I'm doing my design assignment worth 8 credits right now, and... I'm stuck, kinda stressed out. I like studying architecture, but being stressed even if it's about something that you like is still normal right?

When you think a lot, considering many things, no field study in this world is easy, even it seems like that. Oh yeah architecture, designing, the form. Most people always think like that, even I thought like that. Hoh. I never thought that architect integrates a lot of things. Yeah A LOT. An architect considering structures, plumbing, mechanical electrical, air system, so on. When my assignment finished I will show you how complex a building is.

It's not that I never consider about structures, plumbing, bla... bla... bla... before, I do, and realize the principle of it, but I do admit that I never show them in my drawing, because my lecturer didn't ask us, and nobody drew them, so why should I? I even finished the last semester design awfully but now... everything is different... and my head my heart feels like gonna explode thinking about all this room programming thingy, how to make your building looks good, and feel good, and make it work, with all the structure, electrical, plumbing, air system, and so on.

Still, under construction...


And I'm not gonna surrender. I can't


Currently listening
Alt - J another awesome british band, unique sound, fits anxiety well. I don't listen much to the lyrics it just feels like that. Anw, they also make a one-of-kind music video, I never seen things being interpreted like that. It might be inappropriate for some people, but let's take it easy and think of it as an art. Well, Check this out 

Bye, back to sketch up. Wish me luck, and doing good!


I know I seem like someone who like photography that much, but no i don't. Photos that you see in magazines and all have been retouched to be that stunningly beautiful. Well I do think photography is somehow a lie, what is served mostly is not original from the camera.

My father love photography. I know how complicated it is to make a damn good picture. Even if you already captured the best, you still have to put it in the Lightroom or Photoshop to enhance it. But I guess it goes the same back then photographer being in the dark room, mixing chemicals and creating unique photos, but nowadays it is done with Photoshop.

But then after years of a lil bit hating it, I kinda fell in love with it, and it comes in the simplest form of photography: I just use my phone as the main gear and tadaaa. It's great. Just some click put that in some photo apps and you get a unique picture instantly. (I do admit I'm a part of generation Y who love instant things)

I use a iPhone 4 to take all of these pictures. Easy gear to bring in everyday!

These cat pictures are cats that usually wonder around my campus. I never intentionally want to take a series of cat picture really, it just happens when I saw something unique, I just pressed click. Hohoho

 I was still trying to make a good composition. But she looks cute

My favorite photo :3. anw her name is Gastri. The most beautiful cat.



Gastri strikes again


She is Nessa, Wkwkwk.
Animal, nature, human. With a smart usage your phone can do.

Tempu rejo Village, South Malang

Sempu Island


Bromoooo....







All the pictures above are taken using hipstamatic. The very best photography apps, it's not free but it's really worth it.
Just found this Award, IPPAWADS iPhone photography awards since 2007. Click here.
So confused to choose which one is the best. I think I have to learn about composition and capture more. As photographer Henri Cartier Bresson said "Your first 10.000 photographs are your worst."


Sulit dipercaya Senin besok saya sudah masuk kuliah. Saya menghabiskan seluruh masa liburan saya sebagai salah satu volunteer unit di kampus. Karena saya orang Surabaya jadinya sering dipanggil ke kampus, dan secara tidak disengaja dapat libur cuma seminggu, ya pas lebaran itu. Tapi entah karena liburnya cuma seminggu, atau gimana, Lebaran kemarin bener-bener one of the best I've ever had. Saya pergi ke Madura, sama Madiun, buat jalan-jalan sekaligus ketemu sanak saudara.


Akhir-akhir ini setiap kali di jurusan saya sering ditanya "PM kemana aja? kok nggak pernah kelihatan." Padahal saya setiap hari ngampus kok, ke gedung pas disebelah jurusan saya. Ehehehe. Beberapa kali waktu saya lagi di kantor terus jalan ke masjid buat sholat maghrib, saya denger suara ketawa anak-anak dari hima yang emang sebelahan sama rektorat. Dan itu bikin kangen banget buat bikin acara bareng teman-teman jurusan. Bantuin mereka. Tapi gimana lagi, sudah berkomitmen buat disini, dan nggak kuat juga kalau ndobel. 

Atau buat beberapa orang yang follow instagram saya banyak yang bilang, "PM asik deh jalan-jalan terus." Tapi saya toh cuma senyum-senyum aja. Buat orang-orang yang tahu, ada banyak keras dibalik sekedar jalan-jalan itu. Mengutip lagu 90an punya The Verve, "Cause it's a bittersweet symphony this life."

