Quack

There will be times, in the future or alternate universe, that I:

• understand CERN's science joke, like when they said Higgs boson quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, like really, all I have in my mind is it's doing chicken dance

• talk in TEDTalk about the importance of rice cooker for an Indonesian's life and how I went through my compulsive hoarding of Transjakarta busway ticket
• understand why Virginia Woolf used "shan't" in her suicide letter 

Bob Dylan (again) late night sketch

pencil on paper

dec2012

Mao Mao Mao

I was in an art seminar, pembicaranya mengkritik karya pameran-pameran seni rupa lokal yang objek-objeknya adalah Barack Obama, Mother Theresa, dan Mao Tse-tung.  He was like, why don't we use D.N Aidit, Soeharto? He also shared how he had been mocked for quoting S. Sudjojono instead of fancy western art professor.

And I agree.  We actually have so much to offer, so many badass heroes, I have deep fascination with Ibu Soed and Tiga Serangkai, like someone was joking that Indonesia adalah negara yang pahlawannya paling banyak.  Then why don't we pick one?  Whining about our nation's curriculum and how they made history look so friggin boring is so 2000 and late, so it's just about our gut and will now.

hey yall

By the way, talking about gut, it reminds me of grand unified theory

And you know, I feel so coool that I knew D.N Aidit stands for Dipa Nusantara Aidit from books, not wikipedia.

A Critic #2

I hate how people easily use humanities fields for mask. I tweet a lot, I get spiritual whenever Bob Dylan showing his non-existent fuck when people boo him, or found Jason Godfrey being a straight guy as he explaining UFC in FOX channel, I damn the mbak-mbak if I got my kerupuk hard, Animal Planet never made a documentary out of me, but do those things make me a social media worker, writer, spiritualist, food critic and a humanist? What are the standards?

Btw, Jason, that guy in Star World, has tumblr

Bob Dylan (pic taken from my nokia cameraphone,though)

pencil on paper

10 dec 2012

A Critic

You can relate everything with life, because they are part of the life itself, like your fruit, your poo, your neighbour's loud music, an animal in random NGC show, so make a philosophical quote out of it it's kinda boring and outdated.  Unless it's witty though.


You have a life, you are gonna live that, so those lifequotes seem like some sorta life-spoiler, useless, only gives a temporal pleasant nostalgic feel.  I mean, you will watch M dead in Skyfall, having someone telling you that in the first place is so killjoying.

exactly

And dont you hate being "I've told you so"-ed, so those lifequote virus. Like if you had being told by that spoiler that there would be a cute guy in Skyfall named Q, and you finally saw him and your vagina hooked him but then that virus would be like "see, see, hahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, but GTFO, bitch, he's mine, I owned him first, it is a crime for you to like him without my permission"

Did he and Random Thoughts

• Just wondering.

When Cezanne done, did he eat all of those apple alone or he throwed it somewhere or I dont know, giving it to local orphanage?

Such a newbie connoisseur's question.

• I went to imaginary doctor and he said "Gesya, you're not asexual, you're John Lennon-sexual, you only get aroused by him, so I'll give you some pills and you'll feel better soon"
• You know what happened recently, so last Monday, on Art Appreciaton class, the guest lecturer, an artist and prominent humanist randomly grabbed the top of my tanktop and shirt while potraying the guy in his story about "looking for inspiration". So "this guy" was mad at someone who was mocking at him for sitting all day straight when he was trying to get some inspiration.  He (the artist) had told me about the story before when I interviewed him in his exhibition so there is
• Been listening to this on daily basis because the lack of drugs or stimulus for doing art assignments and I found that listening to the Beatles esp John's voice is a very very good drug.

Ninja Pussy

Ninja Movement (name taken from this very "moving" video) is a South Jakarta based aspiring & bolang artists, consists of Dwika, Jebo (Jeremy Kribo) and I. So the activity is basically just hanging at Jebo's house, drawing, bitching about someone's artblog, eat, ngablu, gone for a walk, eat, and then doing some pussy vandalism- drawing with chalk on the nearest asphalt road.

Dwika made a football player and dragon..

