklum lulusan DKV jadi bisa ketauan deh masalah yang paling utama di kota ini apa :p 

3.       Jam malam itu jam 8, toko sudah pada tutup dari jam 4 dan aktifitas pun sudah berhenti ketika malam tiba. Jadi kejadian setelah makan malam itu penyakit, langsung ngantuuk.. 

4.       Soal makanan sih don’t worry, masih banyak produk tanah air yang dijual di supermarket sampe rendang pun ada di restoran Asia. Saya bertanya makanan yang khas disini apa? Saya mendapat jawaban kalo disini tidak ada makanan khas, cuma lidah orang-orang sini itu anti pedas. Warga Indonesia yang disini, kebetulan orang Padang, WAJIB membeli dan membawa botol sambal disetiap resto. Lucu juga sih ngeliatnya, aneh heheh. 
Oh ya dan makanan disini tuh porsinya jumbo-jumbo. Yaa buat yang pengen program menggemukkan badan silahkan kesini saja. Kalo saya sih bahayaaa hehehe, untung cuma sebentar disininya.
Buka puasa pertama disini kami makan di resto Asia, makanannya ga jauh-jauh deh dari makanan kita yang di indonesia tapi porsinya itu loh yang ga tanggung-tanggung.

Nasi Lemak (isinya telor setengah matang, ayam goreng, ikan teri dan kacang dengan sambalnya) 

Chicken Curry Rice (ini nih kari ayam yang enak, bumbunya enak trus ayamnya 2 potong lagi muahahaha)

Hainan Rice - ini kalo ga salah makanan khas Cina apa Singapur yaa?? 

Ice Kacang - (hehehe lucu yaa ini es kacang tapi rasanya kaya es doger, cuma isinya pake jagung segala sama jenis kacang yang lain-lain)

5.       Yang harus disiapkan mental disini adalah harga barang. Muahal muahaaal pemirsah. Berbelanja di supermarket itu mentalnya jangan liat harga dalam mata uang Kina trus di kalikan menjadi rupiah, soalnya kalo begitu sakit hati donk. Masa indomie aja harganya bisa 4 kali lipat. Tutup mata saja dan bayar haha. Btw 1 Kina sama dengan kira-kira Rp. 4000. Pngalaman  beli sendal jepit biasa aja 32 Kina, buseet bawa sendal Swallow tau gitu sih hahaha (tuh kan mentalnya). 

Mata uang Kina. Uang yang ada bolongannya di tengah itu 1 Kina, kira2 Rp.4000

6.       Kotanya belum begitu berkembang, untuk kalian yang suka entertainment disini ada mall yang isinya itu itu saja seperti biasa. Tapi g akan bisa nemu KFC atau Starbucks dll, kebanyakan produk lokal sih kalo yang begitu. 

7.       Sistem lalu lintas disini tidak banyak lampu lalu lintas, jalanan sudah diaspal dan lancar. Menyetir sama yang di Indonesia, menggunakan jalan sebelah kiri dan selalu memprioritaskan kendaraan yang datang dari sebelah kanan. Sebenarnya kalo kota ini aman enak loh buat jalan-jalan. Banyak taman yang luas, walaupun agak gersang, dan banyak playground untuk anak-anak disetiap tikungan jalan. 
Polisi lalin tidak kelihatan kecuali kalo ada orang penting yang datang baru deh pada siaga berjaga di pinggir jalan. 

Enak kan tempatnya kalo buat lari-lari gitu, tapi sayangnya belum aman.

Belum banyak iklan-iklan yang terpampang dijalan, jadi masih bersih, dan iklannya juga paling iklan provider seluler, iklan bir sama iklan layanan masyarakat. 

Udaranya hampir sama kaya di Bandung, sejuk-sejuk tapi kalo siang panas.

8.       Masalah bahasa, mereka menggunakan bahasa Inggris dan bahasa asli Pidgin English dan Hiri Motu. Lucu sih kalimat “Yu Orait?” yang berarti apa kabar, diambil dari bahasa Inggrisnya “Are you all right?” hehehe.  Tips jitu belajar bahasa asing itu yang penting tau bahasa setempatnya YA ato TIDAK dan tetap percaya diri. Walaupun salah jangan malu, wong lagi belajar ko takut salah. 

9.       Hal yang terakhir susah itu internet, smartphone saya tidak berguna itu tanpa paket internet. Kesian banget sih jadi ga update. Paling update kalo udah numpang wifi gratis hahaha – numpang mulu kerjaannya hahaha -__-

Ya sekian cerita untuk hari ini. Baru hari pertama dan udah ada 9 point yang menggejutkan saya. Semoga 2 bulan kedepan bisa menemukan hal-hal yang baru lagi. Saya sih menunggu ada touring ke luar kota dimana atraksi alam masih terlihat asri. Because I'm going on an adventure *dengan logat Bilbo Baggins. 