Kadang nggak cuma kerja keras aja, mental juga diasah banget. Cocok dan nggak cocok ketika kerja. Hal-hal simpel yang memicu semangat. Macem-macem banget lah. Kadang aku ngerasa liburan ini semacam akselerasi kehidupan to be a better person.

Kapan itu saya ngobrol sama salah seorang teman dekat saya via line, dia bilang kalau dia pingin punya usaha karena banyak temen-temen sekosannya yang punya usaha. Saya jadi ingat awal liburan saya punya plan buat bikin usaha notebook handmade, tapi akhirnya nggak jadi. Bahkan notebook buat semester depan, which means Senin besok, aja belom selese. 

Tapi saya nggak nyesel sama sekali sih. In the end, saya pun sadar. Ketika saya yakin sama apa yang saya kerjakan saat ini, kita nggak bakal iri sama apa yang orang lain dapetin dan nggak akan bingung-bingung lagi mau ngapain. Jadi inget, dulu belajar clay dari kelas 6 SD akhir, setiap weekend mesti eles, terus baru dapet duit dari hasil bikin clay pas SMA, sekarang sudah nggak bikin clay lagi. Hahaha. Dulu sering banget gagal kalau mau bikin apa-apa, beli sepatu buat di cat biar bagus tapi gagal, terus gamau pake sepatunya karena jelek. Dulu juga gagal bikin notebook sendiri (padahal sudah pede pake kertas canson) tapi sekarang sudah bisa, beberapa kali ngguntingin baju niatnya supaya bisa dimodif eh malah ngerusak, tapi sekarang sudah bisa njahit baju sendiri. Lucunya ya proses kehidupan, hal-hal yang awalnya dipikir buang-buang duit tapi ujung-ujungnya kalau ga pernah "buang-buang duit" itu saya juga ga akan bisa bikin macem-macem. Mhihihi. Sama juga kan ya kayak jatuh cinta, kalau ga pernah sakit ati banget juga ga bakal belajar. #alah

Salam hangat,

Dari jeep pas perjalanan ke Bromo (kiri ke kanan): Caroline dari China, Saya, Rizal orang Surabaya juga, anak Tekla, Lily dari Vietnam, Lee dari Malaysia, Addin dari Ethiopia. 


As an architecture student I've met a lot of people who can draw much better than me. They got the real talent of drawing. They draw fast, undistorted, even with limited color palettes they can make it astonishing.

Then I realized that drawing is not about proportion, balance, vanishing point, color combination, or similar things that I learn in university, drawing is also a skill not merely a talent. And just like any other skill, it needs practice. And I chose to believe that the first thing I had to do is just being brave to see my surrounding and documenting them as a form of drawing. It'll take years to improve, and we'll see...


Human is an adaptive creatures, and it's amazing how people do something to their house despite the limitation. 


He sold this one just a month ago. I'm so sad. My favourite shoes among his collection. So I was lucky to have this sketches.

I was bored. So yeah... even it's distorted everywhere.



One of some unique houses in Kampung Arab. Walked here writing a report for a student magazine. Thank you for Mba Inas who accompanied me. I was forced to finish this drawing faster because it started raining.

My campus library at night. 



A scene from my favourite music video by NONONO. I fell in love with the guy's sweater and the rabbit he carried. Not sure until now what was the video about. But I can can tell that this guy was having a tough time and he danced his problems away, inside a coffee shop, or above a rocky mountain  facing the sea after sunrise. Beautiful. Somehow I wish I was him.


I can't play music but music has been a kind of important in my life. I listen to music everyday, mostly because I just want to, but during crucial times in facing ups and downs in live music makes me feeling much better. When I feel so bad, I prefer listening to alternative rock songs which nobody-doesn't-really-know-what-is-the-actual-meaning-of-the-song-unless-the-composer-itself. Usually after I got things off my chest I would listen to some songs that make me calm, so when the bad thing strikes again I will be ready. But it depends on my mood tough, still. 

The funny thing is when something bad happen and during that time I listen to a particular song, that problem sticks with the song forever. Even after years, when Arctic Monkeys' Old Yellow Brick get accidentally played in my library I still remember how listening to that song helped me to move on back then, even the song isn't about moving on at all. Apart from the song actual meaning which I never really know, nobody knows except Alex Turner, the lyric which says "Old yellow brick, love's a risk" and another part about "blinded by nostalgia" and "revel in nostalgia" made me think a lot. Remembering good times back then can make us feeling happy but sad at the same time. But this song reminds me not to revel and be blinded by nostalgia because future awaits us and that our life must go on.

