Jumat, 24 Agustus 2012

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????





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


Kamis, 23 Agustus 2012

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?