One coloured page of my short comic, Otik, is exhibited as part of Ruang-Ruang Dalam Kepala: A Visual Exhibition – comic, painting, drawing, animation and installation, 9 – 20 June 2008, Japan Foundation, Gd Summitmas II Jakarta.
A3 digital print, poster colour & digital media (Painter & Photoshop).
The current progress of my latest project — C2O library slash cinematheque. It wasn’t what I had in mind (I had visualised what every gazillion people probably imagine when the phrase “small, cozy bookshop” pops up), but we are working on it.
With a tremendous help from Danny’s technical notes, I’m building the wall-mounted shelf to accommodate the extra boxes of books. My decision to compromise the materials from a workshop leftovers seems to greatly affect its sturdiness though — the Carrefour’s alternatives looks much stronger by comparison now, Olympic boycott be damned.
So much for say no to plastic eh? Will be in Jakarta from 6 to 15.
Some mp3s I’ve upped for a long time but never get to post :). Cookies for anyone who can guess where the first song comes from.
Read MoreI’ll be giving comic workshops on April 30 – May 4 for the following event.
Surabaya Book Fair 2008
April 30 – May 4, 2008
Gramedia Expo Surabaya, Jl Basuki Rahmat
Supported by IKAPI (Ikatan Penerbit Indonesia) Jawa Timur & Pemkot Surabaya
Includes exhibition, talk show, discussion and workshops on comic / graphic novel / sequential arts.
Events
30 April
4:00pm : Workshop Story-telling in comics
1 Mei
1:00 pm : Talk Show & Discussion “Promoting Local Comic Industry”
4:00 pm: Comic Workshop – Manga
2 Mei
4:00 pm : Comic Workshop – American / Western
3 Mei
4:00 pm : Workshop Digital Colouring
4 Mei
3:00 pm : Drawing & Colouring Contest
Participants
Beecomics
Neo Paradigm (AQUANUS DAN BENUA KE TUJUH)
M Productions (Deviant, Crash)
Outline Studio (Komedo)
Seven Blue Artland Studio (Splash magazine)
Wind Rider Studio (Wind Rider, Knights of Apocalypse)
Komunitas Komik DKV UK Petra
Although replete with gorgeous mise-en-scene characteristics of his later works, The Man from London falls frustratingly short to Tarr’s previous works. Tarr’s usual late bag of tricks — richly-textured, gorgeous long takes, Mihaly Vig’s cyclic music (which is rather annoying this time compared to his previous transcendental scores), along with the dance-in-a-bar, unblinking, silent characters staring into nothingness for 30 seconds or more — feels this time way too excessively self-indulgent in the face of the noir-like plot.
Perhaps it’s the lack of emotion-driven issues and “existentialist” themes (usually present in Tarr’s works) that makes the beautifully-conjured melancholia and the story rather incompatible. There were moments of great beauty, sure, but overall, I would rate even his earlier works e.g. Karhozat, Almanac of Fall, Prefab People, even the short in Visions of Europe higher than this one. Just hoping it’s not a sign of a further autumnal decline.
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Others my brain’s too bogged down to write about: Farber’s Negative Space is witty, interesting and spot on at times, but in terms of taste we do not share much in common (I like Godard and Buñuel, but I kinda prefer Fellini and Bergman, admittedly bloated as they were, to the mavericks), Franzen’s How to Be Alone is embarrassing (no, it’s not freaking self-help, thank you very much) yet prods you to read on nonetheless due to that private, angry nature that I’m also guilty of, Kadare’s The Pyramid is OK, funnier at the beginning but gets a bit droning towards the end, Iggers’ Historiography in the 20the Century gives a great panoramic view of the subject (thanks Danny!), Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction is rather presumptuous, Perec’s A Man Asleep brings back my all-too-embarassing early 20s, Things freaks me out of my late 20s. BRING FORTH THE 30 AND I’LL DROWN MYSELF IN BOOTS AND COME OUT ALL BLOATED WITH STINKIN’ SEAWEEDS.
And ho ho ho to you too.
PLEASE READ FROM RIGHT TO LEFT
Other info:
Tools: Pencil, ink on paper, photoshop
Photo of the main character, Otik, in puppet form
It’s pointless to pretend that we don’t love saying the unsayable in the giddiness that is world wide web without employment.
New at books @ cc.
I’ll be back to Indonesia on August 20.
Read MoreSunday 29 April 2007, 1:00-3:00 pm, Dee Why Beach, Sydney.
Langen Suka Sydney Gamelan Association
Thomas Stewart, Director
Tabitha Williams, Dancer
A Performance of Javanese Gamelan Music and Dance as part of the Soundwaves – Ripple Festival, Warringah Council featuring the solo dance ‘Gambir Anom’ in Central-Java style, and a selection of traditional instrumental gamelan pieces in the pelog scale, from ‘gendhing alus’ (refined) to ‘gendhing soran’ (loud style) to ‘gendhing gecul’ (humorous).
I played the saron barung for the whole repertoire, except for Manyarsewu (in which I majorly screwed up by haphazardly hitting the gong and the kempul).
Langen Suka is grateful to the Australian Museum, the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia and the University of Sydney for the use and loan of the gamelan instruments.
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