Not only about facing the hard times, music can also bring happiness in our life. At least, that's in my life. Some songs can simply put a smile in my face, because of the moment told. Or simply I am happy when I find a really good song, and the happy feeling when I find that my friends shares the same music interest as me is good but unfortunately it rarely happens. I tends listening to songs most people don't listen to because I don't want to. But because I simply likes music what people rarely likes. 

Back then in high school I still listen to "normal" pop song, like Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, or you can say billboard-based, and I guess I am the only one who like Arctic Monkeys and listen to it in my class. But when I went to university I was so happy to find that some people are just like me. Listen to Arctic Monkeys and a lot indie and old songs because simply we think they are good. I even believe in some people taste of music because I know that they share the same interest as me. 

Lately after I discovered Blur, Kings of Convenience, The Cure, and more, I wanted to discovered more and more music. It's addictive for me knowing the band I haven't heard or the band I ever heard but don't know the songs, created songs that suits me well. Usually I use youtube to discover music because the site gives you recommendations. But mostly it gets tiring because it's like gambling to click an audio-video to play but you never know most people reactions about the song whether it's good or bad. Mostly I used wikipedia to help me, because they have a brief introduction about the band, and what's the band hits. But still I find this uncomfortable and ineffective.

But thanks God, internet nowadays has everything. I finally sign in to LAST.FM which is an internet based music recommendation service. I think it is one of the most genius thing internet has. 

My last.fm profile page

After you sign up for last.fm user, you have to download the last.fm scrobbler application based on the kind of music player you use and install it to your computer or phone, etc. For me, I use iTunes for listening to music, and I also has last.fm Scrobbler in my phone. After that, the last.fm scrobbler will detect all the songs you have in your library and how many times you had them played. As long as the application running, even if your computer or phone is not connected to the internet they still detect which track you play and how many, later when the device is connected to the internet they will store the information into your last.fm profile.



My Top Tracks


How Last.fm Scrobbler appears in my desktop

After they detect artists from your music library they will recommend you new artist based on artist you have in your library. The recommendation varies every time you refresh the page, so many artist to listen. 


Last.fm also has every artist basic information on it, and the most useful thing is they list every band tracks with the number of listeners. Therefore, you will get to know the band hit songs and usually the higher number of listeners a song has, the more appealing it is to your ear. This is very useful for me because I used to open wikipedia along with youtube to get to know about the new artist I was exploring and I rarely get new music that I like. 
For example this is a last.fm artist page for JB, but not Justin Bieber; Jake Bugg. Eheheh




There are a lot of things to explore in last.fm. I can't explain this all in this post because it will take too long. The funny thing is just like another social media, last.fm allows you to make a friend. If it's Facebook, the connection between you and new people is based on how many mutual friends you both have, in last.fm it is about musical compatibility.

He was in my neighbor feature, they are people who has the same taste and artist as you, and I was surprised that he likes some of the songs I really like. And I listen to what he like and it turned out good!



I have known last.fm for about two years before I started myself. It was bothering me because I knew that I had to download an application and install it. But I regretted this later, because since I signed up for last.fm this has been one of the things I missed the most in the internet. 




I'd work very hard but I'm lazy
I can't take the pressure and it's starting to show
In my heart you know that it pains me
A life of leisure is no life you know

Waking up and getting up has never been easy
Oh oh, I think you should know
Waking up and getting up has never been easy
Oh oh, I think you should know
Oh oh, I think you should go

(Elastica - Waking Up, 1995)

Nemu lagu yang diliris pas saya umur sebulan, pas lagi bikin maket PA dan lucunya lagu ini saya rasain banget sembilas belas tahun kemudian, wow. Akhir-akhir ini saya ngerasa males banget. Yang ada bukan bersusah-susah dahulu dan bersenang-senang kemudian, tapi kebalik bersenang-senang sampai dekat deadline dan bersusah-susah kemudian. Mungkin orang-orang di sekitar saya mbatin, ya wajar sih kegiatanmu kan banyak. Seminggu sebelum pengumpulan jadi panitia acara besar jurusan, H-2 masih ngurusi pemilu jurusan. Well the truth is not. Saya males, saya bahkan ketiduran 10 jam H-2 pengumpulan PA yang bagi anak arsi itu shame banget, ya walaupun habis itu saya nggak tidur 30an jam. Kok bisa ketiduran Em? Gila. Ya setelah saya evaluasi diri sendiri semua itu karena kebiasaan. Saya sering nuruti keinginan untuk tidur dan bangun dan tidur lagi, yang akhirnya kebawa sekalipun di saat-saat genting.