#5 Psycho (1960) - Movie Review

I've been watching a lot of movies lately but I haven't updated my blog on writing a review. Well, my biggest problem is procrastination, I intended to write this long time ago but somehow it just got posted now.

In my 23 years of life, I haven't watched a single Hitchcock movie, what a shame. I started to look for his movies after I saw Hitchcock (2012) portrayed by Anthony Hopkins as the famous thriller director who became famous after the movie Psycho was released. It was based mostly why and how he made the movie Psycho.

Now the movie Psycho itself was released on 1960 with the main cast Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins as the famous handsome Norman Bates. Surprisingly I find this movie very convinced of the kind of thriller Hitchcock has done. Firstly there's this guilty girl on the run that ends to a very bad luck fate, second there's this handsome character that you won't believe he's a nutjob, then the suspicious people creating suspicious plot, and other stuff that most thriller movies now days are missing. For a movie that was created in the 60s, with less visual effects from now (and it's in black and white), still have this potential to make you jump from your seat and scream "no no no, do not go in there" "what is she doing?" "get back". I guess the stronger parts are the sounds and music scoring. I find this funny because the music score or the famous "ching ching ching" thriller sound made my heartbeat goes faster. Without that kind of scoring, the movie will be just ordinary. 

So what is this movie about? Well without any complicated twist, this is just simply a secretary trying to escape from the crime she committed by stealing money to somewhere far. In the middle of the way she stops in a motel run by a man, dominated by his mother, to take a rest and that's when it happens, the famous shower scene everyone.

Below contains spoilers, so if you haven't watched it yet, I suggest not to read further.

Let's talk about MURDERERS 

This classic thriller/horror movie is somehow very different from today's characteristic murderers. We can recall that today's image of a murderer is somewhat gore to hideous, meat hunger and love to have some blood splatter all over, leaving traces for the police to find. But in Psycho everything is clean, from the appearances and how nice a murderer can be, Norman Bates is the devil in disguise. Nobody can notice physically that there's something wrong in him, he likes to clean the motel, he takes care of his mother - yeah his mother, having a perfect combed hair with shirt tucked in, this is like he's a very good guy. But whooa you can't trust on this good guy, once you open him up the devil comes out.

BOO!!

I think Anthony Perkins has done a great job portraying Norman Bates as this devil in disguise. He seems charismatic and happy but at the same time once you see the demon in him, you can never unseen the creepy smile he has. 

Look at that transition in the picture above, we can see slightly a form of Norman's mother skull inside him, as if his mother still lives inside of him. I like how Hitchcock also made the transition between scenes like this one. It's a scene where it shoots Marion's dead eye to a picture of water draining.

This is a very great movie, I am pleased now that I watched Hitchcock movies. I'll try to find more of his works because I'm starting to like it, just as I adore Stanley Kubrick's movies. That's it for today.

Space Husbands - Spock and Kirk

I believe i was bored this whole time and recently just watched Star Trek (2009) movie, which inspired me to make something. People are shipping them so hard, i guess i am now, which took me a moment in where Spock and Kirk met face-to-face for the first time. Imagine Kirk telling a story to his kids beginning with "Kids, this is how I met your father" :)) Just for fun...

I don't know how to caption this.. I'll leave it to your imaginations :)

Character Doodles - Star Trek Into Darkness

Time to upload Star Trek Into Darkness artwork tribute :)

This is like 2 months late but hahah i don't caaaare. oh If you guys are interested, you can have it as a shirt or just simply stickers. It's available on RedBubble for purchasing.. yeay!! I'm going to do some Supernatural and The Hobbit for some more. Check out my other works (x)

btw mau display jam berapa?

judul ini sebernernya merupakan kalimat yang paling sering ditanya oleh kawan2 saya menjelang sidang tugas akhir.
Kenapa sering ditanyakan? ya mungkin saja biar ada yang nemenin ngedisplay didalem, ato ada yang mau minjemin palu
ato sekedar nanya doank biar bikin orang stress.

saya pengen ngeshare hal-hal yang bikin geleng2 kepala untuk behind the scenes yang terjadi sebelum sidang TA dimulai.  Mungkin saja teman2 sudah saking stressnya jadi ntah mengapa moment-moment kecil yang aneh pun menjadi sangat berharga dan akan selalu terkenang sampai akhir hayat.