Jebo made Slash. And he called his mom "Slash".  Why? I'll never know

Its mine, and my camera cropped the "S" from "BADASS".. I am sorry pak..

This is Dwika and this is his idea, dont judge.

Tracing shadows

Eyes, because I cant draw anything else...

Darwin Was Right

Sometimes I look at my old drawings, and get surprised at how visible the progress of the strokes and the style.  And I realize, it is evolution.


Have you ever got mysteriously stress/depressed? They said gadgets can increase stress.  So now smack gently your phone for secretly draining your energy and rollercoastering your hormones all of these weeks. But, we are heading the future where everything will be managed by electronic stuffs, so, are we gonna get stressed all the time?

Good God, no

I see this get stressed vs not get stressed problem as the modern and Homo sapiens equivalent of that short vs long necked giraffe in Lamarck and Darwin story. My theory, those new millenium-born kids (you know, that give you a painful sting in your heart as they sit on their potty chair and touching their fingers onto their android tab/iPad/iPhone/iPod/or iSomething for playing pok ame-ame with Talking Gina or make the birds angrily fly) would survive the "stress epidemic".

Why? First, those gadgets are like usual toys for them, it's their lego, their tamagotchi, etc. There is nothing sacred or glamorous about it in their eyes, because they still know nothing. If I showed them Mona Kuhn's works, they would not judgingly shriek at me or give pathetic lustful moan or artistic-admiring stare, since they are just innocent enfant.

They will get along with high-technology. High-technology will pamper them.

kind of like this

Second, biologically, they will be more resistant with the radiation and all of those disturbances.

*insert a great conclusion here* 

Model: Tom Felton

Faber Castell watercolor pencils on paper

2012

Fuck Originality

Talking about originality, lets just imagine you are about to build a house. You are so unconventional and original to your toe's cuticle so you are gonna use matters that are not even from earth a.k.a anti-matter, because using the existed matter is so mainstream and you dont want to be judged for doing "plagiarism". Then, what would happen when you are done? ...........

You and anyone who lives in your "nuevo" house explode and die. 

HOW???? WHY????? IS IT A CURSE FOR BEING TOO QUIRKY????

   ← No, click on this lovely geeky sleek guy pic to find out.

So, if you want to build a house, you still need usual elements such as cobalt, cuprum, carbon, calcium, any other minerals and metals.  Now, it is just how you gather, stack, jumble all of those to be a something terribly insane, stand out, Nate Berkus approved house 

"You dont have to call Oprah for that"

The same thing as creativity. Steve Jobs said "creativity is just connecting things". Everything has been recycled, added and reduced here and there, and copied. If you never copy anyone, I would never talk to you because it means you never copied your parents' language, so you speak with Tarzan-ic, wait-Tarzan even still copied gorilla language-so, I dont know, basically you're an imbecile dead meat hipster.

Hi, it was me the  lovely geeky sleek guy

Basi dari Bangsa Tenggang Rasa

After leaving the phase "whining about how I have been abandoning my blog" which cemented my status as a n00b blogger, I am gonna fire some posts right away today (brought to you by poorly stirred with random knife cuba libre).


First, it is gonna be my review or blurting about some things that bother me on last Dirgahayu Republik Indonesia on last August 17th. Because it's about Indonesia, brace yourself for some gado-gado sentences karena gue bener-bener pure write down my thoughts.  And here they are in bullet points:

• Basi adalah: bitching about "make Bahasa Inggris berarti lo gak nasionalis". Menurut gue, ini sangatlah lame.  Perkara lama.  Mengapa? Oke, bullet points lagi