Kudu bisa melawan diri sendiri, dan sejauh ini masih berupa tekad dan dikit-dikit action. Hahaha. Tapi emang nggak ada yang dibangun dalam semalam, kayak prinsip bahwa sukses adalah hasil dari bertahun-tahun usaha. Sama juga kayak kebiasaan, ketika kita biasa A dan tau-tau butuh untuk menjadi B sekalipun saat-saat genting. Walupun badan dan niat kita tau kalau itu genting, pasti ada yang miss.

Ngomongin soal tugas, dalam hal ini Perancangan Arsitektur 6 SKS yang semester depan bakal berubah jadi Desain Arsitektur 8 SKS (nah lo), semester ini hhhh entahlah semangat juang rada menurun, padahal ide lagi lancar untuk tugas ini. Nah hal terakhir ini yang paling bikin miris. Gimana ya andai otak bisa telepati sama komputer jadi desain yang ada di kepala langsung bisa jadi di Google Sketch Up. Wakakak.

Dan semester ini saya adalah korban berat Hukum Murphy. Ada yang pernah denger? Bunyinya: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Simpelnya ketika kita bawa payung mesti nggak hujan, begitunya nggak bawa, hujan. Jadi intinya hal-hal jelek itu nggak akan terjadi ketika kita cegah, tentu aja sebagai orang yang konservatif saya masih percaya sama takdir sih. Masalahnya walaupun udah cegah aja kadang takdir berkata lain, apalagi nggak.

Nah ini kejadian di saya banget nih. Jadi ini adalah tugas PA saya yang pertama kali pake komputer. Karena baru pertama jadi saya kurang pengalaman ditambah waktu ngerjain yang mepet jadinya hmm ya gitu deh.

Hari Jum'at waktu pengumpulan tugasnya seharusnya dikumpul jam 4. Saya ke prin-prinan di keputih jam setengah tiga. Pas udah antri setengah jam lampu mati, padahal masih antri banyak. Dan hari itu yang pengumpulan tugas bukan cuma jurusan saya, saya berkali-kali ketemu anak teknik perkapalan yang lagi ngeprin tugas rancang kapal di A1 di hampir semua prin prinan yang saya datangi. Terus akhirnya saya pindah ke prin-prinan satunya dan nggak bisa juga, terus pindah ke tempat prin ketiga baru bisa. Itu pun ngantri sama temen jurusan sendiri. Yawes kan, tapi enak ada temennya.

Masih tenang padahal sudah jam 4. Masih sempet-sempetnya ngasih notasi walaupun cepet-cepet. Jadi gini teman-teman, dalam suatu gambar pra-desain (dan gambar teknik juga), gambar nggak akan dibilang selesai kalau nggak ada notasinya. Notasi itu semacam ukuran-ukuran, dan keterangan, misal di denah ada tanda itu ruang makan terus ketinggian lantainya. Things like that. Hampir semua gambar saya nggak ada keterangannya. (Nah lo (1)) Dan jam 4.30 saya ditelepon temen saya katanya saya disuruh cepet ke kampus kalau nggak tugasnya nggak diterima, jadi akhirnya saya ngumpulin tugas tanpa dijilid (nah lo (2)) Rada sedih gimana gitu, tapi yaudah deh ya. Ikhlaskan

Selasanya disuruh ngumpulin maket, untung kali ini nggak ketiduran. But I discovered worse. Pagi-pagi pas lagi nyari alas karton coklat buat alas, saya ubek-ubek tumpukan kertas di bawah meja, dan kagetnya saya... jeng... jeng... (ati masih pilu nih rasanya bahkan pas nulis ini), saya nemu gambar potongan gedung utama saya, potongan site, tampak site keempat-empatnya belom saya kumpulin (nah lo (3)). Tolooooooong. Langsung lemes.

Jadi ceritanya walaupun pake komputer, saya nggak nggambar semuanya di komputer dengan detail. Tugas kali ini kan disuruh bikin kompleks sekolah. Gedung yang saya buat ada sekitar lima buah dalam satu komplek. Nah ditugasnya cuma disuruh ndetail 2 gedung. Jadi buat tampak site (tampak secara keseluruhan) saya masih pake tangan. Dan gambar potongan saya masih pake tangan, dengan bantuan garis-garis tipis hasil export-an Sketch up. Dan sayangnya gambar-gambar tangan itu terpisah pas ngumpulin gambar yang hasil prinprinan saking kesusu-susunya (nah lo(4)). Jadi map yang saya pake buat ngumpulin tugas itu banyak kertas coret-coretannya gitu lo, dan pas mau ngumpulin kertas-kertasnya saya keluarin, sedihnya kok ya gambar tangan itu masih kegabung di kelompok kertas yang itu terus lupa saya kumpulin.