1. Midnight Printing
ngeprint malem-malem? udah biasa.. tapi kl tiba-tiba kelupaan ngeprint poster pas hampir tengah malem? hahaha..
Kejadian ini terjadi sama teman saya, ada misunderstanding antara tukang print dengan dia sehingga poster utama (3 buah lagi) tidak ikut ke print. alhasil ketika karya akan ditempelkan ke dalam frame, maka barulah ia sadar ini kok poster ada yang kurang. Untungnya msh ada tempat printing yang msh buka jam tengah malam sehingga masih ada waktu untuk mengejar ngeprint karya utama. Yang lucunya lagi itu setelah beberapa menit kemudian, teman saya balik lagi dengan lemesnya "filenya errooorr".... kemudian saving file dan mengejar ke tempat printing secara spartan pun dimulai.

2. "Tidurlah sebelum sidang"
Begitulah nasehat dari para dosen kepada calon mahasiswa yang akan mengikuti sidang tugas akhir. Cuma ga dibilang harus berapa jam kan?? yaa ada yang tidur cukup 8 jam, ada yang setelah display bobo manis, ada yang cuma sejam saja dan ada yang ketiduran sampe kesiangan hehehe - siapa yaa? xD

3. Bermain2 dengan prop display
Yaa siapa sih yang ga gatel kalo ngeliat barang-barang yang ada display, pasti penasaran ini buatnya pake apa, isinya apa dll. Ada yang ngeset display seperti ruang makan di rumah lengkap dengan tudung saji dan piringnya. Ada yang bawa sepeda khusus untuk display, ada yang bawa sepasang ondel-ondel,  ada juga yang bawa lumba-lumba juga heheh dan banyak lagi. Yaa bukan salah kita kah piringnya dipinjem dulu buat makan, dan ondel-ondelnya jadi korban asusila hahaha :))

Silahkan buka tudung sajinya ada makanannya looh

Nah kan semacho-machonya cowo kalo udah dapet lumba-lumba gini deh jadiya

Ckckckc

4. Finishing Game pas hari H
ouuch ini terjadi sama yang ngambil TAnya tentang petualangan ke luar angkasa - siapa yaa? hahaha
Jam 10 pagi peserta pertama sudah mulai memasuki ruangan sidang, dan ada yang masih sibuk menggarap finishing gamenya. Untungnya dapet giliran paling akhir dan hal yang baik adalah bisa selesai sebelum waktu sidangnya. Bener-bener sistem kejar tayang cckckc.. *jangan dicontoh yaa adek-adek.

5. Foto bersama prop
yaa ini sih yang paling seru.. foto-foto bersama prop display. Biar ga sia-sia udah ngeprint mahal-mahal mending buat foto-foto dulu :)

dan sidang pun berjalan dengan lancar. nanti kalo ada waktu saya mau ngeshare juga kejadian saat sidang, menunggu foto-foto terupload dulu dari sumber heehe.

courtesy foto dari Yoan Dipo vokalis Wali

#4 The Hollow Crown (2012) : Richard II - TV Series Review

I was just watching The Hollow Crown yesterday because I saw lots of great casts in there, especially Tom Hiddleston and Ben Wishaw. 

The Hollow Crown (2012)  is a historical drama mini series from BBC that consist of 4 episodes; Richard II, Henry IV part 1, Henry IV part 2 and Henry V. The series is produced by Sam Mendes and is directed by notable British stage directors. 

The first part is Richard II directed by Rupert Goold. The main casts are Ben Wishaw, Rory Kinnear, David Morrisey and Patrick Stewart. No wonder the casts of The Hollow Crown series are previously born as stage actors which makes the quality of the monologue stronger spoken by them. 

For not being a native English speaker takes me a lot of time to understand Shakespeare language and thus I cannot fully understand the whole conversation, just picking up some clues to understand the plot. But apart from that, the I must say that I'm visually entertained by the shots and the symmetry angles from this episode. Sometimes I enjoy seeing the cinematography in which the director is giving the audience. The shots in Richard II makes some of the script stronger by dramatically visualizing it. The locations takes place in England and it got a few beautiful shots too. Here I present you some of the scenes that I love for being so well presented and contain a beautiful composition. Mostly are the symmetry angles shots (I don't know what are they called..) and the scenery. 

#3 Karla (2006) - Movie Review

I came across this movie from fangirling over Misha Collins, and I tell you what, there's a phase where you fangirl so much on a actor you just wanna see all movies he's ever done. Let's talk about fangirl phases later...

I thought this movie is gonna be like A Requim For A Dream, you know with intense scenes and disturbing images that makes you wanna squinch your eyes because you wanna see but you don't wanna see. But it's not, more simpler than that, it's just too flat.

Karla was based on a true story about a rape murderer named Paul Bernado and his wife  Karla Homolka that took place in Canada. This movie was banned - i guess, CMIIW - from the country at some time for the controversy. The actor Misha Collins once get a phone call from one of the victims who got away and feeling devastated to hear that, he told the fans not to watch the movie.

The movie starts by Karla -played by Laura Prepon- talking to her psychiatrist about the early life meeting with Paul. As she tells the her story, flashbacks are shown as the couple start their raping murder spree and how she felt about that.