• Kalau rakyat Indonesia gak ada yang bisa bahasa Inggris/bahasa Internasional, kita bakal jadi negara yang amat sangat tertinggal.  Bayangkan sebuah suku di pelosok rimba yang gak bisa bahasa Indonesia dan hidup di antara mereka-mereka aja.  Ya, budaya dan tradisi terjaga, tapi it is like you keeping your diamond, nobody knows its beauty, jadi buat apa? You may say: "Some things are better unknown", but are you sure a country like Indonesia included? Do you think it is better for Indonesia to be remote until like, forever? Serious questions, I want to know your opinion, the comment box will welcome you;
• And reality says, bangsa yang gak berwawasan internasional bakal ditindas.  Ayo mundur lagi ke 350 tahun yang lalu untuk bukti.  Ingat, masa pergerakan nasional dipicu sejak politik etis diberlakukan dan orang-orang tertentu di Indonesia yang bisa mendapat pendidikan akhirnya sadar dan bangkit melawan kolonialisme dengan cara yang lebih efektif dan "elegan" (menulis artikel di koran, diplomasi, dll.);
• Dan para pejuang tadi rata-rata bisa 3, 5, 7 atau lebih bahasa dan mereka gunakan dalam berbagai kesempatan.  Does it mean mereka gak nasionalis?.

• Basi yang kedua adalah: meratap tentang betapa Indonesia belum merdeka, seperti: "Sesungguhnya Indonesia belum merdeka karena *insert some problems here*.." "Merdeka itu adalah *masalah yang lagi panas di Indonesia terselesaikan*" "Belum ada yang meneruskan cita-cita Bung Karno.." dan seterusnya.  Menurut gue, itu cuma kayak template tahunan buat mengeluh.

Di sisi lain, gue juga sadar orang seperti gue adalah orang-orang penghancur bahasa Indonesia, dan juga bahasa Inggris. But I see myself as a learner for both language, learner makes lots of blunder and craves for improvement (does it sound like an apologize for you?). Dan gue juga setuju bahwa bangsa yang besar adalah bangsa yang masih memegang nilai-nilai budayanya, bangga akan budayanya, tapi juga siap dengan that so called globalisasi, bisa memfilter-bla bla bla, you know the restlah. In my eyes, gue melilhat kita, orang-orang Indonesia di jejaring sosial, sedang dalam babysteps menuju kedewasaan beropini.  Jadi, mari bertenggang rasa dengan kekeliruan-kekeliruan tadi.  Atau sebenarnya haram buat bertenggang rasa untuk hal-hal seperti ini? What's your thought on this?

Columba Supermodel

I miss those time when I did not procastinate (which I cannot remember..).

Seriously guys, I dont really know if you care about the frequency of me posting, but I do a bit care, since one of this blog's purpose is for my personal branding (like everybody's), so I had been in a self-hating episode because I cant manage the priority of my tasks etc etc.

And I realize its one of INTP(one of the stinkiest MBTI type)'s trait: procastinating..

I've told you (again, if you care) that my rant about me being an INTP will need different post, so here we go! But first, I would recommend you to take MBTI test if you haven't, so you would understand what is INTP and I thought you might unconsciously compare yourself with the following description rant ..

Okay, so, me as an INTP with Intuitive and "P" (Perception) preference give LOTSA fuck about LOTSA shit, from Columbia livia's poo or Gisele Bündchen's fæces, if that existed though, because its illegal to imagine her squatting in a toilet with grunting-in-despair face.

"What, puta, what"

And that "give lotsa fuck about things" a.k.a having an active mind affected me on daily basis, and makes me often delaying stuffs, for example, when I was alone in my flat, working at drawing, reading, or something, my mind wanders so fast that any single tiny word, sound, etc have 90,78618 % to evoke my "brain adventure" so I would stop for awhile and ponder about it in Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker" pose or simply a ready-to-make-a-snow-angel-in-bed pose, and usually leads me to a revolutionary thoughts and I always forgot to write it down and thats so unproductive and torturing. 

"Why am i telling you about this?"

Model: Matthew Poile (A Birthday digital gift for my fashun pal, Daniel)

Pencil on paper (LYRA Sketchbook), cotton buds, eraser

2011

Tucky von Trapp

Yo, this is Chris Tucker.

And one of my favorite snack

But I actually jarang ngemil to be honest, if you lived in my flat, there are only two options:

 1.  Relying your life to oatmeal, liquid sugar, cheap salt, and hot water

2. Go to your favorite warteg 

*you know what, if I were one of von Trapp's children and we were singing "My Favorite Things"and when it came to my turn, I would be like:

 

and that would ruined the whole harmony and bringing shame to the nation and that's why God had managed me to be born in 1994.

