The hilarity of Paris, Eiffel, and river Seine

This is a video footage that I recorded in Paris, in the summer of 2008. Displaying some places in Paris, The Trocadéro (Palais de Chaillot) , Eiffel tower and the atmosphere inside the Batobus ( derived from the French’s word ‘bateaux’, a sightseeing boat trip ), that sailing on the river Seine in the inner city of Paris. Then I added on the video a wispy kind of music that created by my friend Danive. And it’s reveals to you that Paris is so beautiful.





Le Bon Marche, Paris

And this is a video across the street around Le Bon Marche, Paris.

…enjoy the loveliness of Paris

Vahdventure Storybook

This is a storybook written by my friend Vahd Mulachela, I really like this book. The stories in this book looks so alive in my mind, I felt like I was occurred and thought its stories somewhere, someplace, in the middle of nowhere before, …I don’t know.
This book probably very special.

Live Curious - National Geographic Channel's TV Commercial

I really like this “National Geographic Channel’s TV Commercial (Ad)” – Live Curious. I often watch it on TV at home, it’s seems like this Ad reading my mind and I really love it. A very evocative visuals and it shows to us how amazing and wonderful to live in experience, exploration, pioneering, and questioning for knowledge.

Also a great thanks to the copywriter who has found and raises these words on the Ad :

If you are, you breath.
If you breath, you talk.
If you talk, you ask.
If you ask, you think.
If you think, you search.
If you search, you experience.
If you experience, you learn.
If you learn, you grow.
If you grow, you wish.
If you wish, you find.
If you find, you doubt.
If you doubt, you question.
If you question, you understand.
If you understand, you know.
If you know, you want to know more…
And if you want to know more, you are alive.

Video courtesy of National Geographic Channel

Booboo, a cute and comical cartoon character

I’m designing a cartoon character / mascot named Booboo. Booboo is a cute and comical bamboo. You can see this images below is my designing process when I create Booboo, starting from my sketches become a computer graphic’s vector. Then I applied on the T-Shirt.

My Booboo's design

I Left My Heart in Palestine

From the heart, this is my support expression, my sentiment of humanity and my deep sympathy for Palestine. Hopefully the world coming together take action to save Palestine.

Sunday Jazz @ Potluck

Today’s evening I came by to Potluck café when the drizzle has subside. To get some relax and enjoy a cup of warm coffee with cream. This evening, the café was crowded and so joyful because there was a jazz music performance at the café’s backyard. This jazz performance is a routine event which initiated by “Klab Jazz” and collaborate with Potluck Café.

I sat down on a chair with a small table, distance about 12 meters to the backyard. And sometimes occasionally I'm walking closer to the stage where the musicians playing their music just to take some pictures and then go back to my table. I see lots of people really enjoy the atmosphere and seems like they were carried away by the strains of jazz music, but many others keep remain on their own pleasure, making jokes and laughs. But for me, what I really enjoyed is my coffee with cream, cakes, and my drawing book.

David Manuhutu Trio feat F.A. Talafaral

Public lecture and film discuss ( "The Success Ways of Making Documentary Films" )

Today we were organizing a public lecture and film discuss for Audio Visual studies that destined for students of Visual Communication of Design – Indonesian Computer University where I’m teaching now. This public lecture is about to examine "The Success Ways of Making Documentary Films", it's presenting Mr. IGP Wiranegara ( a documentary filmmaker and director ) as a speaker. Mr. IGP Wiranegara is an experience director who has won “CITRA” trophy award 2005 ( a documentary film category ), For his documentary movie "Pakubowono XII, struggle for an existence".

The experiences and production process which he shared is a very useful and could help the students in their film production’s tasks this semester. This can be seen from their enthusiastic in asking many questions and keep following Mr. Wiranegara’s film screening until this event is over.

We feel very lucky and happy that the students having so much learning, get lots of inputs, and gaining valuable experience from Mr. Wiranegara’s career and works stories. It could open the student’s insight about the potency of a simple camera and its strength to drive the social change and delivering the messages.

So therefore I conclude that today is a very useful day, and with camera in the hand of the students in the future, hopefully we’ll be able to see the new remarkable documentary film, honest, creative, and describe what actually happens in this world and inspire many people to change the world.

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This event being held on this day, Saturday 5^th of June 2010

Time : 09:00 – 16:00 WIB

Place : RockHouse, Jln. Dewi Sartika 44 Bandung

Organizer : Faculty of Art and Design, Study programs - Visual Communication of Design, Indonesian Computer University ( Unikom )

the atmosphere of discussion and public lectures

I won a logo design competition ( "UDRAWIT" competition 2010 )

On May 20th 2010 I won a logo design competition for a visual art blogsite in Italy called “This is so contemporary!” ( a blog that examine the development of visual arts ). My logo design was selected as the winner with most votes support. And this is really awesome to me, because this competition was followed by 24 artists, designers and illustrators from different countries of the world.
So I would like to thank infinitely to all who have vote my logo.

And this is a link about the news and announcement of the winners :
http://walkingthroughart.blogspot.com/2010/05/and-winner-is.html

Revisiting childhood #1

Last night I had a dream, I was Laying down on the meadow, my childhood playground. I saw the clouds hanging in the sky, I listened to the sounds of kites blown by the wind, and the grasshoppers were scared the butterfly that wishing to perch on reeds.