It was the hardest day in university, well so far. Semoga nggak ada yang lain. Maket belom selese, tapi saking lemesnya sampe nggak bisa ngerjain. Akhirnya saya langsung ke kampus daripada disoriented sendirian di kamar. Sampe kampus langsung nangis. Malu-maluin bangetlah hari itu. Masalahnya itu yang nggak kekumpul dokumen krusial gitu lo bukan yang saya tambah-tambahin biar dapet nilai. Terus pas masuk studio ada dosen pembimbing saya, langsung saya temuin, saya bilang mau ngumpulin gambar tapi tersirat tidak diterima gitu... sebenernya wajar sih tapi yawes akhirnya nangis lagi. Tentu aja nggak didepan bapaknya. Haha. Sungguh nggak banget saya dududuh. Dan setelah 'badai' itu masih harus presentasi satu-satu di depan dosen. Akhirnya saya tenang sih, sambil nunggu giliran saya bercanda-canda sama teman-teman sekelompok. Makasih buanyak guys. I owe you.

Akhirnya tibalah giliran saya preview. Jeng jeng jeng. Alhamdulillah semuanya bisa saya jawab dengan baik. Walaupun badai menerjang, satu hal yang memperbaiki mood adalah dosen saya bilang desain saya bagus karena banyak aspek yang terpikirkan dalam desain saya, tapi... finishingnya mbleset. hahaha Maksud beliau ya dokumen-dokumen yang saya kumpulin itu ancur banget lah. Yaudah Pak, apa boleh buat. Saya juga menyadari hal itu kok. Dosen saya juga bilang harusnya saya jangan niru-niru temen-temen saya buat gambar di komputer, pakai tangan aja, lebih bagus. Padahal itu murni saya yang pingin, biar cepet. :""

Sampai detik ini nilai mata kuliah ini belom keluar, dan entahlah. Mikirinnya aja bikin mules. Kayaknya sih lulus, tapi kalau lulus entahlah nilainya. Mboh kah. Dududu. Yang penting pendidikannya, bukan cuma soal pelajarannya.

I really never thought that being in university is like... riding one of our life's roller coaster. You can se the finish line, you're at high speed, this is frightening but fun and exciting at the same time. Sometimes your mind get lost, because after the it ends you really don't know where the finish line is going to take you. There's nothing you can do, you're on it. Just gripping to the railing as hard as you can. You have believe that you're going to be save till the end. Believe that this's worth it, and there must be some reason why you're riding this one rollercoaster. Maybe the scenery above is beautiful, or simply you will meet someone important in your life that sit besides you during the ride. Well who knows.
Graduating from high school, university for me, was just like another education phase in life that I have to go through. But after 2 years, this really means much more than that, and I can see everybody is having the same feeling. Two years left, and I hope everybody enjoy their ride through ups and downs and take the lessons for granted.

So this is, Perancangan Arsitektur 4 saya, Sekolah Alam Surabaya.


Buat saya masalah dasar yang harus diselesaikan di sekolah ini adalah adanya SD SMP SMA yang digabung di satu tempat, dan harus share fasilitas bareng karena lahan yang minim. akhirnya bangunan kelas SD dipisah jauh dengan SMP dan SMA yang dijadikan satu gedung karena karakteristik anak-anaknya hampir sama. Dalam artian pubertas, dan you knowlah mulai pacaran galau-galau gitu hahah. Sedangkan fasilitas umum diletakkan diantara dua area kelas yang berjauhan itu, supaya gampang diakses, dan ga ada yang mager buat ke kantin soalnya kejauhan (pengalaman pas SMA). Selain itu lapangan diletakkan di tengah dan dikelilingi amphitheater. Letaknya ditaruh di tengah biar nggak ada kesan, ini lapangannya anak SMA nih takut ah make. Things like that.

Selain itu, biar nggak panas dan terkesan alami ada pohon-pohon yang mengaungi diantara undak-undakan amphitheater. Harapannya dengan letaknya yang ditengah, lapangan dan amphitheater ini bisa menjadi ruang publik buat anak SD, SMP, SMA. Jadi lapangan bisa dipake buat main-main dan siswa-siswa yang cewek (biasanya) bakal duduk-duduk di amphiteater itu sambil nggosip-nggosip ria, dan mungkin sambil ngeliatin cem-cemannya main bola. Muahahaha. Selain itu desain amphiteater yang berundak juga bisa dibuat ajang mainan anak SD, pas kecil kita selalu interest buat ke area yang berundak kan daripada datar. Lokasi 'ruang publik' ini juga deketan sama kantin yang konsepnya terbuka, jadi makan sambil ngeliatin orang-orang diamphiteater nggosip, terus anak olahraga di lapangan. Hidup banget lah area ini, di bayangan saya senggaknya. Dan saya baru nyadar pas nulis ini, orang-orang yang makan di kantin bisa aja kena bola yang nggak pas sasaran. Well evaluasi juga nih, dalam desain memang selalu ada yang plus dan minus. Nah hal-hal semacam ini bisa juga diatasi dengan desain yang lebih lanjut entah itu dikasih barrier semacam kawat jadi masih tetap tembus pandang tapi aman atau gimana, sayangnya this assignment is over guys. Jadi yaudah lah ya mhihihi.