I think the way the movie was written or directed has something to do with what makes this movie not worth watching, it's completely flat and doesn't have any intriguing scenes for a murderer movie. The shots are standard it feels like watching somekind of a sucky tv show or something. Thanks Joel Bender. It will be easily forgettable since it doesn't have a particular characteristic in this movie.

The main actors infact made a chemistry so well that deserve a good direction. Misha Collins is great on portraying a bi-polar rapist who gradually end up beating his wife. His image in this movie is purely evil, he has talent portraying an evil guy or a rebel angel on Supernatural :)
And as for Laura, the famous 'That's 70 Show' redhead girl tries on stepping out of the character being blonde and evil. I thought the character Karla should be evil but why do it ends up in sympathizing her. She's involved  in the murder of her sister and she kept quite for all her husband's raping spree. She deserves a repulsion feedback. But her expression on being a tortured wife seems natural to me tho'.

Yeah I wouldn't recommend this movie so much unless you're a Misha Collins fan or if you're just curious about the controversy of Paul and Karla case.

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#I'll update later with pics and screenshots, rn my internet is off anf I'm writing via mobile. Check out later guys..#

#2 A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Movie Review

When I was studying psychology the last 4 years, I remembered one of my professors told me a story about conditioning the human behaviour. He gave us an example of the movie A Clockwork Orange. That time I wasn't interestes in watching it because the way he told the story was kinda exaggerating.

Yesterday my mind came across this and I decided to watch this movie. And guess how amazed I am watching this movie. It's kinda hypnotic though, after watching it lots if images from the movie was recorded to my brain. Let's see what I think about it.

The movie starts with this creepy staring from a guy slowly zoomed-out in a prolonged time. That opening scene really freaks me out, I thought I couldn't continue watching. So the narrator began to tell a story about himself, Alex, who then we know that he's an ultra-violent punk who goes out at night and beat up people, rapes girls and murder them.

Apparently he's also violent and shows a lot of authority to his gang member, in which his actions got himself a karma. His friends/gang member set him up on a crime scene where later he got busted by the police and end up in jail. Spending time in jail he accepted to take an experimental treatment from the government where they say they can 'cure' his violent behaviour.

This treatment involves conditioning process where Alex is placed on a chair with a straight jacket, then his eyes were forced open to watch a series of images in front of him. The images includes a violent act, a raping scene with 7 guys, and a visual of the Nazi army marching. At first Alex doesn't feel a thing but then later on he starts to feel nausea for those images. He's keen to the music of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the experimetal people use it too for conditioning.

It was then until several sessions his violent behaviour was cured. He starts feeling nausea everytime he tries to do something 'bad'. But then, does it really works? Through the end of the movie we can see that something goes wrong to his treatment and he came back to his natural behaviour.

This is a very brilliant movie I must say, Stanley Kubrick has done mindblowing on the viewers. This movie will make you feel repulsed by Alex but on some point will show some empathy for him in being a victim of the government illegal experiment. Yes that treatment is considered illegal because it causes the dehumanization of a person. You can't change the natural behaviour of someone and apparently Alex goes back to his old behaviour.

The artistic of this movie is very well done. It was set at a near future at that time, but for us who are already in the future would think that it took place on a somehow quirky-retro-vintage future. The props made the film recognizable such as the stand out phallic object or the female statue/milk dispenser or Alex
room with Beethoven curtain and his pointy bedcover.

As well as the directions and settings, the main actor did a great job on portaying the punk violent Alex. I never been so intricated by this kind of character before. He's like playing on your emotions, duudeee-what-are-you-doing-to-me is my reaction. My first reaction actually on the beginning of the movie hahaha.
The character Alex also symbolizes the rebel in the society full of authority from the government.

I now understand why my professor was exagerrating explaining this movie, maybe because it's so great that he could't express it better. It's like if there was an extra language for describing it he would use it.

#I will update with screenshots and images because it's not enough expressing with just words. My internet connection is off rn and I'm writing via mobile. You guys can check it later :) #

KMDGI X - Karya Simbiotik DKV Universitas Pasundan

Saatnya kampus kita beraksi lagi di KMDGI X yang di selenggarakan oleh Institut Kesenian Jakarta.
Kami sebagai mahasiswa Desain Komunikasi Visual harus peka dengan permasalahn yang ada di lingkungan sekitar, lalu menyajikan sebuah solusi secara kreatif untuk menyelesaikan permasalah tersebut.
Dari kampus Universitas Pasundan sendiri, para arakan lebah akan membuat karya simbiotik dengan tema angkutan umum yang ada d Bandung. Berikut ini video yang dikerjakan oleh kawan2 arakan lebah... All I can say is I'm proud of you guys :D