Model : Chris Tucker

Faber Castell watercolor pencils on paper

2012

The Beatles di Warteg

Let It Be is my favorite album. I dont know, its just like raw, showing how they were really fucked up, ruined, out of whack, just that that that, how am I gonna say this, I mean like, look! They are not even in the same frame!!!

Yeaaaay, we got the record! (in the same frame)

Get high! Get high! Get high! (in the same frame)

We'll help Ringo! (in the same frame)

Hanya orang beriman yang bisa liat kami (in the same frame)

We're awesome. There's "we" in "awesomeness" (in the same frame)

I dont know any of these guys (in separated frame)

*Those are spoken with John's voice

Some of my favorite Beatles' song are in here like "I've Got A Feeling", John's trashy song like "Dig A Pony" which is kind of song that I would sang with excessive energy & emotion in the middle of rough (pseudo-drunk like) night, and you can see- I mean- hear- I mean-feel George's bitterness with the member's egos in "I Me Mine", the saddest song ever "The Long and Winding Road", and I always had an orgasm whenever I heard John's jokes in "Get Back".  Its not their last recording, but I love how humane, and again, raw, this album, in my opinion.  And you, true Beatlemania, I am up for critic.........

Model : The Beatles

Pencil on paper (LYRA Sketchbook)

2012

Yet, another random Prada boy in GQ (Yes I love GQ) (Yes, dont ask me why) (Yes, Gentlemen's Quarterly) (Yes, just shhh)

Model : Its a tough question, please!!!

Pencil on paper

2012

That That Polo Guy

Being a model it's not easy.
I am not a model, I am not even a model material.....

omg, I have been longing to use this gif!!!!!!!!!!! omg omg omg <insert an annoying OMG-ing fangirl.gif here, because it'll be too much>

But, I am an avid fan of high fashion models, so I kinda knew and been witnessing some stuffs, and I'll say, yes, it is not easy.  There was my fave who committed suicide, ana/mia issues, those "photographers", who stays "unknown" for the rest of his/her life et cetera et cetera.

Some models succeed by being snatched to Hollywood, but some just got some shows in New York Fashion Week, as a property in an editorial, and then gone.  Some got big ass huge designer adverstising, her/his face is in everywhere, but nobody knows them. And thats what happened with this random Polo Ralph Lauren guy that I used for the reference for this drawing.  

I was bored in class, and thank God I brought my watercolor pencils and old GQ magazine, so there.  But while making the sketch, I was thinking "Hmm, what is he doing right now? Does he know there is a girl in a  far away Asian tropical island looking at his face instead of her Physics teacher's handwriting on the whiteboard apparently trying to explain about Torque but she dont care but the teacher cares with what shes doing right now he worried about her upcoming final exam because this girl didnt have any progress in this subject but hes too good-hearted so he just starring at this girl from his desk and continue his lesson? " and  I just knew that the answer is "No", like 

again! again! hahahahahhahaha, I love it so much <proud tears.gif>

And this is my very first time using watercolor pencils.

Model : I wish I knew..

Faber Castell watercolor pencils on paper

2012

Abbey Lee & Gettin' High

I can say this is my first -almost- full body drawing and one of drawings that I made during classes in school.  And oh by the way, I admire those female models who have "orgasm" face, like you know, they are like holding their breath, and then "Oh, I savor every moment". I wonder if there were a workshop in every agency for new faces: "How to Work Your Orgasm Face" but I dont know, women are well-known for their capability for faking orgasm (I read that somewhere, and oh, go read the story of Marilyn Monroe (not Marilyn Manson, watch out) that "she never really had orgasm in her entire life". For an intellectual purpose, oh God!).   When the Tom Ford SS 11 campaigns released in the internet, I just knew that I wanted to draw this, so there.   