Selain itu lapangan yang ketinggiannya lebih rendah dari tanah disekitarnya bakalan memicu kubangan pas musim hujan, jadi akhirnya (rencananya) dibuat saluran air di sekeliling lapangan yang nantinya bakal dibuang ke kolam disebelah barat lapangan yang tentu aja ketinggiannya lebih rendah lagi. Kolam ini juga berfungsi sebagai busem (kalau ga salah gini tulisannya). Jadi busem itu kolam lumayan besar, banyak di kampus saya, orang awam bilangnya danau rasa (saya dulu juga gitu), busem ini berfungsi buat sumber air kalau terjadi kebakaran, terutama kalau mobil pemadam kebakaran yang besar itu nggak bisa masuk ke kompleks yang dijangkau.

Terkait masalah iklim, saya pakai atap pelana bukan datar. Ketika dulu sebelum masuk sekolah arsitektur mikirnya, ntar mau bikin rumah yang ada skylightnya kayak orang bule dan punya atap datar, tapi arsitek yang pinter nggak akan mentah-mentah bikin gituan di Indonesia kecuali well terpaksa dan tuntutan klien banget. Karena saya belajar dengan adanya ruang dibawah atap, panas yang diterima atap masih bakal muter-muter dulu di ruang atap sebelum akhirnya sampai ke ruangan kita. Dan kalau misalnya kalian ke desa-desa ada lubang bentuknya L (biasanya) di rongga atap pelana rumah-rumah desa, rongga itu buat celah angin masuk supaya ruangan atap bisa lebih dingin, dan prinsip itu yang saya pake di desain sekolah ini. Jadi kontruksi atapnya saya pake gewel dari balok beton langsung gording, nggak pake kuda-kuda, terus 'pengisi'nya saya pake krepyak supaya angin bisa gampang masuk dan mendinginkan ruang atap. Selain itu semua jendela dikasih sosoran supaya nggak kena radiasi langsung. Pernah duduk di bis terus kena cahaya matari? rasanya silau, dan nggak enak banget kan, nah gitu itu jendela tanpa sosoran yang mewadahi.

I've been thinking much right. Perlu berhari-hari bahkan proses selama beberapa bulan buat nemuin semua aspek ini, dan tetap terlihat indah. Hahaha. terlepas kalau ada kekurangan harap maklum.
Ngomong-ngomong grafis hal-hal terkait iklim bisa zoom in poster dibawah ini.


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Entrance Sekolah Alam

Lapangan dan amphitheater. Bayangin duduk-duduk dibawah pohon sambil ada angin sepoi-sepoi. Wihii. Langsung kangen SMA 

Komplek kelas SMA SMP
Semua ini dibuat pake software Google skethcup tanpa rendering. Kalau pake rendering dan ditambahi orang-orangan entar jadinya bisa jadi kayak di brosur-brosur perumahan. Kenapa ga pake rendering? karena ga punya softwarenya dan walaupun punya nggak cukup waktunya. Hehehe

Akhirnya selesai juga post yang panjang setelah dua bulan nggak posting. Cukup mengobati kan? Dan setelah kuliah arsitektur selama dua tahun baru ini sekalinya ngepost tugas perancangan. Maybe next time too. bye for now.


Nah finally. It's been a long time since I post about something that I created not just telling this blog readers about something that I like, because that's what the early purpose of this blog. As a sharing media of the crafts I make.

One thing that makes me kinda lazy filling up this three-years-old blog is that some people I follow who have a very interesting blog seems to have lost their interest in blogspot. Every body is tumblring right now, but I still prefer a blog than a tumblr, because in a blog you rarely repost something and really write for your blog. A blog shows the personality of the writer more. So please keep writing, and I am saying this because even I rarely post something in blog I always searching for inspiration to fill my blog.

So here it is something that really satisfied me when it was finished. I love books, and being able to make one made me proud. Actually it's not book, it's notebook. Eheheh.