"How long did it take to finished this drawing?" Oh, I dont know, I was having a hard time to make the body right, I had no time to turn on my timer, I was too focus, but then the body is not even right, is not even finished,  why are you asking that, okay what am I doing, quitting Blogspot right away, okay just kidding.  You should have seen the body before I blocked it in full 4B (Thanks to Arya, a friend of mine, who suggested it), oh no, you should have not seen it.  

Thank God you're still reading.

Model : Abbey Lee Kershaw

Pencil on paper (LYRA Sketchbook), cotton buds, eraser

2011

Franco Dean and A Family

Since January 2012, I have been hanging out with local portrait painters in Blok M, to learn more, and yas, I did learn a lot from them, and they all so nice, they are just like a family for me, we laughed, we chatted, we ate gorengan, we ate pisang .... 

Well, so, this is my very first time making a colored portrait, with helps from those badass gurus.  The funny thing is, when I asked my friend, Luna, like "Can you recognize him?" and she answered "James Dean".  Well, this is James Franco in an editorial in an old GQ (yes, maam, I  have tits, and I prefer GQ than your favorite girlie magazines) with the title "The Style of James Dean". (Yeah,  I know it's not that funny, I dont even think you got that one, like you were expecting a joke about my life as a gay man trapped in a girl's body, yeah, lets see)   

And yes, I haven't finished it until now.

Model : James Franco

Faber Castell watercolor pencils on paper (without water)

2012

Googling FPI's Scheißßßßßße

I am not a fan, but the Born This Way album, I appreciate her artistic music videos and I like Government Hooker, Americano and Scheiße (yeah, right there, you knew copied & pasted the "Scheiße" from google, because, okay, where the fuck is "ß" in this damn keyboard, please understand me, I live in Indonesia, this is not even my own PC, I am in an internet café. Internet café, see, i just copied & pasted that leafy "e", what do you call it, okay, googling that) and I am not going to say more, because, yeah, I dont know her that much. (will probably get some visits because all of these FPI shits)

Model : Gaga

Faber Castell watercolor pencils on paper

2012

Shosty

I am an INTP, I have the "bragging" rights for being one, but that would need different post, so the story I am about to share here, I was browsing about "INTP", like you know, I was so excited for knowing my "true nature", basically the same when Harry found out that he's a wizard or you just knew that Kidrauhl is actually Justin Bieber and so on, so this article said that most of INTP's favorite music is likely to be Shostakovich's works, and I was like "Shostakovich, hmm, fancy name" and then launching the usual protocol "What is this shit, lets google and youtube and wiki it". So, yurp, I fell in love with him and his taste for glasses, and Russians have the most "fun to draw" face (in my opinion, most of supermodels' name will answer, I guess), and those classical music dudes called him "Shosty" and I love him more.

Model : Dmitri Shostakovich

Pencil on paper (LYRA Sketchbook), cotton buds, eraser

2011

Ethan James

Still on the male model craze, I got this picture long before I chose to draw it, Ethan James in  Dior Homme Fall Winter 11 show. He has great eyes, so Egyptian, but well yeah he is half Egyptian, and also half Dutch, half French, half English and half Maltese wait that is not half but whatever, I do suck at math, but you got my point, didn't chah?

Model : Ethan James

Pencil on paper (LYRA Sketchbook), cotton buds, eraser

2011

Model Jedi be you will a

My favorite faces will always be him and Lindsey Wixson<-that is a link, you shall click it. Click it.  Click it, you hoe-. James has electric-stabbing-“oh, I am gonna haunt you everywhere you go with these kind of eyes”-“oh, bitches, dont’chu ever forget me with these blue eyes” eyes, you know.  (Ok, if you are going to google image him, make sure you have added "model" so like "james smith model", because, jeez, there are a lot of James Smith in this universe, even in the Dagobah System. Like, I know right? He's way too exotic to be just "James Smith", I mean, he should have had those "-ovic" or "--nov" in his name, James Smithnovic or James Smithivanov, yeah, those would help).  It was after a long long hiatus and then something told me I should draw Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot in Industrie Issue 3 cover so after that I decided “Yes, I am so going to draw James Smith”.  

Model : James Smith

Pencil on paper (LYRA Sketchbook), cotton buds, eraser

2011