It all began when I found some of my college friends made notebook themselves in the last semester. Since I'm studying in the department of architecture which doesn't require much writing, a notebook is enough for a semester or even more. And when I got the result of last semester GPA which wasn't satisfying, one thing that popped up in my mind was: I have to make a notebook on my own to help boast my academic performance.

At first I intended to bind the book using spiral wire. I used the duplex leftover from my college assignment as the material for the notebook cover. Since I took a sewing lesson about six moths ago, I have some beautiful fabric left, and I used my favourite fabric to cover the duplex. I brought the finished decorated cover and the papers inside to the printing office but none of them even the big ones refused to bind my notebook using spiral wire. The said the material I used for the cover was too thick and the fabric finishing made it harder. And the worst part was they refused without even trying to put it on the machine. Frustrated, I went home but I still believed that I would get this notebook done, whatever method I used to bind this notebook.

I remembered about a year ago I found some book binding tutorials on youtube, but I didn't try it. And yes I found a lot of youtube tutorial videos which explains step by step to bind a book. But I had to be careful choosing which binding style I used, because I had always wanted a notebook which can openly full, like a sketchbook binding, so I can draw and write freely.

So my choice fell on the Coptic Style  Book Binding which bind notebook the way I wanted. I watched these two different videos (you can check this one and other out), because I thought these videos complete each other. After three days in the making, this beloved notebook was finished, and I was really proud about this!



I used sketch book paper inside, and I love to fill this book using gray pen colour
The left side of the book shows how the woven thread bind this book, and I think that's what make this notebook unique. And you can see that this notebook contains two different papers


You can see from the last picture that this notebook contains two different kind of papers and they have a little bit different colour : the standard Kiky Sketchbook, and the other is Canson water colour paper. I combined these papers in one notebook because I don't have to carry two different books everywhere. Anyway lately I loose my hobby of sketch journaling, I rarely fill my journal anymore. Maybe combining two function in one book, can make me sketch again.

Everyday when I get this my notebook out from my bag to be filled with, I always remember the intention I had in the making. This book is a representative of hopes I had early this semester, quoting an Islamic term, being an istiqamah learner.


For those of you who are my friends and reading this blog maybe know how randomly I favourite some kind of musics. From the peacefully rhythm guitar sounds local band like The Trees and The Wild, K-pop girl bands whose songs are catchy and it goes on and on in your mind, then a band that everyone like, Coldplay, another English band that hmm some people like (and know) Arctic Monkeys,  Imagine Dragons is also good and I remember during this semester I listen to a lot of local jazz music like LLW, Balawan (Jazz? Maybe. I watched him in Jazz Traffic), Radiohead's old songs from middle 90's, because I think it's better, oh and I love the new Arctic Monkeys album very much. So I completely listen to songs that aren't based on billboard.

And lately I'm being fond of an old band from English (again). The band was related a lot to the Britpop era, and was having a rivalry with Oasis during 1995 (the year when I was born). I find my self unusual because I started looking for their news and pictures and saving some in my laptop. It was like back then when I was in high school, loving a korean band so much called FT Island. But of course as I get more mature now, I'm not as crazy and stupid as I was back then. I think when you're (hem) let's say young adult and you're having crush on a celebrity you know it's based on their look and they're human whose live on TV, they have bad sides too, not just being good person to please their fans.

I found Blur when I was searching for "Creative Music Videos" in Google. Actually, I was looking inspiration for my final assignment in making a theory architecture video, later I'll show you the vid. I found it surprising that there wasn't many list of "creative music videos" on the first page of Google. Then I stumbled across a list of "29 Brilliant Music Video" (here's the link), one of them is Arctic Monkeys' A view from the Afternoon. I watched some of the list, and the last video I watched was Blur's Coffee and TV.

I searched the video on youtube not because what was written on the website about the video, it was just because I heard of Blur during six years of reading GADIS (a girly local magazine) and I remembered that Blur was written as an English legendary band and I lot of their fans were pleased because they were having a reunion. I thought, maybe because they were a famous band and probably the song is nice then I can add it to my playlist.



From wikipedia:
The video won several awards in 1999 and 2000 including Best Video at the NME Awards and the MTV Europe Awards. In 2005, it was voted the 17th greatest pop video of all time in a poll by Channel 4.[4] In 2006, Stylus Magazine ranked it No. 32 in their list of the Top 100 Music Videos Of All Time. In a similar poll, NME ranked it the 20th greatest music video of all time. In addition the video received heavy rotation on MTV in the US.
(Just googled, heavy rotation means a song that being played frequently during a broadcast. Ohh)

So I watched the video and yes the song is nice, I think the music video featuring a moving milk cartoon is nice and cute. But what caught my attention the most was the person the milk cartoon (his name is milky, yes he's got a name) looking for, who was turned out to be Graham Coxon, the band's guitarist. He was mostly filmed from the left or right sides. And the silly me thought that he is handsome even from the sides and I wanna see his face from the front and I was curious.

So I googled Blur and read the long history of the band. And I realized even back then people in my country tended listening to what famous in America rather than in English. That's why I know I have heard the riff of Blur's Song 2 "Wooo Hooo" because it was very successful in America. The song is the kind of song you must have heard somewhere maybe in the radio, TV programs, because It's catchy so you remembered it but you don't know whose song it was. (Just like when I found Radiohead's Creep) I know how Blur was dominated the Britpop era, and said to be the drunkest band in the world, how handsome Damon Albarn was (but Graham still got my attention), and his eight years relationship with Justine ... (I forgot the last lame) and what a coincidence that during the Coffee and TV videos Graham left the band and four years later he really did.

Have you seen this? I have I dunno when it was and dont know who they were
, and I always thought that the fringed man from the blue background looked
like 'mas-mas kangen band' I'm sorry Alex 

Left to right. Damon, vocalist, Alex, bassist, Graham, guitarist, and Dave, drummer.

The band reunited in 2008 (if I'm not wrong), They released some singles and went touring, they came to Indonesia to my surprise. I forget in what year, and some of them got interviewed on Kompas TV. Oh what a surprise.

Today, they're as old as my father, haha. And it always feels weird. On the other sides, it's also interesting reading the news about them, their popularity peak is not in the present and you can see how those rock stars got older.

Older Alex, Dave, Damon, and Graham (left to right)

And how. Damon and Graham are still having their carrier in the music industry. Have you heard of Gorrilaz? the world's most successful virtual band, one of the creator was Blur vocalist, Damon. I know Gorrillaz four years ago or more I forget. Graham has released a lot of solo album. While Dave being a lawyer and politician, and the most interesting is Alex, he's now living in the country, and being a cheese maker. His cheese even won award.

Sorry about blabbering too much about this. Haha. better than left this blog without any latest post.

Bonus : Two creative music video that I like



This one is a must watch





Nemu film ini waktu baca artikel di archdaily.com tentang film-film yang wajib ditonton arsitek di tahun 2013 (klik sini), tertarik seketika waktu baca sinopsisnya. Akhirnya baru  sempet nonton tahun 2014 ini, dan ternyata film ini masuk lagi di list film tahun 2014 (klik disini)

Mungkin ada yang tahu dan sempet nonton drama Korea The Heirs di akhir tahun 2013? Saya salah satunya. Film ini agak mirip begitu. Tapi kisah utamanya bukan tentang seorang anak laki-laki yang memperjuangkan cintanya dengan anak perempuan berbeda kasta.

Film ini melibatkan perasaan penontonnya secara dalam (sekalipun tidak tertarik dengan dunia arsitektur), bukan hanya karena ini kisah nyata, mungkin karena hidup terkadang semacam drama, ini sebuah film tentang cinta, karir, dan keluarga.



Tiba-tiba pingin nulis di bahasa Inggris, so let me....

Nathaniel Kahn is the only son and the third children of world wide known architect, Louis I. Kahn. His father died because of heart attack when he was eleven. His father body was unidentified for about three days after collapsed in the Pennsylvania Station in New York 1974. Later on, an article about the Architect's death appeared in the New York Times. "I was looking for my name but it wasn't there" Nathaniel narrated in the film referring to the article. It was written in the article that the architect left a wife and an only daughter. The truth it wasn't.

Besides his legitimate daughter, Louis Kahn had two illegitimate children each from two illegitimate wife. Unfortunately, Nathaniel is one of them, whom his father never lived with and rarely met. And when he died, it left Nathaniel thousand words of question, and what I get is if he had lived longer, would have his father marry his mother and live together with him? because it is what he and his mother always believed.

This documentary film is about Nathaniel search in order to know his father more through his architecture. Nathaniel visit his father works and meeting his father colleagues such as famous architect Philip Johnson, I.M. Pei (semua orang tahu piramid kaca segitiga Louvre), Frank Gehry, Moshe Safdie, and Louis' employee even his father student in the university.

It's a very beautiful film and journey, and often will make you shed your tears. This film is also a reminding for us to love our family more and be grateful for the love we have received. And in the end, his last journey to Bangladesh where his father latest work was completed after eight years or seven years after his death closed the movie perfectly. I was surprised in the end because I really don't know how this movie should ever end.

This oscar nominated film is really worth your 110 minutes of live. You can watch this on vimeo (click here), or simply ask me the file. I have downloaded it.



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